#funnily enough the ep2 louis scene reminds me of when i came out to my stud friend & she was like girl u just greedy😂😂

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i think a lot of viewers are used to characters who are oblivious/brush off their faults that when louis busts through the door with his self-critique like "hey i profited from the exploitation of women i'm ashamed and i'll do it again because i have an unhealthy relationship with power and i'll still be ashamed" they don't know how to deal with it

(side note: i do find it interesting that in order to feel manly louis to got into the sex industry)

i cant believe this has been sitting in my inbox cuz the last line is everything. to feel like a “man”, to get his family out the red “quicker”, he attaches himself to the sex industry. tom anderson was a real life politician w/ these very seedy ties to sexually exploitative practices in the gilded age/jim crow new orleans. in the show human/early vamp!louis being the only black man in these rooms w men like tom, fenwick+ the like, selling them the “product [of/was] desire” as his modern self words it is tied into his then-understanding of sex n what a “man” is meant to do . think of him saying “i aint touching no man dick!”, ep1 monologue where he admits to being “weak” [& what he recognizes in himself even in this moment of drunken madness..] ep2 identifying himself as “queer” in relation to lestat [who snarks back with “non-discriminating”] lestat helping him get the fair-play-now-renamed-azalea, his attempt at attempting to live a double life as the fledgling-creation-lover of lestat + the bigtimer of the iberville. all w/ him reading mrs. florence’s thoughts openly mocking him for not being “man enough”. some things men like him favor, indeed. itll never be enough. then ep3, the “favored” son is fully replaced when his favors no longer extend to them, the token black man in the room eats the city leader, the enterprises of desire collapse & louis is enmeshed into another web of gendered sexual dynamics. claudia, his redemption for formerly being a trick.

nice suit, lou.