#claudia du pointe du lac

[junossay]

My contribution to Delainey Hayles fanbook!! The "Claudia's odyssey of reconciliation"

(Trying again f it to be noticed)

Its the poster + a letter

[kaitcake1289]

Who are you, Louis?

[favouritefi]

She’s still alive to me because I’m still on season one

[atarial]

iwtv is fast becoming a real fav of mine, first season was great and the second just kept it up

so had to do a proper bit of art after the more simple portraits i did for the first season

really happy with this final result; tried a few things with this one

hope you all like it too :)

[shrek-two-enjoyer]

[lesbosoka]

GUYS.

madeleine whispered moi et toi (me and you in french) anD CLAUDIA RESPONDED ME AND YOU IN ENGLISH OHMYGOD I AM UNWELL

I FIGURED IT OUT

[once-delight]

Everybody let's not sleep on the fact that Claudia's *entire* arc is not only about her discovering her queerness, but it's also an allegory about disability and ableism.

Claudia is "disabled" in a vampire sense. She has a weaker, slighter body, and looks younger than she is. She can't physically turn vampires, and must rely on help, having to beg for something other vampires can do freely.

She is sexually abused because of her percieved weakness by Bruce, a sad fact that the disabled are more likely to be.

But when she wishes to express her own sexuality she is mocked and patronized by her inability to control herself and not kill doing the act (something the physically older vampires are able to do), and again not able to turn one she wishes for her companion, and have to humiliate herself in the process (having to endure Louis calling her a burden in an attempt to convince Armand).

She just have to shut up and take it, just have so many disabled people have to endure abuse from the caregivers they rely on.

Her ability to decide for her own life, are constantly questioned, as are those with disabilities.

She is patronized, disregarded and systematically ridiculed just for wanting to be a part of a group.

Only Madeleine view her as an equal, and neither coddle her and patronize her.

So remember, when you write about Claudia, and how her relationship with Madeleine gives you "the ick" despite Claudia being a mature woman mentally, just because she has a physically slighter, younger body, remember that many disabled people, physically or mentally, can appear much younger than we are, yet still have fully formed sexual desires, and inner lives. Remember the people who's bodies outside of fiction who's sexual desires gives you "the ick" because they fall out of social norms.

And remember, that Claudia in this series is not only a sapphic woman of color, she's a *disabled* sapphic woman of color (and I love her for it).

[herabidingmemory]

always the fire, always burning

[gilf-armand]

okay fine here’s your iwtv gay sex collection! take it!!!

[chromafry]

nothing bad is ever going to happen to you again

[kiscasual]

“but amongst the pastiche of war and desire, beauty and damage, i saw claudia, in an impossible afternoon light she could never survive in. claudia as madeleine perceived her. resplendent. rendered even more beautiful by her beholder.” IM FUCKING INCONSOLABLE. HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME

[junossay]

I will always love you, theater kid Killer Queen, couldn't resist doing a lil study of him

Btw l rlly like posting on Tumblr (that l confuse w twitter much) so l just wanted to thank for the community here and all of the love and the amazinness!! (--)//~☆

[kaitcake1289]

little birdie lu's caught in a trap!

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

The proud look of Lestat when Claudia says that she'll come somehow back and kill them all.

She's really his daughter and it shows.

[macaulaytwins]

“A Barbie Dream House But All the Dolls Are Kitchen Knives”, Cassandra de Alba // Interview With the Vampire (2022) // If My Body Could Speak, Blythe Baird // “Elektra”, Anne Carson

[armandaughter]

does anybody want to hear about what fragrances each iwtv character reminds me of. as somebody who is absolutely not normal or casual about their interests at all