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a BIT more desperate? a BIT more bitter? a BIT less in control???

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is picking lint off the sofa secretly a figure of speech or are we being 100% for real
daydreaming about all the edits we’re gonna get THE MOMENT Daniel and Armand have ANY physical contact
whole iwtv just a bunch of abandonment issues in different flavors
I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I actually don’t like the fact that they made show Armand completely forget his childhood to the point of not being sure what his name was. Like, he was a teenager when he was enslaved, and childhood, any childhood, is such a fundament for every person.
I think that book Armand having had a formed personality and relationship with his family, and yet abandoning them due to the enormous trauma is more tragic and more realistic than him completely forgetting it.
And I also think that Armand’s character, overall, fits more into a trauma pattern that happened after the very basic development was complete, because the way he goes around the world is more sophisticated than what children who have been severely abused from the beginning do, imho.
Could be that the decision was made because they aged him up, so in some meta math calculations he would have had about the same time to develop psychologically. But oh well. In my head canon he does remember his childhood

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Just curious is anyone else using fanfiction about Armand as a peculiar sort of mental work?
For the past year I’ve been reading lots of stuff with him doing self reflection and breaking certain loops (or being delusional and making it worse, one coin) and applying it to myself to see if there’s an overlap. And boy there is.
Honestly top second most helpful thing after therapy that happened to me
Something I saw on the tags today.
Now, OP is not the first to just straight up make the FALSE claim that "Armand was not considered a child within the legal and social framework of late 15th century Venice!! which is the actual historical period we are discussing!"
I have responded to this numerous times before and I will again. Here are some TVC book excerpts that I've cited before, of Marius admitting, in his own words, that Armand was only a child. And of people around Marius being alarmed about him showing sexual interest in a child that young, yes, even at that time period:
https://www.tumblr.com/tenaciouslilfreak/800996639806472192/just-read-this-in-the-assad-tag-so-let-me-quote?source=share
the hall of famer is of course this little part from Marius's POV:
Anne Rice literally told us "No no yeah Marius was an unrepentant pedophile even back then!"
Why did you think she made adult!Marius fall in love with 10 year old Pandora and immediately want to marry her?
And why does OP and many others feel this intense need to woobify Marius by erasing his pedophilia?
Hi, classicist here! What the actual fuck is that person on about.
I swear this is that person that made the argument that because he's ancient Roman, Marius isn't doing anything that would've been morally wrong in his mortal time too. I'd like to add my perspective on that part specifically.
First off, "Marriageable age" and "age people got married at" are very different concepts in the context of ancient Rome, often men would get married like ten years later than the actual age. While the law said you could marry at 14, that was not the norm at all, and it's like someone nowadays in the UK skipping out on college and uni because they married at 16, maybe seen as stranger than that, because most men focussed on their education or job until they were in their mid twenties, only then marrying.
(I'm unsure if Marius was from the republic or the early empire but that was pretty similar with both periods of time.)
Second of all, being with a boy, in his own time, would have been seen as weird regardless. The eremenos and erastes dynamic was a greek thing that was not very common in Rome, with people at the time having moral suspicions of it, and even then it was held to the same consent ages as things like marriage. Being with someone who is literally not even in puberty like how Armand is described (they say he was fifteen later in the books but that is just not how fifteen year olds work he reads as maybe twelve), would be seen as fucking crazy probably.
What Marius does, in ancient Rome, would have been ridiculed and seen as shameful, because to be with a young girl is terrible but a young boy? That would be seen as incredibly useful smear campaign material to both imply homosexuality (it was a looser concept then but still not very accepted) and also sexual degeneracy.
This is rambling and may not make any sense, but that's just my two cents on it, I don't think fictional characters need to be "held accountable" per se, because they are not real people, but it's stupid to say you like a character while trying to ignore their actions, because that means you like the idea of the character, not the actuality of them.
Now, there is one situation where Marius would be fine to do this in Rome and that is one that just furthers the fact he is a massive racist/xenophobe. That is, slaves, especially those who were "foreign barbarians", were not in possession to the same kind of protection legally regarding sex acts and consent ages, because they weren't seen as being people at the same level as the "civilised" ones.
All this!
And I'd like to highlight this part:
I don't think fictional characters need to be "held accountable" per se, because they are not real people, but it's stupid to say you like a character while trying to ignore their actions, because that means you like the idea of the character, not the actuality of them
Yea and adding to that, would anyone in their right mind consider any sexual interaction between a 14-16 year old (age of consent in most modern countries) and a grown adult unproblematic? The fact that you can do it without being punished by law doesn’t mean that it’s okay AT ALL
whyyy are we having more incest that devils minion in the new season so far
I wonder if I’m the only one who sees a parallel between the vampiric turning and the loss of virginity.
Because indeed both are very vulnerable and often traumatic, painful and bloody experiences. And one could argue there always is a cord between the “maker” and the “fledgling”.
Some people have an easy relationship with it, like Lestat, and some feel so disgusted that they vow to never do that to anyone, like Armand.
And of course the best turning happens when sincere love is at play
Dream Lestat be singing /You little whore /You only want him ‘cause you’re feeling blue/ to Louis and Armand while being the one who hunted Louis down right after Paul’s and Lily’s deaths

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I remember reading of Armand’s mental gymnastics justifying most of what happened to him and being like damn that’s crazy. And oh so coincidentally I started going to therapy around the same time.
And it genuinely took me about fifteen fics of Daniel chewing out to Armand that what happened to him was abuse and my therapist politely asking me if I ever thought that I might be gaslighting myself for me to begrudgingly start using such loud terms as “abuse” and “assault” or maybe even “physical violence” when talking about my trauma instead of something like a complicated past.
God bless fanfic writers!
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the evil gay cycle of dressing your lover up where Lestat dresses up Armand, Louis dresses up Lestat, Armand dresses up Daniel and then they do gay and evil things to each other

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vampires are so inherently romantic and horny because wdym a teenage monk artist from the medieval Kyiv (Delhi)) meets a young junkie reporter in the disco San Francisco and then they fall in love like never ever before and the monk watches the reporter fuck people of his choosing while sitting in a cuck chair??
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