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unrepentant queer 🇵🇷 TVL SPOILERS EVERYWHERE

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the way most of this fandom is allergic to having normal discussions about the season with valid critiques like why does everyone have to feel one way or another “if you liked it then you’re stupid and racist” “if you don’t like it then you’re illiterate and ungrateful” maybe just maybe people can have multiple opinions on the season

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just saw someone say armand was forcing fareed to be there like that man wasn’t SALIVATING at the opportunity to run his experiments

[ahmed-motaz]

Two years ago, the occupation destroyed our home, turning our dreams, memories, and everything we owned into piles of rubble and ash, as seen in this picture.

[yaoiblackmold]

I hate this line SO bad, like Daniel would never fucking say that, EVER! #NotMyDaniel Why do they want to make Daniel dumber to prop up Lestat so bad, like fuck that, there is no "MAYBE" about him being smarter than Daniel, he ISN'T.

[lexdelioncourt]

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. 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.

[spicyvampire]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE : THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (2026-) 3.07 "The Failures"

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Feeling very Daniel Molloy the way this infusion is making me sleepy as hell

[jubigiuu]

My attempts at drawing devil's minion

They drive me crazy

[yaoiblackmold]

"I have the blood of Akasha in me", needs a 2 year old baby vamp to help him fight the fang gang, can't walk in the sun (nepofledgling Daniel can), gets decapitated by that same baby vampire. Girl what does the blood of Akasha do for you exactly?

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I caved and got the 2x05 sweater…

[ryebreadgf]

once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out

[mommys-boy-lestat]

RIP Nicholas de Lenfent, you would’ve loved modern day antipsychotics and mood stabilizers ❤️

[menageriee]

very fun to have not seen tvl yet because half my feed is this with no context:

[baker-chan-senpai]

he may be an unredeemable psychopath but he's just so so so pretty

[collegeboysam]

I know people don't like when Assad says devil's minion is doomed but i think that's incredibly in character of him 😭 the one thing Armand is always tortured by in his relationship with Daniel is that he's convinced it's doomed: he either leaves Daniel as a human and he dies eventually or he does the one thing he despises most and turns Daniel and he ends being hated for it. Neither option gives Armand what he wants most: Daniel by his side forever. And in the books they very much fall apart just as Armand feared, but they also eventually come back together, just like many other main relationships do in the series do. Vampiric bonds are already fucked up and that gets ten times more complicated when the maker and fledgling are in love. They're basically meant to fall apart and then get back together because that same love is strong enough to both create and destroy in equal measure, probably for all eternity.

[ihavethebloodofakashainme]

if they ever showed baby almond like babystat... entire cities would burn