sometimes u go on google searching for a reference image and you just find something that is totally not what you are looking for but is better than anything u could have ever dreamed
who is she
the moment I saw this woman I was completely overcome with the feeling that she was, at that very moment, somehow divorcing me
me, banging your pots and pans together at 3am: the assumption that liking problematic characters means you share their views is toxic. people should not have to constantly defend their views simply because they enjoy a character of questionable nature.
you, attempting to wrestle them from me: indeed, but there comes a responsibility with enjoying problematic characters and it is on those who consume that media to recognize and constantly acknowledge the faults of it rather than sweep them under the rug with a general “i know it’s problematic don’t worry”.
me: it seems both our sides of the argument are valid and hold merit.
you: will you please get out of my house now
your neighbor, shouting through the wall: however when the person enjoying the problematic material is constantly harassed and called out for that content and has to face regular demands to justify their appreciation of that media, then the other party needs to step back and ask what they even want from this confrontation they keep perpetuating. they need to ask themselves if they will be satisfied with any given answer and if not, they need to disengage and deal with their own issues instead of forcing other people to answer for them.
I do! I’m actually planning on making a better post about it, but for now, since I’m on mobile, all I can give you is:
Gallier House is the flat AR modeled the Rue Royale home of Louis, Lestat, and Claudia. It’s a historic location and they give tours there. Take one! See the Master bedroom! See Claudia’s room!
AR used to live in the garden district. 1239 First St. There is a little plaque about her there now.
Near AR’s garden dist. home is Lafayette Cemetary No. 1. There was a scene or two in IWTV that took place there, but it closes at sunset.
In movie!IWTV, Lestat watches Claudia kill someone right near the Cabildo in Jackson Square.
I think Louis kills a priest in book!IWTV in the St. Louis cathedral in Jackson Square.
Pointe du Lac plantation was based on Oak Alley plantation. They give tours there. Movie!IWTV was filmed there, too. Destreham plantation was also in movie!IWTV for Pointe du Lac plantation.
No one before Bernini had managed to make marble so carnal. In his nimble hands it would flatter and stream, quiver and sweat. His figures weep and shout, their torses twist and run, and arch themselves in spasms of intense sensation. He could, like an alchemist, change one material into another – marble into trees, leaves, hair, and, of course, flesh. – Simon Schama’s Power of Art. Bernini
I gave the vampire’s fear of sunlight a physiological explanation that had to do with the physiological laws that govern a spirit world or a cosmology. The spirit that has taken them over and made them inhuman is too sensitive to sunlight. It can’t thrive in sunlight — it’s simply paralyzed by sunlight, and weakened — and it can’t enliven their flesh. Therefore, the flesh starts to burn, because the flesh is dead anyway. The dark gift of immortality has different effects on different people. That they respond in different ways. Some people are emboldened, and some people are weakened. Some people are crippled by it, and destroyed by it. Other people are made into monsters by it. But the fundamental thing that happens with Louis is that it doesn’t change him. He is a guilt-ridden adult, living in grief over his dead brother, and he becomes a guilt-ridden vampire, living in grief over the fact that he has to take life in order to live. Perhaps it’s a lesson to Lestat that the basic personality doesn’t always change.
