#and it leads to the white ppl in this fandom trying to be heroic

[nicoleanell]

One change in the AMC IWTV show i really go back and forth on is the circumstances of Claudia's turning. The fact that in the novel - and it's something I vividly remembered from the '90s movie as well - Louis had drank from Claudia and almost killed her initially. Not in a "trying to make her a vampire himself" way which is how they ultimately portrayed it on the show, just purely in a moment of hunger and bloodlust and giving into the worst of his nature that he'd been repressing for so long. And that's what leads to his intense guilt over it and the emotional babytrap moment, though in the original source it's Lestat's idea.

I definitely DO like that it's Louis's idea in both ~versions of the scene we saw in the show... honestly the s2 version didn't change all that much to the sequence of events except in tone. We already *knew* it was Louis who begged him to turn her, the only thing the S2 remix added was it was all less heroic, more painful and desperately selfish, and that Lestat put up slightly more resistance and showed more emotion over it. (Not that either version was meant to be 100% accurate and I'll die on that hill. Why would anyone kill me on that hill?)

The motivation of him being the cause of her death to begin with is... you know what, it IS there in the show but in a much less direct way. In his eyes the fire that almost killed her was his fault, the racist massacre unfolding was his fault, he was more desperate than usual to prove he could be Good, etc. But truthfully, he's not actually responsible for any of that, murdering one deserving white dude or no.

Anyway, for season one I like the way they altered that. But part of me thinks about what it would've done for his character and the tragedy of his relationship with Claudia if *that* had been the reveal/alternate version of what happened that came out during the trial in 2x07. A nice little nod to the book as well that he'd essentially be telling Daniel to print that version. This is maybe the *one* instance where I almost relate to those fans who want anything that diverges from book canon to turn out to be an unreliable narrator/selective amnesia thing lol. Like, it actually might've been good for the story there, if not for the discourse.

I do question if it's one of those moments where the writers were a little afraid it would make him Too Unlikable or something and shied away from it, which is so much like where they landed with Armand as well. On the other hand, given how parts of fandom react to Louis regardless and will vilify him with stuff he didn't even do when all the stuff he Did is right there (see also how ppl react to Armand), maybe that was the right call??

Yeah I don't really have any conclusion here just... conflicted thoughts! It's a pretty significant change I haven't seen a lot of people discuss, and I don't think it's a necessarily bad one, but interesting that they went that way.

[gordvendomewhore]

I wanted... to point something out to you about the 'who would vote for trump post'-

Parker is an Asian American-

He's like, one of the ONLY asian kids in school.

hi anon!! thank you for leaving an “ask” (in quotations since you’re not really asking me something lol)!!

(for reference, this is the post anon is referring to)

i wanna say now that this post is meant to be read lightheartedly and that it is written with no malice at all (/gen)!! however, i am about to tear you a new hole

first of all, i am asian LMAOOO first gen vietnamese, baybee 😼🇻🇳

not very obvious since a tumblr blog for a rockstar game isn’t exactly somewhere where you would post about your personal life, but yes i am asian and so i know what it’s like to be asian american.

second of all, parker is not confirmed ANYWHERE to be canonically asian. i headcanon him as asian, a lot of people do!! but the only thing we have to go off of are his straight black hair and his pale skin, features associated with east asia.

but when you compare parker to characters that are confirmed asian, angie ng and mr. oh, there’s notable differences to take note of:

angie and mr. oh have explicitly asian surnames (which hey! no big deal, surname doesn’t always indicate ethnicity)

angie and mr. oh are both voiced by asian voice actors; parker is not

angie and mr. oh’s faces are modeled with features that are distinctively asian; parker lacks that

now, none of that really means anything, because for all we know parker could STILL be asian. hell, i’ll go to my fucking GRAVE saying that he’s asian bc god knows this game needs the representation, but i argue against it in this situation because i know how to distinguish canon from fanon.

and frankly? ethnicity does not change the points i made in that post lmao.

parker is naive and blatantly unaware of what is going on in the world around him lmao. he’s a prep: we can assume he’s at LEAST upper middle class, and so he’s grown up comfortably without having to worry about things like that. he’s influenced by people like DERBY HARRINGTON and listening to his dialogue, it’s obvious his parents aren’t feeding him the most progressive ideologies either.

asian or white or mixed, being a person of color does not automatically indicate that someone is not bigoted. often it does, but with parker it would not given the nature of his character. either way, i know a lot of asian people who LOVE trump.

but in the long run, this really doesn’t matter lmaoooo think what you want anon!! /lh /gen

if you want to argue that he’s asian and wouldn’t ever vote for that walking turd, argue it to your heart’s content. this is just my view on it all as someone who loves bully, loves the preps, loves parker, and is also a politically and socially aware asian american.

if you read all this…thank you LMAO have a nice day yall