#maven of the eventide

[wiliecoyotegenius]

Watching the Todd In The Shadows video debunking Somerton's claims and oh boy, Somerton claims that Europeans were suspicious of their neighbors of being vampires for being ''sexually deviant'' (bullshit) and also that Coppola "reconnected Dracula to Vlad Tepes"??? You mean, a connection that did not exist in the book??

Thankfully it gets immediately debunked in the video.

Somerton goes on to call the Coppola movie an "INCREDIBLY FAITHFUL RETELLING OF THE BOOK" like...... just preposterous.

Todd and Maven of the Eventide call him out on that part and point out that Mina was not "so horny" for Dracula.

Also Somerton: "Coppola created the first Dracula who fucks" *shows clip of Dracula assaulting Lucy*

Like we know you hate women as much as FFC does but damn.

#todd in the shadows #james somerton #dracula #dracula daily #Maven of the Eventide #assault

[elisaintime]

I took so much footage at the Season 2 Premiere event last night! And then after it was over, Princess and I recorded an hour of discussion about our thoughts and feelings on Episode 1. Once I get back home, I'll edit it all into a non-spoiler video to share with you ASAP. I'll probably also edit a spoiler version to release after the episode airs as well, maybe exclusively for my Patreon patrons. I still have to rewatch all the footage to remind myself just how much everyone gave away 😅

It was a very crowded event and I got overstimulated very quickly (in a ND way), so I didn't get the chance to talk to everyone I wanted to. Sadly Eric didn't attend the party after the screening, so I didn't get to ask him my question about if he's read QOTD and what he thinks about Daniel in it (and his relationship with Armand 👀). I also didn't get the chance to get through the crowds surrounding Jacob and Delaney. I did get to ask Sam my question for him, though! And talked to Luke briefly. Assad was gracious enough to talk with me about Armand for several minutes (he did actually give me an answer to my question in this clip after he took a sec to think about it 😆) and he so kindly told me how much he liked watching my videos and all my analysis about the story and characters!

The big thing, though, is I got the chance to have an extended conversation with Rolin Jones, who also told me how much he appreciates my videos and all I have to say about the show (including my criticisms 😅). I can't wait to share all of it with you! Look out for that coming soon!

As always, I post my videos privately on Patreon first before making them public, so if you want to see it right away, you can join up here: https://www.patreon.com/mavenoftheeventide

#amc interview with the vampire #vampire chronicles #maven of the eventide

[ca-suffit]

to all the ppl wanting receipts on maven, let me explain this to u.

racism isn't just slurs and some single "gotcha" moment. especially when it comes to white women. racism is hidden behind several layers of "nice" when it comes to them because whiteness and womanhood protect them from certain judgments and being more easily seen as "victim" than "abuser." why do u think anne rice even had a career. u think a black or brown woman could have done all that and still got paid? hell no. shit, u think even a black or brown *man* could have done that either? double hell no. that shit is only reserved for white ppl.

a lot of white women in this fandom don't think they're racist at all because they vote democrat and don't say slurs and also watch the interracial vampire show. but u don't talk to real ppl. and then u do all kinds of shit bts to black and brown ppl otherwise because u feel justified about it as a white person. u see ppl criticize whiteness in lestat and u say but he has trauma too, how dare u say this! and you come down episode 5 style on everyone and say "see this is what u deserve" without *any* self awareness. maven's videos say harmful shit throughout them, which are made more harmful because she looks and sounds so fucking stupid. Her weird stans rely on that to come after anyone who says "what the fuck is this" (in regards to what she's actually saying) and say "why are you abusing this white content creator who does nothing but this silly dance to entertain us, what do u do with ur life!" Just like u all love when white men on the show are some kind of funny drag queen cunty slay yasss mother as they outright look to slaughter black and brown characters physically or emotionally, so also do u love to say don't criticize this woman, it's not that serious. or don't judge anne rice, she was soo CrAzY (affectionate), old and/or dead now. "ur so mean!!!!!" u never want it to be serious because u never want to have this conversation. that's what's real. fragile fucking bitch ass egos of urs. we're having this fucking conversation now. Maven creates a safe space for racists by being a popular, uncritical white book fan who associates with other racist book fans. she has witnessed racism happening in this fandom for years and years and never once used her big platform to talk about it (or learn about racial topics in general before opening her dummy mouth about the show). she is a spineless, basic ass white woman who only cares about herself and her own white attachment to these books. inaction against harm u know is happening around u and lack of speaking up is racism. creating a safe space for racists is racism. making white fandom comfortable with u is racism. for the quickest test of whether someone is promoting white fandom shit or not, see how many black and brown fans will recommend that person or thing. nobody here can stand maven except white fandom (and white fandom is not just white ppl, it's any person who promotes the idea that talking about race is harmful and we should remain colorblind except for supporting white ideals and values). there's ur fucking answer by itself.

this is not done out of malicious focus from what white fandom would have u believe is "jealousy" over popularity (another tactic meant to distract from talking about the criticisms themselves). this is done out of real concern of who tf is gonna cause harm or not. maven does not create a safe space except for white fandom and her ignorance to that is her issue at this point because it's LONG been documented. not everyone who isn't supporting u is some general "hater" for no reason and ur fucking dumb if u don't ever examine the reasons ur being criticized. wake tf up, bitch.

#interview with the vampire #amc interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire amc #iwtv amc #amc iwtv #iwtv 2022 #fandom racism #maven of the eventide

[meerawrites]

For the IwtV ask game: 2, 10, 30 & 33 😎

From here.

Q: How did you discover it or get interested in it? A: I heard they were finally committing to the "Anne Rice TV show thing" probably via, Maven of the Eventide / @elisaintime, naturally I was curious, I was at first spectacle, but after a while I grew to appreciate it, even if as it's 'own thing' (x).

Q: What was your favourite episode of season one? A: "In throes of Increasing Wonder" it is so... horrifying (affectionate).

Q: What’s a character you’re excited to see more of in season two? A: Delainey's Claudia and Roxan's Madeline! Also, Sam’s Lestat, naturally.

Q: What are some of your predictions for season two? A: I'm not much of a speculator in that regard, I anticipate more questioning of Louis' POV (and more sympathy for Claudia and her fate) (literally no one is reliable in this universe) and shifting to more Lestat, but likewise, the ever-talented Assad as Armand's steering the narrative, maybe hints about AMC's TVA.

#eosphoroz #meera answers #amc iwtv #answered #lestat de lioncourt #sam reid #louis de pointe du lac #jacob anderson #claudia de pointe du lac #the vampire claudia #claudia de lioncourt #delainey hayles #the vampire armand #assad zaman #roxan duran #iwtv 2022 #immortal universe #maven of the eventide #elisaintime #Elisa Hansen #bisexual #queer #lgbtq+ #vampires #queue are more than what people see

[ellapastoral]

with all of the news of season 2 coming out, i wanted to share my video that i made on season 1 of interview with a vampire.

#Youtube #louis lestat #are louis and lestat lovers #louis and lestat kiss #louis and lestat #louis and lestat 2023 #lestat and louis #prince lestat and the realms of atlantis #maven of the eventide #lestat #vampires #interview with a vampire 2022 lestat and claudia #movie analysis #louis & lestat #vampire analysis #the vampire lestat #the vampire diaries elena and damon #maven of the eventide anne rice #literature analysis #lestat de lioncourt #style analysis #analysis

[urban-unease]

does anybody know what happened to maven of the eventide? she's been releasing recaps of iwtv but hasn't for episode 6.

#just curious #maven of the eventide #iwtv

[pennielanelisbon]

Catching up on old videos and found this livestream. I want to cry, I miss her so much!

#Lindsay Ellis #come back! #we’re sorry! #vampire reviews #maven of the eventide

[demonsee2]

Watch "Ep.1 Breakdown - AMC Interview with the Vampire" on YouTube

#maven of the eventide #interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire tv series #anne rice #Youtube #spoilers

[lovelandfrogmansupporter]

#iwtv #amc iwtc #interview with the vampire #Maven of the Eventide made this joke in a video a while back and it fits the trailer for s2 too perfectly #armandstat #iwtv armand #iwtv 2022 #iwtv s2

[theresebelivett]

found a horror booktuber i liiiiikkeeee i'm so exciteddddd

#it's not just maven of the eventide anymore!!! #i mildly like booktube but only genre and for grown ups so #my options are limited lmao #if i didn't know nothing abt editing & hate being on camera i would totally do this tbh #give book reports and film myself reading with my cats for a living #ugh the dream

[viir-tanadhal]

i think reading and getting books from the public library again will fix me

#bought brideshead revisited like 3 weeks ago and have not started it yet #(also yes i bought it b/c neil said he liked evelyn waugh's writing okay leave me alone 😭 also i've heard good things anyway) #(and i loved maurice and the two have similar time period settings so why not) #i also want to get into the vampire chronicles #i like interview w the vampire and have heard good things about TVL and QOTD and some of the others #i also have been informed about the ones that arent so great and that i can skip #i might just read up to blood and gold and not read her mayfair witch side series #(thank you maven of the eventide for your video discussing and ranking all of them aldjsksjs) #but yes. might go tomorrow and get my library card renewed and check stuff out

[elkian]

I've seen a lot of takes about the Hbomb video - here's a link; he's also done some similar works criticizing Allen Wakefield (accidentally instigated the prime anti-vax movement while trying to scam people) and Tommy Tallerico (similar vein to The Video, of plagiarism/credit theft).

I've also enjoyed some of his teardown videos, but my real favorites are his Why FNV Is Genius (and Here's Why) and Pathologic Is Genius (And Here's Why), which lead me to buying and playing (some of) Pathologic 2.

One thing worthy of note is that he specifically requests that nobody start a witch hunt over the subjects of his videos. He is an opinionated person and his righteous indignation is very entertaining, but I've never seen him seriously suggest people harass any real human beings. Suggestions to do so after watching the video have been made by the viewers and are explicitly condemned by Hbomb himself in the video. Just saying.

But more to the point is how he ends the video: he decides to cap it off with a reel of suggested viewing for people who create the kinds of things Somerton allegedly made himself, focusing on queer creators.

Here's the playlist linked in the video description:

I don't doubt other people have shared this already, but it hasn't crossed my dash, so I thought I'd give it a mention. It's a really nice way to end a video that, while focusing on informing the viewers and warning people of potential scammers essentially, does have a negative tone at times because he is, well, tearing into someone's monumental career of plagiarism.

The playlist links to videos by Alexander Avila (who was himself plagiarized by Somerton), Matt Baume, Lady Emily, verilybitchie, RickiHirsh, Shanspeare, Khadija Mbowe, hazel, Herby Revolus, Maggie Mae Fish, Kaz Rowe, Kat Blaque, Lily Alexandre, max teeth, drapetomania, Kameno -o, Lola Sebastian, Princess Weekers, CJ The X, Jennie Geist, Mia Mulder, Nick DiRamio, Sarah Z, Rowan Ellis, and finally Maven of the Eventide.

(I have chosen to spare my wrists and sanity by not hyperlinking those names because the playlist is literally right there.)

Fun facts: this list, which apparently also has nonbinary and trans artists on it, contains 0 names I am already familiar with. I don't spend a lot of time on Youtube outside of very specific needs, but this still makes for a good opportunity for me to familiarize myself with work from others in the community.

Anyways, I just think that's an extremely cool way to end a four-hour-video that, while extremely entertaining, is a bit of a down to watch and realize how easily extremely unmotivated people are stealing others' work and making bank off of it. That's all I had to say, goodnight.

#elk text #hbomberguy #i found him through the sherlock video that everyone was sharing a couple years ago #but that fnv video man #ive watched it enough times to memorize #comfort media

[elisaintime]

Woah, I must have missed something, why are people jumping down your throat?

From what I can gather at this point, it seems like they feel like anyone who likes Anne Rice herself and the books better than the show=automatically racist. Even if they ALSO enjoy the show and support the race change of the characters and all the racial conversation the show incorporated into its adaptation.

Personally, I think it does a disservice to the fandom to assume that the only reason one could like the books over the show is because of racist reasons. Anne's books speak to so many people in so many ways, especially those who have ever felt like outcasts or apart from mainstream society, and many fans have extremely personal connections to the books for a huge variety of reasons.

Like I said in my videos, I was excited and intrigued to see this AU version of the story (I love AUs!) but my complaints with the writing of the episodes mostly came back to when the show was trying to stick TOO MUCH to the books.... Because the show was really making its own thing with its own versions of the characters and all these new ideas, but then suddenly it would shove in a scene/dialogue straight out of the books which would contradict or make no sense with everything else the show had already worked to set up with the new direction it was taking itself.

Critiquing sloppy/weak writing does not mean I or any other fan who feels the same is doing it for racist reasons. Much of my criticism was about how the scripts changed Lestat's character to make him so much worse than he was in the books (which would be fine, it's their story, whatever--except the show runners told us over and over again that the whole reason Louis was doing a second interview was so that this time we could see the real version of Lestat and how Louis felt about him instead of the mean, insulting version he gave in the first interview). There was a lot promised by the showrunners about what their adaptation would be like that was not delivered ("closer to the books than the 1994 movie," "true to the spirit of Anne Rice" etc). The entire reason I made my videos was to evaluate how well the show measured up to those promises.

Worse than making Lestat so irredeemable, the way the first season ended in a way that made so many fans believe that Louis might have been lying about everything didn't sit well with me at all--it's a harmful stereotype to make the black man a liar, especially when it comes to abuse. I know the "the DV didn't actually happen and black Louis was lying or mind controlled by his evil non-white boyfriend" became a running fan theory, but I personally don't believe it one bit. But I can see why so many fans do--again, sloppy/weak writing on the show's part.

Like I said in my video, the only thing Louis actually lied about in ep7 (and he was lying to himself, not deliberately lying to Daniel) was the depth of his love for Lestat at the end. And that's entirely canon for Louis to deceive himself about--admitting how much he truly loves Lestat always came hard for him. I personally don't think it's going to turn out that anything Louis told us in season 1 was a lie. I think the show would have revealed that at the end of the season, not waited another season (or two or three) to reveal that. And the theme of season 2's promotional material has all been about memory, not honesty. I don't think Louis could mistakenly remember getting dropped from a mile in the sky and the months/years of recovery afterward, so I personally think all those memories were real.

The first three episodes of season 1 made Louis's struggle with race its primary focus, and the series description began with how Louis was chafing at society as a black man. But then from episode 4 on, the focus of the show shifted entirely. Obviously racism still existed in Louis's world, but the show pushed it all entirely to the background with little things, like segregation on the bus, and we saw the characters quietly taking in stride, not making any plot out of it. Suddenly all of Louis's character-driving moments weren't about that anymore and we were in a whole new story, when his battle against racism had been the entire theme of the first three episodes. This was something I noticed and pointed out in my videos--I didn't say it was a bad thing (after all, seeing people be racist to Louis on screen, while "realistic," isn't exactly fun for anyone, and we'd already seen plenty), but I did think the sudden dramatic shift in story focus weakened the show's themes and throughline.

Again this comes down to writing, and the premise/script was written by white people. I think they could have done much better with much more non-white involvement on the writing level. I think the show could have been stronger with some more care taken to create consistency and smoother transitions between episodes (like when they take Claudia out to feed in episode 4, suddenly all the race riots are gone, when everything was on fire 2 hours ago). It's common for shows to have each episode written by a different person, even though they all collaborate in a writer's room, but to me it felt like the show lacked efficient script supervision to make sure all the scripts flowed into each other without any contradictions or inconsistency.

When I talked about these things in my videos, when I said I would have liked the show to do better with the way it missed the mark sometimes in handling racial aspects (even though other parts I commended as being great), and the way I critiqued the inconsistencies and contradictions, some people took that to mean I hated the show entirely. The point of my videos was to see how well the show measured up to Rolin Jones's promises that it was so faithful and respectful to the spirit of the books and that all he wanted to do was honor Anne's work. I know the books back and forth, enjoy having a ND hyperfixation that gives me near-encyclopedic knowledge of the texts and Anne as an author. So people ask me questions about them all the time, especially in comparison to the adaptations. Who better to make videos evaluating how well the show measured up to RJ's promises and claims of faithfulness? But some people took me comparing the show to the books to mean I thought it was a bad thing that they weren't the same, and I hated the show entirely for not being the same as Anne wrote it, and therefore that meant I (and anyone else who loves the books) was racist 🤷

#amc interview with the vampire #vampire chronicles #maven of the eventide

[ca-suffit]

I'm so disappointed with Assad. I wasn't expecting that from him. Elisa has the worst takes when it comes to the racial issues in the show adaptation.

what do u fr expect him to do tho? white actors and show ppl are the only ones who have any power to speak up on anything and survive. assad saying anything real would be career suicide. maven already lied about me blocking and unblocking her and overdid the "nice white woman" thing to talk down to me and I'm a faceless stranger online. imagine the things she'd do, especially feeling more powerful with amc backing her up, if assad was "mean" to her at all? imagine what the fandom would do?

#asks #amc interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire amc #iwtv amc #amc iwtv #iwtv 2022 #fandom racism #maven of the eventide #assad zaman

[positively--speculative]

A Letter to the AMC Press Center--Feel Free to Use!

@ca-suffit

Link to contact the AMC Press Center:

Feel free to make changes to your own letter where you see fit:

Dear AMC Press Center, As a fan of what your creative team has done for the show Interview with the Vampire, I am disappointed in your decision to include Elisa Hansen (aka Maven of the Eventide) in your press events. What your creative team has done is provide an adaptation of a story that explores themes of race/racism and queer relationships and how these two things intersect that the original source material did not. As a result, you have opened this story up to people who otherwise have not been included in this type of media. It is for this reason that I am disappointed in your decision to invite Hansen to any of your events. Hansen has promoted negativity toward the show in ways that illustrate a lack of respect for what your creative team has set out to do and has made her space unwelcoming to the very audience whom this show appeals to and who, arguably, have been its strongest supporters. Additionally, Hansen herself has admitted that she has not entered any contests to be invited to any events. It seems unfair that she should get this privilege when other content creators have been more supportive of this version of the story being told. Again, considering how important this show is for your strongest supporters, this is a disappointment. I hope you will make better decisions in who you choose to give this kind of privilege and opportunity to in the future.

#AMC #Interview with the Vampire #letter of complaint #letter prompt #e-mail prompt #racism #fandom racism #homophobia

[thestuffedalligator]

April 2008. Doug Walker launches That Guy with the Glasses to host his video series, The Nostalgia Critic.

Doug and the website staff have ambitions of making it a site for multiple producers to host videos of a similar strain. Two of these will be Lindsay “The Nostalgia Chick” Ellis and Paul “PawDugan” Schuler. Lindsay’s roommate, Elisa Hansen, appears in her Nostalgia Chick videos before eventually starting her own series on the website under the name “Maven of the Eventide”.

Elisa and Paul meet and film several videos together. They start dating, and in November of 2012 announce that they’re engaged. They get married in October of 2013, and their son, Grey Ingram Hansen-Schuler, is born on August 13, 2014.

Which means that there’s at least one person on this planet who exists because of the Nostalgia Critic

#tgwtg #yeah i was a tgwtg kid #my memories for the website are obviously tainted but it’s also how i discovered discworld so i can’t not say it had an impact on me #just know that if you’re also a former tgwtg kid there is help out there #anyways happy birthday grey