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Marvel Comic Presents 2019 #5 - Phenethylamine

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can we talk aboyt how the “for me?” is a phineas and ferb fic??

Lestat and Louis through the years

I wanted to forget him, and yet it seemed I thought of him always. It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face - not as it had been the last night in the fire, but on other nights, that last evening he spent with us at home, his hand playing idly with the keys of the spinet, his head tilted to one side. A sickness rose in me more wretched than anguish when I saw what my dreams were doing. I wanted him alive! In the dark nights of eastern Europe, Lestat was the only vampire I’d found. 

Interview With The Vampire (1976)

 "But why, Lestat? “ he asked a little suspiciously. "Why the danger, the risk? After all, you have done it. You have come back. You’re stronger than ever. You have the old fire as if it had never been lost, and you know how precious this is, this will simply to go on. Why risk it immediately? Have you forgotten what it was like when we had the world all around us, and no one could hurt us except ourselves? ”   

“Is this an offer, Louis? Have you come back to me, as lovers say?” His eyes darkened and he looked away from me.   

“I’m not mocking you, Louis,” I said.

“You’ve come back to me, Lestat,” he said evenly, looking at me again. “When I heard the first whispers of you at Dracula’s Daughter, I felt something that I thought was gone forever- ” He paused. But I knew what he was talking about. He had already said it.

The Vampire Lestat (1985)

I smiled. I kissed him suddenly, thrilled by the warmth of him, the soft pliant feel of his  near  human  skin.  God,  how  I  hated  the  whiteness  of  my  fingers  touching  him,  fingers that could have crushed him now effortlessly. I wondered if he even guessed.

There was so much I wanted to say to him, to ask him. Yet I couldn’t find the words really, or a way to begin. He had always had so many questions; and now he had his answers,  more  answers  perhaps  than  he  could  ever  have  wanted;  and  what  had  this  done to his soul? Stupidly I stared at him. How perfect he seemed to me as he stood there waiting with such kindness and such patience. And then, like a fool, I came out with it.

“Do you love me now?” I asked.

He smiled; oh, it was excruciating to see his face soften and brighten simultaneously when he smiled. “Yes,” he said.

The Queen of the Damned (1988)

He grew reflective again and very sad. It almost hurt me to look at him. I wanted to grab him by the shoulders and shake him, but that would only have made him furious.

“I love you,” he said softly.

I was amazed.

“You’re always looking for a way to triumph,” he continued. “You never give in. But there is no way to triumph. This is purgatory we’re in, you and I. All we can be is thankful that it isn’t actually hell." 

The Tale of The Body Thief (1992)

"Come home with me,” he said. Such a human voice. So kind. “There’s time to come here and reflect. Wouldn’t you rather be home, in the Quarter, amongst our things?”

If anything in the world could have truly comforted me, he would have been the thing—with just the beguiling tilt of his narrow head or the way that he kept looking at me, protecting me obviously with a confidential calm from what he must have feared for me, and for him, and perhaps for all of us.

My old familiar gentleman friend, my tender enduring pupil, educated  as truly by Victorian ways of courtesy as ever by me in the ways of being a monster.

Memnoch the Devil (1995)

“I’ll spend the next few evenings with Lestat,” Louis said quietly. “I want to read to him. He doesn’t respond but he doesn’t stop me. You’ll know where to find me when Merrick returns.”

“Does he never say anything to you?” I asked, regarding Lestat.

“Sometimes he speaks, just a little. He’ll ask for Mozart perhaps, or that I read him some old poetry. But in the main, he’s as you see him yourself, unchanged.” He paused, then looked directly at the sky. “I want to be alone with him for a few nights, I suppose, before Merrick comes back.”

His tone had a finality to it, and a sadness that touched me to the quick. He was saying farewell to Lestat, that’s what he was doing, and I knew that Lestat’s slumber was so deep and so troubled, that even such a dreadful message from Louis might not rouse him at all.

Merrick (2000)

I stopped. I put my arm around him. I held him close to me.

“I’m Lestat,” I said in a low voice. “Your Lestat. I’m the same Lestat you’ve always known, and no matter how I’m changed, I’m still that same being.”

“I know,” he said warmly.

I kissed him. I pressed my lips to his and I held this kiss for a long silent moment. And then I gave in to a silent wave of feeling, and I took him in my arms. I held him tight against me. I felt his unmistakable silken skin, his soft shining black hair. I heard the blood throbbing in him, and time dissolved, and it seemed I was in some old and secret place, some warm tropical grotto we’d once shared, ours alone in some way, with the scent of sweet olive blossoms and the whisper of moist breeze.

“I love you,” I whispered.

In a low intimate voice, he answered: “My heart is yours.”

Prince Lestat (2014)

“Very well,” Louis said.

“What do you mean?”

He shrugged and smiled.

“I’ll come if you want me. I’ll come and I’ll stay and I’ll be your companion if you want. I don’t know why you want this or how long you’ll want it, or what it’s going to be like, being with you and watching all your antics up close, and trying to be of help and not knowing how to be of help, but I’ll come. I’m tired of fighting it; I give up; I’ll come.”

I couldn’t believe I’d heard right. I stared at him as helplessly as I had in the hallway of the townhouse when I’d first seen him, trying to grasp what he had said.

He leaned close to me, and he put his hand on my arm. “ ‘Wither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people’; and because I have no other god and never will, you shall be my god.”

Prince Lestat and The Realms of Atlantis (2016)

“When I was finally led down the stairs, Louis came with me. In the darkened passage before my resting place, he embraced me and held tight to me, his lips pressed to my ear. I was aware of my hands moving over his hair, embracing his neck, drawing him ever closer, in a way I had never done in our long years in New Orleans. We joined in the posture of lovers, brothers, fathers with sons.

“I love you with my whole soul, and I will always love you”, he confided to me. “You are my life. I have hated you for that and love you now so much that you’ve been my instructor in loving. And believe me when I say you will survive because you always have and you always will.”

I couldn’t answer. I knew I loved him more than words could say, but I couldn’t respond.”

Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (2018)

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i’m sure i’ve missed a few things, but i can’t stand to look at it any longer. i present to you: the good, the bad, and the ugly of tumblr throughout the decade

i can’t find this post anymore, but a few months ago I remember reading a post here with people saying that if there was someone on DS9 that had dynamic similar to the Crowley/Aziraphale dynamic (especially book ineffable husbands) it would have been Quark and Odo

and as I make my way rewatching ds9 I absolutely cannot stop thinking about that because I have to deal with this kind of dialogue which has peak (book) pre!arrangement energy

   when I think about the most recent books in the Vampire Chronicles saga, they all are somehow bad for different reasons while still having its funny/endearing moments, but it’s with surprise that I realize that my favorite in this wild new canon is actually Prince Lestat and The Realms of Atlantis, the one that I was mostly skeptical of when I first read about

   Prince Lestat makes me SO angry. It’s bad because I kind hate how it destabilizes the old rules of canon and seems to forget the errors of the past. I think it’s a horrible idea for the vampires to live under a monarchy. I think it’s even a more awful idea for Lestat to be this monarch because Lestat is a) still a relatively young vampire and b) Lestat is VERY instable and it just feels dumb to believe the old ass vampires would just obey him like that lmao. Prince Lestat is also bad because it introduce a fuckton of new characters and mostly of them are so bland that they just mix up in my head and quite frankly it would have more emotional impact if it had a narrative composed of most known vampires. But Prince Lestat does have some good in the fact that at least a little it tries to rebuild some of the relationships left on hold in previous books so ehh it’s the only good thing I can think of naming, really

   Now Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis… it’s bad because the history of the aliens feels so detached from the rest of the book, the way it was written. It’s not a /bad/ history, but it feels like it shouldn’t belong in the book, like it should have it’s own book or something. The pace is weird. But PLROA is my favorite of the new ones because it has so much investment in the relationships and yes especially Lestat/Louis lmao they have some amazing couple-y moments and Louis was well written for the first time in AGES and it makes my heart warm to read their scenes together that I’m willing to overlook all the other things in the book that make me mad, lmao

   Now Blood Communion was perhaps the most disappointing one. I thought a one-person-only narrative would have been better after two books overflowing with bland character povs, but nah. The most disappointing thing about this book is that Lestat feels utterly soulless and even the cute moments with Louis aren’t so cute because his emotional response is so cold. In fact the only thing I truly love in this book is the very emotional, very strong spat between Lestat and Armand, because somehow Armand is the only vampire who makes some kind of god damned sense in this book because otherwise I hate pretty much every choice Anne makes to this new vampire court and the pace of this book is utterly atrocious

   Oh wait lmao, there’s another part of the book I love - one of the few L/L moments where Lestat doesn’t feel soulless is at the end, where him and Louis are dancing together. That was cute

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my friend granted me acess to her amazon prime account… which means I’m catching up with some shows

so ok i’ve been meaning to catch up with American Gods for a while, so this was the first one and so far i watched the first three episodes of season two

it’s uh… it’s not bad, overall remains good but it’s certainly very visible the tonal difference between this season and season one. I didn’t follow so close the events during production but I do know that it went downhill after Bryan Fuller was fired, and with Gillian Anderson and Kristin Chenoweth quitting the show as well… big problems during production do tend to reflect during the quality of the final product, unaviodable really

new media showed up during episode 3. i haven’t see enough of her to form an opinion yet but you know, considering that Gillian Anderson’s Media was not one of the gods who had sex or used sex as a means to an end, this New Media showing up and straight up having some weird kind of tentacle porn in her first episode feels….. bad

only two more episodes left to watch so some other thoughts ~~

One of the main differences from season one comes with the characterization of two characters, Mr. Wednesday and Mr. World

1. Mr. Wednesday was never exactly a pleasant individual, always was a shady bastard, but in s1 there was some… charisma to him. Some allure to his character, maybe, but in s2? Completely unbearable. He’s a bastard, zero charisma to him, he’s manipulative and cruel. Every other god in this show is like Wednesday Is A Bastard And I Fucking Hate This Guy and they’re right, because Wednesday /acts/ like a god damn bastard all the time. It’s really hard to understand why Shadow Moon would follow him when he’s such a dickhead to him all the time. I’m not sure if this was a good change or not, but it’s definitely one of the most present ones

2. Mr. World was always the most bland of the new gods, but damn this season his Bland Villain facade is bigger than ever. The guy is so, so boring, and without  a strong presence of the new gods, with Tech Boy (for now) being out of the game and New Media being also a bland character, the new gods are very very boring this season

3. Salim, Sweeney and Laura Moon remain some of my favorite characters also in this season

4. Mr. Ibis is shady, damn. The stuff happening in his funeral house is pretty disturbing

5. I remember when Bryan Fuller was running this show, he had a thing were he wanted to have equal male and female nudity in the show, something like that, so in season one there’s some dudes doing frontal nudity and showing dicks a few times. This season… maybe I missed something, but the only male nudity I noticed was one from the back (Shadow Moon’s butt to be more precise), and some scenes with men shirtless/showing nude sides and no frontal male nudity, but boobs were shown plenty of times already

more thoughts cos I just finished the season ~~

1. I knew Mad Sweeney was going to die because I learned this spoiler early this year, but I wasn’t prepared to how sad it would be. He was a great character, and Pablo Schreiber played him beautifully. The flashbacks to his history was one of my favorite moments of this season. Still hoping he’ll be back in s3, since Laura stole his body and all

2. Terrible sad that Shadow Moon was the one to kill Sweeney, and that it was an accident. He liked Sweeney! He was so out of it after what he did! :c Shadow is a very good soul and doesn’t deserve any of the shit that happens to him. I would hope that after the revelation that Mr. Wednesday had Laura murdered to better manipulate him he would ditch the guy for good, but they’re already together in the promo pics for the next season so yeah. Kinda hope that at least he’ll have a better storyline next season because Shadow really didn’t do much of anything in this one

3. New Gods are still very underwhelming. Pretty disappointing considering I liked them a lot in s1, but ehh at least some version of Tech Boy is back, the asshole was the only interesting new god in the show this season

4. Salim is still the sweetest and I like him so much. I love how in love with the Jinn he is, and how that even surrounded by the other Gods, he won’t stop being himself and won’t ditch his faith. The core of his character is steely firm and so strong not despite but because of his kindness and sweetness, and I love it. Haven’t read the book yet so I’m always fearing he will be horribly murdered at some point tbh happy it didn’t happen (for now at least)

Overall, this season was much weaker than the first one, mostly for the problems that I mentioned in the first post (the behind the scenes problems, aka why would you fire your showrunner during production time, are you out of your mind?), and the whole season took the blow. 

The pace is slow - the bad kind of slow, where it seems nothing truly important is happening. And… did something truly important happened to the plot, besides some important character moments (like Sweeney’s death and Laura’s journey)? I’m still interested enough to remain for at least the next season, but I’ll be expecting much less of this show this time around

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oh it totally does, but you can’t hear it because space is a vacuum and sound can’t travel through a vacuum! 

and that’s a good thing, 

because the roar of the sun would clock in at around 120db heard from earth, about the equivalent to having a train’s horn go off three feet from your face. 

constantly. all the time, even at NIGHT. there would be no escape.

this is simply terrifying. how do you erase knowledge please ?

NASA actually recorded the sun, if you want to hear it:

And they recorded the planets too:

so, the sun and the earth sound about how i would’ve expected, and a lot of other planets just make strong wind sounds which is perfectly reasonable but venus sounds like pure dread?!?! WHY IS SATURN SCREAMING?!? pluto isn’t bad and is actually kinda nice but it’s very strange to me too like Why Does It Do That. jupiter is super chill 10/10. pluto and jupiter need to collab i would buy that album

oh, fuck, guys, you know what this means? it means the ancient world was right about the music of the spheres. 

Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus 

Neptune

Pluto

i can hear these photos and i don’t like it

I hate these recordings so much. I try to explain why, and I can’t make people understand. It’s just CREEPY, all right? This shit is REALLY. CREEPY.

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Bolsonaro publicly announced his intent to fully legalize industrial mining on Indigenous-managed rainforest in Rondonia only a week or two before Rondonia’s forest was set on fire: So here’s a quick timeline of the incredible assault on Indigenous communities, invasion of Indigenous-managed Amazonian rainforest by developers, and Bolsonaro’s explicit plans to develop on Indigenous territories and clear rainforest, especially for mining … all of which happened in one mere month preceding the now-infamous Rondonia fire of August 2019.

Remember how about a single week or so before the giant raging fire was almost certainly deliberately set in Rondonia’s rainforest, Bolsonaro happened to announce his plan to fully legalize gold mining and Brazilian state-backed industrial mining on the Indigenous territory of the Yanomami people [Roraima and Amazonas states], the Munduruku [Para state], and the Cinta-larga people [Rondonia state]? And at a press conference that same week, Bolsonaro also said: “You have to understand that the Amazon is Brazil’s, not yours. […] [Developing the Amazon is] fulfilling a mission from God. […] You want the Indigenous people to carry on like prehistoric men with no access to technology, science, information, and the wonders of modernity. Indigenous people want to work, they want to produce, and they can’t. They live isolated in their areas like cavemen.” Remember how only like two weeks before the giant raging fire in Rondonia’s Amazonian rainforest was set, [1] the Hutukara association representing the Yanomami people reported that, over the past few months, between 10,000 and 20,000 gold miners had illegally invaded the Indigenous territory of Yanomami Park in Amaonian rainforest, which is one of Brazil’s largest Indigenous-managed territories, leading to increased malaria cases and deliberate setting of forest fires? [2] Then, a week later, a respected Indigenous leader in the Wajapi Indigenous reserve (Amapa state, in Amazonian forest) was murdered? [3] Then, three nights after that, 50-100 armed gold miners invaded Wajapi Indigenous territory as they mourned the loss of their leader?  [4] And then, after some public outcry, Bolsonaro commented that he didn’t believe the Wajapi story?

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Early July 2019: The Hutukara assocation and Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa publicize their account that between 10,000 and 20,000 illegal gold miners and associated land developers are currently present on Yanomami land, in Amazonian rainforest of Roraima state near the Venezuelan border. Yanomami and concenred journalists suggest that the recent influx of gold miners is due to Bolsonaro’s closure, in late 2018, of 3 monitoring bases that were located at Yanomami Park which used to scare off illegal land developers looking to sneak onto Yanomami territory. [Source.]

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19 July 2019: Bolsonaro says this at a press meeting with international journalists: “You have to understand that the Amazon is Brazil’s, not yours. […] [Developing the Amazon is] fulfilling a mission from God. […] You want the Indigenous people to carry on like prehistoric men with no access to technology, science, information, and the wonders of modernity. Indigenous people want to work, they want to produce, and they can’t. They live isolated in their areas like cavemen.” [Source.]

At the press conference, Bolsonaro explicitly clarified his intent to move forward with legally opening Indigenous territories of Amazonia for industrial mining, including on the territory of the Yanomami people [Roraima and Amazonas states], the Munduruku [Para state], and the Cinta-larga people [Rondonia state]. Previously, in January 2019 and immediately after his inauguration, Bolsonaro formally transferred the regulation of Indigenous reserves to the agriculture ministry, which is functionally controlled by the agribusiness lobby.

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23 July 2019: Emyra Wajapi, an Indigenous leader of Wajapi reserve, is found stabbed to death near his home in Waseity village, Amapa. [Source 1; Source 2.]

Photo of Emyra Wajapi.

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26 July 2019: Following the assassination of Emyra Wajapi, at least 50 non-Indigenous gold miners, some armed with machine guns, invade the Wajapi reserve, at the neighboring Indigenous village of Yvytoto. [Source 1; Source 2.]

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29 July 2019: After public outcry about the Wajapi murder and invasion, Bolsonaro tells Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that “there is no strong evidence” that a murder occurred, and that the death was unrelated to any possible gold miner presence. “I will seek to unravel the case,” Bolsonaro said.. [Source.]

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The Rondonia fire is part of a larger assault on Amazonia.

[Image Description: first image is a photograph of a group of Yanomami, with the caption “The Yanomami people respond in opposition to Bolsonaro administration. Image courtesy of ISA”

Second image: and NBC News headline that says “‘We are in great danger’: In Amazon, indigenous Waiapi chief is killed by illegal miners”. The preview paragraph says “… weapons and shotguns, invaded the remote indigenous community of the… exploiting Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami land in Northern Brazil.” It was dated 3 weeks ago at the time of the screengrab.

Third image: Headline: “Authorities investigate murder of indigenous leader Brazilian Amazon” Below is a photograph of Emyra Wajapi.

Fourth image: Headline: “Amazon gold miners invade indigenous village in Brazil after its leader is killed” Beneath is the opening sentence “Brazil’s police have been urged to investigate a ‘very tense situation’ in Amapá state”. Below the headline is a photograph of an indigenous man in the rainforest, his back is turned. The caption says “Jawaruwa Wajãpi, an Indigenous city counciler in Amapá state, hunts in the Okakai region, in 2012. He reported on the violence in the Wajãpi indigenous reserve. Image by Bruno Caporrino” End ID]