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guess who opened ASGGOODS store :3

good, white, educated, moral, powerful men of the West "saving" the poor, subjugated, abused, voiceless, uncivilized people of the East. speaking for them, knowing best what they would have wanted, had they had a voice. we're not colonizing you, we're saving you! and we're going to completely misrepresent and fetishize your culture for our own gain.

Armand also represents the new, 'savage' world while Marius represents the enlightenment. The renaissance was sparked by the fall of Constantinople leading to the flood of texts from Ancient Rome and Greece being spread throughout Christendom, reviving lost schools of thought and bringing humanity out of the supposed 'dark ages'. Armand comes from a country made of ruin, where they want to bury him alive to prove devotion to God. He is rescued by a much older man from Ancient Rome, who teaches him about art and philisophy, and takes him away from his 'backwards' ideals, only for Armand to slip into the forces of puritanism and religious conflict (which if you know anything about European history in the 16th and 17th centuries, then you know why that is. And the importance of Lestat bringing Armand out of his puritan ways via theater).

I do want to say that, despite the Imperialist and Orientalist ideas in Anne Rice's work, Marius is explicitly wrong at the end of TVA. He is incompatible with modern life, unable to trust humanity's progress, and that is why he and Armand never get back together. Armand has grown too far beyond him.

Somebody next to him doing the same... Somebody falling into the same spiral with him...

the color of my lover's eyes

tell me how you feel, beloved

big fan of daniel going completely off the rails while shouting "im nORMAL i am NORMAL im A NORMAL MAN" the whole time

i got commissioned to do another excerpt from the Devil's Minion chapter of Queen of the Damned and it was So Much Fun these two are insane

chapter excerpt under the cut: