picking lint? off the sofa?

18+ to get on this ride, aka no minors on my blog please. i’m an adult of car-driving and home-owning age, though i do neither. this is a sideblog and i’m cagey about my main but if i follow you you’ll prob guess it’s me from my url. i say ‘prev’ a lot because my mutuals are all so smart and insightful

[kabaks]

Why can’t iwtv s3 be about louis and not that other guy

[raisinchallah]

amc working overtime to invent a new armand specific type of homophobia

[userarmand]

The coven is envious of your independence.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

So for all you cowards out there talking shit, talking about taking a run at me, hear this now and hear it plain. I own the night.

Happy 147th birthday to The Vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (October 4th 1877)

[holewithoutorgans]

I'll never stop talking about the beauty and complexity of loumand bdsm. You could sew my mouth shut. Cut off all my fingers. I'll never shut up about it.

Loumand bdsm so beautiful. Rolin Jones had to try and kill you. But he failed:)

You can't take out the earnestness and sincerity of the bench scene. No matter how hard you try.

Two traumatized individuals coming together to make someone new and healing. No matter how flawed it may be.

[stventricle]

my sweeties

[reticent-vampire]

Jacob and Sam asking Assad why Armand did things and Assad going ‘ask Rolin and Hannah’ 😶

assad you king

[tv-kiki]

they really came back to the writers room and said let’s humble louis. the victim of domestic abuse and racialized violence and marital rape who has only sort of become more confident needs to be taken down a peg. this is the most bold tonal switch ever made in television

[baker-chan-senpai]

rip loumand u will be missed ✌️

[reticent-vampire]

Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac Interview with the vampire 1.04

[officialpenisenvy]

paul de pointe du lac: thank you for abusing my brother since it's the only right way he can be loved

lestat: im a woman

[tv-kiki]

with few exceptions we have only seen black characters graphically get brutalized. they had closeups of louis’s body and face after lestat tried to murder him showing the extent of what was done, we saw just how burned and disfigured he was after her suicide attempt, claudia’s death is one of the most graphic i’ve seen on any tv show, we got closeups of their ankles slashed and shots of louis being kicked in the head and claudia being shoved into a box of live rats by the coven members. the majority of louis’s scenes in episode 7 were of his decapitated head on a pike, forced to look at his body as it flailed, begging to die, forced to apologize in something so close to a saw trap that it was bordering on copyright infringement while being painted as cruel and deserving of the abuse and then branded by armand.

we didn’t see any shots of lestat’s head in the bowling bag. we saw him burn, but it was portrayed as comical. we did not see bruce as he died, we did not see lestat get torn up by the wolves, we did not watch nicki die. in the majority of the scenes where a white character is injured, the action is cut away, out of frame, out of focus, mostly implied.

the extent of what we saw of the brutality of black characters now feels almost fetishistic. at the end of episode 105, lestat is floating in the air looking dreamy and louis is beaten to a pulp on the ground; episode 207, lestat is put together in a suit with his hair done and louis and claudia have been severely beaten. like, after this season, the rest of the show just looks weird.

[dlsintegration]

I keep trying to distract myself around the house but i just can’t stop crying. The sheer cruelty and gleeful cynism surrounding louis’ treatment is incomprehensible in its magnitude and overtness. it feels impossible to reconcile the compassionate treatment of louis and claudia’s abuse of the previous seasons with the horrifically mean-spirited antiblack and anti-victim writing we’ve had to endure for weeks. As it all settles, there is no way to view any of this other than through the lens of these writers vehemently hating louis and the people who dared regard him with love and empathy by pandering to the most racist confines of this online space.

My heart aches for jacob and the exploitation of his time, talent, and care for louis. My heart aches for the black writers who have to see their work desecrated for cheap twitter jokes and embarrassing failed attempts at virality. My heart aches for the black fans who love louis and earnestly wanted to see his story treated with the same level of care and respect afforded to his abusers and then having to sit through that violence.

Now more than ever, hannah moscovitch’ words saying that "louis would never not be believable as a victim" sound hollow and deliberately cruel and I can only hope this writing team will in time feel a fraction of the humiliation they inflicted on their audience for the crime of loving louis. I’m just absolutely gutted.

[pinkponygrl]

[raisinchallah]

its just so baffling because it seems like they deeply resent that they have to like deal with the fallout of horribly abusive relationships or like think about the implications of what they wrote but its like literally nobody forced you to make the show just about abusive relationships like this you did this.. this was the adaptational choice you made why are you mad

[userarmand]

assad while rolin's speaking. me too dude.

[userarmand]

versus when jacob starts speaking immediately after:

[sepofa]

claudia always hated louis which is why she came back home after seeing grace abandoning him. claudia always hated louis whis is why she spent years with him helping him recover after lestat dropped him from the sky. claudia always hated louis which is why she tried to stop lestat from coming back in their home. claudia always hated louis which is why she worried about his happiness in paris. claudia always hated louis which is why she came back to visit him after she left with madeleine. claudia always hated louis which is why she still tried to defend him during the trial...