Be The Cowboy

Chariot. 23. African-American. Lesbian. I Speak, Therefore, I Am

[cursedsappho]

[dreadfuldevotee]

the thing is, if anne rice had actually written this season it would still be racist. but like, in a way i could survive. and it would actually have some good prose to it

[onwolves]

you do start to appreciate why anne rice just shot everybody

[liarsblade]

there's this weird thing people fall into online a lot, where people assume that if the [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged then people will, naturally, do [perceived-to-be-superior] version of [activity] instead. When really it's just as (or more) likely that if [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged people just won't do it at all.

[liarsblade]

audiobook listeners are not necessarily people who would otherwise do a lot of traditional reading if audiobooks did not exist, many are people who simply would experience zero books. Booktok romance readers would not necessarily be reading the classics if booktok did not exist, many of them would simply not read. Fanfiction writers would not necessarily be novelists if fanfic wasn't an option, many would just be people who didn't write. You know?

[dxxtruction]

choke

Full (18+): x

[rooksilver]

new tvl theory there IS a secret 8th episode but its also bad

[dreadfuldevotee]

who ordered Loumandstat human au, childhood best friends, catching catfish with their bare hands. No one? Well-

[toiich]

Solitary Figure in a Theater - Edward Hopper, 1903

[dimorisik]

THE owner of the night louis de pointe du lac

[ladyofthecreeddraws]

KISS! THAT! GREMLIN!

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[lolitamadeo]

& even if s4 does happen & knocks our fuckin socks off it will not make up for the abhorrent bigotry & offensiveness for offensiveness' sake that marked this season & will probably mark the show going forward

[coldeveryseason]

also we should absolutely question the show's choice to remove gabrielle, magnus and marius' overt antiblackness from the tvl book when the writers got armand out here acting like he's auditioning for kkk grand wizard. clearly the show isn't shying away from depicting antiblack violence considering the treatment of black characters in the past two episodes, so the refusal to depict gabriella, marius and magnus as the white supremacists they were in the source material, is a blatant tell- the writers are protective of their white characters, even the antagonists, and don't want them to seem "too" evil (which tracks for white and nonblack liberals acting like being called racist is worse than being racist.) and this clearly isn't a concern they have when it comes to the characters of color- armand has for 2 seasons now enacted forms of explicit violence inflicted on enslaved black people- louis and claudia's cut ankle tendons, the entire public humiliation of the trial, claudia's burning, louis' head on a spike, coercing him into a performance of self-debasement and contrition and branding his body- and claudia calls her black father a slave in a bioessentialist, derogatory context and expresses a level of internalized antiblackness she was never even hinted at feeling when she was alive. in both scenes, the narrative is much harsher on louis than on lestat and the nonblack writers go into extreme detail in their antiblack dialogue and racialized, borderline pornographic depiction of louis' torture. but gabriella is portrayed shallowly complimenting louis' beauty when realistically she would be calling him slurs when talking about him to lestat, magnus' "master race" aspirations and fixation on white supremacist beauty standards for how he chose his victim pool and "heir" aren't addressed, and marius' racial politics ("rotten boy", the whitewashed portrait of armand- we know he's racist, the show just hasn't acknowledged it and intentionally excluded the parts of tvl where he expresses that racism when talking to lestat) remain an elephant in the room. and ofc the way the writers are tryna be like "see lestat isn't racist, black people love him" in-universe through characters like merrick and paul (lol. lmao even) and tryna overwrite or dance around every textual example of lestat's antiblackness is so transparent in its clumsiness.

[partlyironic]

lmao

[pinkponygrl]

[ladyofthecreeddraws]

Loumand kisses :)

(post 2.03-pre 2.04)

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[ryelandgrace]

Imagine for a second that you're an interstellar microorganism. I'm not doing that.

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller

[elysiumbby]

#centering what’s important