Resplendent Golden Wings

My mom used to say "I ain't gotta do nothin', but be Black and die." I always loved the defiant spirit of it, but it's only as an adul9t that I truly understand it.

[lambf4rm]

don’t go where I can’t follow

[weardes]

twiirrl, twiiirrrl

[misstherese]

i think its great that armand gets to murder his ex-boyfriends with his current boyfriend. it's a wonderful idea for a date night. armand is so considerate.

[maxwyl]

lestat said kill yourself and armand made one of his bandmates jump in front of a train. lestat made fun of armand's sexual performance and past as a child sex slave and armand helped his boyfriend leak a video of lestat having sex with his own mother. you go low he goes to hell hall of fame

[i-know-the-enddc]

I'm confused about the response to the Claudia ghost scene.

It's basically the same as the scene in the book but compounded by aspects of Claudia's character from Interview with the Vampire and other books in the series. Claudia is evil and she embraces that—is that a new thing that you guys didn't realize?

She kills innocent people and takes sadistic pleasure in it. She dismembers her victims and keeps their rotting bodies in her room for her own enjoyment 😭. She has no shame and no desire to live up to human morality. Of course she prefers Lestat over Louis because she actually understands and respects Lestat—at least he knows he's evil, at least he embraces being a monster, at least he doesn't try to pretend to be good and human like Louis does.

She's also been wandering in purgatory and torment watching this man who took everything from her do the same fucking shit he's always done while parading the dollified memory of her around so he can use her like an object of his own pain—all while fucking the man who orchestrated her murder and wishing he was fucking the man who abused her and reading out her secret diary she never intended him or anyone to read for the world and FOR HER RAPIST??

Not for her. Not for her at all. All for his pain and his desires and her as a throw pillow for when he won't look at her kindly 💀. Literally paying girls like they're whores to dress up like her. Lestat knows he did Claudia wrong and he never pretended he didn't.

"But Claudia says she lied about what Lestat said on the train and that's bad" — okay?? Why?? 😭😭

She lied about Lestat saying one particularly vile and cruel thing to her to get Louis to side with her against him. IDK, she also slit Lestat's throat? 😭 It's not like she lied about how he treated her and the abuse he put her through. She told Louis a story she knew would get him upset. Why's that bad.

These are all dishonest and unreliable narrators. But Claudia can't be dishonest or biased or motivated in complicated ways cuz she's the pure one that doesn't lie? Like I don't get it.

It's the same as the scene in Merrick. Claudia calls Louis Lestat's slave in Interview with the Vampire(the book). I remember reading Merrick and thinking AMC IWTV would have a field day with this. And like. They did.

I guess everyone can be fucked up and have dark and complicated morals except for Claudia who's unambiguously good. So true.

Here’s some excerpts from the scene adapted from Merrick. In the book Claudia tells Louis she wants him to kill himself and she’s going to enjoy watching him do it, so really they held back

[lukeskyandante]

They want her to be the perfect victim, the cute doll that do nothing wrong. She is a monster, just like her fathers! This is the fucked up monster show, why are people complaining when they are fucked up monsters???

Like, what the fuck is happening to this fandom??? You don't even have to go that far on previous seasons to see that this woman hated Louis guts. She loved him, yeah, but she hated him too, and that's a fact. The purest of hatred can only come from the purest of loves.

Also saw people saying that "all of that to louis and only a slap on the wrist to lestat". Like??? Are people being dumb on purpose? She already orchestrated his murder! He's not dead only because Louis didn't want to burn him, and actively choked her for good measure. Her hatred for him was already on the clear for decades.

Anyway, Delainey Hayles deserves all the awards, all the flowers and all the praise. What an actress!

[ambitiouswitch]

I actually find so funny that they find it so offensive that she said Lestat was her favorite. Like, who else is gonna be? Louis, who spend their lives acting like he was superior to her and Lestat because he hated himself about his nature as a vampire?

Louis being the centre of Claudia's life while Lestat was an outsider is completely his own delusion. In the books it was more clear how close she was with Lestat but in the show (like that conversation in the first book where she tells Louis she misses Lestat because with him they were 'complete'), is so clear that Louis' belief that Lestat killed Claudia made him paint their relationship as non-existent sans anything but hatred.

[ambitiouswitch]

I'm dying at Lestat and Claudia's synchronized horror faces at Louis' AUDACITY of saying that, lmao

Please, people said she was harsh with Louis? Book!Claudia told him to kill himself and actually stabbed him. She was nice.

[texasbama]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.06 'Montreal'

[sugarcarnation]

louis going out of his way to drink lestats blood after learning about his relationship to gabriella is actually so important because it’s his way of showing lestat that despite what louis said earlier he is not disgusted by him. he still loves him, he still wants him and he wants to share his blood with him (something which according to lestat is more intimate than having sex)

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.06 | "Montreal" preview

[wisteria-lodge]

One thing I'm really loving about the perspective shift between Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat is how Lestat and Louis appear in each other's narratives, through each other's eyes.

Louis sees Lestat as this primal force of nature who looks like a romance novel hero, can effortlessly control any room, is "preternaturally charming," impeccably turned out, no one can say no to him for long.

but we get in LESTAT'S head, and suddenly he has scars and a tangled mane of hair, people are constantly talking over him, he sweats, he's getting beat up and his clothes are getting destroyed in a non-sexy way, he's flailing around wildly with NO idea what he's doing, people (lestat included) think he's untalented and annoying.

And LOUIS, well. Louis clearly sees himself as uncanny, reserved, compelling but a little off-putting. He is other: cut-off from humanity, holding his emotions and relationships at arm's length.

Then we see him in The Vampire Lestat, and it's like no. This is the warmest, cutest, sexiest, coolest, most capable and most desirable man who has ever walked the face of the earth.

[lioncourtz]

i know what you are louis de pointe du lac

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.06 | "Montreal"

[resplendentgoldenwings]

You genuinely think that little Black girl should have killed herself after getting turned against her will? Jesus Christ, forget these fictional vampires, YOU’RE cruel and evil in real life. Posting that people in bad circumstances should kill themselves rather than hurt others (about a show where the humans are almost all bad too, for that matter) doesn’t make you virtuous or even good at following the meaning of the story. Your dumb self-righteous ass can’t even distinguish human and vampire morality (they are two separate things) in a fictional setting. You’re cruel. You’re miserably cruel. If this is how you act about fiction it’s inevitably going to bleed out into how you talk about reality and people will notice and judge you accordingly.

Don’t kill yourself. I want you to have a long life that eventually makes you realize what a stuck up piece of shit you are.

The fuck is wrong with you? It's the only honorable thing in any form of vampire media. Get your shit together, jack ass!

[simoneashley]

#ideal dynamic Louis and Lestat in Interview With the Vampire 3.06

[resplendentgoldenwings]

I've declared my hate for Armand so passionately these last few years it kinda hurts to admit I've loved every moment of his screen time this season and every gremlin thing that he's done.

[dorkysunflower219]

Armand telling how he watched Daniel approach his daughter uninvited and she told him to fuck off, and then in the next episode Louis and Lestat summon their unwilling daughter’s spirit and she tells them to fuck off

[texasbama]

just two idiots obsessed with each other