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I'm a part-time artist and fic author
I've been awoken back to twt by the siren song of great iwtv posts.
Here you may find:
💀 The Vampire Chronicles
💀Catholicism/blasphemy
💀 Art History
💀Baldur's Gate 3
💀The band Ghost
✨ GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate this wonderful community’s support for me, as well as two incredible achievements in Sam’s career this year, The Vampire Lestat and Doubt: A Parable, coming to an end 🖤
✨ HOW TO ENTER:
• Must be following @streidupdates
• Reply under this post with 1. your favourite performance moment from Sam in TVL and 2. your favourite song from the TVL album
• Fill out the google form here: https://t.co/S4RRnOhpCG
• Retweet this post
✨ PRIZE:
• One of the exclusive audience gifts from The Vampire Lestat One Night Only Live at The Beacon, including a limited edition tote bag, the Long Face vinyl, a copy of the TVL Rolling Stone, and a TVL/Fender guitar pick!
• Some SRU-designed TVL stickers!
✨ THE FINE PRINT (please read carefully):
• This giveaway is open INTERNATIONALLY!
• One winner will be randomly picked and announced on Saturday, September 5th, 2026. Entries are open until then.
• One entry per user. Form must be read and filled out to be entered.
• This giveaway is cross-posted to both my X/twitter and Instagram, with ONE winner in total across both platforms.
• Winner must be willing to share mailing address with the admin to receive prize package.
• Winner will be contacted directly by this account (@streidupdates) here OR samreidupdates on Instagram, so please do not accept any dms from any other accounts pretending to be associated with the giveaway. I am not liable for you sharing personal information with anyone else.
• Not affiliated with Sam Reid, AMC, or X/twitter.
✨ Thank you for all of your support and good luck! 🖤
@streidupdates It's so hard to pick, but the one that really sticks in my head is Nikki's break down scene. Sam's absolute heartbreak just hurts so bad its beautiful. And im a yearner, I adore Brutal Love it takes my breath away.
Pope Francis considered "Babette's Feast" (1987) to be "One of the best movies he had ever seen" & it was one of his top 3 movies of all time. About the film, he said,
"The story takes place in a very strict Calvinist community in Denmark. The protagonists, two sisters, daughters of a Protestant pastor, had each fallen in love but rejected this feeling because it was wrongly considered contrary to the very strict morals they had inherited. They lived a life of renunciation, not only in love but in everything, including food and clothing. A kind of continuous self-flagellation.
The French cook Babette, a ‘foreigner’ in this context, after winning a rich lottery prize, decides to cook a sublime meal for the whole community, and by this gesture she manages to make everyone feel and see human beauty. She manages to make them perceive this divine pleasure that has been wrongly suppressed for too long.
Choosing one’s own food is one of those choices. It is a powerful mechanism for change: it means rewarding one productive and economic model rather than another."
P.S: On this day, 39 years ago, Gabriel Axel's "Babette's Feast" (1987) was released in Denmark.
Clocking in for yearning hours: I cant help but read 'rotten boy' as a soured term of endearment. Like Marius would def call his beloved rotten with a whisp of a smile knowing he's the one spoiling him because he's give him anything