fujo nun

she/her thirty, long time tumblr lurker and co creator of the untamed fanzine. Rly terrible at this :D

[thecryptkeeper]

John H. White, Black beauties with colorful hair grace a float during the annual Bud Billiken Day parade along Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Drive on Chicago's South Side, 1973-4. Photo courtesy of Public Domain Image Archive.

[lanwangjihouse]

[yenvengerberg]

"She doesn't have that. No Madeleine. No rest."

[mountainfucker69]

my goth claudia + madeleine piece for the blood & brocade zine of @thevelvetcompote (the digital version is available and all proceeds go to PCRF!)

bonus closeup under the cut

[crazykuroneko]

A Note from IWTV S2 Writer A. Zell Williams

Read here:

Fan Appreciation Daze

How a show's fans lifted my spirits years after working on the series.

[purpie-goddess]

Breaking down Armand’s arc this season because it makes no sense:

1) he’s in AA in Ohio. Why he’s there, unclear. He meets Alex and inducts him into his cult following. He goes by Arun, which feels significant, but don’t worry- it never comes up again.

2) he finds Daniel and attempts to apologise to him. Why he chose now, unclear. Maybe he just wants help stopping the great conversion, but as we see later on, this is not actually really what he cares about.

3) he finds Lestat and apologises to HIM but is unsuccessful. He warns him about the great conversion, and then attends his show, allowing himself to be briefly humiliated.

4) no babe, you’re a great journalist, i was distracted by you!! he accidentally lets slip that he loves Daniel. End scene.

5) he tells Daniel about Lestat and Gabriella, and also offers to teach Dan to walk in the sun.

6) Alex, his follower, tells his brother Larry he needs to rest. Armand then repeats this to Larry, causing him to kill himself. Why? I genuinely don’t know anymore.

7) Him and Daniel make a revenge porn youtube video about Lestat fucking his mom.

8) Him and Daniel behead Lestat and Louis while Alex watches (again, who knows why he’s there or what his role is?)

9) Armand puts Louis’ severed head on a pike, demands an apology, tortures him with the help of Fareed, reveals Regina has been a plant all along, and only stops when Louis disarms him with real honest compassion. Suddenly our assumptions that he cares about stopping the great conversion are wrong. He only wants- for some fucking reason- Louis to apologise to him. He doesn’t hurt Lestat, the actual conceivable adversary.

And that’s literally it. It feels like they were aiming for three different narratives and ended up just mixing them all together. Does he want to stop the great conversion? conceivably, but ep 7 reveals his ‘evil plan’ was to get a simple apology from Louis, so clearly it’s not his main prerogative. Is he starting a cult, children of darkness style? I guess, but why Larry and why Alex? Larry’s death had seemingly no impact on anyone but his brother who was already loyal. And the apology. Why in the world would Armand want an apology? At no point does anyone actually address the fucked up pimp/sex slave dynamic, not even Daniel points it out, so wanting an apology for something he seemed more or less unaware of doesn’t make sense. We see from season 2 of IWTV that he’s fully aware their relationship is doomed, knows it is his own fault, and that guilt is eating him alive. He’s never been a schemer, a maker of big mastermind evil plans. he just allows people to blow up his life when he gets sick of the situations he’s in so he can play the victim. Hiring Regina to- what, talk to Louis a few times? Feels aimless and out of character.

And devils minions- in the books, Armand’s redemption- develops off screen with zero answers about how it happened, without natural progression, simply so Daniel can be his evil sidekick.

This season Armand was merely a plot device used to keep us watching to see what he’d do next, only to end the next episode on the same Armand cliffhanger. Seeing his arc written out like this really shows me how incredibly aimless his writing was. Don’t get me wrong, “you were twelve, twelve! scared, poor boy, Arun.” was a beautiful moment but it shouldn’t have been tortured out of Louis like that. It felt unearned. I’m altogether very unhappy with the writing.

They’re damn lucky Assad could make any shit dialogue look brilliant.

[empire-of-light]

Is that what makes you so fascinating?

[konetainkarr]

Devil's minion

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[kessavel-art]

Sketch inspired by this tweet [x]

[necromcom]

[lanwangjihouse]

[tokyomanjihoe]

me forcing myself to do things that make me feel better

[valtsv]

"here's my original character, Man Who Sucks But Loves His Daughter Very Much" and it's a guy who worships at the altar of patriarchal violence and the woman he uses as an excuse and an effigy to absolve him

[valtsv]

well i think his daughter should tell him to kill himself

[coldeveryseason]

so many creative choices in tvl make sense when you realize the goal of this season wasn't telling lestat's story or adapting tvl the book but using the premise of "adapting tvl" as the justification for a whitecentric rebrand and lowkey reboot of the whole show, as part of amc and rolin's effort to distance themselves from the "black queer show" image and black viewership of s1-s2 in order to pursue the "mainstream" (whiter, straighter) audience they always wanted. this is why most of the major arcs, especially the material given to jacob, delainey and assad, feel like retreads of the arcs they already had in s2, meant to cover plot beats from s1-s2 and overwrite how they were initially depicted in a way that's both more palatable for white viewers. in many ways tvl feels like 7 episodes of a "previously on..." sequence that flits through brief flashbacks and tells, not shows the audience essential information to get them caught up before the real story begins, and that's intentional- tvl isn't meant to be a story that stands on its own as much as a staging point to establish the new trajectory of the show, the new tone and narrative priorities, and invite the audience amc wants onboard and jettison the melanated s1-s2 audience amc thinks it no longer needs before the real story rolin wants to tell begins in s4.

the narrative seems not only spiteful and uncompassionate to its own established characters and audience but almost apologetic for having demanded that viewers hold empathy for black leads during s1-s2, for asking them to center black characters as protagonists and care about their interiority- the brutalization and humiliation of jacob and delainey's characters isn't just the nonblack writers engaging in a gratuitous fantasy of torturing black bodies and "humbling" black characters who've reached too far above their station, but also a way to restore the status quo that asserts the "proper" role of blackness is to be a site of inherent pain and mortification. racist viewers who rejected the show when jacob was cast in 2021 or at any point during s1-s2 bc the idea of getting invested in messy black leads put them off can now comfortably tune back in, assured that the show will never ask them to care about a black person more than a white person or think a black person's material suffering could matter more than a nonblack person's feelings and reputation ever again. the cruelty is the point, in many ways.

it's valid to criticize tvl for claiming to be an adaptation of the tvl book and failing at that on every level, from tone to sincerity to the fact that like. 80% of the book just wasn't adapted, but once you see through the marketing claims and realize the real purpose of this season was just amc's effort to do a soft reboot and relaunch their vampire show as a cynical whitecentric dramedy without drawing the ire of straight-up canceling iwtv, you realize so many of their choices aren't just writerly incompetence but a deliberate creative and network whitelash on multiple levels of production.

[coldeveryseason]

(tags via @leblogestunmonstre) right like when you look at the roles jacob, delainey and assad are playing, they aren't continuations of where their arcs left off at the end of s2 as much as the show trying to redo the same character beats in s2 in a way that asks less empathy for black characters from the audience and is a lot blunter and more flanderized.

s2- louis is consumed by grief for claudia while being gaslit by armand in the present day, as armand destabilizes louis' perception of reality and what happened in paris to conceal his true involvement in the trial. claudia enters armand's employ as an actress while unaware of the true danger of the paris coven and armand's own capacity for antiblack violence. near the end of the season, louis and claudia are lynched in a humiliating public spectacle that it's later revealed armand directed.

s3- louis is consumed by grief for claudia while being gaslit by armand in the present day- except this time armand just gloats about how much he was gaslighting louis. regina enters armand's employ offscreen as part of armand's elaborate scheme to fuck with louis' head while unaware of armand's capacity for antiblack violence. near the end of the season, louis and regina are lynched in a humiliating public spectacle where armand just straight-up personally tortures them this time.

and even the main "original" plot of the season, present-day gabistat, is just a structural copy of the same way they added loumand to the present day in s1-s2-

in the book, the main narrator (louis in iwtv, lestat in tvl) talks about his story alone, after he's already parted ways with a past companion who only shows up in flashbacks (armand in iwtv, gabrielle in tvl). in the show, this companion is an active part of the present-day story, has the 2nd most screentime of the season and is portrayed as more of a sinister antagonist who has the material power in their relationship with the main narrator and manipulates him and his effort to tell his story (louis' interview, lestat's tour) for their own ends. in the final episode of the season, the main narrator realizes their companion is evil(tm) and rejects them.

rolin's been talking about iwtv s1-s2 with total contempt but he's literally just redoing inferior versions of s2 plots for most of the cast, and most of the material that's truly unique to the season (the live concerts, the songs, the band and tour concept) have gone over with a resounding "it's ok i guess" to "eh it's mid" with most of the general audience. anything actually of substance is a photocopy of what they already did in s2, bc rolin has no new ideas of substance and always wanted to prioritize shallow spectacle and shock value over like. character development and emotional sincerity

[coldeveryseason]

there are these anons spitting bars about the antiblackness on the show/in the fandom and i really wish they were posting bangers like this on their main blogs bc "we don't even have well-written racism anymore" and "louis, whose race is pimp" are gonna permanently enter my lexicon wrt snappy ways to criticize these antiblack writers for their stereotypically racist choices

[cyberglittter]

pieces by tobi crochets & photography by seyi