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It's wild how some ppl are switching up on old Daniel now that Devils Minion is closer to becoming reality. If the actor wanted to step down, fine, but fans wanting him to bow out and be replaced with the young actor is giving ageism and fe*ishisation.

I like old man Daniel, and I hope he stays. If they give us flashbacks with young Daniel, which they likely will, it'll be fine. I just want old man Daniel to stay.

carmillaswifeaurora

So I've watched the first 4 episodes of The Vampire Lestat multiple times and

ladypaperwriterson

"You simply cannot trust Louis, he's a completely unreliable narrator and every single thing he ever said should be put to question! It's so good that we finally have Lestat's version, which is obviously the only true one - so good to finally have a reliable narrator!"

The reliable narrator:

verymerrymart

reginasphalanges

SEX AND THE CITY 6.15 Catch-38

vampirebrainrot

I cannot believe the characters are assholes, cried the man watching the asshole characters show

ladyofthecreeddraws

Fatherhusband's topping now.

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annushka97

I really don't like the narrative choice to have everything be Lestat's POV. When Louis and Armand were telling their stories, they were biased, but they were telling about themselves and the thing they saw. And if I understood correctly, here we somehow have Lestat telling us about Louis and Bruce, Louis and Regina, Louis and Daniel, Daniel and Armand. When he wasn't there. I don't like the implication that those emotional moments between other characters were filtered through Lestat's pov and weren't the real thing in the real world. It is confusing. Like... I was waiting for DM for so long and now I should think their moments could be made up or misrepresented by Lestat? Should I think he ships Daniel and Armand and thinks Daniel would push him against the wall and Armand would get hard about it? But in fact it could be all different? But then the plot always moves on as if Lestat was right about everybody, which he couldn't possibly be? Some contradiction would surely surface? Or did the writers just fucked up and mashed 'the Failures' with real world events in a confusing way? Help me figure it out...

30yearsadevilsminion

I agree but and even the Devil’s Minion chapter in the book was technically written by Lestat, right? Or am I misremembering?

#oh no #do I have to reread it? gosh darn it! gee whiz

veryintricaterituals

Friendly reminder that THIS was the character calling Armand a "friendless bottom twink sociopath" 😬

lestatthevamp

I can't believe there are people watching the Vampire Chronicles shows and going, "Louis is the sane one."

My brother in Christ, Louis is not the normal one. Lestat isn't normal. Armand isn't normal. Everyone in this series is absolutely out of their minds.

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For one reason or the other I never manage to watch the episode when it comes out, so for now have this feral gremlin (ꈍ ᴗ ꈍ✿)

I hope you like it 💙

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My thoughts on 3x04 The Devil's Road

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Lestat spent most of the episode in a downward spiral of depression and anxiety. Daniel was borderline suicidal. Armand is sincerely trying to make amends for his codependency, but the other codependents in his life aren't in the same place (see above) and violently reject him. Louis is being Louis, God bless him. And everyone else is enabling Lestat, especially Gabriella, who came back when Lestat was probably making the healthiest choice for himself and then screwed that up.

Also, I saw someone say that when Daniel blamed Armand for all his screw-ups for his life, he really should have been blaming himself and needed to take responsibility for all that. (I don't know who or where that was said, so I'm putting this into the void.) So:

This is Daniel Molloy. Daniel Molloy had, for the most part, taken responsibility for all the fuckery in his life. He knew he was an addict. He knew he fucked up his marriages, screwed up his daughters, made a mess of his life and that all he managed to do was keep his job because of an encounter with a junkie in a drug den who turned out to be Louis. But he knew it was him and while he wished he could blame someone else, he got that the consistent factor present in everything was him.

This is the Vampire Daniel Molloy. He just a baby. Actually, he's a toddler in the throes of his terrible twos, but the point is, he's not doing well. He's got transformational trauma because he was abandoned by his maker and possible soulmate (although he doesn't seem to be aware of that, at this point) after his transformation and left to wing it on his own. And he's very, very, very, VERY unhappy about that.

Also, he's cracking, big time.

See, this picture of Lestat?

It's easy for us to see in this scene how Lestat is visibly cracking and going over the edge here. So's Daniel. Only, where Lestat's version of crashing out is flashy and wild and self-destructive in a loud way, Daniel's is angry, suicidal, and lashing out at someone who feels familiar and safe. He knows it's still his fault, but he's looking for someone else to blame, someone who can take his pain. Someone who can carry it.

Someone who's carried it before?

So, yeah.

And, finally

Louis!

No! Leave Regina alone!

#interview with the vampire #devils minion #daniel/armand #daniel molloy #the vampire lestat #tvl spoilers

ladyofthecreeddraws

feeling crazed after 3.04, therefore compelled to finish a sketch stuck in wip hell yayyyyyy!!!

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theunmarkedtombstone

Ok, so, I wanna talk about how it took TWENTY THREE YEARS for Armand to show himself as anything other than pristine to Louis, to the point that he came across as boring. He had bad nights with Louis too, but the time they exploded was just a one time smudge on the perfect 'painting of a couple' Armand tried to make for himself. A fantasy.

Then in this episode, he's letting Daniel push him around and actually arguing back. His mannerisms, the way he flails his arms, the way he turns around, even the way he jumps from being bitchy and pissy to being worried then desperate for Daniel to understand he was in love with him... It's the most human (and the loosest) we've ever seen Armand. He's not like that in the scene with Lestat. He's not like that in the concert (which Lestat made specifically so he could corner Armand and make him feel watched and ogled again by highlighting his desirability in his speech, which obviously pissed him off.)

Daniel already knows him, so why hide? In fact, he made his own little speech about how much he knows him, there's no reason to try to make a perfect painting of their lives, there's just... Comfort, in a way. Daniel is comfortable to tell Armand (a 500 year old vampire) that he is a bottom twink sociopath and Armand is comfortable to be pissed at Daniel for still thinking it's him doing the bond thing, because he is his maker, obviously he can't be in his head. Then Daniel feels comfortable enough to bypass all Armand's worries and ask him, with tears in his eyes, if he was just bullshitting him. Then Armand feels comfortable enough to tell him that no, of course not. I love you to the point of distraction. I love you. Believe me. Please.

Idk how they're gonna approach this going forward, tbh, as this is TVC, but this is already a good thing imho.