Ramblings

This blog is an eclectic mix of my interests. Fandom shit and womanist issues. You've been warned. She/Her. 35+.

[folkfashion]

Bobo headpiece, Burkina-Faso, by my_ohin (actual original source got taken down, this is the closest I could find)

[lestatgothic]

side profile sculpted by the gods

[postal420]

i think the TLC network may have been one of the most evil stations in history, their only shows were like; watch fat and disabled people suffer compounding health issues, vouyeristically observe the habits and lives of the autistic and mentally ill, watch women in poverty be shipped overseas to marry neglectful and abusive american men in order to not die from poverty, and the reactionary evangelical cult family show

[harrystarks]

Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, and Sheila Atim via TV Insider (x)

[showmey0urfangs]

I walk the night, capturing disappointment and regret

[six2vii]

Never thought I would be following Xzibit for his cat content or Plies/Eric Benet for political commentary. 🙃

[brownbeemolasses]

i mourn danlou and taishauna more than i've mourned anyone who's died in the two shows actually. like they were each other's only friends. like... they weren't dating but they're definitely exes now 💔

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[reallyveryhuman]

Do the tvl writers know that having a limited pov/shifting to a new pov character ≠ only centering that character and ignoring everyone and everything else for them?? Cause I don’t think they do

[crazykuroneko]

A Note from IWTV S2 Writer A. Zell Williams

Read here:

Fan Appreciation Daze

How a show's fans lifted my spirits years after working on the series.

[louclaudia]

"thank you for loving him, for loving him the way he needs to be loved"

[saintfem]

the paul scene really really solidified the fact that rolin has fundamentally misunderstood what is interesting about loustat. absolving lestat of any wrongdoing and going as far as having FUCKING LOUIS’ DEAD BROTHER come in and THANK lestat for “loving louis the way that he needed to be loved”. loustat, and i say this as a firm loustat girlie, is NOT HEALTHY. lestat did not SAVE louis with his love. louis was not saved by his love. they are both CURSED with loving each other.

louis was coerced, manipulated, intentionally isolated by lestat. lestat killed lily, the only person who he confided to, accelerated louis into severing contact with his family (whom he did love), and LOATHED paul from the one instance where he met him, because it was clear he did not approve of them. paul’s death and his stance on lestat was the eerie foreshadowing for how lestat would go on to treat louis throughout season one. i.e., enraged that in spite of all his UNWANTED efforts to receive louis’ unconditional affection, there was deep resentment from louis for stripping of something that he valued as much as his humanity.

and louis was not resentful because it is his nature. he was not cold to him because “it is his father’s way” like paul said. he was cold to him because louis is embittered by the fact that the majority of his suffering would have never happened if he had never met lestat. just as the majority of his greatest euphoria would have never happened if he’d met lestat: claudia entering their life, becoming bold enough to truly define who he is, experiencing a love that he was constantly told was wrong and unholy. but none of that changes the fact that lestat TRAPPED him—louis is constantly battling between these two opposing facts regarding the love of his life, and he learned to utilize resentment and coldness to make lestat feel the same constant turmoil and insecurity that lestat made HIM feel.

louis and lestat do not love each other BECAUSE of what they’ve been through. they love each other IN SPITE of what they’ve been through. they’ve made each other’s lives a living hell, but the love is STILL there and it always has. that’s what makes them interesting. they’ve lost everything for loving each other. yes, as the episode pointed out, lestat was insulted, betrayed, had his throat slit by louis. but what they failed to mention is that louis suffered for loving lestat as well. claudia detests louis in large part because they still love each other. louis lost everyone in his human life. louis is constantly facing threats from LESTAT’S past, his mother, theatre des vampires, whoever else. they’ve damned each other: lestat damns louis, louis damns lestat, and the cycle always continues because they cannot fucking resist each other. it is the love and the hatred, euphoria and abject misery, profound connectedness and the most acute loneliness. they are EVERYTHING to one another. rolin’s incessant need on victimizing lestat is butchering one of the best gothic romances of all time.

[jeunesseoubliee]

A gothic horror show with a chilling twist: the horror is reserved exclusively for the Black characters.

Are you into watching Black characters suffer for no reason other than shock value? Are you into watching Black characters be tortured, then made to apologize to their abusers? Are you into Black characters being told that slavery is in their DNA? Are you into watching Black characters be branded like cattle by their torturer and abuser? Are you into watching Black characters be brutalized, humiliated, and blamed for their own suffering? Do you enjoy victim-blaming? What about abuse apologia? Are you drawn to narratives that seem more interested in excusing these things than condemning them?

If so, then The Vampire Lestat, streaming on AMC+, is the show for you. You'll love it.

And don't feel bad. After all, it's just fiction, and fiction has nothing to do with the real world. We all live in a vacuum, right?

[lasgalendil]

diversity win!

Young blond white man: I have done nothing wrong in ny life ever and here is a mentally ill magical negro not seen since episode 1 to prove it

Old white man with curly hair and a hooked nose: sure I'm racist and ableist but what can you expect I'm a boomer

Two Southeast Asians: are we evil because we're brown, queer, Muslim, or the ethically dubious science experiments we perform on Black bodies? It's probably all four!

Black man: hey ya'll it's your boy Louis guess who just survived his second lynching by his EVIL BROWN EX can't wait to get back with Lestat who once dropped me from 5,000 feet and paralyzed me for weeks but bears no responsibility for it because he had the primal blood of an evil Black woman in him!

[six2vii]

I need to check out this new Hannah and Octavia project.

[maggie44paint]

lovers

[theatredeslioncourt]

ICONS INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S3EP06 - THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

credits: like or reblog if you use it OR @ frogwithsocks (on twitter)