almost home
The Stonewall Inn
No title available
tannertan36
art blog(derogatory)
h
YOU ARE THE REASON
izzy's playlists!
macklin celebrini has autism
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Kiana Khansmith
taylor price
Claire Keane
oozey mess
Today's Document
icyghini twinkie
Show & Tell
RMH
★
roma★
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Japan
seen from Türkiye
seen from Türkiye
seen from Poland
seen from Russia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Bangladesh
seen from Ethiopia
seen from Brazil
seen from United States
seen from Taiwan
@blueberrymango
No because I’ve wanted to keep working on this SO bad but my watercolors have seriously up and walked away. PLEASE GUYS SEND URE VIBES MY WAY SO I CAN FIND THEM, ITS BEEN 3 WEEKS NOW.
oh Armand, the energy of a man who spent 3 years planning a revenge-torture-apology on his iPad: who just killed his ride home
The best thing Ive done for my Spanish language acquisition was reading fics in Spanish. And something about Devils Minion in Spanish is really invigorating.
God my friends are prolly so tired of me
people asking why armand did that. have u never not been loved. have u never wanted to be seen and whole and wanted and loved. louis called him the love of his life. and then thew him against a wall and spoke to him as if he was a dog and left him. that was enough for him. he wanted to be seen. he wanted, for once, to be a person and not a thing
People go crazy over indirect kissing, but when a vampire licks another vampires blood off a glass and basically has an orgasm at the bar people are like “why doesn’t this show have sex in it?”. That was indirect sex. Lestat put himself inside of Louis. Vampire sex can be many things…
in the days since the finale leak, all i keep wondering is how a piece of media like iwtv of all things seems to have attracted a large majority fanbase consisting of people who are desperate to view every part of the show (down to the actual actors and writers, which is grim beyond words) through a victim/abuser mindset. it kills me that we’re in this tenderqueer era of faux-counter-culture media consumption where the most easily offended people on the planet are willing to watch a show with graphic violence, incest, and abuse, but only if they can easily parse who’s right and who’s wrong in every scene and relationship, as if that’s even close to the point of it all. and to then have the audacity to not just object to that, but also to be up in arms over cruel shit the characters are saying to each other? in the fictional universe they all exist in as terrible, awful people? the game is so, so gone. if you would like to watch something that doesn’t challenge your black-and-white moral framework in even the slightest way, can i suggest daytime TV? i’ve also heard that children’s books tend to clearly lay out their moral lesson in the final few pages lest you get confused and think the author condones the big bad wolf eating grandma, which may provide a clarity some of you are in such desperate need of
How are people mad at the amount of Devil's Minion we're getting this season? In the books, Daniel didn't even have a NAME yet in The Vampire Lestat. Now, our boys are BEHEADING the protagonists together!
People are claiming crumbs? My siblings in Christ, the Queen of the Damned arc is when Devil's Minion burrowed into our heads and removed our brains to be liquified in the blender of obsession before lovingly being placed back in our skulls. Crumbs? I am savoring this amuse fucking bouche because the meal is on its way.
I saw someone complaining about how Daniel only does what Armand says..
You know.. Daniel Molloy, aka the Devil’s minion..
Daniel: RELAPSED
Louis: IN DENIAL
Lestat: SPIRALLING
Armand: IN OHIO
Claudia: GHOST
No one is having a good time right now.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.8 | THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.4
no but like lestat keeps being drawn to the non-sexual intimacy he shares with louis, with brushing of their hands, the moments of their pinkies touching......................................like that's so hugely important to lestat in a sea of hypersexualization, the fact that he and louis connect on a deep level....so to have their final scene being them lovingly touching each other's neck scars...
PRECISELY the lack of sexual intimacy between them is the direct antithesis to Lestat and his mom. Having no kiss highlights WHY Loustat is so intensely intimate and special, because their connection isn’t about that-especially through Lestat’s eyes.
People criticize the oversexualization of Gabriella and the lack of Loustat sexual activity, but having those opposite each other highlights how Lestat views his relationships!
no but like lestat keeps being drawn to the non-sexual intimacy he shares with louis, with brushing of their hands, the moments of their pinkies touching......................................like that's so hugely important to lestat in a sea of hypersexualization, the fact that he and louis connect on a deep level....so to have their final scene being them lovingly touching each other's neck scars...
You know what, I think some of us moved on too quickly from the idea that TVL was Lestat's POV and all the characters were being filtered through him. People were very quick to remind us all of this when they wanted to deny that Armand and Daniel had a unique bond or that DM was even real at all, but somehow this argument got forgotten along the way.
And there's something I've been reflecting on with regard to this when it comes to Daniel and the argument that he's been flattened.
Now I thought of this when I saw this interview with Jacob:
Now if Lestat's POV is influencing the portrayal of Louis, why wouldn't that be true of other characters, particularly ones that he doesn't really like very much? Why wouldn't he portray Daniel—a two-time Pulitzer prize winner who was always on his ass, pissed him off, and then cut off his head—in a terrible and unsympathetic light? Why wouldn't he portray Daniel—the annoying fledgling of the guy who killed his daughter—as a stroppy teenager who uses Gen Z slang and straight up says that Lestat might be smarter than him (Daniel Molloy would NEVER).
I'm not saying that certain events never happened, because see this post, however what I am saying is that the Lestat filter, if it can colour Louis, then it's going to colour the others.
Lestat uses cringey slang in episode 1, a lot. So is Daniel really the one saying things like "yaoi manther" or did Lestat put those words in his mouth? Is Armand really saying "armends" and "girlies" or is that a Lestatification of all that? Armand mispronounces Amhurst when he emphasises the "H", just like Lestat with Worcester (notably, Daniel corrects Lestat but not Armand). He also says he's going to "lob" Regina's head off when the phrase is actually to "lop" something off. You could even argue that Armand speaking in his French accent and Daniel not questioning it is a part of this (although there could easily be other reasons for this too).
Now none of this explains why they made Daniel say so many offensive things—maybe he's just that much of an evil boomer. And none of this is to say that all the writing is perfect. But I do think that some of the things (particularly language things) that are being written off as OOC are actually like that on purpose.
one thing i think this fandom lacks is the understanding that many things can be true at the same time.
did Armand partake in the ruthless murder of Claudia? absolutely.
did Louis enable the fucked up power dynamics of pimp/sex slave between him and Armand? absolutely.
was Lestat a victim? absolutely.
did he also perpetuate the same cycles of abuse he himself was a victim of? absolutely.
do i wish the season had a different pacing and had more scenes from the TVL book? absolutely.
do i think the season works as a part 1 of 2 of a very long arc? absolutely (and i had soooo much fun watching it).
i have said this a billion times already but i do believe complexity and nuance are the key words here.
with that being said, that's all i'll say about this for now (and for a long time). i want to have fun with this show i cherish so incredibly much.
Guys I think that Raglan at the auction in ep 1 is body switched Lestat.
Scene so good it makes you wish Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson were worse at acting, actually. Watching it is like getting punched in the stomach repeatedly but I can’t stop.
