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I think the fact that by default the onus of learning the other's language to enable communication is always put on the other side is a pretty significant privilege on the cultural front.

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but amc in all their incredible genius decided that honoring anne rice’s original vision of writing an extremely modern and weird book that fully embodied the era it was written in was more important then bringing back the 80s nostalgia thing that streaming services love and it’s incredible to me. now I get to listen to lestat say shit like “labubu FOMO cosplay reddit discord Gen Z more like gen SNOOZE 🤪🤪🤪 safe space pronouns donald trump labubu tiktok dance 🕺🏻” and suddenly I understand what it felt like to be a young anne rice reader in 1985. God…. I understand.

really loving this fake AI scandal of trump secretly meeting with the volturi

Thank you for your partecipation.

AU: President Obama falls for part white house intern part rockstar Harry Styles. Obama surprises Harry in the audience of one of his shows and the affair blossoms from there.

unusual ungulate

I also need to praise the writers' and showrunners' approach to episode 1, because it's such well thought out, character-driven chaos that puts us straight into Lestat's head without any brakes or preamble. We see his ego, his insecurities, his self-awareness, his commitment to performance and the moments when it slips, his determination to distract himself and others from the layers and layers of pain and trauma that keep seeping through the cracks before they're stamped down by another colorful, chaotic, sexy, absurd distraction, and we feel everything urging toward the bottom of the spiral the harder he pushes against it. Daniel's Were you a stutterer as a child? guides us down that spiral along with him, exposing each time how much that single question (and what it represents) means for this season's arc, and it sets up the rest of the season and the therapeutic aspects they've been teasing in interviews in a really satisfying way. I'm ready, let's fucking go.

lestat's narration: yeah so i drained someone at my concert and almost overdosed on LSD and MDMA but that's just another tuesday amirite? so i fucked her in the elevator and killed a bunch of vampires with daniel (ugh, i hate him though what a loser 🙄) i wish louis still loved me