#stepford's wives

[crazybeardtale]

a stepford wife

Ed Emshwiller

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: domestic

[stepforddoll]

[dreadfuldevotee]

I'd like to discuss the elephant in the room. Why did we get zero Loumand sex scenes? We got hints and implications, but season 1 was pretty explicit. Do we think that that's a creative choice or something else is happening?

I'm glad I ended up ruminating on this for about a week because episode 7 & 8 really solidified my opinion on it.

I do wanna start by saying that it's very clear to me that there was supposed to be more explicit scenes between them. There has been some thoughts tossed around that censorship happened with the 9 pm timeslot (as opposed to the 10 pm timeslot of S1). I believed this hearing Assad and Jacob talk about the BDSM dynamic between Louis and Armand, but what really sold me on this was Production Designer Mara LePere-Schloop talking about the bedroom set and more specifically about their beautifully carved custom headboard. (If you're a production nerd like me or just want to know more about the design philosophy of IWTV I recommend giving the entire thing a listen!).

I think there are several reasons I think as to why they decided to leave any more explicit scenes on the cutting room floor but above them all is: you cannot separate Armand's sexuality from his abuse. I am really against pulling a "well if you read the books" card but reading just the first couple chapters of "The Vampire Armand" makes me understand so much about not only Armand as a character, but the care being taken to his adaptation. It's clear to me that alongside Rolin & Co.'s commitment to not watering him down to a one-dimensional villain they are also trying to not fall into Anne Rice's tendency to romanticize his trauma.

Sex and sexuality is not the same pillar of Louis and Armand's relationship it was in Louis and Lestat's and so I don't believe their story suffers from the lack of on-screen sex. But I also firmly believe that maybe we don't need to be slutting out the character who we literally just watched talk about how he doesn't remember his life before being sex trafficked. And even when he was "freed" he was still being repeatedly assaulted at the hands of, and under the eye Marius de Romanus. Like it is extremely important to remember that Armand's craving for dominion in his relationships is a manifestation of trauma that deserves the same level of care and depth given to every other trauma portrayed in this show.

I think people have gotten too comfortable calling IWTV a romance when it has always been Gothic Horror. Romance and sex are pivotal to the story but I have found the demands for sex scenes this season a bit absurd and also? unfounded? Loustat share more kisses on screen but there are two sex scenes and both are very plot relevant. I truly figured we were all in agreement that the eroticism of this show is found in the various displays of power, and the dynamics it creates and not the actual clapping of ass-cheeks...which also wasn't happening in S1 either. S2 does not suffer because of the lack of sex-scenes, but the likelihood if it suffering trying to make one work is

[hypnoprep]

Rule 3 - Dresscode

[rileykeouhg]

THE STEPFORD WIVES (2004) dir. Frank Oz

[fanofspooky]

Horror movies of 2004

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[notsomodernwoman]

[glamnessaaumisc]

Preview of the New Fanfic

I draw fanfics of the darnedest things.

I'm still working on my CatCF and FNAF fics, though.

The fanfic is out now btw.

[miyagi-hokarate]

Alternative version of Robby's "Second Place" Mental Spiral I would have liked to see

[stepforddoll]

[eternalsa2z]

Fantasy

Zoey knew it sounded silly. Especially given she was already established as a successful businesswoman. But she dreamed of a different life. One where she was a kept housewife for one of her business partners, dressed in vintage fashion, spending all day making sure her attire and figure and hair were perfect.

She wanted to clean, to cook, to eagerly await for her spouse to come home from the office and greet her with a kiss and a hot meal. Perhaps even dropping to her knees as soon as wifey came home, slowing sliding down her business slacks to start polishing the pearl of the powerful lady who bought her pretty pearls.

This was her fantasy. But it wasn't silly because it didn't include a man - the lesbian Stepford life did not require one. All it required was her submitting to her urges and the only thing silly was that she hadn't give in already.

[queendomcosplay]

The internet isn’t ready for my Trudy Trout cosplay. I’m going high effort and full shitpost with it, it’s going to be truly glorious

[bluebyrd-bookreviews]

Suburban housewife horror is really a specific type of powerful dread, the loss of personal identity with it being replaced by a husband, house, and kids while you are forced into a specific role that is unattainable by real humans that have lives and interests and fun. The creeping knowledge that your husband doesn't love you and maybe never did, he just loved the idea of you and having you as a wife to keep as a part of his identity while he overtakes yours. The expectation of perfection in every little thing even in the privacy of your own bedroom.