The Final Empire read-through thumbnails 19 - 40 Vin bonding with Kelsier over Mare's drawing of a flower, talking to Marsh and Ham about Allomancy, rumors at Fellise and at balls, the secret army and the pewter drag (ending with Vin's hangover)
all of my interview with the vampire stuff
The Apparition (1876) by Gustave Moreau
I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal. More or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire, these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
ASSAD ZAMAN as Armand Interview with the Vampire • "Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death"
macrodata department: man it's so hard being a teenager
gemma the whole time:
Art by Carlos Fonseca
i'm literally the priest's favorite sacrificial lamb because i am so docile and sweet and i hold very still when they put the rope around my neck and i trot along so happily while they lead me to the altar and they do not even have to tie me down because i lie so very still and only bleat once or twice in my lovely lamb voice and when the knife comes down it cuts through me like butter and i offer no resistance and i bleed so prettily all over my new white wool and my guts all unspool like the most beautiful shining yarn and my eyes are animal and dumb and hold no accusation and every time i die i come right back as another little lamb because the priest loves me so so much and he always chooses me for the sacrifice every time and he always places one hand on my small and twitching nose to calm me while he lifts the knife and he doesn't do it for the other lambs only me because i'm his favorite