Black/Gay 20-something “Expectation is the root of all misery”
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bougierthanthou · 6 days ago
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louis de pointe du lac — denial is a river
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bougierthanthou · 7 days ago
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DOECHII'S full performance of catfish and denial Is a river at the GRAMMYS
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bougierthanthou · 9 days ago
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While reflecting on Interview With Vampire the thought crossed my mind about how incredibly tragic of a figure Louis is. He lived in a time where he couldn't express his sexual and romantic desires freely as a black queer man. Constantly having to operate under a facade and the only chance he got for freedom was in his death(becoming a vampire) by Lestat's hand, the irony though is that Lestat became his new prison. God, the layers in this show.
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bougierthanthou · 9 days ago
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JACOB ANDERSON as LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC Interview with the Vampire 1.03
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bougierthanthou · 9 days ago
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God, he’d make such a good vampire.
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✩ Maxence Danet-Fauvel Icons
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bougierthanthou · 9 days ago
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I think part of what frustrates me about age gap discourse with respect to BTVS specifically is that framing Buffy's relationship with Angel as 'grown man preys on teenage girl' requires that you ignore everything about the context of the show, the context that their relationship occurs within, and also what it means for both of them as characters and for the show as a whole.
It's also just like, really boring?
Like before you get to any of the story reasons why that's just a stupidly reductive analytical framework, you have to start with this: in a story aimed at teenagers, the fantasy is of being special and desired by a sexy immortal, and because the story is aimed at teenagers, the main characters are (or start as) teenagers, since the coming of age narrative that underpins everything else doesn't work without it. Hard to tackle that transition from adolescence to adulthood with a main character who begins the series as an adult!
(And it's not as if coming of age stories for adults don't exist. Phoebe Halliwell is a very good example--unlike her older sisters, she starts off unemployed and kind of adrift and desperate to find a purpose, which she ultimately does as a witch and a Charmed One, and all of this is done while she, as the youngest, is in her early twenties at the series start, because the show is primarily aimed at adults.)
And the thing is, Angel isn't just some adult man preying on a highschooler for kicks because he can't find women his own age. As Angelus, he spent well over a century enamored with Darla and committing wanton slaughter and destruction by her side. As Angel, with the exception of Buffy, all of his love interests are adults, and his love for Buffy is not tied to her youth, innocence, or naivete, considering that it links and binds them so completely that they keep crossing in and out of each other's lives through the end of Buffy's show, with the door explicitly open for a future relationship once Buffy's finished baking.
What draws Angel to Buffy--and what makes their relationship so dangerously compelling and also ultimately spells its downfall as, within the text of the show, it is explicitly a tragedy--is the fact that she's the Slayer.
That's the key point--her status as the Chosen One! He is drawn to her (as all vampires are, to a greater or lesser extent, but it's no accident that her only other truly earth shattering romantic relationship in the series is with another vampire) because she's the Slayer, and because of the soul he was cursed to bear and the guilt he feels for the evil he committed as a vampire, he wants to protect and save her as part of his atonement. He falls in love with her because she brings light back into the darkness he has been cast into since being forced to bear a soul even as a monster. And he would be 241 years old whether he was turned as a teenager and could pass as one of her peers or turned at 26 (the show is inconsistent on the age at which he was turned and it really doesn't matter, since the buffyverse never tries to pretend vampires are 'frozen' at the age they're turned anyway), and yes, part of what is darkly compelling about their relationship is that the age difference is obvious (Sarah Michelle Gellar was 20 and David Boreanaz was 28 during season 1), but the reason Angel being an 'older man' is never considered super relevant (aside from a few lampshades) is because... it really isn't.
The important thing, the critical thing, the thing that matters in the context of their relationship is that Angel is a vampire. That's why when Angel pulls out his 'I'm 241, you're 16' spiel it rings so hollow--because that doesn't really matter to either of them and he knows it. He's trying to push her away because it's the only way he can really protect her, and even then it doesn't work, and they all suffer for it horribly, Buffy most of all. (And even then she can't stop loving him, nor he her, and that makes it all the more tragic when he realizes the only thing he can do for her is leave.)
Also, it really throws into sharp relief the fact that people care so much about Buffy being a teenage girl when it comes to her romantic relationships but not at all when it comes to her being fated to die. Something the show itself is also quite critical of, because that's part of the point--being the Slayer is an awful burden that none of them have ever had a choice but to bear, and Buffy was supposed to die at sixteen years old. The only reason she survives is because she broke the rules by trying to have a normal life in addition to being the Slayer, which is the only reason she has friends to help her and save her, and I'm supposed to look at all of that and care that her broody vampire bf was a 'grown man' when he was turned? Really?
I don't think so. You can't just be willing to take what the show says for itself at face value when it comes to all the fighting and killing and dying but then balk when it comes to sex. That just doesn't work for me. (I mean, you can, and a lot of people do, but it's frustrating, hence this post.)
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bougierthanthou · 9 days ago
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.01 | "In throes of increasing wonder"
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bougierthanthou · 11 days ago
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The swamp princess 🐊
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bougierthanthou · 11 days ago
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bougierthanthou · 14 days ago
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Castlevania Nocturne season 2 ramble
Olrox was touted as a machiavellian Aztec vampire whose past with colonization his mohican lover and Richter informed his present day actions. He's an incredibly crucial figure for the themes they want to address within the narrative and the biggest move he made that had any impact on the plot was alerting Erzsebet & Drolta about the revolutionary army and fighting Drolta in the last episode. In between he was just pining for and informing Mizrak. Pining is fine, but too often gay characters are boxed into romantic storylines. As for being an informant that doesn't amount to anything because the information given to Mizrak isn't anything that can be used to notify our leads or push the plot forward. Wouldn't it have been better to have him working directly with Richter? Dig into the tension of our lead having to ally himself with his mother's killer, have Olrox and Annette develop a mutual understanding as victims of colonization therefore getting Richter to expand his narrow worldview and have him grapple with the fact that his mother was in the wrong because she didn't have the proper context when killing the Mohican vampire who according to Olrox fought with the revolutionaries. It would also better expand on the fact that vampires can retain their humanity morality and their soul (admittedly being able to retain your soul was shown by Drolta after being revived by the abbott). This would also help to further answer the question posed by Maria in the first episode of this season, "What are they, really, vampires?" because the leads operate under the belief they're all evil which could very well be true but having them be exposed to and have prolonged interactions with vampires that are anomalies who challenge their understanding could've led to some interesting moral dilemmas for our protagonists or at the very least have them reevaluate how they go about their heroics. I'm just really disappointed with Olrox's arc, thought he was gonna be on his Sansa, on his Margaery Tyrell.
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bougierthanthou · 14 days ago
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bougierthanthou · 15 days ago
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I desire someone who sees the ocean of chaos within me, and still dives in.
LL Musings
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bougierthanthou · 17 days ago
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It’s the most wonderful time of the yearrr
happy black history month
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bougierthanthou · 19 days ago
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For Allure Magazine 📸 Zhong Lin
Wearing Iris Van Herpen
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bougierthanthou · 22 days ago
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you can’t fool a person who’s skilled in pattern recognition
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bougierthanthou · 22 days ago
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One of the bright spots of this season was seeing her crash out, rightfully so.
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Castlevania: Nocturne
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bougierthanthou · 22 days ago
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