[yaoiblackmold]

Well if Louis is lying and Armand is lying and Claudia is lying (posthumously) and Lestat is lying and Daniel is lying and Gabriella is lying and Marius is lying, then who is driving the narrative?

[penandinkprincess]

sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "mmmhmmm okay yeah i see we both interpreted that differently based on what the show gave us, but i see how you arrived at your ideas even if they're different from mine," and then sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "brother what show did you even fucking watch"

[gruntsandpoetry]

And with the two dead priests in his purview, the accused raised up his hands and took your face in them with a kiss of acceptance.

[outofluckandoutoftime]

have I ever drawn him happy

[jjadmanii]

oh shauna shipman u fucking psycho

[sunny-side3]

guys. i keep seeing people latch onto the idea that daniel resisted armand's 'rest' for 6 days in san francisco and i'm sorry but that makes absolutely no sense. because it's very clear from the episode that armand wasn't trying to kill him that whole time.

he could've done that immediately if he wanted to, but he chose to keep daniel hostage to get information out of him, to understand why louis found him fascinating. and yes we see him tell daniel to 'rest' a few times over the course of that week but it was just to keep him down (for example, when daniel tried to make a run for the door).

it wasn't until the last day, when armand sat down with him at the table and gave his monologue, that he actually got started on making daniel accept death.

and sure, daniel did try to resist at that point, saying he liked his life and didn't want to rest, but he wasn't fighting an almost 500 year old vampire's influence for 6 days. he folded in minutes. which tbf was still better than larry's time lmao

but anyway, my point being, from 2x05 alone we can infer that the word 'rest' by itself doesn't compel a human to die. it depends on the intention armand puts behind it.

[vatilu]

The Queen, and the Fall of the Damned

[fascinationstreetmp3]

Christopher Heyerdahl as Marius de Romanus and Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt

Interview with the Vampire — 3.05

[marsuk-06]

Always lurking

[spending-life-pretending]

i love the 3x05 loustat scene in the car bc we’re immediately right back where we started. louis launches into a monologue about claudia, trying to process something related to his responsibility towards her, and all lestat can think as he sits there listening is why isn’t he asking about me. he might as well be lighting playing cards on fire; it’s 1x05 all over again. louis is unable to move on (“claudia, come home. i know i hurt you, i know i can make it right again”) while lestat feels abandoned and retreats into jealousy and victimization. “next time someone tries to murder me, pick up the phone” is 95ish years removed from “i have patiently waited in vain for you to love me as i love you”, but they mean the same thing. they expose the same vein in lestat. so much has changed. this hasn’t changed. claudia is dead. but this hasn’t changed. do you think they find something a little comforting in that?

[shuploc]

"The Vampire Lestat" wip 🎤

[platoapproved]

And gradually, over the next 52 years...

[agoodflyting]

Thinking so hard about that, "Prove it," in the park scene and why Daniel reacts so strongly to Armand's fucked up little love confession.

Daniel Molloy has driven away everyone who ever loved him, and he knows it.

By the time we see him in S1, he's been divorced twice, he's estranged from his children, and he has no friends to speak of. All he has is his career, which he holds onto as the one thing he did right in his life. He even tells Louis: I was bad at everything else, but I was a good journalist. He has accepted this about himself. He knows he was the problem in all his relationships - the choices he made and the hurt he caused are the reason he's alone. That is a HEAVY pill to swallow, especially when you're in your 70s and staring down the barrel of a terminal illness.

Then suddenly, he's a vampire. He's not dying anymore. Now he's going to live forever. What's he gonna do with all that time? The only thing he knows how to do is be a journalist, so that's what he does. He throws himself into making his documentary because it's literally all he has. He's not like Louis, whose mortal family still loved him and wanted him around even after he turned, or Lestat, who quickly made fledglings of the people he loved so they could spend eternity with him.

Daniel tells Louis: "Vampire loneliness - I get it now."

Daniel doesn't have people who love him. He ruined all that. All he's got is his career as a journalist. So that's what he spends his eternity on - he's gonna make his documentary and wring some truth out of Lestat, because it's a distraction from facing down eternity as an immortal who is not just alone, but who has lived a long life and come out if it with the conclusion that they are fundamentally unlovable and its their own damn fault.

And now here's his maker again. Fuck this guy, right? Armand is the one who gave him this immortality, which he's now going to have to spend alone and unloved. And to top it all off, Armand left Daniel too. At least this one time, Daniel can say that it wasn't his fault, and he can pour all his anger and frustration out on the one person who left him when he didn't deserve it.

And then Armand says, "By the way, I love you."

"I've been here the whole time. You thought you pushed everyone away? You didn't. I'm here. I've always been here."

"Do you remember all the times you were a bad husband? I was there and I still love you."

"Do you remember all the times you were a bad father? I know about that. I still love you."

"Those awful, shitty things you've done? I know about those too and I'm fine with them. You aren't repulsive to me. I still love you."

"I've cared for you at your worst, and I still love you."

"I know you need your career to give your life meaning. I'll even support you in that if you let me. Because I love you."

"You're tattered, and you're broken, but I still want you to be mine."

[bunniboiz]

"it's ok to show (x) in fiction as long as the bad guy gets punished!" the bad guy doesn't have to get punished. in fact the bad guy can win altogether. the bad guy can entirely get away with it. hope this helps

[bunniboiz]

and this part might make some people's head explode but: characters can be written to forgive things you personally wouldn't ever forgive. not everything is written as what you'd perceive to be the right choice. not everything is a self-insert & protagonists don't have to be relatable.

[yaoiblackmold]

I think it's really cool that they seem to have given Akasha multiple colours in her eyes, it looks to be a blend of orange, yellow and green? possibly just the effect of lighting on set but it does look really cool.

[userarmand]

ARMAND The Vampire Lestat ✕ The Devil's Road

[hinasho]

Louis is so intertwined with Claudia, he did not realize that his “companion for myself now” needed to apply to her too. Not just his romantic relationships, not just those still alive. He still doesn’t even think of them as two people. “Companion for myself” only works if you actually have a “self”.

God, he’s still carrying her. Him dragging her charred body across the floorboards. All this time, decades after she died, a century since she was turned, and he’s still dragging her.