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the failure(s); the many loves of the vampire lestat

the failure(s); the many loves of the vampire lestat

SAM REID as Lestat de Lioncourt

A masterclass in acting

Reid delivers the performance of a lifetime. Lestat is a lot. He’s high and low and happy and sad and everything in between, all at once. And he’s a rockstar. Reid navigates it all and makes it look so easy, even though there’s no way that everything he’s doing takes a ton of hard work, dedication, focus and a team of people to help make it happen and, most importantly, make it look good. If he’s not nominated for an Emmy it’ll be a crime.

"Life Everlasting"

Lestat harlequin music box. Started this project months ago and finally got around to finishing it!

🙃 animated in blender.

like whenever anyone tries to bring it up we're told we're tripping because it looks so queer but... not really? obviously it's not like super hetero but visually it's very much a 70s-80s throwback to glam rock which was mostly very straight, underneath all the glitter and posturing about sexual experimentation. plus people acting like m/f incest would horrify and turn off straight audiences are killing me. since when? game of thrones was full of it. it's an extremely popular porn category (unfortunately) cishet men love that shit!

we've got women shooting ping pong balls out of their coochies, women kissing (which yes, queer, but also titillating to straight men), women and men kissing, a guy appearing to eat out a woman, female strippers. i'm not saying i'm not entertained but these are not the kind of visuals that turn away straight audiences. they're "shocking" in a safe way. i keep thinking my homophobic dad would probably watch the show based on the trailers and teasers we've had so far, whereas the season 1 trailer with louis sucking on lestat's thumb would've made him throw the remote at the tv in anger.

that doesn't make the characters any less queer, nor is it bi erasure (something i, a bisexual, was accused of by a straight lestat fan lol) to point out that to the general audience who aren't familiar with the show, you wouldn't necessarily get an accurate impression of just how gay it is

it just feels silly to me to pretend this show exists in a bubble and that the marketing wouldn't be influenced by the current political climate in any way, as if it's not a huge operation with tons of people behind the scenes, and as if they wouldn't try to get their viewing figures up

like i'm a bisexual transmasc here who dresses fruity as fuck but can we have a sensible and serious conversation about the way in which the show is being promoted (which, again, doesn't necessarily reflect the content of the show itself)

as for gabi, i'm still holding out hope that there will be some kind of twist or that things aren't quite the way they seem based on the promos