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month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in
yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second
many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third
JACOB ANDERSON and DELAINEY HAYLES The Vampire Lestat premiere and after party
does the body ALWAYS have to keep the score? maybe we could just have a friendly game this time. maybe we can just have fun without putting numbers on it
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is jake gyllenhaal gay??
why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this
happy pride month to this post specifically
I might be a bit too optimistic and maybe naive in trusting the showrunners but could all this promo be meta? I keep thinking about Daniel in the first teaser saying that people care more about the white guy. And then Sam saying something recently about the oversaturation of his image. Just a thought but I feel like all of it is a bit too on the nose.
when i encounter some sort of ironic metatextual thing/commentary, i always ask myself: is there material difference between endorsement and criticism in this case? or in other words, what exactly this meta thing is trying to achieve and is this artistic decision more important than material consequences? because if the end result is the same, i don't think it matters if this was an ironic "meta" thing or simply a bad (racist/misogynistic/homophobic etc) decision.
the marketing could be meta. or it could be not meta. the end result is the same: actors of color do not get recognition and attention on the same level the main white actor does. s1&2 did everything to boost sam reid's presence in the show and marketing, even when lestat barely had any reason to be in the narrative. s3 marketing does everything to downplay the importance of jacob, assad and delainey and there are very clear negative consequences to it.
if amc respected bipoc, it'd find a way to keep their presence in the marketing without hurting any kind of "meta" vision of it. they could put up ominous clips of ghost or hallucination of claudia lurking behind lestat or haunting louis. they could make more silly in-character interviews like they did with "documentary outtakes". they still could show more of louis and armand in the official trailer. they simply could talk more about the first two seasons and encourage people to watch it instead of downplaying any connection between iwtv and tvl.
as it is now, the actors of color who carried this show do not get nearly as much exposure, attention from the news outlets, public and industry professionals. they're all actors, it’s how they get new interesting big roles and recognition for their work. do you see the problem here? no matter the intention, the material result still sucks ass. in fact, i believe many networks has started covering their asses with "meta" excuses and that's why i no longer fall for them.
"the great laws" of the vampires that are used as the formal legal justification the paris coven uses for their lynching literally have a clause about not turning disabled people or people who need care into vampires. the trial script literally calls claudia a "cripple" and the entire alleged justification for why a 14-year-old black child should've been left to die from her injuries in a race riot, why her entire existence past the age of 14 is supposed to be a "mistake" that needs correcting, is bc saving her life would mean she'd have a stunted child's body and her body would cause her anguish, which can be read as an allegory for people who survive serious physical trauma having permanent disabilities. and despite all that it's still underlined that claudia was a greater vampire than either louis or lestat or any member of the paris kkkoven, that she wasn't a mistake and she wasn't inherently doomed or fated to kill herself. she's literally kidnapped in s2ep6 when she's on the precipice of true freedom and happiness and self-actualization, finally living a life separate from her adopted parents, ready to travel the world with her chosen partner. but bc she's a black woman in a black child's body and seen as unfit to live by vampire society for being a "cripple", bc she stepped ~out of line~ and transgressed normative racist hierarchies and hierarchies of vampiric power by (almost) killing her white maker, bc she broke every cycle of abuse she was born or adopted into and freed herself, she's tortured, publicly humiliated and murdered before she reaches age 50. i know claudia is based on anne's daughter who died of cancer and narratively speaking she was always "meant to die"- but from an in-universe pov, from the logic of the story she inhabits and how her character is written on the show, there's nothing destined or doomed or inevitable about claudia's death. the fact that she dared to survive past age 14 despite the limits of her body isn't an inherent tragedy, and the fact that she didn't survive past age 46 wasn't mercy. claudia's murdered, brutally and unjustly, and her life is cut short bc of the intersection of violent misogynoir and ableism that's taken the lives of so many other black women before their time
To Assad, thank you for this insight. Your thoughts are interesting as always. You are a phenomenal actor and amazing human being <3333
To Armand, I am killing you 50 million times.
How on earth is this admirable insight. If Claudia was miserable in Paris it was because Armand was torturing her endlessly she literally does not possess a torture of vampirism this is entirely revisionist analysis of the season that he is pulling straight from his ass this is just absurd. Armand does not possess a deeper understanding of Claudia than LOUIS does. ‘He knows claudia was always destined for tragedy’ this is so absurdly malicious I can’t even interact with this any other way than repeated absurdities. Don’t worry about the lynching I conducted she was destined for it anyway. How do you read this and nod.
This Place of Ours, JoeLius DuBois
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strangers to colleagues to friends to soulmates <3
Louis in An Inside Look at The Vampire Lestat
he won 😭
(and connor is mentioned)
once you notice how many people complaining about trends in western fandom do so by being like “this is just like yaoi, the pinnacle of homophobic top/bottom stereotyping” it gets really annoying
one time i saw a long post complaining about top/bottom stereotyping in western m/m fanwork that started right off by negatively calling it “yaoification” and then today i saw a post about like being unimaginative in assigning fursonas to horror characters that compared it to seme/uke and the thing is in all these cases there’s never any elaboration on the actual bl tropes being invoked. it’s just assumed that by bringing it up everyone is going to understand you mean, like, the homophobic foreign platonic ideal of whatever bad thing you’re talking about. come onnnn
it really is just like, americans seeing american homophobia happen in american fandom americanly: what are we, a bunch of ASIANS????
