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Truly what Louis is doing with Regina is such a gutting confirmation of Claudia “never been about me” like goddddddd god god she never had a choice she was a symbol she was something acted upon she was robbed of her life and self the moment they turned her and when she was finally breaking free she was killed along with the first person to ever see her for HER and Louis’ grief is so deep and acute but it’s about HIM he kills Claudia’s rapist and reads her diary to him as he does and it’s for HIM, he finds a girl that looks like her and pays her to pretend to be her because it was never about her here’s a convincing fill in, it’s baby Lulu all over again it was never about herrrrr Claudia has been dead since the start they killed the woman she could have been and then when she was finally flying free and making herself anew she was killed again and it was never about her I am going to throw up

A female friend group WOULD fix Armand but Anne Rice often forgot to consider women as people and so this did not happen

god bless assad may he never stop forgetting what the question was when he’s in the middle of answering it

It is sooooo diabolical for Armand to stalk Daniel and report back to Louis for 50 years just for Louis to giggle and bat his eyelashes and go “wait but what if we pretend we haven’t seen him since SF and invite him to interview us again while you pretend to be my maid” and Armand goes “sure babe but first let me steam my purple silk top and send the chef his favorite dessert recipe” like yeahhhh they’ve all been alive for too long and have completely lost their minds your honor

anyway they better not pull punches with akasha or twist her motivations. she is a villain. she is an evil, self absorbed, misogynistic queen who is willing to use violence to make the world comfortable for only herself, to make it bend to what she deems as correct. she orders the rape and mutilation of women who won't affirm her religious beliefs. she orders the genocide and colonization of nations because she does not like their cultural or religious practices. when she wakes she refuses to acknowledge her part in the pain and suffering she has caused or the domino affect in the vampiric world that was the result of her violence towards two women and the slaughter of their entire village. instead she victim blames, displaces the responsibility onto men as a whole, and goes on killing and trying to control women to bend to her idea of peace. and it makes her a fascinating villain and very real symbolism for many types of women who exist even to this day, claiming to have feminist morals but being exclusionary, cruel and violent to the women who don't fit their more privileged narratives. it's a relevant story. the world is full of terfs and women in power who trample those beneath themselves all while claiming to be feminist or empowered. that is who akasha represents.

hey. you are supposed to be uncomfortable by louis paying regina to act like claudia. it is creepy and gross. it is also desperate, grief-driven, unhealthy, and sad. AND it makes total sense for a man who built a name for himself by profiting off of women's bodies. louis' actions this season are not out of character, because he has shown us time and time again that women, particularly black women and Claudia specifically, are not people that he fully respects. louis has always treated Claudia like an object, like something that is "his". and if you feel icky or upset by the current storyline, good! that's what it is there for. idk why people are surprised in season three that the show about evil vampires is going to depict them as evil vampires.

love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.

yall know human trafficking isnt just sex trafficking right? right????

We got Loustat visiting a witch to solve their ghost daughter problem before they go to fucking THERAPY

It is sooooo diabolical for Armand to stalk Daniel and report back to Louis for 50 years just for Louis to giggle and bat his eyelashes and go “wait but what if we pretend we haven’t seen him since SF and invite him to interview us again while you pretend to be my maid” and Armand goes “sure babe but first let me steam my purple silk top and send the chef his favorite dessert recipe” like yeahhhh they’ve all been alive for too long and have completely lost their minds your honor