A (planet hitting the sun)

While I’m promoting my Akashamand agenda on main, let me leave you with the mental image of Akasha taking Armand by the chin and saying with a vicious smile that she had always wondered why Marius had kept her from only one of his fledglings, but now she knows that he was not keeping her from Armand, he was keeping Armand from her.

I’m smack in the middle of the Yerba Buena chapter of The Gilda Stories and trying so hard not to fancast Gilda as Delainey Hayles and Eleanor as Roxane Duran in my mind palace until I know how this relationship plays out, but I am failing, it’s just too perfect…

Assad Zaman

Anyway in this heyday of queer vampires, someone should adapt The Gilda Stories

I am so tired of seeing the “well do we really want Bad Trans Rep now” line of reasoning with regard to Gabrielle and her relationship with Lestat and her gender identity/expression, and I cannot stress hard enough that this was not some inevitable dilemma that the production found itself stuck in because Gabrielle never groomed or sexually abused Lestat in the books. If she did in the show, that is a narrative they decided to create and run with. It simply does not exist in the source material. And so all of the hand wringing about oh well we don’t want to see a gnc/nonbinary/genderqueer/trans person being a groomer and sexual abuser on our tv screens now do we? rings hollow, because this was never some inevitable dilemma that the production is just trying to find a careful and sympathetic way out of. If it’s a dilemma at all, it’s one that they created for themselves, not one that the source material presented them with.