Gender-affirming surgery, to me:
• getting as many organs removed as I can comfortably live without
• extra hole, for penetration
• stigmata
• autopsy scars
one book detail i always liked is that after lestat is turned, he sends his nieces a dollhouse. he then gives claudia dolls, and finally claudia meets madeleine, a dollmaker. even in searching for a new family, claudia still seeks out memories of how lestat loved