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ldpdl, ethnicity, and the false monolith of blackness

there's this false tendency to think amc louis being made black is pandering, or a means of removing louis from his oh-so-detailed /sarcasm/ background in the books. i also find that people tend to not even understand what show louis's ethnic background is, despite rolin jones the showrunner and even the fictional louis both coalescing around this multigenerational explanation of the gens de couleur in new orleans, and how jim crow disempowered them.

I came around to his ethnicity a sort of interesting way which is through Lestat. [ … ] I was like lets give him a legitimate a third attempt at figuring how to be with somebody for the rest of his life and how to not repeat your mistakes. [ … ] I started from there so it had to be someone with some money cause he had to be with his own folks and I thought he wanted someone who could fight back and who could be a challenge and would force him to restrain himself. And nobody at AMC was interested in 7 seasons of the regretful plantation owner, so we made Louis come from a lineage that did have a plantation and did own slaves.

rolin jones in the s1 post-finale episode of the podcast names how he came to this understanding of louis's character. lestat, after failing to make a bride of his mother, and a concubine of nicki, was seeking for someone of a similar background, or the most approximate equivalent. he would not have been interested in louis if louis was an anglophone baptist black man descended from upper-south arrivals into new orleans, nor would he have been interested in louis if louis was a poor black creole honestly s1 does not give a good reading of claudia's ethnic bg in new orleans, but since she cannot understand french, we can presume shes either a poor creole removed from her cultural background with her vampiric adoption narrative in mind, or was also of an anglophone baptist black background like claudia was. louis coming from this fallen sort of gentry, the free gens de couleur, similar to that of the tvl lestat who came from this barren aristocracy dating back to the crusades, was key to lestat's long-term goals with louis.

Capital accrued from plantations of sugar and the blood of men who looked like my great grandfather but did not have his standing. But then decades of Jim Crow and the electrified light of a new century had vanquished any idea of a free man of color. - AMC IWTV 1x01

louis was of the first generations of the gens de couleur to be born, raised into, and face the institutional and personal ramifications of being viewed as black in america. this fuels much of the character's rage as he moves through storyville, trying to continue the similar modality of exploitation to the contrary of pretty baby with brooke shields, majority of the brothel circuit was statistically black girls + women being sexually pawned off to white men but ultimately failing to do so bc of the anglophone white american class that now rules over him. [tom anderson, alderman fenwick, finn o’shea starting out as louis’s subordinate then ending w/ him entering whiteness by having a sporting house throwing torches at louis’s brothel in s1e3]

By 1850, the free population of color, beset by the hostility of white supremacy, was economically diminished and residentially segregated. The Americanization of Louisiana, and in particular New Orleans, was completed before the state became the sixth to secede from the Union in 1861 in the struggle over the perpetuation of slavery. [link] The Democratic redeemers who came to power in 1877 lost no time in redefining the Negro's "place" in Louisiana life. They immediately restored the color line in the New Orleans public schools and offered silent support to de facto segregation practices in places of public accommodation. With the assistance of two landmark decisions by the United States Supreme Court, the redeemers soon dismantled the egalitarian legal apparatus put together piece by piece under the Radicals. Finally in 1890 they began to write their "final solution" into Louisiana law with a series of "separate but equal" statutes. Soon New Orleans Negroes were again segregated in virtually every public pursuit. [link]

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On that note, I want to spotlight the fundraiser for an Afro-Palestinian journalist, and Lama Jamous' uncle. He has less of a following amongst allies because he posts almost entirely in Arabic, so I'm going to spotlight him on my blog and put him on the fundraiser list as well.

And please follow him on IG as well, even if you only speak English he has small captions on the videos he posts that translate his Arabic.

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everyone wake up louis is an anchorite .

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Sudan still desperately needs aid--it needs a lot of things, but it is approaching a dangerous point with famine and mass death due to hunger imminent.

These are the kinds of headlines we're getting now:

Here's an ongoing fundraiser:

I linked it before, to help with Ramadan, but it's an ongoing initiative, the need has not stopped.

I picked this gofundme because it's been boosted by people I trust and you can see pictures online of the food they've provided, e.g.:

But I also picked this because you can see the amount of donations. It's 2pm ET on Saturday, April 20th right now? For the next week, whatever's donated, I'll match for a total up to $2,000 (we'll say 2,750 CAD, since the gofundme is in Canadian dollars).

You don't have to send me a receipt, I just ask that you donate and boost.

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Im curious.

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ASSAD ZAMAN Watching #InterviewWithTheVampire is better with a companion.

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JACOB ANDERSON Why You Should Watch Interview with the Vampire X

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🇵🇸 Lama Jamous, nicknamed the youngest journalist in Palestine, has evacuated Gaza 💚

🔸Source: WearThePeace and @Lama_jamous9

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Here are some evacuation fundraisers from today:

Ghydaa Nabhan & Oday Moghari

They need help to get to Rafah and evacuate so Ghydaa can continue her treatment.

Kareem & His Family

Kareem is an ER surgeon with family members who have worsening medical conditions and can no longer stay in Gaza. They need help to evacuate to Egypt.

Moamin & His Family of 20

Moamin is SO CLOSE to their goal and being able to evacuate their huge family out of Gaza!!

Hassan & His Family of 10

Hassan has eight children in his family, and bed-ridden himself- facing the possibility of having his leg amputated. They are seeking to evacuate Gaza for better health and a more sterile environment.

Sara's Family

Sara's family is currently in Gaza, while her ill father made it to Egypt, much of her family is still in Gaza and wants nothing more than to get them out.

Alaa, Ola, & Hanaan

Alaa and Ola are both mothers of young children and are looking for support in the way of diapers, formula, passports, visas, etc. They're hope is to leave their home, as much as thay hurts to do.

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All of these fundraisers are verified through this Linktree called Funds for Gaza.

GoFundMe's minimum required donation is $5.00 (USD). So if you can afford that, please consider sending some help these folks' way!

Or take a look at the Operation Olive Branch spreadsheet for more verified links to fundraisers to help people evacuate Gaza.

It takes less than five minutes (less if you already have a GoFundMe account) and it helps save peoples lives. So please donate if you can and if you can't at least reblog this!

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

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can anybody help me with $25 to eat today? 💖

cash/venmo: hoekravitz

paypal.me/ryanhawkins23

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Inspired by the fact that I am rewatching my first ghibli movie spirited away

Please reblog for bigger sample size

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This post is old but glad to see a fellow hater. I'm still angry 🙃 haven't read Kingdom since then.

And thank you for telling me about the rest, that way if I ever decide to read past that point I won't get my hopes up at all.

Without any spoilers, would you say if the boys' arcs (Shin / Ei Sei / Mouten / Ouhon's) make it worth picking it back up ?

(I dare not ask if my girl Karyo Ten gets another interesting arc that isn't love-related.......)

Okay so I’ve been hyping up Kingdom (Yasuhisa Hara’s manga, not the netflix series) to anyone I know for around 7 years now but lately the quality of Hara’s writing has been dropping. Now I wasn’t too mad about the whole unrealistic wins for our hero because that’s just how a shounen is sometimes and I didn’t expect the writing to be perfect for the whole run of such a long story.

But this whole bullshit with Kyoukai … this whole bullshit …

HARA decided to write a female character so strong that anybody reading would know she’s actually stronger than the hero Shin. HARA made that choice, so he should have gone all the way with it and allowed her and her unit to break away from the Hi Shin Unit and become truly independent. She’s said already that she wants to become a  Great General of the Heavens too - she can’t do that if she remains Shin’s lieutenant. She knows that so why would she defy her hierarchy’s orders and continue merging her forces with Shin’s and answering to him ??

Obvious : Hara wants to write a slow burn love story AND he does not have a replacement character for her as lieutenant with strength and wits on the same level as her - if she’s replaced and the Hi Shin Unit remains just as strong everybody will call bullcrap. 

But I was like, okay. Guess we can’t expect too much for women in this story. I was quite happy with what I got still because her character, and Karyo Ten’s, were very well explored  and had some serious spotlight from time to time  (at least back then…).

But now. NOW this transparent writing ploy to WEAKEN her …. obviously because it’s time for Shin to be seen as ThE StroNGesT tO Be, even by the readers ! I was already so mad with this whole thing that’s been unfolding, about him dying and her doing some mystical technique to bring him back using her entire remaining  lifespan and sacrificing herself… But when their dead friends shoved her back to life too, after she managed to save Shin, I was really relieved…

And now they’re using this whole thing to explain to her that “ThE AmbERS oF YouR LiFe ArE WeaKer” aka not only will she have a shorter life (I expected that) BUT she ALSO won’t be able to use some techniques anymore, or not as well as before… aka the author weakened her.

He did not kill her because he still wants her to be Shin’s love interest. But he weakened her on purpose so Shin could shine more…

I hate I hate I hate I hate I hate I hate I hate I HATE IT !!!!!

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i need everyone to hear the story of colman domingo meeting his husband bc it's just the most beautiful thing i've ever heard

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Okay so my birthday is on the 21st of this month and I usually love gifts but I don't give a fuck about that this year.

All I want is for people to donate what they can to this disabled elderly Black woman named Beverly. She has Multiple Sclerosis and is unable to move or use her hands or legs. Her wheelchair is her only way she can lift herself or turn over, otherwise it hurts her to stay in one position because then she will get very painful bedsores.

Beverly needs a new custom wheelchair (which she operates with her head) and ceiling lift, and her GoFundMe is close to her target. She's at $26,317, and her goal is $34,575. She just needs $8,259 to be able to have the freedom to move and help manage her disability.

Please please PLEASE donate what you can to her. She reminds me a lot of my mom whom I don't speak with anymore, and maybe that's a selfish reason, but her situation breaks my fucking heart and makes me want to cry hard. I want and need to help Beverly, and I need your help.

Please do Beverly a kindness and donate what you can to her. Let that be my birthday gift. I just want her to reach her goal and have that dignity and ability to move and avoid bedsores and immobility.

We can help Beverly get to where she needs and have her needs met. Every dollar, even a single solitary dollar, helps so much.

Here is the link to her GoFundMe, and a Twitter thread about it that brought it to my attention in the first place, as well as her TikTok for more information.

Thank you. Bless you. I love you.

Let's share the love with Beverly too. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖

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DELAINEY HAYLES and JACOB ANDERSON as Claudia and Louis in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SEASON TWO (2024)