LOVE SURROUNDS YOU

call me luna ^_^ II 27 she/her

[lizzieshelby]

truthfully tvl could end up being utter garbage and i'll still love it

[lizzieshelby]

[zoesupreme]

generational abyssmal dogshit coming down the pipe

[zoesupreme]

he's so real tho

[claudia-de-lioncourt]

So marius didn't actually tell lestat to keep the secret and never reveal anything of vampirism to his fledgelings he just did that shit on his own. Cool.

[sailatina3]

Girls I am looking you in the eye and holding you tight. 99% of all things people describe as being female or male puberty is made up bullshit. Sex is not as black and white as you think (nor is it real for that matter.) Please. Dont listen. Jaw sizes and leg lengths and whatever is made up, misogynistic, and sometimes even race science. PLEASE im begging you to not hold yourself to such standards, much less other people.

[claudia-de-lioncourt]

some inconsequential kill he had in 1953 gets more guilt and apology from lestat than the husband he abused and the "daughter" he killed????

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: Largest Blueberry In The World

[virgomoon]

i don't like the way you people talk about addiction. i don't like the way you people talk about bpd. i don't like the way you people talk about eating disorders. i don't like the way you people talk about paranoia. i don't like the way you people talk about ocd and intrusive thoughts. i don't like the way you people talk about cluster b personality disorders. i don't like the way you people talk about autism. i don't like the way you people talk about disabilities. i don't like the way you people talk about lesbians.

[dykesynthezoid]

Actually the fact that Nicki feels more authentically camp than Lestat does at any time this season is lowkey really funny… when the hallucination of your dead ex is better at queening out than u….

[dykesynthezoid]

Joseph Potter every time he put those damn contacts in

[ryebreadgf]

oh I know her well we went to 2014 together

[cocteautwinsgirl]

this whole season felt like the writers were resentful of having to include any other characters except lestat. so we have entire story lines that are butchered and watered down or just erased entirely and it doesn't even serve whatever dickriding they were trying to do bc lestat becomes much less complex and interesting for it

[cocteautwinsgirl]

armand torturing lestat instead of louis would’ve been the perfect opportunity for “a century i had waited, and you did not want me!” but no

[ladypaperwriterson]

[infinitelyweary]

[coldeveryseason]

also we should absolutely question the show's choice to remove gabrielle, magnus and marius' overt antiblackness from the tvl book when the writers got armand out here acting like he's auditioning for kkk grand wizard. clearly the show isn't shying away from depicting antiblack violence considering the treatment of black characters in the past two episodes, so the refusal to depict gabriella, marius and magnus as the white supremacists they were in the source material, is a blatant tell- the writers are protective of their white characters, even the antagonists, and don't want them to seem "too" evil (which tracks for white and nonblack liberals acting like being called racist is worse than being racist.) and this clearly isn't a concern they have when it comes to the characters of color- armand has for 2 seasons now enacted forms of explicit violence inflicted on enslaved black people- louis and claudia's cut ankle tendons, the entire public humiliation of the trial, claudia's burning, louis' head on a spike, coercing him into a performance of self-debasement and contrition and branding his body- and claudia calls her black father a slave in a bioessentialist, derogatory context and expresses a level of internalized antiblackness she was never even hinted at feeling when she was alive. in both scenes, the narrative is much harsher on louis than on lestat and the nonblack writers go into extreme detail in their antiblack dialogue and racialized, borderline pornographic depiction of louis' torture. but gabriella is portrayed shallowly complimenting louis' beauty when realistically she would be calling him slurs when talking about him to lestat, magnus' "master race" aspirations and fixation on white supremacist beauty standards for how he chose his victim pool and "heir" aren't addressed, and marius' racial politics ("rotten boy", the whitewashed portrait of armand- we know he's racist, the show just hasn't acknowledged it and intentionally excluded the parts of tvl where he expresses that racism when talking to lestat) remain an elephant in the room. and ofc the way the writers are tryna be like "see lestat isn't racist, black people love him" in-universe through characters like merrick and paul (lol. lmao even) and tryna overwrite or dance around every textual example of lestat's antiblackness is so transparent in its clumsiness.

[blackjame]

https://www.instagram.com/staydancingdave/?hl=en

Patricide (Button Poetry)

Dave Harris, 2019. Harris' stellar debut collection of poetry takes a nuanced look at the complexities of black masculinity.

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I'm A. Zell Williams and Kearney Blvd. was the first place I called home, hints the name. I'm a playwright, TV writer, podcaster, a dog dad,

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[glitteringpoet1685]

How it has felt watching tvl after waiting for 2 years, and excitedly recommending the show to everyone I know:

[domydreaming]

love listening to my own playlists. I am so correct and intelligent and inspired