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For every Lescel gloating over Armand's humiliation, please note that your White Savior Lestat wrote a song not to berate him over Claudia, his supposed daughter about whom he allegedly felt grief about, but instead chose to make a terrible, terrible one complaining about Armand's sexual trauma (oh, so his own sexual trauma didn't give him any empathy? Really, Lestat?), his looks (LMAO, be for real now), and apparently his sexual inadequacy (yes, dick so mediocre you kept coming back for more. Right, Lestat).

TVL opinions now we are more than halfway through the season.

They retconned what was built from s1 to s2 and AMC likely stepped in as well. We know how how Assad was talking about Loumand in previous interviews but the show is now more interested in keeping their book fans for Loustat/DM, they spent all that money to advertise to the white audience. Not even the source material dismissed Loumand's relationship to this level the way these writers have done since s2. It's just fucked up that they took a relationship that had genuine love and attraction and reduced it to this level when poc were cast to play it, all so the arcs of each character could revolve around their white saviors. Anyways, DM will never have the acting quality or compel me like Loumand did, so idc.

loumand stocks never been lower but GUESS WHO DOESNT GIVE A FUCKKKK

Louis de pointe du lac is such a fascinating character. he pulls selfish, abusive bullshit just like every other vampire on the show, but his motivations for those actions are different from everyone else around him in subtle, brilliant ways. louis has clung to humanity by his fingernails since the beginning, attempting to refuse to allow vampirism to take away his humanity in the way that other vampires around him are so apt to do, even as he grows more and more into his vampiric nature and he feels the pull of that power. but the truth can’t be denied that, as much as louis craves a connection to humanity, he ISN’T human with a human soul any longer. and so he repeatedly THINKS that he is helping others when, in reality, he ends up with warped approximations of human acts of service/ love that have devestating repercussions: turning claudia (he thought he was saving her), paying regina (he thinks he is saving her), ordering armand not to harm daniel (but then he leaves daniel alone and daniel is turned because of it). lestat’s asshole tendencies may be due to his lack of connection to humanity, but louis’ are a direct result of his obsession with remaining connected— a battle that he’ll never ever win because he is no longer human.

It’s quite telling how this fandom spent all these years brushing off the vampires' crimes against humanity, justifying it with "they're monsters, it's in their nature, get over it" while Louis struggled to accept that; yet, the moment Louis enters a grief-based dynamic with a human, everyone suddenly becomes protective of humanity and demonizes him for trying to find some comfort, mind you, we don't even know what's going to happen. Some of the takes I’m seeing are just so vile, people in this fandom have a fetish for brutalizing Louis, it’s so weird!