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But in fandom, people will tell you that shitting your pants at parties is FUN, that you're hurting their feelings by bringing it up and that's the real crime, that the smell isn't even THAT BAD, and you should really be grateful that you were "allowed" into the party to smell their shit to begin with!

(shout out to @horsehorsecougar for the hilarious comparison, I cackled)

Season 2 dashed hopes 🫠

This is nothing against the girl Autumn who worked with AMC, but I don’t think she should’ve been the one for this season. I think they should’ve kept Naomi because she would’ve asked really good questions especially on racial topics that needed to be touched on. And she looks like a white girl so I’m assuming she’s white and as a white person so she can only do so much.

Her interviews weren’t bad it’s just I needed them to go deeper and we won’t have that chance again since we’re working on the next book which focuses on white characters mostly. As watchers of the show noted especially the Black fans there were something’s in the show that was extremely fucked up that was done to Louis & Claudia especially when we talk about the trial (& Madeleine but you know she was just an unfortunate roped into it all).

I would have loved to have that talked about. I will add that I don’t think the cast would have the most to say because some of these topics need more than life experience but that’s where a good interviewer helps.

This feels very jumbled but I wish that we had interviews that fully acknowledged the racial aspect of the show and even the deeper parts of the relationships the characters have with each other. For example, so many people say that Louis chose Armand over Claudia but when you watch the show Louis only gets deeper into the relationship whenever Armand props himself (or the coven) up as a potential danger to Claudia.

One thing that fandom misses is that the antiblackness and racism Louis faces is also a reason why Louis hesitates to take to vampirism naturally. Because at its core vampirism is about the taking of life to sustain your own. Not taking into account the pain and grief you cause just so you can thrive and live a comfortable life. Taking life with no hesitancy because you feel you are owed a life to survive.

Just like white people during slavery and the Jim Crow era. Who took lives of human beings to live a better life. Beat them, killed them, raped them. Played with them. Vampirism is about dehumanising humans. Louis knows how it feels to be dehumanised by those who have more power over you so they justify their actions.

Of course he'd be hesitant to do what was done to him. Its not just about his catholic guilt, saying so would just be so one dimensional to Louis' character.

It's about the guilt of being not on the receiving end of what he suffered. To be the one dehumanising people whether it's a black person or a white person. He knows families whose son or daughter were taken away from them for fickle reasons.

I don't think non-poc colour can understand the guilt you feel to treat others like how someone prejudice treats you. Even if it's someone in the same position as you or not. The guilt alone eats at you.

So it makes sense he struggled with it. Because he had to deal with racism from the day he was born until present day in Dubai. No matter how rich he was. No matter how powerful. Unlike catholic guilt which could be set aside and reasoned that some of the rules are outdated in terms of queerness and the judgement of God. Racism was a constant reminder. It could not be set aside. It could never be left alone. It was a constant wound of Louis knowing even if he was stronger than the racist he killed, even in their death they saw him as nothing.

It also feeds the Catholic Self-hatred he because God deems black people not good enough to save. Those are thoughts that a black person has, not all but enough to take note.

And that's why I think Lestat and the fandom really do not understand Louis as ALL. Because they treat the racism Louis faces and its challenges it brings to his life as if it's an inconvenience and not as if it didn't and doesn't completely shape him as a person.

It's like they missed the monologue of Louis killing the important council man as Lestat says near his business. That black man had another organ that no other man had that made to survive the constant emotional, psychological strain of living in that era.

It's the same organ that keeps him from inflicting similar hurt to others and keeps him from enjoying to kill.

Then again you could argue that Claudia was not the same. She's also black so why didn't she actually like Louis?

Simple answer: not all black people are the same.

There are different ways black people face Racism and oppression. Different emotions take reign. Claudia was the kind of person who would take power in her hands and concentrate on keeping it so that she never ever have to face not having it again. No matter how many people get hurt. Because that is how the world treated her so why could not have the courtesy of giving back what she was given.