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I donβt really know what to say about the season premiere of The Vampire Lestat other than I miss Louis.

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Do you think that in TLG Ilya thinking that he βwas more aware of hockey's flaws than Shane was" because "he'd been paying more attention to the darker side of his sportβ was meant to paint Ilya as a unreliable narrator due to his depression, or an oversight on Rachel Reidβs part. I know ppl go back and forth on this?
No, he's not being an unreliable narrator. I've said this before, but neither Ilya nor Shane are unreliable narrators. That term refers to a specific and complicated narrative device that Reid is not attempting in these books, nor would she succeed if she did, because she is not a sophisticated enough writer to even be writing reliable narrators lmao.
It seems to me that majority of this fandom believes that an unreliable narrator is when the character has opinions and points of view and sometimes doesn't notice things, or worse, can be imagined to not be noticing things. I have seen this fandom justify absurd interpretations of the text by pointing out that the reason it's not present in the text could be because Shane/Ilya "is an unreliable narrator" and just didn't notice. That is not how it works.
If you want to write an unreliable narrator, you still need to find a way to make it indisputably clear that your narrator is unreliable, and virtually every instance of them being unreliable will be undeniable, because some other aspect of the narrative will be demonstrating that.
If Reid intended for Ilya's depression to be making his internal monologue unreliable in that moment, she would have needed to have done something to make it indisputably clear that was the case in that moment, or in surrounding moments. For example, she could have written that scene the exact same way and then when she switched to Shane's pov, had him thinking about, well, hockey's flaws, lmao. She could have had Shane voice something in that moment to demonstrate he knew about hockey flaws that directly contradicts what Ilya was thinking. She could have had Ilya verbalize his thought at some point that Shane is oblivious to hockey's flaws, and had Shane be offended and the two of them fight about it. There are many ways she could have revealed to us that Ilya's internal monologue was unreliable in that moment - but she doesn't ever do that.
But you know what she does do? She proves that Ilya's perception of him was accurate:
When Shane and Ilya go out with Fabian and Ryan, it's from Shane's pov, and when Fabian brings up Ryan retiring and his perception of hockey changing, Shane thinks that he "couldn't imagine hockey ever making him feel bad."
Now, this would have been a perfect opportunity to demonstrate to the reader that Shane actually is aware of hockey's flaws, so that we would understand that when Ilya assumes Shane doesn't know, we shouldn't believe him. But she didn't. She made it perfectly clear that Ilya's perception of Shane was accurate because Shane himself reiterates the belief.
And again, the way these books are written, it is clear that Reid isn't even attempting to do unreliable narrators. She rarely even attempts to show how these characters' own personal worldviews and life experiences shape their points of view, much less attempts to make them unreliable. She is constantly switching between limited and omniscient without meaning to because she is that incapable of conveying anything happening in these stories through these characters themselves. Her books are frequently obnoxiously straightforward in how reliable these internal monologues are, I can't emphasize that enough. So reliable in fact that the characters' own perceptions of themselves are often impossibly objective. Reid couldn't write an unreliable narrator if she tried. She does not even have a grasp on showing and not telling. If she tried to write an unreliable narrator her head would explode.
In my opinion, every single instance of the fandom debating whether or not a character was being "unreliable" in any given moment in these books, is them being unable to cope with the fact that Reid wrote something phenomenally stupid without realizing it. A fair amount of this fandom would rather twist and tangle every interpretation of every scene in these books into something nonsensical than admit Reid is just a seriously ignorant and shitty writer. They want her to be a genius and so they find ways to interpret the text to suggest she could be, but she's not.
They didnβt make it
I'm reading this book called I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman and it is about this girl who is in a fandom for this boy band called The Ark. She is so deeply involved in this fandom that her entire identity has become being their fan. So much so that she ignores everything and everyone around her.
At one point in the story she is at their concert and she witnesses something bad happen to the band and all she can think about is how it affects her. Multiple times she is confronted with the reality that her fandom, hopefully to turn into a real life, friend is going through something major but all she can do is change the subject to talk about her love for the band. She is constantly talking about her favorite band member, Jimmy, as though she personally knows him and how he will think and who he loves.
She is so round the bend for Jimmy and the band that even after she learns about how her fandom friend's real life is crumbling around her, she chooses Jimmy. She abandons her friend to be with this young man she knows nothing about other than the fictional character she has created out of scraps of the real person she's seen through random social media posts and music videos and press clips.
This story has got me thinking about the Heated Rivalry fandom and every fandom I've ever witnessed. It has got me thinking about how fandom reduces actors like Hudson and Connor into fictional characters with no agency of their own. To be used and discarded as we see fit. To get mad at when they fail to live up to unreasonable standards set by people they will never meet and who will never meet them.
Depending on the day they are either the hero of our story or the villain oftentimes occupying both spaces depending on who you talk to. There are moments in the story where the reader is given a glimpse into what it must be like to have so many strangers' expectations thrust upon you whether you want them or not. To suffocate under the crushing weight of adoration and obsession. Just wave after wave of love and hatred.

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You gotta love how it doesn't matter how many times Barry Allen is humbled he remains cocky as ever.
Modern day Loustat Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid for Entertainment Weekly
I don't wish I could go back to when my children were young because I wish I could do things differently because we had a pretty good life. I wish I could go back to when they were young because I want more time with them. We could do things the exact same way and that would be okay. I just want more time. 20, 30, 40 years just isn't enough. Is that double even triple the amount of time a lot of parents get? Yes. Yes, it is. I still want more.
You don't love me. You don't even know me.
"I Was Born for This" by Alice Oseman is such an interesting book as it takes a look at parasocial relationships with people you don't know and those built on limerence but in a way that isn't judgy or aggressive. It also touches on how it feels to be the object of the obsessive love. For some it causes them to retreat from everyone and for others it causes them to lean so heavily into those perceptions that they lose themselves.

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Chloe Sullivan is kind of the worst. How did I ever like her?
βͺ FAITH MITCHELL and "MALCOLM" in WILL TRENT β€οΈβπ₯ "Nice to Meet You, Malcolm"
I needed a break from my Heated Rivalry obsession because I was starting to not enjoy it as much thanks to all the drama.
So, I've started watching some other shows that I'm loving but I don't feel the need to be involved in fandom at all.
And those shows are Revenge (2011), The Pitt (2025), Will Trent (2023), & For All Mankind (2019).
If those shows have fandoms that's great. Hope you're having fun. I just have no interest in joining. Gonna watch my new shows in peace.
"Your fans take any scraps of evidence they can for their wild theories and manipulate it into something they can't not believe. They're believing lies. Not just believing, putting hope in these lives. Caring deeply about these lies."
Fiction and yet applies scarily to real life events regarding Hudson & Connor and any other rpf pairing.
If youβre going to rpf, keep it to tumblr or ao3 or some other platform but not threads or twitter or TikTok. And for the love of Pete & Pete, keep it away from the subjects.

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Iβm learning that I much prefer tumblr when it comes to fandom stuff than other social media platforms. And I sure as hell hope none of them come here.
I really want to watch Teen Wolf because I love Dylan O'Brien in it but damn watching Tyler Posey pretend to act is painful.