you can love somebody without using your hands

There are some points of tvl criticism I'm willing to debate and where I can very much see both sides (or even think the #haters are stretching it a little) but like. You cannot really deny that this season has shown a pattern of prioritizing white characters and their emotional journey over characters of color. On top of that, so many of the jokes are "punching down", starting with the pronoun joke in ep 1 followed by a continuous barrage of throw-away comments. And then, six episodes into a season with an all-white writers room, we have Claudia say "there's something etched in your ribs that says you're a slave". There's no reckoning with how horrifically racist this statement is, neither in the text nor the paratext. It's just sitting there, poisoning what otherwise could have been an incredible scene. Poisoning a season that felt like it was actually slowly finding its footing. It's white privilege to watch that scene and not feel, on some level, attacked by those racist words put in a Black actor's mouth by white writers. To not be haunted by the racist implications of "my bleak, black life." Before, a lot of the writing choices registered as thoughtless; at this point, it's hard to see them as anything but malicious.

The "surprise" loumand had planned for dinner at the end of the interview was just gonna be a highlight reel powerpoint presentation they compiled of Daniel's life over 50 years

the amount of coping about Lestat’s train scene with Claudia going on iwtv twitter right now oh my god. people posting “oh my god so excited for season 3 Lestat’s going to expose it was allll a lie… imprinted on Louis’s brain… by Armand of course…….” that scene was literally Claudia’s motivation for killing him. first of all. notably as the audience we receive no indication whatsoever that scene isn’t DIRECTLY corroborated by her diaries, which – sorry – we would have received if that was untrue. “ummmm I actually think the evil brown man is the cause of ALL problems faced by this poor sad white man” you have to be serious. He and his daughter tried to kill this man. Do you actually think Louis and Claudia just did that for no reason and then LATER got manipulated into remembering the bad relationship as being a bad relationship. the desire for some white man whose entire season 2 arc was literally ABOUT doing penance to have never done anything wrong ever in his life is seriously rotting some of your brains

It would be hysterical if it weren’t so annoying but I think some of you hate Armand so bad you’ve looped back into actually not caring about Louis as a dynamic and highly motivated character who has survived two different abusive relationships OR for that matter Lestat as a character who is capable of doing wrong. And I truly don’t think I understand what show you’re watching or why you enjoy it

well great news everyone. it wasn’t armand,