[endiness]

SAM REID as LESTAT DE LIONCOURT The Vampire Lestat (2022–)

[devil-in-my-hand]

I don't think a good portion of the IWTV/TVL audience fully appreciates what it means for the show to be created and written by a team of playwrights.

Across each season, the writers have shown us, time and time again, that they're still playing the long game. The details within might not be fully fleshed out ahead, but the framework and milestones of the show clearly planned, and they've used various literary devices to guide you along the way. The show is more interested in fulfilling its creative vision first and foremost, than in appeasing or pandering to an audience (or in spoon-feeding the material to you). I remember Sam, in an interview, quoting something Rolin said about how you don't know what you want or need to see until you've seen it. I'm enjoying that the show doesn't bow to external pressure and is playing out how it's meant to play out and regardless of how long it takes to get there. That is something extremely rare in TV nowadays, where ratings and/or awards reign supreme. 

Also, sure, let the tale seduce you, but still keep your wits about you!

[fuzzyy-fangs]

“The simple joy of her hand in mine”

More unholy family human AU doodles ❤️

[bratboymolloy]

it’s really so interesting because armand keeps trying to apologize to the daniel from 52 years ago. he wants to start at the beginning. he knows the damage he’s done began there in san francisco. he knows it continued across those 52 years. but daniel doesn’t know that. he only remembers those 6 days—a fraction of what happened between them back then. daniel’s pain is focused on the here and now. his deepest wound (that he knows of) is armand turning him and then abandoning him. his maker left him. his maker who said he was repulsed by making fledglings. so why should daniel be any different? but of course, he is. and armand knows that. armand is trying to tell him that. trying to apologize in the right order. except nothing with them is in the right order. it never has been. so the apology can’t be either. i truly believe the moment armand finally acknowledges what he did to daniel in the recent past is the moment things will start to heal.

[preacherboyd]

The Vampire Lestat | The Devil's Road

[skltart]

wanted to try out a new brush and i've been thinking about her

[preacherboyd]

The Vampire Lestat | The Devil's Road

[schusseltier]

itchy

[hyacinthhues007]

~Intertwined~

[professional-rat-eater]

Daniel showing up in front of Loustat with only a sunburn after we saw how messed up Lestat got from the sun last episode is so funny.

He’s openly bragging about his nepotism. They don’t sunburn, they just burn. He’s been a vampire for five minutes and he’s already getting special treatment. Everyone at that table has been with Armand but only one of them gets to know his secrets.

[tarmairons]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) | S03E05

[wastedwastelandme]

Louis, not looking up from his latest auction items: so how's Daniel doing?

Armand ardently clutching his latest several hundred page journal detailing the different sounds Daniel makes while he sleeps, a tier list ranking the newest appliances Daniel bought for the house, the average amount of times Daniel blinks in a day, etc: he's alright

Louis, King of not asking follow-up questions: that's nice then

[preacherboyd]

The Vampire Lestat | The Devil's Road

[prodigal-strawberry]

[hiitspussyhands]

Vampires can't make good art. That's why Armand's plays looked so goofy, why Louis' photography is canonically bad, why Lestat writes those stupid songs, why Daniel can no longer be a good journalist.

You gotta have death stalking you for your art to mean something, death breathing down your neck, forcing you to create, to transfigure your pain into something durable. If you're already immortal, the urgency disappears, and you get empty, shallow art.

[gipki]

got struck with vampire sickness

(also this months patreon sticker(s))

[liinchaan]

Another small Devil's Minion sketch