ItsasytheIknow

I love beautiful things. She/her, black. I love mutishipping because I love mess. I'm also involved in a lot of Fandoms. Look out! 𝐈'𝐦 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

[holewithoutorgans]

I'll never stop talking about the beauty and complexity of loumand bdsm. You could sew my mouth shut. Cut off all my fingers. I'll never shut up about it.

Loumand bdsm so beautiful. Rolin Jones had to try and kill you. But he failed:)

You can't take out the earnestness and sincerity of the bench scene. No matter how hard you try.

Two traumatized individuals coming together to make someone new and healing. No matter how flawed it may be.

[whooshsoohw]

The whole episode felt like it was made maliciously with the idea of "This is why Loustat is superior to Loumand". Before the torture scene, one could argue they were in similar levels, especially because they didn't dispute Lestat's willing participation in the trial plus his not saving Claudia regardless. The drop and San Francisco clearly mirrored each other as well. But after this, it feels that they made Armand inflict this level of violence on Louis, which is not canon in the books (he only feels this level of vitriol for Lestat), to be like "see? Armand is so much worse to Louis than Lestat who if you think about it loves him the way he should be loved , here's Louis' beloved dead brother to tell you so, who btw is in heaven so clearly a good person with good judgment!". Nevermind that they accidentally implied Lestat killed him by having him there like morons.

Also fuck Lesmand now, that relationship barely matters, and what should have been their dynamic we're gonna give to Loumand who already had a interesting dynamic and didn't need more big events, let alone violent ones. Let's also make Armand seem uniquely violent towards his non-white partner and make him do nothing to his white ex who he was supposedly obsessed with and resentful as hell.

[battleaxepixie]

I need Louis to remember He is The Night. And he is That Bitch. A man is not needed. 🙂‍↕️👌

[ihateornithologists]

(nine inch nails hurt)

note: i started drawing this before s3 so obviously no s3 events are included (and honestly idgaf)

based on a friend's comment on one of my older posts hhskskj i accidentally quoted this song and then decided i should do it not accidentally..

[battleaxepixie]

They lay in coffins worlds apart and miss eachother. Then forget the longing when the coffin opens at sunset, because it's easier that way. Isn't it?

[battleaxepixie]

He chose wrong. Does he know that?

[holy--milk]

1) "the victim card", okay rolin, i think it's time for you to shut the fuck up

2) how about you show THE AUDIENCE what it was like for armand to live with louis for 77 years? you know, BEFORE throwing in an islamophobic anti-black saw trap torture porn plot twist

[professional-rat-eater]

I keep fluctuating between it’s never Lesmandover and that there’s definitely subtext in this season about how in denial Lestat is about his true feelings for Armand and… I kinda don’t want that guy to go near Armand. If this is how he portrays him, this is how you treat someone you have love for, maybe it should be Lesmandover. That’s certainly not a love that’ll cradle you, Armand, even platonically. Stay away from that guy.

I can’t decide. I have no clue what I think, and I was so happy for the first six episodes. I just have no idea. I still mostly liked it but it’s always Armand who suffers when it comes to writing. It’s not to say there weren’t other weaknesses in the season, but even in season 2, he never got a chance and so much of his character was taken and given to other characters.

[thevampirealina]

being a lesmand lover, a member of danlou nation, a loumand truther, a diabolicule defender if you will, is so hard when they insist on making this The Loustat Show™️

[roanoates]

do you guys fucking remember what were the first words of the ancient vampire to the future love of his life i will not harm you and i never have. because the writers don't and they should have kept it

[mopandmindlessness]

It’s not the content, it’s the fact that it didn’t make any sense. It came out of left field with zero set up. What do you mean Armand was still hung up on Louis, making amends at all, needing closure from Louis so they “can both move on with their lives” (he already has with Daniel, his new companion he is in love with, as far as we had been shown)?? What do you mean he did all this other stuff like breaking up Lestat’s band for fun when it didn’t look fun for him nor did that affect Louis in the slightest? What do you mean he started setting up the Regina thing three years prior but we don’t get shown the details, told the full details, or a real explanation of why that would help him achieve his goal in this moment? There wasn’t anything establishing this stuff so it made sense for that scene to happen, nothing that panned out during in a way that made sense. Im here for dark unhinged Armand stuff and if they were going this route then let’s do it, I’m here for it, but JFC make it work. It could’ve been soooooo good if it had been written differently; both the scene itself to give Louis words meaning instead of them being forced at the last second, and the entire plot involving Armand to hint that this was something he might want or care about.

[ldrloversblog]

Rolin Jones saw that people were genuinely fucking with Loumand and said: wait, let me shoot this ship in the head and then sink it because it's two people of color in a relationship and not a white+poc relationship

The fuck you mean loumand never loved each other? Are you fucking kidding me? The whole point of the relationship is that they loved each other but as time went by the love faded because Louis was too depressed and Armand was tired of trying to make him happy!!!

That whole writing room is my biggest enemy!

They can try and pry Loumand out of my dead, cold hands but they won't ever succeed.

And don't get me started on how the main black lead is being treated as a punching bag by everyone and the main Asian lead is side tracked and also made the punching bag for racist jokes.

[elthelover]

A (probably unfaithful) recounting of the small crisis I just had:

“I don’t want it to be loumandover… I actually like loumand… I know it’s The Loustat Show and it’s Loustatendgame but they can work it out… Lestat is lying I don’t wanna believe it… I don’t want it to be Danlouover either I DON’T WANT LESTAT TO BE THE ONLY PERSON IN LOUIS’ LIFE THAT’S NOT HEALTHYYYYUUHHHJEEEHHG WKANKSN”

Ahem picture this with a high pitched near crying voice, ending in coughing

[holy--milk]

no. nuh-uh. absolutely not. these writers have NOT earned the right to insert any sort of conversation about the mutual toxicity of loumand into their show

[cbrownjc]

I just read an article by entertainment weekly where they talked with Rolin and he mentions in the finale that Armand knew he had to get out of the butcher shop quick, for reasons unspecified I think, but that before he did, he wanted to leave a mark on Louis in regards to the initial he carved, and seemingly Rolin didn’t want to explain farther for what it may mean in regards to the future, and a little bit after he talks a little about how they’re gonna explore how Louis and Armand got to the first scene of this seasons where they’re in the same room together seemingly at least tolerant of each other, idk but from that I have a feeling(maybe a far reaching one) that Armand did that with intention of maybe protecting Louis from the vamps(or maybe something/someone else) he seems to be collecting for reasons still yet to be uncovered fully(most likely great conversion related), also I heard somewhere that apparently the mark is at the very least semi permanent and not going away anytime soon, but I can’t confirm who said that, but if that’s true then maybe the mark has a bigger purpose than just malice from Armand and it’ll have some importance next season, and maybe that and/or other actions Armand takes next season in regards to Louis somewhat repairs their relationship to the degree of at least being able to be in the same room, maybe frenemies, or maybe I’m reaching idk. I’m just trying to make sense of it all…apologies if none of this makes sense.

Hey! 👋🏾

So first off, no apologies needed. The final episode itself was kind of confusing in many respects anyway, so the question was fine.

So to start, I actually saw a mention on @nalyra-dreaming last night about that mark on Louis being permanent. And look, if that is so, I am not thrilled about it.

And that is because I have a feeling that, if Armand did do it for protection, as you say? And which I freely admit is not only possible, but even probable? And which I fully admit right now is something that I thought of myself as to why Armand did it when I first saw he did it?

Then that means it is something that the show directly stole from Devil's Minion and might have given to Louis here if that does turn out to be the reason why Armand did it.

Just like many of the character dynamics between Louis and Armand in that torture scene were taken from the dynamics between Lestat and Armand. That 'A' carved into Louis' chest would be imagery taken directly from Armand and Daniel's dynamic and story together.

So yes, if it really was something Armand did for that reason, for protection, that means it is just another instance of the show giving Louis' character things that are unique to Armand's dynamic with another character and giving it to Louis first.

And that honestly ticks me off.

Because the blood amulet necklace that Armand gives to Daniel for protection -- that has Armand's 'A' initial carved into it -- is one of the top things I have been waiting to see adapted when they finally adapt the Devil's Minion story.

And now, because of this, Armand giving Daniel that amulet won't even be all that unique anymore.

Yes, Armand would have given that amulet with its 'A' protection imagery to Daniel first because he gave it to him in the past, back during their original time together (and I hope the show keeps that about it at the very least). And we might get the full explanation when he gives it to Daniel (which, yes, I also hope we see!) that it is something for protection, which would tie back into what we saw here with Louis, giving it that same explanation.

But the uniqueness of it all to Daniel and Armand will now be completely gone if this turns out to be the case for why Armand did it.

And look, a lot of what made the dynamic between Lestat and Armand compelling and unique also got somewhat appropriated to Louis and Armand as well, as others like @nalyra-dreaming and @virginiaisforvampires have said, and I noted above.

And you know? Louis and Armand actually had a unique dynamic of their own during the first two seasons of the show. With them having really fleshed out even more what had been their dynamic in the first book.

However, with one episode, this show appears to have basically reduced the whole thing by stealing a dynamic Armand has with Lestat.

And now, it is also very possible that they also stole some imagery Armand uniquely had with Daniel, if Armand's branding of Louis in that way does end up being for protection.

Yeah, you know what ticks me off the most when it comes to bad writing?

When it's just lazy.

Because I can handle bad writing that was clearly trying to do something original and just missed the mark.

But taking the imagery and dynamics Armand has with other characters and just throwing them in here with Louis to make something happen/work?

What I said about Hannah yesterday was basically me being nice when it comes to her writing of that episode:

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Because, in all honesty? I already had a sneaking suspicion in my gut about what might have been really going on with that 'A' that Armand was revealed to have carved into Louis' chest, but I just didn't want to say it.

Because I didn't want to believe that Hannah appeared to have taken that whole protection imagery that Armand had with Daniel and given it to, and technically revealed it here first, with Louis.

But that very much could be what is going on with it.

And I don't like it.

What do the kids today like to say? "Reheated nachos?" Well, that is very much what Louis and Armand's dynamic became in that finale episode -- things stolen and "reheated" from other dynamics just to make that scene work and give it an out-of-context setup for next season.

Especially if this does turn out to be the reason for the branding Armand gave Louis.

That, in the end, only came off looking like a slave branding given the conversation Armand and Louis were having just before it was revealed.

Like, I will never love that they had Armand do that, even if the protection reveal of it does happen, because it very much does steal something from Armand and Daniel, in my opinion.

But if they were going to have Armand do it at all, then she should have had him do it during the torture, not right before he left the room, if they really were not, at the very least, trying to link it back into what Claudia had said in the episode right before about Louis having the word slave etched onto his rib.

So yeah. Sloppy, muddled, and now also possibly lazy, too, when it comes to that final episode, if that does end up being what is really behind whyArmand branded Louis in that way.

With it coming across to many people right now as it did because you didn't really think about the convo the two of them were having before it was finally shown, did you, Hannah? 🙄

[holy--milk]

the drop came after 5 episodes dedicated to detailing the slow fracturing of loustat's relationship in NOLA.

the trial came after 6 episodes dedicated to exploring the dynamics between louis, claudia, armand and the coven in paris.

the loumand saw trap came after 6 episodes that had absolutely nothing to do with loumand apart from them briefly appearing on screen together at the very beginning of episode 1.

am i missing something here?

[laufire]

saw a post and got bitter again like. I don't go here anymore idk how they would even spin that shit but wtf did louis have to apologise to armand for lmao. does anyone in the writers room remember what louis did to nearly everyone else who participated in claudia's murder? ffs.