Police take fiscal oxygen out of the room, away from actual social support programs. The money spent on policing could go to housing, nutritional services, healthcare, civil rights, building inspections, labor rights enforcement, street maintenance, public transportation. But it goes to paying guys to sit around idling Ford Explorers all day and hitting poor people with sticks.

Crime follows poverty in absolutely every single case. Every single “high crime city” is because of the fucking poverty.

gabrielle really is an insane and fascinating character like ok you're trapped in the confines of being a woman in the 1700s in a world that treats you like nothing but a thing to make babies. So you groom your son so you can live vicariously through him, while also using him sexually and creating a codependent bond where he yearns for your love desperately, but he's still nothing to you but that vessel for your own self and sexuality and gender. And he gives into all the sexual abuse because he needs your love and validation, and he can't even create a boundary no matter how much he wants one because losing your love would destroy him.

gabriella sending out lestat to kill the wolves hoping and expecting that they would kill him isn’t an idea that had occurred to me before but i’ve been rotating it around in my head ever since. it simultaneously being an act of fucked up care – granting him the final escape from their family – and her manipulating him into a a situation that risks his life and also robs him of the only comfort (his dog) he had outside of her. all this wrapped up in her framing killing the wolves as an act of proper manhood and thus elevating lestat into the role of a husband substitute. it’s such a messy situation that really lays the groundwork for how weird and entangled their relationship is about to get