Mina Blood

but that the season wasn't subtle at all with how it was centered around lestat having been sexually abused by his mother for over two centuries—abuse which started before they were ever even vampires—and that the finale culminates in lestat finally starting to come to terms with that knowledge to the point of standing up to gabriella and rejecting her from his life yet people keep going on about how "nothing happened this season" and "lestat didn't suffer at all" or at least "not enough" (in a season where lestat was sexually and/or physically assaulted every episode) and "there were too many 'sex' scenes between gabriella and lestat" (re: scenes of gabriella sexually assaulting lestat) and "there was too much focus on them" (in a season about how much gabriella sexually abusing lestat has affected him.)

literally the worst way of ending a series is “all the survivors are happily straight married with tons and tons of babies!” 

people still getting mad at this post i made in 2014 so I will add here. in 2026. that the point of this post isn’t “happy endings bad” its when the story’s only way to imagine a happy ending is a heterosexual nuclear family for everyone.

hi sorry for ghosting you im being tormented by psychic horrors beyond your wildest comprehensions

genuinely fascinating to me how people look at Armand kidnapping and torturing Lestat's boyfriend before using that same boyfriend to "lure him into his orgy cult" and then torturing Lestat's daughter and killing her in front of him and conclude that the person being too mean in that situation is Lestat. ofc the time you were kidnapped and raped should be off limits, but if you then go on to kidnap and torture other people the people who love your victims may not be sympathetic to your own victimization. The ragdoll line is in and of itself an expression of frustration about the hypocrisy of Armand affecting passivity and powerlessness when he is, in fact, the big boss who gets to decide who lives and dies. this is something I think it is reasonable for Lestat specifically to be annoyed by, however subjectively powerless Armand feels. Louis makes essentially the same point in 2x05, but unlike Armand and Louis, who have an intimate and longstanding if deeply dysfunctional relationship, Armand and Lestat are literally just people who meet up once a century so Armand can set someone Lestat loves on fire. Armand used his position of authority, knowledge of vampirism, and Lestat's very sick boyfriend whose mental health was not at all helped by the kidnapping and torture to try to manipulate him into a relationship and when that didn't work he sulked about it for a century, used his vulnerable daughter to do the same thing to his husband, used his authority over her to publicly humiliate and demean her, and then killed her. Lestat wrote a cruel line in a song about all the horrible shit Armand has used his very real and literal power to do to him and the people he loves. he's done so many actual bad things, why are we pretending this is one of them?

scrolling through someone’s blog and seeing one of your posts a ways down is crazy like oh you visited