[vvenusincancerr]

you said i killed you — haunt me, then!

[pristinanomine]

L'AMICA GENIALE: STORIA DELLA BAMBINA PERDUTA

Capitolo 5 - La frattura

[grupaok]

R.H. Quaytman, from Loft, Chapter 4, 2005

[mtonino]

Stoker (2013) Park Chan-wook

[saltoncity]

work tomorrow is one of the worst things that can happen to you

[vide0n4sty]

and its not as serious as the egregious antiblack racism, but the sheer misogyny porn of gabriella taking lestat to the witch burning, focusing on ropes around necks, children being burnt alive, in an effort to get him to leave the village and then framing his inability to leave as HIS MOTHER believing he's a failure is just sooooo

in the book, lestat DOES try to leave by joining the monastery, but is dragged back home by his abusive brothers and is violently reprimended by the marquis, reminding the reader of just how much abuse lestat faces FROM MEN. and when he does SUCCESSFULLY leave, it's with nicki so the two of them can be in a relationship together in paris. it's this touching queer reclamation of the abused self, asserted even further by gabrielle financing their moving to paris.

in a season so overtly misogynistic and queerphobic, they removed the focus of nicki and lestat's relationship to just make lestat appear even more helpless, gabriella more abusive, their relationship even more questionable. genuinely how did we go from "be all the beautiful things you are without apology" to not even having one visible mlm kiss. fucked.

[sarawaybourne]

Gaia Girace and Margherita Mazzucco as Raffaella (Lila) Cerullo and Elena Greco in L'amica Geniale, Dissolving Boundaries

[themonstrousother]

Heartwarming! So-called tolerant gothic horror blog that delves into ‘dark and socially fraught’ topics and themes just as racist as average fandomite

[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.

[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

[ffantasmi]

Capitolo 2 La Febbre

[toiich]

Cold War (2018), dir. Paweł Pawlikowski

[diamondseaside]

thinking bout 2019 and how i took her for granted

[slaygentford]

the vampire lestat

[emmaziadarcy]

[carnadelions]

lestat's struggles with notions of good vs. evil and violence and anger is so interesting and i'm baffled these quandaries are getting paid dust in a season that is meant to excavate why lestat is the way he is. like "are you a good boy lestat" and "i imagined i was slaughtering my brothers while i was killing the wolves" as literal throwaway lines is crazy when you consider that lestat's proximity to violence and decay and his formative experience of seeing women burned at the stake for what is posited as an intrinsic truth, a nefarious core, and his most effusively and frequently felt emotion being anger, and his transformative experience killing the wolves, which he says "hardened" something in him, culminating in his forceful turning into the folklore figure that terrorized europe in the 1700s, all of this informs and has bearing upon his identity. and if the show decides to sand this down to lestat being pure of heart until he was corrupted by a black woman vampire's innately evil blood as opposed to spinning this claim into a very specific misconception on lestat's part, rooted in the backwards and patriarchal structure that shaped him, well.

[enchantedbook]

Jean-Denis Malclès, preparatory sketch for the poster of Jean Cocteau's film "La Belle et la Bête", 1946