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• Dinner Dress.

Date: 1890-1895

Place of origin: Great Britain or France

Medium: Jacquard-woven silk dress with black ground and pattern of oranges, and black machine-made lace and silk ribbon panels in front.

#what a beaut #fashion #history

lioncourtz

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.06 | "Montreal"

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 02.08 | "And That's The End of It. There's Nothing Else" script

#they really said remember that secret you're never gonna find out?#yeah you're NEVER gonna find out ;)#all as it should be 🙏#the vampire lestat #interview with the vampire

zombooyah

Legend (1985) dir. Ridley Scott

"Lady, do not be afraid."

#legend #ridley scott

weardes

#love this vibe #the vampire lestat #interview with the vampire #fanart

lioncourtz

SHE. IS. THE. ANSWER.

#MY AKASHASTAT KINGDOM RIIIIIISES #kind of obsessed with the idea of them doing #akasha populist girlboss feminist icon marketing #and then revealing her true nature in the show #a lot of ppl gonna be so freaking mad again lol #queen of the damned #interview with the vampire

ymutate

Hiroo Isono (1945–2013) was a Japanese painter and illustrator

#art

dreamember

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT ▸ 3.06 | "Montreal"

#sorry but ever since that jam interview with autumn #now every time i see post seance pre bench loustat #i'm reminded of sam calling them tweedle dee and tweedle dum lol #the vampire lestat #interview with the vampire

jvoljvolizka

Lomochrome color ‘92 Sun-kissed

#photography

danielxarmand

IWTV 2x05 — "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start The Tape" TVL 3x07 — "The Failures"

#a room without walls floors ceiling was such a banger line for armand #bc yeah that's a void wishing to be contained #a nothingness that wants to be a room #but if he's become a room and now you wanna leave #get ready to be decompressed into oblivion #the vampire lestat #interview with the vampire

pynkhues

Something clicked into my head when you said lestat associates his softer parts to his femininity because isnt that what gabi is doing by presenting as feminine with lestat because despite gabi always being awful to lestat he doesn't see femininity as an act of violence the way he sees maleness and thats were she keeps him tied to her by presenting a softness through her appearance despite her action says otherwise. If gabi was masculine presenting she won't have control over him because his looking for softness and he doesn't see that in masculinity in maleness he won't want her near him because his reminded of the horrors his gone through because of it he won't seek her out because what he wants is a mother not a father and her not being that means she has no hold on him. He likes her femininity the same way she likes his masculinity its the presentation of masculinity=power,freedom,dominance and femininity=nurturing, love,softness they have a distorted view that they have to act a certain way for being their gender because of society and their environment.

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I think that's definitely a part of it when it comes to their particular dynamic and his tangled up feelings and understanding of these things when it comes to the de Lioncourt family unit. I think it's important to pull them out, because I don't think Lestat necessarily has these same feelings outside of the family he comes from (I don't think he really ascribes these sorts of gendered feelings for instance to Nicki, Louis or Claudia, at least not on the same level, which I think goes back to this idea of the whole de Lioncourt family really having been enmeshed with one another, not just Lestat and Gabi).

Gabi presenting more femininely around and for Lestat is a thread in the books, of course, and it is, I think, tied to this idea of her doing it as a means of comfort when Lestat is distressed. How much of that is tied to her desire to genuinely bring him a degree of peace, versus how it may help to shroud her abuse to appear in a way that nurtures the child still in Lestat, even subconsciously, is an interesting set of ideas to unpack. I'd also add to that - and I do think this is where we're heading with the show - that I think her dressing more femininely around him is likely a reflection of her own trauma too, and the way she still feels shackled to womanhood around Lestat by nature of being his mother.

How she uses sex after all isn't just a tool to control him, but also a knife to try and sever herself from this thing that happened to her, because Lestat isn't just her son, he's the living product of her rape and the endless violation of her mortality. Those things tangling up and making her incapable of fully embracing these masculine parts of herself around him makes it all so complex, and I think lends itself to this idea that they're both performing around each other in ways I don't think either of them particularly want to.