Blade by blade, disarm Death

on a separate but related note, I’m sick and tired of fandom bitches. fandom bitches stop being annoying for five seconds challenge: impossible. now we are up in arms and offended because lestat de lioncourt isn’t woke and trans supportive enough for us. cool.

I assume if ur pissed about lestat de lioncourt casually misgendering a non binary person he met once while high, ur either cis or you’ve never been trans outside of the internet before because I can not stress enough how normal and not a big deal this is. like yes obviously being misgendered suck, but there is a difference between legitimate transphobia and lestat being casually socially careless for two seconds because he is lestat.

I have seen people argue that they are in favor of lestat misgendering random side character because it shows how he is a bad person and I think these people are also stupid, because we already know lestat is a bad person. we didn’t need a reminder. good dialogue and characterization isn’t a list of checkmarks that the writer is mechanically crossing off to communicate each beat of plot necessary information. the mental image of any one of these brilliant screen writers going ☝️ we need to include a moment where lestat does something bad so the audience knows he’s bad ☝️ pains me to even imagine.

but besides that point, lestat misgendering bad ass urinal peeing non-binary vampire is not even a strong case of him being a bad person 💀 it’s somewhat politically incorrect at the very worst, but even that is a stretch because the wokest most trans positive and progressive people I know have still thoughtlessly used the wrong pronouns for someone at least once. that is literally just life.

regardless, I loved it. I’m sick and tired of the bullshit netflix corporate trans character that exists in this PC fantasy land where every one is effortlessly supportive and never ever uses the wrong pronouns and #loveislove #gayisok #lgbtqia+ #slay. why do other characters get to be messy and real and have messed up complicated storylines but once a trans person is on screen we have to pause everything and be respectful and they/them so that buzzfeed can write an article about how trans positive we are.

I loved seeing a trans side character that just got to feel like a real person in the actual world. it was fun and I enjoyed it and I laughed. they got to exist in the scene casually and weirdly and not as some holy educational object for the cis audience, which honestly feels more natural to me then the show slamming on the brakes to do Correct Representation.

I think the non-binary character was included meta-textually because incorporating the modern day queer community casually throughout the setting and this world feels thematically important. tvl is a sharp contrast to the classically out of touch from contemporary society feel of iwtv. lestat says labubu. lestat is also queer and extremely old fashioned. Lestat says “no more safe spaces 🤯” and he’s dead ass. This is a thing. Lestat’s strange successes and failures in immersing himself in the modern era is kind of what that first episode is about. His desire to be modern and hip and his inability to fully assimilate with the changing world he yearns to be a part of MIGHT be a major factor in his story 🤯🤯 But I digress.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 3.01: Detroit TVLTwT/IWTVTwT Version.

oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?

and we're still building them?

while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?

uh. okay then

i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.

so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”

And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”

I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”

1) Figured this out.

Wizard flirting. As awkward as you imagined.

Taras Shevchenko and Ira Aldridge by Heorhiy Melikhov, 1963

Like there's some big-ass Great Public Council Meeting about some important politicial issue, Roman Senate style, and there's two opposing sides about the issue, but also a big chunk of undecided people who could be persuaded to vote either way. And there's someone in attendance, who hasn't spoken out loud about the issue anywhere but sides strongly with one of the options. And just when the dispute is about to swing to the wrong direction, they sense a seizure about to happen, and it's too late for them to try to get out of there or really even warn anyone.