#gabistat

[humanveil]

I miss you. Come to me. It's been too long... I need you. I'm struggling.

[yaoiblackmold]

The best part about Gabistat is that Gabrielle lowkey isn't even like that into it, she's just kind of ambivalent, which means Lestat is still being emotionally neglected by his mother that he is literally in an incestuous relationship with.

[and-fishing-equipment]

daily affirmations:

i have the blood of akasha in me

it's my era now

the songs are not about louis

there are no delusions here

it's just different for vampires

[nortism]

[endiness]

"I remember years ago when I read [The Vampire Lestat] for the first time being really struck by the first scene that he kind of has with his mother, which is quite early on in the books, and it's after he's killed the wolves and they're kind of… There's this, like, silent… You know that kind of evocative feeling that you get when you're reading that you can't quite explain what it is but it's immediately transporting. I'll never forget it. He has this scene with his mother where they're kind of silently sitting and he's catatonic after killing eight wolves with an axe and flail. And then they're just sort of sitting silently by the fire and there's this intensely uncomfortable sexual energy that is emanating from the pages that I did not fully grasp, but I remember it as a kid, like, looking… thinking… And that feeling happened again, I think, I remember reading it more recently for the first time again, and I was like, it was there. That thing was there." — Sam Reid

[hatcherrys]

“they are overdoing the incest it’s so unnecessary” nope they’re just taking us through lestat realizing he is being abused and being unable to stop it!

ep 1: feeling lonely, he seeks her out all ep as he literally spirals bc of drugs.

ep 2: speaks of her fondly, doesn’t really address how abusive she was as a human. gabi in present day crosses his boundaries and he blames it on both of them.

ep 3: lestat recalls how cruel she was in the past with nicki, and she punishes him for setting the no sex boundary by fucking jarda loudly to humiliate him. he becomes upset with her.

ep 4: she has left him again likely as a punishment for leaving her after the interview, triggering his abandonment issues (which she caused). he recalls more of her coldness and we see the first time he’s coerced into having sex with her to earn her love.

then we see him actually confront her about it when he says “why do you come back? why don’t you let me hate you?” (like he tried to the first time they had sex after he brought up that she touched him inappropriately when they were still human) and just like before, she just ignores his distress and he find he is still so powerless in their dynamic.

idk it’s not unnecessary when it shapes literally every part of lestat’s personality. ppl say they’re depicting it badly when this is one of the few shows i’ve seen depict incest as what it is: abuse. mfs out here watching house of the dragon where incest is like…. normalized… but a show actually taking you through a victim understanding he was abused is too much?

maybe this aint the show for you idk idk

[roanlovesvampires]

tell me why i just got this stupid fucking joke 😭

[queenoftheimps]

Between Lestat's POV of Claudia's turning, being conflicted when he hears his nieces and nephews screaming, and the upcoming promo of Nicki screaming to be turned, I think the show is drawing a pretty clear underline on the idea "Lestat will do things he knows are a Bad Idea (and that he is personally not comfortable with) if it means his loved ones will stay...and then they don't stay anyway"