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starlitsequins

i dont mean to victim blame but why do these vampires keep talking to daniel molloy when they know he's daniel molloy

ffxvcaps

→ Me? Gongaga.

fishalthor

....or?

SAM REID & JACOB ANDERSON IN THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 1.06

#brooo... the way lestat is leaning towards him #and the body language and the way theyre angled....#ouagh

skyrigel

callstoyoulikethewildgeese

We are the dissociation brothers

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Interview with the Vampire ★ The Vampire Lestat 2x04 "I Want You More Than Anything in the World" 3x02 "Toledo"

Inspired by this post, @howmostardently.

cher-horowitz

reticent-vampire

literally

lioncourtz

SAM REID as Lestat de Lioncourt

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.06 | "Montreal"

#no other media has made me feel about lestat the way this show has made me feel #hes just. hes just such a lover. he wants to love and be loved #hes a yearner he represses his trauma hes dramatic he values hard work and talent he loves music #hes petty and dramatic and fucked up and mean and he makes sure the people he values are taken care of #he sings songs of love and regret and puts himself in the shoes of his maker/stalker/abuser #he thinks hes a monster

wyrmicelli

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

snowown

maelancoli

the writers did so fucking well at portraying and deconstructing the over abundant amount that lestat in the text romanticizes his abusers. he calls it the "seduction of magnus" multiple times throughout the vampire chronicles instead of admitting he was preyed upon. when you read the books you have to look between the lines of his flowery prose and avoidance but the show took a corny over the top music video style approach and then slammed it next to a full blown ptsd flashback to make sure the audience did not have a chance to misinterpret or mock anything and i respect them for that

the-august-one

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It should also be noted that this is still Lestat telling his story. So, unreliable, yes, but also not all of it, same as Louis, Claudia, Armand, anyone who is recounting their experiences. I am more inclined to think this is more truthful because while this may make Lestat more sympathetic to the listener, it is still, at the end, a prideful person admitting weakness at the core of themselves ie they have lied to themselves so well they believed it. At least until the body which keeps score can't take the suppression anymore. This is very much my opinion, so, grain of salt.