#lestathateclub

Buried under a pile of queer theory today but the only queer theory I care about is whether or not Armand is gonna fuck that old man soon

sexual thrill at the mere prospect of cataloging things in a database

*nodding thoughtfully* daniel is Like That because alcoholic armand drank so much while he was pregnant with him

It's interesting how Assad often talks about how "Armand is a scared child who has to put on the facade of a powerful monster", while so many analyses of Armand are people going "He is a powerful monster pretending to be a scared child". Like, personally, I see both as true at the same time, and why I find his character to be so tragic. He sees himself as powerless when he is powerful, but if you think you're powerless and that undercuts your power, doesn't that make you actually powerless for real? I think of it as him being doomed to live in a paradoxical existence that leads to great suffering for himself and others. Neither pov of him being false, nor the entire truth.