julian

A huge reason why Queen of the Damned (2002) flopped so hard was because they wanted to skip over The Vampire Lestat and focus on rockstar Lestat only (minus the few pieces from TVL that they needed to shittily adapt so viewers had any semblance of context)

Basic Fandom Etiquette Everyone Needs to Remember:

there's a lot to be said when a white european ginger christian character that's known for his breathtaking beauty and labelled an angel for it in a book series is race bent into a brown muslim character and suddenly he's no longer an angel or beautiful but a crazy psychotic gremlin that's repeatedly kicked down for being submissive in bed and his childhood sexual abuse and exploitation is thrown back at him everytime by (mostly) white characters and his religiosity is suddenly nowhere to be found but is conveniently repeatedly compared to nazis in various ways and is considered a failure of a bisexual man because again he is submissive and recipient in bed rather than a promiscuous masculine bisexual man that everybody fawns over (lestat) and again he was a victim of pedophilia sexual slavery and racism but his ideal partner that would "cradle him" is an old grandpa white man who's a racist rapist that calls him a rent boy and a submissive twink sociopath.

https://x.com/vampystat/status/2081066895784972787?s=20 more bald in high def this time