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Can I ask about your interpretation of book Gabrielle(a) and how it differs from the fandom consensus? I’m not very involved with the fandom other than rbing art so I’m not sure what most people are saying lol

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:19:48 -0400

Uhhh this is going to be quite messy but I’ll try!

I think this post encapsulates pretty much how I feel about Gabrielle. Even though it’s a post talking about AR, because of how personal writing was to her and how she talked about using her writing as a means to process her personal issues/project her political beliefs, I think the way she wrote Gabrielle had a lot of parallels with herself, and thus there are a lot of parallels between how the fandom perceive AR with how they interpret Gabrielle as a character as well.

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The popular fandom interpretation of Gabrielle is that (s)he’s transmasc/a transman. And while I can see a strong support for this reading and how it became popular I think that:

It is not the only possible interpretation of this character
It gives AR a lot of undeserved credit for writing a thoughtful and intentional trans character/narrative, which, if you put it into perspective with her sexual politics/her view on gender and sexuality, you’d see that this trans reading is not intentional
It dissociates so much from the racial politics of AR and the racial context of how Gabrielle is written, which in my opinion removes a lot of nuance from her character. This is perhaps my main gripe with the fandom’s interpretation of Gabrielle.

When it comes to AR’s view on gender and sexuality, as much as she claimed that her literature transcends gender and sexuality, if you read her writing closely you’d find that she actually had a very gender-essentialist view. The plot of QOTD is basically that there’s a tangible, inherent essence of maleness and Lestat has the most out of all other beings, which in turn made him the target to be kidnapped by Akasha. You pick any random description AR wrote about a female character and 99% it’s going to be something along the lines of “she is so dainty and small and feminine and she breasted boobily towards Lestat”. So to say that this woman was consciously writing Gabrielle as a trans character feels too charitable, to be honest.

With regards to AR’s racial politics, if you were to read about how she romanticized the Antebellum South and how she still referred to Haiti by its colonial name of Saint-Domingue in the 80s, and then you read about accounts of white women who were wives to slave owners, then you'd have a better understanding of this “liberation” she often talked about, something that she often assigned to Gabrielle in her writing. AR associated power heavily with maleness and whiteness, and I don't think her desire for manhood (something she explored with Gabrielle's character) can be disentangled from her desire to exert white supremacy. Moreover, the liberation from misogynistic subjugation through accessing colonial power/exercising white supremacy on racialized populations is actually quite a common experience of white womanhood.

This is from a section from TVL where Gabrielle was convincing Lestat to go with her to Africa to conquer and terrorize “savage” tribes, btw. After Gabrielle parted ways with Lestat the next time she showed up she was literally dressed in an outfit clearly reminiscent of a French colonial officer’s tropical uniform.

All of which to say, this is what I was talking about in the aforementioned post about AR desiring not only manhood but white manhood: because to her, power = maleness, and whiteness = power. This thus influenced the way she wrote Gabrielle. Again, this isn’t meant to invalidate a transmasculine reading of the character; I just feel that if people were to insist on this reading then they should include the racial context for it as well because I don’t think these two aspects can be disentangled from one another and it removes a lot of nuances from her character, as well as discussions of AR’s writing.

not even joking when i say this is how i used to feel and how i still feel occasionally tbh but…

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:08:49 -0400

not even joking when i say this is how i used to feel and how i still feel occasionally tbh but being in this fandom is like. ok ogre thinks you’re not actually reading ulysses with ogre but you’re doing sth else completely non-ulysses related and it makes ogre feel very very scared.

The thing is that when I post stuff like “and i’m always saying this” I’m not trying to prove that I…

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:40:58 -0400

The thing is that when I post stuff like “and i’m always saying this” I’m not trying to prove that I have the most ‘correct’ takes all this time (even though the vindication does feel immediately satisfying ngl lol). I don’t think the goal of engaging with a piece of media should be to prove that you are right and other people are wrong (a pervasive mindset I’ve seen in this fandom where a lot of people are much more invested in what other fans think in relation to their own perception of the show and not. Actually engaging in the material of the show by themselves) (and I’m not saying that I’m above engaging in this behavior too #partoftheproblem). But on the other hand as someone who was a fan of these books back when I was a teenager (sorry) I do think that a lot of how I interpret the books and these characters just happens to align with how the show and its creatives interpret them. Like even when idgaf about AR or her legacy or adaptational faithfulness one thing that I have to admit and give credits to the show is how well it adapts the essence of these characters and stories. And I don’t even think how I come to these interpretations is even a huge intellectual feat if anything I think my reading is quite basic ToT. Buuuuut the thing that I think is central to this problem of how disconnected popular fandom interpretations of the show is to the actual material, and what I also think is central to 99% of the discourse surrounding this show, is anti-Blackness. Like, that’s it, full stop. The presence of Louis as a Black man is so disruptive because anti-Blackness is so pervasive in our culture that so much of it informs how we view the world, or actually how much of it distorts our perception of the world. If Louis was white then a lot of this dissonance between canon and fanon would not exist, quite frankly. For all the lying and whitewashing and historical revisionism book fans like to do when accusing the show of being an unfaithful adaptation/having bad writing, as someone who was also a book fan (again sorry) looking at it I’m just like. Well that’s just not true. But the juxtaposition of Louis being Black and Lestat being white is so great a force it literally warps people’s perception of what was in the books as well as what is in the show: because Louis is Black and Lestat is white, Louis has to be bigger and stronger and overpowering and cold and harsh and Lestat has to be weak and soft and passive and small. Similarly, their power dynamic has to be flattened and equalized because Lestat holding absolute power over Louis is scary and confronting to the majority of white liberal audience. And a long long list of inane discourse and controversial topics that almost always trace back to this line of thinking. And while there’s a lot of talk about media literacy when it comes to this discussion that I do agree with and that I don’t think are completely unrelated, but sometimes it really does just come back to anti-Blackness. To be quite honest.

pausing that gq bts clip to see them bounce

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:19:33 -0400

pausing that gq bts clip to see them bounce

“I’m curious about the physicality of your character, Jacob. There are times when physically he…

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:40:30 -0400

“I’m curious about the physicality of your character, Jacob. There are times when physically he feels very free or it seems that he moves with this fluidity, and there are other times when there is such a stillness to him, as if he’s containing so much within his body. How did you think about how he shows up physically in the world?

JA: I think that’s it, I think you’ve said it, really. I think he’s… to contain all of those multitudes in your brain is such an overwhelming experience. It’s so overstimulating. I think you have to sort of create a solid shell around it, really to protect yourself and I guess by extension protect others from this… It’s like when someone shakes up a can. I used to think of Louis physically as like, this soda can that’s been shook. One too many times then it’s gonna… it has to pop at some point. But yeah that requires some rigidity, I think, in the way that he presents himself.”

(From NPR’s 1A podcast)

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Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:12:32 -0400

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based on a photo from that new gq shoot

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:47:06 -0400

based on a photo from that new gq shoot

getting such a strong The Fall (2006) vibes from this ack!!!

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:51:31 -0400

getting such a strong The Fall (2006) vibes from this ack!!!

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Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:33:34 -0400

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convinced that they released the weakest songs first to accommodate us to the reality of flopstat

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:32:39 -0400

convinced that they released the weakest songs first to accommodate us to the reality of flopstat

in a similar vein to the last post but i think there’s a common presumption when it comes to stories…

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:06:52 -0400

in a similar vein to the last post but i think there’s a common presumption when it comes to stories about trauma and abuse that the supposed end goal should be the victim of said trauma and abuse coming out “better” and “healed”, that the goal is to move on. and when you interrogate this nebulous idea of what being “healed” means usually it comes down to all traces of the trauma being completely erase from the character’s body, as if nothing has ever happened, as if they are a completely diffrent person unmarred by abuse. and even though i don’t always levy realism as a metric for good writing i just don’t think that’s realistic. to be honest

this is probably me being an atheist/growing up in a secular environment but there’s sth so……

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:52:42 -0400

this is probably me being an atheist/growing up in a secular environment but there’s sth so… culturally christian? abt the concept of redemption arcs that i can’t quite put my finger on or really be content with lol

went back and added typo lol i tried

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:18:02 -0400

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inspired by peter steele’s playgirl cover
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went back and added typo lol i tried

inspired by peter steele’s playgirl cover

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:05:51 -0400

inspired by peter steele’s playgirl cover

i love love but it’s so scary

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:24:28 -0400

i love love but it’s so scary <- gonna say this every day until the season stops airing

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:21:29 -0400

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ugh i’m so curious abt akasha’s styling and costuming because sheila atim is so sooooo incredibly…

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:46:23 -0400

ugh i’m so curious abt akasha’s styling and costuming because sheila atim is so sooooo incredibly gorgeous i hope they do her justice

one of those poster ideas i’ll never finish

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:44:23 -0400

one of those poster ideas i’ll never finish

i love the use of silence and quietness in iwtv a lot and from s3 reviews i hope it’s a theme they…

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:39:18 -0400

i love the use of silence and quietness in iwtv a lot and from s3 reviews i hope it’s a theme they continue to use. parts of lestat’s proposal to louis that we can’t hear, claudia and madeleine’s last words to each other, louis and lestat’s words during their reunion in the shack… in a story about putting up performances where the presence of an audience is constant, perhaps the “truest” words are the ones kept privy between the characters, quiet to the audience.

has anyone ever thought about how louis and claudia were the best thing lestat has ever had in both…

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:45:11 -0400

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has anyone ever thought about how louis and claudia were the best thing lestat has ever had in both his mortal and immortal life