This scene is SO widely misinterpreted in the fandom istg! Grace is NOT being homophobic, LOUIS PUT HER KIDS IN DANGER, LEFT HER SON ON THE FLOOR CRYING, BROKE DOWN THE HOUSE DOORS AND TERRIFIED HER DAUGHTERS! OBVIOUSLY SHE'S HORRIFIED THAT HE AND LESTAT HAVE ADOPTED!
Grace always accepted Louis's vampire/queer nature. People forget she was really nice to Lestat & Jonah to the point that Jonah visits her after years and they have food together. She wanted to meet Lestat, teased Louis about his 'french white'. Grace tells Louis he's a 'better you' after she sees his vampire eyes. Calls them beautiful like church windows. Gives him chances upon chances. But she also lost a brother, her happy day ruined and then her older brother leaves her too. Decades of being rebuffed, her children being ignored. Having her financial situation thrown in her face at her mother's funeral by her older brother who THREATENS her. Like I love Louis, but when it comes to Grace, he ruined their relationship all by himself with a little help from Lestat. Dismissed his own sibling as 'human entanglements'. At the end, Grace only has resigned acceptance and still she leaves him with a kiss on the cheek. If I was his little sister, that damn tomb would NOT have been empty!
PS If you identify as Louis De Pointe Du Lac's little sister, you might be entitled to compensation for being abandoned lmao Grace and Claudia need to start a club. But also, do you all think Claudia better understood Grace's anger during Florence's funeral after realising that she would never be Louis's choice?
what if 👉👈 we were both boys 👉👈 and music was seen as something shameful and embarrassing and no longer socially acceptable 👉👈 but we both really loved music anyway even though it was disgusting 👉👈 and we save the entire world from nuclear fallout and bring back music for everyone when you sit down at the piano to figure out the last note of a chord but I sit next to you, smile, and we play the chord together 👉👈
Actually it's okay to be happy for ke huy quan for his win and be mad that he was plummeted into obscurity and unemployment for so long that he lost his health insurance in the middle of a pandemic and feel good that Michelle yeoh won and liked Jamie lee curtis roasting ant man on Twitter but still KNOW that angela Bassett deserved to win over her all while knowing that the Oscars was created for union-busting reasons, because why not? Who is stopping me???
Thrilled that of all the Smartypants presentations to bring out behind the paywall to lure in new subscribers, they chose Paul's presentation. Excellent choice :D
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(it doesn't include the Q&A section though, which is just as funny- arguably funnier- than the presentation alone)
I'll tell you a story. I get to work early in the morning, so when I come in—Yesterday morning we had this big back of six TVs, and one of them has a network on it... and the banner is: If the Florida Panthers lose, is this the Biggest Collapse in Sports History? That damn thing is sitting on the TV and you know, you're waiting for—to roll it, people, let's move it! Fifteen minutes!...So I'm waiting by the door for my video guy to come in and say—...We have these banks, it's a new rink, right? All over it—"Get that network off our TV!" 'Cuz I'm sitting there going, "I don't like it!" and I'm 57! Well, what happens if you're 25? And you're going, "I gotta live 50 more years of being a part of the 'Biggest Collaspe in Sports History'..." So from the loss to the drop of the puck, something has to change, something has to get better, and that would be where I think, I worked. Once the puck's dropped then I was done working. And I liked our first [period] so that was good. That was good, I was at peace with it. I wanted to win, and—but we weren't scrambling around in the first [period] trying to find our game.
paul and his way with his words aka he felt exactly the same way i felt with the leadup to game 7 and how media reacted to it like yeah i was very upset at some point i just started sighing like eeyore till someone put me out of my misery
You know what would be kinda neat? Sitting down Wes Anderson and Paul King and having them chitchat about how they want films to be more whimsical. #wonka #wesanderson #paulking