Re: The harmful BBC stereotype and characterizing Louis as the top in Loustat when canon depicts him as the bottom, and Anne Rice even said that book Louis was the bottom in the Loustat relationship.
This is forever a complex issue, but it rubs me the wrong way every time y'all feminize Lestat and make him Louis' girlfriend/wife that he tops. I'm going to try to articulate this with some level of intelligence. It honestly is not about their sexual positions themselves--- it's about the stereotypes that make y'all write like this. Meme like this. Make fanart like this. And it's that this is the BULK of it, too. Bottom Louis should not be rare when he is canonically the bottom in the relationship.
I have said before that I think at the very least you all should imagine that they switch. But I am revising that, because you guys still use that as an excuse to make Louis MOSTLY the top. IT IS RACIST, guys. You guys are being racist. Like, you are applying sexual aggression and BBC/mandingo/bull stereotypes to Louis, guys. Unwarranted, at that.
I was talking to my brother about a week ago, not about Loustat at all, but he was saying that the reason he no longer likes to date non-Black people is because of this stereotype. Because of the disturbing, nasty things people say to him before he even knows them well enough to want to sleep with them, because they think all Black men have huge cocks and are sexually aggressive bulls in bed who only want to dominate their partners. This is why you guys in fandom who do this every time there is a Black male character with a non-Black partner are perpetuating harm. You are making characters adhere to stereotypes, which perpetuates those stereotypes, and then affects real human beings in their day-to-day lives.
Another user from another fandom made a TikTok about just that. EVERY pairing with a POC and a white character, you make the POC the top. Which is bad enough when the ship is just a ship and is not canon and we don't see the characters actually have sex. Like SamBucky or whatever. They're not canonically in a relationship on screen, so of course, we have never seen them be sexual with each other on screen. Therefore, there is NO REASON to assume Sam would be the top. But in the case of Loustat, we HAVE seen them have sex on screen. Now, the sex was not explicit like Heated Rivalry. But what we are shown very clearly implies that Lestat is penetrating Louis. Very clearly! And yet, most of the fandom still behaves and writes and memes like Louis is THE MAN and Lestat is THE WOMAN, like Louis is THE TOP and Lestat is THE BOTTOM, and like... it's weird. It feels racist. And it feels racist because it is. You guys were never told that. Nobody said that. Canon never showed you that. You made it up because you think blond is soft and Black is aggressive.
I think it's partially because a lot of you are AFAB white people and you are self-inserting with Lestat, and YOU want to be the bottom. You want to receive, so you self-insert on Lestat and make Louis top a sort of mental version of yourself.
I also think it's porn brain. Porn is obsessed with gigantic Black dicks penetrating tiny white people (both in straight and gay porn). Porn has so many people, especially white people, convinced that all Black men are walking around with gigantic third arms in their pants and are made to only destroy tight little pink pussies and bussies. That shit is fetishization. It's not accurate. It's harmful to real people. It's hypersexualizing real Black men.
And you think that because most men want to be thought of as having a big dick, this is somehow a compliment. But positive stereotypes still come with harm. Think back to my brother, getting approached by whites who seem like they sincerely like him, only to drop some nasty shit about his dick in the first conversation.
I also wanna say that, the reality is that Black men have dicks around the same sizes as everyone else. They are not necessarily bigger or smaller. Some Black men have really small dicks. Some have huge dicks. And everything in between. The average size for most men is around 5 or 6 inches. Period. Almost everywhere around the world. The stereotypes you hear about dick size are stereotypes. Also, dick size does not correlate to sexual aggression or desire to top, anyway. A man who prefers to bottom can have a nice-sized dick. Preferences in bed are not related to that at all. The reason you see it in porn, which I know is why y'all write like this, is because it's a fetish. Okay?
Also, not that this would matter for topping and bottoming either, but IDK why y'all characterize Lestat as the soft queen and Louis as the masculine top so hard when Jacob has discussed basing Louis' mannerisms on two Black women and a gay Black man. Literally most of Louis' mannerisms are Eartha Kitt down. He is really femme, guys.
And also, not that this matters for topping and bottoming, but Sam is larger than Jacob, too. Taller and more muscular. So, how he ends up being the demure little princess and Jacob's character ends up being the dominant bull in your fics is beyond me. Y'all fanfic girlies usually EAT UP size difference, but here, not only is it never mentioned, but y'all almost flip their size difference and the way it is typically used in fanfic.
Again, in real life, between two real men, none of that would matter. Some people prefer to top, some prefer to bottom, some are vers. Size of body or penis not really factored into that. Individuals are individuals.
But in this case, in this fictional pairing, we have a canonical answer about Lestat and Louis... and y'all just outright refuse it. And it's because you have BBC fetish brain, and also you refuse to allow a Black man softness, especially next to a pale blond with blue eyes. It's so weiiiirddddd, and it's gross, and racist, and I'm tired of it! Y'all don't even imagine them switching, and if you claim you do, it's still just an excuse to make Louis top most of the time, so you can say "See? They switch."
I am sure this won't make a difference. And it wouldn't bother me so much if y'all weird Top!Louis shit didn't dominate so much of the fanworks. The shit comes across my FYPs on here and TikTok organically, even though I have made it my mission to never give it likes because it's canonically wrong, it dominates the bulk of the fanworks, and it's racist. But I do hope at least a few of you will stop for a moment and think about WHY you think Louis would naturally be the top in this pairing. And MAYBE consider doing better in the future.
