so why have pretty much all the explicit wlw kisses in the show been for male gratification and the one wlw relationship treated with a decent amount of respect gets nothing bc itâs âtoo pureâ despite madeleine being freaked the fuck out for claudia upon watching her murder abunch of ppl
i've never felt so much joy, didn't even expect that they were going to imply that based on what was teased to us. i had to rush this before sleeping cuz it's THAT serious! so here's daddy gabi looking at lestat's boat before leaving.đĽš
From Gustave Courtois' "Dante et Virgile aux Enfers"
This was my first bookmand art, that's why he doesn't look like Mick Jagger yet and has bright ginger hair đ also, i recently remembered the typical Vergil - Blue and Dante - Red color scheme wasn't always the case, especially in old manuscripts:
âď¸âď¸ There it is! That's literally Marius & Amadeo. Hahaha!
I have so so many thoughts about the setting of TVA. It's the most prominent and interesting theme in the book to me. I was heavily fixated & obsessed with turn-of-the-century Italian Renaissance history for a while, so starting to read TVA and slowly realizing this book is set in exactly those years, how Armand's conflict corresponds exactly with the history & theology of that brief period was... an Experience. LOL.
Amadeo's rebirth into his new life being set in a time where Christian faith & culture is being reborn. The Siege of Constantinople and Andrei's kidnapping. Savonarola's Bonfire of Vanities and the Children of Darkness ambush. The constant comparison with Christ's rebirth ... It is so deeply imbued with the conflicting values of the Italian Renaissance. Even Marius, too, represents that - an ancient roman teacher to offset & challenge Armand's very Christian, very spiritual devotion. The book, to me, is Armand's Divine Comedy!
I debated on which painting to imitate for this idea, and ended up choosing the one depicting Canto 32 - Dante & Virgil witness Ugolino della Gherardesca, eternally gnawing on his betrayer's head in hell. Kind of as a little nod to how Armand cannibalizes Riccardo later on.
Although Marius gives his 'reasoning' for why he didn't 'rescue' Amadeo/Armand from the CoD, do you think that Amadeo having Akasha's eyes also could have contributed to the decision of leaving him to rot in the catacombs? Maybe it was the final nail in the coffin for why he couldn't (didn't want to) look at him anymore alongside his age and what the CoD did to him in the showverse?
Maybe maybe! Because what Marius fears in Akasha isn't really her power, it's the response she invokes in him. Akasha and Enkil bring out this religious fervor in Marius which goes against everything he ever believed in as a human and still preaches against, so I think if he saw a shadow of Akasha in Amadeo's eyes it could spiral into this fear of idolising which could then lead to him trying to distance himself.
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