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LDPDL Books 3 (Romance / Parallels) - Marriage

Day Three centers Louis’ journey with romantic love and intimacy with his partners throughout his life. The other prompt on day three is centered around parallels you might find with Louis and his story with other characters. These characters DO NOT HAVE TO BE IN THE IWTV UNIVERSE! Absolutely any character you can think of that has parallels to Louis is acceptable:) @ldpdlweek2026

For ldpdlweek2026, I'm compiling AMC's book references (S1 | S2 | AMC Auction) to break them down thematically, and explore the parallels in the books AMC used to contextualize Louis' dynamics with the people in his life. Here, Imma focus more on the state of Louis' failmarriages, rather than romantic love & intimacy full stop.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time (or energy) to give each of these references the attention/analysis they deserve. So what I did instead was make a chart comparing of all of their main themes, and how they relate to Louis' marriages to Lestat & Armand. (I deliberately skipped Bogie & Bacall since they were an IRL couple. I'm saving Edward Carpenter's Marriage in a Free Society (1984) for Day 5 (Sexuality).)

Out of the 11 stories listed, only 1 was from a straight man's POV. All the rest parallel Louis' relationships & dynamics with a straight (white) woman's trials & tribulations (*cough* Anne Rice *cough*). They were painfully naive & submissive (5), chronically depressed & suicidal (7), very mentally unwell (4), or all of the above (3 - 5).

These women were often trapped in toxic AF failmarriages (7) with either annoyingly oblivious / offensively insensitive men (4) or dangerously abusive/patriarchal a-holes (6).

There were more stories about toxic AF love triangles, cheating & infidelity (6), than about motherhood or neglected children (4); but regardless, the wife/woman was miserable.

Some of the stories ended in separation/divorce when the relationship imploded (4); but some are WAY more tragic and ended in the death of either the wife (3) and/or her man (2). Very rarely was there an HEA (1), while some had a more ambiguous ending (2).

TL;DR: Art Imitates Life

Antis can rewrite the "Human AU the tale that was told" and using "clues" about bullcrap to spread abuse apologia & denialism to make Louis look like a liar all they want. At the end of the day, IWTV was still sending seriously important messages about toxic relationships and their consequences. Either willfully ignore that to woobify your problematic long-haired non-Black faves; or acknowledge that vampirism is an allegory/metaphor for HUMAN power dynamics, not the other way around. 🤷‍♂️

[twinkle-art]

pirate lady

[girlfictions]

and let the history books name joe biden, rishi sunak, justin trudeau, emmanuel macron, ursula von der leyen and every other world leader who did not step in to prevent the genocide of palestine as cold-blooded murderers. may they face a shred of the immeasurable pain and suffering they allowed to be committed against 2.2. million innocent lives.

[raviposting]

Someone: Hey, you okay? 

Me: Noir had his face and his voice stolen from Soldier Boy both metaphorically with the movie deals and literally with their fight. Soldier Boy not only put him down at every turn, but Noir went from Earving, a clearly outspoken man who wanted to visibly be a Black hero to a masked silent supe who is now labeled as Homelander as “representing all races” because nobody cares enough to know who’s under the mask. Noir dedicated his entire life to Vought out of principle and then because he had to, and partly because of Homelander, only for him to find out it was all a lie. He imagines feeling comforted like he felt comforted as a child, probably one of his last few safe spaces he remembers. The mascots are his way of having friends because nobody actually cares to know him as a person, Homelander is content with having a brick wall to project his emotions onto with no thought on Noir’s emotions, and Noir is just scared and sad and lonely and wants comfort, and he just needs a friend, a real genuine friend. 

Me: Haha nothing hbu :) 

[chloekorzh]

Note to self

[nessa007]

The Midnight Club + parallels to other Mike Flanagan shows

[queenmoriarty]

ya'll ever think ur cursed like for real

[07242024-deactivated20240725]

does anyone understand

[capaldofilcumbergirl]

When you feel useless, remember that that russian who went to kidnap Kimiko pressed his hand on her mouth so she can't scream for help.

[bigmisstake]

but sometimes she can let out a noise (she laughed at stormfront and let out a little noise in 1x08) so he's not really useless

[localfairygirl]

I don't feel like the scene of Kimiko taking down armed men while listening to music and enjoying herself means she is becoming a monster or going back to her past.

All I see is someone who used to be disgusted and terrorized by her own powers finally accepting herself. Someone who was used for years finally making her own choices. And it was fucking Cathartic.

During this season (and the previous two) we saw her struggling, we saw her hating herself, and now we finally get to see her being free.

Not free to kill or free to hurt, but free to protect, cause in that scene she was doing exactly what she regained her powers back for: Protecting Frenchie.

Damn, I'm ready to fight whoever calls her a monster for that scene.

[nelliesghost]

the fact that the only time we ever see any of the crains enter someone else’s version of the red room it’s steve joining luke in his tree house, walking in of his own accord and not because he was specifically invited or led there. the way that steve is the person luke goes to visit when he’s given the privilege, so excited to make his big brother proud. the fact that even when shirley and theo have gotten sick of luke’s shit and steve walks in on luke robbing him, he still gives him money. the way that steve is the one to tell luke about nell, the one who searches all night and then holds him so tight when they find him. the fact that steve is the first one to find luke in the house and walks into the red room without a second thought, no hesitation. thinking nonstop about steve being luke’s big brother even when he couldn’t be much of a big brother to anyone else.

[ryan-corr]

The Boys 1.01│3.08

[w00z13sbackup]

the roy children and their trauma responses 

[w00z13sbackup]

kenstewy - losing dogs

[pineapplesperhaps]

Kimiko literally had probably the best day of her life in 2x05 probably the best she'll ever have too - because we know she goes back on V to some extent (whether temporary or not) from fight shots in the trailer

All she wanted was to be a normal girl without powers and she had one day where she got what she wanted and she could forget about her past and just watch her favorite movies with her favorite person and she felt safe for once in her fucking life like she wasn't going to hurt anyone she felt safe in her own skin for the first time in YEARS

And she felt safe enough around him for the first time ever - she felt safe enough to initiate what may have been her first kiss

I mean think about it - the very first day she didn't have powers she kissed him. Like who knows how long that's been there? Who knows how long she's wanted to do that but was always so scared of hurting him like she feels like she hurts everything else. Everyone she has ever loved has died right in front of her and now since she got powers she's seen HERSELF as the primary danger to anything she cares about. That must be a living hell. She got one glimpse of a semi-normal life now it's back to the horrifying, bloody world that life has thrust her into for almost her entire life. She thought she was finally free from the curse, but I guess not all curses can be broken, not even after true love's kiss

[javcdi]

no listen because kimiko and frenchie’s entire dynamic centers on their being mirrors for each other

frenchie sees kimiko and wants to save her because we’re the same you and i

because frenchie sees himself as something of a monster and if he can save kimiko then maybe that means he’s not beyond saving

which eventually becomes both of them seeing the other as deserving of redemption and then maybe seeing themselves that way too

they’ve both been turned into monsters by others but together they can help each other be better

[zalrb]

I’ve been thinking about this moment a lot

and why I like it so much because, yes, it’s soft, yes it’s sweet, and we’ve seen her reassure him in relation to wanting to stay with him in previous seasons

but this is the first time that we’ve seen her comfort him and I think that’s what’s so interesting and great about their relationship this season because now that they can communicate, Frenchie is on the receiving end of what he’d been giving Kimiko in seasons 1 and 2.

she can say what she couldn’t before

which allows for a deeper intimacy on her part