Whoever you are Nonny, WHEN did I EVER say S3 WASN'T The Lestat Show? ๐คจ Cuz I KNOW y'all don't mean S1 & S2 were The Lestat Show. I KNOW that's not whatchu mean. ๐คจ When even the Lestans were complaining about how little Lestat was in S2. ๐ All I've EVER done is assure people that Rolin wasn't writing Louis OFF the show (x x)--I've literally been telling everyone that we NEED Lestat's perspective, because of how integral AUVERGNE is to the patriarchal cycles of ABUSE that he perpetuated in NOLA, a la the Marquis & his brothers & "come play chess with your father." I even did an entire meta series on Auvergne (x x x x); explaining Lestat's past, present, and future--the good, the bad, and the ugly, holistically looking at Lestat in his ENTIRETY, not just the biased AF rose-colored fangirl lenses Y'ALL Lestans insist on seeing him with. ๐ So yeah, I know full well that S3 will hyperfocus on Lestat--I'm looking forward to it. ๐
Ok granted--I HAVE said that the entire series is The LOUSTAT Show, cuz it focuses on how Lestat & Louis break up & get back together, after they both do some soul-searching and finally MATURE enough so that Lestat can be WORTHY of Louis' love, just like Claudia said, and you can quote me on that, cuz I talk about Lestat's character development being a work in progress from Auvergene to NOLA and back again, you effing coward AF LIARS.
And as for this bit, SPARE ME:
I actually go out of my way to QUOTE SAM REID VERBATIM when he's LITERALLY ADMITTING that Rolin is giving Lestat MORE agency than he EVER had in the books, to make some of Lestat's "monster choices" LESTAT'S fault & "culpability"; LESTAT'S "shameful" cross to carry for having seriously "damaged" and "badly hurt" Louis AND Claudia--which is why his life's defined as a "failure" for being just as bad of a parent to his fledglings as his own parents were to him. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Heck, I'M not the one who decided to write Lestat showing his whole arsehole every frikkin season: lying about Antoinette over & over (x x x x x) โ disrespecting Charlie's death โ saying Claudia burned herself "for attention" (which a parent should NEVER say about their child self-harming wtF) โ calling Claudia a "mistake/it was never you/etc" making her feel unwanted & unloved by her own Blood Father โ Dropping Louis from the effing ozone layer โ participating in the Trial โ saying at the Reunion that he "gave" Louis to Armand (the same way he ditched Nicki in the books). ๐ If you wanna get mad at someone, get mad at Rolin & Hannah--*EYE* didn't write the show making your uwu blorbo look like an a-hole; I'm just reacting to what's on my dang screen! ๐คฃ๐
So WTF do you mean Sam Reid would be "devastated" seeing what I say about Lestat, when I'm QUOTING HIM DIRECTLY about what HE said about the show HE signed on for and HE read the script for and HE agreed to participate in and act out as said character!?!?!?!? ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Just cuz I'm not guzzling Lestat's bloody peen and I won't hesitate to call him on his bullcrap doesn't mean I can't enjoy him as a character and want him to GET BETTER and STOP being a raging psychopath.
As for Virginia's response to whoever this spineless Nonny is too scared to say anything to my face so they have to have Virginia speak & think for them:
I didn't "fall victim to the subset's brainwashing"--I stopped following you or reading your fanfics when it finally became clear that you had ZERO respect for Louis--your Chateau-Era mpreg fics of him literally being an immobile vessel for you to get your whump fetish in as Louis was constantly bedridden & half-dead carrying Lestat's babies like a literal bedwench & then being brutalized by jealous AF vampires tryna kill Louis just to get him out of the picture to be with Lestat and crying all the effing time about being Fareed's lab rat Tuskegee style increasingly rubbed me and other Black fic readers the wrong way; especially once I saw you start denying that race/racism factored into Louis' CANONICAL significance & life experiences on the show itself. That's when I realized that the brainwashing I fell for was from YOU, and that not all Loustaters writing from Louis' POV do so in good faith for LOUIS' sake, but rather because they're self-admitted Lestans who actually resent/hate Louis and everything he stands for. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
