Librarian Angst

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[annushka97]

Deviling the minion and minionig the devil over here:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/annushka_annushka

[luckylana]

Can't stop thinking about Armand's desperate desire to become somebody's muse again. How broken he sounded saying "No one has painted me in over 400 years". How excited he was when though that Louis photographed him. How he acted when decided Lestat wrote a song for him.

And how it all was ended in his broken heart, lie and humiliation.

I just want him to overhear Daniel's readers the way Lestat did when they discussed how Armand in the book is "like a mysterious" and "he's got layers" while Lestat is just "whatever". And I want some of Lestat's fan arguing with that because "IT'S NOT FAIR! Armand was written in this way just because Molloy is definitely is in love with him! That's why Daniel wrote Armand like he is so amazing and like he's the main character even if it's Louis' and Lestat's story! So you can not compare them when all this book is just his stupid unfair lovesong for Armand".

I want Armand stands in the shadow and has nothing in his head except "Oh. OH!". And then has full crisis when understood that he finally become THE MUSE again. For the only person who really matters for him. Even if Daniel didn't remember their story and was angry he loves Armand so much that even some teenagers obsessed with Lestat are able to see it.

[missbliss12]

Daniel, that traumatized former slave from Delhi who was forced to submit to other men’s sexual predations did not unleash his inner repressed psychosexual fantasies on you during one memorable week in San Francisco for you to call him the bottomest bitch.

(I’m sorry… my contribution to the fandom of the ever stellar IWTV! Devil’s minion!)

[annushka97]

I'm confused why people ship Alex and Armand, but I do want to see more of their interaction. It is crazy how he mentioned that he was in a strange AA cult with a magical god-like creature and the band just went 'Meh, now go play the guitar'. Also, I think it would be a neat narrative device for Daniel to hear about the guy who soothes junkie white boys as a hobby and have some flashbacks about more tender moments when Armand cared for him during withdrawls. For me personally Armand's confesion would hit harder if we had a glimpse of Daniel remembering something before it.

[sillystigmata]

Go read what assad says about eric in the vulture article its so sweet 😭

We never lose.

[solqreclipse]

”you block people over politics?” girl i block people if they don’t like the vampire armand

[annushka97]

"Study of an Apostle's head" by Leonardo da Vinci (1494-1498)

"All the Rowboats" by Regina Spektor is such a perfect song for Amadeo...

[secretdazedragon]

one of my iwtv posts got attention and it made me wanna draw them

[annushka97]

this is the lesmand i want

[userarmand]

ASSAD ZAMAN as Armand Interview with the Vampire ‣ "No Pain"

[bifauxnenarmand]

I’m putting an etsy witch curse on everyone who says something even slightly negative about assad zaman btw

[angrybubbles]

How many times will I beat my "Marimand's relationship is also about imperialism" drum?

Probably for the rest of my life.

I have A marked to the side there for Armand, but I probably won't include this in the essay.

[angrybubbles]

You guys are gonna get some quick, unorganized sparknotes on Lestat, the Enlightenment, and why he's interesting as a force of incidental colonization in association with vampires.

In the same way Armand is a Renaissance child, Lestat is an Enlightenment child, and that makes for some interesting philosophical inquiry, as well as literally connected to how vampires came to be defined.

(These are from the Introduction to Nick Groom's "The Vampire: A New History" which I can't recommend enough if you like non-fiction.)

But in regards to postcolonial notes, this is why I think the "Make America Great again... again" is such an interesting backdrop to open the series on.

"[continued from above] in the godless expanse of what Anderson calls 'homogenous empty time'."

And these are ones that I'd love to pull for a Lesmand comparison, but don't know if I'm actually capable of that, hahaha. I'm probably not including them in the Armand essay, but they are Armand adjacent to me, especially the last one with how they both view each other as immature, but Armand gets the hardest hit by the comprison in the adaption:

[cuprumbao]

feeling very normal about s3e4 the most normal i've felt in my life ever the normalest

[raisinchallah]

amc working overtime to invent a new armand specific type of homophobia

[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...

[userarmand]

I don’t know how useful that is as a disguise if people are reading the book and know that Armand’s name is Arun. [...] We don’t know exactly how he spent the two years, but I think there has been a regression. There has been a regression into a past version of himself. [...] Arun is Armand coming back out of his cocoon, his two years of sort of hibernating after this devastation. He’s coming out, he’s showing himself, and he’s like the baby version before coming back into Amadeo and Armand.

Assad Zaman via Nerdist

[knighteirian]

Dr. Fareed Bhansali THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (2026–) 3.04 "The Devil's Road"

[annushka97]

For 4 years I was dead sure IWTV is the best show ever, but now I know better than to betray my beloved Black Sails like that 💔