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pynkhues · 3 months ago

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holy shit sophie…. your fic…. holy shit. i don’t even know what to say. i feel like i need 5 working days to process what i just read……… god. all i can say right now is THANK YOU for sharing your writing with us - you are such a gift.

oh, and another thing - please i beg you don’t listen to the comment on ao3 about louis “trying to play maître”. i understood your louis completely, and i’m sure plenty of other readers did too. “this is horrifying” yeah and so is your reading comprehension. girl bye. so much love to you sophie ❤️❤️❤️

You're so welcome, and thank you!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

And ah, yeah, that comment. I feel badly that they seem to have been triggered by it, but I used what I felt were the appropriate ao3 archive warnings and tags last night when I was uploading. I've since added a dubious consent tag, even though I don't really feel that's appropiate as I think the last sex scene is very consensual, it just has a lot of baggage and trauma being brought to it by nature of the night they've had. I'm going to reply to them with something of that variety today, so hopefully they'll feel a bit better about it all.

#a little disappointed at how they interpreted louis' actions in the fic but y'know people bring their own stuff to storytelling #it's a part of what makes stories interesting to talk about!#but to me canonically louis' not very good at having those conversations like he's hopeless with claudia and outright cruel with armand #it made sense to me that he'd be a secret third thing (a mess) about it with lestat #i also don't want to be insensitive but i guess a part of me is like sorry there's a bit of horror in the fic for the gothic horror show #when they wrote that louis could keep it simple and sweet i was like hmm i don't think we watch the show for the same reasons #but y'know i do think there's a desire to defang them a bit in fic which i do get i do it sometimes too #but i do think it's part of what can render them unrecognisable in some stories #these characters ARE monsters no matter the monstrous things that happen to them #and i hope i captured that in a way that feels authentic to other people #like i think lestat is awful to louis in this fic too #but anyway #i'm glad it seems to have been well received by other people!#welcome to my ama #love me at the ungodly hour

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