not an angel

Before we (hopefully) revisit the Paris trial in the finale:

two queer catholic boys and neither of them wanted to roleplay fucking a priest??

How are we feeling about Lestat and Louis after the seance? When they went on a walk and chatted on the bench before getting killed by Armand & Daniel?

I've seen some fans say they seemed too dismissive and that they moved on way too fast after seeing ghost!Claudia and that they should have reacted more or immediately tried to find Madeline. I've also heard others say that it's a realistic depiction of how such a thing can be hard to fully take in at first and sometimes people change the subject to cope.

I'm somewhere in the middle of these two takes but tbh I'm not sure how I feel about that scene now and probably won't until ep 7 comes out but I'm interested to hear your take on it since I haven't seen it discussed as much as everything else that went on in ep 6 (outside of the occasional comment that they "didn't cry hard enough")

hey!! (haha thank you for this question)

for me personally? from an entirely Loustat perspective, that scene was everything i could have asked for. it made me really emotional and just yeah it kind of felt like the kind of quiet/domesticity that Loustat have always been wanting to return to.

but taking my Loustat-tinted glasses off? im still really satisfied with the scene for three main reasons:

the first being that this is the most natural season conclusion for Louis (and Claudia's arcs). i know a lot of people were upset that Louis didn't go on another spiral but...that's the point. we might forget Lestat's line about "ive spent a month and a half talking your back from completely frenzy" (paraphrasing here) due to the intensity of the argument in the same episode, but Louis is healing. Lestat supporting Louis is helping him to some level cope with his grief, they are each other's point of contact/the only people who can get through to each other. that's why Louis calls Lestat when the Fraudia situation starts to go too far because he knows he needs help, and he doesn't want to be stuck in this all-consuming grief. the seance to me is just a final part of this healing journey (for now.) if Louis had spiralled out again i would have been really annoyed because it would have thrown his writing this season out of the window and made the entire plotline pointless.

my second reason is that i think that this is completely in line with the Claudia being a "roof shingle" (in Autumn's interview i really love how Jacob breaks this down.) not to rehash his same reasons, but Claudia being the constant thing that reunites Louis and Lestat is kind of the point and links to Louis being a "selfish bastard". the kind of "anti-climatic" reaction for the seance reminds me a lot of The Great Gatsby. in the novella, Daisy Buchanan is responsible for the murder of Myrtle Wilson and leads to a chain of events that leave Gatsby and George Wilson dead. in spite of this, she and her husband, Tom Buchanan, get away with no punishment and "don't even send a rose" to Gatsby's funeral. in the novella, there is a line i really love that says: "they were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness." whilst i obviously do think that Lestat and Louis do obviously care about their daughter, Claudia was only ever another component that for mixed into the "stormy romance." they don't go on looking for Madeleine. being confronted with the fact that Claudia is in complete Hell, feeling bad but not really doing enough about it is just another pattern in their parenting.

furthermore, i would have found it disrespectful to Claudia's arc had they made that moment about avenging her again. i think people believe that just because Claudia is incredibly well-written and obviously so well liked, this makes her exempt from being a character this still exists to service Louis and Lestat's writing when she always has been. Claudia was never, ever going to have a happy ending. her life was characterised by constant suffering and turmoil from the start ("we made her out of selfishness, we made out of remorse" 1x04) she is perhaps the most tragic character in the series. that is just her arc and it ending in such a sad way is consistent (though heart breaking when you think about Claudeleine)

my last reason is more on the psychological level. i do not think that after the night Louis and Lestat had they were in any mental capacity to address that seance to its full extent. they completely side step this because of painfully traumatic it was. it's a natural reflex to protect yourself to kind of bury your head in the sand, and considering we have one episode left with lots of other loose ends untied, i can understand this approach from a narrative perspective. i definitely think this won't be the last time Claudia is spoken about/mourned, but i do think that obsessive element over her grieving is something that will be reduced in the show from this point on or else i think the storyline would be a bit milked.

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Instead, he got me my own copy of The Hobbit to read for myself when I was around 5 or 6. My mother was a teacher as well, so I started learning to read before I was two years old.

As I said recently, the two Alice books are my favorite children's books of all time. I first read them as a child, and I still re-read them as an adult.

Did I understand everything I read in these books at the time? No. But I was never afraid to ask questions, or look up the info I didn't get, or words I didn't understand... in either an encyclopedia or dictionary. (Because you know, this was a time before the modern internet, of course.)

Anyway, by the time I was 8-9, reading a 300-page book was nothing to me. I never looked at the page counts when I would choose a book to read anyway.

By the time I was 11-12, I could read a 300-page book in a day or so (if I had the time to do so).

When I was 14, I read all of Stephen King's IT in 3 days, over a long weekend.