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Mina feels that it is improper because she's been taught that the proper etiquette is that the woman must hold the man's arm. But now it was Jonathan holding Mina's arm.

She says that this was something Mina and Jonathan used to do in the past (walking together while Jonathan was holding her arm.) Evidently, before she taught. This is their natural dynamic.

This is why Mina feels that it is ironic that she used to teach the opposite thing to girls. Because she's engaging in behavior she used to condemn.

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/jacob-anderson-bitchier-side-louis-the-vampire-lestat/

“The thing that I think I’ve sort of noticed only this season is that Louis speaks slightly differently,” says Anderson. “Lestat kind of portrays Louis with a lot more love than Louis ever portrayed himself. Louis always thought of himself as this purely brooding, repressed, angry, wallowing-in-sadness being. And actually, Lestat gives him back some of his essence. Some of the more playful and also fiercer side of Louis that we haven’t really seen.”

Reid describes this as a “bitchier side” of Louis, to which Anderson adds, “It was fun to go there a little bit.”

I can agree with that.

As I said, Louis is more tender, but I've always known Louis had that loving side to him. So I guess that's why I don't see him as being that much different....other than he's bathed in a halo of adoring light via Lestat.

this is the opening of the book jsyk

i really don't have the words for how things have escalated to outright race riots in the last few weeks. just to collect a few of the stories the bbc is reporting in their live thread:

Families led to safety through flames (Dan Johnson) Homes were targeted and burned. Families had to be led to safety through the flames - rescued by emergency services risking their lives in the most dangerous situation. It’s what the authorities feared all day. What they warned against and pleaded not to see. The condemnation came quickly and was widespread. It wasn’t just homes, cars were also torched by young masked man in these predominantly unionist streets but the target here was immigrants and the message to entirely innocent families was: "You’re not welcome". In the north of the city, more people were forced to flee including an African family who’ve lived here for 20 years.

People being put out 'because they're black' - pastor A pastor who has been helping those in houses targeted in tonight's violence says people were being put out of their homes "because they're black". Pastor Jack McKee was at the scene where multiple houses were on fire around the Crumlin Road in north Belfast - he says some members of his church "who have been with us for 20 years" were "getting put out of their home, had their house attacked, windows smashed, houses beside them burned". "They're good Christian people and they're getting put out just because they're black," he says. "I'm doing my best to help them, it's as simple as that." [...]

Masked men shouting 'foreigners out' (Kelly Bonner) Last night on the Lower Newtownards Road in Belfast hundreds of masked men walked down the street carrying bottles, bricks and masonry. They set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out". As they walked street to street, they were banging on doors, kicking doors down and breaking windows. Masked man set cars alight and at one point I witnessed them trying to burn a car until a woman came out of her home and told them it belonged to a "local and not a foreigner" and they stopped. A young family had to be moved from their home by police. The scenes of this young family fleeing their home were really quite shocking.

the bbc has played a major role in that through basically posing reform (far right party) as the opposition to our labour govt (which is so anti-immigration it's willing to destroy universities over it), even though the marginally better liberal democrat and green parties have more seats in parliament and local councils.

Like we saw that man dismiss Louis' very valid anger at the white businessmen in Storyville. He didn't lift a finger to actually help in a meaningful way, and when Louis killed Fenwick(?), his reaction wasn't to reflect on why Louis chose him of all people to kill. He thought Louis had gotten around to killing, which is blatantly not the case. Lestat did exactly what he did with Louis; say surface level things and commentary while not behaving any differently. That is literally the root cause for why his relationship with Louis fractured.

He loves Claudia but it's the same with her too, he never saw how her race and her previous experiences as a human impacted her ability to trust and function in the world. I know the whole train interaction is being challenged as a complete lie, but something Lestat did made Claudia feel like he saw her sexual assault as trivial.