The Bastard Of Gold

You should be able to add anyone you want on your health insurance plan.

You should be able to sponsor the visa of anyone you choose to move to your home country.

You should be able to name anyone you choose as the legal-from-birth legal coparent of any child you give birth to.

You should be able to apply for student aid on your own at any age.

Like I have loved this show for so many years. I have told people it's in my top 3 shows of all time for so long (even though they never know about Infinity Train). I have seen every episode so many, many times despite rarely being a person to rewatch tv shows.

And no matter how many times I watch it, no matter how many times I finish it, the ache it leaves behind is genuinely as painful as it was the first time when this show ended in 2021. It's not even just that the pain is because it was cancelled. It just always leaves me so emotional and hollow because it's just such a fantastic piece of media. It is a masterclass in handling character driven narratives. It has such clever and unique world building. It never holds your hand or looks down on its audience, expecting you to connect the dots and piece things together. It tackles such heavy subject matter each and every season with so much love and care. Every single protagonist, whether it's Tulip or Lake or Jesse or Simon or Grace or Min-gi or Ryan, is written with so much nuance and complexity.

But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.

And guess what? It didn’t change a thing about how Louis and Lestat treated her. She’s still a victim. Still a bandaid for a shitty marriage. Still a roof shingle that flew off of their house. They still doomed her to an eternity of misery.

I do think Lestat saw her the most clearly though. He saw how monstrous she could be and loved her all the more for it, not in spite of it. Stained Glass Eyes, while self-indulgent, is more about how he thinks she might react to him rather than purely his own grief. He was complicit in killing her, after all. It doesn’t mean he can’t love her. Love between vampires can be countless things.

I know people post this quote a lot, but it’s a really good one.