Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛

Arguably a person. Mostly horror talk.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

@witchesflight Even the train revelation is solely about the rape threat and Claudia’s ability to manipulate Louis. The false imprisonment is the part that justified her actually murdering him instead of leaving and that still stands, even tho it wouldn’t be enough to justify it for Louis.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

@lestatapologia @amadeogroomer @reve0314 Raglan is a really fun villain precisely because he’s so compulsive that you want to assume there’s more there, but then you dig in and spiritually he’s the Hamburglar. David has layers!

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

@timenotheboss Everything is grist for the fan wars and it makes it so frustrating to try to engage with anything earnestly because one or the other will try to claim it as evidence for their “side.” Thank you for taking my post in the spirit in which it was intended, that’s so rare on here 💜

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

@timenotheboss I am very glad to hear you liked what I had to say and also still very sorry you had to deal with people using your tweet to support their own negativity. Basically every sector of this fandom can be so toxic in some ways, whether they love the show or hate the show.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

@timenotheboss I usually get like 5 likes so the level of engagement on my recent posts is really unprecedented. If I’d realized it would get that much attention, I would have made my own post without reference to yours.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

@timenotheboss I am really sorry if my QT drew negative attention to you. My post wasn’t intended to disparage your opinion at all, your post just prompted a lot of thoughts on how I saw her purpose in the book and show.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

I know we all have our complaints about AMC’s IWTV merch but I just learned for Orphan Black: Echoes they sell a slime with an “sophisticated fragrance befitting of the show”. Show aired in 2024 and this slime is still for sale, btw; AMC is sending someone a rock in a jar.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

I’m not saying any of this is more than hinted at, esp since Armand mostly peaced out once Louis was on Regina’s hook. But I can see connective tissue that ties this storyline in to the themes surrounding long-term adverse reactions to abuse that have been explored thru the show.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

while of course still continuing not to examine how much of the power held in their relationship was in fact his, since Louis was the one trading sex for safety while Armand clung for psychological survival (plus all the brainwashing).

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

As well as the threads about how Armand’s history of abuse in the form of trafficking impacted his view of their relationship, as was brought up in this episode. Armand creating a new transactional relationship to torture Louis and himself with, etc.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

Which connects to threads about his relationship with Marius and how that impacted his relationship with Louis, Armand wanting a master but needing a love that will cradle him like a child, “no one has painted me in 400 years,” being seen and not seen by Louis the artist, etc.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

It brings another layer to the incest dynamics thru the season in that, while it certainly touches on the emotional incest between Louis and Claudia present since S1, this is also an incest *fantasy* crafted by a romantic partner putting himself in the role of daughter.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

#tvlspoilers Didn’t think there was much more to say about Lolita connections for the rest of the Regina plot but the fact that it was all engineered by Armand, who became a victim of CSA at 12 as Dolores did, feels like it might be relevant.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

#tvlspoilers Well, well, well. Looks like Louis’ relationship with the lost daughter he longs for has been reduced to a crass financial transaction.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

I didn’t initially know how to feel about that revelation, but thinking about it through the lens of Armand wanting to interact with Louis through the eyes of someone whose face he actually looks on with love -a proxy for his daughter- actually ties some threads together a bit.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

@soft_serve_hky Yeah, Baby Jenks is also the first vampire in the books who was born in the modern era, and her chapter gives insight into the new generations of vampires - she’s in a gang, they use street names like Baby Jenks and Killer, they’re poor and young instead of old aristocrats, etc.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

She’s Baby Jenks because, just as in QoTD, she provides a revelation about the metaphysics of the universe. She’s the first soul that Lestat sees in a season that concludes with Lestat having his own soul judged and weighed as he dies.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

@hamstercrime You’re welcome! I love trading all the little threads (silver threads, I guess) from the show back to the books so I’m glad you also enjoyed reading it!

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

@soft_serve_hky On the show her husband “Killer” is the pedophiliac rapist who went after Claudia, so we can probably assume she has a similar background of exploitation, especially since she was also used as a honey trap by the Fang Gang.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

@soft_serve_hky It’s just the name that the character who serves the same purpose has in the books. In the book Baby Jenks was a 14 yo runaway who was trafficked before becoming a vampire. Her pimp emphasized her youth by putting her in pigtails, so that’s probably also where her name came from.

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

(Over in Mayfair Witches world there’s ghosts all over the place so “proof of the existence of the soul” really should be less of a revelation to Raglan, at least, but we get to have our own metaphysical revelations here in TVL land.)

[Night of 1000 Kates 🐈‍⬛ @katyterror]

But in the hindsight of The Failures recording, he recognizes Baby Jenks as his first soul, and the first evidence that a soul in fact exists in this show. She’s also a sad little tale of vampiric life as she is in the book, but her primary purpose is as a seer of the afterlife.