★𝐞𝐥 @ineffablevamp - Tumblr Blog

i think what i love about daniel molloy so much is he's just a fucking freak. all these 100+ year old vampires with insane lives and backstories and daniel is just some guy who's a fucking weirdo who got pulled into it somehow. "i like kissing. And snuggling with dead things, yes, hold me." yeah I'm sure you do freakazoid

whooshsoohw

It's hilarious that Armand and Daniel are each other's manic pixie dream girl if you think about it.

Armand is Daniel's because Daniel is this cynical, emotionally constipated, lonely journalist who's terrified of living an ordinary life, never making his mark on the world, and never truly mattering to anyone. Then he gets completely mesmerized by one scary, deranged vampire. Next thing you know, he's following him around the world, losing his mind, making increasingly questionable life choices, and eventually begging the vampire to turn him so they can become even more codependent for eternity.

But Daniel is also Armand's.

Armand has spent centuries trapped in the same cycles, playing the same roles, living in a prison of his own making. He's bored to death with Louis, feels rejected and unloved, and has pretty much resigned himself to the idea that this is all there is. Then this loud, nosy human shows up. At first Daniel just seems like a harmless source of entertainment and somewhere to dump a few centuries' worth of pent-up rage. Except Daniel refuses to be intimidated, keeps challenging him, and somehow ends up becoming the most interesting thing that's happened to him in decades.

More importantly, Daniel gives Armand something he's spent his entire life looking for and almost never received: warm, sincere, unconditional love. He also brings him joy, freedom, optimism, and a glimpse of a life that isn't defined by fear, performance, or obligation, things Armand has always struggled to find within himself.

The really endearing part is that if you asked either of them to tell the story of their romance, they'd cast themselves as the boring, lonely, helpless one whose life got completely swept away by the most fascinating, powerful, chaotic, irresistible person they'd ever met. They both worship the other while looking down on themselves. They both see themselves as the ordinary one who got caught in the other's orbit, powerless to resist. They're both convinced they were the NPC until the other one showed up and made them the protagonist.

This dynamic and way of seeing each other, however romantic, is also the source of their main conflict because when Daniel begs Armand for the Dark Gift, Armand tragically refuses. Daniel sees Armand as this extraordinary being he desperately wants to become and spend eternity with, but Armand worships Daniel's humanity so much that all he can think is, "No. You're too good. I won't ruin you by turning you into someone like me."

ineffablevamp

dream lesbian relationship dynamic /hj

ineffablevamp

claudia get ready we have a family outing to attend with Louis in 5 hours

no I want you to die lestat fuck offffommmgggggg

ilikedocumentingstuff

how dare you speak to me like that i BIRTHEd you you twat........ cmon lets go put makeup on razza di snaturata vampira pazzoide (just like papa fr)

ilikedocumentingstuff

im foaming at the mouth I NEED someone to make an edit of loustat with Pork Soda IM BEGGING YALL SOMEBODY ANYBODY PLEASEEEEE

ilikedocumentingstuff

"I know I'm no sweet prince of love

Those times that we got drunk

Maybe Jamaica rum

Maybe some Johnny Dub

Maybe you still think of us

Phone buzz, and still I jump

Why don't I say it then?

I want you all the time

Why can't we laugh now like we did then?

How come I see you and ache instead?

How come you only look pleased in bed?

Let's climb the cliff edge and jump again"

DO YOU SEE MY VISION???

claudia get ready we have a family outing to attend with Louis in 5 hours

no I want you to die lestat fuck offffommmgggggg

ignoretendernesses

daniel. daniel wake up ,iwtv season four is official .Daniel

dspectar

Delclaudia hi

hiitspussyhands

Trends I've noticed on Tumblr:

Lestat fans: lestat is actually so forgiving and gentle with all he's gone through he is a literal saint.

Louis fans: the most moral of the vampires, so good and gentle he's a literal mega saint.

Armand fans: my beautiful princess with a disorder he's entitled to be as evil as he wants cos he's a saint.

Daniel enjoyers: yeah fuck that old man

hiitspussyhands

Also, torture that white boy

bifauxnenarmand

helvarcult

does anyone remember the amc show interview with the vampire? one of the greatest things television gave us in its era. heartbreaking that it ended after two seasons when those characters were so beautifully crafted. i really wish we could’ve had more.

virginiaisforvampires

this whole episode is everything but i still cannot get over that whole sequence of the argument, with lestat stress-vomiting (cause that's what it was), the panic attack AND LOUIS HOLDING HIM😭😭😭

i've already watched this scene like 15 times and i cannot get over it, oh my god. lestat's wheezing, the gagging/choking in between, the immediate realization on louis' face when lestat starts to hyperventilate, the constant "it's okay" - my god. MY HEART

i will be screaming about this for the next week i fear. longer. can't even get into the brutal love scene just yet (THAT WAS EVERYTHING😭) cause then this ask would be a dozen paragraphs longer omg.

also a side note but i, personally, have rarely seen a panic attack portrayed so viscerally, so well, so "not prettily", if you get what i mean? it's messy, it's ugly, it hurts to all hell (i have experience unfortunately) and i love love love sam even more than i already do for portraying this like he did.

Yes. I had a....visceral reaction to it, to say the least.

This is the scene certain reviewers watched and still came away acting as if the abuse was "consensual" or "sexy" or "being treated flippantly."

Yeah, fuck right off with that shit.

Lestat has been hiding this for literal centuries. CENTURIES! He is embarrassed. He is ashamed. There is a part of him that feels it's his fault that she does what she does to him. He hid this from Louis, because he was terrified that Louis would be disgusted with him (because he's disgusted with himself) and the moment Louis finds out his worst "failure", Lestat is sick. He starts throwing up and panicking that Louis is going to leave him again.

The first time I watched this? I was begging Louis to please hug him and comfort him. Louis' initial words were diabolical, yes, but he represented an (unfortunately) real reaction to incestuous sexual abuse. People simply don't understand it and look no further than the ghouls in this fandom and how they've spent the last six weeks blaming the abuse on Lestat and mocking him for it.

But Louis, as I've stressed, is trying and when he finally hugged Lestat, I was sobbing and just saying "thank you, Louis!" over and over. Because at the end of the day, that is all Lestat wants and needs. Louis comforting him. Louis just "sitting with him." Remember in Episode 1 when Lestat was injured, and he was begging Gabs to come find him? She asked if he had any "expectations", but Lestat desperately said "No. Nothing. Just sit with me. Please. I need you."

If you notice, when Louis says the abuse is a sickness, that is when Lestat truly breaks. He tells Louis that he never called Louis' suffering a sickness and points out to Louis that he's been taking care of him during the Regina/Claudia madness frenzy. Something, btw, Lestat coins as "unimaginable", which hints at Louis being even more deep into the psychosis spiral than even Lestat has seen before. He starts listing all the things he's "offered" Louis to help him and care for him, because that's what Lestat thinks has to happen for anyone to just "sit with him." There's a part of him that can't really understand why Louis is reacting like this, right? Because he offered Louis something.

But for Louis? Lestat doesn't need to offer him anything. Louis loves him and the moment Lestat starts wheezing and stuttering, it finally clicks for Louis how serious it is and that it is, in fact, sexual abuse and what does Louis do? He immediately apologizes and tries to comfort Lestat and calm him down.

Louis, unlike Gabs, doesn't have any "expectations." He doesn't need Lestat to offer him anything. He doesn't need Lestat to offer his body up as a sacrifice for crumbs of affection.

Louis freely gives it to him out of love and compassion and concern. Louis will just "sit with him" and this entire scene hammers that home.

Also? It's not lost on me that Louis asking Lestat for his blood in the next scene was a poignant moment demonstrating to Lestat that Louis actively desires his blood — the blood in which we were told in Episode 5 is another of Lestat's greatest shames and another point of self-loathing for Lestat.

But Louis? He wants it. He wants Lestat's blood and that statement threaded within the conversation about Lestat unburdening himself to Louis about the sexual abuse? Directly after we learned of Lestat's shame over his blood? It hits. Because Louis wants all of Lestat and accepts all of Lestat.

"It matters to you?"

Louis can't give a verbal straight answer, but his actions speak much louder than any words ever could, because a little over an hour after this? Louis is planning their future together.

Lestat is his fucking baby.

reticent-vampire

And I spend every fucking second of nowhere looking for her. And where is she? Why is she not here with me?

ineffablevamp

GIVE THIS GIRL A BREAK OMFG STOP IT

ourholiestlove

why aren't they talking about the trial!!!!!! we still have no explanation for lestat's presence, whether he went willingly or was somehow forced. this is crazy it's being dragged too long. if he really was forced, the first thing lestat should've done back in paris was to clear that he didn't willingly rehearse his family's lynching. the first thing!!!! if he wasn't forced or coerced in some way, he's an even worse piece of shit i'm sorry

certifiedlurker

incredibly sorry for the black writers and directors of the previous two seasons who thought they were building something. I am so sorry that your work was not respected and now dismissed by this new season. I am so sorry that the love and care with which you crafted the characters, especially of Louis and Claudia was so resented that the current writers' room chose to dilute all. I am so sorry that you are having to see the anti blackness in full force on a formerly black led show and everything you worked on- your vision- it was all wiped off. I am so sorry to Jacob and Delainey for having to work with those scripts.