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wellijustfinnihedoneofthebooks · 8 days ago

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Blackwood farm may be a kinda questionable entry in the vampire chronicles BUT that is only because it wasnt told in what its true medium shouldve been, an internet arg

#blackwood farm #quinn blackwood #tarquin blackwood #anne rice #for the record i dont say questionable entry because i dislike it #i say that because its a bit of an odd fit in the series #i actually fuck with it severely #unfortunately it might be the most rasict book in the series #wish anne hadnt put all of. that. in #annes one of the rare writers that makes you wish she tried to put less representation in cause of how bad she is at writing it #like and i dont even know how youd theoretically fix it to not be racist #like if amc for god knows what reason tried to adapt quinn blackwoods story to television #i have no clue how they would de-ick it #like of course theres the dialog that never shouldve been written #and then how do you deal with the. literal. black. servants.#cause like okay obviously theres writing you can improve with them #but like no amount of writing will fix it if theres still literally black servants on this white manor #do you make the blackwoods black too ala louis?#but like i feel like the blackwoods are like the whitest family ever written #i guess you could change things up and alter things to make it work #oh and then theres also the issue of quinns never had a non incestuous/pseudo-incestuous relationship in his life #oh i guess jasmine isnt incest but she has still known him his entire life and is like what 10 years older than him #but you know general audiences might not be too fond of that #its a good thing none of this will ever come up cause no ones ever gonna adapt blackwood farm into anything #sorry for rambling there #i just by far think the racism/racial stereotyping is the biggest problem with the book #and i think its kinda crazy when people critique the book for other little things when theres all of that to pick at #like ok. there isnt enough lestat in it. have you read some of the dialog between quinn and jasmine i think we have bigger problems here #like nothing else in the book was as uncomfortable to read #im like woah i can accept ghost twin incest rape but i draw the line at stereotyping

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