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All this to stop and still be thinking i love armand so much and can't get enough of him <3 oughhhh my little guy i'll defend you for ever

i really live for all the hoosier love because it's very funny to me how he's objectively one of the prettiest and coolest guys in hbo war but also one of his defining character quirks is his blankie. and that his tits are always out. not to mention he adopted a dog and he has the best hair on the PTO. he's amazing is what im saying

been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say

something about having the south asian character be the mouthpiece for the white writers' violent antiblackness

pedophile marius confirmed in the season they erase lestat's deep admiration for him bc of course the white main character can never do wrong all his mistakes are retconned or deleted all the nonwhite characters are bad and must grovel for forgiveness in different episodes and lestat can't even have one fuckedup trait whatsoever at all

the impact of the "you were 12" reveal if they had shown us LESTAT STILL SEEKING MARIUS after armand told him his story, ADMIRING HIM, WANTING HIS ADVICE AND COUNSEL. And NOBODY knows lestat met marius at this point, only us viewer would be aware. Man, whatever

also we should absolutely question the show's choice to remove gabrielle, magnus and marius' overt antiblackness from the tvl book when the writers got armand out here acting like he's auditioning for kkk grand wizard. clearly the show isn't shying away from depicting antiblack violence considering the treatment of black characters in the past two episodes, so the refusal to depict gabriella, marius and magnus as the white supremacists they were in the source material, is a blatant tell- the writers are protective of their white characters, even the antagonists, and don't want them to seem "too" evil (which tracks for white and nonblack liberals acting like being called racist is worse than being racist.) and this clearly isn't a concern they have when it comes to the characters of color- armand has for 2 seasons now enacted forms of explicit violence inflicted on enslaved black people- louis and claudia's cut ankle tendons, the entire public humiliation of the trial, claudia's burning, louis' head on a spike, coercing him into a performance of self-debasement and contrition and branding his body- and claudia calls her black father a slave in a bioessentialist, derogatory context and expresses a level of internalized antiblackness she was never even hinted at feeling when she was alive. in both scenes, the narrative is much harsher on louis than on lestat and the nonblack writers go into extreme detail in their antiblack dialogue and racialized, borderline pornographic depiction of louis' torture. but gabriella is portrayed shallowly complimenting louis' beauty when realistically she would be calling him slurs when talking about him to lestat, magnus' "master race" aspirations and fixation on white supremacist beauty standards for how he chose his victim pool and "heir" aren't addressed, and marius' racial politics ("rotten boy", the whitewashed portrait of armand- we know he's racist, the show just hasn't acknowledged it and intentionally excluded the parts of tvl where he expresses that racism when talking to lestat) remain an elephant in the room. and ofc the way the writers are tryna be like "see lestat isn't racist, black people love him" in-universe through characters like merrick and paul (lol. lmao even) and tryna overwrite or dance around every textual example of lestat's antiblackness is so transparent in its clumsiness.