I can’t wait for Rolin to write a scene where Gabrielle kisses Armand right on the mouth while Armand makes intense, unbroken, and unblinking eye contact with Lestat.
I can’t wait for Rolin to write a scene where Gabrielle kisses Armand right on the mouth while Armand makes intense, unbroken, and unblinking eye contact with Lestat.
Hey sickos here’s a thing I made in two days of a feral frenzy of learning to use a video editor because I hadn’t seen anybody make one of these for Armand over on the clock app have fun
Like Lestat rising from the grave from the sound of rock music, I have been summoned by the sight of Gabrielle getting freaky with Lestat on a big screen.
Like Lestat rising from the grave from the sound of rock music, I have been summoned by the sight of Gabrielle getting freaky with Lestat on a big screen.
Since January of this year I’ve broken up with my partner of almost three years because they confessed they did not want to date me when I begin medical transition, adjusted my prescriptions to something not quite right, and am currently living through -gestures vaguely at the current state of the US-.
“Getting back to vamp-posting” and “Updating vamp.house” are on my todo list, (below things like “Figure out what to do if AI decides my job is ‘wasteful spending’”), but I’m just having a hard being excited about stuff right now ✌️
This is such an interesting post on how misinformation spreads involuntarily! People are sharing it screaming with fannish joy - they're going to have an actual promotional tour for a fictional band?! - but what proof is actually there in the post?
First of all: it's a screenshot without a source.
In the screenshot you have a twitter account called "Interview with the V..." with a blue check, handle @/iwtvupdates. If you check it: it's not an official update account, but a fan account that bought a blue check.
They're posting a screenshot, a link and a summary saying "Sam [Reid] is heading on tour", but since this Tumblr post is a screenshot of a tweet we can't check what's written in the screenshot that was posted on twitter. So now we have to do the homework and look for the original source.
The link in the tweet goes to Adweek, an online publication that is geared towards advertisers.
Let's check the source of AMC's press release that Adweek republished and look at original wording:
Opportunities Include the 15th Anniversary of The Walking Dead this Halloween, a Backstage Pass for Season Three of Anne Rice’s Interview wi
Returning in 2026, season three of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire will feature Vampire Lestat (Sam Reid) headlining as the most immortal rockstar the world has ever seen, and AMC Networks is bringing advertisers on tour with him.
Content Room is inviting partners to hit the road with Rockstar Lestat for a season three promotional tour including a variety of stops.
These is the paragraph that made people think "there is going to be an actual tour". But if you pay attention, it says it's for advertisers and "[advertising] partners". Not fans. So what are they proposing to the advertisers whose money they want? What are these "variety of stops"?
This “Backstage Pass” offering will integrate advertisers across all touchpoints of the tour – from in-show, on-ground and through custom media campaigns.
They're trying to sell them a thing called "Backstage Pass" - which is not an actual backstage pass for an actual tour but "in-show, on-ground and custom media campaigns": various types of ads, both in the show and during events like they did at SDCC. These are the "touchpoints of the tour": types of ads the advertisers can buy.
Kicking off later this year, opportunities include first look “soundchecks” of the new season, shoppable co-branded consumer products in a Rock Shop merch store, and in-world integrated content.
These are advertising opportunities. There could be events with a "first look of the new season" (premieres? sneak peeks?) called "soundchecks" (because the marketing team likes the rockstar theme), a merch store (like the one they already have but rockstar themed), and "in-world integrated content" (product placement?)
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So... This was an ad for ads.
Not an announcement for a real life tour for a fictional band. No mention of Sam Reid other than "he plays Lestat in S3", no mention of an actual tour where he plays music in-character. Those things were added by the twitter fan account and reshared by fans.
All there was in the end is a marketing team that got a bit carried away with the music theme and fans got carried away because the thought of attending an actual real life concert of a fictional vampire was just too fun.
Great post, I was also just checking with an Anonymous Source, who corroborates all of this: It is not a real tour, it is just cutesy marketing jargon which does seem very confusing at first glance. False alarm, everybody, calm down LOL
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