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As a French fan and a very new ✨enjoyer✨of iwtv and tvl, I was really surprised and interested to see how people reacted to the Auvergne sequence in 3x02 / 1x02.
So, since I’m a very annoying nerd that loves languages, I wanted to yap about why I personally think it’s great that they speak English and not French.
[I was inspired by some tweets I’ve seen, including this one highlighting the very cool costuming choices for the next episode, shoutout 🫶]
At first I was surprised by the use of English, because you would expect all of these flashbacks to be in French, right ? I even saw some fans say it would be more historical accurate. But then I remembered what I was taught about the French language, and actually…
In the 18th century in France, most people didn’t « speak French » historically (at least not the language we know today). In Auvergne in 1772, all these characters would learn and speak the regional dialect, called Auvergnat. It’s an occitan language, closer to Latin or Catalan than French. So historically speaking, nope, the Lioncourts wouldn’t speak French in 1772! 😂
[for those curious, Auvergnat sounds like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vLDvJyz4Xg&t=43s, and barely ressembles what we recognize as « French » today, it’s fascinating 🤩]
I find that fact illuminating, because it leads me to believe that (at least in my headcanon) :
1- Lestat didn’t know the language spoken in Paris until he got there, so it must have been quite difficult for him to find his footing. I’m now even more inclined to forgive Sam Reid for his French accent and pronunciation (I think he’s brilliant in the show btw 😍), because realistically poor Lestat must have struggled back then too 😂 !
2- Gabrielle/Gabriella would feel even more alienated in this family, because not only was she canonically Italian (and probably spoke the dialect of her hometown), she most likely had to learn Auvergnat (and not the more widely known French language) to understand her husband. It also explains why she wouldn’t have a French accent ^^
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I already outlined a bit of the Dolan family history and political affiliations here, but since a video from the TVL premiere featuring James Dolan himself being blithely queried about what his favorite karaoke go-to is made its way to my feed, I figured I’d grab a few other photos/screenshots of recent events pertaining to Mr. Dolan just to highlight who and what is being criticized when we criticize AMC and how they handle their productions and marketing (hint: it’s not because anyone hates Lestat/Sam Reid! 🤡)
Here’s James Dolan on the TVL black carpet:
And here he is a handful of days later:
And here’s what he’s been up to for the last while:
I don’t know where the narrative that AMC is some poor little upstart company on a shoestring budget but is Trying Really Hard and is akshually soooooo progressive for allowing their productions to cast BIPOC at all came from, but it needs to fucking die.
I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!
Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.
If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.
Let your likes guide you.
(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)
Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych
Surprise surprise but with adhd a main symptom is the lack of focus!
„Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.“ Yaaah, true. I know what I like…that still doesn’t get me enough dopamine to motivate me in order to get things done. Especially not things I don’t “want” to do, but have to.
The only things changing my brain chemistry (for a while) are a high level of pressure/stress, hyperfixation/enormous interest (on things I really liked) and/or adhd medication. (and that’s also not working when pms kicks in…). With ADHD, you operate in extremes. Just „liking“ something isn't enough (in most cases).
There is no “simply do this or that” and everything is perfectly fine…especially not with such genetic determined brain-conditions. To trick your brain into processing dopamine…? How magical that would be. It’s a theory (called Rubikon Model by Peter M. Gollwitzer - motivation psychologist), one of many ways to cope with “motivation difficulties”. That might help (for some), but not for everyone.
Reblogging myself ‘cause I see this “just focus on things you like…”-bullshit coming up in the ADHD-Bubble again. ADHD ist NOT just a leck of dopamine, it’s way more komplex. And so are the “treatments”…
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everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs
“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*
It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.
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