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Lestat: is there any way I could convince you to not to commit genocide?

Akasha: oh my goddess (me!) It’s not like I’m killing Louis, even though he’s like, a total bummer. Quit your whining.

Lestat: still feels wrong to me

Akasha: ok, what if I don’t stomp Armand like a cockroach? Are you happy now? You’d be prettier if you smiled you know

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Interview with the Vampire Season 2 | Episode 3 "No Pain"

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Commented "Am I allowed to post thirst comments about Eric Bogosian on YouTube dot com?" under a clip of Eric asking if he's allowed to say "the plot thickens" and the comment is GONE! So I guess the answer is NO!

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ykw. i'm actually not even surprised about the apparent doxxing incident at SDCC bc i've had anons roll up in my inbox like it's a drive-through window and call me some of the worst slurs you can imagine for *checks notes* pointing out when AMC is intentionally not promoting their actors of color the way they should if they had even two braincells of sense left to rub together. when you have that kind of energy on the corner of the internet that is this hellsite what else can you not do. take it to the former bird app. IG. ICE. the FBI perhaps

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Every day iwtvtwt reaches new lows of racism. What do you mean some fans were doxxed at the con and people are accusing random black fans they don't like including a literal teenager of being behind it and are harassing them. And saying things like 'it's time to take this fandom back'. Back from fucking who

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assad :)

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The fact people cant acknowledge that in a show that focuses heavily on racism (especially antiblack racism), that the character Lestat, who is a white man who was born in pre-haitian revolution France, was a man about town living in the same Paris where Sara Baartman was displayed as a sexually lavacious freakshow and called "the missing link between man and beast" because she was black and had a fat ass, actively chose to live in Jim Crow Louisiana, was a white mind reader in Jim Crow Louisiana, whos first words to louis, his black husband, are how did a man of your color get into this establishment?, followed swiftly by his second words to louis calling him and lily cinnamon misfit beauties, who complimented nazis on their fashion, who filled his house up with white soldiers when louis touched one black man, who told louis that he should have fucked Santiago (racist white man) because he had pizass over armand (dark-skinned Indian man lestat sees as not sexually satisfying to louis), who ignored and scoffed at louis and Claudia for saying his behavior was racist/microaggressive, ignored louis when he tried to educate him about the racist history of jackson square, made a mass race riot about him and Louis's relationship, says "race doesnt matter" while living as a white man in, and i can not stress this enough, JIM CROW LOUISIANA, damn near pukes when he sees louis with a black man, has louis act as his valet so they can go to segregated shows and operas instead of just... not doing that, keeps a white mistress that he then takes to segregated spaces, lets nicki call armand a straight up slur and says nothing about it, and, once again, can not stress this enough, is French, would in fact be a liberal white racist really fuckin fries me like quite literally what else would he be.

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if you could shrink your mutuals down to 1cm tall. would you?

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this is a weird post but. lestat stans, marius stans, anyone's stans, etc., even if I disagree with you about a character or whatever I want it to be clear I'd never want to harm or dox anyone simply for having an opinion I disagree with. I may rant about that opinion in the heat of the moment or vagueblog or whatever but fandom disagreements should never translate into real-life harm. everything coming out of twitter has been so fucked-up and I hope people on my blog know that I don't want to be Like That, and you shouldn't either. anyway. and if something like that did happen to you I am so sorry and you deserve better.

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Let me see those fangs

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Regarding the SDCC doxxing situation (fucking insane and awful beyond belief), I really don't think the takeaway should be focused on how this damages our 'reputation' as a fandom, as I've seen a few comments about. First off, our reputation sucks, we're insane. Secondly, this isn't a matter of being embarrassed as a community in front of the creators. This is about CRIMES being committed in the name of a vampire show. Specifically racially targeted crimes. Remove the fandom aspect. It's a group of people threatening and making false reports about another group of largely racialised people, resulting in police action, awful management by SDCC, and likely long-lasting trauma for the victims.

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Autumn Brown made a video on the horrific racism and doxxing on display at SDCC this year.

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Moses Sumney (who's playing Louis' lawyer in the grainy SDCC trailer) is also on the playlist, what are we even doing. Imagine filming that scene across from the two guys featured on your yearning ex-situationship's playlist

im sorry, o'connor was still adding sad songs to his sam reid playlist ten years later? either the sex was mindblowing or their breakup was the stuff of nightmares. or maybe o'connor is just suuuuuuper clingy who's to say

what sam reid’s bush does to a mf..

no it’s crazy and what’s even crazier is that in 2016. josh added a RALEIGH RITCHIE song to the sam reid playlist 😭 jam soulmated so hard even situationships were predicting it.

here’s some josh sam pics i can definitely see baby boy josh latching on

anyway here’s the playlist wonder what he thinks about it suddenly getting 900 saves

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loumand microfic event prompts are out!

aug 9 — modern/ancient, word count: 128

128 boys he’s brought here. And you’re the first he didn’t consummate and drain.

aug 10 — stars/moon, word count: 514

What's a mediocre star to a 514 year old vampire?

aug 11 — recognition/misunderstanding, word count: 101

How many vampires? Not many, I’m afraid. Maybe 100. 101.

aug 12 — blooming/wilting, word count: 150

A company that had been in existence for 150 years.

aug 13 — boat/harbor, word count: 77

We’ve been together 77 years, Daniel. Shall we let the math of that settle?

aug 14 — teeth/mouth, word count: 138

138 pounds for the metrically challenged. Metronomic, my Rashid.

aug 15 — altar/sacrifice, word count: 42

The final words of her victims. There were 42 pages, if I remember correctly.

aug 16 — mirror/stranger, word count: 180

180 years old... this coming November.

this event will be running from august 9th to august 16th. participants can choose whichever theme of the two they want for their work, or use both. the bolded numbers are the suggested word count for each prompt. more on the rules here. please @ this blog and tag with #loumandmicroficevent if you choose to participate. daily reminders of the prompts will be posted when the event begins. excited to see what everyone does! 💗

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Everything's coming up Ellery, I managed to get into a full splits on the leg with the hamstring I tore in February, AND I was just informed I'm done all my econ requirements for my degree. Good day

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okay, iwtv cast height chart for all your research needs

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today i am thinking about one of louis de pointe du lac’s primary character traits being his eagerness to punch down and how i feel as though this aspect of him gets incredibly defanged within most discussions of him. far from a helpless fool or a stereotypical perfect victim, louis’ relationship to his own victimhood at the hands of lestat, armand, and wider systems of white supremacy is deeply complex. he is a character that comes from a sharecropping family that can no longer turn a profit—likely because of their race—and so he turns to a mechanism of exploitation of primarily black women where we see him onscreen basically tell one of those black women she’s overreacting to being sexually assaulted, and i believe this is because louis not only sees the alderman as too important for a sex worker to criticize, but also as someone he’d like to emulate and have the same social respect as because of a false belief it will relieve him from his subjugation.

louis is a character that is convinced he *deserves* a lot—deserves wealth, deserves a seat at the white man’s table because of his willingness to exploit whatever economic avenues are available, etc. he advocates for himself to “deserve” these things through his participation in primarily misogynoir—his dehumanizing treatment of miss lily for instance, up to and including him and lestat’s first time happening *over her unconscious body* and him not realizing she’s dead until he’s seeking out emotional comfort. it’s essential to note none of this actually erases the realities of white supremacy and that again and again, louis is victimized by it, and again and again he struggles against it with very little tools and no solidarity with others or solidarity from others to him (including lestat’s refusal to understand his experiences when he is the only person in his life for seven years). of course this extends to his treatment of claudia, who, in his misogyny, he was hardly able to comprehend having her own internal world that extended beyond his and lestat’s fight over who she “takes after”/who should be her primary patriarch.

we even see it in his threatening of grace, a character the fandom is honestly incredibly unkind to in their interpretations, despite her being extremely reasonable as she sees her brother participate in systems of exploitation and become increasingly violent. in their relationship i really do believe vampirism is primarily a metaphor for the parasitic ruling class and that louis’ insistence on self actualizing himself and providing for his family at the expense of others is one of the primary reasons their relationship dissolves. grace, who married levi (dark skinned, implied to be less wealthy) doesn’t seem as interested as florence in staying bourgeois for instance. i could make an entire post about how complicated grace and louis’ relationship is and defend grace dpdl all day but that’s for another post.

of course it is lestat who is the head patriarch, mostly by virtue of his whiteness and ability to weaponize it, where he places louis in what’s referred to as a “housewife” like position. once lestat is displaced however—in this case through death—louis’ strangulation on claudia (who is structured in the story as being a replacement for the brothel workers) tightens significantly. claudia is kept from being her own person by both lestat and louis, to the point where she starts omitting things from her diary like her own dreams probably bc she is afraid louis will betray her trust and peruse them again. and dreaming is a very literal internal world—one claudia keeps away from louis bc of how he’s abused access to it in the past, up to and including her sexual encounters. it also doesn’t escape me that the way he discusses her experience with bruce is very reminiscent of fathers believing their daughters have become “unclean”—centering a violent revenge narrative of murdering bruce before really extending anything emotionally helpful to claudia. and *of course* he can’t be emotionally helpful to claudia, because he hasn’t even processed his own experiences with lestat coercing him into companionship and sex.

but he still understands it deep in his bones, the anger and shame it makes him feel, and we see him direct this inability to grapple with his own victimhood to armand, whose victimhood he mocks (also by using language like “good nurse” and “little bitch” both bc because being a victim is emasculating as lestat emasculated him and because if louis sees armand as less of a man he doesn’t need to provide him with emotional bandwidth to consider how their experiences might mirror each other and make louis come to terms with his own abuse). i find the 2x4 bts really interesting because jacob describes seeing armand as more of a “doormat” and “easier to manipulate” than lestat, which is a big motivation for seeing him as a potential companion (and let me actually make the caveat i don’t think this is malicious but moreso that he sees armand as something that needs protection and by golly does ldpdl love resolving himself to save people that might not even need it) and even though this turns out to be untrue, i still think it’s a fascinating look into how louis rationalizes his relationship with armand and how he does see it as a mechanism to reclaim his power and with it his manhood.

in sanfran specifically, he even targets gay men (and v likely survival sex workers with what we know of daniel) during the AIDS crisis, an incredibly vulnerable group that could be killed without any attention from members outside of their community. he lives in dubai where he and armand (also a big fan of punching down on the most vulnerable) keep a blood farm and employ primarily south asian migrant workers in an economy built on the slave labor of those communities. louis is a character that i believe likes to have a layer of separation from cruelty, and a man who wants to be good, but who also has no qualms about using exploitative systems and circumstances to make things convenient and/or affirming for him.

he’s just as complicated as every other character in the show but discussion of him either swings in the direction of refusing to discuss his participation in abuse ever, and it’s frustrating particularly with how much it disregards claudia’s own recollection of her experiences, but at the same time you can hardly fault people for that bc it’s an overcorrection to the other way it swings—where louis is positioned as lestat’s abuser with the same sort of racist defamation 2x7 spent its entire runtime deconstructing. but regardless, iwtv is fantastic at showing how “abuser” and “abused” are not stagnant categories and how many of the characters we empathize with as victims will participate in subjugation of others 1. because they want to be their own person and 2. they’ve only ever seen individuality and power as represented by unilateral violence at the hands of their abusers.

i’m rlly rlly interested in where this will go in s3, because so much of his interview was about accountability for what he did specifically to claudia, but i also love him as the “most vampiric vampire” and how a vampire, by virtue of their existence, cannot escape hurting others. louis just doesn’t necessarily do it through hunting humans for blood, but by hunting them for labor. he devours them still, just in a very different way.