[cherriestat]

[endiness]

Did you ever love someone who didn't love you back? I know you know who I'm talking about.

[morganlefaes]

"I leant forward and kissed the blood on her open lips."

or, book accurate gabrielle and lestat

[endiness]

[endiness]

the vampire lestat // your biggest fan

bonus (ttotb):

[bwvampires]

Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT debuts June 7 on AMC and AMC+

[irisbleufic]

Hello :) just to clarify, the other screeners on here weren't exactly saying the show was making fun of queer/gnc people via Lestat, but rather they were specifically making fun of fans who view *Lestat* as gnc - at least that's how I took it. It was implied that this particular faction of fans were being directly addressed by the show in a way that pokes fun at them for seeing him this way. Did you get that impression, or does your previous answer still apply? I'd love a second opinion on this because I'm wondering if this could also be a matter of perspective, or if it really is as direct as these other blogs are implying. Also I just want to echo everyone else and thank you for answering people so nicely, and I of course understand if you can't answer this!

Thank you so much for the clarification. However, even now that I reconsider through the lens of this refinement, I don't think that my answer changes a great deal, because I still don't really see how either Lestat, as he stands in this season, or the writing of the show more generally, could possibly represent a mockery of fans who choose to read him that way. He wears whatever the hell he feels like onstage and off (this has been visible in publicity shots), and we already know that his sexuality's fluid and that he isn't preoccupied with labels. It would follow, to me, that he probably doesn't give all that many fucks about how people perceive his gender presentation from moment to moment, either (in short, I find him to be far too independent-minded and admirable on that front to be intended as any kind of mockery). Speaking as a GNC member of the queer community, both he and the tone of the show in general just don't feel like tools of mockery to me (and, again, YMMV: just because I don't feel that way doesn't mean there won't be people who feel that way once they've seen the season for themselves, perhaps). Nonetheless, I still think it's cruel that people who have gotten a taste of the season are making pronouncements about Lestat that make others in this fandom, who have not seen any of the season yet, feel bad about their headcanons. I feel like it should be common sense that it's not kind to do that.

[irisbleufic]

Here’s a brief comment on asks seeking broad commentary on individual actors’ S3 performances:

So, real talk—I have had about 40 to 50 asks at this point falling into the category of “How is [W, X, Y, or Z actor’s] performance this season?” I’ve been asked this about nearly every principal and secondary cast member at this stage, some of them multiple times. This is another category of ask that I’ve spent a week tallying and not answering individually because I had the feeling that a blanket answer would serve best. There is not a single actor in this cast that isn’t giving it their all. I mean that. You’re seeing everyone at the top of their game in the screen-time they’ve been given. This isn’t a show where people phone in performances. And if someone is especially fantastic in your estimation, then I’d say you can expect to feel that way about what you see them doing onscreen. I’m not performing positivity here to be disingenuous; I am astounded at what the team has collectively achieved with this season. They’ve pushed themselves to their creative and emotional limits, and it shows.

[hallucinatinghalos]

"Every time I stumbled and fell, something in me hardened, became worse. By the time I reached the castle gates; I think I was not Lestat. I was someone else altogether." - Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat

[jaypentaghast]

"The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice & AMC's The Vampire Lestat (2026), The Vampire Lestat Extended Look | Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt

[userarmand]

likely place for armand to be

[itsays]

no i dont think women starving themselves and reconstructing their entire faces with makeup and plastic surgery is feminism and female empowerment

[irisbleufic]

Hi, you don’t have to answer this question, but there are folks who claim to have screeners that are saying Lestat makes fun of and puts down queer and gnc fans via jabs from the writers room and becomes very toxic and masculine. Did you get this impression while watching? I was excited for the season but now I’m a little stressed.

Anon, I should say two things before I answer your question: one, I'm a nonbinary intersex person who uses they/them pronouns; and two, I do understand quite well that this is a YMMV situation and that no two queer/GNC people are guaranteed to feel the same about it. However, I've just come out of watching these episodes twice through in about seventy-two hours as I'm taking notes toward writing a review for publication, and I haven't once gotten the sense I'm being mocked in the way you're describing. I don't feel like there are any other parts of it in which the writers' room are having a go at me for any of my other fannish proclivities with regard to this show, either. I feel like it's still being made with love for both the source material and for the fanbase, especially the queer fanbase. Now, I'm not going to call AMC's broader collective efforts around this show perfect, as the publicity team still has a long way to go around addressing its ongoing exclusion of certain cast members (that's the topic of another post on this blog and on many other blogs).

Unfortunately, I can't help but feel that whoever's saying this is trying their level best to sow discontentment in the fandom. I've been hearing about a lot of mean-spirited behavior elsewhere on tumblr, and if this is what some of it looks like, then I'm even more disappointed. I'm sorry that you've been experiencing significant stress because of it.

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

David Leventi - Opera: Curtain, Palais Garnier, Paris, France (2009)

[mapofthedreams]

can't wait to see what he's up to.

[lioncourtz]

Everything dies. You die. I die. She dies.

[bergamoth]

the stars and the fools

･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ.