I have a capacity for enduring.

she/they, 30s, Boricua, currently in the grips of some toxic vampires

[sillystigmata]

I’m going to sob.

[sillystigmata]

Gorgeous.

[callstoyoulikethewildgeese]

cursed bird site hive-mind

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[avatarmerida]

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

[futurakid]

[leg-stealing-bee]

[closetedguyy]

[knitordeath]

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

[song-of-sea-and-sky]

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

[msue0027]

[maxstarfall]

[gengaritez]

[pumpkin--rabbit]

[minyicho]

[edwarbteach]

JUNE THE THIRD, AN EXCELLENT DAY!

[princess-freaking-rapunzel]

[ruekathesi]

[harrystarks]

The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only - LIVE at the Beacon Theatre via MlSSTWINPEAKS

[celestialblueboy]

Oh he loves an accessory. Work it king. You are as hot as you think you are, promise.

IWTV is really helping my ‘put hot men in slutty little glasses’ agenda.

[virginiaisforvampires]

"And I....I am the Vampire Lestat!"

Yes. Yes, you are. 🥹❤️‍🔥

*happy sobs*

[midnightinshadow]

[endiness]

expectations vs reality

[vampirefamilylaw]

The Women of Storyville

A Visual Site

If you scroll down to "The Women in Charge" on this page about women in early 20th century Storyville, I think you will immediately see why I think television's Louis du Pointe du Lac and his business practices are heavily referencing mixed race women brothel keepers, especially Willie Piazza and Lulu White. Shout out especially to the presence of Jelly Roll Morton in both Louis's and Willie Piazza's establishments.

Louis does not occupy the same social niche as male "pimps" of this era, nor does he interact with the women he employs the way they would have. When he interacts with them, they talk as though they are peers. Making his employees all part-owners only further emphasizes this.

I don't think we're meant to see this as an implication that Louis has himself done full service sex work. I think it's supposed to perform two narrative functions: first, to highlight how Louis tries to use soft power and a submissive posture to manipulate institutional politics and government, and second, how Louis occupies a feminine space in the narrative even though he is clearly and obviously a man.

Actually third thing: I think it's also supposed to demonstrate what race, gender, and sexuality mean for Louis's character as constructed within the late 19th/early 20th century racial dynamics of New Orleans, which were significantly more complex than the more binary racial dynamics fandom often projects backward onto him (and onto his city). I wrote a magazine article about this back in my journalism days so maybe at some point I'll look back through the sources I drew on to share here. But for now I just wanted to illustrate why I am correct that Louis is less a pimp and more a madam.

[thlaylisden]

''oh louis, stay for the night'' ----- rattling them..

[doomed-romances]

👑Sheila Atim at the Vampire Lestat concert

[gruntsandpoetry]

seeing lestat sing this to louis in canon is going to wreck me in ways i have never been wrecked before