Even Bruce, flopped over with missing vertebrae, called Louis out on his bullshit. I’m afraid this season every character has a bat with “accountability” written on it, and they’re all in line to give LDPL a whack.
And I also got that hollow feeling in Bruce’s death bc Delainey is right, it should have been done when she was still alive to see, years before, or by her own hand. It being a self centered, self serving, guilt ridden action by Louis changed nothing.
Rolin called Damien Atkins and said “The role is yours if you promise to outgay Ben Daniels in the most evil and disturbing way” and Damien took this goal seriously. #tvlspoilers
I hope they keep Gabi up front and center to make the audience confront the way we moralize/sentimentalize motherhood. Yep, she's a monstrous mother! She's Medea, a womb that's a tomb, she's inverts the natural maternal order, and Jennifer is acting her ass off.
For whatever uninterrogated reason, all my most verklempt moments are around Claudia: "me and you, you and me," her execution, narration of the missing diary pages, and now Regina (who needs to drop the apron and find a new line of work in a new city in a new state). #tvlspoilers
im sorry to break it to some of you but armand did not teach louis the cloud gift and discovering /learning new vampiric powers feels like a vital part of louis own journey towards self acceptance
that ‘are you gonna teach me to be a man, lestat de valois’ was delivered so nastily it almost made me want to see lestat fuck someone that isn’t louis, which isn’t like me at all
Researching the history of family abolition theory, and 70s queer liberation (and its radical, utopic reimagining of society) failed with the rise the New Right, neoliberalism, the AIDs epidemic. The project then became one of assimilation (homonormativity).
@bisson_mark@autumnstigmata Queer as in subversive to social norms, queer as in taboo, queer as in dissident, and queer as in strange and hard to understand. LGBT media right now is very, VERRRY sterile compared to the weird and subversive art from the 1960s-1990s.
There’s a critique here of Louis’s clinging to norms with the creation of the unholy family and a critique of its failure (Lestat talks about it in Blood Communion as an imitation of mortal life).