drvnk on shadows

krill, they/them, autistic | Hannibal @krillgraham | art @fright-designs | but it is a thin veil and i’m always on the other side, face pressed up against your longing

[arekadians]

“Graves unearthed in the quiet cemeteries of the heart. Dead tragedies, vampiric exhumations…finalities, leave-taking, endless grief. And in the darkness, a last tomb opened to reveal the only impossible thing: our blood-soaked love—so bright it flung outward like copper constellations—a conflagration that burned forever, leaving empty universes in its wake.”

[rrcenic]

little almond 🤤

[lioncourtz]

Lover Boy Louis

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.06 | "Montreal"

[the-breath-in-air]

I love how we get to see a version of Louis here that's like...oh okay, now I get why Lestat fell in love with him. There's real joy there. There's some swagger. There's real emotion amd connection and pleasure.

[whichcouldmeanothing]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 3x04 "The Devil's Road"

[midnightchapter]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | THE VAMPIRE LESTAT — 1.07 “The Thing Lay Still” — 3.07 “The Failures”

[lestatdelioncuort]

A second thought save them all from my provoked rage...Where is Louis?

[therozanov]

Even now, still thinking about him.

[hes-brad]

I don’t understand the flattening out of Louis’ character. Surely if it’s due to a pov shift that makes it even worse. The redeeming factor of lestat and louis’ relationship was that lestat saw all these beautiful things in him and didn’t want him to conform to roles. Now we have lestat pov dumbing down Louis’ vocabulary and making his prevailing trait “business” to the extent that we don’t see him reading, storytelling, designing, pondering art and artistic movements, taking photographs, making literary criticism, dancing, enjoying music, experimenting with fashion, philosophising, poeticising, crying at opera, romanticising or any of those things, just being fucked up about grief and making money. Is the idea that Louis is once more trapped inside the racialised/gendered/heteronormative roles that he played when lestat first met him? Or has the series abandoned Louis’ complexity in favour of creating a redeemable lestat. The irony is that despite lestat’s inability to see the ways that race and sexuality factored into Louis’ difficulty with being authentic, lestat’s redeeming feature in s1 was his attention and care to the multifaceted dimensions of Louis’ personality. Louis fell for him because he felt seen. Why does tvl lestat not see Louis?

[rocktheholygrail]

[lestateur]

princess of the universe

[lilacs-in-the-wind]

The showrunners chose to make Louis and Claudia black and experience life in the Jim crow era. They chose to do the full race swap in season 1, not just making the characters but also the story black. They chose to racialize the violence that both Louis and Claudia face throughout the first season. No one was forcing their hands and they got praised for the stuff they did in the first two seasons, for bringing in the added nuance of systemic racism. So why should I as an audience member of colour give them any grace when they choose to write dialogues containing numerous racialized and gendered micro aggressions not just towards Louis or Claudia but also towards minor characters like Dee or Lemuel who weren't supposed to exist as they are (black) in the show?? Why is Daniel (a white man) who is supposed to be a Pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist who was lecturing Louis on his own story about the racism he faced referring to him as a "bucket of Louisiana fried chicken"?? Why is Armand textually belittled for being a CSA victim while Lestat is endlessly provided with grace and understanding in the text of the show for his victimhood?? Who thought it was alright to adapt a scene from the books involving white characters talking about parental betrayal and insert racially charged dialogues (that too old school racist shit not even the n word) when it was unnecessary to preserve the nuance of the scene?? Why is this show denying the racialized nature of domestic violence that they chose to portray in S1 ??? (Lestat getting mildly annoyed that Louis didn't enjoy going to the operas in nola when he had to act as Lestat's servant to be allowed in tf??) Why is Gabriella like that??

I cannot help but look at this season of the show as a sign of the times tbh. IWTV aired during a very liberal era of entertainment and now that fascism and white supremacy are on the rise everywhere white entertainers have become comfortable enough to fall back into old habits. Never thought this show in particular would have this problem when I watched the first season but it is what it is I guess

[vertiska]

OK YEAH I WAS KINDA DEAD BUT... it's artfight aaaaand I got into Uni so hurray me

And I watched IWTV and TVL and it got me out of doomscrolling so I drew Lestat

[endiness]

I have flat out refused to drink anything other than blood for three seasons of Interview With the Vampire. But Rolin Jones is adamant that the vampires drink regular drinks and eat regular food. And I've been like, this is so dumb, I don't understand why we do this.

[youmustdotime]

that finale was shit. this show is ran by white supremacists. armand brands louis like he’s a fucking slave and carves an A(HIS INITIAL)in his chest. armand tortures louis’ dying body while lestat’s body is left alone. louis gets a painful victim-blaming apology forced outta him through torture and lestat gets a hallucination dinner. regina was used as a pawn by armand to torture louis with claudia’s face and lead him to breaking down. regina is forced to slit her wrists and watch a man slit his throat while shes tied to a chair across louis’ decapitated head. but armand is given a heartfelt apology from the black person he’s actively torturing and killing. oh and also lou’s torture is broadcasted and livedtreamed in a dark web snuffporn chatroom for random people to watch. how is this not the trial all over again??? armand’s “i took aesthetic pleasure in making your death visually exhilarating.” (an actual line from the show referencing why armand lynched louclaudia) all over again. this season and episode is horrifically racist. idk how i ever thought this show cared about black people.

[tv-kiki]

with few exceptions we have only seen black characters graphically get brutalized. they had closeups of louis’s body and face after lestat tried to murder him showing the extent of what was done, we saw just how burned and disfigured he was after her suicide attempt, claudia’s death is one of the most graphic i’ve seen on any tv show, we got closeups of their ankles slashed and shots of louis being kicked in the head and claudia being shoved into a box of live rats by the coven members. the majority of louis’s scenes in episode 7 were of his decapitated head on a pike, forced to look at his body as it flailed, begging to die, forced to apologize in something so close to a saw trap that it was bordering on copyright infringement while being painted as cruel and deserving of the abuse and then branded by armand.

we didn’t see any shots of lestat’s head in the bowling bag. we saw him burn, but it was portrayed as comical. we did not see bruce as he died, we did not see lestat get torn up by the wolves, we did not watch nicki die. in the majority of the scenes where a white character is injured, the action is cut away, out of frame, out of focus, mostly implied.

the extent of what we saw of the brutality of black characters now feels almost fetishistic. at the end of episode 105, lestat is floating in the air looking dreamy and louis is beaten to a pulp on the ground; episode 207, lestat is put together in a suit with his hair done and louis and claudia have been severely beaten. like, after this season, the rest of the show just looks weird.

[raisinchallah]

retconning lestat threatening claudia on the train is like well this really does feel like the point of no return that any plot point that makes lestat look bad can just be washed away if they so choose and the pattern of just completely undermining entire defining character arcs and relationships that were the bedrock of previous seasons for nothing let alone in substance and content that we are now saying claudia was lying about her abuse to manipulate louis who she didnt even love like its so ghastly the racism and misogyny of this season are completely out of control and god the more i think about it the more deranged it makes me like this is what we are doing to the show

[hollowwaveremnant]

Assad new BTS from the new After Dark episode