scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026absurdly tempted to rewatch mysterious lotus casebook 010
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026rewatching a favourite show is a slippery slope because then you want to rewatch ALL your favourite shows 130
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026also I just love fabulous costumes, which cyjm has in abundance. and they're not shy about playing with gender norms in dressing and styling the male lead 000
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this show has some of the most chopped up editing work I've ever seen on television, among other things not worth writing home about. but I love a show that is so deeply interested in its characters' psychology, and this show loves tantai jin and li susu 111
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I gave up trying to watch or read anything new and just started rewatching cyjm. I've binged 30 episodes in 4 days lmao 100
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026there's a drama I want to watch, but it's on viki and there are no people working on those subtitles so it's all ai, and that's simply not what I pay money for. fml 120
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I can't tell you yet what the best show of the 2020s is, but I can and do believe black sails is one of the very best show of the 2010s. if not /the/ best tbh 020
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026nyt best of lists are always bullshit, and I won't discourse about it BUT: a list of best 21st century shows without black sails????? 140
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026yeah I feel like every album needs a couple listens to really get into your brain, or at least that's always been my experience. I'm excited about new crj!! another reason to live 000
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026what do you think of the new album? I really haven't heard any of it yet but she's never made a bad album so I'm not worried 100
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026omg somehow I don't think you and I have ever talked about crj.... but that's so real because I've done that more than once, at home when I'm working on projects or when I'm at work. I'm listening to dedicated right now! 100
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026have I listened to the new crj album? no, but I'm listening to another one of hers because I need to be in the best frame of mind to listen to the new stuff. it's not every day a fav artist drops a new album 130
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026it's been a million years, but we're finally here!! 010
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026wound fingering is a canonical tag now? oh we're in business 160
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026seriously, I almost mourn the fact that ben daniels was cast in a role where he would only appear for one season. but he's so perfect in it that I really can't imagine anyone else playing santiago 010
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026of course I like them so much that it comes back around to being pleasant, but that's a different matter. I have a friend who quit watching season 2 because she found the coven annoying, so clearly my enjoyment is not universal 020
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I said this elsewhere but it bears repeating that every season of iwtv must have a hot and unpleasant character. see: santiago and gabriella in their respective seasons 140
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I rewatched the episode with Annika's death yesterday, and it's seriously such a good performance!! also reminded me how much I enjoyed Santiago as a character 121
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026similarly, you might think the concert will be the finale in season 3, but it's not. it's all character-driven again, where lestat has to reckon with himself and his foundational relationships, much like louis did the past 2 seasons (and is doing again with armand in the finale). I love that! 050
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"there's another episode after this?" she was surprised. then I said, "of course! the interview has to end." and then she understood. season 2 is not a plot about the events leading up to claudia's death; it's about the story louis is telling in dubai to understand himself and his relationships 160
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026thinking about story structure in iwtv. it's a character-driven show, but since there's so much action happening around the characters, some viewers think it's a plot-driven show when my sister watched season 2 for the first time, she thought the trial would be the finale 140
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026yeah!! which is an insane thing to say but so in character for louis and his dynamic with daniel where they like to take little bites out of each other 010
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026which really comes down to the fact that the other 3 have all had romantic entanglements with each other. iwtv isn't a romance series but those entanglements inform the direction of the story. anyway I just think it's funny that daniel spent the finale bowling. like putting a kid in daycare 010
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I know some didn't like that daniel was outside of the main happenings in the tvl finale, but it hilariously encapsulates where he's currently at in the narrative. 3 seasons of the ups and downs in the relationships of lestat, louis, armand. daniel isn't fully part of all that like they are 220
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the problem with writing fic in a new fandom is that you start out with a simple concept for a oneshot, and then you start putting all your thoughts about these characters in it because who knows if you'll write another fic in this fandom. and now it's a damn character study 042
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026smiling as I go to work because I'm thinking about tantai jin. who spends 40 episodes suffering beautifully. my favourite type of guy. I may need to rewatch soon 020
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 20/09/2026there's no greater inner conflict than when you know a pairing would be very into a specific kink, but you, the writer, have no desire to write said kink 170
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026and on a meta level, lestat's approach to cops, lawyers, and aldermen in the early 20th century, versus his more confrontational approach to them in 2025, can also reflect changes in the relationship between queer communities and the state in real time 110
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026yes there was an ongoing thread about the police, surveillance, and public image in season 1 for sure! and it must have informed lestat's feelings about cops in 20th century north america where queer men were heavily policed under the law 111
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026not really going anywhere with this, it's just interesting how lestat's behaviour changes depending on time period, his companions, his own mental state. he's spiralling so bad in 2025 he's stopped caring what happens to him when he reveals his vampirism every night on stage, in tour buses, in song 141
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026in this period of their lives, louis & lestat avoid messing with cops and any "important men in town" to protect themselves from scrutiny. but in 3x04, lestat is calling all attention to himself, good or bad (though he does remove the cop from the bus to soothe his bandmates' anxieties) 130
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026but now that I've rewatched the claudia-centric episode, I realize the scene is also a callback to 1x04 where claudia's first kill after becoming a vampire is a cop. louis and lestat chastise her for killing a cop and make her promise never to do it again 120
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I remember when iwtv 3x04 aired, I saw some people online wondering what was the point of the scene where lestat mind-controls a cop who raids the tour bus. to me, the scene was lestat showing off his powers to the people on the bus because he knew it'd appeal to them; he needs praise and admiration 230
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026literally same. I'll just be enjoying all that from afar 011
Reposted by scoopfreaky little guy enjoyer @evashougouki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026u ask iwtv characters their sexuality and louis is like homosexual, armand says available, and lestat is like well far too often we let the prejudices of the mind preclude the indulgence in the body and deny ourselves pleasure oh in one word? fàggöt 03615
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 13/09/2026it's not a coincidence that louis waited until daniel was old with his career on the decline, no friends and family around him. daniel is at his most vulnerable and, as louis and armand perceive him, most malleable for the interview /they/ want to conduct 031
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 13/09/2026rewatching the iwtv pilot, it's interesting how in response to daniel asking louis why he wants to redo the interview now in 2022, louis says "I'm different." because it's also daniel who's different 130
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 13/09/2026it's always a good episode when tim shows up to make sirens start sounding in dale's head 111
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 11/09/2026the real reason I love iwtv season 3 is because it features louis being divorced twice over. and the most beautiful divorcé in the world is experiencing fresh interpersonal horrors every week 050
Reposted by scoopDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/09/2026One of the things I hate most about AI is that now I first approach a lot of art with suspicion instead of awe 231476328
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I started watching it last month and agreed it really does work so well in this show, not in small part due to their chemistry and the fact that neither of them are normal about anything ever 010
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 07/09/2026but there could be space to do a partial backstory for armand within a queen of the damned adaptation since they've already got marius 030
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 07/09/2026do I think iwtv will ever adapt that novel? queen of the damned and body thief are 2 (maybe even 3) seasons. adapting the vampire armand in 2030 may be a stretch, and a showrunner did point out how expensive it is to film in venice (which also suggests that the showrunners are thinking about it) 110
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 07/09/2026the vampire armand as a novel seems more easily adaptable when you consider that it could be approached the way the iwtv writers did in season 3. you would have to play with structure to ground it in present-day storylines, with flashbacks that translate well to the screen 110
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 07/09/2026they still say all the mean things to each other first though 030
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I actually don't want the show to ever revisit the scene in the paris theatre box because I prefer to imagine the secret third version of events, where gabriella and lestat both bite into armand's neck in lieu of fucking 140
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I wasn't able to get any copies of the tvl interviews that WERE in print this summer, so it's a bummer all around lol. at this point I'm just crossing my fingers that there'll be a physical release of the music, since the music for season 2 never got one (another tragedy) 010
scoop @returning-spring.bsky.social · 06/09/2026as someone else said in the thread, raw is sisters instead of father-son! and there's so much about flesh and bodies and gender in these two films (haven't seen the director's third film yet). they're fascinating 010
