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she/her, 22

[zarah @springweeps]

@cherrymp32000 absolutely!!

[zarah @springweeps]

i really dislike the disengenous “why are you surprised the vampires are bad in bad vampires show” deflection people make in response to criticism. the vampires did not sit there and write these double standards or haphazard subplots or inconsistent characterizations.

[zarah @springweeps]

“human” morals are very much applied here and, **if we were consistent, should be applied to other dynamics too, because all these dynamics resonate specifically BECAUSE they reflect such human patterns. to suggest otherwise is to take santiago’s apologia at face value.

[zarah @springweeps]

if we were supposed to leave our human morals at the door when approaching these characters, then we wouldn’t see the traumas of their human lives at the core of their vampiric selves, or the effects of their vampirism on otherwise human experiences of shame or grief

[Aisha 💕 @cherrymp32000]

@springweeps It's just bad writing. The entire time morality has been discussed including the inherent nature of being vampires. But we're only supposed to question it for certain characters.

[zarah @springweeps]

otherwise we wouldn’t have antagonists! gabrielle and lestat’s relationship is an example of this; no matter how perfect of a vampire lestat is, the trauma he endured at gabrielle’s hands as a human, compounds in his vampiric life. she wouldn’t be a “fucking monster” if it didn’t

[leslou pavlov dog @dlsintegrations]

never ask a man his salary a woman her age and iwtvtwt what this scene was offering direct metanarrative commentary on

[Nadzeya @foulestench]

in sea of monsters, percy jackson completes the quests of the entire odyssey in like a week which took odysseus 20 years
i know my goat

[zarah @springweeps]

but to integrate this trauma into louis’ character as a whole, rather than just use it as a mirror to lestat’s own abuse (much like claudia’s rape), we would have to respect louis’ interiority as an individual character, and that is something this season compromises.

[zarah @springweeps]

you cannot convince me that “the cousin that stuck his fingers in me also gave me a dollar” was only a hypothetical quip, like one of daniel’s “officer he’s beating me” shticks. it’s both too specific to louis’ approach to sex (ie a transaction) & too uncommon of a general phrase

[zarah @springweeps]

@Moobologist 🙏🙏🙏

[zarah @springweeps]

@mouldysoop they poked fun at us in the wrong ways 😃

[zarah @springweeps]

the lesmand drop adapted to a loustat drop, lestat’s canonical violence towards nicki omitted entirely, daniel turned off-screen, lestat’s head concealed while louis was tortured on-screen, claudia SA’d to “toughen her up”, armand trying to kill louis at the trial too…

[zarah @springweeps]

it’s one thing to undermine louis & lestat’s relationships with other characters to reinforce the loustat endgame, it’s another thing to undermine those relationships by taking the violence in lesmand & dm, adding a racial element, then redirecting it back to louis.

[zarah @springweeps]

@mouldysoop right right like put us in the writers room!

[loustat explainer for idiots @samchilles]

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the most compelling storyline this season has to been to watch lestat come to terms with the sexual abuse he has suffered at the hands of his mother. the first time he confronts her, she shuts him down. the next time he does, he calls her a monster

[zarah @springweeps]

@mouldysoop i guess they had to expand on rockstat for the great conversion??

[zarah @springweeps]

@mouldysoop don’t apologise i enjoyed talking about it, and I agree completely.

[zarah @springweeps]

@mouldysoop because now it seems that most of his active choices were made in s1, and even those are brushed under the blood of akasha rug

[zarah @springweeps]

@mouldysoop they really sacrificed a lot of lestat to make lestat more apologetic😃 imo there were ways to make him reactive and passive as a result of his trauma, without making him passive altogether in terms of driving the plot forward

[zarah @springweeps]

@mouldysoop that makes complete sense, it feels like the show will become dated in a few years because of the constant references.

[zarah @springweeps]

@mouldysoop *development

[zarah @springweeps]

@mouldysoop i also think it’s quite lazy to rely on fans’ knowledge of the books to patch over the gaps in characterization or plot develop in the show, especially when the show has deterred from the source material in such significant ways.