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VENT - I feel like if there was better education around abuse and violence, and abuse and violence prevention, we'd be able to interrogate more how it is so much a community, cultural, and systemic problem, and arguably less of an individual one. This does not dissuade any fault individuals have in creating violence and perpetrating abuse, just so no one's confused here. We have to see that violence and abuse perpetrators do take the responsibility for their actions. Obviously. But to open this up to wider responsibility would lead to far better discussions about wtf was going on at the anti-black lynch trail wrt Armand's complicity and level of fault in it.

Far too many people are unwilling to see that he was not the one to orchestrate or plan this, because they'd rather pin violence and abuse all onto a single individual. (Which is dehumanizing btw, to us even because it implies we've accepted these terms for ourselves as well).

This is an expectation I'm aware just isn't possible though, and Interview!Fandom certainly is not ready to confront this. Not everyone was when it came to the abuse Lestat perpetrated in S1 (those who watched an entirely different show apparently and deny how race played a role in the violence and abuse, throughout just everything not just Lestat). So it's just gonna be me and the handful of others IG. Shout out.

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#If we deem only an individual as this 'bad' we don't take on any responsibility to them for their behavior #Which is a problem when a LOT of other things factor into why such violence and abuse is perpetuated #And I get this is fiction so it's not effecting much but this is like the ideal place to practice taking it on because its like 'pretend'#You know how like you'd place house as kids and this sort of prepared you for 'playing' house later in life #we learned through replication we learned through taking on the same ideas we wanted to recreate #To effectively intervene in cultures of abuse and cycles of violence we do actually have to take on that we are responsible to each other #Profound statement to make in a post about Interview with the fucking vampire but it's true #What's that one James Baldwin quote? You might know the one. About committing to love.#We as viewers and enjoyers of the show which deals with this I think hold a responsibility to confront it #Like if ppl were less about their indv. comfort level and more for interrogating to a safer world tg we'd be living in that 'society if' im #I can't even reasonably ask for this though I can just hope idk #iwtv #interview with the vampire #iwtv fandom #rant? Just an observation? A hopeful wish?#vent post #cw: discussion of abuse #cw: discussion of violence

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