"Amor Fati."

Alex, 21+

[thebirthofvnus]

lestat you are ellen hutter

[transvestat]

people have complained left right and center about the amount of flashbacks we got of the auvergne, which is something even i was initially disappointed about, admittedly, but i come to understand more and more that throwing all of the characterization of lestat as someone who doesn't want to remember and dig into what traumatized him in favor of giving some ooc shell of him that does a deep dive on every little thing that traumatized him would've pissed me off even more, because that is simply not lestat this season. unlike louis, who tried to unpack all of his memories down to the minute details precisely to remember what happened to him, lestat already remembers everything. and he hates it. he remembers that he stuttered as a child, he remembers how embarrassing it was to be brought back from the theater, he remembers the monastery, the wolves, and the witches. and he doesn't want to

[zipadeea]

okay it's so interesting though, because throughout season one, any time louis was sad/depressed/lonely/wrapped up in his own world and stopped acknowledging lestat, lestat's reaction was always to buy louis extravagant gifts, find someone else to have meaningless sex with, and ragebait louis until he came out of his shell again.

and now we've got louis: buying 45% of lestat's tour merchandise (and letting him stay at his hotels for free?); having meaningless hot sex with his very attractive lawyer; and saying this in a closed room with their lawyers at a meeting louis planned??? Like, yeah, louis is being very petty and so fun but my boy learned from the best

[hinasho]

I’m confused. What does that post about taking claudia back actually mean? I also thought it was about the train

“I see why you gave him a daughter. I see why you took her back.”

Gabriella isn’t referring to the train scene. She’s referring to the trial. She’s saying that Louis is so beautiful, she could understand Lestat giving him the daughter he wanted, but then growing jealous and angry enough with LouClaudia to kill her and “take her back”.

She’s accusing Lestat of happily letting Claudia die out of jealousy. This is why Lestat gets upset and tries to retaliate by singing in French. And this is why the scene is then cut with flashbacks of Gabriella happily killing one of her own children. She is, once again, projecting herself onto Lestat and believing he’d do the same with ease.

[softest-beigest-pillows]

Listen to me now, and listen well, my infant death.

[immyownkindofcowboy]

Armand immediately dipping out after making Daniel like the dad who went to go get milk and Lestat and Louis having to step in and gentle parent this 80-year-old fledgling… they’re not his makers they’re the makers who stepped up

[bisexualrozanov]

mother knows best how to hit where it hurts the most

[sandushengshou]

The Vampire Lestat 3.02 | Inteview with the Vampire 1.05

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015) The Vampire Lestat (2026)

[eagna-eilis]

One thing i am fascinated by with TV!TVL so far is that it uses form to construct meaning in a way that I don't really associate with television.

In 'Detroit' the editing is frenetic and psychadellic, and the storytelling is sort of flippant. Lestat is putting on a mask, he's high as a kite, and he's deflecting.

In 'Toledo', the flashbacks are short because Lestat doesn't want to dwell on the past. A sort of calm and relief descends upon the viewer when Louis is onscreen not just because we all love Louis and feel comfortable with him and his voice but because Lestat loves him and takes solace in him.

The form tells us something in this very explicit way. The language in S1-S2 is highly literary, so gorgeous and prose-like and mesmirising. The FORM here is so literary.

[gracerings]

iwtv continues to be so smart in its portrayal of memories and trauma, the way lestat’s memories of his family are so obnoxiously loud, everyone’s screaming all the time for no reason and everyone’s acting like caricatures, like an actual assault on the senses, as if lestat’s mind is filled with unbearable noise every time he thinks about them. lestat’s memories coming at him all fragmented and loud and violent, attacking him and beating him into submission as he desperately tries to escape them is such an interesting contrast to how louis would carefully weave a thread of his past pretending the glaring holes in it weren’t there

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.01 | "Detroit"

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.02 | "Toledo"

[littlegirlinvisible]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 3.02: Toledo TVLTwT/IWTVTwT Version.

The Vampire Lestat is now streaming on AMC+. If you have the chance, please support the show by tuning in on the official platforms. Every view counts! 

[hazeldomain]

If you can’t think of anything to say about a fic, writers also like to know:

- what time it is

- how long you’ve been reading

- how many chapters you’ve covered in the last 24 hours

- what you were late for because you were reading

- the woeful few hours you have left to sleep

- the emotional outbreaks you’re experiencing

- the inappropriate place you’re having said outbreak

- the general public’s reaction to your outbreak

- how much phone battery you have left

[secretstudentdragonblog]

…is this sarcasm, or?

[hazeldomain]

No this is completely legit. One of my favorite reviews to a chapter goes “I finished this with 5% battery and now I am crying in Target HOW DARE YOU”

[jemariel]

Can confirm. Not sarcasm.

I think this relates to the fact that fic writers are generally fic readers too. If you tell me “I loved this and that and the other thing” I will be very flattered. But if you tell me “It’s 2:30 am and I have to be up at 7 but I’m still reading” I know EXACTLY where you are, emotionally, because I’ve been there too. Knowing that I’ve put you in that place is

[theelastword]

imagine being so sickeningly in love with somebody that you hallucinate twirling them around on the night they quite literally tried to kill you and you STILL look visibly disgusted when you realize that that was just a memory and you are not, in fact, currently holding them. lestat you are never beating the Down Bad allegations

[i-know-the-enddc]

what I fucking love is how tvl was written in the 80s and lestat is constantly sayinf shit like “as the kids say 🤪 that’s so rad!!” or whatever, and to me, reader of the vampire lestat in this modern age, that does NOT register the way anne rice intended it.

like it is supposed to feel jarring and insane. it is supposed to feel like lestat has been violently submerged in modern young people trends and culture and is now repeating all the new words he learned like a beautiful fresh baby. but because the book is from 1985, all I think is oh interesting huh I didn’t know that slang term even originated in the 80s how vintage how retro how lestat wow he’s so embarrassing aw aw so cute.

but amc in all their incredible genius decided that honoring anne rice’s original vision of writing an extremely modern and weird book that fully embodied the era it was written in was more important then bringing back the 80s nostalgia thing that streaming services love and it’s incredible to me. now I get to listen to lestat say shit like “labubu FOMO cosplay reddit discord Gen Z more like gen SNOOZE 🤪🤪🤪 safe space pronouns donald trump labubu tiktok dance 🕺🏻” and suddenly I understand what it felt like to be a young anne rice reader in 1985. God…. I understand.

[humanveil]

I miss you. Come to me. It's been too long... I need you. I'm struggling.