Wind Flower

i dream of eating stars. they taste like honey and are softer than silk and they fill me until i am glowing with their light. incandescence never tasted so sweet. i dream of swimming in the sky. planets float gently, luminous against the midnight ocean, and if i get close enough they whisper their secrets to me. i dream of living inside the moon. she sings me to sleep each night. she is soft and warm and dazzlingly bright.

[plantsjustwannahavefun]

So, let's get this straight. Lestat can "sample" half the sex workers in NOLA, use one of them to gain information about Louis and fake a threesome to trick Louis into having sex with him (loved that scene, it was hot af but let's not pretend it was even remotely ethical), then kill her so Louis had no one else to turn to but him. Tag along a character who's literally just there to be his blood bag. Hang out in strip bars. Mock Armand's childhood SA and jokingly threaten to spank him. And that's all fine.

But Louis was a pimp back in 1910s because it was the only field of work that allowed him to earn that much money as a Black man, so now he's forever ontologically a pimp and literally everything he does will be somehow traced back to that, and he will apparently have to apologise for this for the rest of his life, including getting tortured by his own abuser who gaslit him for 77 years and forced to apologise to him for... not saying "sorry you got sexually abused as a kid" at some point in their relationship? You know, a character who famously never talks about anything vulnerable because he grew up repressed as fuck?

Louis literally did fuck all to Armand this whole season, while, I repeat, it was Lestat who humiliated him in front of an entire audience by performing a diss track about him, and made Armand deliver his apology letter while showering naked in front of him and then literally told him to kill himself. But somehow it was Louis who "wasn't sensitive enough about Armand's SA" because he made that one single remark while being high as a kite ~50 years ago? (Not defending it because, yeah, that was way below the belt, but still, how is it worse than anything Lestat said?).

What makes me angry is that I did want Armand to have an off the rails unapologetic evil gremlin moment like this. He was getting rejected and humiliated the entire season (even if rightly so), of course he wasn't going to take it all lying down. But it made zero sense to direct it all at Louis. Literally all Louis do to him was leave him, which he had every right to do. Yes, their relationship sucked, but no one forced Armand to stay.

[helenafreakgan]

that writers room gotta die for how they wrote their characters of color this season my god

[decomposingfungi]

how can you be more racist than anne rice

[ourholiestlove]

now that we’re halfway into it, tvl is not… good writing. the jokes don’t land. many of them are actually offensive. the narrative frames are interesting but don’t work. the metafictional elements end up being unbearably cringe. the co-lead of the season drags down every scene she’s in (not because of the actress, i love her!!! the writing is atrocious). so much unnecessary racism and misogyny.

this is not a tonal shift this is a destruction of everything the show was in s1-2

[folktail]

rolin jones

[helvarcult]

does anyone remember the amc show interview with the vampire? one of the greatest things television gave us in its era. heartbreaking that it ended after two seasons when those characters were so beautifully crafted. i really wish we could’ve had more.

[tanalolo]

"thank you for loving him the way he needs to be loved" abt a man who threw him from 2 kilometres in the sky....

[failvillain]

claudia says she hates my guts move on next scene. you say you love me move on next scene. you say you stalked me for 52 years move on next scene. i was in love with a boy once he killed himself he was my first love move on next scene. armand was there move on next scene. I'm telling you we started hanging out offscreen move on next scene. my mom and i killed our whole family move on next scene. I'm on an apology tour syke move on next scene. i have a body double oops hes dead move on next scene. i was in aa with your guitarist move on next scene. i don't have transformational trauma now im in cahoots with my maker move on next scene. god forbid we let the weight of anything settle

[inyourbackpocketisbutterflies]

all this explicit body horror only being reserved for black bodies in this show on top of the racially charged language and the bastardization of the black characters idk anymore man

[tv-kiki]

with few exceptions we have only seen black characters graphically get brutalized. they had closeups of louis’s body and face after lestat tried to murder him showing the extent of what was done, we saw just how burned and disfigured he was after her suicide attempt, claudia’s death is one of the most graphic i’ve seen on any tv show, we got closeups of their ankles slashed and shots of louis being kicked in the head and claudia being shoved into a box of live rats by the coven members. the majority of louis’s scenes in episode 7 were of his decapitated head on a pike, forced to look at his body as it flailed, begging to die, forced to apologize in something so close to a saw trap that it was bordering on copyright infringement while being painted as cruel and deserving of the abuse and then branded by armand.

we didn’t see any shots of lestat’s head in the bowling bag. we saw him burn, but it was portrayed as comical. we did not see bruce as he died, we did not see lestat get torn up by the wolves, we did not watch nicki die. in the majority of the scenes where a white character is injured, the action is cut away, out of frame, out of focus, mostly implied.

the extent of what we saw of the brutality of black characters now feels almost fetishistic. at the end of episode 105, lestat is floating in the air looking dreamy and louis is beaten to a pulp on the ground; episode 207, lestat is put together in a suit with his hair done and louis and claudia have been severely beaten. like, after this season, the rest of the show just looks weird.

[thingsarentgood]

Claudia randomly being antiblack to Louis, white writers room talking about some "nappy head/slave", devil's minion happening off screen, the government mandated incest every episode, the time-wasting concert footage. Bro please send the flood

[loumandsbian]

if that was “the best claudia scene [they] ever wrote” then i don’t think anybody involved in it should write again

[ourholiestlove]

now that we’re halfway into it, tvl is not… good writing. the jokes don’t land. many of them are actually offensive. the narrative frames are interesting but don’t work. the metafictional elements end up being unbearably cringe. the co-lead of the season drags down every scene she’s in (not because of the actress, i love her!!! the writing is atrocious). so much unnecessary racism and misogyny.

this is not a tonal shift this is a destruction of everything the show was in s1-2

[glitteringpoet1685]

AMC really struck gold with the unreliable narrator idea because now people will insist that any flaw in the storytelling is actually a genius premeditated reflection of a fallible narrator, any pacing issues are actually a genius premeditated reflection of a characters psyche, and any lack of character development is actually a genius premeditated reflection on a characters refusal to face their own trauma, and having cheap looking production is actually a genius premeditated reflection of a characters memories, and any unwarranted deviation from the source material is actually a genius premeditated lie that will be proven false at some unspecified point, and any poor handling of sensitive subjects is actually a genius premeditated commentary on the characters own failings, etc, etc.

[str-ngeloop]

probably tomorrow i'm gonna somehow be more organized and disciplined than i ever have been in my whole life so i'm fine probably

[pmamtraveller]

George F. Kerr (1870-1953), “Harper’s Bazaar”, 1902

[userarmand]

#the shirking responsibility brothers