Don’t Expect It To Tango It Has A Broken Back

🫀karl | 27 | he | gay ace | film editor🫀

[pinimi]

WE ARE ON IWTV LOCKDOWN!!!! EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT ME IS IRRELEVANT IN THE COMING MONTHS THIS IS ARMAND TIME!!!!!! DEVILS MINION CANON 2026 LETS GOOOO!!!!!

My spoiler tag is #tvl spoilers :)

Otherwise I mostly post stuff about horror adjacent things like Hannibal, Vampires (wwdits, iwtv, dracula etc.), Magnus Archives, TSHD, Reanimator and different classical horror books, but I’m also a known enjoyer of Conclave, OFMD, Good Omens and Chinese danmei novels and shows ❤️

[willgrahamscock]

how it feels to be surrounded by perverted mutants

[willgrahamscock]

STOP REBLOGGING I MEAN MUTUALS

[willgrahamscock]

oh come onnnnnn

[deadbeatmaker]

[arkashas]

GOD. still the funniest transition in the show bar none

[jessss-ica]

if anyone needs me i’ll be alone in my tower

[armandgoth]

to those who keep claiming that armand’s diabolically low screen time is justifiable, since he is not in any way the main protagonist: have you read the vampire lestat? armand plays an immensely important role in flashbacks to paris, where he is at his most desperate and unhinged self. it is a crime that they did not adapt the complexity of armand and lestat’s relationship, how armand begged for the other to love him (“what can i do to make you love me? what can i give? the knowledge of all i have witnessed, the secrets of our powers, the mystery of what i am?”), how lestat hovered between desire (finding him unspeakably beautiful) and fear (seeing how mad he was), how he saw that scared little boy in him (“in this broken child were centuries of evil and centuries of knowledge, and out of him there came no ignominious entreaty but merely the soft and bruised sense of what he was”) and how in depth he understood armand despite being utterly afraid of him. they did not show us the tower scene. no depth to armand. “love me. you have destroyed everything! but if you love me, it all can be restored in a few form”. armand shared with him his own story and the story of marius. later, as lestat met marius in person, they had a long conversation about armand and how marius perceived him as a bitter regret. where is the depth? where is that context? this is not about us getting all angry about not seeing assad’s pretty face, but he is one of the most important characters in the chronicles, a crucial part to tvl itself, and he has been completely erased from it. not even just erased, but also reduced: reduced to something laughed at and humiliated at every possibility, while being called, respectively: “a rag doll for sale”, “cruising the streets”, “tart”, “rotten”, “piece of mold”, “pussy”, “bottom twink sociopath”, and “boring to death”. hey so. uh. what the fuck?

[userarmand]

the good news about devil's minion still being one giant question mark is that it means az is genuinely just Like That with both the daniels for the love of the game

[simoneashley]

First look at The Batman Part 2 (2028)

[medievalthymes]

how it feels to read 85 pages of a book in one sitting

[kosmogrl]

let’s all quit our jobs and just go on walks

[carveredlunds]

they removed armand chopping off nicki's hands only to replace it with armand chopping off louis' head. unbelievable decision.

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

my buddy says the craziest stuff when i make him plead for his life

[schusseltier]

release the moan cut

[vamplire]

t shirt that says “i survived the vampire lestat season” and everyone did but no one buys it because why would they

[saintfem]

the paul scene really really solidified the fact that rolin has fundamentally misunderstood what is interesting about loustat. absolving lestat of any wrongdoing and going as far as having FUCKING LOUIS’ DEAD BROTHER come in and THANK lestat for “loving louis the way that he needed to be loved”. loustat, and i say this as a firm loustat girlie, is NOT HEALTHY. lestat did not SAVE louis with his love. louis was not saved by his love. they are both CURSED with loving each other.

louis was coerced, manipulated, intentionally isolated by lestat. lestat killed lily, the only person who he confided to, accelerated louis into severing contact with his family (whom he did love), and LOATHED paul from the one instance where he met him, because it was clear he did not approve of them. paul’s death and his stance on lestat was the eerie foreshadowing for how lestat would go on to treat louis throughout season one. i.e., enraged that in spite of all his UNWANTED efforts to receive louis’ unconditional affection, there was deep resentment from louis for stripping of something that he valued as much as his humanity.

and louis was not resentful because it is his nature. he was not cold to him because “it is his father’s way” like paul said. he was cold to him because louis is embittered by the fact that the majority of his suffering would have never happened if he had never met lestat. just as the majority of his greatest euphoria would have never happened if he’d met lestat: claudia entering their life, becoming bold enough to truly define who he is, experiencing a love that he was constantly told was wrong and unholy. but none of that changes the fact that lestat TRAPPED him—louis is constantly battling between these two opposing facts regarding the love of his life, and he learned to utilize resentment and coldness to make lestat feel the same constant turmoil and insecurity that lestat made HIM feel.

louis and lestat do not love each other BECAUSE of what they’ve been through. they love each other IN SPITE of what they’ve been through. they’ve made each other’s lives a living hell, but the love is STILL there and it always has. that’s what makes them interesting. they’ve lost everything for loving each other. yes, as the episode pointed out, lestat was insulted, betrayed, had his throat slit by louis. but what they failed to mention is that louis suffered for loving lestat as well. claudia detests louis in large part because they still love each other. louis lost everyone in his human life. louis is constantly facing threats from LESTAT’S past, his mother, theatre des vampires, whoever else. they’ve damned each other: lestat damns louis, louis damns lestat, and the cycle always continues because they cannot fucking resist each other. it is the love and the hatred, euphoria and abject misery, profound connectedness and the most acute loneliness. they are EVERYTHING to one another. rolin’s incessant need on victimizing lestat is butchering one of the best gothic romances of all time.

[funeralspirit]

my louis would be devastated after that. he'd be on suicide watch again. what the fuck was this lukewarm c'est la vie bullshit. right after his daughter basically denounced him forever we're back on the bench psychoanalysing lestat because god forbid we let the weight of anything settle. the writer's questionable choices. at least have the courage to let it linger? at least you take it seriously first, if you're gonna ask the same from me?

[mademoisellebianx]

Joseph Potter as Nicolas de Lenfent in AMC's The Vampire Lestat Episode 07: The Failures