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26. female manipulator & card-carrying louis de pointe du lac groupie ♡ ao3: licncourt

[licncourt]

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[licncourt]

Hello! I'm a show iwtv fan getting into the books (mostly driven by my love of Louis so I want to be able to read about him lol.) In the show there's a lot of underlying genderfuckery in Loustat's relationship and the unholy family's relationship as a whole, with Louis often being narratively feminized in certain ways and also outright referred to as a housewife. I wondered if there is any of that complex gender dynamic in the books? I find it really interesting and curious.

Hi!! It’s so great to have so many new book readers recently, I hope you’re enjoying! There is absolutely gender stuff going on with book Loustat and the family, I would say it’s a defining feature for them both and for their relationship with each other and with Claudia!

I’ve talked about this in a lot of different ways, so I’ll leave links here for you, but feel free to let me know if you wanted to know anything else/something I didn’t cover! I guess this is basically a mini masterpost of my VC gender stuff metas :) I also have my full meta masterpost linked in my pinned post if you want to look at things adjacent to this topic, like Louis' relationship with his sexuality and Lestat and Gabrielle's relationship!

Louis and Lestat as Bad Woman tropes

Lestat and Gabrielle's gender envy

Louis' changing effeminacy across the series

Is Louis female-coded?

The gender connotations of Claudia's turning

Louis and "misogyny-by-proxy"

Lestat's performative masculinity

Louis and feminine envy

Is Lestat female coded?

Loustat and conflicting masculinity

Loustat and Claudia and Classical tragedy

*Also link to Daniel nasnyys posts about female-coded Lestat since he's Thee Lestat guy! I love blonde thing af, but my VC degree is in Louisology

[licncourt]

I wish you still watched the iwtv, there is so much discourse that I would really like to hear your take on because out of everyone I think you are the best at analyzing these characters and not biased at all

I really appreciate that so much!! I try my hardest to be fair! I have decided that I will in fact be watching s3 just to see what all the fuss is about and because I feel somewhat involved at this point, so I may have something to say soon-ish! Only as it relates to the books really, but still something!

[licncourt]

hello hai! do you have any recommendations on who to follow in the tvc book fandom on here? i'm coming from the show and i want to learn more about the books as well and meet nice people ^_^

Hiii welcome!! That’s so awesome I’m glad you’re here! In terms of people who are actively rn posting about VC (shoutout to my mutuals who I love but who don’t bookpost often!) I would say obviously my lovely @nasnyys as well as @boawawas @pissbataille @nostradamvs @burntuprelics @campyre @redapparitions @naphthalen !!

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[smsomah]

Mermaid amulet in silver from Naples, Italy; before 1880. The amulet represents a twin tailed siren figure; they were suspended in the window or worn by women and used as jingles

[naratva]

Donna Summer is kinda like my life goals. 70’s fashion is meant for me.

[licncourt]

Daniel is laughing at me for having a celebrity crush on Nancy Grace when I was 12 because I saw her when my mom was watching Dancing with the Stars and fell in love

[nonlynear]

my high horse is actually awesome and fast like the wind

[licncourt]

I have to say. The things I’ve been hearing about s3 of the AMC show the past couple days are (alongside just being very, very upsetting regarding the female characters and characters of color) strangely at odds now with the spirit of The Vampire Chronicles despite the fact that their questionable portrayals of difficult subject matter aren’t always dissimilar on the surface.

I wasn’t originally going to give any kind of in-depth opinion on this without watching the season, but some of the specifics that have been shown to me and the clips I’ve now watched in the past two days after making my original, very confused post feel like the ultimate culmination of what made me lose interest in the show’s vision in the first place back during episodes 5, 6 & 7 of s1.

The thing about TVC is that it was always subversive but not in a way that prioritized being progressive. In many ways, what Anne Rice created WAS progressive, but that was never the point of the work. In all the wild, over the top defenses she made for herself and for the many shortcomings of her work, being progressive was still never a claim she made about anything she wrote. I find that, in a way, much more respectable than I find what seems to have occurred with the AMC show this season.

I would rather hear all the dark, dirty, cruel, honest thoughts of a very broken individual presented with total conviction and artistic selfishness (that I can evaluate on my own terms) than be toyed with by a corporate showrunner who wants to milk the taboo sensationalism cash cow with one hand and the left wing Twitter accolades cash cow with the other until he creates something that is, in my subjective opinion, causing much deeper harm than anything Anne Rice wrote.

Rolin Jones sold a promise of something a little kinder and safer and more thoughtful than what Anne Rice created—a perfectly reasonable thing to want—and then dashed that safety into the rocks for what? A bigger payday? I’m honestly not sure. But that was never the point of TVC. Anne Rice didn’t want you to be comfortable, she didn’t even want her work to be particularly monetizable. She just wanted her audience, however large or small, to really hear her authentically.

TVC showed us the complicated and often indefensible person of Anne Rice in such a startling, unflinching manner that I don’t even know if popular media can capture anymore with how commodified everything is. TVC were written by someone who was, at her core, an outcast writing to other outcasts hoping for their understanding. She was overcome with wild, manic inspiration when she had it but raging with anger and, I think, grief when she didn’t. All of that combined was the lifeblood of the series, for better or worse.

What Anne Rice created isn’t just more interesting to me than what Rolin Jones has now ultimately created, but I would argue also more impactful artistically because of the burden her honesty places on the reader to decide right from wrong and evaluate their own beliefs with no manipulation on the creator’s end to fall back on. I want to read a book where the gay sex is there because it gave the author a boner, where all the bad politics are completely unironic, where the author’s rage against her own gender is scathing and raw and uncomfortable, where a lifetime of traumas and wild fantastical imaginings of all kinds are on the page in their respective ugliness and absurdity.

And I want that not only because of the brutally impassive mirror it creates to explore our own deepest darkness, but because it forces more thought, more soul-searching, more reckoning with our best and worst selves than something made simply to sell ad space at the expense of POC, queer people, and women ever will.

[uknow]

Audrey Horne cigarette case by RubyIIpdx

[vangoghcore]

by gettymuseum

[dwinkus]

peasant visionary: & then it stood before me, a towering wheel of flame that beheld me with 10,000 shimmering eyes!

me: idk man it still sounds like an ocular migraine

peasant visionary: #MyGrain

[licncourt]

Do I even need to ask 😂 you won't be watching The Odyssey will you Flora 😂

Actually out of all the mythological adaptations this is the one I’m most likely to watch not because I’m actually interested or feeling optimistic about its quality, but more because people are hating on it just because they’re weird bigots so I want to support it out of spite. Like no I actually don’t want to see another adaptation of anything really (especially mythology) but also Lupita Nyong’o and Zendaya and Elliot Page get behind me

[licncourt]

love ur meta always and was wondering if u had any thoughts on the whole merrick / claudia debacle re: the most recent tvl episode? the adaptational choices they made there i think were questionable at best and i honestly don’t know how i feel about them choosing to adapt it at all, tbqh, in a season that has totally sidelined its poc characters up until this point. slash curious to know your thoughts about claudia’s portrayal in merrick in general and whether it feels like a retcon (as a lot of people are saying) or if you think it’s something that can be synthesised w her iwtv characterisation? (personally, ive always had pretty mixed feelings on it ajsjsjsjs)

I’m sorry, I’ve only seen s1 of the show so I really don’t know anything specific that’s going on! Mostly I’m just confused about how Merrick could possibly be a part of this during an alleged TVL season. And also a bit worried based on what I’ve been told about the treatment of the characters of color on this season 😭

[nasnyys]

fic: father figure

pairing: niall kennedy/ruben pallister

fandom: half man (2026)

summary: “Ava calls me daddy. In bed. I don’t ask her to, she just does, if you can believe it.”

Niall regretted it immediately. He kept his eyes and hands on his glass, watching the condensation collect and drip lazily, tilting the cup just to see white foam lap the rim.

rating: explicit

word count: 3.3k

additional tags: public hand jobs, daddy kink, facials, niall has ptsd, past rape/noncon, extremely dubious consent, plot what plot/porn without plot, brief reference to self harm scars

[disease]

"CEMETERY (MAZATLÁN)" PETER HUJAR | MEXICO, 1979 [gelatin silver print | 14 3/4 x 14 3/4"]