they should invent a firework that only veterans can hear

heavily reducing armand’s role when you’re adapting the vampire lestat (1985) by anne rice is like jesus fucking christ this is such an egregiously offensive way of going about it for several reasons because it should be frankly impossible to just methodically remove a character pivotal to exploring all its themes (which the show never bothers to touch on lol!) from the story but it’s also really fucking racist. like one would think it should be impossible to write him out at least for the bare bones reasons of how heavily he’s triangulated with gabistat and nickistat and loustat but okay they won’t even do that + they strip him of material acknowledging his interiority, I don’t know why I assumed they’d begin to at least touch on how it’s fucking crazy that he wouldn’t be significantly impacted by the fact that modern oriental studies were particularly spearheaded by france (and britain) as an extension of their colonial projects in the early 19th century and how france was heavily invested in protecting its colonial interests in asia in the preceding decades and that it reconciled its paradoxical approach to liberty & equality and lack of interest in demolishing its colonial projects by originating theories of race that justified placing (white) europeans at the top of a hierarchy of races and attributing character & genetic defects to people of colour with darker skin but sure okay let’s just never spend time exploring the ramifications of that for armand apart from a throwaway line or two in s2 acknowledging that he’s capable of experiencing racism which the fandom ignores anyway surely that’s enough activism for the day.

Still in content label review but you can murk trannies within 24 hours of them making a blog @staff @humans @photomatt

Mature label is still on this but @staff is still nuking transfems and Black people while making excuses for it. But yeah you "moderate behavior, not identity" and that's why Black people and transfems get flagged just for existing. Enjoy your lawsuit because that statement sure as hell ain't helping you

Like I will grant you that it is straightforward enough to be a thoughtless jerk to those closest to you, especially if everything sucks and you don't have any money and are in pain all the time. But intimate partner abuse is systematized interpersonal terrorism. I mean that with every ounce of weight that such a loaded term carries. It is a methodology of forcing you, over time, into a state of hapless, confused, sometimes terrified submission. It's not a sequence of "whoopsie-daisy!" mistreatment from people sublimating their misery and lashing out. It is the gradual and insidious erosion of your selfhood, your sanity, your horizon of choice and/or its perception. It is being punished for your every move with such severity and paradoxical subtlety that you eventually just stop moving, because it's not worth the blowback of having your own needs, desires, preferences, hobbies, friends, etc. It's telling yourself that everything is fine, that probably YOU are the problem, because why else would you be going so batshit fucking crazy? (And it will make you crazy.) What if YOU are the REAL abuser?!

can I say something about Widow's Bay? I've seen a bunch of people, including critics, say the "Evan is the last descendant" was too obvious. To which, I'd like to say, "so what?" not every show has to hit you with out of this world twists. You can see something coming, and it still be important. The twist wasn't necessarily for the audience. It was for TOM. He's the one who was blindsided, he's the one who now has to live in this wild reality where the thing he's been fighting for is getting permanently smothered. I don't care if it's shocking to me, a person watching, I care that it was important and sad and heartbreaking for Tom.

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.