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i wish the context wasn't so foul so i could thirst in peace. look at him. god fucking bless us all

#no mine OBVIOUSLY #not*#armand #iwtv #iwtv spoilers

you expect me to believe that armand who has said “but am i as boring as the blather committed onto the ferric tapes of your fascinating boy” would say this

#if you say it's lestat's narration so he didn't say this im actually going to kick you in the shins #and actually im gonna kick the writers in the shins even more for locking themselves in this narration #armand #iwtv #iwtv spoilers

lestatscunt

#yeah no im actually gonna kill mysef #loustat #iwtv #iwtv spoilers

reticent-vampire

#dm #framing this honestly #iwtv spoilers

lesmandposting

#no like genuinely #assad

imaslave4u

Kylie Minogue on the set of the “Love At First Sight” music video (June, 2002)

#underrated pop tune

armandanieldaily

Assad Zaman in newly released TVL 3x07 still

#some of the best armand looks #tvl #iwtv #armand

louclaudia

"thank you for loving him, for loving him the way he needs to be loved"

#HE WOULD NOT FUCKING SAY THAT #iwtv #tvl spoilers

powerbottombrucespringsteen

“Who yells?” Is unquestionably the best broad city line i think about it every time someone raises their voice even slightly

#literally who yells

reticent-vampire

#FOR A WHILE #this is insanely good dialogue within one of the worst contexts ive ever seen #armand #iwtv spoilers

i think it's funny and tragic that both the acting and the beauty of the writing are still incredibly strong in IWTV. it's truly such a shame. jacob is a generational talent. sam is possessed. their coupled chemistry could power a small city. assad brings truth to every single line he is given (no matter how baffling). delainey comes on like a hurricane in every scene she's in. eric has better suggestions for daniel than what they're even willing to give him. and the words the writers choose are SO BEAUTIFUL still, when they don't choose to talk about Labubu Swiftie Noob Czechstat Bottom Gamergate Gooning. it's just the pacing, the storylines they choose are INSANE.

The IWTV we knew is still there somewhere.

#iwtv #tvl critical #i guess

writingdose

genuine writers getting wrongly accused of using ai because of witch hunt and proper grammar/structure in their works must be what being a woman in the 1600s who is wrongly accused of being a witch because she can read and is intelligent feels like

#please I'm a star i just use a lot of em dashes

cryptidslair

back on the evil masterplan thing because I can't stop thinking about how it's such a misunderstanding of who armand is that it's genuinely baffling that these are the same people who wrote him in s2.

for some reason they felt the need to retcon everything we've seen of him so far just to drop the underwhelming and overdone plot twist that armand has been lying about everything the whole time.

at some point during his cartoon villain monologue they quickly mention that armand planted the steins just to fuck with louis's head when in s2 the implication was always that he was coddling louis and making sure that he wasn't unhappy so that he wouldn't fucking leave him. the way armand controlled louis was specifically by "protecting his happiness", by keeping him calm and content in his gilded cage. he made himself subservient to louis in order to make him dependant on him. THAT'S how armand manipulates, out of fear, out of his obsession with control. it's something we're never told but that, in its subtlety, makes him so complex and fascinating. so it all gets thrown out the window to me when all we see him do is be evil for the sake of being evil without a genuine attempt at an arc or motivation.

and it's wild because the set up was there. we see him get involved with his AA cult at the beginning of the season and as ridiculous as it seems, it makes perfect sense. armand seeks purpose, he seeks control, he seeks routine, he seeks belonging. so it makes sense that, after watching everything he had built and "protected" for 70 years crumble, he needed to find something else to cling to. and they started heavily hinting at that thing being opposing the great conversion. so why set everything up for it and then not deliver??? why make it about louis instead? WHY NOT MAKE IT ABOUT LESTAT? especially with how little we have seen of their relationship, it could have been the perfect chance to delve into it a bit more and finally fucking do something with the tension that has been bubbling under the surface all season.

also while I'm at it— why the fuck did they make him purposely plant regina for louis to find? if he wanted to torture louis by threatening her life, why not just make it be louis' own doing, why not have him deal with the consequences of his actions for getting an innocent human girl involved in vampire affairs due to his own grief?? it would have been way more compelling and it would have at least tied in with louis's arc too but no, they just HAD to let us know that spooky evil armand has been behind it all along.