Saw a spoiler and lol dumb fucking fandom racists being so happy about Claudia saying the things that she is saying lol. Because of course they now don't have to be uncomfortable with the commentary on white supremacy. An all white writers room made sure that they will be forever coddled. Louis and Lestat are the same as if Louis wasn't almost lynched. Louis and Lestat are the same as if Louis wasn't DARVO'ed. Louis and Lestat are same kind of abusers to Claudia as if Louis didn't try to beat the shit out of Lestat when he put his hands on Claudia. Claudia saying that Louis wasn't even Claudia's by blood? And that she liked Lestat better. Lol this was the girl who begged Lestat to not to hurt Louis and take her instead, as he was dragging Louis by the jaw. God the masturbatory dunking on LouClaudia must feel so good to these racists 🤣🤣 these people so wanted to call Louis the slurs Claudia's ghost spit at him, from the very first episode the show aired. I know for a fact that they hated the Helen of Troy epithet that was given to Jacob!Louis- why else aren't they horrified and are this giddy about the slurs and not horrified at the writing choices of an all white writers' room?

I don’t understand the flattening out of Louis’ character. Surely if it’s due to a pov shift that makes it even worse. The redeeming factor of lestat and louis’ relationship was that lestat saw all these beautiful things in him and didn’t want him to conform to roles. Now we have lestat pov dumbing down Louis’ vocabulary and making his prevailing trait “business” to the extent that we don’t see him reading, storytelling, designing, pondering art and artistic movements, taking photographs, making literary criticism, dancing, enjoying music, experimenting with fashion, philosophising, poeticising, crying at opera, romanticising or any of those things, just being fucked up about grief and making money. Is the idea that Louis is once more trapped inside the racialised/gendered/heteronormative roles that he played when lestat first met him? Or has the series abandoned Louis’ complexity in favour of creating a redeemable lestat. The irony is that despite lestat’s inability to see the ways that race and sexuality factored into Louis’ difficulty with being authentic, lestat’s redeeming feature in s1 was his attention and care to the multifaceted dimensions of Louis’ personality. Louis fell for him because he felt seen. Why does tvl lestat not see Louis?

incredibly sorry for the black writers and directors of the previous two seasons who thought they were building something. I am so sorry that your work was not respected and now dismissed by this new season. I am so sorry that the love and care with which you crafted the characters, especially of Louis and Claudia was so resented that the current writers' room chose to dilute all. I am so sorry that you are having to see the anti blackness in full force on a formerly black led show and everything you worked on- your vision- it was all wiped off. I am so sorry to Jacob and Delainey for having to work with those scripts.

In other words girl why are you working you’re like 75 & Italy’s retirement age is 67 go spend time with your wife 😭😭

The occupation bombed my friend's house while he was still inside, and though he survived, he has been waiting for medical evacuation for years. In this time, he has been without adequate shelter, food, clean water, or consistent access to medications to manage his disability. His conditions have gotten more severe the longer he is forced to endure these genocidal conditions. Fadel has developed severe anemia requiring frequent hospitalization, and his medications now cost $800 a month, not including pain relief.

My friends, I do not want to go back to the multiple fainting spells I have experienced. Please stand by me and help me to buy my medicine urgently. Please do not leave me in this predicament.

if this gets tied to medicare reimbursement, it will effectively mark the end of trans healthcare in the united states (hospitals and hospital groups will always pick medicare funding over any annoying or inconvenient policy/law). i can’t tell by the article whether or not it will be related to CMS/medicare reimbursement, though.

it is ALL federal funding. that includes medicare and medicaid. also like tbc it is not really bc hospitals and clinics are just cowardly or something (which is generally true); many of them existentially depend on federal funding and effectively have no choice but to implement these kinds of policies. this is why transphobic politicians have been laser focused on these kinds of policies, since they are both easier to pass and implement than legal bans and allow for extreme and collective extrajudicial punishment for violation

if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite

also note this is a PARASITIC infection. most diarrhea-causing pathogens you expect to contaminate your greens are bacteria (e.g. e. coli and salmonella), which are a different domain of organism altogether. cyclospora is a protozoan, which is bigger and more complicated than a bacteria (for reference, malaria is also caused by a protozoan). bacterial diarrhea can be dangerous, but you might also expect to weather it and survive unscathed. do NOT fuck with PARASITIC contamination. you should be scared of this one!