"FUCK YEAH Princess Diaries!"

EPISODE 1: the long face performance

originally I was like oh thats a cool shot and its artsy because lestat is performing, awesome, no biggie completely unsuspecting

but then we get to...

EPISODE 2: Coffee bar before lawyer scene???

this one confused me so much. and everybody is acting like this shot isnt suspicious as fuck. WHY!!!! ROLIN IM IN YOUR WALLS!!!!

AND THEN!

EPISODE 3: car fire

I would get it if we were still inside the car post crash bc the car itself was upside-down but lestat is already standing on the road looking at the car on fire......why are we looking at him through the fire upside-down specifically???

Many neonazis and their ilk are okay with their icons being portrayed negatively as long as that negativity takes the form of a powerful and threatening figure. They like identifying themselves with Big Scary Destroyer. It's a power fantasy for them.

That's why, for instance, Trump's incoherence when speaking doesn't bother them. His incoherence is taken, by and large, very seriously. The man opens his mouth and drops a bunch of verbal turds - and the world panics, or at the least gets very, very nervous. Not unjustifiedly, it's true, but the power fantasy of being able to say whatever they want and get taken seriously is still vicariously fulfilled.

But the Reflecting Pool? The Reflecting Pool wasn't supposed to be broken. It's not something Trump destroyed for the sheer pleasure of destruction, which is how Trump's base experienced his gutting of the government via Musk. The Reflecting Pool is something that was supposed to be improved, which he boasted about improving, and instead it's clearly turned to muck. There's no power fantasy there. There's nothing to gloat over; it's just a damp gross failure. It isn't even a catastrophic failure! Tearing down the East Wing of the White House was dramatic, and had the value of making a big, indelible change to a national icon. No matter what happens, the East Wing as we knew it is gone. Power fantasy. By contrast, the Reflecting Pool? It's just fuckin dirty. It's gross. It's your neighbor's neglected cheap pool that's full of dead leaves and slime. An entirely pedestrian, grody, pathetic failure. It would literally be more salvageable as a PR thing for Trump if it got hit by a meteor and turned into a smoking crater.

Anyway, the person who got me as their secret friend this time is definitely a kid. This is the cutest note I've ever gotten in my life 😭