Auntie Climactic

Trapped in Rare Pair Hell Elder Millennial She/Her

[messvoid]

Let gremlin Armand behead people!

[toscrollperchancetomeme]

[franniesbridgerton]

This is a century-long lie. You hung her portrait over our coffins in New Orleans. It's sick. You're sick.

We're unnatural beings! And this-- this is the half-human soul that you conveniently whip out whenever you want to win an argument!

What argument you got for fucking your mother? It's sickness. Maybe the source of all your sickness. But my god! Seek a professional!

episode 6 of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

[charmingpickles]

Them. 💟

[anka-dm]

My illustrations the most based poem about tigers by Nael, age 6

Every time I read it I feel space inside my chest expand in very *emotion* way.

[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.

[skyrigel]

[misstherese]

i think its great that armand gets to murder his ex-boyfriends with his current boyfriend. it's a wonderful idea for a date night. armand is so considerate.

[tcsformerbandmate]

Me when Claudia doesn’t let Loustat off the hook

[sweet-shut-eye]

Never been about me

[sugarcoatednightshade]

You know that snarky bit of writing advice that goes like “if you’re going to objectify the women in your media, then you also have to objectify the men”

Congrats to Matt Dinniman for being the first male author ever to understand the assignment

[lioncourtz]

SHEILA ATIM as Akasha

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.05 | "New York"

[texasbama]

#REAL

[sugarcarnation]

this was so funny akasha couldn’t stand marius fr 😭

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

Armand got in on the ground floor of that 20 year old loser. kept checking in on him like he was proofing sourdough until he had a beautiful geriatric fag ready to go into the oven of vampirism and emerge the perfect companion. he saw Daniel sniffing around for coke at Polynesian Mary's and said give me fifty years I can make him the hottest guy you've ever seen. and Louis was just happy he was finally taking an interest in investment because it gave them something to bond over besides missing that blond man's pussy. like it's the only long con Armand has ever successfully pulled. hard work pays off in the form of a 70something boytoy who looks suspiciously like your evil father. i'm so proud of him. my weird bug.

[reticent-vampire]

Assad Zaman as Armand

[platoapproved]

And gradually, over the next 52 years...