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Header image: San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds via IG@dailyoverview; hyperfixtations: meta head canons Vampire Chronicles extended universe (VCU); other nonsense, 18+

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I know we already have a in-show joke about how iwtv reads like a telenovela but if you think about it it also has all the elements of a desi soap/Indian TV drama

Saas-Bahu (mother-in-law/ sister-in-law) beef

Nand -Bhabi (Sister in laws) beef

Extended family that tries to kill you

Lovestruck hero who's torn between two girls

Dysfunctional arranged marriage

That one phuppo (auntie)

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Rolin Jones trailer:Gabriella de Lioncourt and her son

All of this is below a cut -- mind the tags.

What is she doing on that chaise lounge?

Hey son, I'm dying...

"My maker called for his mama,...

"..and I came...

"...and I came..."

"and I came..."

This is Gabriella getting a meal. Or reenacting Judith Slaying Holofernes from below. Artemisia Gentileschi, 1593, Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Rolin Jones, you just edited two lines with some repetition together didn't you?

Bolero works pretty well and horrifyingly here to go with Gabriella acting like this is steamy Habsburg-Game of Thrones-action via her fantasizing. I don't know how Mayfair Witches is going to crossover (Blood Canticle has a Rowan-Lestat romance) but none of the women seem to be enjoying Witch CRISPR... process in the books or the show at all, let alone three times in a row.

Gabrielle in the books, paraphrased: "Hello my son, get out of your room. Let me tell you about how giving birth so many times is isolating. And also I am terminally ill with tuberculosis the coughing blood disease and my revenge fantasy isn't murdering the entire family it's this proto gangbang scenario":

Daniel Molloy: "A woman in the mold of [my] mother.... [My] wife counting down [my] thrusts..."was part of Armand's KYS It Doesn't Get Better speech in 1973 to me. The Rice A Roni montage was horrific, thanks for asking.

Daniel was not nearly this isolated or long dead or somehow in a Greek play (Oedipus Rex) to think about doing his mom.

In Oedipus and Jocasta's defense neither of them realized they were child parent because Oedipus was abandoned on a mountaintop because of a prophecy he'd kill his father and marry his mother -- oh. Westermarck effect not in effect at all with Lestat and his momma.

Louis is reconsidering his life choices. "Are you hitting the same vagina you spent the first nine months of your mortal life in?"

Very Freudian way of putting this. Also very Catholic "life begins at conception."

Instead of answering "No" or "Yes." Lestat decides to give Louis a female anatomy lesson but before he can explain how fingering for vampires isn't a thing for him and his mother or what a clitoris is or "but actually technically" of the rest of that, Louis decides to leave the tour bus to deal with a series of sickening epiphanies, like the coincidence that Lestat turned Antoinette, when she was a hard looking self proclaimed 38. Or that Lestat was going on about making and continuing human attachments was folly, to him and Claudia for decades, when he had turned his mom. Or Lestat lost his entire shit about Louis hooking up with Jonah, when Lestat hooked up with his mom.

But mostly, he's realizing he's part of an active ongoing love triangle with Lestat's mom.

Please remember that Louis is not any kind of psychologist, psychiatrist or mental health care worker. Most random therapists are not equipped to deal with this. Louis has never been to one. Louis spent 70+ years with Armand who was constantly abused via sex trafficking and by his maker/parental figure Marius and neither of them went to therapy about it. Louis is not equipped to deal with this as his ex who Lestat is trying to get back with. He cannot be Lestat's husband, situation-ship, friend, or therapist... ethically (but this is the AREU so...give it time). It's one thing to have a partner who was abused in the past by people who are not around (and presumably dead) but it's another thing entirely to be in a relationship with someone who has an active sexual incestuous relationship going on right now.

And no matter how sad, nauseated or enraged he might feel, Louis cannot act on that feeling. He cannot be Fire Gifting the bus they're on right now. Practically speaking, Gabriella is likely a much stronger vampire because she's much older. And Lestat loves Gabriella.

The kindest thing in the moment is probably to manage the rest of whatever reaction he's having away from Lestat. So he has to leave the bus.

I'm sorry Nicki, you can never compete with a Mama's boy. I wonder if he knew about Gabriella and Lestat or when it started

Nicki, Nicky, Nicky... No wonder you look so fucking pissed. You think you got vampire dumped for Lestat's mom. You literally went to Paris, left your village and he disappeared for six months and surprise, your ex and his mom are vampires. Also you've just been a coven chew toy and you cannot catch a break as the world's most depressed third violinist with a Stradivarius while Lestat is/was a star.

Also, consider that Armand wrote Gabriella out of his version of events in season 2 in part b/c he thinks he got left with Nicki ...for Lestat's mom. Armand's Wattpad story that he tells Daniel of getting pumped and dumped seems less embarrassing (to him) than whatever happened with Gabriella.

[kinkydorah]

DELAINEY HAYLES The Vampire Lestat: After Dark Preview Special

[luna-azzurra]

Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)

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I'm just reacting.

I suspect this is a Rolin Jones joint. Music: Ravel's Bolero.

This is its own character in this trailer. Why? Why is this Lestat's depression music.

For the amount of times pingpong lady has appeared in trailers, she should get her own title credit at the same level as Baby Jenks.

I'm not sure why Lestat looks horrified here.

Shower Review: But if it's walking in on his tour bus shower -- nobody made him get a tour bus with a shower with no stall and eleventeen windows that don't seem to have physical shutters [iow not "smart shutters" that can malfunction with malware or ddos attack or a power failure] with a disco light waterfall showerhead on top of a wood (imitation?) floor. I'm sure Lestat enjoys giving night commuters a show. But what happens if he decides to take a dawn shower? Does he just combust naked? I'm not even sure there's a good drain here. This makes the men's locker room group showers look spacious, private and clean. Where is the rest of the band humans showering on the road? What if you have actual long hair attached to your head? I sincerely hope that Gabriella has short hair or that long hair is a wig b/c washing, drying and styling long hair takes three business days. Practicality 1/5 stars. Verve: 3/5.

I fucking hate Older Brother Vampire Bait here. Baby Lestat stutters and... was illiterate? No wonder he loves improv on a character rather than a set line. And music. Can Lestat sight read in his mortal life or does that only happen with vampire literacy?

Nothing says romance or seance like a lot of glasses and votives. Lestat is about to demonstrate his water glass skills for an intimate concert of three to seven guests?

"I think in the end I was pretty fucking great! " - This is either a really funny freakout or a really horrifying freakout.

Marius! Probably horrified at Lestat's horrible choices in home decor and home design throughout the centuries. Or maybe Lestat's violin playing effect on Akasha. I am personally horrified by this Caesar salad bowl cut he has to give himself every night in order not to look like a Merlin cosplayer in buckle shoes. Yes, those time periods do not go together.

Recording studio seance with mama?

Wow these vampires were ready to end him, hitwise.

This is not how you break pinata. Place the pinata where you can spin around blindfolded (without hitting the tv) and whack the candy out you coward!

This seems like he's giving a concert the day after halloween or he's hallucinating that. IDK

Time to talk to nature.

Is Real Rashid going to die? Or is baby Jenks wrong and she's going to die? RIP Real Rashid.

Ok, what got fire gifted here?

When your child self is latchkey kid unsupervised in a concert space around working musicians. Is child self reading? This is right in the middle of a section when Louis is asking adult vampire Lestat if he's fucking his vampire mother fledgling right now. The giant hand right by the child!?

Claudia in her trial outfit. I'm guessing this is before he goes on tour with the band.

I'm not sure who the woman is on the left but Antoinette sitting by a typewriter staring you down eating a sausage? A finger?

This is a mirror or a record but I think Lestat's just been turned here. Somehow I don't think Jefferson Airplane vinyl was involved but every memory we've seen it looks like Lestat is actively hallucinating.

Taking down someone who is literally dusty here.

Claudia is either repeating lines he's heard before or this is a remix from something else. Who is the "skinny little bitch?"

Toss the vampire! Whee!

This is obviously the masked guy during Lestat's freakout about how good of a job he's doing. Not ye old Parisian vampire playing ring toss the vampire in the 1790s.

AKASHA'S FINGER TAPPING.

[sillystigmata]

Now what they got my boy doing?

[icantspellthings]

Baby eric

[lexdelioncourt]

It's time for another silly poll because I've been cranky the last few days and I'm tired of it so...

WHAT'S IN DANIEL MOLLOY'S SPOILERIFIC BOWLING BAG?

A collection of increasingly bizarre sex toys

Marius's severed head

Raglan James' severed head

Armand (he can transform into a small animal)

LBF (that's how they kept him a secret)

A bowling ball

A whole bunch of Tupperware full of steamy beany soup

Gabi's wig when she's not using it

Something else (reply in tags)

Voting ended onMay 15

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Lestat de Lioncourt Renaissance Genius

Did Lestat write this himself? Was chat je pété used? Either way user The Vampire Lestat is not even the #1 Lestat scholar...(ha ha )

This is delusional and bombastic:

Lestat de Lioncourt's Genius bio: Step into the limelight with Lestat de Lioncourt, a name that echoes through the corridors of music and mystery alike. With the debut of his first single, “Long face,” this iconic “vampire” has captured the world’s attention, earning rave reviews from critics and fans alike. This haunting melody, a blend of timeless elegance and dark allure, is just a glimpse into the multifaceted genius of the Vampire Lestat. But Lestat’s talents don’t stop at the microphone. Lestat, renowned not only as a musician and composer but also as an accomplished actor and shrewd businessman, is a true Renaissance figure of the modern era. His foray into music is complemented by an exciting upcoming project: a documentary directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker Daniel Molloy, promising an intimate look into Lestat’s enigmatic world. From the silver screen to the boardroom, and now the recording studio, Lestat de Lioncourt proves that he’s more than a legend of lore; he’s a contemporary force, captivating audiences across all realms of art and enterprise. Keep an eye on this luminous trailblazer, for his creative journey is bound to leave an indelible mark on both the earthly and the supernatural.

"a name that echoes through the corridors of music and mystery alike" Someone was up until the wee hours of the night morning relistening to Andrew Lloyd Webber and was a minute away from getting DCMA taken down from calling a song "Music of the Night". Or this is just a fancy way of saying Lestat did musical dinner theater mystery murder gigs?

Keep in mind, in-universe, nobody knows who this guy is apart from his groupies for at best a year.

"haunting melody" doesn't describe Long Face musically in any way, at best it's an ear worm, which is not the same, or I've been haunted by several commercial jingles.

"a blend of timeless elegance and dark allure" Again, not the song at all, it's something you use to describe a heavy cologne.

"shrewd businessman" How is he a "shrewd businessman?" Isn't that Louis du Lac? What's Lestat’s cover story for being rich? He literally is living off a trust (he got from being murder suicided into vampirism.) If anything Louis is the shrewd businessman [his Dubai fortune, his burgeoning real estate empire in San Francisco]. Is he meta-textually referring to possible tie-ins in AMC (pom juice)? Meh.

"Accomplished actor" - he's stretching with his five minutes two years on the Parisian stage in 1793 ish? Or his one night only performance at Louis's trial? Or reality tv

Is he going to claim he wrote the "Wolverine Blues"? [He's not putting "Come to Me" on his rock album, lmao]

meta comment: Louis, Louis, stop writing fanfiction giving your white boyfriend credit for something black musicians did. That's one of many reasons Jelly Roll decided go north.

Louis claims he recorded and played all the instruments himself for "Come to Me." The AMC show premiere this season on June 7. Who was born on June 7th, and famously played all 27 instruments on his debut album For You and pretty much treated his bands as backup bands? PRINCE. In the book Lestat's first concert on his tour is in San Francisco at the Cow Palace, which holds 16,500 seats, a stadium Prince filled on his Purple Rain tour. Based on what we've seen of Satan's Night Out in the trailers, they couldn't hold a candle to the weakest of Prince's performance bands. Sorry, Lestat is no Prince (March 3, 1985 concert)

I suspect the show is going to give Nicholas' talents (in the books he's good enough to be a student of Mozart's who cannot help him get a royal composer gig) and compositions and plays to him or he's just going to claim all of those were his. Good thing Nicholas never haunts his ass in the books, waving his stumps around, complaining about his quill and violin carpal tunnel syndrome.

At least he doesn't claim to be an author and/or playwright. That might rest in Claudia’s diaries, or Sam's ( or Nicholas's) plays and Claudia will haunt him for copyright infringement and royalties on top of all the other ways he did her dirty.

How would he be "foraying into music if he claims to be "renowned" as a musician and composer already?

"Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker Daniel Molloy" There is one kernel of truth. In universe, Daniel Molloy is directing a documentary about him, and Daniel did win two Pulitzers. But he never won a Pulitzer Prize for filmmaking [afaik per other sites like the fake Linkedin] so "Pultizer Prize-winning filmmaker" is a bit misleading -- as you cannot win a Pulitzer Prize for film-making or making a documentary (and no one ever has.)

"silver screen" When was he in a movie? What kind of movie? Porn? Talamasca's NextDoor footage?

"legend of lore" What lore? Daniel Molloy's book? AD&D? Is he Bigfoot?

Louis du Lac definitely didn't write any of this.

Louis: "the lack of metaphor is so striking"

Lestat (having a time delayed argument ~90 years later and replying with something else): "Fuck you! Have all the similies! And the metaphors! I am the best! Beyoncé cannot sing! I am the "Renaissance" figure! I belong in the Louvre! Not her! My portrait! Not the gremlin!"

Meanwhile Gremlin lived during the *drumroll* Renaissance. With (book) Marius who attempted to be a polymath but did not really succeed with his paint by numbers studio, Roman baths, and house tours and Roman histories which he burnt. Marius later attempted amateur filmmaking in 20th century.

I wonder if in-universe Daniel Molloy is already in in art museums. There are several museums Eric Bogosian is in, as a subject of art or adjacent to one of his early experimental shows.

"Multifaceted genius" - trope-tastic phrase, but now I wonder if he's describing himself as a prism, literal prism and has now ascended after discovering Pink Floyd.

"luminous trailblazer" Yes it's a metaphor, but literally this is funny. He's not the moon. He's not a glowing light source setting things on fire in his wake for a path 💀. Or will he be? I think he's going to fight the Beyhive, lose, and then enter Sandman Akasha.

[reticent-vampire]

[hellenicgoddess]

Ancient Greek Coins With Octopuses 🐙

[savagewilderness]

Poll of the day.

What are you most excited about seeing in The Vampire Lestat?

Present day: Rockstar Lestat & Louis’ story & Gsbriella & ghosts

Present & recent past Devil’s Minion

Eighteenth century past: mortal Lestat, Gabrielle, wolves, Nicolas, Armand, COD

Marius era &/or Akasha & Those who Must be Kept

Revisiting the 20th century from Lestat’s POV

Voting ended onMay 12

PS sorry for the typos in my excitement/rush. Uggghhhh, hahaha!

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Me in order from most hyped to least hyped:

18th century mortal Lioncourts

Marius & TWMBK

Present day (ghosts/hallucinations especially)

20th century revisits

DM

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'The Vampire Lestat': Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid on What Happened After Louis and Lestat NOLA Reunion (Exclusive)

And more. Give Kelly some clicks!

'The Vampire Lestat': What Happened With Louis & Lestat After NOLA Reunion

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid give a Louis and Lestat relationship update.

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I love how even Jacob & Sam's contradicting headcanons reflect where their characters' headspaces are.

For Jacob, Loustat has only been FaceTiming, hanging out online but "not in person," since Louis' still off being "companion enough for myself," so he's maintaining his physical distance from Lestat and refusing to go to Montreal, etc.

For Sam, Loustat's doing FaceTime, AND "going on walks, chatting," like WHERE, sir? 😅 We already know Lestat was begging Louis to visit him in Montreal and check out his "guest room" (*cough!*) and Louis kept saying no.

So it's just adorable that Jacob's like: Yeah Louis, hold the line soldier! Don't give an inch! First it's picking out paintings in the guest room, then it's you getting your back blown out in the coffin room. You're supposed to be SINGLE, dangit! 😤

Meanwhile Sam's possessed by the evil spirit of Lestat, already picking out wedding suits for Loustat & planning their honeymoon. 😭🤣

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This response from them both irritates me a bit because there is still the huge elephant in the room which is Lestat’s participation in the trial and Claudia’s death. So if they never address that part and particularly Louis’ trauma from it I will be really disappointed. I guess it’s nice for them to play this cute getting to know each other again but it doesn’t gel with the horror we’ve seen.

Ever since Louis said the words “it’s not on you” I haven’t trusted how this show will depict this but I guess we have to wait and see. But I do think it’s too much to hope for them to backtrack what happened during the reunion where they jumped 10 steps ahead for no reason.

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I suspect that Loustat's reticence/avoidance talking about…well, ANYTHING substantial, really, is in line with Louis not wanting to go to Montreal and deal with Lestat in person.

Jacob said in an earlier interview last year that Louis is NOT ready to talk about the Trial yet with Lestat--he wants to focus on being kind to Lestat, and being grateful to Lestat for giving him the GIFT of vampirism, and prove that he's enjoying life & owning the night & not being so depressed & suicidal ("thank you for the nights in front of me"):

Because it was what Sam Reid called "a monster choice" for Lestat to sacrifice Claudia's life for Louis', when Jacob said Louis would've preferred that Lestat have done the opposite, and still hasn't accepted what it means that Claudia died so that he could live.

So yeah, he's just trying to learn how to accept Lestat, and live in the moment, in the present, rather than dealing with anything from their past--just like Lestat can't live in NOLA right now because it has "too much baggage." The baggage IS Claudia. Neither one of them are honestly ready to address the elephant in the room.

And so even as cutesy as they're being, Louis' doing the right thing by staying far away and not falling back into bed with Lestat when he knows they don't have their ish together yet--they're just FaceTiming. They share a heartbeat; cuz as soon as they enter the same room they're gonna sync up again--and it's always either fighting or banging with those two losers.

But ofc, Daniel I Wreck Marriages For Fun Molloy publishes the book. And that's another thing Louis' holding onto--he's scared to tell Lestat about the book, because he knows that their tenuous peace is gonna crumble as soon as Lestat finds out; and they'll be right back to their worst times together in NOLA: resentful & angry & nasty & hurt.

This is a frikkin MESS.

But I wouldn't worry that Loustat's not gonna talk about Claudia & the Trial at all--obviously they do, since Jacob' said Louis's not ready to talk about it YET. 👀 Armand's lies about "Banishment" still have to be dealt with. AND we know The Vampire Sam is coming back, and who knows what tea he has to spill. Plus there's the rumors about the Trial being revisited. So.... Yeah!

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Louis du Lac: Between Boyfriends Between Seasons 2 &3

“Between seasons, they’ve been hanging out, talking. Been hanging out over FaceTime, not in person,” Anderson told TV Insider on the Upfront carpet. “Trying to figure out how to start being friends again, and then pretty quickly, things take a turn.”

“They’re gently negotiating each other, going for walks, chatting, doing a lot of FaceTime,” Reid explained. “Lestat leaves New Orleans; he needs a break. He’s like, ‘There’s a lot of baggage in New Orleans.’ So, he goes to Montreal, and he starts a new life there. Louis and Lestat are probably calling every day and talking and texting and warming back into potentially thinking about getting back together.”

"Make Friendship" Walk and Talks

It is possible Lestat classifies firing up FaceTime while doing a walk and talk while his IPad/ IPhone is open as "going on walks". When I was actively on apps and matched up with some long distance profiles (think: plane ride not optional), I would actually go walking and talking outside on a regular basis - sunset was just cool enough. Sometimes people wanted a standing appointment time and treated those as dates, sometimes they didn't. The words "hanging out" are doing a lot of work for Louis because that can be anything from body doubling to do chores (what chores would a vampire need to do) to phone sex. I'm not sure when Louis moves from Dubai or what time zone he's in on Halloween. The FaceTime has to be when they're in different cities/not driveable distance. There's no way Lestat's dramatic ass is going to FaceTime Louis in the same city, let alone the same time zone unless Louis's posture is "Hell no you can't just vampire fly over and drop in on me."

On the phone, you and me/Remember the time/'Til dawn, two or three/ What about us, girl?

Why Should We Sully Our Beautiful Minds With Touching the Grass Outside and Current Events

I think these beautiful oblivious beings who can work Apple products but don't have antivirus products have no real sense of time and just like keeping it nebulous. Louis is just not going to think about Daniel Molloy or his book or angry (bounty hunting) vampires once he made that announcement, it's out of his beautiful mind. I'm not sure he even read it after the end of season 2, honestly. He might not have even read it when Lestat runs to the bookstore buys copies and starts rage-annotating with color coded highlighters.

Lestat is similarly oblivious to news even with notifications. The man had been living in New Orleans since the 1940s and probably all the way forgot about Hurricane Katrina, who's that? A 2025 Beyonce sales notification pops up and he just completely fucking ignores it, because they both live in parallel universes. Maybe an Apple Genius or Felix (if he survived unnamed hurricane) told Lestat about antivirus software, keyloggers and spyware, but it went in and out of Lestat's ears. And we know Louis wasn't the tech savvy one in his last relationship.

Remember the Time: Denial Is A River In Egypt

Daniel Molloy didn't wreck anyone's marriage, I'm sorry. Louis, despite his memory issues knew. All that Chekhov's Script did was force enable Louis to stop denying Armand orchestrated directed the play. He knew Armand de Gaslighting Not Emotional Abuse set him up in a sting operation but didn't want to think about what that meant or what being at the theater all the time after the coup (or "coup") meant. And Louis doesn't want to think about how that script does not change that Lestat actively colluded. Lestat had all of that time to ask Louis why he changed his mind or how he figured it out and he doesn't-- most likely because he doesn't want to know.

Louis knew Lestat was in New Orleans (otherwise why immediately hop on a plane straight there -- was he going to go just wander around the streets on "touring my old houses and gravestone holiday while mourning my life" tour?) Chekhov's Script just reinforced that Lestat didn't want him totally dead. Either Louis' crazy ass thinks or knows he's totally invincible from hurricanes or Lestat stopping his execution on stage (but not, note, the actual trial or starvation in a Mentos gravel box, indefinitely) was just enough for Louis to decide "Lestat's not dead to me, let me check if he's still alive" check? "He didn't want me dead that means I don't want him dead that means I love him and we might get back together forever!" Pelleas and Melisande indeed.

[Sigh. This is why chemistry reads were so important because my OTP is Louis and intense therapy - and the actors are super cute friends on press tours]

My First Scratch N Sniff Interview With a Vampire Baby Board Book

If an entire gaggle of children are dressed in Interview With the Vampire Halloween costumes, which don't look too improvised, it's probably filtered its way from SNL -- and in this universe Daniel gets to claim he sold more books than Prince Harry, which means he outpaced J.K. Rowling's last Harry Potter book, without pushback. It's in paperback and hardcover, and multiple languages and there isn't a line out the door for it because if it just came out it there'd be Halloween events advertised. At this point, there are probably abridged children's versions and baby board books for IWTV in the universe. There's a way that it could've been record presales before official release of Daniel's book but that makes Louis and Lestat even more oblivious.

All of this is to suggest that if Lestat was surprised by the book a full calendar year and change after it was out he was actively making an effort to avoid knowing anything about it. He and Louis should've had a discussion blowup fight about it way earlier -before it came out. When it came out.

And if there was no book when would Louis and Lestat have discussed the Trial and Claudia on their own?

Wearing Floaties in the Dating Pool

Louis is just a Libra and a vampire Taurus so he has several men vampires on deck in rotation for when he decides he wants to be back in a relationship needs a fuckbuddy needs the ego boost of knowing he's still got it. No way is he SUPER SINGLE CELIBATE NO FLIRTS NOBODY TO TAKE HIM DANCING. Pretty sure there's a lot of "keep talking to me until the sun makes me go nap" on all sides of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, from all corners. At some point, Daniel has been dropped from the rotation of "talk to me until I fall asleep because I'm scared of the sunrise (Daniel IS, not Louis)" pals and he's kinda sad about it even if he's gleeful about being on tour and acts like the book isn't the reason.

Last sunrises: June 16, 2022//May 3, 1911 That night I had to call you/I was rapping till the sun came up None of these vampires men could ever. Lestat can't, I see that June 7th premiere date, AMC.

Lestat will probably call and ramble FOREVER. Remember Louis broke up with him so Lestat grasps at "Louis wants to talk with me? Louis listens to me!? We will be friends. We were destined to be very good friends! We ARE destined to be very good friends! That's how it started!" And Louis plays it off as "Yeah well, doing regular wellness checks, like people who give any shits about each other do. Don't want him dead because I'd feel guilty. (But y'know Louis still loves him. Or he'd just find out what he wanted to find out and then peace out.)

Happy Deathiversary to Lestat

Book Lestat, in my best guess was turned near the end of October, probably something like Devil's Night. If the show decides to follow canon in that respect in 1794 (or 1795) he's coming up on his turn-a-versary, which means the anniversary effect could be in full swing and he is very prone to losing his entire fucking shit on the smallest of pretexts without realizing it on top of his mental fragility.

Spirits come and spirits go/Some stick around for the aftershow Claudia should haint his ass.

Louis is either beautiful or oblivious about Daniel's book or he's not mentioning anything Lestat doesn't first b/c Lestat is not mentally well and Louis genuinely thinks he can't handle it. (In addition to Louis not being able to handle it.)

Lestat was in an unwashed Leyendecker of Longing robe in a shack playing a wooden piano keyboard-lovey talking to Siri and eating rats when Louis sees him in July 2022 and I'm not sure he is that much better in 2025. He's in a non wrecked house and he's bathed and wears clean updated clothes but otherwise?

We Are Vampires, What is Therapy?

If Louis and Lestat were serious they'd be talking about couples therapy. Or they'd be going to therapy and weaponizing catch phrases like Louis and Armand did [GROOMED YOU LIKE A LITTLE BITCH] Or either one of them would be going to therapy on their own.

[drunkeddiediaz]

Cutest human being

[sillystigmata]

He’s so funny.

[sillystigmata]

Maman….

[vampire-scripture]

Notable "I am the Vampire Lestat" monologues: openings and closures