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22 | 🇮🇪 | following wherever my autism leads me

[koiagain]

"Employment" big scam. Big scam to distract You from what matters,posting on Ur tumblr blog at 3am

[jungianmoney]

The thing about “it’s bad writing on purpose” is that it CAN be purposeful and executed well - in theory. But it requires a level of skill that mainstream creators writing for a pop culture, mainstream audience either a) don’t have or b) cannot execute with proper payoff due to studio limitations. The reality is that more often than not, Occam’s razor applies. Sometimes messy writing is just messy writing.

And I’m sympathetic to fans who WANT there to be some deeper meaning or purpose to it, because when you’re passionate about an artistic creation, there is a sense that you wish to believe in it and its potential. But artists are not gods, and writers are just people. Sometimes they make mistakes, sometimes they get caught up in their own egos, sometimes their success starts interfering with the authenticity of their work. And as fans, we too are humans who can fall into the traps of denialism, overzealousness and egotism.

You’d think after the absolute shitshows of The Johnlock Conspiracy, Game of Thrones and Stranger Things that fandom spaces would become more objective and realistic about this phenomenon. But that doesn’t appear to be the case. I’m just wondering how many more times it has to happen before it sinks in.

[carveredlunds]

"don't worry, there's no way a season based on tvl won't have a lot of armand scenes. there's literally a chapter called 'the vampire armand'. he's going to feature heavily in this season." only for armand to have had about 10 minutes screen time this season, and one or two lines of dialogue per scene.

[theashesofthefirststar]

Kinda hate how anytime someone wants to talk about Armand with any depth they must always precede it with a disclaimer about how they know that Armand is bad and evil and blah blah blah. I know it’s to protect themselves from people who will willfully misinterpret their words, but I for one think we should stop pandering to bad faith readings of the character.

[ajaystillblue]

TVL critical tag you have become a dear friend to me

[3liza]

IDENTITY EMERGES ORGANICALLY FROM ACTION

[mcromwell]

This is a great answer to "how do I find my art style"

[yaoiblackmold]

Lestat is always telling the truth unless it's something that we don't like then his memories were totally altered by Armand

[bifauxnenarmand]

armand inserted a memory of lestat saying “serving cunt has it’s consequences 😌” to make him look cringe

[ladypaperwriterson]

So Lestat is robbed from all agency and every single violent thing he ever did wasn't actually his fault, but it is rather blamed on... the evil blood forced on him by the evil woman (Akasha)? Like "Ohhhh he was always such a nice, sensitive boy Your Honor, but then he met HER, that evil bitch, and SHE seduced him, and SHE had a terrible influence on him and it's HER fault that he turned violent"? Just like his mother's terrible influence and continuous abuse is responsible for his original trauma that haunts him to this day - what a coincidence! Omg these evil hags, poor Lestat! 😞

(Will this show ever try to stop being so massively misogynistic? No? Ooooookay)

This woobification of Lestat is not only super misogynistic, but it also creates disturbing parallels to real life abusers blaming their own choices and violent actions to literally anything else (drugs, alcohol, trauma, the victims etc) rather than simply accepting that they did a nasty thing, take responsibility for it and work on themselves to grow and hopefully become decent people one day.

And you know what? It would be a great journey for Lestat to finally deal with his issues, claim responsibility for his choices and actions and try to better himself. I thought that taking full responsibility for The Drop during the trial was a step to that direction.

But no. Lestat is apparently an innocent uwu puppy. The fault for every single one of his evil actions lies with all the evil people constantly abandoning and betraying him (Gabriella, Marius, Claudia, Louis) or... loving him way too much, I guess (Armand).

What a problematic, cliche, ultra masculine, patriarchal and anti-feminist character arc!

Thanks, Rolin Jones! 😃

[fairycosmos]

appearing in front of you as a ghostly apparition: take your headphones. you will need your headphones

[thearmandthinker]

everyone be kind to assad he's suffering from a chronic case of prettiest princess in the world disease

[sillystigmata]

Assad episode 5 bts.

[low-poly-yuri]

i really relate to that character in a way i cant explain in words. put her in the eternal torture chamber now please

[bifauxnenarmand]

“why bash marius for grooming and abusing armand but we never question if armand just had bad vibes?”

[innerchildabortionclinic]

you can mention misogyny in your post it's ok [remembers sometimes people screenshot tumblr posts and expose them to reddit's userbase] Well actually-

[contemptible-scoundrel]

the only way to become truly punk is to render oneself blind, deaf, mute, and completely numb, and then to seal oneself within a concrete slab deep underground. only conformist normies and posers experience stimuli

[kutputli]

What do you think of armand in season 3?

I think he's very beautiful and his hair is gorgeous and he's doing something very interesting with that accent and he should get to kill anyone he wants to.

(I think he is so so poorly written, and the vehicle of so much white resentment for the actor and character's success, and the few seconds that he and Louis were making eye contact in the episode 1 auction scene was more rich and redolent with emotional tension than all of Lestat's half-naked gyrations. I think it's an utter shame to give such a talented actor an exposition paragraph for a love story. I think we should have seen him interacting more with Nicky and Gabriella. I think he deserves less racist and careless writing than 'French-Bengali' ragdoll twink etc etc. I think he deserved to see little brown kids dressed up as him, instead of the white man who pushed the kids away. I think he's still skulking in the shadows, cleaning up the mess his ex-lovers keep making. I think he is wasted--the character and the actor--but also he is a glimmering jewel that keeps me still watching this wretched show.)

[bedeviledgoober]

when a house is both hungry and awake, every room becomes a mouth