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"oh wow i thought this fandom was dead" you ignorant slut no fandom is ever truly dead. there will always always always be at least three mentally unwell freaks on the internet irrelevant-posting about their little blorbo(s) who have not been relevant for fifty years. this is the way of the world and they are stronger than you will ever be you FOOL

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You just summed up what I meant on my huge text on my previous post with just two lines, that's incredible

writers, why are we all obsessed with morally gray characters? probably because we’re all morally gray ourselves. don’t @ me.

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I have what might be an unpopular opinion about Interview with the Vampire, but perhaps it could offer some new perspectives to this fandom, and that is:

We are all monsters.

(gif by @sophsun1)

What do I mean by that? Well, I see a lot of discussions about the definition of Lestat and Louis' relationship (is it toxic or abusive?), about how Lestat shouldn’t be that evil, and so on. The thing is, I don’t think any of the characters in this show are entirely good or bad, nor do they make purely good or bad decisions. I believe they reflect what we are as humans: a mixture of both.

What personally attracts me most about this show—beyond Lestat’s hair—is that it creates a space for us to reflect on our own shadows. Sometimes, it’s necessary for a story to create characters who kill, who are abusive, who feel lonely, who are desperate to be loved (no matter the consequences), so we can recognize that we also have those same tendencies—or at least the desire for them. These feelings are so deeply repressed within us that the characters have to be literal supernatural monsters; if they were just regular human beings, it would feel uncomfortably close to home.

And honestly, the world is becoming so moralistic these days. I notice this a lot in our progressive bubble (I’m a radical leftist, by the way). We’ve become so self-conscious about whether we’re doing something wrong, being offensive, or holding an opinion that might get us canceled, that it’s starting to damage our mental health. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not one of those people who says, “hurr durr, the world is too politically correct, we should be able to joke about minorities.” What I mean is that it feels like people are so tense they can’t even enjoy themselves—like someone who can’t climax during sex because they’re too worried about misusing their partner’s pronouns. Chill, dude. You’re human. You’re going to make mistakes.

Anyway, to wrap this up, I think we need to accept that it’s impossible to be a fully “good” person. At some point, we’re all going to be the villain in someone else’s story. Everyone will do something messed up at some point in their lives. That doesn’t mean we should treat our mistakes as virtues, but it also doesn’t mean we should cancel ourselves for every single one of them, define ourselves entirely by them, and enter this endless spiral of guilt.

Let’s integrate our shadows by accepting the monstrous parts of ourselves. 🧛

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Things that are necessary for a good show to be good:

-investigative tropes

-supernatural beings

-gay

-brutal violence

-brutal gay violence

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Well, I've never really actively used Tumblr when I was a teenager, but now here I am. It is never too late, I guess.