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Shane-JJ-Hayden group chat in which JJ regularly texts at Hayden like:

white boy,

respond to my messages white boy

white boy answer me

Shane generally does not participate in this, but one day Hayden says something, idk, vaguely offensive that he clearly doesn’t realize is offensive and Shane sends back:

White boy I’m disappointed. 😐

bagofchumpkins

Shane Hollander is the most misunderstood and criminally disrespected character of all time. In canon, fanon, media critique and otherwise. The only person whose opinion I will accept on this matter is Mr. Hudson Williams himself

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aslongasitsblack

svetlana would genuinely want to be friends with shane but shane would be fucking weird about it and it wouldn’t help that svetlana with the best of intentions would be bringing out all the classic Girl Best Friend lines that crucially shane is running by rose in a second by second play

shane: she said she thinks we’re really cute together

shane: and that she’s so happy he’s found me. thoughts?

rose: the fucking bitch.

maggie44paint

she has 200% divorce rate now, good for her ❤️

nonbinaryarmand

need to smoke a blunt with her baddd

hinasho

Jacob Anderson saying that if you were to ask 21st century Louis when was the last time he felt truly safe and secure, it’d be back in 1973 when he met Daniel

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Heated rivalry fans on twt: This 40 year old HAG talked to a 25 year old… Thats so predatory and embarrassing I can’t believe that grandpa is-

IWTV fans regularly: If Daniel Molloy played by 72 year old character actor Eric Bogosian is not impregnated on screen we are rioting. If I don’t see him drain the 500 year old who looks like a 27 year old vampire Armand played by 35 year old Assad Zaman balls until they are little more than deflated water balloons what is even the point of living? Yes I write explicit rpf about the actors Eric’s marriage to his wife is older than Assad why do you ask?

xjade-lotusx

I've stared at this for hours now thanks

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FINALLY FOUND IT

I saw this GIF long time ago and recently found it again. It gives me so much fun to watch Eric play the vampire, definitely can't wait for season 3!!

And once again I found myself actracted to the 70 years old vampire...

I guess that's my thing now!

heliza24

Recently I've seen some posts that really flatten Daniel's character, and nothing grinds my fandom gears more than when people dismiss him as less complex or interesting as the other iwtv mains. So I'm going to talk a little bit about that here.

Being an asshole is a big part of Daniel's character. He's grumpy, he's sarcastic, and sometimes he's cruel. Everyone can recognize that, and it’s one reason that I for one love him! But recently I've seen people asserting that this is just an innate part of who Daniel is and that his actions have no discernible cause, which makes him a less complex/understandable/defendable character than someone like Lestat, whose bad behavior is clearly rooted in trauma.

I think it is deeply untrue. His anger and assholery has sources we can see in the text. And to me it is very, very clear that Daniel puts up the sarcastic, devil-may-care, tough journalist act as a defense mechanism, in a way that is a different flavor to Lestat perhaps but is actually very similar, in a way that I think will make season 3 really interesting as they interact.

When we first meet young Daniel in 2.05 he already has some of his telltale brashness and defensive swagger. But we learn from Armand's speech luring Daniel to his death that Daniel comes from a bad home environment. His parents have substance use issues and were cold and distant. We also learn that he's doing a kind of survival sex work, dealing with his addiction by trading sex for drugs. He already has a lot of shame around his sexuality. You could argue that he made that girl wear a bag over her head because he's a died-in-the-wool misogynist or an innately horrible person, sure, or you could speculate that maybe Daniel did it as a way to prevent himself from having to confront his own queerness or his own vulnerable need for real connection, both of which he is already tamping down and denying.

When Danny says to Louis "I could be your Lestat, your Claudia, but better" it's an incredibly self-centered and presumptive thing to say, yes. But it's also a disguised bid for Louis's love and attention. He's already using the defense mechanism here. And he almost gets killed for it. Then Armand physically abuses him, and then forces him to accept death by listing all the ways in which Daniel will never know real love. So it makes sense to me that Daniel would go on to develop some pretty intense protective armor after that formative experience.

Now fast forward to 2022. Daniel has been sick with Parkinson's for several years, but he's still hiding it (only his close family and his agent know). My experience with chronic illness and pain made me immediately recognize the kind of sarcastic defenses that Daniel was putting up to defend and distract from that physical vulnerability. Then there's the fact that he's back in the closet to some extent, denying that he was at a gay bar to hook up in the 70s. What kind of defenses might someone develop over five decades of living in the closet? Especially someone who was deeply involved in reporting on the queer community (Daniel has written an early book on the AIDS epidemic), but clearly kept himself apart and separate from it?

This is not even taking into the account the idea that part of devil's minion could have already happened in the past, that Daniel could have had the kind of love and connection he craved only for it to end in disaster and more erased memories. If that's the case he's also using his cruelness to mask a gaping hole where the memories of Armand should be, and his corrosive personality has formed around that unremembered grief.

In seasons 1 and 2 Daniel tries to hurt Armand (and Louis to a lesser extent) before either vampire can hurt him. There's a clear example of the kind of emotional wound that they can cause in 2.02, when Louis uproots some of Daniel's painful emotions around his failed relationships telepathically. That's the kind of hurt that Daniel is defending himself against, not to mention the physical threat to the vampires also pose to him.

Daniel's core wound is not that different from Lestat's. They both have this misbelief that they are unlovable. They were both abandoned by their makers, after all. They're dramatic foils for each other, and it's their similarities that are going to make season 3 very interesting. Daniel’s backstory doesn’t exist in the books, and the way we’ve learned about him in the show has been more indirect than the info we’ve learned about Lestat, Louis, and Armand. But it is there! And I would love if people could keep that backstory and complexity in mind, especially when comparing and contrasting him with other characters.

catsplushellhounds

when i say i want devils minion in s3, i mean that i need to see eric face down ass up, whining and squirming. young dm too of course but i really need old daniel molloy to be PUT IN HIS PLACE