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hey, if someone wanna follow me because of my old iwtv posts, my warning is that in the next few weeks this blog will be mostly negativity which i post under "iwtv rant" tag. also i still haven't decided if i'll leave or stay in iwtv fandom but i'm definitely not gonna post as much meta about it anymore (and fanart is a random rare thing anyway, so you should not follow me for fanart lol).
i love when people call lestat&armand brothers or twins, just saw someone call them "blowjob brothers". and after s3e3 i'm very tempted to call them "euthanasia brothers" but i feel like it'd be too insensitive to use in everyday conversations. just know that's how i call them in my mind.
House drugged that coffee btw
It’s even better than that. He didn’t drug that coffee, but the other one, the one he isn’t offering to Wilson. He did this because he (rightfully) assumed Wilson would not trust him and ask for House’s coffee instead.
Also noteworthy is that when Wilson drugs House through coffee this very same episode, he does it by drugging the offered cup, because he knows House would never even think to suspect him.
They are insane.
House was sort of like Death Note if there was no death note and Light and L were just coworkers and best friends with sexual tension
Love your post about Lestat feeling awkward around Louis and I completely agree with all of it except maybe the last point about him developing self awareness at the age of 265 😭
Only coz Lestat seems capable of understanding and admitting how he wronged Nicki, enough to even including his cheating in his own retelling of it and even if that is Lestat’s recollection while recording the failures later on, his tone while discussing Nicki with Daniel was still regret and remorse
But even with his capacity for self reflection, he can’t or won’t acknowledge what he did to Louis and Claudia. Maybe it’s coz he loves them more or it hurts more or it’s easier to face the dead, I’m not sure but it’s not due to lack of self awareness. He is consciously making a choice to deny them the same fairness, empathy and justice he’s willing to show Nicki
Screeners keep saying it’s made clear that he wants to protect Nicki and his memory at the same time he’s calling Claudia a liar about that train scene and prioritizing how he looks over trying to understand why his own daughter would, if she did (until I see otherwise I believe Claudia) lie about him like that. He’s not thinking ‘oh, maybe my actions made her feel worse about me and life in general’ the way he’s including his cheating as a part of Nicki’s breakdown.
Instead, he’s spitting ‘liiiieeees’ through gritted over what she wrote (and she did write it because we saw the diary entry in the book) and openly making a point to his biased fanboys of how much a liar she is while writing how much of a liar she is over their book pages because he has NO drive to protect her memory (even at the cost of admitting his own faults and his own contribution to the situation) the same way he does Nicki’s and that’s just very sad. He’ll apply self awareness and admit his own failures to protect and honor the memory of his dead lover but won’t do the same for his dead daughter
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i actually phrased it as "self-consciousness" because i wanted to joke about the way lestat behaves around louis rather than say anything about his self-reflection lol. sorta like he knows how louis looks at him now and it makes him less self-assured/smooth or whatever. that post was specifically about loustat romantic chemistry rather than lestat's character arc.
because in regards of his character arc i don't think that his desire to self-reflect has gotten any stronger than it was in s1. i think lestat has always had a certain level of self-awareness or he wouldn't be as great at clowning as he is (he's pretty good at self-deprecating humor). but like with many things in his life, lestat has a tight control on what he wanna look at and recognize in himself and what he doesn't wanna look at. that's one of the reasons why the book pissed him off so much: that was someone else's reflection of him that he couldn't control.
and with nicki it's pretty much the same kinda thing: he obviously feels remorse and obviously suffers a lot about what he did, but he's still actively downplaying the parts he doesn't wanna show to anyone. like openly cheating on nicki which hurt him and probably actively made his condition worse (due to feeding into paranoia & isolation).
lestat did the same thing at the trial: he broke down in tears over what he did to louis and apologized to him for the drop, but not to claudia. not a single word of honest apology to claudia. and nothing about the way he treated louis before and after the drop. either because he still thinks he wasn't wrong to behave like that or because it makes him feel too vulnerable to think about it, but he's avoiding it. it's just a selective "self-reflection".
and the thing is, just look at how he behaved in s1, it's not new. selective "self-awareness" is part of his trauma cycle. there's always a part of the cycle where he feels super bad and cries and begs for forgiveness, but he refuses to look at bigger picture and recognize all the things he did to make it happen. people often joke about louis not being able to take accountability for things, but lestat is no better: he only takes accountability for things that he wants to feel bad about, as absurd as it sounds. so really, it's not a self-reflection at all, it's just something to feed into his own view of himself. lestat hasn't made much progress yet.
lestat acting patronizing to the kid in louis' costume, immediately having a beef with the kid in armand's costume and completely ignoring the kids in claudia's costumes. this tracks.
you know what i realized in retrospect? this scene is not just a fun little joke, it's a foreshadowing for the whole season:
- "your camera is not period correct" - nitpicks inaccuracies in louis' storytelling, gets frustrated at being photographed aka observed & depicted by louis in the interview.
- "allergies are delusional, you'll take whatever i give you" - immediately dismisses armand's narrative as a lie, depicts him as desperate and pathetic and not getting the message. focuses a lot of frustration on him.
- completely ignores claudia, avoids thinking about her.
kids are saying "that guy was mean", but he also gave candies to all of them - he's acting mean and angry, but still have love for all these people in his life. more importantly, he doesn't actually have the rational side of the argument (kids don't need period-accurate cameras for halloween costumes, allergies are not delusional lol).
i think lestat exaggerated this scene in his retelling because it's insanely ridiculous. but also it's funny how he seems to be very aware of storytelling structures, just like sam said.
a part of me thinks that it's not just the conflict about the book & lestat's hurt ego that stand between loustat in this season. and i don't mean in metatextual sense, i have my own criticism on how gothic romance is flattened by the change of the genre, but that's not what i'm talking about right now. i mean, it feels like lestat is very reserved this season and the way he approaches louis feels more awkward than ever. you could say it's a pov change, but then i remember ep1 flashback and lestat had the same kinda passion and suaveness he had in louis' memories.
and what i think that it goes beyond anger, i think he genuinely doesn't know how to act around louis anymore. for 100 years he didn't know what louis was thinking, he didn't know what louis felt towards him, towards claudia, how he felt about vampirism... and here's the book full of louis' thoughts. and like sam said, lestat gets blindsided by certain things and it's very clear that he's avoiding anything that 1) expose him as someone who deliberately hurt louis and claudia 2) explain how louis felt about him, including everything positive. lestat has read that book like 10 times, he definitely remembers every word.
and maybe a part of their dynamic with louis worked so well because louis was a mysterious figure to him, in a way. maybe believing certain things about louis (that he doesn't love him, care about him, that he's cruel because he's tired of him etc) was convenient for lestat self-harming trauma cycle. and also that mysterious part gave lestat's more confidence: when you don't know how someone would think about you, it's kinda easier to do something. since you can't know, you can only act and wait for the reaction. especially for lestat, who doesn't like self-reflecting.
but here louis says to the stranger all the things lestat wanted to pry out of his mind for 100 years. and now lestat know that louis loved him. and now lestat have a much clearer picture of what louis would think about him in certain situations. now lestat knows that it's not the lack of love that ruined things, but his actions, and now he knows exactly which actions. so... lestat rediscovered self-consciousness at the young age of 265 and i think it's kinda funny.
We also tracked down Jacob's eye-catching geometric cardigan from the latest episode and it's none other than Drôle de Monsieur's
Mohair Geometric Cardigan. What do we think—Louis-approved? 00
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.
#you know in those nature docs #how some animals are unable to comprehend death #so they end up dragging around the corpses of loved ones for days weeks after they died #that’s what he’s doing #he knows Claudia is dead but they are still so enmeshed #‘Claudia is dead. I was dead’ #his identity is still tangled with Claudia #and he’s seeing her everywhere bc he can’t. comprehend the need to separate #especially with no one to hyper focus on now #he’s going to drive himself mad looking for the other half of his identity in somebody who’s dead #I’m sick
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I'm convinced that most people that are voting for senshi haven't played the stanley parable.......... the narrator can be Everything, he fits into every sexyman category. he is a total nerdy dork, but he can also act sadistic and evil, he can be vulnerable and soft, he can be very smug and confident or a pathetic and desperate for attention little guy. the parable is his playground, until it's not and everything goes wrong. and there are soooo many different fan designs! you've got the slim and conventionally attractive ones, the fat and short ones (my favorite 😼), some fans make him a speech bubble, or a shadow, or an object, or some biblical entity, or just stick to canon where he's simply a voice. GOD, HIS VOICE. please check out this compilation https://youtu.be/r1l1dvlt0FI or this ending https://youtu.be/w-aMhZVQdHI?t=2m55s or this commissioned audio that's very much in character https://youtu.be/hyuDYAT7mnk PLEASE VOTE FOR HIM HE IS SO PRECIOUS!!!!!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH
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seriously though, louis fans are only allowed to have one (1) day of celebration when he's on the screen. then we have a week of bashing, when people are competing in who can come up with the most egregious bad faith interpretation about his actions. then everyone forgets he exists. the cycle repeats next time we see him. enjoy your evil characters, guys... it's probably fun...
be careful… "louis's monday" always turns into "criticizing louis tuesday"
"louis shouldn't have done this", "louis was wrong about this", "louis didn't consider lestat's feelings" - guys, how do i say this... we know. it's not like the show itself is super nice about louis. louis obviously has his faults and his fair share of poor decisions, that's what makes him interesting.
the problem is that people in this fandom get way too excited criticizing every louis' action, even when it's easily explainable in the context. where was this energy when lestat didn't tell louis the truth about the trial? for 70 years? i remember it was all "poor lestat" after s2e8 with millions of fics about louis comforting lestat etc. and it's ridiculous to even compare these two cases, considering the consequences.
you're constantly applying different standards for louis and don't even notice that you're doing this. we get defensive about him because it's like this every time: he says one wrong word and we're in the hell of bashing louis for a week. but when lestat, armand or daniel ruin someone's life? well, just boys being boys.
btw don't think i haven't noticed that in november we had to deal with everyone defending daniel publishing the book because "louis deserved this" and "daniel warned him" when the topic was that daniel exploited louis' and claudia' traumatic stories, but when daniel's book upset lestat and broke up loustat, suddenly everyone agrees that we should hate him.
dozen of posts horribly mischaracterizing louis getting thousand of likes on every single app every single day you’d think he has a shit ton of screentime this season or something like the shit i’m seeing is so fucking egregious i have to force myself to think everyone’s just joking and that it’s impossible to misconstrue a character to this extent
Some very nasty people have pointed out that the voice over lestat's rape, it is Louis voice, is about Louis having exposed both lestat's and Claudia's trauma. Ngl I had considered this possibility before but I even refused to entertain it, that the show would be so tactless and racist, Louis is lestat's victim and this doesn't look good on the shows part.
at this point no matter what show depicts and how it depicts it, it's gonna be louis' fault and something used to vilify him. it all started when the show decided to cast a black man in role of louis and then depicted him as a victim of a horrifying domestic abuse by his white husband. it all started back then and now it's just an endless game of "how can we make louis worse than everyone else" because people can't allow black people be victims. and that includes the writers btw.
because if we look at this with implication that louis exposed both lestat's and claudia's traumas, we need to face the fact that it was deliberately written that way by the non-black writers' room. because many people pointed out how out of character it was for louis to read this part of claudia's diaries to bruce. louis refused to show these pages to daniel in s1. it was ooc for louis to even go after bruce, he knew that claudia didn't want it and he respected her wishes for 100 years. ridiculously enough, the show had to do another confusing talamasca ass-pull to even insert this scene into the script.
louis mentioned lestat's trauma in his biography because he wanted daniel to sympathize with lestat. the whole context of this is that he was defending his abuser. the victims of domestic abuse often overshare details like this in their interviews, because they love their abusers and don't want other people to see them as irredeemable monsters. if daniel was an ethical journalist in any measure he wouldn't put this in his book (he wouldn't have written it tbh). but people kinda forgot that daniel wrote that book already. it's all louis' fault now.
it's just tiring at this point to play this game and it's not like 100 louis fans in this fandom can do anything to battle this when the writers don't think about implications of their writing decisions for more than 5 seconds. and we'll see more of this later, don't worry. really curious what kind of excuses we'll hear then.
so instead i'm gonna use dumb logic in return. the entire season with no exceptions is depicted and told from lestat's pov. it could’ve been lestat's fantasy for all we know. so the whole framing of louis reading claudia's diary over depiction of lestat's rape is lestat's decision. that's how lestat sees it because he's unable to voice his own emotions about being a victim, so he used claudia's personal words instead. just like most men use women's words and support when they can't explain their own feelings. hell, maybe lestat made up that whole revenge scene because he wishes his mother cared enough about him to fight for him. maybe that's why he was so pissed in s1e5/s2e7 too hmmm
i wonder how'd people react if claudia's narration was used instead to compare bruce to lestat. oh wait. it already happened and it's actually what claudia implied more than once in her own voice.
i wanna mention a spoiler in regards to my last reblog, don't look under the cut
i think the fact that louis and lestat are both pathologically can't see themselves as victims of abuse will be a huge factor in them discussing gabriella in ep6. like, especially the whole framing of "something like this happened to me too, i don't judge you". like...
#repressing trauma all by yourself, handsome?
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i understand the parallels between louis & nicki and scenes depicting psychotic episodes, but choosing to only sympathize with lestat in these scenes because "he went through so much and louis was so wrong for evoking this memory in him" is such an insensitive take, holy hell. especially when you consider the fact that lestat chose to "mercy kill" nicki in the end. i keep having horrifying thoughts, like, this is clearly a pattern in lestat's worldview considering how he treated claudia. did he ever think about "mercy killing" louis too? i wish this show was brave enough to ask these questions because so far idk how to feel about this.
