Librarian Angst

— Jacob Anderson on the latest episode of TVL: After Dark

And how it all was ended in his broken heart, lie and humiliation.

I just want him to overhear Daniel's readers the way Lestat did when they discussed how Armand in the book is "like a mysterious" and "he's got layers" while Lestat is just "whatever". And I want some of Lestat's fan arguing with that because "IT'S NOT FAIR! Armand was written in this way just because Molloy is definitely is in love with him! That's why Daniel wrote Armand like he is so amazing and like he's the main character even if it's Louis' and Lestat's story! So you can not compare them when all this book is just his stupid unfair lovesong for Armand".

Daniel, that traumatized former slave from Delhi who was forced to submit to other men’s sexual predations did not unleash his inner repressed psychosexual fantasies on you during one memorable week in San Francisco for you to call him the bottomest bitch.

How many times will I beat my "Marimand's relationship is also about imperialism" drum?

Probably for the rest of my life.

In the same way Armand is a Renaissance child, Lestat is an Enlightenment child, and that makes for some interesting philosophical inquiry, as well as literally connected to how vampires came to be defined.

(These are from the Introduction to Nick Groom's "The Vampire: A New History" which I can't recommend enough if you like non-fiction.)

But in regards to postcolonial notes, this is why I think the "Make America Great again... again" is such an interesting backdrop to open the series on.

"[continued from above] in the godless expanse of what Anderson calls 'homogenous empty time'."

And these are ones that I'd love to pull for a Lesmand comparison, but don't know if I'm actually capable of that, hahaha. I'm probably not including them in the Armand essay, but they are Armand adjacent to me, especially the last one with how they both view each other as immature, but Armand gets the hardest hit by the comprison in the adaption: