דאָרטן איז מײַן רוע־פּלאַץ

look not for me in nature’s greenery you will not find me there, i fear where lives are wasted by machinery that is where i rest, my dear

[danielkahndyke]

eva / chava (חַוָּה).

they/she/he. 22. tme. usa. ✡︎ ⚢ ⚥ ☭.

transphobes & zionists get blocked.

i’m also @evienicksz on twitter.

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[vampire-chronicles]

Gabrielle de Lioncourt is a TRANS ICON 🏳️‍⚧️

Rice's views on gender and transgender identities here.

PSA: This post contains quotes from the 1980s and 1990s, which means some vocabulary may be outdated or inconsistent with current usage within the transgender community.

I believe all pronouns are okay for Gabrielle. I use she/her in this post because of the book canon.

TRIGGER WARNING

The next picture depicts an experience of gender dysphoria, which may be triggering for some viewers.

After that you may continue safely if you want to skip the preceding content.

[danielkahndyke]

i just got so mad at a post saying “if ur upset abt gabrielle’s gender presentation in the amc it’s bcus u haven’t actually read the books & u mistook ur headcanon for canon.” um. hello? did u need the character in a 40y/o book (that character being a 250y/o vampire no less) to directly state to the reader “i am transmasculine nonbinary”? gabi is canonically transgender even if she has her slightly feminine moments u just have no reading comprehension bro. she projects onto lestat the masculine role she wishes she could play, is consistently referred to w masculine language by lestat, wears men’s clothing, screams when her hair grows back, is liberated by vampirism to do the thing she never could as a woman—

[bifauxnenarmand]

[berry-and-her-brushes]

Gabrielle de Lioncourt

[totomiumiu]

"[...] and then she looked up at me, and she was a young man now certainly, the short hair curling against her cheek."

The Vampire Lestat, page 174.

[ashiistired]

Some quick Gabrielle sketches that I might clean up and colour later

[tulinokkaelain]

Gabrielle waking up from a hole she dug to sleep in. Who needs clothes in the woods. Not her.

[mirandakat]

Gabrielle de Lioncourt 👑

[pissbataille]

despite gabrielle using lestat as an embodiment of her own autonomy by sending him on hunting trips with guns and dogs that simultaneously function as protection, he does not actually understand what she is doing until she is dying and finally confesses it to him. you can already see the logic of this in the wolf fight itself, where the wolves represent the male members of his family while the dogs die for lestat, allowing him to inhabit and possess a form of autonomy that gabrielle herself could never access directly.

but the disturbing part of this dynamic is not that she is somehow “interfering with his body” or forcibly masculinising him. lestat is already inhabiting that social role. what gabrielle is doing is much more psychological than bodily. she is hardening him, attempting to kill off what she perceives as softness, vulnerability, passivity, anything in him that mirrors the conditions of her own entrapment.

and crucially, lestat only learns this explicitly because gabrielle confesses it when she believes she is dying and he is already a grown man in his twenties. the text does not present a child consciously shaped into a replacement spouse or erotic object. what it presents instead is a mother who cannot relate to her son except through projection. she cannot encounter lestat as a separate person with his own subjectivity because she is so consumed by her own longing for freedom that he becomes the vehicle through which that fantasy is enacted.

that is what makes the scene horrible. gabrielle is not trying to possess lestat erotically. the problem is that she understands him primarily through what he represents to her. he becomes tied to her fantasy of escape and autonomy so completely that she struggles to recognise him outside that symbolic function.

[sullenseptember]

words and words and words unspoken

[woobyism]

'' strong women are absolutely unpredictable ''

[nasnyys]

let’s swap genders with mama

[cuntyfieddemon]

can you believe they got bookcanon transmasc arodykecest momdad jungle-demon gabrielle de lioncourt over here at amc in a neon white bob and tight black fem dress acting like a momager who teaches yoga to the kardashians as a side hustle while also and conveniently showing cleavage so bright even maharet without eyes can see. what have they done to my enby entity

[cuntyfieddemon]

can you believe they got bookcanon transmasc arodykecest momdad jungle-demon gabrielle de lioncourt over here at amc in a neon white bob and tight black fem dress acting like a momager who teaches yoga to the kardashians as a side hustle while also and conveniently showing cleavage so bright even maharet without eyes can see. what have they done to my enby entity

[cuntyfieddemon]

can you believe they got bookcanon transmasc arodykecest momdad jungle-demon gabrielle de lioncourt over here at amc in a neon white bob and tight black fem dress acting like a momager who teaches yoga to the kardashians as a side hustle while also and conveniently showing cleavage so bright even maharet without eyes can see. what have they done to my enby entity

[cuntyfieddemon]

can you believe they got bookcanon transmasc arodykecest momdad jungle-demon gabrielle de lioncourt over here at amc in a neon white bob and tight black fem dress acting like a momager who teaches yoga to the kardashians as a side hustle while also and conveniently showing cleavage so bright even maharet without eyes can see. what have they done to my enby entity