#A Shadow on the Skin

[cbrownjc]

I’ve been thinking about this book that amc-Daniel wrote about the growing AIDS crisis. The back blurb says it was first published as a running series on Kaposi Sarcoma during the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic, which was before it was even called AIDS. Which means Daniel would have been in his late-20s at the time when writing about it (circa 1981). 

This means that Daniel was writing a running series for some newspaper (or maybe multiple papers) about this illness that seemed to be infecting only gay men (which is what was thought about the disease at the time - the original name for AIDS was GRID: “gay-related immune deficiency.”) Given how Daniel frequented gay bars, plus lived in both San Fransisco and New York, he might have even known a person or two who contracted it.  

If Devil’s Minion did happen in the past (and the hints even from the showrunners and cast is that it did), and it happened for the same length of time that it did in the books, then that also means Daniel was still writing, and was specifically writing a lot about this topic, even when he was entangled with Armand (and possibly Louis as well too in the show’s version of it). 

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Interview with the Vampire S01E01 (In Throes of Increasing Wonder...)

Book title: A Shadow on the Skin by Daniel Molloy

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grrrrr…….. back to the vets this week. this dark area on the bridge of her nose hasn’t gone away, and now I’m worried that it’s skin cancer.

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[cbrownjc]

Specifically, Daniel's book A Shadow on the Skin is about the AIDS crisis. Given what the back blub says about that book, and what it focuses on, it's kind of analogous to the real-life book And the Band Played On; since it seems to focus on the early era of the disease, and based on Daniel's journalistic writings on the subject. And the Band Played On was published in 1987.

Also, an interesting fact: And the Band Played On covers things about the AIDS crisis from the late-70s up until 1985. And 1985 was the same year that, in the books, Daniel was turned on Halloween.

Do you think the show will address the Aids epidemic of the 80s? I mean, if Daniel was doing drugs and visiting gay bars in the 70s, he likely would have had a front row seat to the epidemic in the 80s. And I do seem to remember them briefly showing an article that he wrote about it.

I think so yes!

Both Daniel's "Practicum" page as his LinkedIn have texts/books referencing it!

So they did plan/are planning on addressing this.

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Kyoshi Generations portrait vs My edit without the white face paint

(Tbh, it's how I think she looks for most of Shadow of Kyoshi, she doesn't wear the white face paint, but has at least the lipstick on. I'll try to edit out the eyeliner/eye streaks for a different post Edit: I changed the titled a bit, to clarify where the portraits came from)

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Coronation

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