You just get used to it, like weather.

They/them Lesbian #1 Claudeleine and Loustat enjoyer I like to talk about Interview With The Vampire and Byler (or just Stranger Things in general)!

[byjove]

My name is The Vampire Lestat. I have a snatched waist and a babe-a-licious body. I have perfectly conditioned blond hair and eyes that change like a Forever 21 mood ring from the mid 2000s. I have full lips with no lip filler.

[sweet-shut-eye]

Never been about me

[eagna-eilis]

One thing i am fascinated by with TV!TVL so far is that it uses form to construct meaning in a way that I don't really associate with television.

In 'Detroit' the editing is frenetic and psychadellic, and the storytelling is sort of flippant. Lestat is putting on a mask, he's high as a kite, and he's deflecting.

In 'Toledo', the flashbacks are short because Lestat doesn't want to dwell on the past. A sort of calm and relief descends upon the viewer when Louis is onscreen not just because we all love Louis and feel comfortable with him and his voice but because Lestat loves him and takes solace in him.

The form tells us something in this very explicit way. The language in S1-S2 is highly literary, so gorgeous and prose-like and mesmirising. The FORM here is so literary.

[tarmairons]

idea from dmthinkr on twitter

[american-gothic]

[misscellophane]

(Madeleine voice) Cloudya

[sillystigmata]

Out and Proud

[american-gothic]

I know this was a jokey line but I love when vampire media uses vampirism as a metaphor for accepting queerness and fearing being seen as predatory

Daniel being “out and proud” -> accepting that he is a vampire but not fully coming to terms with/lying about being okay with his vampirism

[american-gothic]

TVL SPOILERS!

I can't describe how much this back-and-forth felt like my heart grew three sizes and then immediately got stabbed + deflated.

Lestat's discomfort with regards to his relationship with Gabriella was shown a bit in Episode 1, but I wasn't expecting him to say to her face that he didn't want to engage sexually with her!

This might be a little dramatic, but I genuinely felt proud of him in that moment. It takes guts to stand up to a parent, especially with something as sensitive and long-existing as the sexual abuse that Lestat has been experiencing.

Although his boundaries were then crushed later that evening (Gabriella asking if he likes sex more than the blood, Lestat responding that nothing compares to the blood, and then Gabriella drinking from him without consent), he still took that first step!

I'm really excited to see where they take us on Lestat's journey of sexualizing himself, pushing against the sexual abuse he experiences, and where that leaves him in his everyday life when he's not hiding behind his rockstar persona!

EDIT: She says "I know." !!!! She knows that Lestat doesn't want this, and she ignores that to feel more powerful UGH I hate her

[american-gothic]

Lesbian Loustat come to me

[rooksilver]

does anyone else want to talk about the dynamic between armand and madeleine or is it just me and assad zaman

[fluffycakesistainted]

Is this still a necessary psa for AMC's Interview with the Vampire?

Well, just in case: The narrative conceit of the show is that (excepting the present day), it is not omniscient narrator pov. All recollections of the past are first-person pov and narrator, based on the respective character's memories (or diaries), and all that entails. It is intentionally subjective.

[endiness]

Season 3, Episode 1 "Detroit" THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (2022–)

[alsoknownasallison]

some of yall will hate me but I dont think claudia is a perfect character either and I think that to position her as the "only good one" or the "only recounting of events we can trust" fundamentally misunderstands the story.

This conversation has been brought up a lot more now because of lestat's recounting that he never threatened claudia with SA on the train. Some people say that lestat can be going down the very common road that some abusive people do where they soften their own actions in their memory. and maybe this is true, it could be! my point is: we'll never know. however, I think some people think that claudia's victim status absolves her from having bias when that is not the case.

I never think claudia intentionally lied but she is also very traumatized and her emotional truth may not necessarily be the factual truth but that does not make it a farce. like "lying" isnt the right word. her accounts are still biased to her worldview if that makes sense?

like she GENUINELY felt threatened by lestat and when has she felt genuinely threatened before? with Bruce. in her mind these two experiences start to bleed together and affects and her recollection of it. this DOESNT mean lestat wasnt horrible and didnt threaten her at all, it means her experiences shape her lens. it means her brain processed these two experiences in the same way. because in a sense by being forced to come back home her autonomy was also being robbed from her, again.

I guess my point is that memory is the monster. we can never escape our lens and the horror of these books and this show is that we cannot separate our past experiences from our current life, the emotions and the worldview bleed through and your actions follow accordingly. the horror of the show is how life often feels like a self fulfilling prophecy because you can never fully escape from who youve been into who you are.

[american-gothic]

Claudia writing her thoughts and feelings and perceptions of certain events does not make those perceptions true! That's what's so fun about this show. We don't know exactly what happened, and we might never find out!

Calling a character an unreliable narrator is not an insult, it's an acknowledgement of their biases and how those biases may affect their telling of events.

Every main character in IWTV is an unreliable narrator. (Yes, even Claudia, even Lestat.) The reasons for their unreliability ranges greatly, but none of them are excused from the fact that they have forgotten/mixed up events, intentionally altered events, are affected by their traumas, or are knowingly or unknowingly withholding information.

That's how the story is told, and it's why I love it. Let the tale seduce you!

[darkrayne12]

Iwtv S3E2

Stills

[lgbtqiatext]

[userarmand]

i like the way he's holding the auction catalogue here

[lililasagna]

I think my highlight from the new episode was Lestat pronouncing reddit

[american-gothic]

Mine was him saying "Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, twirl, twirl."

[american-gothic]

I'm Gen Snooze and I have FOMO about the Beacon Theatre performance