[userarmand]

i'm always saying this

[bisexualrozanov]

#girl who is clearly healed and doing okay

[surrenderdorothea]

Of course the way the show handles the past in this season is different than it was in IwtV. Louis wanted to revisit his past - he wanted to reminisce about life with Claudia and Lestat in New Orleans, and he wanted to plumb the depths of his memory to understand who he is in the present. He had questions that only revisiting the past could answer.

Lestat does not want to return to or reminisce about the past. His memories are unwelcome, and what they tell him about who he is and what has made him brings only pain. He does not want to question or to get answers. So he rushes through the past and tries to dull his pain in the frantic hedonism of the present.

[cuntylestat]

And what was this life? The good in me lost at the monastery. My sense of wonder abandoned in a traveling player's wagon. I wanted the wolves to come. Until I didn't.

[sheisraging]

The Vampire Lestat 3x02, Toledo

[trainstationgoodbye]

Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac in THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | 3.02

[cher-horowitz]

"and i have this weird thing that happens where suddenly everyone around me disappears like the rapture's come... and i... you know... i feel him"

[smokefalls]

We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

[lioncourtz]

SAM REID as Lestat de Lioncourt

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.01 | "Detroit"

[byedisaster]

I trust Daniel Molloy (as an interviewer)! If he's repeatedly asking Lestat if he was a stutterer as a child, Daniel is onto something.

And everything else is a type of distraction that Lestat WANTS us to be distracted by.

In previous seasons, Danny Molloy talks about how Louis uses third person "him" or "one" when he's trying to distance himself from his actions. Danny is good at catching this stuff!

Lestat is a master of DISTRACTION. Look at the visual difference in the third season (a naked woman showering in the background of a shot, switching from documentary style to colour, time skips, so much modern slang it's almost hard to understand).

Danny repeatedly throughout the episode asks Lestat if he was a stutterer as a kid. (the repetition also kind of mimicking the act of stuttering). He's hammering him. Don't get distracted! Stay on point (both Danny and us, the viewer)!

And what happens at the end of the episode? Lestat stutters as he sees his mother; and it looks like we're going to start delving into his childhood. That's where the pain is. That's where the story is.

Thank you Daniel Molloy.

[sugarcarnation]

the nicki/louis parallels have only just started and i’m already devastated

[mothprincess]

Mona Awad, from Bunny

[rosieandthemoon]

detail from Annunciation by Jan van Eyck, c. 1434-1436 {full}

[heathersapples]

EMMA D'ARCY for Entertainment Weekly House of The Dragon Season 3

[brutalgrace333]

“Wild Geese”, by Mary Oliver

[daily-men]

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid photographed by Huy Luong for GQ Hype (2026)

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from “Gertrudes asks for advice” in The Complete Stories