im going to write a long meta on the unholy family anyway given the amount of cope ive seen in regards to the seance, but i do need to say one thing now. if your first response to Claudia's pain, outrage and breaking down in that scene where she finally gets across her innermost feelings is to say: "oh she's a ghost this isn't how she actually feels" you. don't. like. Claudia.
the very same people who clung to the Train Scene to eternally victimise her, and took her word as gospel back then, are the same ones now claiming not to believe her when she is finally speaking her truth. is our love for Claudia conditional? do we only love the season one Claudia who is a "girlboss feminist" who creates a plan to murder the "evil white patriarch"? do we not love her when she attacks her black father figure (because supposedly black men are incapable of causing black women any pain right?) for the multiple times he failed her in her life?
there seems to be selective understanding of the black characters in this show. when they do something "acceptable" (e.g. killing Lestat) they are treated like martyrs by the fanbase. the minute they step out of this role fans want to box then into (e.g. ghost!Claudia or the Regina plotline) this is somehow racist character writing because people don't want to accept that black characters are allowed to be imperfect.
it's always "female rage" until it's a black woman. and this time supposedly all of said black woman's anguish and hatred towards the men who mistreated her entire life somehow is not real because it doesn't fit the kind of idea of female rage that people want.
i just can't.
