september 8th, 1973

rick. 26. she/they. love of my life was him.

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okay logging back off i just saw that and had to share

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you really do have to laugh

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okay logging off for a bit <3 i love you all to bits and pieces, and please take care of yourselves <3

[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.

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okay i think im gonna take another little break from the dash, but if any mutuals wanna talk on discord we can!

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lestat would never imagine himself going to heaven are they ok

bookstat KNEW he was going to hell, and that’s actually a big reason why he feared death

[tsuquilisda]

rebecca black was right. It’s Friday

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yeah okay

finish merrick like you keep saying you will

start from iwtv and reread the series

reread tvl to get show!tvl out of your head

rick only :)

Remaining time: 2 days 58 minutes

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

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lestat and claudia

[gaypeople]

i cannot emphasize enough how detrimental it is to the quality of the entire show when you have writers who don’t understand and care for louis enough to write him with the love he deserves. as a black person, as a victim of abuse, as someone with complexity who isn’t reduced to his past. he used to be written with love, but suddenly he’s written with contempt that doesn’t even try to mask itself as love. this season’s level of disregard for him makes everything else feel soulless and empty. is this just how he's gonna be written now? is he going to be the narrative's punching bag every single season? we cannot continue like this

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thinking abt memnoch and honestly you kinda have to laugh about anne/memnoch saying the worst thing lestat had done was turn david against his will as if lestat didn’t take part in an attempted genocide

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JACOB ANDERSON as Louis de Pointe du Lac

[claudiadpdl]

i think it's normal to be upset and disheartened over the fact that something you loved so deeply has been stripped of all its meaning and essentially twisted into a completely different (and worse) show. criticizing that and the obvious racism/sexism that's been a focal point of this season does not make you a hater or a bitter fan that should just "stop watching and leave the fandom" because you won't be missed by the other fans or showrunners....fandom culture has not changed at all in the past twenty years and it's disappointing but ig not all that surprising to see :/

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no but why do the writers have such a hard on for ttotbt

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" the last scene on the bus is right before the concert, and the last scene of the season is post events of qotd"

So, what is Season 4 going to be about? I'm so lost 😭😅

my best guess right now is that it’ll be a combination of tvl part two and the first half of qotd!