My Heart Belongs to Black Women

from meeting lestat for the first time all the way to killing him, louis goes through what feels like a lifetime of character development in the first seven episodes. why does lestat in tvl have a one note character arc of grappling with his mother's abuse of him? why does it take seven whole episodes to do it, all the while he hasn't meaningfully changed/developed in any other way?

So many women are looking for a “masc lesbian” but what they really mean is that they want a top who has their life together lmao

“You got masc vibes even though you are a femme” do I? Or do you just think that confidence and competence are inherently linked to masculinity?

Like if you want someone to top you till you cry then you should just say that. There are many women who can provide, many of them femme.

But also it’s kind of rude to assign gender roles and sexual preferences to someone just because they’re masc. just because she wears a snapback that doesn’t mean she’s a top or able to fix your car or whatever.

woc characters get put on a pedestal in their fandoms in a way that is so boring and itself kinda dehumanising. i dont just wanna hear about how they’re flawless queens, i want them to feel specific and real. and i understand why it happens, especially with younger fans, but fandom of these characters that’s oriented more around defending them from haters rather than engaging with them (beyond empty, repetitive adulation) is so… limiting and profoundly boring. you could explore these characters on their own merit instead you neglect any potential interiority, humanity, complexity in favour of letting rando haters be a hair trigger and building your faves up as impenetrable fortresses against them. and then its just girlboss with a coat of brown paint

Lescels are making him the victim of Jim Crowe bc Claudia could never call him dad in public… 😀🔫

Having criticisms of fandom shipping culture genuinely feels like walking on eggshells sometimes with how many people take criticisms of shipping culture and the amatonormativity within it as personal slights and attacks against them specifically

abolish the idea that marriage and children are the only true good endings for characters

ok this is probably the aromanticism speaking but i genuinely dont understand the mentality of getting into a specific media that explicitly doesnt have romance in it where the main point of the media is platonic/nonromantic relationships and then going "wow this is great i should add some romance to this while also ignoring every other type of relationship dynamic". i doubly dont understand the people who do this and then get mad when other people say "hey man why are you only focusing on the shipping you are literally missing The Entire Point of the series"

Thought "you're not an ally if you're dating someone who is homophobic" was a cold take but some people are really struggling with the concept

personally I am of the opinion that vegans who are like “the way our food system currently works under capitalism on a large scale is exceptionally cruel to all animals including humans and is not sustainable, so I’m doing what I can to make the most ethical choices available to me about what I eat and encourage others to do the same” are generally very reasonable people who I agree with in spades. but vegans who seem to think human beings are not themselves animals who are ultimately also part of the food chain but instead some kind of other paternalistic higher entity that can never engage in ethical and sustainable hunting practices (and especially the fringe I’ve seen who think other carnivorous animal predators are also evil and need to be eliminated) are people I regard as foolish at best if not actively anti-indigenous and racist