Kat McKatKat
@mckatkat.bsky.social
Covered in morally imperative dust. I have many normal thoughts and feelings and parasocial friendships with ghosts. 5'11" Lestat truther. The most terrifying kind of preternatural monster: a person who liked Blood Canticle. (she/her)
I said "I had to bother so many people I am emotionally exhausted and should go home" to my manager four hours ago and since I have had to message so many ADDITIONAL PEOPLE. I don't like IMPOSING MYSELF. I'm SOCIALLY ANXIOUS I'm also very nice and good at my job and I am just so ready to go home 🙃
Tituss Burgess: But I Already Did Something Today
ALT: Tituss Burgess: But I Already Did Something Today
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I need people to stop describing the character of Lestat, because they keep doing it wrong and it's irritating, and when I'm irritated I do impulsive things that I shouldn't do, like reply to them, because I'm a very specific personality type who can be described as being like a fictional vampire.
Greek life is grotesquely fascinating to me as a person who views it is kind of their worst nightmare possible? I had a couple of friends who were in sororities but they were at women's colleges, and I gathered your sorority there was more the straight girls in charge of setting up lesbian dates
An important thing to understand about millennials is that as we age all of the camera technology is improving at a rapid, horrifying pace, now my phone can capture flaws in my mid thirties skin that my eyes, also in my mid thirties, are no longer capable of seeing, mentally I am a flip phone blob
Medical issues are complicated, I'm physically waving my hand. I'm experiencing stereotypical narcoleptic symptoms and it's both weird and validating. Maybe all my other problems have cleared up enough that now I can get a diagnosis that makes my insurance less annoying! Meantime I'm so sleepy...
I looked into buying tickets for the WNBA even though I hate basketball, and then I didn't buy them because they were expensive even if I didn't hate basketball, but this led me to discover that there is a women's professional baseball league that started TWO DAYS AGO, but it's all in Illinois!?
During my little touristing into romance fiction I'm realizing that I'm very picky about conflict, like the conflict in a romance that is keeping the characters apart has to feel high stakes to me, and then they also need to be facing other conflict externally. I need conflict^2 for characterization
Mochi has been in a funk, and appears to be coming out of it! I may also be projecting onto the dog- but only partly, I am very glad that she's stopped acting like she went from being a young dog to an old dog in thirty seconds and is back to being A Dog.
I Went To A Vampire Chronicles Drag Show: A Thread of some highlights as gifs because I think drag is always best in motion. Rockstar Lestat, closing the show, feat: my hand
I am no longer at the Vampire Chronicles Drag Show so I can tell you all that I WAS AT A VAMPIRE CHRONICLES DRAG SHOW!!! I have many images to share anon but first we need after club foods that are bad for us
After two years of forgetting until it was too late, I finally ordered the fucking Anne Rice nerd badge ribbons for Dragon Con- I ended up going with the less niche option (tragically) but hopefully that means people will actually know what it is!
I still maintain the only thing that can make me feel better in these trying times is Sam Reid (video or audio) reading me my favorite bedtime story, the opening chapter of the book Blood Canticle, and yes I'm going to keep saying this on the off chance it somehow happens, it will make me happy 😭
... so unfortunately in this interview he does say that they wrote and planned to film and then cut my favorite scene from the entire book series, and I will now become Akasha, I will become Akasha now.
The Final Encore with Sam Reid
YouTube video by Autumn Brown
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The final order of IWTV Plushies/ Pins is being wrapped up so I have leftover plushies & the enamel pins up on my Etsy now! -w- I am still gushing when I see little Nicki since he was my original favorite character from the series. Special lil guy 🥺 maikuuroart.etsy.com { #iwtv #vampires #merch }
I love Lesmand so much. I want to cry about how much I love them. They're so terrible to each other they're everything to me.
This was weirdly fun to do! Probably close to accurate for me, and also yes I have a lot of affection for S2E6 I didn't realize I had apparently. My favorite episodes are either "actual adaptation of book material with a major twist" or "basically 100% original storyline" 🤷♀️
nicole@excaliburss.bsky.social · 6d agothis was so hard and I don’t know how I feel abt the final ranking tbh. let me have ties!! sortr.io/sorter/iwtv-...
I'm just going to say that based on the analytics people had a lot of questions after episode 5. And still do. This is becoming like sports to me 🤣
Kat McKatKat@mckatkat.bsky.social · 2w agofor the love of god, they have continued to google Marius de Romanus. ...for some reason the Analytics are supposed to be Secret (TM), but real talk: Marius is comically highly ranked in the listing of page views in the last month, like, absurdly for him and also anyone, and I don't know WHY
Haunted by this all day: Benjamin Malloy writes an irritated blog post titled The Tale of the Name Thief about how he has to avoid Auvergne because he's constantly having to explain to people why he's not physically twelve and is in fact a whole different guy who is ALSO in The Vampire Chronicles
Kat McKatKat@mckatkat.bsky.social · last wk.Benjamin Malloy the Formerly Human Reporter Boy
Me: "we have a problem with this thing." Someone else: "well if you look at this separate thing you will see it does not have this problem, so you are wrong." Email I hate sending: "...so we still do have the same problem, as you can see, because your thing was not relevant."
Benjamin Mahmoud is an underrated concept for a character and underrated in general. A lot about him is insane, but also just the like... he just is like "I am an eccentric with dwarfism who dresses like a gangster, humans," is incredible. I want to know about Benji's human friends so bad.
Nap from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m! Truly the dream except for the fact that I had other things I wanted to accomplish, God damn it.
"The real problem with The Vampire Lestat was that they tried to be too faithful to that goofy book it's based on." - a real review of the show in the Telegraph
Picard Double Facepalm
ALT: Picard Double Facepalm
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Everybody really needs to start napping more now. You take one nap occasionally? You really need to get those numbers up there, I'm talking seven naps, seven naps on a work day, that's the goal. I'm talking being passed the fuck out unconscious, that's what I'm talking about, is a beautiful thing.
My mother got me a massive bag of Voodoo Chips because, and I quote, "you know, New Orleans," and I'm completely horrified to be reminded that these do in fact slap and are not long for my apartment. What flavor is that? Sin? Vinegar a lot? Whatever it is, it's now a massive problem for my life.
The Hadestown proshot was great! I've seen it on stage before but it was so nice to see it again!
I like thinking about ways things could be adapted even if that's not going to be the way they're going to be adapted or a likely way anything will ever be commercially. I think the most interesting thing you could do with a faithfulish QotD adaptation is play with audience perception of Akasha.
I continue to keep nextdoor for occasions like tonight, when a fireworks display for a not very large event five miles away from me on a non-holiday was so loud that I was genuinely concerned what the noises were, given... what!? It sounded like 15 buildings exploded!
My favorite dessert is a B-52 cheesecake. I'm telling you this because not enough people have heard of B-52 cheesecake. It's made with chocolate, kahlua, bailey's, and Grand Marnier. A local restaurant sells it, also one time I have had one made from an online recipe and it was equally 👌
