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IWTV Fic Masterpost

From most to least recent. Make sure to carefully read the tags as well as the warnings for the relevant fics, and proceed at your own discretion. Will be adding to this list as I post more fic <3 You can now also read my Louis/Lestat oneshots in chronological order.

🔥 The House Was a Funeral Pyre 🔥 | Louis/Lestat (explicit, 74.6k, warning: canon-typical everything) - COMPLETE!

In the cold grime of 1910 Paris, with loud steps over wet pavement, an inebriated group of young bohemians were exiting a small theater and making their way home. They were shouting, rambunctious with laughter, and one of the men was dancing, bathed in the streetlight glow. He was beautiful. Louis watched from the above in the dark, from the top of the steps leading down to the dirty path. He stood between the shadows, and for the first time in almost one hundred years, felt the draw of the warm light below. Louis and Lestat, in reverse.

Shavir_Light's 2025 Kinktober (late & out of order) | Louis/Lestat (explicit, varying lengths, varying warnings)

Various short IWTV Kinktober fics that I write on my own schedule. Mostly Louis/Lestat, some Louis/Daniel and Louis/Armand. This is really just for my own fun.

#iwtv fic #interview with the vampire #iwtv #loustat #loustat fic #long post

did you prefer S1 or S2 overall or too hard to choose?

Too hard to choose I'm afraid. I think season 1 is tighter and more consistent while season 2 feels less laser-focused but more ambitious. They have really different strengths, and to me they're perfect as two halves of the same whole.

My hunch about season 3 is that it will be a lot more uneven, with incredible as well as more questionable aspects. So really, not unlike its source material 🤷

#it's not really a fair fight though seeing as 1 and 2 were the louis seasons #i love lestat and i agree with the decision to have him as the lead for season 3 #but ldpdl is simply it for me. thee titular vampire #thank you for the ask!#ask

Oh my gosh, thank you for answering!!! I’m the blood sharing anon, and that is exactly the kind of in-depth analysis I was hoping for. It’s just so fascinating to me, and I find the way you’re able to explore it extremely creative and also admirable as a fic writer myself. I think I did a good job understanding Louis and Lestat (Lestat especially, and he’s a big part of what brings me back to it again and again—you did convey his feeling uncomfortable and used, too, really well, especially that moment where he comes out of the room and he passes by Claudia fresh from from the sharing and all the bitemarks are all over him). But Claudia’s feelings were a little more unclear to me, and now I have this new context in which to think about it and it’s so good and further enriches the story.

I love and appreciate your long replies because it’s always nice to get that sort of behind-the-scenes look at what an author is thinking, but I do feel a little selfish for asking you to pick apart your brain like this lol. Anyway, I didn’t come here to ramble on your inbox again—just wanted to say thank you for taking your time to answer! It’s nice that you let us come here post-reading to keep the discussion going.

Oh man, I gotta say that's a big relief, haha. I'm really glad to hear that you enjoyed my 2 AM ramble. The idea that it's in any way "selfish" to ask me that stuff... you don't understand. Getting to yap about these horny vampires, the reverse AU versions especially, is part of what makes this life worth living lmao. And really, it makes me think more deeply about the show, the characters and my own writing, which can be extremely helpful to the process, not to mention interesting and fun! So I really do appreciate that kind of opportunity. I don't really have a lot of chances to get it out normally.

So really, thank YOU for asking and for reading. I feel like I say this every time but I truly mean it, it's humbling to know that people enjoy my writing and want to know my opinions on these things ❤️

#🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️ for real #ask

Will you be posting your thoughts after the episodes?

It's unlikely. In general I try to avoid sharing my opinions on the show on Tumblr beyond how they relate to my writing, mainly to avoid getting into any kind of discourse. I find that kind of conflict extremely stressful - I don't even like seeing it, let alone participating, and fandom is ultimately a hobby for me and something I engage with for fun.

I also prefer to defer my judgement for after the season is over; I feel like when the episodes are airing emotions can run extremely high, and personally I've found that with seasons 1 and 2 a lot of my opinions ended up shifting once I was able to view them as a whole and had time to really sit down and think about them.

I hope that doesn't disappoint! Thank you for the ask ❤️

#ask

I'm so excited for season 3 of iwtv, but I think one of the things I'm most excited about is seeing Louis through Lestat's eyes, like, it's going to reveal so mucg about both Louis and Lestat to see ho how he is percieved and how Lestat percieves him!!!

I am trying not to set my expectations too high for this season considering how good the first two were (I really don't expect lightning to strike three times), but oh my god. Oh my god. Yes I am praying they deliver on that specific front as well. I want to see Louis be framed as even more dreamy than he was before, though I can't even say if I think that's possible. Honestly though, I would embrace any and all new LDPDL material. I NEED him back on my television screen.

#we all have to be so strong. one more week!!!!!!!!!#legitimately i can't believe i lasted two years not looking at spoilers. bravest and most noble thing i ever did #ask

This may be a topic that has already come up a time or two (and if it has, I’ll search for it!), but I’d love to hear more of your thoughts about Louis feeding solely from Lestat in Pyre and exactly what it meant to you. I think the meaning is clear and I also have my own interpretation, but it’s such a source of fascination for me because I think you explored it in such a unique way, and I always come back to it and I’m just endlessly obsessed with it and Claudia’s reaction to it, etc. IF there’s anything more to dissect from it, I’d love to hear it.

Also, I’m rereading IWTV, and I couldn’t help but think of Claudia and Lestat making a game of their kills during the part where Louis and Claudia are sailing to Europe and a fever breaks out on the ship lol.

This is a really interesting ask and i appreciate it because really I've always had a fascination with the idea of Louis feeding through Lestat too, and while I have explored that in my writing I still don't know that I fully understand why it compels me. This prompted me to think more about it, though, and I feel like there are a few things going on in that part of the reverse AU dynamic (link to the fic if anyone is interested).

First, Louis' mental state is completely scattered; his companions tried to leave him, his daughter isn't speaking to him and, well, he's recovering from a suicide attempt. He's trying to find something to hold onto and Lestat is the only thing in his life he still feels like he has any control over. And, I think in a very fucked up way this is the period of time when Louis is most attracted to Lestat in the whole story; if he let Lestat play at being the dominant partner before, during Louis' recovery he actually lets himself believe it. Lestat doting on and caring for him while Louis has the excuse of his injuries and can't possibly deny him, I think, is a real high for this version of Louis, who feels the weight of responsibility for Lestat on his shoulders. It's a little similar to what canon!Louis had with Armand, just switched around; Louis doesn't want to be Lestat's maker, and this dynamic where the, forgive me, parent-child roles are flipped, is very appealing to him.

I think the injuries from the attempt also make Louis hungrier, like, literally. And mentally, he is too detached and apathetic to be caring about human beings or his moral code at that point in time. At the same time, going out every night and actively murdering people is more involved than he would be willing to be. Drinking from Lestat (especially while they're fucking and Louis' rational brain isn't exactly steering the wheel) is just about the furthest he could possibly remove himself from the act of killing.

And on the more cynical side, Louis is (subconsciously at least) leaning heavily on the physical, potentially even preternatural makerfledgling link he has with Lestat to rebuild and sustain his connection with him, something he cannot do with Claudia, and also something Claudia can't offer Lestat. It becomes more explicit later, but Louis is essentially leveraging his sexual relationship with Lestat to keep him from going with Claudia and leaving him alone again.

This works well with the way Louis has to sell himself the narrative of this act. He does feel guilty about the attempt on some level, and so being so affectionate with Lestat and drinking human blood again can be framed as something that he is doing for Lestat, and not because he himself enjoys it or wants to. He's only drinking human blood because it's what keeps Lestat with him, and really Lestat loves it when Louis drinks his blood (or does he?) so it's practically an act of service, right?

...And now I've realized I haven't even talked about Lestat's side of it yet. It's 2am I apologize.

Anyway, this arrangement is giving Lestat, on paper, everything he's been yearning for; Louis is letting Lestat care for him, being affectionate and loving toward him, having clingy missionary sex with him. And, of course, he's feeding from Lestat again after so many years of not doing it (and not feeding much at all). In Lestat's eyes, this is not only a demonstration of Louis' love for him but also of his commitment to healing and continuing to live.

But like, it's complicated. I mean it obviously recreates the moment of Lestat's assault, something he wants desperately to think about as simpler and more straightforwardly romantic than it actually was. But Louis feeding from him does hurt, both physically and emotionally, and it paradoxically also makes it harder to deny the reality of it as a violent act at the same time.

Lestat also likes to feel useful, and in this context he is downright relieved to be able to do something active and beneficial to Louis' recovery. Not only that, but now the very thing that Louis used to "look down" on him for, the source of much of their conflict, has become something good, something Louis wants and asks for and takes pleasure in receiving.

And the fact that Louis is also "making use" of Lestat's body while this happens complicates things further, because Lestat unambiguously enjoys giving Louis pleasure and loves having sex with him (esp. after Louis' decade-long issues with sexual performance), but at the same time Lestat has also got his own unresolved issues around his body, his past sex work (which he does not think about as sex work), and most critically the way Louis practically claimed ownership of him and his body by becoming his maker. I think I may have alluded to it, but I imagine by the end of some of those feeding sessions after the orgasmic bliss dissipates Lestat ends up feeling kind of uncomfortable and used.

As for Claudia, I think the whole thing honestly disgusts her. I mean, it's not a very flattering moment for Louis, who she already thinks pretty lowly of, and now sees as a hypocrite for attempting to preserve his perceptionof himself as a "moral vampire" while basically having Lestat kill for him every night. I also think there's something about the act of sharing blood that probably fascinates and disturbs her in that way sex fascinates and disturbs you when you first learn about it. I haven't really worked out her and Louis' travels pre-story (and tbh I don't know that I ever fully will) but I think it's safe to assume she's never experienced the kind of blood-sharing for herself, beyond the night of Louis' turning. Deep down, there's a thread of jealousy over the fact that she can't offer that kind of intimacy to Lestat, and could have never gotten it from Louis.

Right so uh. I think that's all I have to say. I feel like this always happens but I am still kind of baffled by how long this turned out being. I just end up thinking as I write so sometimes it really gets away from me, I guess.

Finally, since you mentioned you had your own interpretation, I would really really love to hear it! I often find that readers have insights that can really make me see things differently, and think more deeply about the things I write as well as about canon.

Thank you for sending this ask, it's always really humbling when someone engages with my writing, Funeral Pyre especially, and wants to know more about it.

#tw suicide #long post #guys i was not kidding about the length of this one #the house was a funeral pyre #ask

Ummm…We literally follow you to hear what goes on in that brain of yours. Long in depth answers are always the best. Besides you don’t do that for every ask and even if you did I’m still reading that shit.

Stop 😭😭😭 that's really kind of you to say, thank you 😢❤️

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I get a little selfconscious sometimes when I write an insanely long answer to an ask but I guess no one has to read them if they don't want to and also maybe at this point people know to expect that kind of self-indulgent essay if they ask me a question lmao

#don't worry i didn't just write a thousand words about a plot point in my reverse au fic

Favourite quotes from the show that stuck with you?

Apologies for being roughly one million years late to answer this ask. I actually ended up doing a rewatch of the show, which provided me with some ideas about how to answer it.

I think it might be a bit boring if I just listed my favorite quotes, since my reasons for liking them are usually super obvious and not very interesting (I wanted him dead I wanted him all to myself.... I'm just horny for it honestly). Instead, what I feel like might be more interesting would be to point out some quotes that I think are underrated or especially revealing somehow. So, in chronological order, here are some of my picks. Be warned, as always, I don't know how to write anything short.

"You draw me into your gloom." - Lestat to Louis in 1x5 - discussions of Louis and Lestat during the years Claudia was on her own tend to focus on Louis' depression during that time, for good reason, but I think as a result Lestat's mental state tends to be interpreted through that lens too - ie, 'Lestat is depressed because Louis is depressed and not paying attention to him anymore'. To be fair, this is what Lestat is essentially saying in this line, but I've always interpreted it as very transparently disingenuous? I think it's easier for him to blame Louis for "making" him depressed, but really that's ridiculous; their daughter ran away from home, and regardless of how badly he treated her, Lestat did love her, and did love being part of a functioning family. I think about this line a lot when I think about his tendency to lie to himself, the way he deals (or doesn't deal) with being rejected, and the way he strongarms himself into hating something so that it can't hurt him anymore. He can't face that he's depressed because of Claudia leaving, so his depression has to be an outside influence. We talk a lot about how Louis blames Lestat for his problems, but really, Lestat does it too.

"I fought myself a million times." - Lestat to Louis in 1x5 - so like. He fought himself a million times? From beating his partner? That's good to know. That's really good to know.

"He told me he loved me. Before, during, after." - Claudia to Louis in 2x3: I don't necessarily think this line is underrated but I feel like people don't talk enough about why Claudia is choosing that moment to say it, and what we're invited to think about when she does. Like... it's Lestat, right? Beyond sharing her own experiences, she's telling Louis, 'Lestat loved you but he did abuse you, and you shouldn't forget that'. This might just be my interpretation, but I think she's also offering a degree of empathy in this. Like, it's hardest to take abuse when it's couched in love, and through this comparison to Bruce Claudia is signaling that on some fucked up level, she understands that. Personally, I think Claudia is making the comparison knowingly (the second time she compares Bruce to Lestat, with the first being in 1x6), but even if you disagree, I think it's undeniable the narrative is instructing us to draw the connection, with this conversation coming immediately after Louis' freakout in the darkroom.

"I pretended to be an actor for two years." - Dreamstat to Louis in 2x4: Dreamstat lines in general are always extremely interesting to me because it's quite literally Louis speaking through Lestat to himself. So many questions here. What does it mean that Louis frames Lestat's acting career in such a dismissive way? Was it Lestat who told him about it, or did he learn about it through Armand? Personally, I think Lestat probably told him, but really that only makes that line more horrible. It's not often that I feel bad for Lestat, but that one actually does get me. Like, that his career and future on the stage was violently stolen from him is one of his life's biggest tragedies, and this is how Louis speaks about it. Granted, it could be that Lestat presented it like that when he told him, but that is almost equally sad to think about.

"Rage is an imprecise emotion. I'd hurt him, but I was fragile, an invalid." - Louis to Daniel in 2x5 (referring to Armand): this line to me is a companion to Lestat's "I fought myself a million times" line from before. It's pretty clear the implication here is that, accordingly to Louis at least, Armand likely wanted to hurt him, but took it out on Daniel instead since Louis was weak. Granted, this is Louis' interpretation of the situation - I don't know that I personally believe Armand would have actually physically hurt Louis even if he wasn't already injured, but I do believe that he probably wanted to, and I find it extremely unsettling.

"I'm talking now." - Louis to Daniel in 2x7: I actually don't have anything clever to say about this one I just think it fucking rules.

"This is vampire loneliness." - Santiago/Lestat/the play's script in 2x7: I know that's not really what they meant by it, but I think it's so funny and in line with Lestat's character to think of his loneliness as uniquely tragic and innately worse than other people's. What about Louis' loneliness? What about Claudia's? It's giving male loneliness epidemic I won't lie to you.

"I gave you to Armand." - Lestat to Louis in 2x8: I said this before I think, but this line indicates to me that Lestat does on some level still think of Louis in terms of ownership, even if it's not necessarily something he's fully conscious of. It's not that he let Louis walk away, it's specifically that he GAVE him to another man. That, combined with Lestat choosing not to tell Louis the truth about Armand's actions, only emphasizes the way Lestat still continues to deny him agency. It was either about punishing Louis, or himself, or both, but either way it wasn't treating Louis like a full, autonomous person. I honestly think it's a great line, and subtly very revealing of the ways in which Lestat changed in some ways (letting Louis go) and stayed the same in others (thinking that he was ever his to give away to begin with).

So... A lot of Lestat in this one, huh. I guess that makes sense, seeing as his inner workings are always something you need to extrapolate from the text, since he's the only one whose perspective or opinions we don't get to hear. Or maybe I've just been on a bit of a Lestat kick lately. I do love that insane man.

Hope this was at least somewhat interesting to read! Thank you for the ask, it definitely gave me a lot to think about.

#there are of course a lot of interesting and complex line in this show #but on different rewatches i find myself fixating on different ones #and these were the ones that stood out to me on this one!#i mostly wanted to shout out some lines i haven't seen getting talked about a lot #but that were really important to my understanding of the characters #hope it made any sort of sense. anyway #iwtv #ask

I've been spending too much time offline I guess

i desperately want more fic from you but also there's no such thing as too much time offline, we should all be offline as much as possible lol.

That is kind of you to say and probably true tbh... I am also preparing myself to be online literally constantly once season 3 starts airing lmao... And you better believe I'll be writing then 🥴

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Idk if you’re still writing your kinktober fics but you said you were open to considering requests and I was wondering if you’d ever consider writing a free use fic? It could work for either of them in whichever time era I think and I know the way you would write it would be so emotional and hot

Hiii yes I'm still writing the Kinktober fics, though currently on a bit of a break since I have a big deadline approaching at my job. Once season 3 starts airing, though, I expect to be back in the groove again.

To your question, one of the prompts in the collection is indeed free use, and I do have an idea for it! So unless something changes, I should get to it at some point. The plan right now is to set it during the 7 year depression era, with Louis being the dominant party.

Also, there are still other asks in my askbox that I haven't gotten around to answering yet 🥲 I've been spending too much time offline I guess. But rest assured I will get to all of them eventually!!!

#thank you for the ask I hope I can do the prompt justice!!#it WILL be depressing I can tell you that much #ask

Sorry, I’m the one who asked the ai question, for context I got ocd and accidentally missed my meds, freaked out, and made it your problem which is ENTIRELY on me! So, sorry about that, I’m in a better head space now.

Oh man no need to apologize! I think I misread your tone, I'm sorry right back at you 🙏 I definitely thought you were pro-ai which was my bad. Really glad to hear you're in better shape now.

I have been thinking of you and your admirable self-discipline in the s3 run-up! We're almost there! Can we provide you any enrichment in your promo abstinence? 😂💕

That is so kind of you 😭I admit that paradoxically, the closer we get to the premiere the harder it's been to stay celibate so to speak. Fortunately, I have a friend who has been providing me with the occasional no context photo of LDPL. You know, so that I don't go completely insane. I miss him so bad. I love his little chain.

#we're so close you guys we're SO CLOSE #ask

I don't actually know what the standard is regarding editing already published fics, but it's my work and no one can stop me... I don't really ever change anything big but I do sometimes like to go back and make the prose a little better and/or adjust some lines to better fit the way I interpret the characters now.. I hope that's okay I guess. If it's not, well, too late lmao

#also sometimes there's like. a single small detail that stops a fic from being canon-compliant #and it drives me absolutely crazy. so i just remove/change it #anyway there is actually one fic that i have been considering editing in a more major way #specifically the post-reunion fic i wrote immediately after the s2 finale #i just feel like i could expand on the first half and actually write proper scenes for some of the progression i describe there #but at the same time i also want to be mindful of the fact that some readers might not appreciate the fic being changed like that #idk it's a bit of a conundrum i guess. though with the rest of them i'm hoping it's not too noticable at least #basically. i'm sweating waiting for s3 to render all of my post s2 writing redundant

Do you have an opinion on gen ai in fandom space?

I actually got two asks about this, and frankly I'm kind of baffled by this question. Who is asking this? Anyway, yeah, it's a hard no for me. Even if gen AI wasn't ruining the planet, which is already reason enough to disapprove of it, what is even the point in using it for something like fanwork, or art in general? It reeks of insecurity and entitlement to me. You want a piece of art to exist? Commission it. You can't afford to commission it? Make it yourself. You don't want to make it yourself? Well, tough. You can't always get what you want.

#i don't want to fall into the trap of saying 'also it makes shitty art' even though i think that's true #because ultimately i think it's a weak argument and it would be wrong to use it even if it did make “good” art #anyway. really not sure why i'm being asked about this. hope my answer satisfies #i could go deeper into it but frankly i feel like everything i would say has been said already #ask

I really like bottom Lestat but I'm a lot more particular about it so I write it less as a result.

Would you mind sharing? I ask this as someone who LOVESUH your bottom Lestat fics. I’ll take bottom Lestat in any configuration but there’s something about a modern bottom Lestat that scratches a certain itch

Oh man so I've been thinking about how to answer this ask for a couple of days now and I'll be honest I've not made much progress lmao. I think at the end of the day almost anything can work in a fic if written with care and nuance and so every time I find myself wanting to make a definitive statement (ie "that wouldn't make sense" or "that wouldn't be hot") I end up thinking well, I'm sure it COULD, if written right.

Really, it's probably equally about Louis for me as it is about Lestat, if that makes sense. I'm not the first to point out that there is a tendency (in fandom specifically and in society in general) to equate bottoming with femininity with victimhood with moral goodness with personhood. I'm very sensitive to that when I read and write erotica, and I find that bottom Lestat fics can sometimes slip into "poor mistreated baby Lestat/vindictive aggressive uncaring Louis" territory (sometimes accidentally, especially since I think Lestat often sees himself in this way) if Louis isn't written with enough empathy and understanding. So honestly it's probably more about how the dynamic is framed than anything.

Not sure if this answered your question but either way thank you for the ask and for the kind words!! I'm sure I will end up writing more bottom Lestat after season 3 airs 😏

#hope this wasn't a bummer answer lmao #i never want to yuck anyone's yum. i obviously also love bottom lestat and do write it #and i'm really not thinking of a specific author here #more that it's a thing i've noticed in some writing that is probably not even intentional on the part of the writer #and with iwtv being such a divisive text and the loustat relationship being one that involves domestic abuse #it's hard not to be sensitive to how it's portrayed in fanworks #and be sort of hyper conscious of what the implications of the dynamic you are writing might be. so yeah #the equating of bottoming/femininity/victimhood/goodness/personhood is part of a much larger conversation #anyway. sorry for bringing down the vibe lmao #ask

Um… the dildo link on your latest fic doesn’t work for me… and I’m very curious… for educational purposes 🧐

Here is it <3

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