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[brian-kinney-apologist]

I just remembered that louis canonically can't lie for shit and yet he still tried to play it off like "daniel molloy WHO" when lestat asked him about the book 😭

[lexdelioncourt]

We are THIS CLOSE to having canonical, in-universe "Team Lestat vs Team Armand" fandom beefs a la Twilight 2005 and I for one can't wait

[sugarcarnation]

lestat alone on stage being haunted by his muses. louis alone in the car after getting empty revenge on bruce going to see a vision of his dead daughter. daniel alone in an alleyway without his maker. you can’t fuck away the loneliness fr

[vamplire]

imagine going to an auction for your “deceased” ex husband who is also placing bids on his own stuff because unaware to you he is in another body meanwhile you are using the same continuous bidding as foreplay with your second ex husband over the same shit that belonged to your first ex husband who your second ex husband was also obsessed with. this happened to my good friend louis de pointe du lac

[gracerings]

tv shows don’t do deliciously ugly MESS like they used to, it’s all waay too pristine and palatable and perfectly marketable. which is why lestat becoming a rockstar to deal with centuries of family and vampire trauma all while being in a bitchy situationship with the husband he’s divorcing for the third time and being haunted by his dead daughter and reuniting with his non-binary undead mother-lover, and also meeting the journalist/newly-turned-vampire, latest favourite toy and obsession of his husband’s ex-husband, the man responsible for painting a picture of him he takes personal offense to that the whole world has read, while also reminiscing about his life and telling his version of a story everyone else has told but him, IS actually gonna heal my soul

[jackdawwhat]

pov you call your employer the cuntessa, you aired his marital drama to the entire world and now you’re making him a musical documentary, you have your Pulitzer and you’re going to get your Oscar, you love being a vampire, you’re not on speaking terms with your old friend or your maker but you’d fuck them nasty given the chance, you’re a fledgling and you ripped off another vampire’s head to save your aforementioned boss while he’s high out of his mind. You’re the real cuntessa Daniel Molloy

[aphrobites]

lestat de lyingcunt, possibly telling the truth: vampires PISS, vampires FUCK, i have NEVER HAD A BOB IN MY LIFE, and fucking is everyone's fourth favorite thing!!!!!!

[vamplire]

"i lived 54554 days before meeting louis de pointe du lac" and “128 boys he’s brought here but you’re the first he hasn’t consummated and drained” louis got his ex husbands keeping count fr

[maelancoli]

the writers did so fucking well at portraying and deconstructing the over abundant amount that lestat in the text romanticizes his abusers. he calls it the "seduction of magnus" multiple times throughout the vampire chronicles instead of admitting he was preyed upon. when you read the books you have to look between the lines of his flowery prose and avoidance but the show took a corny over the top music video style approach and then slammed it next to a full blown ptsd flashback to make sure the audience did not have a chance to misinterpret or mock anything and i respect them for that

[chaoticdelinqueerwithglitter]

Op, the tags deserve to be here too!

[professional-rat-eater]

I think the one thing I wish people who don’t like Armand would at least accept is that he’s not an evil mastermind at all.

Evil? Absolutely. Mastermind? Not even close.

Every single discrepancy in Lestat or Louis’ stories being pinned on Armand is just bad analysis because you already have more than enough proof that he doesn’t plan that far ahead. He is a deeply impulsive person.

There’s no elaborate narrative constructed by him. No big evil plan. Louis put forward the idea that he saved him after the trial and Armand just rolled with it. Everything he did after that was maintenance and damage control. This isn’t subtext. It’s in the show.

He’s not stupid either. He’s just, as Assad has said a thousand times, desperate to be loved and constantly in survival mode. He’ll do anything to not be alone. He doesn’t like doing the things he does and I’m not certain he could, in the moment he makes these decisions, completely rationalise why he makes them. After the fact, sure, but during? I’m not certain.

[marmelade-sky]

Capitalism sucks. Unless it's Louis de Point du Lac doing it, then it's funny.

[transvestat]

was i supposed to find a parallel between gabriella sleeping with jarda and magnus having all these lestat look-alike corpses or am i doing the biggest reach ever right now

[flamboyantbisexual]

you are seeing shrimp colors

[sanguinevisions]

louis: racing ahead again, mr. molloy. let the tale seduce you.

lestat: [absolutely wrecked out of his gourd] you wanna fuck the tale. i know you wanna fuck the tale dan. you wanna fuck the tale so bad it makes you look stupid. the tale wants to fuck you.

[asliceofoceanmist]

loustat talking and flirting with each other before lestat knew about the book. oldmaniel out there ruining two of louis' marriages back to back you can't make this up lmfaoo

[sugarcarnation]

gabriella sending out lestat to kill the wolves hoping and expecting that they would kill him isn’t an idea that had occurred to me before but i’ve been rotating it around in my head ever since. it simultaneously being an act of fucked up care – granting him the final escape from their family – and her manipulating him into a a situation that risks his life and also robs him of the only comfort (his dog) he had outside of her. all this wrapped up in her framing killing the wolves as an act of proper manhood and thus elevating lestat into the role of a husband substitute. it’s such a messy situation that really lays the groundwork for how weird and entangled their relationship is about to get

[sapphicscribecafe]

I love you so much that I hope you die.

[antigonickpdf]

my favourite part of the teaser is that lestat is actually relatively mellow for most of it, like he takes louis’ teasing fairly goodnaturedly and talks about painful topics without spiralling or lashing out. even when he’s genuinely extremely upset by the book thing, he’s clearly trying to process it in his own way and even attempts to communicate his hurt instead of just getting vicious. but then he hears armand’s name from across the room and you can pinpoint the precise moment Hysterical Cunt Lestat logs back on. those two syllables are all it takes before he’s visibly deciding to be crazy again, and the very next thing he does is scream in a stranger’s face then storm out. after which point presumably he went straight home to flush his mood stabilisers and shred his DBT workbook with his teeth, because mommy dearest is BACK and she’s ready to be WORSE THAN EVER!