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My entire personality right now is Assad Zaman, Interview with the Vampire and Devil's Minion
in an ideal world qotd will have an episode from khayman's perspective and it just randomly jump cuts to armand looking beautiful every 10 minutes or so
I think people remember book Devil's Minion with rose-tinted glasses of it being a nice little love story. It's romantic in the sense of Gothic Romance, but it's a hot mess of toxic intensity where Daniel is largely using Armand for what he can give him and Armand spends good chunks of it love bombing Daniel to make him stay while refusing to give him the Gift.
It's messy and they aren't especially kind to one another - especially Daniel to Armand.
They are my favorite thing from the books, but his notion that they are a lovely love story where Daniel was only ever nice and kind to Armand is not factual.
It was a different kind of cruelty to what show!Daniel is capable of, but it's there.
Treating a Jewish writer as suspect until proven innocent is deeply problematic.
The Hannah Moscovitch discourse has gotten way out of hand and a good number of what I am choosing to believe are well meaning people are sliding hard and fast into antisemitism.
Assuming that Hannah Moscovitch is a zionist in 2026 based on the fact that she had gone to Israel 30 years ago was already problematic.
But now that she has made a point of saying she is not - it's still not good enough and people are calling her a liar (also deeply problematic).
Things I've seen said about her in the last 24 hours:
(Cut for potentially triggering antisemitic tropes).
"She only did this because she was getting backlash." Yeah, because she shouldn't be expected to explain why she's a "good Jew" because the default is that she must be a "bad Jew." People were making allegations against her with absolutely no evidence whatsoever.
"Well, she still went to Israel and lived there." Yeah, 30 years ago and seemingly came away from it disillusioned. That's exactly what every movement wants: people who were impacted by propaganda and came out with different views.
"I don't trust anything she says." Given we have no reason to think she's ever lied to any of us as individuals or to the fandom, this just plays into the trope that a Jewish person isn't trustworthy.
"She's lying to make more money." I mean do I even have to explain what's wrong with this one?
"Hannah hates brown people and Muslims because she's a Jew." There is no evidence of this even if you think her writing could be more sensitive. Insensitive writing is not proof of malicious hate. Framing a Jewish writer as an exploiter or abuser of minorities is also deeply problematic. Pitting Jewish individuals against non-white minorities has been a popular trope for white supremacists especially in the American South.
I'm going to leave out the literal slurs I've seen thrown around.
Expecting a Jewish writer in Hollywood to prove their allegiance or otherwise be seen as other is deeply problematic.
By all means, criticize her writing. But let's stop trying to find reasons to villainize a Jewish writer because she is Jewish. Stop starting your criticism with "A Jewish writer doing x..." Nope, anything you are about to say is almost certainly tinged with antisemitism.
I think the IWTV/TVL writers have biases that all people have. I think the IWTV/TVL writers can do better about how they ensure Black voices are in the room or ensuring that the audience knows what their process looks like if they are using the Hollywood equivalent of sensitivity readers. But that doesn't mean we use their marginalized identities as weapons against them.
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