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murfpersonalblog · 2 hours ago
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This is what racists look like when blaming Black characters for the abuses done against them at the hands of an attractive white antagonist.
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This is what y'all "stop bringing race into everything!!" folks look like when a black person/person of color talks about racism in fandom:
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murfpersonalblog · 6 hours ago
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To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.
Also, I would like to add that black lives have always mattered, will always matter.
It’s awful that we even have to say that because it should be a given. However, we need to say it loud and clear for the racists.
We cannot be silent. 
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murfpersonalblog · 12 hours ago
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imagine hating someone so much you write a diss track about them and then end up breaking a bunch of streaming records (that were previously held by the very same person you're hating on the diss track), going 1st on the billboard hot 100 chart and winning grammys for that song (record of the year no less!!!!), like, nobody is doing it like kendrick lmaooo y'all need to step up your hating game
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murfpersonalblog · 13 hours ago
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“How many stocks do I really have in stock… One, two, three, four, five, plus five…”
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murfpersonalblog · 14 hours ago
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Lowkey don’t care about the white people who got snubbed at the Grammys tonight.
Black History month has been great so far
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murfpersonalblog · 14 hours ago
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Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar has won 5 Grammy Awards tonight becoming the most awarded rap song in Grammy history.
Song of the Year
Record of the Year
Best Music Video
Best Rap Song
Best Rap Performance
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murfpersonalblog · 14 hours ago
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The entire arena of music industry rapping “A MINOOOOOOR” while Kendrick wins Record of the Year. BEST DISS - HISTORY Has Been Made
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murfpersonalblog · 1 day ago
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Mayfair Witches S2E4 (Show & Book Spoilers): JULIEN MAYFAIR
50/50--half of this ep was conceptually cool (Julien & the dollhouse), and the other half was a giant load of wasted time--literally & figuratively.
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elderly!Julien seems to have been deliberately wasting Rowan's time, getting her to do errands for him the same way he had Cortland constantly feeding him in 2x2. If she'd kept serving him, the clock would've run out, and she'd die in the Victrola. But Rowan's entitled impatience & dumb AF impulsiveness led to her leaving the Victrola on her own, not following the rules about Julien needing to LET her leave--
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--just like she ignored Dolly Jean about not interrupting Moira, & landed her in the frikkin hospital! So ofc half of Rowan's soul gets split when she goes back, like a effing moron. 🙄😒
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The dollhouse concept was SO FREAKING COOL, as ghost!Julien's POV watching everything that goes on in his house.
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Why're you lying to her, yes she is; Rowan's the biggest fool on this whole show, stop it. They said victrola!Rowan was all Intellect, and dollhouse!Rowan was all Emotion; Head vs Heart; but chile, I couldn't tell the frikkin difference; this woman can't act. 😩 Julien's actor was great though, I like him.
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EXACTLY, like stfu Rowan, and start asking Julien RELEVANT questions! God she got on my nerves, wasting SO MUCH Time starting at the dollhouse tryna talk to people who CANNOT HEAR HER AT ALL, rather than the effing patriarch standing RIGHT THERE. 🤦 My patience with her was SHOT this ep, omfg.
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Spoken like a man who never carried a child then gave birth. 🙄😒
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Interesting how AMC kept the incest stuff with Rowan & Lasher, but dodged the pedo stuff with Julien & Lasher--Julien was THREE when Lasher came to him, NOT 12. 💀 The night Julien's grandma died, Lasher realized that his mom Marguerite had gone crazy, and that his baby sister Katherine couldn't even see Lasher at all. But Julien could see Lasher just fine, so Lasher molested Julien instead--the way he always introduces himself to his new Witch.
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I HATE these 8-ep seasons--I wanted to SEE Lasher posses Julien's body, gosh darnit! That was the best part of Lasher, getting Julien's whole backstory!
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Julien woke up in way more places than just the French Quarter--he usually woke up in STORYVILLE; the IWTV crossover we SHOULD HAVE gotten! book!Julien died in 1914, so he'd've been active when Papa DPDL was still alive & AMC!Louis DPDL was growing up (Louis started working in Storyville in 1905, when his dad died). So they'd've 100% known about Julien; and ESPECIALLY the prostitutes & johns around Storyville (which "officially" opened in 1897). Julien started letting Lasher possess him in 1872, right after his daughter/niece Mary Beth was born (Julien was 44ish). So he had DECADES to build a reputation by AMC!Louis' time.
Cuz possessed!Julien was a effing MENACE in the Red Light District; it wasn't just fistfights; Julien/LASHER was busy sleeping around with literally anyone, it was sick, the situations Julien found himself in, Lasher was a effing degenerate in his body. And this is why Julien had SO MANY EFFING KIDS, White & Black, cuz Lasher was the rolling stone, NOT Julien--Julien made a point of tryna go looking for his mystery kids, even the Black ones, to keep track of everything Lasher was up to in his body, and how may Mayfairs were scattered around because of their shenanigans. But Julien let Lasher keep doing it, to prove himself "useful;" but also cuz every time Lasher was in him, Julien got access to bits of Lasher's memories from his past life back in Scotland. Win/win, even if it was at the cost of Julien's reputation. So AMC definitely sanitized Julien's time with Lasher, to only talk about the fights & taking portrait photographs. 😅
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THIS WAS A EFFING COOL TWIST, AMC. 👏👏👏
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"Kill Bride" is a hilariously ironic name, LOL, as Lasher went around killing all his Mayfair brides.
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"SAINT ASHLAR" NAMEDROP STFU, LFG!!!!
So Ian Mayfair is what, the High Priest of the Cult of the Taltos or something? Is HE the one who's gonna try breeding Lasher with someone to make more Taltos? Whatever happens, I'm seated. 🍿👀
But it's so strange that Ian said "Ashlar"/Lasher was taller than expected--he's not nearly tall enough to be a Taltos. Like, 7 feet was AVERAGE for them. But wtvr. They REALLY shoulda CGI'd him, so his adult form did NOT look human anymore; eff the budget.
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🤦 What kinda trash psychic are you, Albrecht, that you didn't know Ian was finna kill you as soon as you brought him Lasher? STUPID. Oh well, bye Felicia.
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Julien erasing Cortland's memories of Scotland was very cool too--I love how they created a whole hidden Scottish branch of the Mayfairs worshiping Lasher as Saint Ashlar like something out of frikkin Midsommar, sacrificing sheep & virgins to him, like wtf. XD
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They're really compressing the 2nd & 3rd books, so I hope we get Stonehenge and mention of the GIANTS, not just "pagan spirits."
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So AMC's removing Marguerite being a VOODOO queen, and making her a Celtic pagan instead (good call, so that voodoo's not bastardized as the demonic nonsense she was up to as she culturally appropriated the traditions of her Haitian slaves--funny they haven't mentioned that Mayfairs being slaveowners yet, LOL). She also doesn't seem like a raving madwoman in that photo, which is a shame--that was the most interesting thing about her, LOL.
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Hrmmm...Julien & Marguerite seeing the Taltos as "old gods/original deities/pagan spirits" SO LONG AGO effs up the lore about Lasher's whole mystery for the Mayfairs--they had no clue wtf he was until the Talamasca told them AFTER Rowan & Michael showed up in NOLA. But wtvr. Obvs they're tryna make sense of book!Julien's mysterious treks to Scotland, and why he was so secretive about Donnelaith--it never amounted to anything, but serving as a cover for whenever he'd take Mary Beth & Stella to Scotland & say some "Lord Donnelaith" had fathered their kids, when really it was just him. 😬
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Chile, no one short of Satan himself could've impressed Marguerite--she was friggin nuts. But I guess AMC!Marguerite's a more competent witch; maybe SHE was the one who offered Julien to be Lasher's host? Rather than Julien OFFERING himself, a la the books?
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True to form, Julien is a MESSY QUEEN. 😂
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Interesting how Julien never actually answered the question about him & Albrecht. 👀 And if he never needed Albrecht to wipe memories cuz Julien could do it too, then what was Albrecht's ACTUAL purpose being involved in all this with Julien...? 👀👀
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I'm sure we'll see this pub again in the next ep, once they all go to Scotland to get Lasher back.
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Dolly Jean saying Julien's Victrola's a pub to Rowan is different from how it appears to her & Evelyn is very interesting--I wonder what room they saw? Dolly Jean was slowdancing & cheesing in a fancy nightgown, so I guess the place Julien took them was way more swanky? But Rowan sees a pub, cuz it's somehow connected to where Julien probably spent a lot of time in Scotland?????? IDFK.
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I LITERALLY didn't care about the whole LOOOOONG subplot that took up dang near 1/3rd this ep with Rowan tryna roofie Lark to wipe his memories--esp. cuz in the end she didn't even go through with it, LOL. As usual, the scenes with Lark are so boring & dry, but also so effing offensive, cuz if they were gonna make this pretty white guy Rowan's REAL love interest, they should've just made HIM play Michael from the get-go, and not cuckold black!Ciprien to be the witless Mandingo who got roofied/raped to sire this white heifer's demon baby; then kicked out of the loop unless she needs him to solve her problems! I effing HATE that Cip is here more & more every episode, omfg. (Scratch that--cuz Cip wasn't even IN this episode! 🤦) The whole Victrola arc with Julien was with MICHAEL in the books, never Rowan--instead, they've got poor Cip being framed for Albrecht's crimes--and how convenient that Albrecht's DEAD now, so WHO is gonna clear Ciprien's name while his black arse is stuck arrested all the way in effing Amsterdam, huh!? Jfc.
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As if asking this respected geneticist with his whole career on the line to do OFF THE RECORD SECRET TESTS on your demon kid's DNA isn't illegal & unethical?! At least by stealing your DNA to compare with Lasher's, Lark found some NEW info YOU certainly didn't have as you spun your useless wheels for the past 2 seasons.
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Lotta TRUE things being admitted this episode at least. 😅
Despite how much Mayfair Witches is still a below average subpar show, it's still MUCH better than S1--which isn't saying much, I know, but still. They're just using so much more material from the books this time; whereas S1 really was just painfully bare bones.
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IWTV Musings: LDPDL & the Black Mayfairs: Oncle Vervain & Merrick
On the heels of both seasons of Castlevania Nocturne, I'm even more sad/mad that Oncle Vervain Mayfair was cut from AMC!IWTV & that we lost some of Louis' connection to his Haitian Creole culture. I've discussed Oncle Vervain before (x x x), but no one EVER talks about him, and it's such a shame & missed opportunity on S1's part.
AMC!Vervain vs Lestat, "Nawlins Voodoo meet European Voodoo"
We got several scenes of Oncle Vervain in Rolin Jones pilot script:
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Vervain warns Louis that Papa Legba, the protective Voodoo loa of the crossroads, had forsaken NOLA--the very same night Lestat arrived in Storyville. The morning before Louis goes to Tom Anderson's poker game (when Lestat freezes time), he visits Oncle Vervain for a good luck spell (gris gris).
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Paul, ofc, disapproves of Louis dabbling with Oncle Vervain (cuz Catholics think everything not in the Bible is from frikkin Satan 🙄), but Louis tells him to stfu.
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Next time we see Oncle Vervain is the night of the DPDL dinner, when Lestat & Louis are chatting outside 1132, before Miss Lily appears on the balcony in her underwear.
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Oncle Vervain IMMEDIATELY clocks that ish ain't right with Lestat as soon as he looks in Lestat's unnatural vampire eyes. He knows Lestat's a bloodless vampire, and starts praying to Papa Legba for protection; but Louis' a sweet baby idiot who just assumes that Lestat does "European Voodoo," and asks Oncle Vervain in Haitian Creole to be nice to his "friend." But Oncle Vervain ain't stupid, and is like hayul naw, and keep your tainted money, too!
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Jacob Anderson is SO good with languages, so I'd've LOVED to see Black!Louis speak Haitian Creole, we were robbed and NO I won't STFU about it, Rolin, you OWE ME! 😩
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There's also Louis' relationship with other religions. Cuz Haitian Voodoo shaped his life too; he DOES believe in magic, and the power of the gods/spirits/ancestors, and there's a REASON Lestat's weirdness doesn't faze him as much as it SHOULD. Cuz Voodoo & Catholicism go hand-in-hand, but most people never know that; they assume voodoo practitioners are just godless satanists; when no, Voodoo is deeply Catholic.
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Plus, there's this thing very common in vampire lore. The victim of The Vampire is usually abnormally sensitive or aware of the occult beforehand in some way--from 2024!Ellen Hutter's epileptic fits being associated with the fae/changelings; to 1992!Mina Harker being a reincarnated dead woman who has dreams/visions/memories of her past life as Dracula's bride; to book!Lestat being the 7th son who goes to the Witches Place and sometimes sees spirits; and ofc AMC!Louis in the pilot script relying on Voodoo magic from Oncle Vervain, and mistaking Lestat as a European Voodoo master.
So I just wish we'd seen Oncle Vervain in living colour, with him & Lou interacting; and esp. Oncle Vervain & Lestat squaring off, I'd've died laughing, cuz Oncle Vervain was NOT playing games with him! 😅
Oncle Vervain & AMC!LDPDL: Twinsies
Funny enough, Oncle Vervain resembles vampire!Louis: A young mixed race Creole with "frightening" light eyes just like Merrick's (which the books say are green).
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AMC keeps creaming themselves over Rowan Mayfair's actress' light eyes, but Vervain & Merrick had eerie eyes, too!
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It would've been so cool to see brown-eyed!Louis as a human interact with a green/hazel-eyed Oncle Vervain, who could see spirits and knew all about the things that go bump in the night--Lestat included. Then Louis' made a vampire, and HE looks like Oncle Vervain, but a more twisted unnatural version of him. They're BOTH on the other side of the veil now, the same mystic veil that Louis had always been drawn to, even when no one else in his family approved. But Louis' one of the lougarou that Oncle Vervain AVOIDS. Louis has the WRONG type of magic now--the wrong type of green eyes from Oncle Vervain.
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Alas, so many missed opportunities, Rolin. 😔
book!Vervain, and the Black Mayfairs
Like, Oncle Vervain's backstory in Merrick is WILD.
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Oncle Vervain Mayfair was SCARY--not scary cuz he's evil or anything (the way Oncle Julien/Lasher scared everyone); but scary in that he's POWERFUL, which was RARE in male Mayfairs. Julien (b. 1828) & Vervain (c. very late 1800s/very early 1900s) were the goats.
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The Mayfairs are all descended from Petyr van Abel, a psychic in the Talamasca, who impregnated Deborah Mayfair (and then impregnated their daughter Charlotte Mayfair), the daughter of Suzanne Mayfair, the first witch to ever summon Lasher. The Mayfairs inherited Petyr's psychic powers & Suzanne's extra chromosome (Taltos DNA); some Mayfairs having more or less, depending on their particular line's level of incest & inbreeding. Male Mayfairs could be strong psychics, but none of them were ever Lasher's Witch, except Julien Mayfair.
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The Black Mayfairs learned a lot from Oncle Julien, but they had nothing to do with Lasher (a white supremacist eugenicist who'd actually remove the melanin from the Black slaves he possessed, so they could look Caucasian & more like him. 🤦). Julien Mayfair slept with A LOT of people, including Black women he impregnated with more Mayfair witches. Some were high yellow enough to pass as white & mix with the White Mayfairs, but the darker-skinned Creoles who couldn't pass (Merrick's line) were left on the margins--which was actually a good thing, since it kept Lasher FAR away from them, bless. But Oncle Julien would still swap magic with them (amongst other things....), and apparently he had a much more amicable relationship with the Black Mayfairs than any of the White Mayfairs; the way they talk about him is radically different from how the White Mayfairs did, which AMC obvs kept as canon--
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--and the way the Black Mayfairs talked about Julien's radically different from how they talked about the rest of the White Mayfairs, too; whom they often saw as nosey busybodies & interlopers, and as racist hypocrites too ashamed to acknowledge the descendants of their Black slaves, lovers & mistresses.
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(AMC removed all the racial/racist aspects of the Mayfairs & Taltos, a change I already said I hate, but wtvr.)
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Angelique's genealogy's vague AF. For Julien to have been her nephew by blood, that means she has to have been a Black by-blow of either Julien's grandfather Henri Marie Landry (d. 1824), or more likely Julien's grandmother Marie Claudette Mayfair (d. 1831)--since Mayfairs pass the Mayfair name down matrilineally. (And for Julien to have met Angelique while he lived at First Street in NOLA, that had to be after after 1857, when the house was bought.) Wtvr, Julien & Angelique's son was Jerome Mayfair (aka The Old Man), the father of Alexis Mayfair; and grandfather of Vervain & Nananne. Merrick Mayfair knew The Old Man Jerome learned voodoo in Haiti & taught it to Oncle Vervain.
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So Oncle Vervain got his power indirectly from the Taltos/Talamasca genes of the OG White Mayfairs, but more directly from learning the natural magic of his paternal Afro-Caribbean (& White Mayfair) ancestors who were Voodoo practitioners; and his maternal Mesoamerican ancestors who practiced brujeria.
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Anne Rice bounced all around from the Maya to Aztec to Olmec to Guatemala to Brazil, like wtf? I hate when she talks about non-white peoples & cultures; let alone talking through them. 🤦
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So yeah, Oncle Vervain & his baby sister Great Nananne are Black Creole descendants of Julien Mayfair. And Merrick Mayfair's mother Sandra was Great Nananne's granddaughter--Nananne had a Black daughter that married a white man and had 12 kids (sheesh!); but Sandra came out too dark-skinned to pass, so Merrick's white grandfather rejected his own biracial child & made his Black wife give Sandra away to be raised by Great Nananne instead, jfc.
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If Sandra had been born lightskinted, she'd've taken her white dad's name & left NOLA for Chicago & not been raised as a Mayfair at all. But instead, Great Nananne taught Sandra and her daughters Honey & Merrick everything she knew about Voodoo, Oncle Vervain, and Oncle Julien.
Merrick Mayfair, "Blood Children," & book!Loustat
AMC!Vervain's attitude towards Loustat is so interesting, cuz he seems to feel very differently towards vampires than book!Vervain did about "Blood Children." According to Merrick Mayfair, Oncle Vervain had a vision of her future when she was a kid, and KNEW she'd be Turned into a vampire:
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Merrick believed she & Louis were destined to meet; she'd become a great witch & voodoo priestess, her reputation would reach LDPDL via the Talamasca, and she'd be called in to help Lou exorcise ghost!Claudia.
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From what book!Dolly Jean told book!Rowan Mayfair, Oncle Vervain's heart broke to learn Merrick was doomed to become a vampire. But according to Merrick, Oncle Vervain still helped & supported her, doing nothing to intervene--likely cuz the Black Mayfairs knew that Oncle Julien's ghost (d. 1914) had already started meddling with Mayfairs, and it never worked.
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Moreover, Tante Oscar foretold that Loustat would cross Merrick's path:
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I've long wondered if Raglan James' "you should fear the other one" actually referred to Lestat, a la the books:
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Cuz Tante Oscar warned the Mayfairs that the vampire to fear was Lestat, the French blonde one who talked funny. The Mayfairs were like chile who GAF about Louis; just shake a crucifix at him and he'll run scared. 😂🤣 LESTAT was the boogeyman for them--and Rolin clearly picked up on this, seeing the way AMC!Vervain reacted to him in the pilot script. So he told Tante Oscar to tell the rest of the Mayfairs to stay far away Lestat, who'd do "terrible things" to them; while Louis would never actually attack a Mayfair in a fight.
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So, Merrick Mayfair helped Louis exorcise ghost!Claudia in Merrick, AND she helped Quinn exorcise ghost!Goblin in Blackwood Farm--two tortured undead children whose souls had been warped by vampirism and couldn't rest & cross over without Merrick there to guide them all--even at the cost of her soul/life (*cough* the Magical Negro sacrificed for the sake of white characters, ofc). I've always said that I HATE how Merrick died, and how AR kept treating Black women in her books; and I was really hoping Merrick would be in AMC!IWTV so she could get better representation. Alas, it never happened. Not only that, but Rolin also cut Oncle Vervain Mayfair, too, like wtf?
TBF, I do wonder if Rolin removed the Mayfairs cuz DANIEL fulfills much of their role already, esp. wrt parsing Claudia's diaries in S1; and getting the Talamasca's help (to free Louis from Armand's toxic clutches). Armand became the parasite haunting/plaguing Louis' mind, rather than ghost!Claudia haunting him, that Daniel needed to exorcise/purge.
BUT!
IF we get ghost!Claudia in S3 haunting Lestat, AMC could totally move Merrick & Vervain to Lestat's storyline instead (loathe as I am to have anymore Black characters exposed to Lestat until he's taken a few CRT classes & gotten a boatload of therapy.) That way we can still get Merrick's backstory, and see everything Oncle Vervain taught her, and see her seance with Claudia (and hopefully even get Oncle Vervain's NOLA flashbacks with Loustat!).
MAKE IT HAPPEN, ROLIN. 🙏
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murfpersonalblog · 1 day ago
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holy shit y’all should watch this one, what an admirable person
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murfpersonalblog · 1 day ago
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Why I don’t think we should waste our time making anti Trump content - Signified B Sides
Just noticed that Youtube yeeted my comment on the actual video, cuz I used no-no words, omfg. But basically I commented that I only half agree with FD’s video, cuz yes, doom-scrolling isn’t good for anyone’s mental health; and no, MAGA morons will never be convinced by or GAF about anything we have to say. 
But we still need to keep ourselves informed about the BC Trump’s tryna get away with. Even the stuff that may seem frivolous, like Elon making Nazi salutes & gaslighting everyone into thinking it’s a friendly gesture; or Trump deleting TikTok then reopening it in under 24 hours like he’d “saved“ the day. So I’d rather be informed & aware & stressed & prepared, than blissfully ignorant & get blindsided.
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Daniel, Daniel I'm worried about your diet. Your food is misrepresenting itself. These "poptarts" are not tart, they are pure sugar. Do you eat these so you will taste sweeter for me, Daniel? You know I'd enjoy your blood either way. I simply want you to live forever and I don't think your choice of breakfast foods is going to—no, I won't turn you, we've discussed this. Yes I understand the limits of human mortality, that is why I think we should ban these poptarts from your home. I will make you fresh smoothies my love. I purchased a blender today—
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WOW! See, this is why I only use Tumblr, cuz despite how busted it is without Xkit, at least it's not one of those monetized clout-chaser social media sites like Insta, FB, Twitter/X, TikTok, Youtube, and everyone else that sold out to Führer Trump's unethical shenanigans. Tumblr's irrelevant & irreverent and I hope it stays that way.
calling all jonny fans 🔈🔈🔈
i don’t have an instagram account nor a twitter so i have nowhere else to say this but i hope this post gets sent around within the jonny fandom so it gets back to him like maybe to his bigger fan accounts on twitter and specifically instagram. we know jonny is very well versed in what’s going on in american politics and he has very humanitarian views and does not support the views of the republican/right-wing party. jonny has followed kamala on insta for years but bcos republicans are trying to feign popularity the oligarchy is now auto-following their right-wing vp. please spread this so it can get to jonny so that he can unfollow vance!!!
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IWTV S2 Ep6 Musings - Loustat vs Claudeleine
I wanna make something clear about the difference between Loustat making Claudia, and Louis/Claudia making Madeleine. On face value, it might seem that Louis & Lestat are similar, being forced to make a vampire child they never wanted. Lestat made Claudia for Louis; Louis made Madeleine for Claudia. But the stark difference is the MOTIVE behind WHY Lestat Turned Claudia & Louis Turned Madeleine.
Lestat Turned Claudia out of the selfish need to KEEP Louis tied to him. He didn't want Louis to leave him, so he agreed to make a baby to make Louis happy, and also as a transactional contract with terms & conditions: if I make this child for you, you promise to never leave me, to stop being depressed & miserable, and be the companion I've been wanting you to be; eating humans & acting like a vampire should already. Capiche? Lestat's Ep4 revisit CLAIMS that he was oh-so-concerned about Claudia's future as a vamp, but Loustat never asked Claudia if she wanted to be Turned; no one explained to her what the consequences of vampirism were. Cuz her wants didn't matter--she was just a means to an end: keeping Louis in that house; regardless if LESTAT was there or not (a la 1x6).
Louis turned Madeleine out of the selfless wish for Claudia to be FREE. He didn't want Claudia to leave him, but he knew Claudia was sick of being in the Coven anymore (Paris sucks, eff these vampires), and that she was ready to BOUNCE, leaving with Madz, just like they told Armand in 2x6: "She'll never fit in. They won't miss her." Louis NEVER stopped Claudia from tryna leave & be on her own & find her happiness/finding the X, "You don't need me. You think you do, but you don't. You're smarter now. You see trouble coming a mile away;" or use ultimatums to force her to stay as his daughter--"You picked the coven! You left me! Sit in your choice, Sister!" She decided that what/WHO she wanted was Madz, and he agreed to talk to Armand about Turning her, and when Armand said no he agreed to make Madz himself--for CLAUDIA's sake. Claudia & Armand had already informed Madz about what vampirism entailed, and allowed her to voice her full consent to being a vamp--Louis even let Madz touch his fangs before he used them on her, so she had full awareness of what was going on--all to make the PERFECT companion for Claudia.
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This brings me to another thing.
Like I've said multiple times, Louis making Madz was the best thing he ever did for Claudia. Madz was EXACTLY what Claudia needed & wanted: an EQUAL, but someone who always put Claudia FIRST. Madz supports Claudia's efforts to appear more grown, dressing her not as a doll or a little kid to infantalize/lower Claudia, but as a young lady to boost Claudia up and give her armor out there in the world. She's a woman who can connect to Claudia on a gender level, who's also a rape victim, who's also marginalized, who knows what the female urge to go BANG feels like when society's misogynistic AF; someone who'll never turn their toxic masculinity on her. Claudeleine reads e/o's minds, they get along as friends AND as paramours; it's not just blind lust (a la Loumand) and false pretenses (a la Loustat).
But was Lestat making Claudia the best thing for Louis? Kinda. It's 50/50, cuz while yes, "Claudia was everything. I loved her unconditionally. All the noise, the chaos, the crisis of my former existence, silenced. The simple joy of her hand in mine. I had a daughter." Claudia was "everything," but the problem's that Lou was looking for a crutch & a distraction to RUN AWAY from his bigger problems by dumping all his love & attention on Claudia in a VERY unhealthy & dependent way; "I run like a coward!"
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Claudia definitely HELPED alleviate Louis, but she was never the SOLUTION to his problems, let alone LOUSTAT'S problems as a toxic couple, that looooong predated her, that she could NEVER fix.
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I've also said b4 that Lestat calling Claudia a "mistake" was disgusting. THEY were the mistake, never HER; the mistake was Loustat ever thinking they were fit to raise a child together in the first place--not to give Grace any kudos, cuz she was just being homophobic. But yes, Loustat had no business raising Claudia when they didn't even have their own ish handled:
Louis smothered Claudia with affection he felt he couldn't give to Lestat (social pressures being gay & interracial, vampiric pressures with his diet and Loustat butting heads too much to get along anymore; romantic issues with Lestat being a chronic cheater)
Lestat's inferiority complex & abandonment issues: resenting Claudia for getting in the way "interfering in the romantic lives of her parents;" being jealous of the telepathic bond she had with Louis ("I see where this is going"); being threatened by just how much smarter she was than him ("Been following you, Uncle Les. You ain't been your careful self;" "you must think me an idiot;" and ofc the chess games). On top of Lestat's casual toxic color blindness where his utter lack of racial/cultural/historical sensitivity meant he had NO business raising a Black child; I hate white people who do that, acting like their non-white kid's race doesn't matter, it's so effing irresponsible & dishonest & outright dangerous.
So yeah, I just wanted to point this out, cuz although Louis & Lestat DO have many parallels, at the end of the day they're NOT the same. Lestat made Claudia for Louis and Loustat treated her like an OBJECT. Louis made Madeleine for Claudia and Claudia treated Madz like a person, a partner, and an EQUAL.
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