What are you doing with someone like me?

Sophie. She/her. 30s. IWTV, Good Girls, Succession. AO3 flashindie / fandom sideblog of @owlishgirl

[endiness]

"Mr. 26-inch waist"

[bratboymolloy]

oh, i’m the secret. 💓✨

[endiness]

"bonus:"

[userarmand]

louis and armand watching lestat's recordings go up in flames

[endiness]

I'M GIVING THE PAPS MY PUSSYCAT

[lestatdelioncuort]

Sam, how are you feeling?

The Vampire Lestat After Dark S01E1

[sugarcarnation]

the nicki/louis parallels have only just started and i’m already devastated

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 01.01 | "Detroit"

[sheisraging]

The Vampire Lestat 3.01, Detroit

[pynkhues]

when people argue about bottomstat and topstat are they arguing about what Lestat usually does, or arguing that he’s one or the other 100% of the time? Is that the yaoi brain poisoning? Because even apart from Louis canonically topping Lestat at least once on the show, and Louis canonically topping Armand at least once, it seems weird to think vampires who live forever would stick to one thing. Even most humans don’t do that, whatever their preferences.

but there’s a weird subset in twitter that get so angry at any suggestion of Lestat ever bottoming or being remotely feminine or not some massive beefy Hulk.

I feel like I could write a book on the fandom politics of this, anon, haha, but given this is the topic that got me doxxed, I do try to temper how I talk about it publicly.

Look, I will say that most, if not all of the people I know of who like bottom!stat (myself included), think he's vers and that he and Louis switch (although admittedly, I do tend to headcanon just personally that they have preferences), and I think historically that's been the case for at least as long as I've been in this fandom. There is a very strong subset of people (not just on twitter, trust me, they're here too) who are very committed to the concept of masc/top!/Lestat and fem/bottom!/Louis, and try to position their preference as not only as canon/the default, but as a form of activism. I still get - - mm, probably weekly/every ten days or so, I would say (so down significantly from what it was) anons telling me I'm racist for writing bottom!stat in fics / saying I don't think Louis' particularly fem. I just don't post them.

I think a lot of the arguments these days are a little rooted in the fact that there does tend to be more support with pushback these days than there were for a while (again, people [like me] were doxxed for this, which I think did quieten conversation for a while), which is in many ways a product of the growth within the fandom. It's - - yes. Ever interesting, haha, but I agree it's kind of nuts to imagine immortal creatures would stick to one role for eternity, both in bed and out of it.

[pynkhues]

I AM SO EXCITED THAT YOU LOVED IT TELL US ALL YOUR THOUGHTS!!!!!

I've watched it twice through now, and I'm genuinely still processing my thoughts! It moves so quickly and just feels so jam packed, I feel like I could watch it a hundred more times and pick up on more and more!! I started to reply, but then put on the second ep, so it kind of deteriorates into a bit of a live blog, haha, but hopefully I am vaguely coherent:

While I was watching the episode the first time, the word that kept coming to mind was tragicomic, and I was so happy to hear Rolin say it in the After Dark episode too, particularly in the context of Lestat as a character, because he is. It's funny and devastating and unhinged! As any show centred on Lestat should be!!

Already loved the songs obviously, but the work Daniel's doing too with the score is just incredible. It feels like such a beautiful progression of the compositions from the first two seasons, and I love the way it plays with different types of orchestral arrangements and different genres and more stripped back sounds. I really love the jazzier music over the hotel opening scene and how it switches to something orchestral when we get to the final fight, and the way that guitar piece across the end of Daniel and Lestat's interview on the bus in particular builds to Lestat singing those couple of lines in the hotel as he texts Gabrielle, it's just really beautiful.

Speaking of, I love the scene of Lestat and Daniel on the bus. Their dynamic already feels so different, and I laughed at the transformational trauma line given Eric obviously spoiled that but got away with saying Sam said it to him instead of Lestat. The way both of them go through a spectrum of nuanced emotions in that scene though is incredible, and I LOVE that Daniel wouldn't let the childhood stutter line go, and that it's specifically something Louis told him, even if it didn't seemingly make the book. A really nice way to show that Louis told Daniel more than what we saw, and that those things were real in a way some things in the book weren't. Also love that it became such a scab for the episode to pick at.

Concert scenes were awesome, but I feel like we knew that already.

The doppelganger also sent me, and as I just said, had me making eyes re: the Body Thief arc, haha.

Still love the scene from the IGN clip. Lestat and Louis at their flirtiest before the betrayal of it all!

The band!! The entourage!! Love all of them already, especially Dee who got one of the funniest lines of the episode. Also I YELLED at Lestat suggesting more frequent showers in the band room at the end of that scene.

"You're like some wet clothes in a coin op dryer, just 265 years round and round. Why are you so sad?" SUCH a great line.

ALSO: GIVING THE PAPS MY PUSSYCAT!!!

VERY curious what they're doing with Baby Jenks, and I'd speculated that she'd be the connecting point between Lestat and Louis and Bruce and the Fang Gang, but it's nice to have that confirmed. I hope they do delve into the darker stuff with her too, but we'll see.

Lestat vomiting talking about listening to transactional sex through the adjoining walls before Gabriella comes at the end of the episode, and they have, well. Transactional sex, just not in a way involving money, ate me up.

I know we knew already, but him calling Louis Mr. du Lac killed meeee, as did him immediately regretting calling Louis insane, haha.

BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE TWIRL TWIRL OVERSHARE

The elevator orgy scene is! SO Much!

Describing his rockstar act as a bawdy burlesque, I know that's right, haha.

"We are the children of darkness reborn." [hysterical laughter] "Jesus fucking Christ" SAM REID, THE ACTOR YOU ARE!! Which I could say about basically every scene in this episode, but that one sent me to the moon.

'"This is why gods prefer hiding in clouds, there's nothing there but water waiting to fall."

Just that entire last sequence with Gabriella's arrival and Lestat age regressing - - GOD. I feel like I need to watch it a hundred more times, I'm genuinely obsessed and thinking about it already relentlessly. Dam is just unbelievably good in it, a total open wound already, even before he stutters, and I just am screaming into my pillow. What an episode! What a show!!

[endiness]

[kinkydorah]

ASSAD ZAMAN as ARMAND THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 1.01

[lestatscunt]

lestat's stutter coming back the moment he sees gabriella for the first time in hundreds of years and says her name

[fascinationstreetmp3]

Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy Interview with the Vampire — 3.01

[pynkhues]

TVL SPOILERS

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Soooo it HAS to be Lestat in Raglan's body????

They're definitely setting it up to look that way re: Lestat as Raglan, but I agree with the second anon too that it could be a red herring and was a bit 👀 re: the doppelganger as well! It felt really potentially loaded, and it would make sense if it's a part of the plan to keep Sam playing Lestat in the Body Thief arc (even if he might be for a time in Raglan's too), because as you said, that arc's more about being in a mortal body than it is about changing the way he looks. Those dynamics were played as a really interesting beat at the auction house though, so I can't wait to see how it all plays out!

[texasbama]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.01 'DETROIT'