you are the knife I turn inside myself

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[wizardpink]

There's a moment during the hotel hallway fight where Lestat says, "consider this sliding door of Dan."

If you don't know, Sliding Doors is a movie about (I haven't seen it, I just know it from pop culture references) timeline divergence, and how a life can be changed if one moment is different. Similar to the Butterfly Effect.

Lestat is talking about how if Daniel hadn't come to his rescue, and Lestat had been killed, the catastrophe this season is hinting at would never have happened.

But I particularly like this analogy because Daniel has been The Sliding Door of this whole series since season one. Because while there have been time period changes in the adaptation, the barebones structure of the story remains the same: Lestat goes to New Orleans, Lestat meets Louis, they make Claudia, Louis and Claudia run away to Europe where they meet Armand, Claudia is killed by Armand and his coven. Time placement may be different, but the linear movement of everything is the same. The first major divergence (to me) is when Daniel DOESNT write the book in the 1970s. There is no second interview in the Vampire Chronicles books. There is no Daniel walking out of Divisadero Street and living a relatively normal human life. Armand and Louis leaving with Daniel's tapes so he cannot remember and cannot write the book is to me the "sliding doors" moment that creates two paths: the books' path and the show's path.

[valiantlyinvainn]

[hippopopotame]

and it always comes back to her

[professional-rat-eater]

An Emmy for Assad for the way he sat in that chair, looked at Jacob and occasionally raised a hand. An Emmy for you, Assad. A Nobel Prize. Two Nobel Prizes. No one sits in a chair like you.

[natasha-lightwood]

the thing that kills me is during seasons 1–2 daniel is so dismissive of armand's whole charismatic and complex portrayal of himself, he's derisive and sometimes even dismissive of the reasonings armand gives to his action. fast forward to when he actually does write the book and, according to the fans, what he actually put on paper is an armand that IS actually as complex as he was so adamant to deny, an armand that is, apparently, layered?

[echoflora]

Yeah, Lestat's narrative voice was cringe af. But have you read how Anne wrote him in 1985?

I will die on the hill that this is the most faithful modernization of Anne's Lestat Voice they could have managed and for better or worse, Rolin gets it.

[vamplire]

imagine going to an auction for your “deceased” ex husband who is also placing bids on his own stuff because unaware to you he is in another body meanwhile you are using the same continuous bidding as foreplay with your second ex husband over the same shit that belonged to your first ex husband who your second ex husband was also obsessed with. this happened to my good friend louis de pointe du lac

[aphrobites]

lestat de lyingcunt, possibly telling the truth: vampires PISS, vampires FUCK, i have NEVER HAD A BOB IN MY LIFE, and fucking is everyone's fourth favorite thing!!!!!!

[forsakenwitchery]

These songs gonna kill you. You know that, don't you? Interview with the Vampire 3x01

[cannibalspicnic]

I get the feeling most the people upset about Gabriella's gender presentation (again based solely on a few glimpses) have not actually read all the books because she's NOT canonically transmasc. That's an interpretation or headcanon that people have, and that's absolutely valid!

But it has never been text. Her relationship with her gender is COMPLICATED for reasons that seem both internal and external, but it IS canon that she sometimes presents more feminine when she's with Lestat.

But this idea that she starts solely presenting as masc after becoming a vampire isn't true. She's still wearing gowns in the coven in Auvergne in modern day!

So far, the GLIMPSES we've seen of her aren't conflicting with her character in the books.

Gabrielle de Lioncourt is someone with a complicated relationship to gender written by someone with a complicated relationship to gender, which also guides a lot of interpretations. Anne Rice, herself, was pretty feminine presenting, but she often spoke about feelings of gender non-conformity. This is also a valid interpretation. And yes, I do think gnc people who don't fit neatly into one box or another also deserve representation.

It's one thing to be disappointed that Gabriella doesn't fit your interpretation or headcanon (I get it!), but it's another to act like this is somehow sanitizing the queerness of the character because it's not catering to your preferences.

[watchoutforthorns]

i did really like daniel in the books and other adaptations, but i think what they’ve done with him in the amc series is so incredibly cool and intriguing.

the concept of a cynical, acerbic old journalist who battled a lifetime of trauma and addiction being faced with mortality through a fatal degenerative disease that will slowly rob him of his autonomy. a closeted elder gay man who spent the 80s in the queer scene in san francisco living through the aids crisis. he’s persistently clever and cunning and is strongly implied to have some sort of resistance towards mind control. he’s ruined every single relationship in his life so now he’s an asshole old man living alone with a terminal illness and his daughters don’t even talk to him while he keeps their childhood belongings in his closet. he ruins lives and people but is an expert at self-preservation.

and now! he’s a vampire, cured of his degenerative disease, free of the threat of mortality that has been looming over his head since the 80s, and he’s a cool mean old gay guy vampire who walks around in a leather jacket and sunglasses ripping people’s heads off and smoking out of a hookah. he’s been saved from death but given a fate that many in-universe consider arguably worse.

[waystar-royco]

The Vampire Lestat (2026) - Season 1, Episode 1

[sanguinevisions]

louis: racing ahead again, mr. molloy. let the tale seduce you.

lestat: [absolutely wrecked out of his gourd] you wanna fuck the tale. i know you wanna fuck the tale dan. you wanna fuck the tale so bad it makes you look stupid. the tale wants to fuck you.

[unwanted-animal]

Hey, Papi.

[boykavalier]

2.05 // 3.01

[skyrigel]

um ok. lestat de lyingcunt

[byedisaster]

I trust Daniel Molloy (as an interviewer)! If he's repeatedly asking Lestat if he was a stutterer as a child, Daniel is onto something.

And everything else is a type of distraction that Lestat WANTS us to be distracted by.

In previous seasons, Danny Molloy talks about how Louis uses third person "him" or "one" when he's trying to distance himself from his actions. Danny is good at catching this stuff!

Lestat is a master of DISTRACTION. Look at the visual difference in the third season (a naked woman showering in the background of a shot, switching from documentary style to colour, time skips, so much modern slang it's almost hard to understand).

Danny repeatedly throughout the episode asks Lestat if he was a stutterer as a kid. (the repetition also kind of mimicking the act of stuttering). He's hammering him. Don't get distracted! Stay on point (both Danny and us, the viewer)!

And what happens at the end of the episode? Lestat stutters as he sees his mother; and it looks like we're going to start delving into his childhood. That's where the pain is. That's where the story is.

Thank you Daniel Molloy.