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chicago-geniza · 2 months ago

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Oh my fucking Gd. Sorry I am high and just realized. Obviously Anne Rice based book!Armand heavily on da Vinci's assistant Salaì, yeah? And that nickname was figurative, a contracted form of Saladin, because he had a "terrible temperament," like an infidel (and it's often glossed as "little devil," which is the affectionate interpretation Anne Rice transposes into Amadeo's world). Did the showrunners literalize one of AR's gestured-at metaphors again with Muslim Armand. They TOTALLY did and it RULES thank you IWTV: The Show for eclipsing your source material while thoughtfully reflecting on it at such a deep level xoxo gossip geniza

#Thinking. About vampires #Anne Rice's vampire dysphoria #I mean it's there in the book because he's Eastern Orthodox and she's doing Orientalism at Russia #But you know what I mean #Oh and of course Amadeo is the opposite of Saladin for a man like Marius. Anne Rice I haaaaaaate youuuuuuuuu #Sidebar sooo funny that by semantic expansion Marius the Roman (and Christianity hater) becomes Marius the Christian #Get historicized by immortality and the conflation of your epithet with the Christian East idiot

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