colourless green ideas sleep furiously

started a blog for talking about the ttrpgs i'm writing & the games i'm playing, esp because the plan is to be a bit more active over the summer (& get something PUBLISHED!!), so if anyone is interested in that at all it's over @depthlessdungeons

Yet, the women who write to Byron repeatedly make it clear that they are interested in some “other” sort of relationship with him. Many speak of their fantasies of befriending his ex-lovers and his future wife, and if, as was sometimes the case, Byron did make a sexual advance on these women, he was often spurned. The “notorious” courtesan was particularly adept at putting Byron in his place, remarking curtly that although she had written in praise of Byron previously, she had merely “alluded to your understanding and common sense, not to your ——— which I conceived to be entirely out of the question.” Byron, if not his critics, was to learn that, far from his admirers wishing to extend their sexual fantasies into the “real” world, his figure seemed to serve a complex function in the operations of these women’s desire. He acted as a space or a setting for their fantasies.

this whole thing smacks of gender i yell as i overturn my uncle's grill and turn the fourth of july into the fourth of shit etc

gonna rb one more time because this is really my favorite thing i've written in a while :) i hope you enjoy

also. on the changes in tone from interview with the vampire -> the vampire lestat. i think there were some genuinely compelling + nuanced takes on queerness / family / racism / power / abuse in iwtv s1-s2 (but especially s1). lestat is a looming figure of male whiteness and he's deliberately presented as that (+ the inherent associated dynamics with that) for the majority of the show. and it's disheartening to see the show not only become uninterested in that in s3/tvl but to also try to retcon some of that - when those racial/gender/power politics is what made the show so compelling in the first place !!