i was boy crazy once, now i’m old man crazy

You know that whatever character did those problematic things isn't like. Real, right?

You are aware that a fictional character is just a rhetorical construct designed to fulfill a narrative/thematic purpose right? That their actions are written by an author who wants to use them to explore complex ideas and moral gray areas within the safe confines of fiction right? That they aren't a real person who has killed real people right?

girls yearn for popular media with a butch as a main character

i like the idea i've been seeing circulating that the reason claudia's “stuck” in a “spidery-ass nowhere” and can't find madeline is because she's in purgatory (the fixation with telling louis to burn her diaries and her dress makes a lot of sense with her wanting to sever any remaining connection) and i love the hopeful twist of believing that being finally able to express her rage at louis and lestat is what will finally get her out of there and i want to add that it's so perfect that we're never going to be able to know for sure. if claudia's free it means she's free from the story. it means she's free from all of them, but also from all of us.

I just want to remind you that sometimes your life really doesn't begin until you are 26+... Romanticizing and obsessing over our youth is harmful. Growing up is beautiful. Discovering who you are and how you interact with the world is a gift. Maturing and learning what you truly want out of life and living in that purpose brings fulfillment and peace. Your life is not over in your early 20's because you haven't figured it out yet, it's just beginning.

This feels especially true if you came into your queerness in your mid 20s or later. Life doesn’t end after 25. You have so much more to learn.

Sleep should be refreshing and if it isn’t you should look into that tbh

back in the day you could squeeze out 30k words about locker room fucking and a boutique gay press would publish it as pulp erotica with a hand illustrated cover but these days you gotta write 100k words about changeling princes who play sports and are also pop stars but don't fuck until 2/3 of the way thru and a big 5 imprint of an imprint will slap clipart on the jacket and cheat you out of film rights

The women in this show???? They deserve so many accolades it's crazy.

in hindsight nobody’s ever gonna come up with a better way to start a song than “i was like, ‘good gracious, ass is bodacious’”

really struck by how claudia grieving madeleine seems to be the thing that gets most to lestat during the seance. he only starts to cry when claudia tells them that she can’t find her companion, that’s she’s been alone this entire time. and of course this is what would get to him. the thing he fears the most is loneliness. so knowing that his daughter found a companion only to lose her again in death. it’s devastating