what cannot be said will be wept.

leg so hot

hot hot leg

leg so hot u fry an eg

*touches ground*

Watching this I was actually reminded somewhat of my relationship with my mother. I wouldn't call it abusive, but my mother had a lot of problematic behaviours, some of which I didn't even realise until I was an adult and discussing them with other people. My mother in turn had many awful things happen to her in her life.

Her life experience was the *REASON* she behaved the way she did, but it did not *EXCUSE* it. I could have empathy with her and what she had gone through, whilst also choosing to go no contact for the sake of my own mental health.

Anyway without getting too personal here is the video, it's an excellent and thought provoking watch if you're into long-form content, and I plan to watch more from this creator.

TW: it goes without saying this video contains in depth detailed discussions of rape and other forms of abuse.

The beat where Claudia knocks Merrick forwards, knocks out her front tooth, and both Louis and Lestat lean forwards, lean into it - - it's a heartstopper, because they know, we know, it's actually her. The killer down in New Orleans who clogged the Mississippi with corpses, the girl who slit one of her fathers' throats, who wore the ring of his mistress, who goaded her other father to Europe and nearly left him in No Man's Land, who ridiculed him long, long before this episode (and in similar terms). This fanged and ruthless woman who they love enough to welcome at her worst. They don't want her filed down, they want the spark in the dark, in her eyes as Louis said two episodes ago.

The best the writers can do is ignore social media and just do their thing. Just focus on their vision. Acknowledging this or that fandom discourse is pointless because those people won't change their mind and the majority of their audience doesn't know about what iwtvtwt or tumblr is whining about this week and doesn't care.

... not an ounce of self-awareness in some of you.

I don't mean that in any ill way to you particularly, but please, for the love of god, think about all the commentary this show has done before, about how they comment on REAL LIFE ISSUES and then think about what has been said about the writers, the cast and the crew, and that WE KNOW THAT THEY KNOW and how it affected Sam, who has spoken about it, and how the writers abandoned their Twitter account, how they had extra security at SDCC because of the shit some pulled and how allllll that fandom SHIT SHOW IMPACTED THEM IN REAL LIFE.

Like, seriously.

This season deals with someone being used and abused constantly, and people only see him as an object, not as a someone to see beyond the cardboard villain or sex object to use or insult as they see fit.