who are you?

it's funny how during the trial the only offense the audience takes with the story being told is about the presence of homosexuality, which is then also the only part of the story that gets a passionate defence. it's almost like there's a real audience somewhere that cares only about getting queer representation without noticing any issue with the racialised and gendered violence enacted on the characters.

like sorry but it's just so interesting to see so many who're not a fan of this twist fall through the same trap door as those who do, i.e. by insisting upon a framing that paints lestat's saving of louis as heroic. to be clear, lestat didn't save louis. lestat saved louis at claudia's expense. to say this move undermines the violence that is depicted prior is wild in and of itself, and feeds into this notion that an abuser can't have any moments of grace for the abuse to be weighed seriously, but it's downright insane if you consider that the twist gives lestat more agency than many people speculated or hoped he had in that moment, and he enacted it to prove claudia right: he didn't come to paris for her. he saved louis and watched her be publicly executed. he failed her again