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jgy has done nothing wrong, ever, in his life ★ mdzs/cql, occasionally tolkien ★ xiyao, suyao and all things a-yao ★ ru/eng/fr ★ she/her

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@ardy_public "this character has trauma" is like saying "this story has a plot". okay, what's the plot then???

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@ardy_public some people really act like saying "this character has Trauma" is like. the peak of character analysis. like no?? what is his trauma, where does it come from, how does it manifest, how does it affect his relationships with other people, how does he cope with it???

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@TinotendaH18950 @RomanticR81537 @oscardiedrichs @RoyIsThaTruth as i said, naive to the point of delusion

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@TinotendaH18950 @RomanticR81537 @oscardiedrichs @RoyIsThaTruth first of all, if you genuinely believe that, you're either delusional or lethally naive. and second, yeah, of course it's harder to kidnap a child off of school premises. do you know why?

because of the protocols like this existing.

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@helioophelioo yeah, the common denominator is the subpar writing in S3 that lescels finally seem to be waking up to.

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@TinotendaH18950 @RomanticR81537 @oscardiedrichs @RoyIsThaTruth "what you can't control" girl. a school's pick-up protocol is literally a way to CONTROL who can and can't pick a child to lower the chance of them getting kidnapped. do you genuinely not understand how regulations work or are you pretending to be dumb for shits and giggles.

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@TinotendaH18950 @RomanticR81537 @oscardiedrichs @RoyIsThaTruth "most" =/= "all". you feel like gambling with your child's life? trying to see if they're unfortunate enough to become the exception?

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@louisoftroy there's no limit to book canon divergence i can accept because i frankly have little loyalty to the books, but the show still needs to CONVINCE me that the characters have interiority and motivations, and that their actions make sense (for them, at least)

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@louisoftroy like i don't even mind that plotline as a general concept, but what was his fucking GOAL? what was he trying to achieve with that? he didn't NEED regina to get louis decapitated and tied to a chair, he could've done that all the way back in dubai if he'd wanted to

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@dykeclary i've seen people claiming that the CRITICISM of the show is actually a symptom of fascism

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@dykearmand they didn't *just* change the races in S1-S2 though, that's the thing. lestat crashing out over the "falsehoods" in the book read very differently when the premise of the dubai interview was CORRECTING louis' uncharitable portrayal of lestat in san fran in the first place

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@rockstatgroupie it's like the writers dislike armand too much to try and write him with some genuine sympathy (despite having lestat, who notably DOES feel sympathy for armand, as their POV character) but are also trying to capitalise on the complexity and poor little meow meow-ness of bookmand

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@rockstatgroupie whereas S3!armand is either weirdly defanged OR a moustache-twirling villain with no in-between and no rhyme or reason to it

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@TheDarkRock_ so that's what "writing from the gut" actually meant

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@xpinkturnsblue that's the thing though, *he* didn't write that. iirc i read somewhere that jacob and delainey improvised that little detail

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@twoboyarmyy that's why i've been unable to sit down and do any sort of proper breakdown/deeper analysis of the themes and character arcs and such lmao. because i know i'd HAVE to rewatch it, and i'm so much not feeling that

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@NinPotato1 @bloodarsenic well, yeah, you wouldn't, because that's a normal human reaction

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@NinPotato1 @bloodarsenic louis not telling him once they were back on speaking terms and in the process of reconciling is the one thing where he was fully in the wrong

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@NinPotato1 @bloodarsenic lestat *was* louis' abuser in that part of their relationship though. that's kinda the thesis statement of the whole show. "are we the sum of our worst moments?". their story *is* a story of love AND abuse. and pain, and grief, and trauma, the whole package.