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[ladypaperwriterson]

[ladypaperwriterson]

[ambergrief]

i just rlly like the way hes holdinh aponhwbob in this picture holding him ever so gently with an extended finger like a perch for a small bird

[ambergrief]

supporting his lower back and neck so he can sit up like a newborn baby

[heres-to-your-eternity]

Why are they making Lestat’s side hoe seem like she was actually important now? Like where is all this love for her coming from when in season 1 people either hated her or were indifferent.

[heres-to-your-eternity]

Final post for the night cuz I’m exhausted from this shit show.

Jacob loves Louis. He understands Louis and he knows how flawed Louis is. It’s the writers and show runners who don’t give af about Louis and by extension, Jacob. Just posting this cuz I saw two comments on YouTube that says Jacob doesn’t seem to care about Louis and always seems to never defend him and like when you got Rolin Jones constantly beating down your character what else can you do. All I can say is Jacob, you if you decide to leave I will love you and watch whatever your in and listen to whatever songs you make 🥰❤️

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.

[dykecinema]

The way I am kinda glad they renamed the show now like let Interview with the Vampire stay separated from this mess. I still believe the first 2 seasons are some really great television and still do recommend them. But like yes good let it be untainted lol

[greedydemands]

i’m sick of ppl trying to equivocate that claudia could’ve been that hateful and mad at louis without the racism. no she wouldn’t be. the entire thing is out of character for the iwtv canon, stop trying to give an inch when none of it even matters anymore. even in the books it’s clear that it’s not fully claudia and louis was shittier to her there. or accepting that he was a pimp after all even if that’s not ~all he was. no he wasn’t. we have long since traced back to the exact real life brothel owner the s1 writers transferred 1:1 to louis. missing and honoring the black writers who made iwtv also means respecting the story THEY wrote, and we don’t have to concede some bullshit about louis having been selfish or cruel or equally at fault for claudia’s abuse. it’s still victim blaming to say the seance was right that louis didn’t change bc he’s taking the abuser back. it’s victim blaming to equivocate that he and armand equally couldn’t consent to the bdsm and that louis was a bad dom even if he still didn’t need to apologize to armand. that antiblack torture scene has nothing to do w louis’ relationship with armand, it has no basis in canon at all, they just wanted the nbpoc to torture louis bc of the optics bc why the fuck would fareed even be there lol? don’t internalize this white supremacist revisionist bullshit, this show used to mean a lot to jacob for a reason, he and delainey came back for a reason, and we know they were lied to. louis was never selfish or a pimp or cruelly culpable for withholding to the powerful men who hated and battered him, that’s not softening his agency for perfect victimhood. claudia came back to see him because she loved him and loved him until her very last breath. we know what we saw

[letpeoplecritiquethings]

Also, re Claudia saying she lied about Lestat’s rape comments — if we take that to be true, what are the writers saying actually happened? Claudia got on the train, tried to leave, and….? What? Like genuinely, why did she come back?

Did Lestat show up and threaten her DIFFERENTLY? Or did he not show up on the train at all? Are they saying her Evil Scheming Black Girl Mastermind plan was in action from way back when she was asking Louis to leave with her, and her whole departure and return was just a series of manipulative theatrics to poison Louis against Lestat? And this was her goal not because she hated Lestat but because she actually (checks notes) apparently preferred him, but found Louis easier to manipulate…??

Like… even if all this retconning wasn’t rooted in antiblackness and misogynoir (which it is), it’s also just terrible/absurd writing like where’s the logic ???? 🫠

[antidisneyinc]

the decision of the writers of tvl to not clarify lestat's role in the trial, why he was there, how exactly and to what extent he was coerced, to never address it, to never have lestat explain himself to louis, but to treat it as though lestat is obviously innocent and has nothing to explain.........................................................profound

[sumquiasum]

There are some points of tvl criticism I'm willing to debate and where I can very much see both sides (or even think the #haters are stretching it a little) but like. You cannot really deny that this season has shown a pattern of prioritizing white characters and their emotional journey over characters of color. On top of that, so many of the jokes are "punching down", starting with the pronoun joke in ep 1 followed by a continuous barrage of throw-away comments. And then, six episodes into a season with a non-Black writers room, we have Claudia say "there's something etched in your ribs that says you're a slave". There's no reckoning with how horrifically racist this statement is, neither in the text nor the paratext. It's just sitting there, poisoning what otherwise could have been an incredible scene. Poisoning a season that felt like it was actually slowly finding its footing. It's white privilege to watch that scene and not feel, on some level, attacked by those racist words put in a Black actor's mouth by white writers. To not be haunted by the racist implications of "my bleak, black life." Before, a lot of the writing choices registered as thoughtless; at this point, it's hard to see them as anything but malicious.

[excretal]

you’re telling me a guy who tried to kill himself when claudia left nola and then again when she left paris and when armand told him claudia didn’t love him and who spent this whole season sick with grief for her. you’re telling me this guy sat through that seance heard what claudia said to him and he just chuckled and shrugged all that shit off like it was nothing. in what fucking world

[carnadelions]

unfortunately re: the serving cunt line you can just tell the writers have become too cognizant of fandom. i do not want diegetic references to lestat popping his pussy any more than i want armand playing minecraft or saying he's too wife to be cancelled for abuse. like i get that this is yet another thing to seize and emphasize how absurd lestat can be and it does track with his propensity to update his vocabulary but you need to remember that this is a 268-year-old vampire from the french colonial empire whose achilles heel has always been literacy and who spent the second half of the twentieth century to the early 2020s in self-imposed, haggard exile. he's not deep in the trenches on tumblr or stan twitter he's getting duped by ai reels of anthropomorphized dogs on youtube

[decomposingfungi]

tvl episode simulation

lestat: *awful french(?) accent* fam they are low-key trying to cancel me for serving too much cunt all because i'm too camp and too whimsical and now the woke mobe is coming for me but they'll have to take the L because I HAVE THE BLOOD OF AKASHA IN ME iykyk i'm just living rent-free in your minds because i'm looking snatched periodt

*five minutes musical video with the worst song you have ever heard*

gabriella: *count dracula accent* uuuuh lestat fuck me !! fuck mamma again and again and again !! i want sex i want to be FUCKED i want to suck a cock i love cock i only think of cock and murder uuuuuh lestat let's kill all humanity

daniel: did you stutter as a child? did you stutter as a child? did you stutter as a child? did you stutter as a child? oh and also: *seven different slurs*

louis: oh i'm sorry i'm a selfish bastard i'm a bad person i should be humbled *random slurs are said his way*

armand: *opens his eyes two seconds before the episode ends*

[foxrina66]

Crazy how accurate this is 😭

[lilacs-in-the-wind]

The showrunners chose to make Louis and Claudia black and experience life in the Jim crow era. They chose to do the full race swap in season 1, not just making the characters but also the story black. They chose to racialize the violence that both Louis and Claudia face throughout the first season. No one was forcing their hands and they got praised for the stuff they did in the first two seasons, for bringing in the added nuance of systemic racism. So why should I as an audience member of colour give them any grace when they choose to write dialogues containing numerous racialized and gendered micro aggressions not just towards Louis or Claudia but also towards minor characters like Dee or Lemuel who weren't supposed to exist as they are (black) in the show?? Why is Daniel (a white man) who is supposed to be a Pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist who was lecturing Louis on his own story about the racism he faced referring to him as a "bucket of Louisiana fried chicken"?? Why is Armand textually belittled for being a CSA victim while Lestat is endlessly provided with grace and understanding in the text of the show for his victimhood?? Who thought it was alright to adapt a scene from the books involving white characters talking about parental betrayal and insert racially charged dialogues (that too old school racist shit not even the n word) when it was unnecessary to preserve the nuance of the scene?? Why is this show denying the racialized nature of domestic violence that they chose to portray in S1 ??? (Lestat getting mildly annoyed that Louis didn't enjoy going to the operas in nola when he had to act as Lestat's servant to be allowed in tf??) Why is Gabriella like that??

I cannot help but look at this season of the show as a sign of the times tbh. IWTV aired during a very liberal era of entertainment and now that fascism and white supremacy are on the rise everywhere white entertainers have become comfortable enough to fall back into old habits. Never thought this show in particular would have this problem when I watched the first season but it is what it is I guess

[saintfem]

you know i really wish i just hated this season because lestat was talking like he was on a drag race mini challenge. i wish it wasn’t as serious as flippantly cruel anti-blackness and the fundamental mischaracterization of virtually every character and the complete erasure of any love that may have existed between characters outside of their endgame pairings. i wish it wasn’t because of the erasure of trans identity, the constant punching down, the pointless retconning, the absolution of an abuse, the very obvious vitriol for the first two seasons and everything that the series has cultivated as a result of the first two seasons. i wish it was just the proverbial dangling of keys in front of the audience. i wish it was as simple as i heard “serving cunt has its consequences” turned off my laptop and never watched another episode

[holewithoutorgans]

Something something Lestat using vampirism as a way to liberate Louis and Gabrielle from the suffering they experience from oppressive social systems, but he doesn’t have an understanding of how these systems operate and he doesn’t really care to learn. Mostly because learning would require him to reckon with the ways he both perpetuates and benefits from these systems something something

[holewithoutorgans]

#And then you discovery that actually these experiences with the oppressive systems will not only continue to happen but have made #it so that understanding your loved ones in their entirety is impossible for you

Ooooo I didn’t think of that. In erasing some of the barriers separating them from him biologically(and in his mind socially), he forever cuts off his access to their internal worlds and ability to understand them as beings apart from himself.

And you know what….of course he thinks of his whit- I mean blood as an elevating force that dismantles silly human concepts like patriarchy and racism. As a human, he’s a white attractive man with blonde hair and blue eyes from an aristocratic family (a waning one but still). He was already high up on the food chain and vampirism elevated him even higher. Plus, we have Daddy Magnus and Daddy Marius further instilling these beliefs. plus Daddy Gabrielle. Elevating the downtrodden and marginalized is his birthright🙄

If he actually learned about how white supremacy functions and engaged in some self reflection, he’d start making connections between that ideology and his own assault/trauma/exploitation/etc. It’s an ideology that ultimately sees him as a body/tool to be used and directly ties in with him being hypersexualized since youth.

There is no racism in the Savage Garden🤓☝🏻

[holewithoutorgans]

The writers scrapped all this rich commentary so they could call Louis a piece of Kentucky fried chicken and a nappy headed slave....