You want an example of finding fandom antiblackness in the wild, OUTSIDE of Tumblr? I get TVL updates because I watch the trailers, and one of the "original Anne Rice" fans was talking about why she didn't like the new series. And one of the things she did was make a decent argument that it should have been an original series.
But one line just sent me into hysterics as I realized that I was back in KKKaren territory.
"Changing Louis from a reluctant slave owner to a willful pimp alters him from a tragic Byronic anti-hero caught in a net of despair, to a strong willed black man who willing sells women for profit. Again, a fascinating story, but not Louisβs."
RELUCTANT SLAVE OWNER.
WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE VALUE OF THE NARRATIVE OF A RELUCTANT SLAVE OWNER π€£π€£π€£π€£ that poor poor owner of human beings who feels so bad about it π€£ bruh. I'm sorry. Like. No please, actually. I dont think that between the Black man running a brothel, and a white man who owns human beings, that the one who owns human beings is the one whose perspective I should value equally π€£
Also, "strong willed" is crazy when you consider all the bullshit Louis has let slide π like this entire argument is racist in and of itself (as if Louis too, is not tragic and caught in a web of despair in everything he goes through, diminished down to an Angry Black Pimp in this white woman's eyes) but to suggest that somehow I'm supposed to feel more sorry... For the slave owner... OKAY! Sometimes character analysis... Is incorrect and racist...
It's the #wickedwomenauthor, btw. The content creator who shared this tiktok.
It was racist about Claudia, too actually! Adultified her!
"Changing Claudia to a 14 year old lesbian alters her storyline from the horror of being trapped in a childβs body, to sexual liberation in war-torn France. An intriguing plotline, but not Claudiaβs."
As if Claudia being 14 somehow stops her from dealing with... The horror of being trapped in a child's body... As if 14 is not a child... The very thing that half of the first season and all of the second season addresses... The WHOLE TIME SHE'S THERE... π€¦πΎββοΈ I'm telling y'all like it's so easy to think because someone's being "sweet voiced" that they're not still being extremely racist. WOW. I'm telling y'all racism severely impairs media comprehension. Anne Rice fans do NOT deserve well written Black characters ππ














