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for real tho it feels exhausting that ive seen this whole "woman should be allowed to abstain from X beauty standard" -> "i perform X beauty standard, am i evil? do you think im evil? please forgive me i came up with a dozen excuses 🥺" since like 2015 (and i know its been going on longer than that) like girl thats not the poiiiiint
look me in the eyes. repeat after me. "i face societal pressure to perform this beauty standard. i should not face that pressure. i conform to this standard. i am rewarded for performing to this standard. i need to respect women who do not perform this standard. this is not about whether or not i am a sinner for wearing makeup."
i had a longer post i started writing about this, but other people have said the parts i was writing about better than i could, so i shoved that in the drafts. this is the short version.
in hindsight, it's more apparent than ever that daniel's meta-textual commentary about race being presented as quippy one-liners and part of his personality were a feature, not a bug. like. why /did/ they decide to bake that into his character if his exploitation of louis is never going to be addressed and he and armand are going to be shoe-horned together immediately?
because book daniel is /in awe/ of louis (and scared shitless,) and while tv show daniel is certainly a cynical approach to gothic lit that works in those specific seasons, looking back on it now i wish daniel was slick and wheedlingly charming, rather than sarcastic and racist. i wish he was going into it still expecting to die, the way he is, he's still sarcastic and kind of a dick, but he's putting on a front. a certain kind of fake charm that's not entirely convincing. he's subtly manipulative, and we see how depressed he is in the low moments, the quiet moments.
like i'm not saying i wish he was a different character! i just wish his edges went in a different direction knowing they were never going to address them, just use them for laughs. they used racism and the girl with the paper bag over her head as shorthand for daniel being a scumbag, but a) they could have done that in a lot of ways, and b) knowing daniel's greatest sins are supposed to be against /lestat/ of all fucking people, there's no excuse for him to be that casually racist. when it was part of the narrative about abuse and exploitation, they /could/ have taken it to interesting places, but they simply don't give a shit. oh my G-d daniel fucking wrote a book about /louis and claudia's lynching/ against louis' will and it hurt /lestat's/ feewings? then we lose sight of reality and daniel becomes a hack youtuber so he and armand can drop revenge porn of lestat's incestuous abuse?
ok, why did daniel need to be overtly racist for that? why does he need to microaggress louis and armand forever? like, it's part of his character, but it's a part /they/ added as part of the racial dialogue. if it was never going to come up again why couldn't daniel be a little nicer to louis, like he was in the book? why does louis always have to be treated like shit by the men in his life?
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didn't have time to go through the #tvl critical but culture kitsch voices some of my thoughts
"Y'all got way too comfortable with the language. (...) And I know that there were some response because in season one Claudia alludes to the words like massa and slave, but the context of those two scenes are very different.
(...) Race clearly is in the driver's seat (in s1), and race began to take a backseat in season 2. (...) The fact that at the trial they chose to call it a stoning, versus a lynching. Again, a racialized term that I think would have been very appropriate for for that that point in time. But hey chose to to call it a stoning.
(...) You can't then come back around seasons later and you want to use that racialized language between two characters that are the same race. It doesn't work like that.
(...) It's inappropriate. (...) If the show had maintained a consistent pitch of a consciousness of race throughout the season. Doesn't have to be that every single episode is talking about race, but if that had if the racial subtext had remained present through season 2 into season 3, then when we get to this point, that wouldn't feel so odd.
(...) And the thing is, like I said, you take those three phrases out, the the core of what they're getting at, the core of of Claudia's rage and the core of her trying to hurt Louie still lands."
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The only person who should hate the Ro’Meaves more than Garroth Ro'meave himself is Levin. He should have SO MUCH one sided beef with the whole damn family
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if the season had prioritized a social commentary about class and the impact of the french revolution, the head chopping scene in this episode would've carried more thematic weight
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