SUPERSTYLE AND THE ART OF HUMANOID-WATCHING

She/her. Phantom of the Opera brought me back here I guess.

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

the vampire lestat: dead and loving it

[lightfe11ow]

TATE BROTHERS ARRESTED IN MIAMI FEEL GOOD INC LAUGH TEN HOUR VERSION

[mr-deep-downer]

[jyt8183]

This season is being told from Lestat’s point of view. No one thinks of themselves as the villain. They beat us over the head with the whole unreliable narrator, Lestat’s pov isn’t anymore 100 percent accurate than Louis’. Claudia called Louis a slave before in the first season, either explicitly or did the whole yes master thing when they were talking to each other in their heads, I don’t remember which. Also why shouldn’t she be raging? Most of her life with them was against her will, then she and the woman she loved got murdered and it’s still about them. They dragged her back from wherever to make themselves feel better. The part that was wild to me was that after that they went to the park and sat in their little bubble like nothing happened. Not suggesting anyone has to like the show, there are some shows that everyone watched that I just absolutely hated, but some of the arguments just seem like they’re grasping at straws.

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

'This season is being told from Lestat’s point of view. No one thinks of themselves as the villain. '

Except the thing is... he kind of does in the books. Dude is out there talking about how evil he is while sitting there thinking about how he loves to watch strangers dancing or listening to them talk about nothing and justifies every bit of harm done against him while beating himself up over everything he's ever done, both the actual cruelty and just regular regrets. He's going around saying he was a monster in life too even when the reader can see he was a normal nice young man in a shitty situation once. The writing choices made this season for him personally weren't offensive, but he very much has a tendency in the books for his narration to be self-deluding in the opposite direction, to the point where he basically prides himself on being hot and evil and he's really just... a presumably pleasant-looking man with a complicated relationship with humanity, and the rampaging cuntress thing was OOC too.

This isn't even getting into the bigger issues here, but like. Not even that is correct.

[roycohn]

interview with the vampire (1994) is a fascinating hollywood artifact bc you watch it back and it's like wow a gay guy and a guy who beat his bisexual wife are playing a gay couple that aren't allowed to be gay textually bc it's the 90s and also these two guys have been in some of the biggest movies of the past 40 years and also they both have no contact with their children and also kiki thee legend "amber atkins" "the dunst rule" "with apologies to taylor, THE one real thing jake gyllenhaal's ever known" dunst is here

[roycohn]

i guess in hindsight "gay guy whose daughter hates him for cult-related reasons" really was the role of tom cruise's lifetime

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

in retrospect it's kind of suspect that they emphasized so much that Claudia's (living) human family respectively abandoned, beat, and was sexually abusive toward her too, especially with (by comparison) book Claudia's mother being apparently quite loving and just dying tragically of illness

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

This is my book-accurate Carrie. She’s fat in the book, did you know that? That’s why I drew her looking like a Steven Universe character,

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

absolutely not the important part of what’s going on rn but god almighty, the way this has gone has me thinking like a politician. I’m looking at the outline for my s2-and-beyond crossover AU and thinking shit like “and the American people can have my promise that this will include graphic onscreen violence toward white people too, not reserved for solely and disproportionately the Black leads”

[themonstrousother]

Heartwarming! So-called tolerant gothic horror blog that delves into ‘dark and socially fraught’ topics and themes just as racist as average fandomite

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

also gonna just come out and say I would be fine with Armand doing all of that to Lestat instead, and that I don’t think there’s much of a problem making Armand this torture-happy; I think the issue here lies with who is it almost exclusively depicted towards minus 2x05

[epwhales]

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Can I just gush at how much I’m in love with the guitar riffs played in the background of the title song??

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

seeing people going “and DM didn’t even kiss” after that finale is like. okay yeah but let’s focus on the actual problems here

[fitzsjames]

THE TERROR GIFS  │   1 / ∞

1.01 "Go for Broke"

[spiralmindz]

what im learning from my years of being one of the annoying woke black people on here is that a Lot of white and nonblack people really do not understand what racism is and what it has done to African Americans. like when we learn abt it in schools they dont really tell you abt the mass rape and genocide and torture of Africans by white slave owners, they dont talk abt the murder of babies and the cannibalism either. its all in The Past so we should just get over it, lol. and then when nonamerican's colonial past gets brought up they start throwing tantrums too, because antiblackness is a global thing, many countries have exploited Africa and its people. this isnt unique to one nation. its so funny how all these Smart Communists are so ignorant abt racism in america and globally, and then when black leftist/progressive tumblr users try to say anything abt their real actual Lived Experiences as Black people its met with dismissal and hatred and condescension and Um, Actually, im not from america, can you talk to me like im 5 about racism please :) and if youre anything but Nice they will call you a slur

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

ok but are you TVL critical bc you actually care about the characters the show built up in the first two seasons and feel let down or are you TVL critical in the sense that the first thing people see on your blog is a banner of white redhead Armand from the books

[sistertaxon]

lokisuggestion is kind of the last great funnyman. funnythey? funnyfag

[lokisuggestion]

funny loki :)

[drolta]

“claudia’s in hell because she was a serial killer” okay she was also a vampire a lot longer than she was a mortal child and I think it’s weird that people would look at her situation and immediately decide the universe condemned her to hell for circumstances that were never even under her control

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

#i keep seeing these dogshit takes and i’m sorry#but i don’t believe any deity would see what happened to claudia and then condemn her#she spent all of her life abused and then was turned to appease louis#i don’t even think she’s in hell#i think she’s a tormented spirit trapped in some kind of purgatory but it’s not like permanent#and that’s assuming it was the real claudia shown in ep6 bc i don’t think it was#and why are we still calling her a serial killer in a show about vampires?#like i only ever see this used for claudia. why? because of her trophy era???

her trophy era was a person (at that time a roughly 20 y/o woman, literally the most visible population for this kind of thing) with an eating disorder hiding food wrappers in their bedroom and I am so serious