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crazykuroneko · 3 hours

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Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! - Emily Brontë

#interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #loustat #iwtv #q

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crazykuroneko · 6 hours

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Jacob deciding that the iwtv vampires should hiss like cats when they reveal their teeth and Sam being like no lets take this seriously please 😐 but then giving up Jacob getting what he wants and now the vampires hiss. Their relationship in summary

#all of this just to hiss while talking a selfie with the cast #during iwtv s1 premiere #(and being shy about it seconds later)#they're so silly #jam reiderson #sam reid #jacob anderson #q

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crazykuroneko · 6 hours

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Columbia University students at the Gaza solidarity encampment reading Wisam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals and Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine (ph. Ian Bartlett).

#palestine

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crazykuroneko · 7 hours

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I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

#babiiiiiies #q

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crazykuroneko · 8 hours

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To start, contrary to popular belief, Louis was not a hopeless romantic. Louis could love, he wasn’t a sociopath either, but he didn’t know how someone could act like they had sense while going around fantasizing and daydreaming about every little interaction. Maybe if he was attracted to women he might’ve had something good to find, but instead he was stuck with idiots like the idiots doing keg stands after 1985 in the frat backyard, and if that was what university had to offer, then there wasn’t even pragmatic romance in his near future. He took another sip of his disgusting sparkling beer and judged, judgmentally, with the near certainty that they’d all get human papillomavirus. And then the virus would live in the mouth of the stand for the rest of the semester until some unlucky douchey freshman had to clean out the house before parents came up pick their bitchass trust fund sons to go get scammed by a travel agency for their fourth vacation to the Maldives for the fourth December in a row.

No, Louis was not a hopeless romantic. He didn’t have time for romance or hopelessness. He was in real classes so he had real assignments to finish. His mother only let him double in English and finance because their retainer did English and thought it was a great gateway to law school, so he couldn’t afford to fuck up and spend the entire summer and probably his entire life hearing his mother complain about how much of a mistake it was letting him go off to communist California instead of Tulane. Louis was never going to be stuck living at home for four more years at Tulane, but he should’ve gone to Howard. Howard would’ve had real southern men to take him home at the end of the night and blow his back out. His mom thought there were too many uppity rich light skins at Howard, which Louis figured she’d know about. If not Tulane, she sighed, then at least take advantage of his daddy’s legacy bid at Stanford. He went along with it and pretended like Stanford hadn’t been his top choice all along and like she was the one who guided him to the decision instead of years of his hard earned reverse psychology of pretending he wanted Howard or Duke the most just so that she’d find his excitement distasteful and push him towards the option least like them. Even if it was in communist California.

But this… Louis raised his eyebrows, judgmentally. Were they trying to inject beer into their veins? This was a white frat party—duh, it was Stanford, he reminded himself—so he’d braced himself for the inevitable shock of seeing cocaine, but even shooting up beer seemed a little too much. Such scenes were reprehensible for an upstanding African American such as himself. Booker T should’ve been preaching to the white masses instead. Uplift the race, not barrels of infested beer.

Where was Lily? Now that was an uppity light skin that Louis could speak freely to, and she was going to hear it.

“You have not smiled even once,” a deep voice murmured into his ear as a hard body pressed along him and arms wrapped around his abdomen.

In an instant, Louis knew three things. One, he had no idea who the fuck it was. Two, Louis was going to punch him in the balls. And three—his hands were undeniably, impossibly, twice the size of Louis’.

#again reminded of iwtv producer calling loustat's love carnal #😌#so good #loustat #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #interview with the vampire #iwtv #q

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crazykuroneko · 8 hours

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Season 1 Episode 3 Is My Very Nature That of a Devil - Pt 2

#he looks so delish in this episode #louis de pointe du lac #iwtv #interview with the vampire #q

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crazykuroneko · 9 hours

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Dear Desolation by Eliran Kantor † Love of the Wolf by Hélène Cixous

#q #that's so future loustat coded

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crazykuroneko · 9 hours

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Louise Glück, excerpt from “A Myth of Innocence,” in Averno

#iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #interview with the vampire #faves #q

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crazykuroneko · 10 hours

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bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

as of april 15 ct dissenters (new york and connecticut) need bail funs for arrested activists: zelle: [email protected] cashapp: $BristolAntiRacism (use "april gift" in your memo so contributions can be tracked)

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

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crazykuroneko · 11 hours

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Portraits of Afro-Palestinians from the Book “Guardians of the Mosque”

#palestine #q

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crazykuroneko · 11 hours

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I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

#q

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crazykuroneko · 12 hours

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Enjoying a shower

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#this makes me miss my blind turtle 😭

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crazykuroneko · 12 hours

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Carol Cutshall better get an Emmy this year, I ain't playin!

"Cutshall and her team had to embrace a new reality, one initially devoid of the first season’s material pleasures..... Free of their maker, an austere Louis and Claudia flee New Orleans for Europe in search of a coven of vampires to call their own. There they find themselves in the ravaged wasteland of World War II, where sorrow pollutes even the blood they drink."

"It was such a drastic change going into season two. We went from the height of glamour, which we last saw during a Mardi Gras party, to the polar opposite in the premiere. When you look at Louis and Claudia in their shearling coats in Romania and the amount of mud and blood on them, those looks are built for surviving and searching and starting over."

This what I meant when I talked about AMC intensifying the horror for show!Claudia vs book!Claudia. They're starting over, runaway slaves free at last from Massa Lestat's domestic terrorism; following the Drinking Gourd north to the promised land of milk & honey--but their exodus isn't some glorious adventure--it's Hell on Earth!

I adore the juxtaposition Carol makes between the obscene opulence of Mardi Gras NOLA vs the Grimm realities of war-torn Europe. Book!Lou&Claud traveled across Europe in a lavish carriage Claudia picked out, and had the luxury of taking their fancy coffins with them in it.

NGL I was hoping Carol would talk about these outfits in particular:

AMC's Lou & Claud look like they've been sleeping underground/in a battlefield, dressed in animal skins/furs--not the fancy furs PETA jumps folks for, but nasty Caveman Couture rags. And I can't help but think about the furs they wore in the film, looking rich AF, even as Lou complained about how sad he was. 🙄😒

So I am SO IN LOVE with AMC sending Louis & Claudia to WWII Europe. They're in Ploiești/Romania in 1941--in the book they're in 1800s Varna/Germany. Romania was a major ally for the Nazis in WWII, and the LAST place Claud should be--let alone Louis (a gay Black African American man)--let alone because Romania was bombed TF up in the early 1940s.

They're running slow AF like regular humans--no super vamp speed at their disposal to flee from the bombs--cuz they've been STARVING. They're eating the dead like a bunch of ghoulish necrophages (come through, Witcher 3 folklore!).

Like, in the film the big idea was that drinking dead blood could kill a vampire. But in TVL & Blood Communion we know that's not the case when Lestat drinks the corpses Armand gave him, and when Lestat gives the Vampire Court Rhoshamandes' corpse--it's not deadly, but it's not great, either. Drinking blood should be PEAK sensory pleasure; but this just shows what they've been reduced to.

So to see Louis & Claudia tearing into pieces of the dead to suck up what's left is like cannibalism at its rawest, basest & most primitive--straight out of a dystopian zombie apocalypse. There's no transcendent power in the dead like what Maharet & Lestat described. Lou & Claud are scavengers in as battlefield, fighting for scraps just to survive and endure, but not really live.

And I feel so much worse for Claudia, cuz she LITERALLY didn't ask for this mess! Unlike Louis--and unlike book/film!Claudia--she was Born into Darkness w/out her awareness or consent. AMC puts this poor girl through HELL. The things she's seen & experienced made her "built for survival;" but she's also "built like a bird," and just as ignorant about vampires & the Old World as Louis--though they're both bookish intellectuals who THINK they're ready for Europe.

So they have no effing idea, cuz Lestat never told them WHY Europe was such bad news. They're blind and completely in the dark!

And then they FINALLY arrive in Paris--a breath of fresh air after the war.

But glamour returns to their lives as the pair forge ahead in Paris.... Seduced by their habit of living loudly and proudly — at least at night — Louis relaxes into his post-Lestat life, taking up photography and exploring his sexuality in subtle ways. “The look I landed on for him was that of artists and café society, and French workwear with a little bit of a blue-collar look,” Cutshall says. “It’s not the finery that we are used to for Louis, but his fastidiousness in how he wears it — tucked and belted — is still there.” There is a visual hierarchy among these old-world vampires. Louis wears the costume of the common man, placing him below the coven’s creative director, Armand, the so-called love of his life"

The "visual hierarchy" of Louis being "placed BELOW" the Old World vampires had me vibrating in my seat, especially wrt Armand, the biggest baddest boogeyman vs fledgling vampires in the books.

"We want to break away from the disguise he had in season one, because he is the mega predator,” Cutshall says. “He's not threatened by anyone. So, in everything he does and wears, he can be like an animal who is not afraid to lie on their back and bare their belly."

Which is precisely what I said about Lestat in his Mardi Gras dress & his Matador pajamas. Cuz Lou & Claud are constantly put on the exact same level--at the BOTTOM of the food chain & the gendered/social hierarchies of vampire covens in both NOLA & Europe.

But what's interesting's that AMC diversified the Theatre--there's Black & Asian vampires, not the all-white coven from the books.

The Theatre has truly become a microcosm of the entire world, highlighting just how sheltered Lou & Claud were in the New World. The history of America is very black and white--or rather: white versus black. After the Native Americans were wiped out, American racism molded & shaped centuries of slavery & oppression specifically designed to keep Black people at the bottom of barrel, even when they were "freed/emancipated." But in the Old World, power & conquest was continental--Africa & Asia & Europe were ALL major superpowers at one time or another, kicking each other's arses. Race & racism still plays a huge part in European imperialism, OF COURSE, but WWII showed how white folk are just as prone to killing & oppressing each other, let alone anyone else. 😂 Louis & Claudia's problems w/ Lestat are radically different from their problems w/ Armand (now a brown Asian, as Russia & the Ukraine are also globalized; dispelling the myth about Russians only ever being white people).

But Santiago's an altogether different beast--but eerily familiar.

"Her thirst for attention is surpassed only by Santiago, the extravagant emcee of the theater troupe. For Santiago’s big onstage entrance in episode two, Cutshall took inspiration from performers like Peter O’Toole and Laurence Olivier. “I started with Fred Astaire, but with a bit of a bondage twist for Santiago’s curtain look,” she says. “Who were the top dogs of the time that he would want to emulate? You can feel him striving for that."

What is fundamentally wrong with Santiago (and Lestat) is that he's a HUGE showboat, desperate for attention & validity, specifically from LOUIS, a vampire older than Santiago, attractive & new & interesting, who's approval he actually wanted & expected. But Louis's too mature/smart for Santiago, and immediately clocked him as a clown and a BUFFOON.

AMC dyed Santiago's hair blonde on purpose, ISTG, cuz the parallels w/ Lestat are hilarious. Armand's the coven master & creative director, but Santiago's the emcee & "show pony," just like Lelio!Lestat was back in the day. Les' pony on meth meme is SO apt!

And just like Lestat pulled the rug under Armand at Les Innocents, taking on a leadership role for the Children of Satan and ushering in their new era as vampires who'd join society via the Theatre, Santiago usurps Armand's position as the ringleader against Claudia & Louis. Even though Armand wanted all that to happen, he's more passive than Les & Santiago, far more active & dominant despite being significantly weaker & younger in the Blood than Armand. Wolf Killer Lestat and "top dog" Santiago are cut from the same cloth, down to the pinstripes--which Carol already said were supposed to symbolize cage/jail bars--"back in your cage, sweetheart."