#but there’s a certain enacting of colonial violence on armand and alecto’s bodies (and the erasure of the evidence of that violence) that
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The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice // Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
#text#birthings#iwtv#armand#mdr#the locked tomb#good night. I’ve been thinking about this for the past two months.#plus the passage where gideon says my father has made my bones denser than titanium. etc.#but there’s a certain enacting of colonial violence on armand and alecto’s bodies (and the erasure of the evidence of that violence) that#doesn’t quite fit in with what we see being explored with gideon. but nonetheless that still has flavours of uncomfortably intimate accesse#that a parent has to a child’s body even if they haven’t been around to be a Parent.#the violence is institutionalised in gideon’s case but armand and alecto sort of experience it outside of the bounds of society#(depending on whether you choose to read marius as somebody who exists outside of social rules / as somebody who specifically profits from#existing exploitative social structures when they suit him)#tva
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