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SHEILA ATIM as AKASHA INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | Season 3, Episode 5, "New York"

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nortism

I actually love the Louis and Regina subplot because it really is a continuation of the way Louis has always treated women, as a source of emotional labour that he can throw money at and have them make him feel better. It’s Miss Lily all over again, it’s “paying a whore to sit in a room and talk with him”. Making Claudia was always about Louis’ feelings under the pretence of saving her from the fire. He wants to save Regina from poverty but it’s all to make himself feel better. She sees through him but she’s so broke that she can’t afford to say no

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Also really interesting to me that Louis only proposes this after he finds out she does sex work. Like, I don't know if it's necessarily a conscious connection he's making, but he definitely feels like this is someone whose time can be bought. Just like Miss Lily's time could be bought...

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EXACTLYYYYY!! I also think it’s significant that it’s always young black women who he treats almost as commodities in this way. He has come from a society where he is used to his labour being exploited but instead of breaking that chain he continues it with the only group directly below him

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Spoilers for 3.05: Okay so I'm adding this to this post rather than making a new one because ^THIS context is important.

I've seen people complaining about the Regina x OffOffBroadway!Madeleine (as JA called her) kiss, how it was gross and performative and male gazey. And like...yes? Yes it was, obviously.

That's literally the point.

Regina is someone who does sex work. She has been hired by this Rich Weirdo who is also an all powerful vampire, in order to pretend to be his dead daughter/sister. I know Louis is gay and has told her as much but I still think it's completely understandable that she would wonder "Okay but is this a sex thing? It has to be a sex thing right??" and as for this other woman who's been hired, what the hell has she been told? "We'll pay you thousands of dollars to come to dinner and cosplay as a character from that popular vampire book that came out a few years ago. And in this I am the main character Louis and you are my sister's girlfriend and we are all having dinner together and catching up and it's definitely not a sex thing"?????

THAT SOUNDS LIKE A VERY ELABORATE KINK. We as the audience know it's not (it is in fact much weirder than that), but of course these women think they are playing out the Rich Weirdo's fantasy. They've been cast as Vampire Girlfriends, so they're going to commit to the role. This Rich Weirdo will probably love watching them make out, maybe he'll even give them a tip.

And of course it makes Louis uncomfortable because THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT FOR HIM, but it is very much also supposed to make the AUDIENCE uncomfortable. It is meant to highlight that Louis is doing a Weird Fucked Up Exploitative Thing.

This is LouisThePimp putting girls to work. It is Louis, once again, treating women as tools of emotional labour.

So if you hated that scene, if it made you uncomfortable: GREAT.

That's how the show wanted you to feel.

#ive reblogged oop's post before but reblogging again bc of the additions lol #i have seen A LOT of complaints about them making out and it's ridiculous how this stuff keeps flying over people's heads lol #touch proverbial grass plsssssssss #iwtv