#bc modern publishing often pushes for more basic sentence structures and less flowery prose
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not to ramble about iwtv but i think a lot of people who balk at the unsavory parts of gothic fiction are people who have either 1) never truly had to face an onslaught of the macabre in their own life 2) have not actually sat with the discomfort of the darker parts of existence or simply not learned or had to learn how to process truly twisted emotions within themselves. and i bring this up in relation to iwtv because i see a lot of people pointing out 'problematic' parts of the book or bemoaning which ships are more or less toxic. and it's like it's a cow farm there's gonna be cows on the cow farm.
yeah anne rice wrote some weird shit and some of it is definitely unnecessary, most of those elements were corrected in the show. but a lot of it is just gothic fiction. you don't get to have sexy vampires, romanticism and tortured yearning without the inappropriate attachments, the true face of grief and the blurred lines between violence and eroticism which has evoked great interest in humans for centuries.
#iwtv#interview with the vampire#lestat de lioncourt#louis de pointe du lac#claudia de pointe du lac#claudia de lioncourt#i saw a lot of people on tiktok complaining about how claudia is described in the books#and when i started reading i expected something way worse#and it was like...nothing#it's uncomfortable at points but that is...the enTIRE PREMISE#she's not supposed to exist like that#they trapped an eternal soul in an unfinished body and it's wrong and inappropriate#but alSO i think some ppl just have lost understanding for descriptive language in gothic text#bc modern publishing often pushes for more basic sentence structures and less flowery prose#so when ppl read shit that does have the more classic style and is VERY descriptive w strong words they're like whAt#and it's like bro it's poetic u gotta be less literal
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