AND HANNIBAL IS ONE OF THE MANY SUCH CASES I'D LIKE TO ADD

AND HANNIBAL IS ONE OF THE MANY SUCH CASES I'D LIKE TO ADD

interview is soooooo difficult as somebody recovering from a lifetime of codependent relationship after codependent relationship after codependent relationship. I understand these stupid vampires completely and I feel the damage done onto them because it is my own. but I also feel their love, as that is also my own. One could not exist without the other and I know this from personal experience. By giving your love you're handing them the remote to a shock collar around your heart. I can't in good conscious ship them bcs practically all of them are like this, but also, how can i NOT ship them??? I feel the devotion they have for each other. It's there, tangible, in my hands. but how can I wish for my favorite characters to endure the emotional warfaire I relate to? How can I not wish for it if that's the very reason they're my favorite characters. Many such cases...

not to trauma dump on main (which is all i do) but this is soooo how my mom treats me in my wheelchair vs how my theater teacher did. One of them called me useful and compared me to a stroller/table/basket etc. and one of them would spin me so she could dance with me like she did the other students :')

I wish they included this in the show cause it’s just so great. Look at the difference in how Gothel and Arianna treat Rapunzel’s hair. Look how Gothel almost worships it and focuses on it for herself while Arianna uses the hair as a comedy prop to make Rapunzel laugh

Armand frustrates me in my bones because it’s like, you’re not that scared child anymore! I know it’s hard and I know the familiarity of submission is comforting, and I know it’s overwhelming and I know it feels like it’s out of your control, and I know it’s near impossible to believe that you have agency, and that agency can alter things for your benefit, but like, you’re 500 years old. You’re literally 500 years old. You might as well be a god. And the best thing you can think to do with all that power is lock yourself in a cage of your own making. Armand isn’t a mastermind, he’s not even a particularly skilled manipulator, he’s more like a child that got lost in a mall and instead of calling for help or looking for an adult, has stayed in the exact same place for 500 years, and then the mall collapsed and forest took over and then someone built a new mall in its place, and he’s still standing there. And it’s so frustrating to watch because it’s not that he’s incompetent or powerless, it’s that he thinks himself incompetent and powerless, and so refuses to move. And if he ever moves it’s because he’s convinced himself that it’s inevitable. Someone is making him do it, this is an impossible situation, he must bend before he breaks (note: no one is making him do anything, there is no one left in this world that has the power to do so). It’s why his passivity and hurt comes off so duplicitous. It’s not that he’s not hurt, it’s not that he wanted this to happen, it’s that he could’ve prevented all of it but he refuses to because he refuses to see it’s possible. And I love him, and he moves me, but even if someone set up a perfect path to happiness for him, and all he had to do was take that one final step, by himself, no pushing, no cajoling, nothing but free will, nothing but him, he couldn’t take it! He wouldn’t know how!

the state of lestat's hair in S3 is unacceptable after having dated louis. Did he really not teach you a THING about haircare? bbg get a bonnet or something jfc your grease, breakage & frizz are embarrassing

Let's compare the S3 opening to the finale closing, shall we?

They're nearly identical with a few very notable differences:

The journal is closed. Her tale is told, this story is done. (It also closes while we watch, driving the point home.)

Her crown is now missing from the pillow*. This is to show how she's now comfortable wearing it all the time, indicating that she's stepped fully into her ruling role in society.

There is more paint spilled on the outside of the tankard that holds her brushes. This is, of course, because she's told a lot more story by the end of the season than the beginning. There's significantly less paint on it in the S1 opening. (And I'm positive the tankard is from the Snuggly Duckling.)

The view is finally pulled back and lit well enough to see what the thing on the far left is: an open birdcage. Rapunzel is finally truly free in the realest sense. She's chosen the life she leads now. None of this is being forced on her before she's ready for it. Interestingly, the birdcage is there in the S1 opening, too, but not only is the shot tighter so most of it is cut off, it's also draped in shadow, making it very unclear what the object is.

But there are some very notable differences between the S1 and S3 opening shots, as well:

The candles in the S1 opening are lit and much higher than the ones in the S3 opening. These are intended to be the same candles, but burned down by S3. This also shows that she's doing her journal entries at the close of the day. But the lighting in the S3 opening implies either dawn or sunset (likely the latter). It's warmer and brighter, more full of possibility and feels less like she's hiding it from the world.

Her paint palette is on the desk instead of her adventure bag which is full of more paint brushes and also coins. She did all of her painting at home, and didn't really have anywhere else to go during S1. She was still doing things the way she'd always been used to doing them.

The wall behind the desk is mostly unpainted in S1 and completely painted in S3. By the end of the series, she'd once again made a home for herself, surrounded by her own art and the stories she had to tell. Similarly, the desk is far less marked up by art supplies in S1 than it is in S3 (just like the brush-holding tankard).

The books are leaning differently, because she took them with her during S2. You can see them in the S2 opening shot on her bed in the caravan.

The little pot in the upper right of the desk has clean, unused paint brushes in it. But in S3, it's full of flowers, instead, because those brushes are all now in use, and stashed in her adventure bag.

There are multiple writing quills on the desk in S1 and none in S3. I feel like this is significant of her always being out and about now. Also, she feel less like she has to "put things in ink," and can instead do her free-flowing lifestyle the way she sees fit.

*Yes, I know that in a previous post I said it was the pillow the wedding rings were carried on, but both of these things can be true at the same time.

every now and again I'll remember the fic that expanded my AU horizons. made me see the light on just how free we are to write whatever the fuck in fanfictions. The catalyst to breaking the barriers on what concepts would be fun as hell to read about... Interview with a vampire human retirement home au