#Im censoring the word cuz its not mine to say but its a slur for black/white mixed raced ppl

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every single thing i learn about anne wrt to race is just-

didn't she write blood canticle in the 2000s. writing over 40 years and learning nothing where race is concerned. because i know for a fact she wasn't making a critique of racism

ya blood canticle was published in 03 & it has to be one the funniest books in existence. my insane theory w zero basis in reality for why it ended up the way it did was bc anne rice caught a rap song on the radio somehow and freaked out at the thought of lestat not being in vogue so it spawned lestat suddenly being mr. talk like a gangsta look like an angel here and here only. (anybody reminded of a mr steve harvey ‘think like a lady act like a man’ or is it just me). + it certainly makes some sense for the charas who used the m—— word in the story n in the context of that scene to use it but nobody on god’s green earth should think mrs rice was using these characters as literary devices to discuss the pigmentocracy in the black communities in the us south like hell naw😂😂😂😂😂 at best what the chronicles posit on race in the story is a fixation on the ~exotic~ savage frontiers whether its new orleans thru the narrative of a slaver turned struggle vamp protagonist of interview, or the world these barbies trapieze , with characters like david talbot, gabrielle ‘exploring’ the african ‘frontier’, the legendaric myths of twmbk w/ teshkanmun , marius, pandora, all those og vamps & the underlying, repeated myth in qotd/tobt nall implying mixing ‘’bloods’’’ could end racism. (with the implicit denial of darker skin in this immortal fanci club, as most of the cast r white skinned vamps). like thats prolly as ‘good’ as the books got on race imo over 50 yrs. i dont expect the geriatric white lady writing self indulgent vampires to be king of the black people, we’d be lucky if she was racially conscious even, nor do i expect these immortal evil characters to be racially conscious but the fans tended to have such a fear factor in talking anything outside of their very insular tandom at least b4 the show came out. i rmbr some black creative in 20-21 on twt like made a brief mention on how the fandom that arose out of the iwtv movie + book/s set a precedent for later vampire stories glorifying the antebellum period & they came for that poor soul heavy. and for what?