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Louis just doesn't like coffins.

Idk if this makes sense to anyone else, but I feel like Armand's use of his powers and vampire physicality feels so casual and utilitarian rather than showy. He obviously uses his abilities to intimidate, overpower, or establish dominance, but even then he's usually very much to the point. He doesn't need to unleash some huge display of supernatural power to make his point. He just does exactly what is necessary, and that's it. And when he actually does show off a little, it's sort of quiet and eerie, still very much a to-the-point way of intimidating someone rather than a "look at me, I'm so great" kind of display. The only times we really see him unleash his full power are when he genuinely loses control, and even then it doesn't feel like he's showing off, more like using them as an outlet for his anger.

"this story is misogynistic!!"

ENOUGH REVISIONISM

catching up on new book releases and...

Pluribus, in-text: yeah so the hive is like when forced assimilation and subjugation and cultural genocide in the name of global peace and safety, and gay conversion therapy, and pacification through forced addiction, and punishment via solitary confinement to coerce cooperation, and how blackboxed and forced from above simulacra is built on and sustained by stolen labor and leads to dehumanization, and the cult logics of impossibility of refusal and escape, and the lack of respect for what is at the core of bodily autonomy and consent, and the lack of cross-species empathy or feeling of responsibility for continued husbandry, and the fallacy of the innocent bystander. oh yeah, also they eat people. metaphorically but also literally. btw did i mention cultural genocide, check it out. *shows an aborted ceremony and abandonment of an entire community upon finalized conversion*