alive and on tumblr in 2025

The thing is... If the show really is just some “fcked up gothic romance and the gore actually is necessary and the brutalization is a core part of the story” and anyone who points out the continued graphic violence against Black characters actually “just doesn’t understand the show and can’t handle dark stories and just needs to stop watching the show cause they clearly don’t understand it,” then why did Daniel not use Lestats head as a bowling ball? It definitely seemed like that was where the scene was heading, and it would have been completely in character for both of them, but no. Lestat doesn’t get any gratuitous blood soaked headless scenes, he gets chop, bowling bag, and boom back together. Meanwhile Louis is tortured for the majority of the episode, in a way that is grosser that anything else this season has had. If people are supposed to look the way they did when they died, then why is Claudia the only one burned and bleeding while everyone else appears unharmed? Shouldn’t Antionette and magnus and Nicki all be charred and bleeding, should Antionette be stabbed through with a poker and Magnus have his throat slit? Or all of Lestats victims in the concert, shouldn’t all of them be corpses who’ve been bled out and injured? But no, time and time again the only bodies we see brutalized and broken in the way that everyone claims is typical for a show like this, are the Black protagonists. If everyone on the show was getting tortured and cut up and bled to equal measures than there’d be less criticism, but the fact that in a show with multiple rapists, human traffickers, racists, abusers, and other people who have caused way more harm, the people who are put thru the most graphic violence and torture are the two Black main characters. I just don’t understand how anyone is able to explain that away without admitting that the show is racist like are yall blind

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

Bro if the group chat gets leaked we’ll be celebrated for our inclusive and respectful language