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you gotta come to the club man drinks are $18 and were all on our phones googling dog surgery

like I love the concept of the Long Table scene. Lestat being confronted by the people that made him a monster (Magnus and Gabi) and by the people he made into monsters (Nicki, Louis, Claudia, etc.) and facing his role in the cycle of abuse and both victim and abuser... could have been a scene of all time. oh well.

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arduennas

"rolin hates writing about identity" well then maybe he shouldn't be writing amc's interview with the vampire

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tomato-frog43

The thing is... If the show really is just some “fcked up gothic romance and the gore actually is necessary and the brutalization is a core part of the story” and anyone who points out the continued graphic violence against Black characters actually “just doesn’t understand the show and can’t handle dark stories and just needs to stop watching the show cause they clearly don’t understand it,” then why did Daniel not use Lestats head as a bowling ball? It definitely seemed like that was where the scene was heading, and it would have been completely in character for both of them, but no. Lestat doesn’t get any gratuitous blood soaked headless scenes, he gets chop, bowling bag, and boom back together. Meanwhile Louis is tortured for the majority of the episode, in a way that is grosser that anything else this season has had. If people are supposed to look the way they did when they died, then why is Claudia the only one burned and bleeding while everyone else appears unharmed? Shouldn’t Antionette and magnus and Nicki all be charred and bleeding, should Antionette be stabbed through with a poker and Magnus have his throat slit? Or all of Lestats victims in the concert, shouldn’t all of them be corpses who’ve been bled out and injured? But no, time and time again the only bodies we see brutalized and broken in the way that everyone claims is typical for a show like this, are the Black protagonists. If everyone on the show was getting tortured and cut up and bled to equal measures than there’d be less criticism, but the fact that in a show with multiple rapists, human traffickers, racists, abusers, and other people who have caused way more harm, the people who are put thru the most graphic violence and torture are the two Black main characters. I just don’t understand how anyone is able to explain that away without admitting that the show is racist like are yall blind

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onetimetwotimesthreetimess

tvl is a dumpster fire because it just makes me not give a fuck about the secondary characters at all. every character in IWTV was cared for. every character, no matter how much their screen time, had an impact. a reason for their being part of the interview. you see Louis’s mother’s love turn to hate. ‘Claudia was made to be a replacement for Grace’ only hits because you see how much he loved her and she loved him back until she couldn’t — but I see none of that in TVL.’. the dining table scene in the finale is horseshit and takes 30 mins of your time and gives you nothing in return. its meaningless and performative (i Lestat’s own words). throwing an “i loved you all” doesn’t really work because the potential of seeing all that love is wasted in the last six episodes. what reason does magnus have for participating when we get nothing about him in his ep - he’s just some guy. I care more about Lily who had a five minute screen time than TC, who was there for all seven episodes. "say that you will never love me the way I love you" as a parallel to lestat saying the same to Louis is still not about nicky---you know nothing of the newer characters. what drove the band to want the bite even after seeing all the fuckery around them other than the conclusion that our generation is filled with cocaine addicted, greedy, reel watching maniacal losers.

tvl treats the secondary characters as a joke, a shitty punchline and plot device and a horrible one at that and its so flat and reductive when you know the show can do better - it already has, the best character as the greatest plot device i.e., Claudia, who is a vessel for louis and lestat’s insanity and inability to deal with their humanity. there are a billion better ways this could have been played out and in a show where multiple characters’ races were deliberately changed from white to black/brown - it should have been done a billion times better than whatever the fuck this was

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discojams

learning that AMC cancelled the akasha final concert scene mid-production explains a lot about the tvl finale

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userarmand

it still would've been bad within the wider scope of the series re: overt violence against louis but the torture stuff wouldn't have felt quite so egregious if armand was also doing it to lestat like why didn't he force them both to watch the other getting tortured which surely would be a torture in itself?

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feedingicetothedog

and like the problem is there are elements of the louis and armand plot in the finale that would make for a very compelling story. like louis and armand having a big fight upon first interacting after s2 that ultimately resolves in them realizing that they loved each other and saw each other but never in the way they really needed to grow and feel secure? great. armand demanding an apology from louis but not even really knowing what he's looking for, just that he feels like he's owed SOMETHING after everything that happened between them despite knowing that he's the problem? great. louis being in a position where he can save regina in a way that he couldn't save claudia? great. but like....the execution.

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louisegluckpdf

the first time i heard the phrase “i need that like a hole in the head” it didn’t even occur to me that many people don’t live with passive suicidal ideation at all times so i just assumed it was a way of saying that you really really needed something and i have continued to use it that way ever since

queerliblib

it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library

meeliesaysno

its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times

ksfoxwald

The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3

the-quasar-hero

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light