zannah’s den

As a fellow individual living with stutter, I cannot appreciate enought the quality of representation the community is getting from how Lestat's character is written. The attention and care paid to portraying his stutter and the social trauma resulting from it deserve wider recognition. This includes, amongst other things, the fact that his stutter (in his case) is only present when:

he is in extreme distress or converses with people that wear him out/mock him regularly (contrary to popular belief, most of us don't stutter constantly, certain social situations can exacerbate the frequency of it. When we are with our close friends or family, it can happen that the stutter doesn’t show at all.)

pronouncing certain letter combinations or words (each of us usually has a set of trigger words that we try to substitute with synonyms) – stutter also not only manifests in repeating the first syllabil of a word, also can mean 'strained' pronouncination (not being able to 'get out the words at the right time', often accompanied by 'hissing' sounds).

in his childhood (the severity of stutter can fade over time, leaving most affected individuals with mild to light symptoms when they get older).

Sadly, this kind of basic emotional intelligence and sensitivity is not the norm in the entertainment industry, where mocking people who stutter is usually what we get. Happy to see this change.

[x files - season 2, episode 7]

#starwars #kenobi #bonding # starwarsopinions

(Armand | Queen of the Damned, Ch4 - Vampire Chronicles 3 | Anne Rice)

if you want to write shitty remarks about someone, at least dedicate it to the right person lmao

Initialy i've tried to avoid any possible spoilers beforehand, such as the trailers and any additional content they had made for the fans before release – and succeeded in it. Which was a great decision, because without any preconceptions I feel like you can judge this prequel a bit accordingly perhaps.

I've already read lots on how Brian and Ellen somewhat are lacking chemistry – I couldn't agree more, honestly. The build up was obviously lacking – however, that isn't my only issue with them. Individually they lack so much more. //only based on the first two episodes

Ellen, sheltered away from everything, has to get a taste of the real world surrounding her before we can expect any reasonable self-development from her. All through the first two episodes, it was shoved into your face that she has privileged positions amongst the siblings, as well as a woman within the clan, upheld only by her father. Suprisingly, this hasn't cast as much as a tiny conflict between the the MacKenzie girls nor the brothers (not speaking about the clan's reputations in the eyes of an outsider) until the Grant affair for twenty something years – one might find it a bit unlikely. When this privilege (and her acquired entitlement) is shattered that's when the interesting bits are gonna come.

We understand that Brian is supposed to be a gentleman, however given the circumstances of his upbringing, the patterns he might have taken over from home (meaning his dickhead father, who is far from gallant) it almost feels like too nice. Unrealistically nice that it makes him as flat as a character as he possibly could be. Right now, it's not so obvious from where he got his angelic manners and moral codex from and no, I'm not accepting the answer that goes like "oh my god, he had suffered all the abuse of his father and that's why." It's just cartoonish. The bit we could gather from the monolouge between him and Murtaugh, Brian isn't a frequent visitor of non-Fraser land, spent almost his entire life within the walls, meaning that the outside influence he might have got, wouldn't be enough to steer him towards an sustainable ethic. He also hasn't got any close friends beside his cousin – another empty bracket for a tick. It could be due to his bastard status and mistreatment, however, despite this, he lives a fairly good life, wears the Fraser plaids, gets sent to gatherings etc. – explicitly we also haven't seen any violence directed exclusively towards him, as the decision to step in for Julia was his own and not provocated by his father. Compared to Brian, Jamie wasn't this perfect lad, he had his certain superstitions and behavioural patterns that were historically more accurate. Then along his character development journey, he lost certain elements, however also preserved one or two – which created this fusion that we all love about him.