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[pwrfectsnoopy]

never in my life have i had a worse academic downfall

[maitremeraki]

life

[mydemonicas]

fifty years apart, but still them.

[bleedingpetal]

[maitremeraki]

[maitremeraki]

I've only seen what three(?) episodes of The Talamasca and i can without a doubt say there is no way that Guy isn't Quinn Blackwood

Spoilers for the following ahead:

The Vampire Lestat (book and possibly show)

Talamasca: The Secret Order

The Queen of the Damned (TVC Book #3)

Blackwood Farm (TVC Book #9)

Quinns supernatural experiences

Quinn is heir to the old Blackwood family in Louisiana, and his life is haunted by the spirit Goblin who is revealed to be his deceased twin. Correct me if I'm wrong but ghosts up until The Talamasca releasing haven't been mentioned (I only watched like three episodes of The Mayfair Witches.) The arguement could be made they're making reference to them to set up Claudia in The Vampire Lestat but to mention it so early into The Talamasca says to me it could be setup to its own narrative.

He becomes a Vampire and Goblin begins to feed off of his Vampiric blood. We know essentially nothing about Guy so far except for his search for his mother. However a lot of people on tiktok have been making comparisons between Devilsminion and Guy/Jasper's relationship. Yes I see the similarities however with how hard they've been hinting at Devilsminion in TVL press I don't think they'd go and recycle the material on these two. I still see Guy eventually being turned and I think the inevitable conclusion is Guy finding his mother and in turn learning about his family. (It would be fair to assume that his fathers surname could be Blackwood since we already know his mothers maiden name.)

The ghost-twin/parasite he'd be carrying could both explain how he's able to hear peoples thoughts in the first place but also explain why The Talamasca has such a interest in him in the first place. If they really thought he could just hear peoples thoughts I don't think they'd go around testing him the way they are.

The Talamasca's mission fits Quinn's situation

The Talamasca is essentially a secret order that monitors, documents, and sometimes intervenes with supernatural occurrences (vampires, witches, spirits).

Quinn’s entire existence is tangled with a ghost who is literally his twin, and his vampiric existence is bedevilled by that ghost. That’s the kind of anomaly that The Talamasca might track, catalogue, or even attempt to contain. This would also explain why they're so set on keeping Guy in the dark about his abilities. If he was just a Witch or some other well documented and researched supernatural being they'd say that but they clearly have no clue why Guy can do what he does.

There is even a mention in the novel that The Talamasca is “off-limits” for Quinn to hunt or meddle with, which suggests the Talamasca is aware of him. For example, in the fandom summary: “the rules” include that the Talamasca is now his enemy and hunting in New Orleans is forbidden. The idea of Guy making enemies feels like where this season is going it's possible with how episode three ended that yes he's just lying to Jasper so he can get in. However the summary of the show at least on the service I use to watch it says Guy becomes "obsessed with Vampire Jasper" I think this language along with some of the lines in the show like "I'm not your boy" is what draws people to make comparisons with devilsminion but I think this hint to obsession more gives us the context clues to assume Jasper will turn him eventually. Especially already knowing Jasper isn't opposed to turning people the way Armand is.

From that, one can posit that Quinn’s transformations and ghost-issues placed him on the Talamasca’s radar.

Narrative opportunities

If AMC is intent on expanding the universe of witches and vampires into a global secret-spy-thriller format — then a storyline involving Quinn isn't farfetched. Alongside this we also have the point of The Vampire Chronicles having so many characters that AMC creating new ones feels unnecessary.

Sending him out to do this mission searching for the 752 also feels more realistic when you take into account it's clearly supernatural in nature somehow. They'd see Quinn as both a risk (because Goblin is unstable) and a resource (because his lack of knowledge about this would perhaps make Goblin less powerful(?) As well as explaining why they're going to such an extent to keep him away from his mother while still trying to keep tabs on her when they know the way to draw her back is to get Guy to try and make contact).

Quinn’s relationships with other major vampiric figures (e.g., Lestat de Lioncourt) and his entangled family legacy fit the kind of high-stakes gothic world that The Talamasca series is exploring.

Objections & how to deal with them

Objection: The original novels do not explicitly show Quinn as a Talamasca operative or formally under their employment. Rebuttal: That’s correct — One can argue that he could become affiliated or observed by them, even if not described in the novels. We also already know that AMC is making major changes to characters and their arcs while keeping true to the source material with their core story.

Objection: The Talamasca’s depiction in the new show seems more spy-thriller oriented, whereas Quinn’s story is more gothic/horror. Rebuttal: The main Interview with the Vampire series is a gothic horror. Using Quinn in The Talamasca actually makes more sense this way to bridge the two shows together.

Objection: Quinn is firmly in Louisiana/Old South milieu, whereas the new Talamasca series has Guy coming from New York. Rebuttal: We already know Guy was split from his birth family and adopted so this really has no basis in my arguement. Quinn’s Southern U.S. roots are still able to come in with the introduction of Guy's mother to the narrative.

ANYWAYS Guy isn’t just any character; he is Quinn, finally stepping into the AMC universe. And I'm here for it because the Blackwood Farm is one of Anne Rice's best imop and seeing Quinn on screen is something I need.

[maitremeraki]

[ariaiscursed]

- chocolate and caramel

[maitremeraki]

Review #3 🦇 Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person - Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant (2023)

dir. Ariane Louis-Seize | Canada

SPOILERS AHEAD

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, is an amazing dark comedy that mixes both vampire lore with a tender coming of age story. Conceptually the idea sounds absurd but it ends extremely heartfelt.

Sasha is a vampire who refuses to kill humans because she's too empathetic. When her family cuts off her supply to ethically sourced blood, she's forced to fend for herself. Then she meets Paul, a lonely teenage boy who is planning to kill himself and offers himself as a willing victim.

It's a beautifully clever premise. What could have been purely treated as a gimmick becomes a much softer tone to the story. It's exceptional at balancing deadpan humor, gothic aesthetics, and the general experience of being a teenager. The title itself feels like a joke, but the film treats it's themes: loneliness, depression, and morality with a surprising sincerity.

Sasha and Paul's dynamic drives the entire story forward. Instead of focusing to much on romance or horror, the story focuses on two friends negotiating their own place in the world.

Visually, the film leans into a softer gothic atmosphere than a conventional horror. Dim lighting, muted colours, and quiet almost empty settings, giving it a dreamy, almost detatched feel. The pacing can feel slow but it's so intricately intentional, giving space for the characters to speak for themselves.

Despite it's morbid premise, it ends up feeling oddly hopeful. The story isn't really about death... it's about finding reasons to keep living, even in unconventional circumstances.

5/5 ⭐

[maitremeraki]

https://letterboxd.com/rawrzzin/

[ladypaperwriterson]

What if you were BLACK and GAY and a PIMP in early 20th century Louisiana, and you FELL IN LOVE with your super hot STALKER, and you got MARRIED, and he wants to CHEAT, but he doesn't want YOU cheating, and you want a DAUGHTER, and she's THE BEST, but she HATES your husband, and she wants you to KILL him and his sidepiece, and so you DO that, but then he HAUNTS you, and then you MISS him, and then you go to PARIS, and you meet MORE gays there, and their leader is HOT, and you FALL FOR HIM TOO, but then your husband comes BACK, and EVERYONE wants your daughter DEAD, and they KILL her, and you completely LOSE it, and you burn EVERYONE, and you get a DIVORCE, and you marry YOUR EX HUSBAND'S EX, and then in the 70s you decide to have someone INTERVIEW you, but you lose it AGAIN, and it all goes to SHIT, and then everything is a BLUR, and then it's 2020, and there's COVID, and you decide you want to be interviewed AGAIN, and you discover your current husband BRAINWASHED YOU, so you get ANOTHER divorce, and you're now TWICE divorced before you're even 150, and you run back to your first ex, but then that fuckass reporter PUBLISHES your interview as a BOOK, and your ex is MAD, and you want him BACK, but he decides to become a ROCKSTAR, THEN WHAT

Lestat Claudia Armand Daniel Santiago

[maitremeraki]

Review #2 🎞 Heavenly Creatures (1994)

dir. Peter Jackson | New Zealand

SPOILERS AHEAD

Heavenly Creatures is a film that understands obsession better than it understands murder—and that’s why it’s perfect.

Based on the real 1954 Parker–Hulme case, it follows two teenage girls, Pauline and Juliet, whose friendship becomes a private religion. they build a world between them: the Fourth World, full of clay kings and operatic melodrama, where no adult rules can reach. but the tragedy isn’t just that they kill for love—it’s that love was the only language they had to survive in.

Peter Jackson’s direction in Heavenly Creatures is feverish and intimate in a way he’s never managed since. before The Lord of the Rings and the CGI excess, there was this—small, unsettling, personal. a film that proves he was once capable of real emotional precision before everything turned into spectacle. the fantasy here isn’t world-building, it’s world-escaping. it’s the private madness of two girls, not a billion-dollar empire.

The visual effects—those marble saints, the clay figures, the fever-dream palaces—aren’t showpieces, they’re symptoms. delusion rendered beautiful, not marketable. as a Kiwi, it’s almost frustrating: this was his masterpiece, the one film that captured something raw and local before he started filming postcards for tourism campaigns.

Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey give performances that feel both theatrical and frighteningly sincere. they’re so young it hurts to look at them. every laugh, every handclasp, every breath shared in secret feels like a vow you know will end in violence.

It’s a film about girlhood as mythology. about how intensity curdles when the world calls it unnatural. Heavenly Creatures never condemns them outright; it just lets their madness bloom like something holy and doomed.

5/5 ⭐

[maitremeraki]

Review #1 🎞 Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981)

dir. Uli Edel | West Germany

SPOILERS AHEAD

There's something almost voyeuristic about Christiane F. - not because of anything it necessarily shows, but more so how it refuses to look away. There's no romaticising the fall of a fourteen year old girl into heroin addiction and sex work, but it doesn't pity her either. It's colder than that. The camera just sits and watches her spiral with the same detachment Christiane develops in her own life.

The city feels so utterly alive and sick. Every neon light is a wound; every subway tunnel hums like a bloodstream. This isn't just a look at 70's Berlin - it's adolescence rotting from the inside out. The soundtrack is amazing (Bowie, of course).

It hits so abundantly hard with how ordinary it feels. There's no grand tragedy, no redemption arc. Just a slow erosion of innocence, moment by moment. One day your skipping school, the next you're shooting up in a club bathroom, and it all feels so obviously inevitable.

The performances are too real. Natja Brunckhorst is Christiane - awkward, brittle, captivating in a way only someone not trying to be a star can be. Her face carries the entire film; to think she was fifteen at the time is astounding.

This film holds such a special place in the space of films about addiction. They aren't asking you to empathise the way Beautiful Boy (2018) does and they aren't selling it as a fun story the same way Trainspotting (1996) tends to. All it's asking is for the audience to acknowledge the problem.

5/5 ⭐

[kijimha]

just because you havent seen me post about The Character in a while doesn't mean i'm any less insane about them in private

[goatsandgangsters]

an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

[snoopylovessoup]

snoopy in the criterion closet

[maitremeraki]

I've only seen what three(?) episodes of The Talamasca and i can without a doubt say there is no way that Guy isn't Quinn Blackwood

Spoilers for the following ahead:

The Vampire Lestat (book and possibly show)

Talamasca: The Secret Order

The Queen of the Damned (TVC Book #3)

Blackwood Farm (TVC Book #9)

Quinns supernatural experiences

Quinn is heir to the old Blackwood family in Louisiana, and his life is haunted by the spirit Goblin who is revealed to be his deceased twin. Correct me if I'm wrong but ghosts up until The Talamasca releasing haven't been mentioned (I only watched like three episodes of The Mayfair Witches.) The arguement could be made they're making reference to them to set up Claudia in The Vampire Lestat but to mention it so early into The Talamasca says to me it could be setup to its own narrative.

He becomes a Vampire and Goblin begins to feed off of his Vampiric blood. We know essentially nothing about Guy so far except for his search for his mother. However a lot of people on tiktok have been making comparisons between Devilsminion and Guy/Jasper's relationship. Yes I see the similarities however with how hard they've been hinting at Devilsminion in TVL press I don't think they'd go and recycle the material on these two. I still see Guy eventually being turned and I think the inevitable conclusion is Guy finding his mother and in turn learning about his family. (It would be fair to assume that his fathers surname could be Blackwood since we already know his mothers maiden name.)

The ghost-twin/parasite he'd be carrying could both explain how he's able to hear peoples thoughts in the first place but also explain why The Talamasca has such a interest in him in the first place. If they really thought he could just hear peoples thoughts I don't think they'd go around testing him the way they are.

The Talamasca's mission fits Quinn's situation

The Talamasca is essentially a secret order that monitors, documents, and sometimes intervenes with supernatural occurrences (vampires, witches, spirits).

Quinn’s entire existence is tangled with a ghost who is literally his twin, and his vampiric existence is bedevilled by that ghost. That’s the kind of anomaly that The Talamasca might track, catalogue, or even attempt to contain. This would also explain why they're so set on keeping Guy in the dark about his abilities. If he was just a Witch or some other well documented and researched supernatural being they'd say that but they clearly have no clue why Guy can do what he does.

There is even a mention in the novel that The Talamasca is “off-limits” for Quinn to hunt or meddle with, which suggests the Talamasca is aware of him. For example, in the fandom summary: “the rules” include that the Talamasca is now his enemy and hunting in New Orleans is forbidden. The idea of Guy making enemies feels like where this season is going it's possible with how episode three ended that yes he's just lying to Jasper so he can get in. However the summary of the show at least on the service I use to watch it says Guy becomes "obsessed with Vampire Jasper" I think this language along with some of the lines in the show like "I'm not your boy" is what draws people to make comparisons with devilsminion but I think this hint to obsession more gives us the context clues to assume Jasper will turn him eventually. Especially already knowing Jasper isn't opposed to turning people the way Armand is.

From that, one can posit that Quinn’s transformations and ghost-issues placed him on the Talamasca’s radar.

Narrative opportunities

If AMC is intent on expanding the universe of witches and vampires into a global secret-spy-thriller format — then a storyline involving Quinn isn't farfetched. Alongside this we also have the point of The Vampire Chronicles having so many characters that AMC creating new ones feels unnecessary.

Sending him out to do this mission searching for the 752 also feels more realistic when you take into account it's clearly supernatural in nature somehow. They'd see Quinn as both a risk (because Goblin is unstable) and a resource (because his lack of knowledge about this would perhaps make Goblin less powerful(?) As well as explaining why they're going to such an extent to keep him away from his mother while still trying to keep tabs on her when they know the way to draw her back is to get Guy to try and make contact).

Quinn’s relationships with other major vampiric figures (e.g., Lestat de Lioncourt) and his entangled family legacy fit the kind of high-stakes gothic world that The Talamasca series is exploring.

Objections & how to deal with them

Objection: The original novels do not explicitly show Quinn as a Talamasca operative or formally under their employment. Rebuttal: That’s correct — One can argue that he could become affiliated or observed by them, even if not described in the novels. We also already know that AMC is making major changes to characters and their arcs while keeping true to the source material with their core story.

Objection: The Talamasca’s depiction in the new show seems more spy-thriller oriented, whereas Quinn’s story is more gothic/horror. Rebuttal: The main Interview with the Vampire series is a gothic horror. Using Quinn in The Talamasca actually makes more sense this way to bridge the two shows together.

Objection: Quinn is firmly in Louisiana/Old South milieu, whereas the new Talamasca series has Guy coming from New York. Rebuttal: We already know Guy was split from his birth family and adopted so this really has no basis in my arguement. Quinn’s Southern U.S. roots are still able to come in with the introduction of Guy's mother to the narrative.

ANYWAYS Guy isn’t just any character; he is Quinn, finally stepping into the AMC universe. And I'm here for it because the Blackwood Farm is one of Anne Rice's best imop and seeing Quinn on screen is something I need.