@cyrilwoodcock Her dresses are simpler & softer after turning but it does undercut all their talk about it being her full liberation. I mean women now wear pants all the time & it doesn't make them less a woman. The flashbacks though are so short, they chose shortcuts, broad strokes
@cyrilwoodcock But I still think it's an interesting story, her feeling how burdensome dressing as a woman in that time period was, and how freeing it would be to kill a man for a pair of pants
@yuumenaritai@_donkeybrains Her abandonment in their human life comes from her neglect & failure to be present. That's the opposite of grooming which necessities intentional time & effort to manipulate, control, exploit. But she was never available. That's the wound in their relationship, one others exploit
@yuumenaritai@_donkeybrains I'll make time for your other interpretations. But first that line isn't about his human life or grooming. It's saying in those first years he was a vampire & he went into her bedchamber as she was dying & made her a vampire, it foreshadowed his waking the mother of all vampires
@_donkeybrains I find most posting on her to be so general & conceptual & focused on individual lines without considering what leads in & out of them or the meaning & purpose of the chapter itself. I tried to be specific & plain. But seems like I need to be more straight with it
@vminlvletter The tragedy of it occurring over decades, the slow ripping her up, having to survive it over and over again in contrast to the one incident of eight at one time
@yuumenaritai@_donkeybrains He hides in his room, refusing to eat or bathe & she visits him, listens to him talk to ease his loneliness & depression. He meets someone he likes & she encourages him to make friends. He mentions her often isolating herself to read. These are all examples of the opposite
@yuumenaritai@_donkeybrains The book depicts her talking about sex with her adult son once. Her one time mentioning he is like her missing man's organ is a metaphor in a long conversation about choosing life, before sending him off that night, never to see him again. That's the opposite of isolation
@yuumenaritai@_donkeybrains Grooming is an intentional sustained pattern to isolate & increase access for gain. Here she is dying, someone knows of his plans, her intention is to help him flee at once with the last of her money & blessings. These are her parting words, thinking they will never see e/o again
@yuumenaritai@_donkeybrains That's what him being her organ means. It's figurative language to articulate that he as a man can do things she can't. The best she can do is see & hear it from him secondhand. The full scene shows the reasons for this conversation. It's her telling him to choose life over death
@yuumenaritai@_donkeybrains The word pleasure doesn't mean sexual gratification. It has a broad and general meaning. This describes her having positive feelings seeing him putting his freedom and rebellion to use, encouraging those qualities in him
@bbdolladrienne It was sudden and disappointing. I do think they were splitting them up and getting them back together in a later season, seeing that final scene, though there were better ways
@bbdolladrienne That's fun to hear she has a soft spot for the show. It coming back is possible, considering afterlife with archie is happening. Thank you for posting!