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skimming the vampire armand. the show seems to pull armand’s vampiric eye colour specifically from marius’s perception of them (the violence lives on in his body). this scene takes place soon after marius purchases him from the brothel and just before he rapes him, after going into lengthy detail about armand’s physical attributes that prompted him to develop an attraction to him. ‘the universal tongue’ in question also conveys rapacious intent - marius forcibly establishes a mental connection irrespective of armand’s capacity to participate in meaningful communication; armand is in a foreign land and is incapable of any reciprocation in thought and speech at this point, and marius metaphorically penetrates his mind to lay out the identifiers of his body that he finds appealing before he assaults him.

armand’s body and identity thereafter is modelled after the future marius envisions for him when he purchases him: to develop a companion who’s receptive to his teachings and takes up his philosophies without any resistance. this is also literalised by him renaming amadeo (‘beloved of god’). the show takes this a little further - it asks you to consider the degree of racialised violence flavouring marius’s treatment of armand when he consents to exchanging his body in return for depictions of him that are intentionally modelled to be inaccurate while simultaneously forcing him to participate in scenes that convey exploitation and subservience.

Using him to mess around with colouring

insul highkey funniest mf alive for going. excuse me maam 🙄 you can’t treat whatever this thang is this way…

compilation of sofi giggles

mircalla millarca carmilla

[ID: black and white digital fanart of carmilla from the novel by sheridan le fanu. wearing an 1860s style nightgown with her wavy hair loose, she stares steadily at the viewer. her eyes are red and her face, the front of her gown, and hands are all stained with blood. end ID]

(perverse, predatory, manipulative voice) Hello 

Today My Mother Died by Sophie Calle

Another one my spouse drew for me. Kabru helping Mithrun with his makeup. It's hard to do it when you only have one eye.

And as we all know, elves will wither away and die if they don't have their makeup properly applied every day. We HC that all the canary soldiers have a ration of makeup, though obviously not all of them use it. Cithis probably trades Otta for hers.

Can't allow representatives for the empire to show up in foreign lands looking like trash. They WILL be the hottest people in the dungeon.

i stress smoked worse than andrew himself on screen while playing through this episode.