[yurarcher]

people who think the show isn't going to go full devil's minion genuinely sound alien to me. i truly just do not get why anyone is questioning it at all. i'm sorry, they took a character from the books whose two primary claims to fame are being the boy conducting the interview and being armand's lover, aged him up, made him one of the major characters in the show, took the time to hint at his fairly extensive backstory (a big part of which they had to invent from scratch, mind you), demonstrated that said backstory is deeply interwoven with armand's character, showed his clear attraction towards armand and dropped hints at their connection from essentially the very beginning, already confirmed that armand is in love with him both through words and actions, all the while carrying the legacy of one of the most beloved romances of the genre ever written which managed to amass a cult following despite being described in comparatively short terms and having literally all the actors buzzing with excitement about the dynamic specifically in a romantic and sexual context, and you think they aren't going to take all that and fucking run with it to the point of exhaustion? in what world does most of this even make sense outside of devil's minion being very clearly and very consistently set up to be a major thing when their time comes, which is unsurprisingly going to be in qotd - a part of the show based on the very book that made people fall in love with the original dynamic?

[official-german-puns]

Oh sieh nur! Es hat schon wieder kackundfickzig Grad!

[springinsfeld]

Herr der Ringe aber Frodo versucht den Ring auf Bares für Rares loszuwerden.

[danielxarmand]

to be continued....

[starofhisheart]

armand be like

[reticent-vampire]

[reticent-vampire]

[nozaeron]

daniel molloy, your greed is un-fucking-bearable

[professional-rat-eater]

The scariest part of the 52 years of stalking isn’t even the stalking. It’s that Armand knows every bad thing Daniel has ever done and he doesn’t care.

Daniel knows he’s an asshole. He’s potentially the most self-aware character. He knows he hurt his ex-wives and his daughters. He understands that they hate him and he frequently validates their decision to do so. He gets it. He’s not hiding from his mistakes. He knows what he’s done. People leave him because anyone sane would. There’s no malice there. He knows who he is.

But here is this beautiful, ancient creature who has lived through some of the most incredible periods of human innovation in modern history, who lived in Renaissance Venice and witnessed Paris return to its former glory after World War 2 , who has been exposed to some of the most important works of art in history, who has had so much time to absorb humanity and all its most impressive creations, and this creature tells him he’s in love with him, some random kid he met half a century ago by chance.

And not just that he’s in love with him. That he was actively in love with him while he was doing all the terrible things. None of it ever mattered. Armand has seen every shade of Daniel’s soul, more than anyone else ever has, and he is in love with him because of it. It is one thing to have your mistakes exposed, it’s another entirely for someone to see them and decide to stay.

Armand has so freely given to Daniel what he has been trying to find for himself for half a millennia. The only thing he has ever wanted: to be truly known and accepted for everything you are, including the unseemly, ugly parts. How utterly and completely terrifying.

[reticent-vampire]

another normal day at the normal things to say factory for assad zaman

[ileftmysoulinnorway]

Tiny crumbs.

[homoquartz]

if you spoke to lestat or louis about your pain, they would say, "your pain? what about MY pain?" but if you spoke about your pain to armand he would say "let me lobotomize you and you will never feel pain again." he has a solution-based mindset and we could all learn from him.

[lioncourtz]

silly husbands, never change

[lioncunt]

the very idea that someone could sit down, watch lestat puke while still trying to rationalize the abuse, have a full blown panic attack over it when louis yells that there is no rationalizing this, and then go say it's consensual...that it's not portrayed as abuse...insane...

i also think a lot of people aren't really getting the *point* of louis' reaction. it's extremely harsh and judgmental and completely insensitive to the fact that lestat is being abused, but that is the purpose of it. the entire season is lestat attempting to justify it. this is louis saying that you cannot justify it. there is no rational way to justify that happening. and when lestat has a breakdown over it, they both sort of realize at the same time that this means lestat has been suffering incestuous sexual abuse for 200 fucking years.

it overwhelms lestat, and it clicks for louis. that's when he changes tacts, when he comforts lestat, when he gently tries to help him admit that it's been abuse all along in the bar. it's so realistic, such a necessary sequence.

i think there is unfortunately a knee jerk reaction people have to abuse like this, esp when it's mother/son, where it's just "gross", "weird", or "sick", as louis says. where the child is not taken to be a victim, somehow. i think the show is very honest in having this be louis' initial reaction, until he sees lestat's panic, until he properly thinks it through for a second. and then he gets it, and he feels horrible about what he said. again, it's just all very realistic and bittersweet. everyone involved did an incredible job with this storyline imo.

[mymycorrhizae]

I'm seeing someone.

[maxwyl]

lestat said kill yourself and armand made one of his bandmates jump in front of a train. lestat made fun of armand's sexual performance and past as a child sex slave and armand helped his boyfriend leak a video of lestat having sex with his own mother. you go low he goes to hell hall of fame

[yenvengerberg]

"She doesn't have that. No Madeleine. No rest."