"the slave narrative represents the attempts of blacks to write themselves into being. what a curious idea: through the mastery of formal western languages, the presupposition went, a black person...
The Ontological Pimp. Pimpity Pimp Pimp. Because Pimping Pimping Pimp. Lying Pimp. What a massive fuck you to your past selves, your now former fans, to anyone who isn’t a complete shill who’d watch anything. 0/10.
iwtv writers decided to respond to fandom in the most uncompelling manner just acquiescing to nonsense that's no rhythm with the prior seasons antiblackness the bludgeon to substance
the violence that armand suffered is not equivalent to the violence the black women under louis' employ suffered and this is made clear by the paradigm of violence the writers room through armand and other nonblack characters rely on
not watching that shit let me stick with the antiblackness of bon temps at least that's established from the start and gives cohesion to the narrative in a way that makes sense
the most unbelievable thing to me about the tvl season finale is louis being a stronger telepath than armand. can't even respect magic. we have come to expect the antiblack violence. idk why armand is torturing louis and regina when that would've been peak season 2 material.
Afropessimism does not argue that variation in class among Black people doesn't matter, it argues that the world's foundation is antiBlackness to such a degree that even (neocolonial) countries with Black leadership operate upon the enslavement of its Black citizens.