death first to vultures and scavengers

book sideblog | she/her | 25 | mostly tlt, trc, iwtv, aftg

[laceyss]

Fake Armand hater!! 👆 I caught you feeling bad when he gets publically bullied by Lestat

[alixirdevida]

dont burn alone

[dustisus]

the trifecta

[rylandsgrace]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.07 I THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 1.03

[nicolodigenovas]

thinking about magnus' 'ghost' and gabrielle leaving as lestat sings, but nicki's ghost staying and smiling as lestat uses his art as the only real way through his feelings (vs 'when are you going to make an album [of all your songs]?' taunt of magnus from before), lestat singing 'don't burn alone' and smiling back for a second.... the only way is through (art)!!!

[nicolodigenovas]

thinking about magnus' 'ghost' and gabrielle leaving as lestat sings, but nicki's ghost staying and smiling as lestat uses his art as the only real way through his feelings (vs 'when are you going to make an album [of all your songs]?' taunt of magnus from before), lestat singing 'don't burn alone' and smiling back for a second.... the only way is through (art)!!!

[sunnnpoisoned]

the parallel between louis killing the theatre des vampires & singling out santiago at the end and then louis killing the fang gang & leaving bruce for last ... absolutely gutting. like, both instances, it starts off w this almost comedic mission: louis meowing at the dead cat as he's drawing up the plans to kill the coven, louis taunting santiago as he waits for him, louis going through the house and killing all of the coven members w/o even blinking. but after he's done the deed, after he's killed santiago, after he's killed bruce, there's no feeling of satisfaction. he said it himself in s2ep8: "and all my rage and madness exited my body. and nothing replaced it." nothing will bring her back. this isn't even really about claudia, i'd argue, it's just about chasing this mirage of closure

[alsoknownasallison]

thinking many MANY thoughts about how the narrative seems to position daniel's quest for "objective truth" (and therefore symbolically society's need for facts not feelings) as monsterous and not as virtuous as daniel himself previously believed.....

..."your sources are your sherpas" "your editor is your priest" "honesty is not a tactic" ...hm.

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

Louis owning half of Lestat's merch sales, opening up a hotel specifically to invite Lestat to the grand opening Knowing it will be trashed somehow just so he can force Lestat to talk to him in civil court, insisting on a "fan experience" to make up for the property damage (the lawyer literally said "yes you have to fuck him if you want him to drop the lawsuit"), using the meeting to try and force Lestat to talk about their relationship problems, and then going to the concert just to look uninterested the entire time.....he is in fact a beautiful unwell!

[clerkrard]

going to start saying "it's ok i have the blood of akasha in me" when faced with any kind of problem at all

[stedeybon]

"I see why you gave him a daughter" is a line I'll need to sit with for 3-5 working days

[therealrichardpapen]

Daniel: I feel like everything is melting away and I suddenly feel him. Has that ever happened to you with your maker?

Louis: No. Never. *the whole season 2 is about Louis dissociating and hallucinating Lestat*

[deadbeatmaker]

Now that we are getting Lestat as a narrator in the show I’m thinking about how Armand described the way Lestat tells his own stories bc it’s funny

“[…] he would appear sooner or later and tell us some fantastical yarn. It would be regular Lestat talk, for nobody aggrandizes as he does his preposterous adventures. This is not to say that he hasn’t [done the things he claims] I know that he did. […] But it’s the way he describes things that happen to him that maddens me, the way he connects one incident to another as though all these random and grisly occurrences were in fact links in some significant chain. They are not. They are capers. And he knows it. But he must make a gutter theatrical out of stubbing his toe.

The James Bond of the Vampires, the Sam Spade of his own pages! A rock singer wailing on a mortal stage for all of two hours […].

He has a knack for making tragedy of tribulation, and forgiving himself for anything and everything in every confessional paragraph he pens.”

[420technoblazeit]

louis' narration: it was dusk. the smell of petrichor still lingered in the air, greeting me as i woke and pondered my new existence as a vampire, a creature of the night. as the sun set and gave way to new darkness, so too had something awakened in me, a bloodlust that could not be sated. was i now man or monster? or something in between, a perversion of even the natural order in which all other beings reside?

lestat's narration: yeah so i drained someone at my concert and almost overdosed on LSD and MDMA but that's just another tuesday amirite? so i fucked her in the elevator and killed a bunch of vampires with daniel (ugh, i hate him though what a loser 🙄) i wish louis still loved me

[m-au3-blog]

Two bitches telling each other

“I don’t have trauma”

[elldritch-horror]

I find it very telling that Tamsyn Muir, who came up through this hellsite, wrote books where the evil emperor starts out as a basically okay leftist millennial tumblr user.

What makes the villain the villain (inasmuch as it's useful to examine TLT characters through that kind of simplistic lens) is that when the chips are down and he has to choose, his priority is punishing the wicked, not saving the people left behind.

I would invite anyone whose engagement with their cause consists of finding the 'correct' group of people to hate, to consider whether 'evil emperor' is the next career move you see yourself taking, and if it isn't, to gently suggest disembarking from the hate train.

Because no one wants their God King to be a tumblrina called John.

[griddles-bone-soup]

If I could directly implant this understanding into the brain of every TLT fan, by jod I would

[battleaxepixie]