I Am No More

hey! coming over to dc from marvel and the timelines are confusing me lmao. which continuity is considered “canon”?

I recently described my second novel's (early) plot outline to a friend and without giving too much away, it's a horror-romance about a woman whose lover is slowly transformed into a dangerous monster due to forces outside of their control. She wrestles with her fear and love, how useful her monstrous lover is in their current survival situation, how dangerous her lover could become, and ultimately at the end of the story decides that monster or not, this is a person that she loves and who loves her back, and goes back to save them from a horrible death.

I'll add an obligatory addendum here which is that I don't think this is an issue with My Friend, who I love, but with the current Media Climate. Subtext is being scraped out of everything, readers and audiences aren't being asked to Think For Themselves or ask questions or mine meaning in the (mainstream!!!) art they're interacting with. I know from personal experience with pitching my first novel that publishers and agents are anxious when story elements are left deliberately ambiguous or without closure. Television shows and films are being written with dialogue that is overly literal, where characters say their thoughts and plans out loud to each other over and over again. Theatre revivals of old shows are having lines changed or added in to clarify what characters mean or how the audience should feel. It is not a flaw in the reader to internalise the structure of stories - that's how canons come to exist! It is, however, critical that storytellers resist this erosion of subtext and overly-precious need to police people's Interpretations of the work.

You can tell the difference in Lestat’s intent based on who was telling the story.