calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026STOP (it doesn't stop) (but actually please don't stop) 040
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's BECAUSE of the catholic shame. Diamond-grade fetishes form under the pressure of buried lust. This is why the only functional aspect of Loumand was the sex. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think maybe the analogy here would be if he was outed for fascist beliefs/actions @ 20, but claimed to be grateful to have been deradicalized and showed no signs of continuing fasciness. (Then again, look at Platner...) 000
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I spent a good minute trying to decipher what this metaphor was saying about imperalism before it hit me. 010
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In my experience, dehumanizing rapists is a good self-protective mechanism when you have 0 power, but makes you liable to rape someone as soon as you DO have power over someone else. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm in the "when you construct a monstrous 'other' who does X bad thing, it makes it harder to recognize your own capacity for X" camp. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A Nazi can change worldview and actions. A cop can quit their job. They cease to be the enemy. A rapist cannot un-rape someone. There's no such thing as an 'accidental' cop or Nazi. Rape is like running someone over - it's possible to do it by accident. 100
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Reposted by @calciferrous.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/03/2026This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it. 9267583160
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I feel sad and overwhelmed about the world, and totally incapable of dealing with it. 020
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calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Keep waiting to find The Stretch that will make my lower back pop, instantly fixing all my hip and leg inflexibility. 000
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calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Might get fired. I barely care. All this job does is drag me away from what I care about. And pay me. And give me health insurance. Which I need to live. 000
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calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 03/12/2025They told me I was 79 and my top artist was Bad Bunny. 010
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calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Jacob Anderson is also a musician. 000
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024I honestly prefer Louis the messy victim than the angelic victim (tm) in Claudia's recollection. I think it tells you a lot more about what Claudia means to him (he didn't just defend her, he lost his shit), how he excuses the abuse later despite it's severity, and how Lestat's abuser logic works. 000
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024And of course, it's not the lion comment that wakes the bear. Lestat isn't *frightened* by Louis' threats, he's angry, and that anger starts brewing when he realizes Louis is leaving. It's the 'disrespect', it's the audacity of saying that on his way out the door. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024And we see that Louis is destabilized, mentally and physically. He's taunting Lestat even while he can barely stand. He's picking a fight as Lestat's gaze hardens. So either he's past noticing the eggshells, or more likely ('whatcha gon do?') past caring about the danger. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Like I said, I've been on the sidelines. From what I've seen, when the victim finds the strength to fight back, they aren't at their prettiest. They lash out. They say unhinged things. Elaborate revenge fantasies are common. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024And okay yeah whatever, Louis threatens to feed Lestat's head to a lion. The man can barely stand up! He's shit talking! What, he's gonna be mad enough about *watching his husband lay hands on his daughter* that he'll finally fight back, but not enough to talk shit? 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024It wasn't one massive escalation, it was a bunch of small escalations that piled up until it hit a breaking point - until Lestat was escalated enough that the bear was liable to be woken, and Louis too escalated to care whether he poked it. (And to be clear, that's not Louis fault). 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Abuser's don't abuse for no reason - there's a fucked up internal logic behind why they do the things they do. And with physical abuse, it doesn't usually go from 0 to 100 in one event. With the context that it was a *fight* before it was a one-sided beating, the shift makes more sense. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024What, Lestat beat the shit out of Louis, Louis nobly fought back (defensively! no more than necessary!) but couldn't land a punch, and Lestat just kept going and going until he decides to drop Louis from the sky? After having never laid hands on him before? Where's the escalation coming from? 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024On rewatch that's clearly a cue to understand the scene as Claudia's interpretation of events (and likewise, the extent to which Lestat is covered in blood in his telling reflects how *he* experienced it). But it just... doesn't add up. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024One of the things I *disliked* about S1 on first watch was that the abuse scene in ep5 felt too... tidy. Literally. Despite the preceding fight, Lestat comes down from the sky with his shirt unruffled, hair blowing in the wind, skin unblemished. Like some distant, untouchable god. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024I've never been in an abusive relationship, but I've been close to people going through that, and in some cases a witness TO the abuse. And partially as a result of that, I've done a lot of reading on this topic on my own. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 10/11/2024#iwtv I actually love this scene, and what it does for the show's portrayal of Louis as an abuse survivor www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu12...youtube.comLestat & Louis Fight Scene From Interview With The Vampire Season 2 Episode 7 WARNING: Spoilers!!!YouTube video by HaronidMuse 120
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I don't know there's so much I could say about him. Love when he's a mess. Love when he's a messy victim. Love seeing him bug-eyed and vicious. 000
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Even the family dynamics; there's something in their gens de colour creole shtick that feels very "light-skinned mestizos" to me. Down to the family wealth from a grandfather who made money off darker-skinned men, but was never going to be white ~enough~ for the USA. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 09/11/2024like one of them, but the fact of your body means you never *will* be. Smile, nod, laugh off the joke - or better yet, pre-empt it, don't push back too hard, don't think you can be above them. But don't be too weak either. Be a man of stone. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I *know* the way Louis sets his shoulders when he puts on that armor of 'hard' masculinity. The way it protects him, and drowns him. When my trans ass was stealth I became very good at disappearing into the crowd on a bus. And you can get good enough at it for your coworkers and boss to treat you - 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I remember being 21 and absolutely at the end of my rope, muting my own desires for the sake of my family. And I remember the day this flamboyant, god-hating little immigrant grabbed me by the face and gave me permission to be what I already was. 100
calciferrous.bsky.social @calciferrous.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Wanna get in on the ground floor of IWTV Bluesky and say I love Louis De Pointe Du Lac. I'm not black (I'm white Latino) but there's so much in him that reminds me of myself at various points in my life. 130
