Would love to remind everyone of what is quite possible my favourite part of Showmand’s arc so far which is that by allowing Daniel to grow old, he has already partially broken the cycle of abuse Marius subjected him to.

Obviously Armand was turned older than he was in the books, but there’s the whole thing with him very likely experiencing arrested development and also never getting to live past thirty. Lestat was turned at thirty. Louis was thirty three. Armand, to his knowledge, was twenty seven but his emotional maturity was much young as we’ve seen from his coping mechanisms and his general behaviour at times. He’s twenty seven, but he doesn’t remember being a child and he did not have a reliable support system as a teenager, so god only knows at what stage of development he was frozen at.

The circumstances of Daniel’s turning literally do not matter. No matter how it happened, this part remains the same. By changing what happened in the book, Armand has not done to Daniel what was done to him. Daniel was in his thirties when he was turned in the book, which isn’t bad, but in the show Daniel got to live a full life. He got to become a proper journalist. He was allowed to make his own mistakes and build something for himself. Armand was never able to do that. He was a slave, then his maker’s purchase, then a cult leader, then the reluctant theatre director, then a glorified housewife. He was forced into so many roles that by the time he met Louis, he had started forcing himself into them. It had become second nature.

But Daniel got to be a person. He got a full life. Letting him go was the kindest thing Armand has ever done. Daniel might not agree, but Armand gave him a chance to make something of himself. No one gave Armand that chance. He sees vampirism as a curse, but does he see the gift he gave Daniel as clearly?

the trolley problem except the guy tied to one set of tracks is your friend and someone you trust and one of the few people in the world that you genuinely like and he's begging for his life and he's saying that you're murdering him and he's screaming and clawing and running like a wild animal. on the other set of tracks is every living thing on the planet. its a no brainer, obviously. but he will still scream. this happened to my good friend eva stratt

Picture it. Decades after the world is saved, a huge alien spacecraft touches down on earth.

Scientist, politicians, and thousands of reporters gather to witness the aliens disembark the ship. A group of boulder-like creatures, clicking and whistling to the humans around them.

One of them raises something large and metallic towards the crowd.

There's an immediate recoil of fear (is it a weapon?!) before the audience realises it's human technology. A laptop, old and beaten and looks like it was put back together by a drunk.

The alien presses a button.

"Hello Earth, this is Doctor Captain Ryland Grace. These guys are Eridians and they're here on a shopping trip. I have a list and no money, but I did save the world so that has to count for something. Number one, salt and vinegar chips. Actually anything potato. Number two, I miss apple juice. Number three,"

Obviously Erid would not recognize Rocky's name bc its given to him by Grace. What if when the Hail Mary reaches Erid's radio frequency range Rocky gets on the radio to tell Erid to start synthesizing food for Grace or he's keeping the tumoeba hostage, he instinctively introduces himself as "Rocky from the Hail Mary", but still speaking eridian.

The eridian scientists think its a fully alien ship bc they don't recognize the name and think its like when in movies the aliens come to earth to save us and they inexplicably speak perfect English.

probably gonna go through some weird and unknown phase of my life soon

fingers crossed it’s a good one. bonus points if it makes me terribly off putting to all twenty seven other people in my graduate program

i used to picture rocky's situation with adrian as different between the two adaptations, because all the "giving rocky a reason to return home to cling to through these horrors, something that deeply matters to him back on erid" comments from jortiz and the "Mate possibly has new mate. I gone a long time. Yes, sad. But necessary" line from the book were clearly written with opposite authorial intentions. but I've become endlessly charmed by the reading that accepts both at the same time.

"186.3 years" "You've been together a long time" "It's not enough" was already a punch to the gut as far as romantic one liners go, but rocky saying it while doing the eridian equivalent of twisting his wedding right around his finger with the sobering realization that it might not even be that long. he might be the only one still counting the years, maybe this is something he's already lost and he just hasn't learned of it yet. it's not enough.

iwtv continues to be so smart in its portrayal of memories and trauma, the way lestat’s memories of his family are so obnoxiously loud, everyone’s screaming all the time for no reason and everyone’s acting like caricatures, like an actual assault on the senses, as if lestat’s mind is filled with unbearable noise every time he thinks about them. lestat’s memories coming at him all fragmented and loud and violent, attacking him and beating him into submission as he desperately tries to escape them is such an interesting contrast to how louis would carefully weave a thread of his past pretending the glaring holes in it weren’t there

can i express any genuine wants & desires or will i be tortured & killed

If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself

Emily Wilson you’re goated

Human Grace finds out that Eridian Grace grows and gets heavier very fast

Grace goes swimming! Rocky is not thrilled.

Eridians cant "hold their breath" like humans do, their vents dont close completly so water can still get in, if they fall in water they drown and die. safe to say rocky is not a fan of when grace does it for fun xD

(i got the inspo for this from this fic: Enrichment by alatarmaia4, please check it out it is so funny)

More art of Rocky Stressing™️ about human biology

Rocky, once again, being baffled and STRESSED about human biology and the things his human does to keep healthy i dont think mr "my whole crew died of radiation sickness" likes the fact that his alien and most things on his planet needs it for survival very much xD previous

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