#akasha

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

My favourite underrated thing about Louis de Point du Lac is that he truly is the least curious vampire to ever be made and he does not give fuck about vampires despite being one.

Its Claudia who goes to libraries, reads the folklore, tries to learn as much as she can and pushes Lestat for answers about who made him and where the others are. Claudia says Vampire Pride and Louis says hmmm Vampire Tolerance.

And Louis...truly does not care about vampire history,law, culture. He's never even thought to ask. There are vampire laws?...ok...Lestat never cared about them and he's not going to either, lol. He's broken a few and he will continue to do so. Oh you have a coven? he's not gonna join it, he's gonna do his own thing. but good for you good for you.

the 500+ year old Coven Leader, he's gonna call Louis, Maitre, actually.

He has fire powers? thats kinda cool. he'll learn that but only cause it lets him vent his feelings about Lestat.

Lestat and Armand say the name of the vampire queen in front of him and Lestat straight up says, "Louis has no idea who that is" and do you think Louis cares, outside of the fact that for some reason it means he can't kill Lestat? No! Do you think in the 77 years he's been with Armand he ever took 5 minutes to ask a follow up question? No!

Do you think he will care about Akasha in season 3? Doubt it! Outside of her obsession with Lestat, who is the only person left on the planet he seems to be able to filter Caring About This Shit through

He blatantly breaks the 3rd law and publishes a book about being a vampire and when the other vampires get pissed not only does he not apologise he literally sends them his location and says 'you wanna fight? lmao don't miss'

I love him. Daniel Molloy is gonna need to bring his A game because Louis will not be solving a single mystery next season, nor would it even occur to him to try.

[sapphic-mushroom-fables]

Akasha whispering to Lestat :

[foreverfaithfultotheeemperor]

[suikamelon6]

The Rockstar Lestat thing is to distract Louis' enemies to himself and was for a short time because well, Akasha.

Here, in Lestat's own words: "I became the famous rock star, like for FIVE MINUTES!"

[diva1divawho]

I’m begging ON MY HANDS AND KNEES for IWTV artists to PLEASE draw Lestat as some of my personal favourite looks of Billy Idols and ESPECIALLY to draw Lestat and Akasha as the pic of Billy and Elvira

[blueberry-matty]

shit i found funny while reading Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned Graphic Novel (adapted by Cynthy J. Wood & Faye Perozich)

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

Take notes @ the racist IWTV fans 🫶🏻

[feedingicetothedog]

between that fancast of marius being a man of color and then the 2 ppl i saw who said they think marius should be a woman i'm not sure ppl know who marius is

marius. the guy who's whole deal is that he is the final boss of white western european patriarchs......

[armandlastnamemarius]

incredible cover

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[rustedpipe]

quick akasha design based on some book descriptions + spending a long time in the egyptian art section recently + personal whim. her statue swag compels me

[armandyke]

and the thing about the book characters is that it's easy to ignore that everyone is supposedly white because anne rice describes literally everything that way

[nalyra-dreaming]

I have to be honest, I am a tad anxious about how the show will be handling Akasha and the casting for Akasha, Maharet, and Mekare.

I'm sure the show will cast BIPOC actresses for those 3 characters, since they are actually BIPOC in the books with Akasha being from Uruk, which is modern day Iraq, and Maharet and Mekare being Palestinian (I believe they're from Palestine?).

However, I have worries, because while so many people want a Black actress (I would still love this!) for Akasha because we all remember Aaliyah's iconic performance; I honestly don't think the people saying that know what she actually did in the books, because the QotD movie wasn't very book accurate at all. And now we're getting the books adapted and that means they might show us the things Akasha did in the book, which were horrific. Since the show has allowed the vampires to be able to have sex unlike in the books, we might see (or have it mentioned, at least) that Akasha sexually assaults Lestat and does this repeatedly. And we'll learn that Akasha had Maharet and Mekare sexually assaulted. Akasha massacres people and literally commits mass murder. And I really don't think that a lot of the people excited to see her know this, because she is undoubtedly the most evil character in the books. Like evil evil.

And the optics of having the most evil character be killed by Mekare might not look so good, depending on who they cast.

I really think they should try and cast actresses that are both Black and SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) for all 3 characters. That way fans of Akasha from the QotD movie will be happy, while also making them SWANA would make book fans happy and finally give us SWANA representation, especially since all 3 are canonically SWANA (Iraqi and Palestinian. Please correct me if I'm incorrect about Mekare and Maharet's origins).

I just think the optics of having the most evil character (Akasha) be Black while Mekare/Maharet are not or having Akasha be SWANA and Mekare/Maharet are not would not look so great.

I really respect your opinion and wanted your thoughts on this. I hope the show walks this line carefully.

Yeah, the "optics" of their casting choices as you put it... will be difficult no matter what they'll do.

People have that image of Akasha in their head that Aaliyah made iconic, but the QotD movie literally skirted all the problematic stuff (or almost all of it).

The show... this show... won't.

They also already added sexual assault to the canon list of it (of which there is quite a lot in the Chronicles).

I'm not sure I'd call Akasha evil per se... but she is a cruel and quite brutal ruler - I do hope the show gives us flashbacks not only to the beginnings with Mekare, Maharet and Khayman, but that they also add the Blood Wars, the First Brood going against the Queen's army. But it will indeed be heavy if they choose to add the "ordered rape" - but then, how could they not, at least if they want to bring in the "Great Family".

And yes, Akasha threatens and abuses Lestat, too, and this show won't shy away from that either.

*sighs* It's going to grate, no matter what they do.

If they do not cast a black actress, people will complain, and if they do, people will likely cheer at first, only to then be horrified when the proverbial canon story shit hits the fan, to put it a bit glibly.

Casting a mixed representation might be the way to go, yes, but even then... I fear there will be complaints no matter what. 😅

I don't have a solution for this, I have to say, and I think casting Akasha (and Khayman and Maharet and Mekare) in this show might be one of the most daunting tasks for Rolin & co ... and not because there are no great actresses to fill Aaliyah's shoes, but because of the problems coming with it through the story, especially maybe through that indeed canon origin of Mekare and Maharet being from the region of today's Palestine - especially given our current... events :/

[dairyofateenagegirl]

black women as vampires

[hallowedhaunting]

The queen of the damned herself for Day 7: Queen of Hearts🫀