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sam, she/he, tme, 22, south asian.

women, horror and gothic lit enjoyer. vampire chronicles blogging currently.

currently reading: the cambridge history of medicine + gothic incest + angels in america + gender, sexuality and syphilis in early modern venice

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yuliangs

doing my part by being in my 20s and not getting married HOLD THE LINE

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I do think it’s a conscious and deliberate choice on anne’s part to follow up on louis + claudia’s book (iwtv) with a sequel constructed from the perspective of their parent (lestat), and to also follow up armand’s book (tva) with a sequel also constructed from the perspective of his vampiric parent (marius). she’s deliberately playing with differences in perspective to reveal and/or obfuscate abuse - in particular the parental kind which is the most fundamental relationship in her constructed universe. it isn’t particularly a coincidence that the vampires continue to owe their lives to ‘those who must be kept’ i.e. the ‘MOTHER’ and the ‘FATHER’ and that any harm inflicted on them is reflected onto their selves and translates into total obliteration of their consciousnesses unless they curry eternal favour with them.

#one thing about anne is that she doesn’t play lightly with parent-child relationships #text #iwtv #armand’s sections in blood and gold did nearly make me cry. I can confess that.

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You can't be a spectator

You got to take these dreams and make them

whole

#armandaniel #interview with the vampire

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pink-nube

Colored pencils yippee !

#art

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eosphoroz

Lestat getting turned on by Louis' cruelty is... so on character.

#we should make this our anniversary.#oh he doesn’t really consider him an equal or a vampire until he kills extravagantly…#interview with the vampire #loustat

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boobieteriat

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#palestine

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theinternetarchive

gay and transgender life in provincetown, massachusetts. chris korda, 1991.

Source: archive.org

#ph #lgbt

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a show can feature gay sex without really being gay. you get what I mean

#many such cases.#it doesn’t do much for me if sexuality is divorced from the context of our reality & the ways in which it shapes our patterns of socialising #text

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Anonymous asked:

Hi, how are you? :) I was wondering, if you've read Blood and Gold - does Marius ever say anything about why he turned Sybelle and Benji? After he spent the previous books telling everyone and their aunt how much he "regrets" turning Armand so young (you know, like a liar), he just ...turns a 12 year old in TVA and convinces himself that it's out of love for Armand ...godddd. (I really hope Anne was trying to drive something home thematically about Marius' selfishness or possessiveness there because abducted, parentified, adultified, vampirised Benji is one of the most tragic characters in the whole series, he's just too little to know it yet, and God I Hate Marius.) Was curious about how much Marius lies to himself in his own book, but 800 pages of Marius pov...🤢🤮 Thanks either way and have a good one! Xx

I never finished the book because I kind of got sick of marius referring to armand as amadeo well past his time in venice. lolita-isms. and at some point it also became apparent to me that I’d be better off reading the book from start to finish (eventually, I just find him really annoying) but sybelle and benji were never referred to by their names and I’m uncertain if there were any allusions to them.

but the sybelle and benji thing is really about entrapment achieved through underhanded means, right? it was what marius was doing with armand even in venice. he frequently paints a picture of safety and security in order to entrap people he desires and armand is aware of this. this is why armand rejects his invitation to stay at his home (which would literally place armand in an environment designed in the greco-roman fashion, hm) and potentially resume a domestic relationship with him (whatever it may entail) in the opening chapter of the vampire armand.

#and you’re sweet for asking how I am. I had a good day and I hope you did too 🤍#asks #anonymous #like yes sexual abuse can have erotic undertones and it can bring sexual pleasure to victims but I didn’t always enjoy how anne handled it.#& it was particularly hard because csa was specifically involved. but tva is a really good book on the whole imo. and b&g doesn’t #contradict anything tva reveals (afaik). it instead treats armand with a lot more sympathy.#tw sexual abuse