inside a fantasy

people have complained left right and center about the amount of flashbacks we got of the auvergne, which is something even i was initially disappointed about, admittedly, but i come to understand more and more that throwing all of the characterization of lestat as someone who doesn't want to remember and dig into what traumatized him in favor of giving some ooc shell of him that does a deep dive on every little thing that traumatized him would've pissed me off even more, because that is simply not lestat this season. unlike louis, who tried to unpack all of his memories down to the minute details precisely to remember what happened to him, lestat already remembers everything. and he hates it. he remembers that he stuttered as a child, he remembers how embarrassing it was to be brought back from the theater, he remembers the monastery, the wolves, and the witches. and he doesn't want to

"they shouldn't have adapted the incest" yeah girl let's just remove lestat getting raped by magnus too. let's remove his brothers beating him up. let's remove akasha kidnapping him. let's remove any instance of lestat being abused since abuse (especially sexual abuse) is soooo "icky" to watch

not just any MP, but an undersecretary for migration and citizenship. this guy is one of the MPs that has a direct hand on the genuinely horrific treatment of migrants and refugees in the UK, including shipping them off to the UK's former colony after unilaterally declaring the colony to be safe, as well as stripping the migrant and refugees of their heirlooms in the name of "paying for their migration in the UK with their own assets." Starmer's cabinet is filled with people whose bloodsoaked hands will never wash out like these.