devil’s advocate

mostly iwtv, thg and asoiaf, but everything really 24 | she/her | 🇧🇷

[yaoiblackmold]

Anne Rice will introduce a new and interesting character for one chapter, then go YUCK! I don't want to play with these new guys anymore and abandon them just to go back and play dolls with her crusty dusty Lestat

[ldrloversblog]

If we get more seasons pls hire writers that are actually normal, because I don't want someone writing a script about Arun/Amadeo, Akasha, Maharet and Mekare if they can't be serious about topics such as race, oppression, misogyny, orientalism, rape, child trafficking, abuse, grooming.

[retquits]

people might think creating OC lore involves a lot of thinking & planning, but in my personal experience, OC development is more like a divine vision from a god slamming you over the head with a mallet while ur doing the fuckin dishes or folding laundry

[eab-art]

S2 is the best season of iwtv because it has the most armand in it

[diamondringsandgutterbones]

"get a job" "unemployed behaviour" okay but like. girl your ableism

[heating-element]

girl your abelism. girl your inexplicable capitalistic worldview. girl your view of labour productive for capital being directly tied to your worth as a person. but also really holy shit girl your abelism!

[liizardwiizard]

sometimes i think too much about the vampire armand and get sick to my stomach

[quietwingsinthesky]

thank god vampirism is a flexible metaphor

[quietwingsinthesky]

it’s about being queer it’s about surviving assault it’s about alienation and most of all it’s about how everyone who loved you before might not be able to even look at you now, no matter how many times you try to explain that you didn’t ask to die and you didn’t ask for that death to leave you only half-eaten when it got bored of you.

[marypsue]

This is without even mentioning the broader metaphorical implications of disease and contagion; foreign invasion; colonial or imperial violence; interpersonal abuse; generational trauma; religious trauma; violent cultural assimilation; repressed or suppressed desire; the fear of no longer being able to recognise or relate to someone you love; and on and on and on.

Vampirism is a flexible metaphor that reflects the anxieties and desires of its age and its authors, and I love that for it!

[quasi-normalcy]

We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"

[void-flesh]

[beaulesbian]

Happy August 5th to all who celebrate

the love in question:

[notahorseindisguise]

hey, sex pervert question: do you ever think about me even when im not present

[loving-the-world-since-00]

[loving-the-world-since-00]

[mossycakes]

theres this guy called assad zaman and, well... (suddenly gets choked up) (makes cut motion to the camera and removes mic pack)

[professional-rat-eater]

Lestat: I am an unreliable narrator. I love to lie.

Half the audience for some reason: I can’t believe how reliable this narrator is. He would never lie to us.

[fluffycakesistainted]

# a lot of viewers have made the mistake of treating lestat's voiceover like an inner monologue. like we've been granted access#to his unfiltered thoughts. ...instead of questioning the context in which we're hearing it#which is: this is an audio diary recorded by lestat at an unspecified later date and sold at auction to a wealthy buyer#who purchased his life story for a sum of money that a limited & privileged number of people have access to.#that framing device alone should challenge you to scrutinize this tale as closely as louis' account in dubai (if not even more closely!)#especially when the first thing he says on the recording is to the winner of the auction. HE RECORDED THIS TO BE RELEASED AND SOLD.#(the tapes are an admitted performance) what is his agenda and why is he telling This person This story in This way (we're doing a rewrite)#(the other lot at auction was burned. only this account remains)#when was this recorded? why? who (if anyone) was present? did anyone challenge his memory of events like daniel did with louis?#(he openly admits to taking liberties with the danlou scene because He Was Not There and can't truthfully say what occurred)#(and we can't trust that a verbal note to edit something out that remained in the final version means his entire story is unedited)#i think the presence of daniel in lestat's tale and existence of the documentary also plays into this#the audience instinct is to trust daniel to keep the story on track and tell us what he finds to be true#but this is not daniel in the flesh like he was in dubai. this is a reconstruction by lestat himself giving the illusion of an unbiased POV#daniel is not the one telling us this story and all documentary footage is edited into a narrative by someone with a point of view#until we know why This point of view exists or what tale lestat is telling his listener (& who the listener is) we Should question it#and assume everything we see has been filtered by time and/or bias and is being shown to us by a man who is a master of lying by omission#for a purpose we still don't know or understand (via nothinglikeweplanned)

[dick-hardboiled]

There is absolutely a platonic explanation for that

[dick-hardboiled]

But I will also entertain the non platonic for my own edification do u understand

[goldensunset]

[ladypaperwriterson]

"You simply cannot trust Louis, he's a completely unreliable narrator and every single thing he ever said should be put to question! It's so good that we finally have Lestat's version, which is obviously the only true one - so good to finally have a reliable narrator!"

The reliable narrator:

[loving-the-world-since-00]