retired angel

Bucky read about “The Five Love Languages” online and has decided to attempt them with Sam.

As a Daniel enjoyer, can I just say, the racism is the point. The ableism is the point, the bag on her head as she cried, the student used aggressively, the estranged daughters. This is a boomer monster. Remember how he lectured Lestat's head on having carved out a path for himself? That's boomer talk. You dislike him by design, because he is a bad person and I'd never seen a so thoroughly boomer evil on tv, it's very interesting and timely, you just gotta understand that it's not a blind spot in the writing, it's intentional. Just like it's intentional that Armand torture Louis, and the shockingly evil ugliness of that. The ugliness of incest, of murder, nothing is sanitized.

I have a lot of grievance with season 3 but one criticism I don’t agree with is that Daniel’s sudden attachment/allegiance to Armand doesn’t make sense. In the book, Daniel falls in love with Armand’s evil parts before anything else, most likely because they reflect a similar darkness in himself that has always pushed others away. In the show, we get Armand telling Daniel, not only have I watched you for over 50 years, but I’ve seen you at your worst, at your lowest, and I still want you. More than that, he enables and encourages Daniel’s selfish darkest desires!

i love the linguistic trend of expressing something difficult to describe by just not including an adjective where there usually would be one. “i had a day today,” or “he’s definitely one of the characters of all time.”

ngl i was genuinely expecting something like this

Armand: I’m in love with you