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Thank you SO VERY MUCH for your time as a reader and as an artist!

This is remarkable. I am really just so moved by this!

LUCIUS AND PETE GOT MARRIED!

ED LOOKED AT STEDE LIKE THIS!

What is their name? Full name? Nickname?

Do they have a separate Indigenous name and nickname?

What is their racial identity?

What is their cultural identity? What clan are they from? What bands or tribes are they? What nation are they from?

Are they connected or are they displaced disconnected diaspora?

Do they wear any regalia?

Do they wear Indigenous jewelry?

Do they have any Indigenous traditional tattoos?

What is their role in their community? What is their duty in their clan, tribe, & nation?

Are they white Natives, Asian Natives, West Asian (Middle Eastern) Natives, Black Natives, or Latine Natives?

What is their sex gender gender identity and sexuality?

Are they two spirit of Turtle Island or mahu/fakaleiti/fa’afafine/maohi of Oceania?

What are their pronouns? What are their neopronouns? He/him, she/her, they/them, and, or xer/xers?

What is their queer subtype? 

Are they monogamous or polyamorous?

Are they disabled? Are they autistic? Are they neurodivergent? Are they chronically ill? Do they have any personality disorders? Do they have mental illnesses?

Are they abled bodied? Are they allistic? Are they neurotypical?

Do they have add, adhd, hyperlexia, ocd, and or dyslexia?

Do they have DID or dissociative identity disorder, schizophrenia, bd or bipolar disorder, & or bpd or borderline personality disorder?

Do they have any chronic illnesses? Such as asthma, Crohn’s disease, eczema, epilepsy, etc?

Do they have an addiction or substance abuse disorder? Are they in recovery, relapse, or sobriety? 

Do they have mental illnesses? 

What is their blood type? 

What is their religion and spirituality?

What languages do they speak?

How tall are they?

How much do they weigh?

What is their facial structure. Face, temple, cheeks, nose, lips, and chin?

What is their body structure? Neck, chest, back, arms, hands, legs, & feet? 

What is their frame, bone structure, poise?

What is their head shape?

What is their dominant hand?

What is their hand size?

How would you describe their hand?

What is their shoe size?

What is their bwh measurements if applicable?  

What is their hairstyle?

What is their hair color?

How is their hair texture?

What is their hair state,

What is their hair look?

Do they have any facial hair

Do they have any body hair 

What is their skin tone?

What is their skin condition?

Do they have any scars or birthmarks? 

What is their eye color?

What is their eye shape?

How is their eyesight?

Do they wear eyewear?

Do they wear glasses or contacts? 

Do they wear makeup? What kind? 

How old are they? 

By our standards since this is afro futurism, native, & poc futurism about poc coded and native coded metahuman and superhuman characters living from the ancient past to the far future

What is their apparent are?

What is their actual age? 

When is their birthdate? Month day and year?

Whats their Chinese zodiac and western astrology sign?

Do they have tattoos or piercings?

What kind of piercings?

Do they have facial piercings?

What kind of ear piercings do they have?

This can be a tragus ear piercing, a conch ear piercing, a helix ear piercing, a daith ear piercing, a snug ear piercing, a lobe ear piercing, an anti tragus ear piercing, a rook ear piercing, an anti helix ear piercing, a forward helix piercing, a lobe transversal ear piercing.

It can be high lobe, barbell, helix stud lobe, or upper lobe piercings on their ear

What kind of body piercings do they have?

It can be vertical or horizontal eyebrow piercing spiked barbells on their eyebrow. It can be Medusa diamond stud piercing above their lip, it can be dimple studs in their cheeks, it can be a spiked labret on their chin, it can be a septum ring piercing that goes through their nose, it can be a barbell bridge piercing between their eyes on top of their nose, it can be a rhino barbell nose ring piercing on the top of their nose, it can be nasallang piercings on the left and right side of their nose, it can be a third eye stud piercing on their forehead, it can be a barbell piercing in their navel, or even a barbell piercing on their chest, genitals, etc.

Do they wear jewelry? 

What kind of jewelry?

It can be necklaces, bracelets, rings, anklets, etc? 

What do they have tattoos of? 

What kind of tattoos? 

Retro by their standards and modern by ours or futuristic by ours and contemporary by theirs in the form of holographic tattoos. 

Do they have magical tattoos?

What apparel do they have? What kind of clothes do they wear? What is their clothing style? What level is the sophistication? What sizes in clothing do they wear? 

Where are they from? 

Where do they live now? 

Where is their birthplace? 

Where is their current residence?

Where are they citizens of? 

What is their citizenship status? 

List of possible locations are in the location glossary of the google doc.

Which city, county, state, & or country do they live in?

Do they live on Earth? Or off world since humanity and aliens left Earth and colonized the rest of space?

Which colonized and terraformed planet, moon, comet, asteroid, or planetoid do they live on? Where in the planet, star system, & galaxy do they reside?

What is their citizenship status?

What kind of housing do they live in? 

What is their personality?

What are their virtues? What are their vices? 

What are their strengths? What are their flaws?

What are their fears and phobias? 

What kind of voice do they have? What is their vocal tone? 

What are their favorite foods?

What is their favorite drink?

What are their hobbies and interests?

What is their economic class?

What is their political party affiliation?

Are they conservative, liberal, progressive leftist, green party, third party voter, no party affiliation, non voter?

Story is post land back. So this can include voting in Indigenous tribes/clans and nations

Are they communist, anarchist, radical, & or militant.

What is their backstory?

What is their occupation?

High school jobs?

Collegiate jobs?

Current job? 

What is their education level? 

Did they take any high school honors classes?

Did they take any high school AP or advanced placement classes? 

Did they take any college honors classes? 

What clubs were they apart of? In high school and college

What sports did they play? In high school and college? 

Are they a high school dropout, a high school graduate, a college dropout, or a college graduate?

Are they a graduate of a two year community college, a four year university, an Ivy League university or military academy?

Did they graduate from a vocational or trade school?

What degrees do they have? Associates bachelors masters or doctorates? In what field or fields? Do they have a minor, major, or dual major?

Tell me about their parents, aunts and uncles?

How many siblings do they have? Are they the oldest, youngest, or middle child? Or are they an only child? Do they have any cousins?

What is their dating status? 

What is their marital status?

Are they single, dating, widowed, divorced, or married? Tell me about their spouse(s) or partner(s)?

Are they in a monogamous or polyamorous relationship or marriage?

How many children do they have? 

Are these children adopted or biological? 

Tell me about their children?

What kind of pets do they have? 

Do they have regular pets, magical pets, and or alien pets?

What is their mode of transportation? List of transportation are in the modes of transportation glossary of the google doc.

Do they use a hoverboard, hover bus, hover bike, hover motorbike, hover quad, hover motorcycle, hover sport bike, or hover vehicle (car, truck, SUV, etc)

What kind of weapons do they use? List of weapons are in the weapon glossary of the google doc.

Do they use a power armor suit or a mech suit?

Are they a superhero, antihero, or supervillain?

What is their superhero antihero or supervillain name?

What kind of training do they have?

Where did they get this training? 

Who are their mentors?

Who are their peers?

Who are their allies? 

Who are their enemies?

Who are their rivals? 

Who are their protégés if they have any

What is their superhero antihero or supervillain costume?

What is their public identity? 

What is their private identity? 

What superpowers do they have?

How exactly did they get their powers?

Are they a metahuman or superhuman?

What is their lair? Where is their home base? Is it stationary or mobile.  

What superhero, antihero, or supervillain team are they a part of?

What is their role in these teams?

Are they part of the superhero conglomerates the Elites, the Paragons, or the Sentinels?

Are they alien hybrids?

Are they demigods? Are the the child, grandchild, or descendant of a god or goddess? If so from which pantheon? The Egyptian, Mayan, Norse, Greco-Roman, Celtic, Hindu, Japanese, Chinese, African, or Oceanic/Pasifika pantheon?

Are they cyborgs or bionics?

Are they Atlantean, Amazonian, Vanir, or Asgardian hybrids?

Are they half elves, half orcs, half trolls, half goblins, or half dwarves, etc?

Are they missing any body parts as someone disfigured? Did they have these part or parts replaced with bionic or cybernetic limbs.

Do they have cybernetic implants or bionic enhancements?

Are they an ex of the disabled qtipoc and or bipoc main characters?

spend your time engaging with things that make you feel good, that feel aligned with your beliefs and artistic standards. don’t waste your energy ruminating on your own disappointment. i promise you’ll be happier!

Do you think that's how progress in media is made? Just blithely go watch something else, while people like us (of course we aren't vampires) are dragged through the muck?

If showrunners and writers are being asked to examine their choices and do better, who exactly is being "harassed" by that.

and now the white actor is being propped up for the nominations at the expense of what the South Asian actor contributed to this season..... which is very likely what AMC intended all along. It's just so transparent and disappointing. I don't want anyone telling me shit about how this isn't a racism issue.

I have so many storytelling issues with Dream!Lestat, Anon. I mentioned them before this whole awards thing started.

If he's supposed to be a ghost - well, Lestat isn't dead, and I don't want the idea of ghost Lestat to be a parallel to ghost Claudia.

If he's supposed to be some kind of astral projection, then, again, WHY.

But clearly, this is not supposed to be an intrusion from Lestat at all. Everything the actor and the writers and the producers have said indicates that they view this apparition to be a creation of Louis' - to be a voice from his own thoughts.

Sam has said in an interview how he tried to mirror Jacob's body language a bit, to distinguish the apparition from the 'real' Lestat. But what does it mean for a white actor to mirror a Black actor's body language. You don't have to put on blackface for the racial implications to be something worth being thoughtful about. Has anyone cared to put in that thought into it? I certainly do not see any proof of it.

And from a storytelling point that just makes everything fall apart, because why the fuck would Louis, a Black man who is very secure in his own racial identity, have an inner voice who looks white?!

If the desire was to really create a visual embodiment of Louis' inner conflicts, then they could have brought in Paul, or his mother or even his father - the critical voice we hear in our heads is that of our parents, mostly.

But this storytelling choice wasn't motivated by LOUIS's narrative needs, or the logic of his characterisations.

This choice was made solely due to contractual obligations and producer desires to keep Sam visible in the show, and so reverse-engineered to be a voice of Louis.

Again and again we see how the system of white supremacy makes financial choices that benefit whiteness and do a disservice to the stories of Black and Brown characters. The narrative of a Black man, which is what this entire show chose to be the minute it cast Jacob - has been harmed by the choices of the white people telling the story because they have priviledged whiteness.