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asthedeathoflight · 21 days ago

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Coda to my other post because I didn't want to completely derail it but we might not be ready for this conversation as a fandom but ableism is absolutely a contributing factor to the way Armand gets treated and im tired of pretending like it's not. The way autistic people of color get treated in our society is abominable and this fandom is not immune to perpetuating that. So much of how he gets talked about can be chalked up to "well he didn't perform empathy/emotion/regret like I wanted him to." If Armand was as effortlessly personable and correctly emotive as Lestat is we'd be having a different conversation. That's all I'm saying.

#i tried to do a thought experiment about if it was a white autistic person vs a neurotypical poc but it doesnt work #bc our society excuses autistic traits in white men specifically in a way it does not in men of color #anyways i just want you all to know that this is whats at the root of my armand apologism #you can literally never make me take an allistic person's side against an autistic person and it literally doesn't matter what they did #if i think too hard about armand being the only autistic character in iwtv i get nauseous #(roman roy voice) well can we get him out of there?#sybelle and khayman save me sybelle and khaymannnnnnnnnnnnn #blorboposting

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