To Be Fair To Tanis Here, If I Was Laurana I Would 100% 'cheat' (or Whatever You Call Being With Someone

to be fair to Tanis here, if I was Laurana I would 100% 'cheat' (or whatever you call being with someone else when a man who isn't actually with you demands you remain single so he can decide what to do because he's in love with another woman) on him with Elistan after all the shit he pulled, so...

"You're literally in love with another woman and refuse to commit to me in any meaningful way!"

"Okay, well, you have a male friend, so,"

I would walk away from this conversation straight to Elistan's bedchambers.

you can recognize yourself through the fictional character. but watch out

i still find it so genuinely Weird when i think about the fact that fat people irl are a rather common occurrence. your family, your friends, your coworkers, people on the bus, random passerbys - there are fat people there. usually often. but when you look at Any form of media - movies, tv shows, video games, books are more complicated as not a visual medium but there too, fat people are almost nonexistent. one fat person for the whole movie. one fat person in the background of your fictional city. this is so insanely unrealistic but at the same time nobody comments on this and "we" accept it as normal!! and then people even think their own fatness makes them into some rare failure instead of one of the incredibly common body situations. crazy

skinny ppl learn to shut the fuck up when the conversation isn't about you challenge

I've been wondering about this too. There's a lot to be said about how the loss and subsequent alienation from his family, even though it's not his fault, can be seen as the explanation for why he became a vampire, or that they were just making him... idk more accurately moral, because this Louis is still a victimizer (albeit a pimp rather than a slaveowner) and actually *knows* it, "I profit off the miseries of other men and I do it easy", where the original one just kinda... didn't seem to realize slavery was bad until he became a vampire, and even until the modern day.

But you know all of this. Hell, I've probably said exactly this in a DM.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The fact that the confessional scene could happen at all means, to me at least, that this Louis is simply less cold and less deeply casually cruel, in life and probably in death.

But the scene is *different*, and I can see them going either way.

Everyone’s talking about unreliable narration in S2 of Interview With The Vampire, but what I’d like to know most of all is if that scene with Paul and Louis will be revisited.

In the novel, Louis does say something to Paul. Paul tells Louis that he had a vision from the Virgin Mary telling him to convince Louis to sell everything and take the family to go be missionaries in France. And Louis laughs at him, tells him no, mocks him. Louis contemplates the shame of having to tell everything that Paul wasn’t acceptably sensitive, just delusional.

And then Paul kills himself.

It’s such a fundamental grounding for Louis’s character in the novels. His guilt, his horror, his sorrow, his regret. His genuine faults: inaction, supercilious judgement, casual cruelty, ableism.

By contrast, the television version feels uwuified — if you understand what I mean? Louis isn’t at fault anymore: he’s not at fault at all. The complexity of Louis grappling with his failure with Paul has been drawn away in order to present us with Louis who did absolutely nothing wrong.

And I’m not sure why. But it’s similar to the rewrite of Louis meeting Claudia, his predation of her replaced by his rescue of her.

Louis can have faults, Louis can make mistakes: that’s not in befitting a protagonist. The character doesn’t need to be sanitized. Let him make mistakes and struggle with that. His complexity is important to his character, to his dynamic with characters like David, Claudia, even Armand and Gabrielle, and especially Lestat.

But if they’re presenting us with a narrative where Armand has revised Louis’s memories, surely his memory of his last day with Paul would have been a prime target? If it had indeed gone down in a book-accurate way?

I suppose I’m just perplexed. I’m waiting to see what comes next.

Childhood maltreatment does not only result in PTSD or C-PTSD. It is tied to many personality disorders, including extremely demonized ones such as NPD and BPD.

Yet for some reason people don’t really seem to think of people with personality disorders as simply traumatized and in need of help, but as incorrigibly broken or inherently evil.

This is especially true if the disorder in question is associated with low empathy, even if not all people with said disorder have that symptom in particular. Having low empathy means that a lot of people will get explicitly genocidal about your existence.