#if you try to engage me in bi privilege discourse I will bill you for the minutes of my life you're wasting

[akajustmerry]

yes people also don't take into account how lestat cheated on louis with a woman and how that is also another form of privilege he has over louis!

sure he's definitely a cheating asshole but uh this feels....vaguely biphobic?? lestat also cheated on louis with a bunch of guys and famously had a whole double-standard meltdown over it when louis kissed his crush from high school. it's not so much that lestat cheats on louis with women that's the issue but that he cheats, period, and gaslights louis about it which he did with both men and women. Also listing privileges lestat has over louis, him being white, uber rich, French, a hundred years old, AND being his maker all come before the fact he can fuck women when he wants. like....idt the American soldier shouting gay slurs at louis and lestat gave a fuck that lestat also fucks women lmao. I do have strong feelings about lestat being bisexual and how the show handles it, all of which is more to do with how Anne Rice kinda baked a lot of biphobic ideas into this character when she wrote him half a century ago and now we're stuck here. but i hate the idea of talking about it because at the end of the day when it comes to things I hate about lestat him being shitty bi representation is the lowest ranked item of importance. besides, sam reid personally balanced that out in the universe by playing dale in the Newsreader, and the answer to any bad representation of anything is just that there should be more representation. not to mention, everyone in this show is some kind of horrible person and also gay. still, I can't lie, the fact you'd send me, a bisexual, this is kinda upsetting. both because I am bisexual and also do you know how distressing it is to be a professional lestat hater who then has to DEFEND him from biphobia? crying screaming throwing up honestly