Serving cunt has its consequences

[nalyra-dreaming]

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Nalyra ⏛ she/her/they I love complicated characters and relationships. Vampire lover of old. I like a lot of things, so do mind the tags, please.

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[nalyra-dreaming]

amc you want to fuck up and drop the episode tomorrow so baddd 🤞🤞🤞

*snickers*

Amc should put us out of our misery and drop episode 7 together with 6 xD

If that cliffhanger is what I think it is then who can wait a week 😭😭😭

#real anon and while they’re at it they can drop the secret ep8 too, my delusions can lead us to magical places 🤩🤩

:)))) I mean, I said it before, while I don't believe in a secret 8th episode, it is not as if I wouldn't LOVE it :)

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Louis didn’t go through with it though that is what the whole point was at the end of season 1 and how it led into season 2 with Claudia mad at him for it

But actually while I’m talking about the murder I don’t see how the “Claudia knew she could only manipulate Louis into killing Lestat” argument works in the show because of course it would be easier here then in the books because Lestat was already treating them horribly and there would’ve been no justification for Lestat to agree with it since Louis hadn’t done much to him

.... oh, so, Louis's saving grace there is that he didn't BURN Lestat?

Slitting his throat wasn't "going through with it"????

REALLY?

[neverwonderneverremember]

turning a big dial labeled "victim" on one end and "perpetrator" on the other back and forth and constantly looking back at the audience for approval

[anarchistmemedistro]

[nalyra-dreaming]

Did you say something happens where lestat comes to some kind of realization in episode 6 that Louis is his great love?

If so, I can't wait to see that 😭

No, I didn't say that :)

But... I don't think LESTAT needs something to happen for him to know that.

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Seen on X app;

I have an idea that the show is building to an epic kiss between Louis and Lestat in ep 7. Because even kisses between Lestat and Gabriella are barely shown: notice that the angle or their hair always hides their faces, and what we see is brief. There's a pointed lack of intimacy between Lestat and ANYONE. In episode 1, we see him have the elevator orgy with two women and a man, we see him kiss both male and female groupies and be kissed by Larry, we see flashes of him kissing Louis and in bed with Louis, flashes of him with Nicki...since then, it has only been brief shots of him with Nicki in episode 3, and brief and/or obscured shots of him with Gabriella. Nothing that lingers. It feels like he doesn't want to think about it. And maybe I'm wrong, but it creates a sense of sterility or coldness that I think will contrast with a Louis/Lestat moment in episode 7.

What do u think Nalyra????

I mean, I have said BOOK CANON kiss in my header??? 😅

They BETTER.

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I do find it interesting that everyone brings up the drop when it was a heat of the moment situation that I feel like shouldn’t be held over Lestat as much especially considering he tried to stop it before it escalated to that point but never the fact that Louis and Claudia planned his death for months before actually going through with it

Interesting, isn't it.

The tale shaped the justification so well this is always forgotten.

It will be interesting to see what this fandom will do when the Amel finally takes away the "outside and drop" partly from that justification, and when it becomes clear that [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]

💅🏼

(No, actually I know exactly what this fandom will do, namely scream about how this reveal is anything but book canon, as is already happening. I wonder why they do that.... 🙄)

[nalyra-dreaming]

So when Rolin Jones says that Lestat didn't love Nicki as much as Nicki loved him

potter said that as well, he said he personally felt that way

*shrugs*

I don't think the acting actually reflects that, but... *shrugs*

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I think Season 1 could be a great meta commentary about how sensationalism and emotional talking points have effect in an audience and how Louis knew that when he presented his tale. But sadly that analysis will never be allowed because this fandom is composed by a bunch of over emotional 20 year olds that can't see past Louis and Claudia's 'relantability'.

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Watching the show and then seeing some of the bad takes is crazy. Fans are either counting how much screen time their favorite character has or focus more on the ships. The takes on Lestat and Gabriella relationship is weird, people acting like it’s a real romance when it’s not, and the show isn’t painting it that way nor is Sam Reid playing it that way. I get people wanted more Nicki, rather than Gabriella. But she wasn’t barely in the last episode which in my opinion was the best episode yet. So much was going on with Akasha, Lestat, Louis and Regina. Yet people are complaining about Gabriella or the band. We all came into the season knowing the focus would be Lestat and his music. We’re probably getting another two seasons, Lestat will not be singing in them.

*weigh head*

I mean, we only got half the songs this season.

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So when Rolin Jones says that Lestat didn't love Nicki as much as Nicki loved him, that's the truth, because he's told us that's the truth. So we're back to him not understanding these characters at all.

Rolin is a massive troll. And sometimes their takes on the characters are not the same as ours. That's nothing new, nonny.

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Another blogger said that the reason why Louis killed Lestat will never be discussed because "Lestat understands why Louis did it. It doesn't need to be discussed".......... Well, I personally need to understand why x) Because if Louis always knew Lestat hadn't threatened Claudia on the train, I don't understand Louis's reasons. Like... Louis was suffering and that's the only reason?

No. :)

I... cannot talk about it now.

But think about how the tale was shaped. And then about what next episode will give you.

And let those pieces click into place then :)

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i feel like a lot of show fans who haven't read the books rely heavily on the fact talamasca edited the book to say louis did nothing wrong in this particular instance. i would say even in the books lestat is hurt by it for a very long time, longer than they assume i imagine but even without the knowledge of the book.....parts of his life are in there. i've seen ppl discuss it's not that big a violation bc humans don't believe it's true but like.....a bunch of private stuff is in there, a lot of it is distorted too, man his RAPE is in there. even sam said he felt hurt by this, i don't think it's totally fair to pin it entirely on daniel or the talamasca. i am curious to see if/how it gets addressed next ep though

Some of it is.

And no, it hasn't all been the Talamasca.

That is exactly the crux of the matter.

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Hii👋 I saw your post deciphering the in universe iwtv written by daniel which had a still of actual pages from the book shown in the talamasca

I was wondering whether you have other high resolution or readable stills of the book shown in tvl like when lestat dropped his annotated copy in louis' lap or any other time it's shown

or if you know of someone who has deciphered the text because I had a hard time trying to read the annotations

I actually do not have them in Hi-Res, sorry!!

Anyone have them? (Or even the deciphered ones?)

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I really love how all throughout season 1&2 Armand was keeping Daniel safe from Loui.

Everytime Louis lost his temper with him he was there to stop him xD

I wonder if it was a matter of time even if the interview didn't happen that Armand would end up turning Daniel in the end due to old age, considering he had followed him for 50 years.

That loumand divorce was coming one way or the other xD

I think it depends on whether Armand... would have been actually around at the time when Daniel's health then declined.

On the pressure he felt.

He obviously wanted to, deep inside himself. And only his own rules and whatever happened to make him take that step back stood between him and Daniel there.

But yeah - once you see it... it's blatant, in the first seasons :)

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Does Machete!Armand have anything to do with Louis getting a 50% discount on shoes? Because if so I am about to be so pissed.

(The way you phrased this made me laugh out loud)

I... we'lll have to see :)

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while i wouldn’t call dm a background ship, that is still loumand for sure, they are definitely a side ship or subplot and that’s how everyone involved has framed them while continuing to frame louis and lestat as the backbone and the sun to speak which they definitely made clear here

https://ew.com/the-vampire-lestat-cover-story-sam-reid-jacob-anderson-exclusive-11971545 where rolin even said they are the foundation the fuel the show.

again tho i dont think they can or should be called a “background ship” but they aren’t a ship the story is built on either so more a side ship which is fine

No matter what you call them, Loumand are over in the show. And the cast has been more than clear on that, too.