we can´t call it the enterprise

Auf welcher Realitätsebene befinden wir uns gerade?

[mymycorrhizae]

Armand looking gorgeous in the finale

[mymycorrhizae]

Armand's companion.

[sillystigmata]

Armand de Healer. He’s so kind.

[sillystigmata]

Oh they’re gonna get freaky.

[reticent-vampire]

It’s crazy that their answers at the end of the season are as vague as their mid-season answers. They weren’t protecting spoilers they just had nothing but guesses.

eric kept throwing around the bowling thing during promo and we were like "oh they're cooking something he can't spill." turns out he kept saying that because that's all he does. bowling.

[yaoiblackmold]

ERIC!!!! ASSAD!!!!

[fascinationstreetmp3]

Assad Zaman as Armand Interview with the Vampire — 3.07

[reticent-vampire]

Jacob and Sam asking Assad why Armand did things and Assad going ‘ask Rolin and Hannah’ 😶

assad you king

[reticent-vampire]

it gets better

[louclaudia]

He gave me the gift rather than tell me he love me.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | THE VAMPIRE LESTAT - 3.07 "The Failures"

[nextchapter]

louis to lestat: please help me i know i didn't call when you were shot but i really need to know if this girl i've been paying to roleplay our dead daughter is actually her meanwhile armand to daniel: would u ever want to hang out like socially

[starlitsequins]

they want to fuck on screen so bad please let them

[chaoticharvest]

[venelice]

I may be alone in this, but — I kinda get where she's coming from?

The Loumand story we always tell is: Armand is the manipulator, Louis is the victim. Armand who directed the play and messed with Louis' memories. And yeah, all of that happened, I'm not denying it. But underneath the manipulation there's another layer we kind of skip right over: Armand was the one who loved Louis. Louis never could - that's what he was admitting. He didn't love Armand, not the way he loved Lestat, not really at all. And yet he didn't leave Armand, and made sure that Armand wouldn't leave him.

In Paris, Louis stayed with Armand for what Armand gave him - the freedom to do whatever he wanted without the coven coming for him, protection, someone to put in Lestat's place. Armand stayed because he actually wanted Louis, wanted something real with him. That's not symmetry. That's Armand exposing himself in front of his coven (are you companions? yes, lol no) and Louis just using the shelter he got out of it. And the whole time Louis was somewhere else entirely - Lestat still living in his head, the ghost that never left, the one he kept reaching for anyway. It still wrecks me that the man who hadn't been painted in 500 years thought he was finally being photographed - while Louis was just trying to catch Lestat on film.

And after the Trial (and trust me, I could say a LOT about Armand's motivations during the Trial) the two of them just... tie themselves together. A loveless thing that was never about love in the first place - it was Armand trying to make it up to Louis for 70 years knowing it would never be enough. While Louis hated every second of it. Even Lestat knew Armand would be tortured by the whole situation. And still, Louis was his entire world, and without him Armand had nobody at all.

None of this makes Armand's manipulations and torture okay, to be clear. But "manipulator vs. victim" is such a kids' version of what these two actually were to each other. They were two profoundly damaged people who hurt each other in completely different ways, but who hurt eachother nonetheless.

[miraculan-draws]

costume/cinematography, Armand

AnOTHER THING about how they dress Armand so deliberately: Fake Rashid wearing open necked deep cuts to give the Intentional Illusion of Submission vs Armand wearing open necks because he's the baddest bitch vamp in every room he's in—therefore when he's wearing a high neck it's plain that he's being secretive/avoidant/guarded. We knew that part, Carol did tell us that.

BUT ALSO, now that we've seen him out and about more,, he's in a headspace closer to Children of Darkness

Armand dresses in vERY loose-fitting clothing, (polished! intentional! very trendy in menswear right now, so it never looks sloppy. reminds me of "mode" street fashion in japan--where disguising or changing the silhouette is the whole point) in very muted colors that almost intentionally do nothing for him. Even black looks too bold on him—we get these charcoal grays and army greens and dull navy hues that don't do anything for his coloration, as though he is hiding and trying to melt into the background.

But the thing is, they could put him in a burlap sack and he'd look phenomenal. and THAT!! feels like the point.

"Armand's ability to seduce was almost entirely outside his control" or thereabouts quote

He is so lovely that he CAN'T melt into the background without literal supernatural aid. All it does is make his face stand out like a framed cameo, like all the warmth in an entire shot might be from his face and his eyes alone, which then draws the onlookers gaze DIRECTLY TO HIM.

(Compare this to Paris in the 40s, where he dressed VERY fashionably and with a lot more color variance--even with a few accessories that drew attention to his eyes. He was peacocking! He wanted Louis to see and notice him.)

(Then shoot to 1973--the entire episode is shot in this hazy green/gold fog, which we have been told in previous seasons are meant to be Louis' colors. Even Armand is DRESSED in Louis' colors. But what stands out to the viewer (Daniel sharing our POV) is what DOESN'T blend in--Armand's eyes, looking directly into the camera. The "rest" scene, they've changed the temperature of the lighting to match.)

[whatthebleep]

Jean Moreau and Jeremy Knox's Healing Journeys: A Graph

[goldengirlssaywhat]

📺 The Golden Girls (1989)

[userarmand]

Put your camera away, my American friend. Be one with us.