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botticellisflora · 1 year

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PATRICK GIBSON & LOUIS BOYER as NIKOLAI LANTSOV & DOMINIK VERTOV in Shadow & Bone (2021-)

#shadow and bone #nikolai lantsov #dominik vertov #shadowandbonecentral #2nik #patrick gibson #louis boyer #THE GAYS <33 #the way i'm so angry at the show for how they handled them but I still had to 😭

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animatedzephyrus · 2 months

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Nah... someone explain to me why our brain just goes “He's hot” or “She's hot” at a fictional character that you know very well, if they existed in real life, you would stay the HELL away from.

Is there some sort of scientific effect that little lines and circles on a screen, voiced by different people, talking a different language has on us?

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fayevalcntine · 10 months

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Positioning Louis as the "Edwardian wife who becomes trapped by her husband" in a literal sense does no justice to analyzing his actual place and role as a Black man in his society and in his relationship with Lestat. Any interpretation or analysis you do of him when it comes to their relationship cannot be stripped of the racial aspect because it's constantly there. Texts analyzing Edwardian wives (and particularly ones this fandom loves to bring up) typically were white and the dissection of their place in societal rules are always viewed from the aspect of gender that is within these texts only allowed to white women, but never to Black men or even Black women. And gender and race become inseparable when you discuss the latter, no matter how people may view it.

This is why I can't take this approach to analyzing Louis' story seriously because if you don't consider the racial aspect in his relationship even to himself and his sexuality, what's the point? You're still centering the standards that were more placed upon white male/female couples than you're willing to look into the unique structure of Black families, religion, their view of homosexuality and how that sooner heavily influences Louis than the family's "need" for him to be sold off to an Edwardian husband. Even in Louis' own story, him and Claudia being Black is more centered on than any demeaning "housewife" comment he tries to go against from Claudia's perspective. She makes that comment once, whereas we have at least two episodes from Louis' perspective that have very blatant hints and showings of the racism he still suffers from under the Jim Crow era and how it affects his self-worth as well as his relationship with Lestat who doesn't seem to take into consideration how any of the blatant racial aggressions and objections still affect Louis and what he considers to be important to achieve in his own life.

Then there's also the pointed topic of Louis' position as a Black man who is a pimp to the Black women he has as sex workers, as well as how his position as a Black father affects Claudia, another Black girl. If you insist on Louis being centered as this "Edwardian white wife" who is confined by his implicit gender in his marriage, where does that leave Claudia and the blatant misogyny and disrespect she gets from both him and Lestat? Lestat who is her white father abuses her. Positioning Louis within the strict confines of "being her mother" doesn't do her any favors because he didn't hesitate to choke her when he was deeply emotionally distressed, nor does it make him look any better when he's fine with chopping up her diaries and then delivering them on a silver platter so that Daniel, another white man, can read and dissect. Even if he does this under the sole pretense of "doing right by her", how does it in any way help when he also can't face up to his failures towards her?

#interview with the vampire #claudia #louis de pointe du lac #i just feel like all these needless 'Lestat is the patriarchy' discussions; even when done in order to shield Louis #do him and Claudia no favors because y'all keep centering these weird strictly white standards in your interpretations #'Louis is an Edwardian wife' Louis is a Black man who was turned in 1910s Louisiana #the structural confines Edwardian wives were given really aren't the same when you take into consideration the racial segregation #of Louis' time; and I feel like the specific issues that Black men then faced when it came to 'proving' their worth when it comes to gender #are then just sidelined and forgotten as if those aren't the standards Louis grew up with #if you want to discuss Louis' placement in his relationship with Lestat it's kind of really heavy-handed even on the show #that he's a black man and that that heavily affects him foremostly in this relationship #also I'm so confused over this insane idea that Lestat is somehow the patriarchy while Louis is a woman and y'all say this unprompted #without considering how it looks when you call a gay black man a woman and a white bisexual man a guy #i feel like you can evade bad stereotypes of painting black men as overaggressive without veering off into the whole other side #while still sounding vaguely backhanded #and it doesn't make it any less weird when I see other non-black/white fans insist on this interpretation #it just comes off as y'all sooner being able to connect to Louis if you see him in a role typically embodied by white women #than to refer to the actual identity he has as a black gay man

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prettysweetprettysweet · 1 year

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LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC

I'M ALL SIN. I'M ALL SIN. I'M ALL SIN.

AMC's Interview with the Vampire 2022

ARTWORK FEATURED

Wedding Party, Carroll Cloar, 1971

The Mother of Moses, Simeon Solomon, 1860

Lucifer, Franz Stuck, 1890

Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy, Caravaggio, 1606 (inspired by this awesome post by @greedandenby)

The Ecstasy of Saint Francis, Caravaggio, 1595

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, El Greco, 1614

MUSIC

"All Sin, Pt. 1" by Miink

my edits

yt link

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iwtv-az-hours · 2 months

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I'm gonna be annoying about this again

1: vampire nails, yassified hair 2: ???

1.vid / 2.vid

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #armand #louis de pointe du lac #assad zaman #jacob anderson #loumand #it's the same clothes no? Louis's shirt I'm not 100% sure just 99% but it seems the same?#my-post #s2 #losing it girls and gays #sorry

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covenofthearticulate · 6 months

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once again stewing over how fucking mean and vindictive the show made Louis to his own family as some sort of grizzly angsty "you have to separate yourself from everything you love because you're a MONSTER now" when in reality Louis literally said:

It was only now as a vampire that I did come to know my sister, forbidding her the plantation for the city life which she so needed in order to know her own time of life and her own beauty and come to marry, not brood for our lost brother or my going away or become a nursemaid for our mother. And I provided for them all they might need or want, finding even the most trivial request worth my immediate attention. My sister laughed at the transformation in me when we would meet at night and I would take her from our flat out the narrow wooden streets to walk along the tree-lined levee in the moonlight, savoring the orange blossoms and the caressing warmth, talking for hours of her most secret thoughts and dreams, those little fantasies she dared tell no one and would even whisper to me when we sat in the dim-lit parlor entirely alone. And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their intangibility promised to us, wrongly…wrongly, an immortality.

#LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC LOVED HIS FAMILY YOU FUCKING NIMRODS #i know i'm screaming into the void at this point but sometimes the numbness melts away and i'm enraged again #because THIS RIGHT HERE is what the writers read and interpreted as 'oh he's spineless and weak'#this is what straight white cis men see as weakness #louis was SOFT he was KIND and yes he was at odds with his nature but that did not stop him from providing for his family #in fact the next paragraph he says that his detachment from the material mortal world was what allowed him to solely focus on family #fellas is it gay to lie down with the devil

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codacheetah · 1 year

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