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22 | 🇮🇪 | following wherever my autism leads me

[demonpoppyseed]

The creepier and more evil Armand acts the hotter he is I don't make the rules

[quasi-normalcy]

I’m not trying to turn your kids trans; that’s stupid. I’m trying to turn them into socialists.

[quasi-normalcy]

#for real tho! their gender is their business but class struggle is everyone’s business

[fascinationstreetmp3]

thankful to armand for killing off larry because he's freed up at least a little bit of screentime for characters i actually gaf about

[gabriellelestat]

heavily reducing armand’s role when you’re adapting the vampire lestat (1985) by anne rice is like jesus fucking christ this is such an egregiously offensive way of going about it for several reasons because it should be frankly impossible to just methodically remove a character pivotal to exploring all its themes (which the show never bothers to touch on lol!) from the story but it’s also really fucking racist. like one would think it should be impossible to write him out at least for the bare bones reasons of how heavily he’s triangulated with gabistat and nickistat and loustat but okay they won’t even do that + they strip him of material acknowledging his interiority, I don’t know why I assumed they’d begin to at least touch on how it’s fucking crazy that he wouldn’t be significantly impacted by the fact that modern oriental studies were particularly spearheaded by france (and britain) as an extension of their colonial projects in the early 19th century and how france was heavily invested in protecting its colonial interests in asia in the preceding decades and that it reconciled its paradoxical approach to liberty & equality and lack of interest in demolishing its colonial projects by originating theories of race that justified placing (white) europeans at the top of a hierarchy of races and attributing character & genetic defects to people of colour with darker skin but sure okay let’s just never spend time exploring the ramifications of that for armand apart from a throwaway line or two in s2 acknowledging that he’s capable of experiencing racism which the fandom ignores anyway surely that’s enough activism for the day.

[armandsfangs]

I've given it 5 episodes and at this point I think it's fair to say Lestat's band members are a fucking waste of time. This season only has 7 episodes total so why the everlasting FUCK are these four useless shitstains taking up screen time that could've gone to fleshing out Lestat's backstory, Louis' emotional turmoil, Armand's journey, or Daniel's transformational trauma? This is literally my only complaint about this season but it fills me with vitriol bc it affects the whole show.

I'm watching a vampire show for the vampire drama that's been building for 2 seasons; I don't care about these boring ass mortals unless there's an actual connection to the main characters. With Regina, there was an instant connection to Louis' grief. What the fuck do each of the band members bring that ties in to Lestat's emotional journey? What parallels do they draw to the events in Auvergne, to Paris, to Spain, to New Orleans? Did they, in any way, shape, or form, change the way Lestat reflects upon himself and his past? NO. IF YOU CUT OUT ALL THEIR SCENES NOTHING WOULD CHANGE.

Then why the fuck did we need to show every arduous minute of Lestat convincing them to accept him as a vampire? Why the fuck should I give a shit that whiny white boy #2 stomped off like a toddler? Why the fuck should I care if he relapses? Why the fuck did we need to see the entire tour bus encounter with the stupid cop?

JUST NARRATE IT AND MOVE ON SO WE CAN SEE MORE OF THE ACTUAL MAIN CHARACTER CONFLICT. THERE'S ONLY 7 EPS.

The lesmand and nickstat dynamics were SO condensed and they could've had more time to flesh them out if the stupid band just shut the fuck up. Or they could've done more plot relevant present day stuff with loustat and Armand's storyline with the great conversion. Literally anything other than the band would've served the story better and improved the pacing. Even the concert scenes would be much improved if the camera just stayed on Lestat's performance and not cut to the fuckass band.

Every millisecond on them is a waste of time, every frame a waste of space, and every spoken line a waste of oxygen. Their existence is a waste of the show's budget. The best thing they did was when larry killed himself because at least then I got to look at Armand. Good fucking riddance to an annoying pest. I only feel sorry for the subway staff that has to clean that shit up.

But now the remaining pests want to become vampires?? May Armand exterminate them all.

[glitteringpoet1685]

read your post as "doompooter" hope this helps

Who up doompootering

[in-kyblogs]

I’m sorry but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of Armand and Daniel both as characters and in their relationship. Armand doesn’t want to turn Daniel because he considers vampirism a curse. Daniel begs him for years. And the only thing that changes Armand’s mind is daniel quite literally dying under his eyes and him realising he prefers to literally throw aside everything he believed in his whole life to avoid the pain of death. It’s a selfish act and a surrender at once. What are they doing

[screenshotsofdespair]

[hawfstuff]

[markovchaingang]

the media literacy on this website may be piss poor but still when i see someone handwringing about media literacy ~70% of the time they're just complaining about the fact that other people disagree with them

[lgbtlunaverse]

pov you are watching the Codex Entry pathologic haruspex route video under the assumption Artemy is the nicer player character and you get to day 5.

[glitteringpoet1685]

This is a tiny nitpick compared to everything else but why did we not end on Akasha. That would have been banging. Why are we acting like Armand killing Larry is some kind of out of left field twist. Am I supposed to be shocked and appalled? Was the like 30 seconds of apology letters meant to convince me that Armand was genuinely trying to be less evil and this was a regression back to his old ways? Because that's not at all what I got, tbh it was kind of a really funny scene.

[yonderlandtoo]

Anne Rice was kinda crazy for qotd, imagine waiting for the new book release then finding out there’s a chapter about the ancient teenage gremlin falling in love with the journalist from the first book that didn’t even have a name. also it’s the greatest piece of modern gothic romance you’ve ever read

[werenotacoupleyesyouare]

“Let the tale seduce you” the tale is doing to me what Armand did to Daniel in San Francisco

[ravenfleesfire]

Autistic trauma is so devastating and yet so corny. You'll be doing everything perfectly normal in public but someone will sneer at you and you'll spend an hour agonizing over yourself like "fuck what if no one told me it was Don't Wear Yellow Thursday"

[enba-and-luka]

[roanlovesvampires]

i feel like half of my dashboard is people complaining about tvl and the other half is people complaining about people complaining about tvl

i think we might just like to complain, ya know?

[roanlovesvampires]

just to clarify, i am not excluded from the league of complainers. in fact, i love to complain! if anyone ever says i DIDN'T complain about smthn, they're lying

[warmrainonawinterday]

Say what you will about Lestat de Lioncourt, but the fictional character as he is portrayed in the books is one of the most proactive protagonists I have ever read about. He makes very active choices that lead him to all sorts of crazy places and shenanigans. Him becoming a vampire by happenstance and against his will is a clear deviation from that and it is notable.

Anyway, what the hell does the show gain by making the change from "Lestat spends years chasing the phantom of Marius across the world even as he is told by people around him that it is a hopeless case because he either never existed (Gabrielle) or is dead (Armand)" to "Lestat barely even knows who tf this Marius guy even is and just appears in his lair one day by reason of plot"?