Hate-watching AMC’s IWTV @lestatmorelikeletsnot - Tumblr Blog

okay so the thing about iwtv 1976 is (and i’ve made and deleted this post already tonight): if louis and lestat were a heterosexual couple there would be no question whatsoever about the nature of their relationship within the novel. what they have going on in the book is so barely even subtext. they don’t have penetrative intercourse on the page because it’s a gothic horror novel written in 1976, when homosexual sex acts were still largely very illegal throughout most of the country, and that’s also Not The Point of the story. but they Are explicitly a gay couple within the book. it’s just show not tell.

nasnyys

also: they have lesbian sex on page instead

#book loustat my beloved

tammyywolff

greelin

if i were a vampire i would do many things. but getting interviewed is not one of them

copperfurredfox

you can love someone and still murder them in cold blood without remorse btw!!! the two are not mutually exclusive and to suggest otherwise is a very heteronormative point of view!!!!

20thcenturywomen2016

I’m a lover by nature except for when I’m a wretched hater cunt bitch which I also am by nature

#lestat

missfreija

lestat is SO dumb because in iwtv he could have easily hypnotize/use the mind control on louis and force him to give to lestat all the seven properties louis owned in louisiana lol

ladyvampir3

Lestat & Louis

#book loustat my beloved

agdistis-sanctified

I don't think people acknowledge enough that The Tale of the Body Thief is THE peak form of Loustat tension. In terms of Louis and Lestat drama, it is THE most delicious book:

❧ Lestat being least able to tell Louis about his suicide plan or any of his feelings leading up to it, being least able to tell Louis goodbye, knowing despite what he tells himself that this will hurt him.

❧ Lestat, post-failed suicide attempt, telling Louis about this thing that is so, so important to him, this deeply heartbreaking dream that he could be human again or at least have some taste of it, some small taste of what he was before he was stolen from his old life and body, just for Louis, upset about the suicide attempt confession Lestat just casually glossed over and about the danger Lestat's little fantasy is about to put him in, snaps that Lestat is a monster and has always been a monster. He can't change himself into a human, that's moronic, and being human wouldn't make him any better. On some level he means this, but on a more significant level, he is terrified of losing Lestat and this is the only way he knows how to communicate it.

❧ Louis, once Lestat does successfully manage to enter a human body, then refusing to turn him back, because Lestat did it! He achieved the one thing any vampire would do anything for! Lestat feeling abandoned because Louis won't help him (it's like Louis is killing him again, while he is literally crawling over him and begging). Louis being willing to face the horrifying prospect of an eternity alone to give Lestat this chance to be free, really free, to give him a second chance to live and love as a human the way he was meant to and then to belong to whatever Heaven humans might go to when they die. Louis wanting this for Lestat so bad, at his own expense, and even if Lestat doesn't understand in this moment.

❧ The conversation in the chapel once Lestat has gotten back to his own body, Louis admitting that it always hurts him when Lestat leaves him to do dumb, dangerous things. The fact that they still can't quite speak openly to each other, because they are mutually bad at communication and somehow make each other even worse at it, but can't help but talk and cling onto each other anyway.