Shoes All in a Line

A collection of random things

[tashayarswife]

[userarmand]

pretty face #1 and pretty face #2

[king-the-pathetic]

Sad wet little doggy

[tudvaseva-sasha]

[shoesallinaline]

The truth of the matter is that unless Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat/The Queen of the Damned as a series goes flying wildly, completely, and totally off the rails, I'm still going to be watching it, even if I sometimes question the creative choices 🤷🏻‍♀️

[4th-make-quail]

the fond smiles i fucking can't

[empire-of-light]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.03 · No Pain

[dontreadreviews]

"Vampires are fully erotic. I want to live in that zone"

Eric refuses to hide his vampire kink, and I love him for that.

[shoesallinaline]

If you wait until the end, you get a "relax, down boy."

[historicaltimes]

A man standing in the lumberyard of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939.

via reddit

[interviewwiththewerepire]

"armand isn't owed an apology after all the shit he did to louis, i can't believe they made him do that"

hey guys? Do we maybe think that Armand's tit-for-tat mentality, and the way he's been tallying up his and everyone else's sins against each other is a problem? Is it maybe possible that Louis managing to find empathy for Armand in the face of the monstrosity being done to him, and that radical act of kindness and honesty (about the ways he unintentionally hurt Armand) moving Armand so much that it nearly breaks him, is idk a major theme of this whole season?

you know, sorta like how Lestat was holding onto his feelings of betrayal about the book, and all it did to serve him was make him absolutely miserable and lonely and push him into the arms of someone actively harming him. And how it was only after he let that go, and helped Louis even though he still thought that Louis didn't give a shit about him, that they were able to connect again and be happier than we've ever seen them.

Or like how Louis was able to look past his initial feelings of revulsion and betrayal about the Sophia lie, and offered comfort and a space to speak honestly, and how that granted him a deeper understanding of Lestat, and ultimately strengthened their bond.

Are we seeing the pattern here? How they're breaking the curse of loneliness when they stop seeing each other as monsters, and extend a bit of empathy, even when it's hard or not deserved? How addressing the gaping wound behind the actions might open the door to healing for both parties?

[asliceofoceanmist]

THIS IS CRACKING ME TF UPPP

[lestatthevamp]

People: you either are someone who liked IWTV or someone who liked TVL.

me (the third kind of person who liked both):

[catsbeaversandducks]

[neelyowhora]

moe has taste

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

"Rapid Jottings" by Kitao Keisai Massayoshi from Siegfried Bing's Artistic Japan v.6 (1891).

Full text here.

[shoesallinaline]

I find myself strangely at peace with the lack of Devil's Minion development we got this season, because personally, I do trust Rolin Jones to get us there in the end. Knowing that this was going to be Lestat's season, plus knowing that Armand is pretty antagonistic in The Vampire Lestat book, plus plus knowing that it's in Queen of the Damned that we see a different side of Armand for the first time...I know I'm preaching to the choir for my fellow book fans, but I really do think it's all going to be okay with DM (as well as Loustat), even if it takes us a long minute to get there on the show.

[shoesallinaline]

The amount of times I straight up cackled when Armand went full gremlin mode this episode...