God, I’m really gonna need y’all to stop using the phrase ‘morally grey’ incorrectly because it is starting to get so annoying. That phrase isn’t a catch-all for any character you like that does fucked up shit, it references the root motivations for two sides of a conflict being justifiable rather than a clearly aligned good and evil and the way that colors behaviors motivated by that desired end.

I have to commend the iwtv writing team for their portrayal of the numbing, docile complacency you can develop after long-term abuse and toxicity in your relationships. It’s not… a comfortable mirror to look into, to be frank. It’s hard to watch. But damn if it isn’t accurate. Had to think on that compliance a LOT today to process some shit, for unrelated reasons to the show, and I just sat there for a moment in my kitchen like, “They really did that, didn’t they. They really sat there and said, ‘Let’s just be fucking raw about how much of you dies’.”

sometimes you guys post the most agonizing shit so fucking Casually and I just look at my screen like Rigjt in front of my salad?

last RT taps the sign aggressively because oh my god it’s like people don’t know how storytelling as a crafted process works anymore it’s ungodly weird to me to watch “I don’t like them” good you’re not supposed to, their place in the story is antagonistic and the writer did it on purpose, Shakespeare wasn’t like “damn I hope people don’t hate Iago”

she looked so glamorous 😭 They say so much about Claudia with her costuming, each episode has some insight with how they clothe her. Like, the most outright communication of her exploration of identity and self and age can be seen plainly in what she’s settled in with attire.

Woke up thinking about “I hate you” “As you should” and my brain is detached in my skull, thoughts going round and round in there, they’re rotating like a poptart in a microwave and sheets in a washing machine spin cycle on high, I’m losing my mind “I hate you” translates to “I see you” — to perceive Lestat fully is to despise him and what and who he is and he doesn’t mind the hatred because that means you’re really seeing him, he’s set on fire and burning everything but at you’re seeing him and that’s what he wants.

As someone whose background is theatrical study and performance (primarily classical), I want to talk about the nature of adaption as it relates to well-known texts, and how the #iwtv writers citing theatrical experience as a requirement is key to understanding the show. Adaptation is its own skill set and this is an adaptation. The contextualization of Louis' blackness and the explicit queerness is the result of creative choices from Rolin and his team and that changes the rules at a baseline for the entirety of the series as it progresses.

Thinking about how Louis describes his feelings for Lestat with romanticized narration - its emotional distancing, makes it a STORY. There's no "he used to snore in his sleep" or mention of domestic routines, outside of Claudia's POV. Seduction is easy. Real love? That's hard. "Let the tale seduce you..." he says, all of his early narration is dripping with overtures of romanticism. But beneath that is the lazy Sundays, talking about books they like, punch-drunk laughter after a very long day. That stuff happened, but it's harder to face losing it.

I have started… Good Omens CHUCK??? CHUCK MCGILL???

do you not see my vision I can’t breathe I’m crying what was this fandom in 2004

genuinely do not understand why #InterviewwiththeVampire is not THE most talked about show on right now, it has everything???? it literally has everything gay people love and we're very loud so like???