something i find fascinating is that the same people who told lestat fans to get over it when the drop happened are now extremely upset and arguing that’s it’s ooc for armand to be as violent as he is with louis. and it IS ooc and bad writing because armand would never, but the lestat fans who were horrified by the ramifications of 1x05 were gaslit by the entirety of the fandom who defended that kind of writing for years. the rot in the show all goes back to s1 and the broken foundations there

still perplexed by how terribly the show has fucked up the loumand dynamic, and clearly a LOT of show fans are too.

glad people are finally waking up to how fucking gross this show is with how it treats its black characters

holy fuck, this tvl finale. this is bad. really bad. each episode desecrates anne's work more and more, and this one is just as insanely awful and meaningless as the others.

My thing with the Marius hatred (that seems to come especially from the show side of the fandom) is that he was clearly written as a monster who was Armand’s saviour. Inhuman and dangerous, but he does clearly love Armand. Anne Rice liked him, he was not written as an evil evil abuser. I have no problem with people disliking the character, or with people interpreting marimand however they wish to do so, but I do get annoyed that people can’t respect that there are fans who like Marius. It’s not abuse written badly when it wasn’t written as abuse.