#like lestat as an alexander dumas type has been rattling around my brain for months i need people to see the vision

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And when I get my all black interview with the vampire remake ala the wiz then what

#listen there truly is so much you can do with blackness and itwv #even what we get with louis and his own struggles with race and racism in the show like lets not stop there #and i thunk it is a great way to get more black fans 1) involved 2) in creative spaces cus imma be real. i dont wanna see more white lestats #like lestat as an alexander dumas type has been rattling around my brain for months i need people to see the vision #i also just see it more as a way to look at how slavery and its legacies have forever warped how the Diaspora interrelates #not only slavery but french colonialism as well. what does it mean to be a free man of color when your cousins are being sold off? #what does it mean to be Haitian in spaces like aristocratic colonial france? #how does the arab slave trade factor in? #like there are so many good points of meta we could do if people weren't obsessed with woobyfying white men in this fandom #hell even the notion of passing in itwv is deeply intriguing #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv