As Strange As You

My Beauty and the Beast Loustat piece for the Blood and Brocade IWTV zine organized by @thevelvetcompote! I had so much fun working on this, thank you for having me ^_^

You can get the digital version of the zine here!

Bonus close-ups of some details I like

Just fucking ignore it and understand that it's going to be recationary on purpose. It's going to be full of bait. Warner Bros is counting on there being a ton of controversy to boost the numbers because there's no such thing as bad publicity.

Step One: As described above, JUST IGNORE IT. Do not comment on it, do not mention it, do not even say the name of it or the series that it is based on, do not put anything in the tags. As of right now, It Does Not Exist, PERIOD.

Step Two: Go find some trans/nb authors to fall in love with. Read their books. Flood the internet with recommendations, discussion, fanart, fanfic, anything. The show is a hateful thing, so fight back with Love. Drown it out by openly, loudly, vocally loving Anything Else But That. Especially around the time the show gets released, coordinate together to drown it out with all the noise you can make about authors who deserve it way more than whatshername.

Will this make much of a difference to whatshername or Warner Bros? Nope! But I guarantee you this will make an immense difference to the trans/nb authors you're loving out loud. Do you know how often authors who don't have mega-fandoms get fanart of their work? EXTREMELY rarely. Do you know what sales numbers are like for smaller authors without big-budget marketing support? It can be just one or two books a week, if that. One single reader getting vocally enthusiastic on the internet can boost that by a factor of ten. If they've got a big following, it's a factor of a hundred. I'm not joking.

"If I am an angel, paint me with black wings."

interview with the vampire if it was published in the 70s—wait

inspo under the cut

Henri Biva (1848 - 1928) 

Annie: There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death; conjuring spirits from the past...and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they called them Fire Keepers. And in West Africa, they were called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities. But it also...attracts evil....

the fact that we got reverse-queerbaited and there was levitating gay vampire sex in episode 1 and then never again :(

"he ain't white he french!"

lestat showing up to louis' family dinner in the gayest outfit he could wear in 1910, pretending to eat, and hypnotizing paul when he really was trying to make a good impression

florence du lac clocking louis as gay because of his acrylic nails and tinted glasses

"what's wrong with that man?" @ lestat

louis with the "no whites allowed" sign despite lestat being inside the building

"i'm not sure how i feel about that pleated skirt" "it's chiffon it has movement"

grace calling lestat louis' white daddy

louis, lestat, and claudia treating nosferatu like a comedy

louis telling the police they should be ashamed of how they treated "law-abiding, taxpaying citizens" and forgetting that it's illegal to be gay

"we sell...incinerators. to various american cities." "we bring our clients here to demonstrate the product"

louis throwing lestat's coffin out the window

tom anderson not seeing louis and lestat for 17 years but for some reason he has a picture with them in his desk drawer

the fact that rashid was not just a character armand made up but a real employee of theres who was mysteriously absent for a week while seemingly consensually being played by his boss

armand and louis walking up to daniel holding hands like two people who have never held hands before in their life

armand had a threesome with a father and son while watching now, voyager, something louis didn't even know about

armand telling daniel his own armandstat fanfiction, stopping at the scene where they fucked in the theatre box, and daniel wanting more

"are you schizophrenic louis?" "...no"

the insinuation that the real irish playwright samuel barclay beckett was a vampire. not only that, but that his most well-known work, "waiting for godot," was originally written for the theatre des vampires. not only that, but that he is now an unspecified DJ

french man yelling at louis and armand that they should blow each other when they're kissing in the public park

daniel molloy being so unbelievably gay in the 1970s and being immediately into fucking louis in the coffin

daniel molloy having his body comandeered by armand and still offering to suck his dick

daniel molloy trying to escape from armand and immediately running into the wall

armand walking back into the dubai penthouse being the silliest he's ever been, nourished, happy only to find out that his husband and weird gay boy situationship have unionized

armand gaslighting his way out of the situation he gaslit himself into by telling louis he asked him to erase his memories

armand animating the raccoon into the projections during the trial

santiago small dick reveal

lestat still wearing a 150 year old leyendecker robe and playing a wooden piano, but somehow having the money for an ipad, speakers, and wifi