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[alysmond]

This was given to me by a marquis who was beheaded by a mob 10 years after he gave it to me. Oh. I love it.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022–)

[vamplire]

my daughter was my sister was my throw pillow was my waitress

[sinsegyes]

[x]

[reticent-vampire]

Luke Brandon Field & Eric Bogosian as DANIEL MOLLOY insp. by @bratboymolloy

[verymerrymart]

[rylandsgrace]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.07 I THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 1.03

[queenoftheimps]

I was wondering if Daniel was gonna be royally pissed that Louis never mentioned Armand stalking him over the years, and I think this particularly pointed delivery indicates he definitely is.

[lioncourtz]

Get this into your nappy little head. I hate you! More than anything and anyone I have ever known, more than my dad that left me, more than my auntie that whipped me, more than Bruce that stuck it in me, more than the pack of vamps that seduced and burned me! I hate you to the pit of all things.

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.06 | "Montreal"

[werenotacoupleyesyouare]

I’ll always love Daniel for many reasons but I have to say that his decision to stay by Armand’s side after having heard what he’s capable of and what his love entails is by FAR my favorite thing about him. He saw this terrifying creature proclaiming his love for him, telling him he was stalked for half a century and instead of being freaked out he got greedy. There’s a pull towards darkness, especially Armand’s, in Daniel that is intoxicating to watch. He heard what happened to Louis and Lestat, and when Armand redirected his gaze onto him he didn’t run, he thought finally.

Just look at the way he was already so proud to show his sunburn to Louis and Lestat, saying he’s been “seeing someone” knowing damn well that those two finding out about him and Armand could have endangered their mission. And a lot of it comes from his being a selfish and prideful being who is realizing what an advantage the love of an ancient vampire is. He hasn’t accepted this love yet but he’s already parading it around. No more “Are you companions?” “Yes” “No” or “Does he know about us?” “What is us?”, Daniel will be calling them companions before Armand even gets a chance to say love again.

[e-lizabear]

Jones came to Anderson while the writers were working on the script, asking him what he thought Louis should say to Claudia during the seance. Anderson told him that whatever Louis ended up saying had to be "deeply inappropriate." He continued, "It has to be something that is about him, so that there's a real shift when they both realize that this has to be about her. This is her moment to vent." However, when it came time to film, Anderson wasn't entirely sure how to play it. "I don't know if I should really be revealing this," he laughed. "But I think one of the ugliest traits in a parent is, like, your kids don't really owe you anything. But that doesn't mean that you don't have moments where you're like, 'Do you know how much I do for you? Do you know how much of my life revolves around you?'" In the final version of the scene, he goes down the route of a scorned father, allowing "Daddy Lou" to jump out as Louis informs his daughter of her supposed ungratefulness.

- (x)

[claumandscathedral]

genuinely open to disagreement but delainey’s pained delivery of “bleak… black life” felt like the anti-black insults she was hurling at louis were intentionally loaded with her own grief. especially with her comments that claudias jealous that louis gets to wallow and love and live.

louis gets to be black and desired, cherished and wanted with his whole personhood. louis gets to fuck up, be fucked up, forgive and be forgiven; he gets to be black and a whole person. claudia is disabled into helplessness by her little girl body that seems to keep signalling people to treat her like a boxed doll. its not a coincidence that she gets louis to plot against lestat by telling him he’s a kept thing, telling him he is all the things she experiences. the anger in her voice when she calls louis a slave, it feels situated against the incessant inertia she was always running on because she had no other choice.

in nola, its claudia micromanaging with an eye and ear on everyone. she nurses louis after the drop, she maintains the thread of their plotting. in europe, its claudia learning the languages, claudia keeping up the story, claudia maintaining hypervigillance. she notices the bombs about to blow while louis’ being woeful and hallucinating lestat. louis gets to be lost in lestats eyes; louis gets to dance with humans in romania; louis gets to run around paris ‘out on the streets’ while shrugging off armands warnings. louis gets to be careless, gets to be oblivious, gets to drown in his pain and still be protected and unconditionally loved. what louis couldnt even give her

the blackness claudia navigates her life with is so radically different from louis’ that it makes a lot of sense that she so ardently hates his

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

people need to understand that claudia meant every word she said during the seance but that doesn't mean it was always true. she's had what, 80 some years alone in hell? with nothing to do but fester in her thoughts and anger? she can't even have peace in the afterlife? of course she fucking hates them now! of course she's recontextualized her entire life through the lens of suffering and bitterness and revenge. they BONDED back together over her death!!! that doesn't mean louis and lestat's memories of happy years with her are wrong- she just cannot possibly see them that way anymore. they GET to miss her and mourn her but she can't do that. of COURSE all her good memories are tainted. she hates them that much because she used to love them and it wasn't good enough.

[loving-the-world-since-00]

[theashesofthefirststar]

He didn’t watch the concert. He wrote the concert!

[hvnfvr]

RE: TVL 3x06

the two black lead writers iwtv had 1) didn't work on the same seasons, 2) were men and only one was black american, 3) were always co-writers never sole. we have no idea if they have sensitivity readers/editors.

we've all heard heinous shit from family born in the 40s-60s. claudia was born in 1903. she is gonna say some wild shit to louis bc black ppl say wild shit to each other especially when we're mad. we should not be judging claudia by our 2026 pro-black standards. she is rightfully angry and trying to hurt louis. i say this as someone who's only read excerpts of merrick, they adapted her anger very well from the book seance.

last thing: what if they did have someone (a black woman from the south?) come in add the extra 'umph' and now she's seeing a bunch of black folk call her writing the product of a racist writer's room? the core writers who made this show we all love hasn't changed.

[violet-moonstone]

the amount of pearl clutching and moralizing in the iwtv/tvl fandom I'm seeing is insane

I cannot understand watching a show about violent, immortal beings who kill humans (most of whom enjoy the act) and getting upset when they say or do offensive things that make sense in the context of the show

on claudia's rant:

Claudia is trying to be as hurtful and cruel to louis as possible because she's trapped in some kind of hellish limbo, reliving all her pain and resentment in isolation without actually living. If you were in that situation would you be worried about being politically correct in your tirade against the parents who failed you?

claudia calling louis lestat's slave is in alignment both with the books and previous seasons. Both book and show claudia are disgusted by how willing louis is to follow lestat rather than stand on his own. The added racial element in the show only adds to claudia's resentment towards lestat. Considering the cultural context of seasons 1 and 2 she clearly does not like the idea of being ordered around and threatened by an arrogant white man. Louis' comparative willingness to do so infuriates her. Hence calling louis a slave -- like calling another black person uncle tom or a coon -- it's calling him out for being complicit in lestat suppressing their agency. A less racialized insult might be calling him a bootlicker, or sycophant or something like that, but clearly she wants to drive home the shame she thinks louis should feel at his lack of spine, so she calls him the most hurtful thing she can think of.

I've seen people call out black republican politicians and those who play into respectability politics by drawing parallels between them and a house slave -- a harsh reminder to them that even if they have the veneer of respectability, material comforts, and assimilation, they are ultimately cozying up to people who don't respect them as human beings

claudia calling louis' hair nappy is like...dear god in the grand scheme of things why tf are we getting mad about this? Yes, calling a black person's hair nappy is insulting. Claudia and louis have a shared cultural background and trading insults that are informed by your own experiences with cultural beauty standards and/or discrimination is pretty common. It's a shitty thing to do when it's not meant with affection, but Claudia is trying to be shitty.

So was this this offensive and even problematic? sure! but something being upsetting and having a problematic history associated with it doesn't mean your immediate response should be to condemn it entirely. Media isn't bad or irredeemable just because it makes you feel uncomfortable.

for the record -- I think it is absolutely valid to critcize the show and I have my fair share for this season. But being upset about Claudia's rant specifically just baffles me

[froufoxs]

let him be evillllll