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Blogs about art, history, Interview with the Vampire, Hannibal, X-Men, and other cool things. Professional nerd. Early 30s, aroace/mixed/Black/she and her. Sometimes writes fic and meta, and creates other fandom content (see pinned post). Free Palestine!
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Welcome to my blog! I generally post about cool things/history/art/nature, and some fandoms. Pretty much everything is on the queue but now that they added the auto-queue button, I'm too lazy to tag.

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Interview with the Vampire (2022) (mainly tag-based):

Hannibal Meta

Cherik Fic (Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr, X-Men First Class) - also check out my ao3 page

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Anonymous asked:

Season 3 parrots the "pimp" thing like a broken recorder and it's not even there to highlight Louis exploiting vulnerable women back in the day, no, it's just said with no substance or deeper meaning. Trying to make a parallel of it toward ARMAND of all people was particularly offensive. There is no world where Aarmand wasn't the abuser in his relationship with Louis.

Hi anon, yeah, I totally agree. Part of me thinks that they ARE try to remind us of the exploiting women thing, and that and the awful trying to drag Louis into Armand's abuse are in preparation for the Akasha plot in s4 (which makes me feel sick) - and that's also one explanation for aligning Lestat with femininity. So much of what was awful and damaging this season came from the clear action-motivated reason of 'putting Lestat and Louis on the same level by dragging Louis down even if it doesn't make sense (both in terms of character and of degree of supposed offense) and comes across as racist af' - so it makes sense that that kind of action could continue. It just really pisses me off because even though, yes, absolutely, Louis was exploiting women, all of the other characters (including Louis!!) have done arguably worse things, and it was such a small part of his life that he felt guilty for AT THE TIME but he defended Bricks and then went about doing things like giving the women part ownership in the brothel...and it really feels like 'Louis is a woman exploiter!' is also a key motivator for the Regina plot, which like, yes totally was creepy especially how Louis stalked her before and there's a clear power dynamic, but the roleplay was HER IDEA! (But it wouldn't surprise me at all if they go down that narrow/shallow/deeply reductive 'men/pimps bad' politics that ignores all other structural power dynamics/forms of harm in favour of simplistic and comforting narratives like the Handmaid's Tale tv show did by the end - still mad about that). And yeah, the Armand thing was just unforgivable because, 1) Armand deserves to have a full and rich backstory that isn't just throwaway references to a horrific thing that happened trotted out in a bizarre and unconnected situation that makes him seem like an evil racist and 2) Armand being abused has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH LOUIS!!

#tvl critical#I feel you anon!
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Landback Victories in the first half of 2026

I keep an eye out for these stories. I want to keep track of good that’s being done to keep believing we are and can be working towards real successes in human rights, redressing historic wrongs, and promoting environmental justice.

January

La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council was officially handed back title to a land claim after winning a court case in Sydney, Australia.

167,400 hectares (413,000 acres) of national park land was returned to a Waanyi land organization’s control and leased back to the Australian government to continue to be operated by the Waanyi People as a park, renamed from Lawn Hill National Park to Boodjamulla National Park (Aborignal Land).

February

The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California purchased back 10,274 acres of land in the Sierra Nevadas, to be established as the Wélmeltiʔ Preserve for conservation under the tribe’s land trust.

March

Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center (Haudenosaunee) bought back 600 acres of land in New York with the support of the Nature Conservancy, to manage as conservation land and an Indigenous youth camp.

A chapel and grounds in Kansas City, Kansas was returned to the Kansas Delaware Tribe by the Great Plains United Methodist Conference, along with $325,000 raised to support repairs to be building.

656 acres of land was transferred by a nature conservation organization to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in California, who plan to continue operating it as conservation lands and a wildlife preserve and open space recreation.

April

an update to one of last year’s: Nuchatlaht First Nation won their court case and were declared the title holders to 210 square km (51,800 acres) of cedar forested land on Vancouver Island.

The Colfax-Todd Valley Consolidated Tribe had 308 acres of forest land returned in California, with financial support from and a conservation easement co-held by the Placer Land Trust.

May

The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa had 3,400 acres of forested land formally returned to them by the State of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota.

A church property was transferred to the Indigenous Protector Movement by Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, to be used as a new headquarters for the IPM in their work as a multi-tribal Indigenous advocacy group.

The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania received three privately-owned land parcels through purchase, fundraising, and donation, and are restoring land previously used as an illegal dumping ground.

June

Boise Valley tribes (Shoshone-Paiute and Shoshone-Bannock, I think?) were deeded 3 acres of land by a private homeowner in Idaho pledging the land to be a gift back to the tribes after his death.

An Oregon Lutheran church returned its property to local tribes as a gift to the Native American Youth and Family Center which they plan to use for elderly housing for the local Native community.

Aboriginal Traditional Owners in far north Queensland, represented by the Bubu Nubuun Aboriginal Corporation, were returned 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of land to be jointly managed with the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

These are the ones I know about. There are also updates to older Native land title stories, like Niweskok’s work towards Wabenaki food sovereignty on the land they reclaimed in the last few years, and more complex but still positive opportunities happening like the Wotjobaluk Nations signing a Land Use Activity Agreement to ensure Traditional Owner rights pf comment and input on public land use in the state of Victoria.

A lot of stuff is many places is really bad right now from a human rights, environmental justice, and ecosystem conservation perspective, but there are positive developments happening too. And as always, I encourage people (esp. in the US, Canada, Australia, and NZ/Aotearoa) to see if there’s any organization in your life or your area through which you have the ability to help, through donations of money or land or time.

#queue#some good news#landback