Jeyne, Jeyne, ça rime avec peine

Eli, France. White. Non binary. they/them Autistic. IDK anymore why I am here this blog is over ten years old wtf. currently feral over Interview with the Vampire on AMC now follow for more random hyperfixations

[ghostlightgoth]

“You need a love that’ll cradle you”

So we’re talking about Sybelle and Benji right?

[danielxarmand]

IWTV 2x05 — "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start The Tape" TVL 3x07 — "The Failures"

[kenapiece-main]

Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

[onion-xiv]

[claumandscathedral]

genuinely open to disagreement but delainey’s pained delivery of “bleak… black life” felt like the anti-black insults she was hurling at louis were intentionally loaded with her own grief. especially with her comments that claudias jealous that louis gets to wallow and love and live.

louis gets to be black and desired, cherished and wanted with his whole personhood. louis gets to fuck up, be fucked up, forgive and be forgiven; he gets to be black and a whole person. claudia is disabled into helplessness by her little girl body that seems to keep signalling people to treat her like a boxed doll. its not a coincidence that she gets louis to plot against lestat by telling him he’s a kept thing, telling him he is all the things she experiences. the anger in her voice when she calls louis a slave, it feels situated against the incessant inertia she was always running on because she had no other choice.

in nola, its claudia micromanaging with an eye and ear on everyone. she nurses louis after the drop, she maintains the thread of their plotting. in europe, its claudia learning the languages, claudia keeping up the story, claudia maintaining hypervigillance. she notices the bombs about to blow while louis’ being woeful and hallucinating lestat. louis gets to be lost in lestats eyes; louis gets to dance with humans in romania; louis gets to run around paris ‘out on the streets’ while shrugging off armands warnings. louis gets to be careless, gets to be oblivious, gets to drown in his pain and still be protected and unconditionally loved. what louis couldnt even give her

the blackness claudia navigates her life with is so radically different from louis’ that it makes a lot of sense that she so ardently hates his

[peachesplumsstakesfangs]

The way the first one can apply to both of them.😩

[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[ohholydyke]

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

[tranthony]

grout white shark

[ghostlightgoth]

Armand trying to prevent something for once and everyone hates him for it

[danielsarmand]

and also another thing. daniel molloy is not a freshly made asshole. put some respect on his name he was always a huge fucking bitch AND a cheater AND a shit father and his sarcasm has been a steady stream for the whole duration of the series so don't you come crying to me about him being mean and over-the-top and a parody of himself that's the original right there and you've known him for two seasons don't pmo

[shoutdontwhisper]

TVL is some of the densest writing I have ever seen on a tv show. The writers treat every single line like it needs to be doing three jobs at once - foreshadowing, character work AND a callback to something said in season one. No show is above criticism and when all is said and done i'll have my own critiques of season 3 but the quality of the writing or the writers room not understanding these characters is not one of them. you WILL need the rewatch. you WILL need to pay attention or you miss something important or misunderstand the characters. they will not hand it to you easily.

[sixbigideas]

like. that was claudia. the real claudia. for the first time. and she was awful. and that’s Correct. the claudia we knew this whole time — that was claudia as told by louis. recalled as softer and smaller, in the same way lestat was recalled as larger and more aggressive.

once, maybe, she loved louis, when she was truly still a child. and of course he had to believe she always did, at least a little. but through the years following? by the time she died, a grown woman still reduced to his daughter? what love would she have left for him?

she was a vampire. and good at it. she was always lestat’s daughter. she is every bit the evil of his evil.

that scene wasn’t character assassination. louis’s retelling for the first two seasons was character assassination.

[doctordaemon]

honestly, I think it’s all true. a person isn’t only two dimensions, and the more viewpoints we get on claudia, the clearer she becomes to us. we’ve had louis’ and armand’s claudia - and they both had very different perspectives to offer. we’ve had claudia’s “little girl diaries” which gave a glimpse of her inner self and later the self she was willing to risk others reading. we’ve got a tiny bit of lestat’s claudia, and now finally we’ve got lestat’s recounting of claudia’s angry ghost. they’re all incomplete versions, just slivers of time or someone’s perspective or prejudices, but altogether they give a portrait of a real person. she was soft and small and fierce and vindictive and childish and bitter and playful and loving and and and

[lioncunt]

the very idea that someone could sit down, watch lestat puke while still trying to rationalize the abuse, have a full blown panic attack over it when louis yells that there is no rationalizing this, and then go say it's consensual...that it's not portrayed as abuse...insane...

i also think a lot of people aren't really getting the *point* of louis' reaction. it's extremely harsh and judgmental and completely insensitive to the fact that lestat is being abused, but that is the purpose of it. the entire season is lestat attempting to justify it. this is louis saying that you cannot justify it. there is no rational way to justify that happening. and when lestat has a breakdown over it, they both sort of realize at the same time that this means lestat has been suffering incestuous sexual abuse for 200 fucking years.

it overwhelms lestat, and it clicks for louis. that's when he changes tacts, when he comforts lestat, when he gently tries to help him admit that it's been abuse all along in the bar. it's so realistic, such a necessary sequence.

i think there is unfortunately a knee jerk reaction people have to abuse like this, esp when it's mother/son, where it's just "gross", "weird", or "sick", as louis says. where the child is not taken to be a victim, somehow. i think the show is very honest in having this be louis' initial reaction, until he sees lestat's panic, until he properly thinks it through for a second. and then he gets it, and he feels horrible about what he said. again, it's just all very realistic and bittersweet. everyone involved did an incredible job with this storyline imo.

[loopnoid]

i've been told there's a repost of this silly old comic going around so here's the real one

[devilmeows]

nouvelle copypasta française vient de drop

[devilmeows]

translation for the english speakers:

"yesterday. the youth. they'd rather go to the JAPAN🇯🇵 expo. rather than celebrate our national holiday. our great and beautiful country. they buy. yaoi. yes you heard me right. yaoi. on the 14th of july our great nation's national holiday. on that day they buy yaoi."

[moonydee]

armand, his eyes enormous: you MOCK armand? you make fun of his traumas on the stage? oh! oh! suicide for the band! suicide for the band for One Thousand Years!!!!

[pink0paques]

daniel, every single episode: so blood ammirite guys