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“I stumble through a carnival of horrors.”
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Daniel inquired about Lestat's stutter three times in 3x01, and each time Lestat either did not or could not answer. It was only when Gabriella (and all the trauma she drags in her wake) entered in the final moments of the episode that was saw for ourselves it was true.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 3.01: Detroit TVLTwT/IWTVTwT Version.
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THE VAMPIRES LOUIS AND ARMAND Interview With the Vampire - 3.01 Detroit
the thing about Anne Rice is that you kind of have to read her the same way you read Greek myths. sometimes you read an ancient text and the actions of the gods feel so outsized and brutal they're just kind of indecipherable on an emotional level (at least this is how it feels to me, a layman. i'm sure some classicists might disagree). and then sometimes someone writes a modern adaptation that keeps the canon mythic events but connects them with an emotional tapestry or explains the historical context in such a way that makes you go "ahh that all makes sense now". anne wrote these big events and sometimes forgot to make the connecting web. she sometimes couldn't see past her own limited views on disabled people or queer people or people of color. sometimes she couldn't see past her own romanticization of abuse and her own participation in its cycle. reading The Vampire Chronicles is like reading two texts at once: the books, and the tale behind the books. the books, and Anne as a person. the books, and the drafts and short stories from Anne's archives that were never published. the books, and whatever missing file explains why Louis moved back in with Armand at Trinity Gate, what was really going on with Daniel when he lost his mind, what reunited Armand and Daniel in the end, whether Claudia hated Louis or loved him, why Lestat feels so out of character in Blood Canticle, why the whole thing switches from gothic fiction to science fiction in the end, and etc etc etc. the show is doing the work of creating the connective tissue the books lack, a job the fandom has always done and continues to do as well. i love Anne with a bone deep affection but I don't just take her at her word, because there's always a second narrative dancing behind the lines that she wrote. she would probably hate me for this and that's ok. i doubt the ancient Greeks would be into me either. but I think her text only really works in adaptation. it's only really given life by fan interpretation. and I think not questioning the presented text means not really reading it.
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” - Flannery O'Connor
all-timer daniel molloy questions:
1. did you eat the baby?
2. are you schizophrenic, louis?
3. and then what?
4. fuck, man, are you the zodiac killer?
5. YOU BOTH FUCKED LESTAT?
that part in TVL where it goes from the horrible alarming kidnap-pervy-vampire-turning to the refreshing discovery of a chill ass horse that is apparently not even a little scared of vampires and is very tolerant of being snuggled by a dude absolutely fuckin ROLLING on New Vamp Juice
Hey, people who make AI generated videos of "book accurate Armand" because you lament that "we're never gonna get book accurate Armand 😭". Get fucked. We have book accurate Armand. He's called Assad Zaman. No, he doesn't look the same but that man bodies that role in every other conceivable way.
There's literally miniscule facial expressions that Anne describes that Assad is nailing. His ability to be both beautiful and loathesome at the same time? Unmatched. Would you genuinely prefer an actor who looks physically "book accurate" or one who is actually embodying the character? FFS
Also if you don't think Assad is an absolutely beautiful angel of a man, legitimately get your eyes checked. That man has taken a character that I never really gave that much of a second thought to and made him my favourite. NO ONE IS DOING IT LIKE HE IS
I hope he never sees your cringe AI shit and he knows how much people with actual taste adore him
"armand hates being in control" well yes but he also can't live without control. so he orchestrates situations in which he can "submit" to a force/person/social order while still being the "leader": the children of darkness/the theatre/his dynamic with louis. if you removed armand's control over something he would Not be happier he would actually fall apart. which we literally see in 2.08
LOUIS & PAUL de Pointe du Lac
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022) 1.01 - In Throes of Increasing Wonder…
sigh thinking about armand who suffered overseeing a weird underground cult for centuries and instead of doing something about it himself he's like ah yes i know. orchestrate a scenario in which this heretical, flamboyant man from the theatre comes down and ruins it for me! armand, who "thought daniel could be of value" only to invite him to sniff so close to his several haphazardly made lies that are poised like jenga blocks and ready to fall. hmm yea.
something about armand being this perpetual victim with an inability to simply remove himself from a position he no longer wants to be in, instead orchestrating events with intent of jumping ship onto the next life preserver.
once again, this fandom is using claudia as a prop up for lestat, so let me remind u of the real comparison between the two. in real time this fandom constantly reflects the audience of the trial with zero self awareness.
these two scenes aren't a "cute" comparison of ur gd "mother/daughter" dynamic u all keep pushing. it should be a horrific reminder of who society gives an audience to and who society kills.
do u notice that lestat is in a public, well-lit space, being filmed, and claudia is alone in her dark coffin?? do u think a black girl would get a positive reaction for doing this in a public space, hence claudia's trial comments??
I stg most of u don't give claudia a second thought until u can use her to talk about lestat somehow and even then u fucking do it wrong.
Hello, published author here who just noticed a thing in the s3 teaser that may help us to determine the timeline:
This is not an ARC. ARCs, aka "Advance Review Copies" or "Advance Reader Copies" are sent out in advance of the publication of a book in order for magazines/newspapers/whoever (and these days, online book influencers) to review it, and for booksellers to have a chance to read it so they can order copies for their store and hand-sell it better on publication day. ARCs usually go out around 3-4 months before publication.
ARCs are also sometimes called "advance uncorrected proofs" because they usually haven't been through copyedits yet (aka typo-finding and punctuation-checking). ARCs are always clearly marked on the front cover as what they are, to make it harder for people to sell them online and so that bookstores don't accidentally put them out as merchandise.
We know that the IWTV team knows this becaaaaause, from the end of s2e8:
*THAT'S* an ARC. You can see how it says so all over, both "advance reader's copy" and "advance uncorrected proof". It's also a paperback (as ARCs usually are) rather than the hardback that Lestat is holding -- all very typical and correct.
And here is a finished copy. And we know exactly how far after publication it is, because:
Daniel also gives a shout out to a "book fair" and Atlanta, which I take to mean the Decatur Book Festival, which takes place in October. So that means the book would have been published in June -- nice timing! Get all that good Pride Month promo for this gay-ass vampire memoir. So far we are nailing the Expected Publishing Industry Timeline And Behaviors.
So the only thing I can tell you definitively about what this means is that Louis got that ARC probably in February, aka around eight fucking months ago at the end of s2, and still hasn't even skimmed it, and that is HILARIOUS of him. not a shred of guilt on him about it either. (if you get a print ARC (as opposed to an e-ARC) and you don't even read it, it is polite to be a little embarrassed about that. not my personal best friend Louis DPDL tho.)
As for whether Daniel is a vampire during the s3 trailer -- the thing we are all clamoring to know -- I have two possible ways the timeline could be working, given the publishing industry stuff:
OPTION 1: Louis leaves Dubai -> Goes to New Orleans for Depression Hovel reunion, refuses to get back together with Lestat -> Lestat "I will woo him back with a Song, just like last time. ok that didn't work I'LL GO BIGGER. that didn't work. BIGGER" Lioncourt starts his rockstar career as a Gotta Get My Man Back tantrum -> Daniel finishes the manuscript, delivers it to his publisher, and sends an ARC to Louis (February) -> Book is published, bestseller (June) -> Daniel (who was turned at some unknown point) goes on TV about it (October) -> famous currently-bestselling journalist gets in touch with up-and-coming rockstar to get his side of the story -> Lestat has a mental breakdown on camera about how Louis is not even paying attention to all the albums he is recording, hurtful, tragic, heartbreaking
or
OPTION 2: Daniel DEFINITELY got out of Dubai alive -> [all of the above up to "Daniel sends an ARC to Louis"] -> book is getting great reviews -> already-famous Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist gets in contact with up-and-coming rockstar to do the sequel even before the book is out (slightly odd publishing choice but when you have two Pulitzers, the rules are different, so it's not implausible) -> Daniel gets his finished copies of the book (which brings us to probably May at the earliest; you don't usually get your finished copies more than a month in advance) and has one on set for interviewing Lestat -> Lestat has his sexy little rockstar breakdown on camera -> Daniel is human for interviewing Lestat but gets turned by Armand somewhere in the five-month span between finished copies arriving in May and his TV interview in October.
Option 1 gives the show writers a little more timeline wiggle room, which can be useful, but Option 2 is more Dramatic and builds extra tension if Daniel is trying to do this interview while not having a good time with his Parkinson's. Either way Louis is just out here not answering anybody's phone calls or reading the lovely ARC he was so thoughtfully sent bc he's busy redecorating his house.
THAT SAID, please take all of this with a grain of salt, i have been losing my mind over the s3 trailer and i may have missed something
this has been your war correspondent a report from the publishing industry. thank you and goodnight
rockstar lestat voice The children, they are calling me cringé... they are posting pictures of my face, magnifique, with my big blue eyes that captivate so many, and they are placing it next to a certain photograph of the starlet mademoiselle cyrus. they have turned me into a mémé. well. i can be humorous too, non? i am going to find the creators of this cruel joke. i will hunt them down. they think they are funny? i am about to be...hilariouse...
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