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what if we ban europe from the world cup and make one with only countries that people actually like and can cheer for

we can still call it world cup too because we've been calling stuff "world something" while excluding latin america and africa for ages, so it's only fair

oh why why why do i have to feel (so negatively about the new season of a show i love. rolin jones, stop carrying that lestat book and go speak to a woman challenge. in the meantime, let jacob anderson rewrite the whole season or smth. that awkward moment when you have only two prominent female characters and one of them is turned into some kind of evil sex-crazed misogynistic giorgia meloni parody, while the other one is used as a device to develop and justify the trauma of her abusers after she'd already spent her whole life disregarded and used by them to deal with their stupid shit. that akward moment when the life story of the protagonist is reduced to tiktok edits that barely have any emotional weight and would probs make no sense whatsoever for those who haven't read the book and/or haven't spent two years waiting for this season, even though the show is supposed to stand on its own somehow. that awkward moment when you have not one but two framing devices and yet none if them work, so the pov shifts make no sense. that awkward moment when in the new season of the gay vampire show we see barely any queer intimacy but there are loads of meaningless hetero sex. that awkward moment when your male characters can experiment with gender expression and everyone claps but genderqueer/nonbinary/transmasc afab people get misgendered for no reason for a stupid gag or are stripped of their identity completely. that akward moment when you admit you have weak episodes in an already short season but somewhow claim it's better than the first two seasons. but hey, at least that wig-maker who graduated top of their class at the shitty wig making university got paid really good money) is a pretty nice song, actually.

I hate when I get two problems in a row. They’re all gonna think I’m making it up.

A female friend group WOULD fix Armand but Anne Rice often forgot to consider women as people and so this did not happen

it seems that a lot of times people telling someone to “get therapy” envision the ideal outcome of this to be essentially like lobotomizing the person in question

I'm so tired of claudia/lestat parallels in the show, fandom, and interviews with the cast. They're overdone, oversaturated, and so very boring. They ultimately only ever serve as masturbatory laments on lestats traumatic upbringing and they disservice claudia as a character by reducing every one of her traits and actions to falldown from her white abuser. The ripped out pages scene was particularly egregious but theyve been doing this for a long time.

AMC really struck gold with the unreliable narrator idea because now people will insist that any flaw in the storytelling is actually a genius premeditated reflection of a fallible narrator, any pacing issues are actually a genius premeditated reflection of a characters psyche, and any lack of character development is actually a genius premeditated reflection on a characters refusal to face their own trauma, and having cheap looking production is actually a genius premeditated reflection of a characters memories, and any unwarranted deviation from the source material is actually a genius premeditated lie that will be proven false at some unspecified point, and any poor handling of sensitive subjects is actually a genius premeditated commentary on the characters own failings, etc, etc.