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something i noticed even back when s2 was airing and something that i think it's going to become more apparent now is that the writers' room for iwtvl has the tendency to bite off more than they can chew and wanting to have their cake and eat it too. this in turn makes the writing structurally looser and less focused as more characters/more elements is added to the story. during s2 sth i noticed was that levan akin's episodes were paced really weirdly and didn't feel as tight as his episodes in s1, and i think it's because he was handed episodes where there's just so much to tackle. i think this problem shows up the most clearly in how madeleine's character is developed (or underdeveloped), but i think it shows up in other aspects of s2 as well. i think this writers' room excels at writing for a limited cast/setting and when the story expands and more characters are added i think they kinda struggle a bit to keep the focus. i think there's some truth to this, too, considering rolin has always emphasized that he wanted to write a love story between louis and lestat and have that be the main focus of the show (a huge difference from AR's meandering casts and relationships). i think he's more interested in exploring the relationship and intimacy between a few characters rather than develop a net of relationship with an ensemble cast. this is just speculation on my part since i haven't checked his previous works, but i think when comparing s1 and 2 you can kinda already see the difference in terms of structure and pacing. all of which to say, i think with so much going on in s3 i don't think that it's going to hit the same notes as s1 and 2 ever did nor do i think the show would ever hit those notes again in the future. this is sth i already thought abt even before s3 went into production, and sth that i've accepted. i'm not saying this to be harsh, btw! i still love the show and the story (e1 is quickly growing on me) and i'm writing these criticism from a place of love and appreciation. but i guess what i'm trying to get at is that s3 (or future seasons) won't be the same as s1-2 (not necessarily a good or bad thing for me since there's still a lot of things to learn abt s3). though coupled that with amc's blatant racism when it comes to handling this show (sth that did sour my enjoyment in the show), i can see how people would be put off by the show and lose interest in it.

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"mr du lac's b-movie brute" the thought of louis calling lestat a brute is so funny yet so true like that's her grug........

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if you've ever sent in art requests/suggestions and i didn't answer, i'm not ignoring you! it's just that i don't want to get people's hopes up when i reply but don't fulfill the prompt even if i find the idea interesting myself, so sorry!

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how it feels

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how it feels

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s3

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just an fyi, when the season airs i'll try to keep discussions of the episode (crucial plot points, spoilers, etc.) to the barest minimum on this blog! i'll still talk abt it with moots but also i like to let the information sink in and digest it for a bit, so i'll probably talk about it more in depth here when the season finish airing!

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the equal terrors of “what if Lemuel is abuser #3” vs “what if Lemuel is super obviously the greatest thing to ever happen to Louis but we’re still supposed to root for Loustat”

i don't think the first thing is going to be likely though! since it's going to be a bad and boring writing choice to have louis going through that whole cycle of falling into another abuser's arms again. and the cast and crew have been emphasizing how louis's arc this season is going to be something new and inventive, so i don't see them going down that path again. though i don't know if they'll go for the second route either... my personal guess is that lemuel is going to play a similar role to jonah in s1, someone who louis needs in that moment and whom he had some connection with but not neccessarily a character that is developed enough to 'compete' with the main relationship. like we will learn that they have some kind of relationship/rapport, but the fallout of it is not shown on screen/not dramatic enough for the audience to feel emotionally invested in. now, whether this would be a good writing choice or not i really can't say. there's so much context lacking right now, not to mention that iwtv is the type of show where everything only sinks in after getting the whole picture of the season (sth that i don't think will change now). so... we'll see!

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while i don't interpret their reunion scene in 2x08 as louis returning to his abuser/taking him back/repeating the cycle, i do think that the show bears the responsibility to thread the line between portraying lestat as a sympathetic character whilst not falling into abuse apologia/excusing and erasing his abuse towards louis and claudia. that being said, it is frustrating trying to engage with this criticism on here in good faith because most of what i've seen so far is like:

"louis should not return to abuser 1!" -> ok i'm nodding let's keep going

"... because he should return to abuser 2" -> what. you've completely and utterly lost the plot because what the hell are you talking abt.

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man he really was telling ppl that louis went on bouts of hysteria at the thought of him leaving which is like the most lestat thing to do but also we really really need to kill him soon

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at the end of the day i love tv

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not to go back to that gq shoot but i love the blush placement they did on sam because it makes him look like that spongebob meme when he smiles

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Can I ask about your interpretation of book Gabrielle(a) and how it differs from the fandom consensus? I’m not very involved with the fandom other than rbing art so I’m not sure what most people are saying lol

Uhhh this is going to be quite messy but I’ll try!

I think this post encapsulates pretty much how I feel about Gabrielle. Even though it’s a post talking about AR, because of how personal writing was to her and how she talked about using her writing as a means to process her personal issues/project her political beliefs, I think the way she wrote Gabrielle had a lot of parallels with herself, and thus there are a lot of parallels between how the fandom perceive AR with how they interpret Gabrielle as a character as well. 

The popular fandom interpretation of Gabrielle is that (s)he’s transmasc/a transman. And while I can see a strong support for this reading and how it became popular I think that: 

It is not the only possible interpretation of this character

It gives AR a lot of undeserved credit for writing a thoughtful and intentional trans character/narrative, which, if you put it into perspective with her sexual politics/her view on gender and sexuality, you’d see that this trans reading is not intentional

It dissociates so much from the racial politics of AR and the racial context of how Gabrielle is written, which in my opinion removes a lot of nuance from her character. This is perhaps my main gripe with the fandom’s interpretation of Gabrielle. 

When it comes to AR’s view on gender and sexuality, as much as she claimed that her literature transcends gender and sexuality, if you read her writing closely you’d find that she actually had a very gender-essentialist view. The plot of QOTD is basically that there’s a tangible, inherent essence of maleness and Lestat has the most out of all other beings, which in turn made him the target to be kidnapped by Akasha. You pick any random description AR wrote about a female character and 99% it’s going to be something along the lines of “she is so dainty and small and feminine and she breasted boobily towards Lestat”. So to say that this woman was consciously writing Gabrielle as a trans character feels too charitable, to be honest. 

With regards to AR’s racial politics, if you were to read about how she romanticized the Antebellum South and how she still referred to Haiti by its colonial name of Saint-Domingue in the 80s, and then you read about accounts of white women who were wives to slave owners, then you'd have a better understanding of this “liberation” she often talked about, something that she often assigned to Gabrielle in her writing. AR associated power heavily with maleness and whiteness, and I don't think her desire for manhood (something she explored with Gabrielle's character) can be disentangled from her desire to exert white supremacy. Moreover, the liberation from misogynistic subjugation through accessing colonial power/exercising white supremacy on racialized populations is actually quite a common experience of white womanhood. 

This is from a section from TVL where Gabrielle was convincing Lestat to go with her to Africa to conquer and terrorize “savage” tribes, btw. After Gabrielle parted ways with Lestat the next time she showed up she was literally dressed in an outfit clearly reminiscent of a French colonial officer’s tropical uniform. 

All of which to say, this is what I was talking about in the aforementioned post about AR desiring not only manhood but white manhood: because to her, power = maleness, and whiteness = power. This thus influenced the way she wrote Gabrielle. Again, this isn’t meant to invalidate a transmasculine reading of the character; I just feel that if people were to insist on this reading then they should include the racial context for it as well because I don’t think these two aspects can be disentangled from one another and it removes a lot of nuances from her character, as well as discussions of AR’s writing.