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they/them adore dms and asks :)) victoria wood, hannibal, good omens, doctor who, ofmd, league of gentlemen

[rocktheholygrail]

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

[lexdelioncourt]

I know it's not everyone but I see you out there 😑

[cosmicyam]

lestat flying up towards louis right in the middle of his show is the type of wattpad scenario 12-year-old me imagined happening at a BTS concert

[sugarcarnation]

i really appreciate this shot of the servant witnessing this exchange between gabriella and lestat and being shown to be visibly uncomfortable. lestat might claim that vampirism overrides familial bonds (something which i’m sure will be contested just alone based on the fact that in the current timeline they feel a need to hide their relationship) but this shows that even before they became vampires their relationship crossed boundaries and wasn’t perceived as normal by anyone else who got a glimpse of it

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

daniel: to be honest i’m having a really hard time being a vampire and you are the first person i’ve told this to by the way. and i feel this strange connection to my maker who is your ex husband just again just btw. and it’s really terrifying and i don’t know what to do with my feelings and would just really like to feel not alone

louis: okay LMAO. okay so Wow LMAO. okay freak #YouAreAlone

daniel: OKAY STOP STOP WHATEVER WHATEVER LET’S CHANGE THE SUBJECT. Well how are you

louis: well yeah the book that you published did ruin my life in a lot of ways and i was able to heal to a certain point, sure, but it has also really resurfaced the trauma of my daughter’s death which i never really confronted and now i’m seeing her everywhere i go and imagining what her life would have been like in an imaginary world where i never made lestat turn her but she was my daughter anyway. and i know i’m crazy for picturing this ideal world but i really can’t help myself. does that make me a bad person?

daniel: yeah that sounds great man 😃👍 So anyway i sold you out a little. Do you want to be my coworker at The Talamasca.

[vault-of-amber]

i know everyone already knows this and this isn't a new thought but holy fucking shit, sam reid's performance this season is genuinely insane. the way he switches effortlessly between trying-to-be-aloof and utter mama's boy, the way everything he says and does has this undercurrent of despair and desperation just beneath it, the way you can SEE him trying to fight his way out of himself but constantly losing the battle, the way he seems utterly helpless around gabrielle while still being undeniably the same petty bitch he's always been. we all joke about sam being possessed but man... i wouldn't be surprised

[veryintricaterituals]

Imagine you are a minor noble girl in Italy in the 18th century and your family married you against your will to the most horrible loser and he forced himself on you night after night and he impregnated you and made you put your life in danger year after year to bear him sons and daughters that barely survived and when they did they hated you as much as you hated them. And the only thing you can do is try to escape your life through books. And you had one son, just one son, that you could see yourself in, and you did everything in your very small power to get him out of there, you sold your remaining jewels and you said, if I must die then he needs to get out, one of us needs to get out, and when you go looking for him, to die by him, he comes and grants you not only eternal life (when you had been so afraid to die and die for nothing and after doing nothing) but also power, enough power that you would never be in that situation again.... That happened to my close personal friend Gabrielle de Lioncourt

[wiseandromeda]

Magnus reminds me of Dracula stuck to that wall like a fucking lizard

[werenotacoupleyesyouare]

Since the Louis and Daniel scene was mostly made up by Lestat one can only assume he is laying on his bed kicking his feet and writing “It was as if the world went quiet… and Daniel could feel only him…!!!” in pink glitter gel pen

[moondustinfj]

#fakest idgafers

[doublepriesticide]

something about louis and daniel being on bad terms and being emotionally unavailable to one another but there’s still that honesty in their relationship that drives them to open up and confide in each other so they both end up confessing things at that ‘dinner’ that reveal a lot about how they’ve been adjusting since dubai but they only have lukewarm reactions for each other in response

[therealrichardpapen]

This scene aghhhh

[jeyneofpoole]

daniel’s hand still shaking, seemingly stuck forever in the stage of parkinson’s he had when he was turned…. ohhhhhhh fuck me

[yaoiblackmold]

Every vampire is all "oh drinking blood is better than any food, drugs, even sex" but I don't even believe them because all of them were literally made before the invention of really good drugs and before we got all the nice foods from the new world, so I don't trust any of their opinions. Lestat has never ate a potato and Armand hasn't ever even tasted tomaotes. The only guy I trust is Daniel Molloy who has probably tried every drug on earth, has definitely ate nice food and would be a valid judge on how good drinking blood really is.

[skinzchoerim]

This feels like a basic thing to praise but so much visual media fails to utilize the whole scope of the language afforded to it that I need to praise everyone working on IWTV and TVL for doing a fantastic job at putting us into Lestat's head (and also retroactively Louis'). The words spoken by the narrator aren't the only thing subjective to them, because the way their story is illustrated is also adjusted to their perspective - pacing, editing, color, story structure, music, it's all utilized really well to show how different these two are.

I also need to praise the writers' and showrunners' approach to episode 1, because it's such well thought out, character-driven chaos that puts us straight into Lestat's head without any brakes or preamble. We see his ego, his insecurities, his self-awareness, his commitment to performance and the moments when it slips, his determination to distract himself and others from the layers and layers of pain and trauma that keep seeping through the cracks before they're stamped down by another colorful, chaotic, sexy, absurd distraction, and we feel everything urging toward the bottom of the spiral the harder he pushes against it. Daniel's Were you a stutterer as a child? guides us down that spiral along with him, exposing each time how much that single question (and what it represents) means for this season's arc, and it sets up the rest of the season and the therapeutic aspects they've been teasing in interviews in a really satisfying way. I'm ready, let's fucking go.

[thebiggestloserever]

just noticing

[paparaxote]

That little voice in your head