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Still think this is the funniest Hannibal post I’ve ever seen

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But that's just the thing! The question of why lestat participated is (to me) the Crux of season 1 and 2 and when answered in season 3 (and I'm sure they will touch upon this part again), what we see will be the make it or break it for the show lestat.

The answer will either satisfy the audience or manage to completely drive away all book fans and lose (some) fans and stay with...significantly less.

Here's the thing. This isn't about stans or fan favorites or ship wars.

This is the core theme of interview with a vampire. It's the one thing that bonds louis and lestat for the rest of the chronicles it's perhaps THE reason they end up together in the end. Because they both had a child together, they loved her and they both had to survive her death and they grieve her together after all these years.

That's what iwtv is supposed to be. If the answer to his participation is "well he could have stopped it at any time but he chose not to cause he was still kinda pissed they killed him, or he only cared about louis and then changed his mind and felt bad about claudia too then sorry that's not iwtv, the vampire lestat the VC chronicles. The heart of the chronicles was this grief.

And not everyone has to like lestat but if they want the show to continue its vital to actually keep the core of the character and even elevate them when possible like they did with louis! Lestat-claudia-louis is at the heart of it, as the family unit. There was love there and it ended tragically.

I just don't think some fans understand how important this topic will be for the overall life span of the show. It's important that the love and grief of two parents who failed their child but loved her is shown, so the story can move forward. Otherwise how does louis forgive lestat? Why doesn't he blame him? How will louis reconcile with himself and with lestat if he ends up with the man who willingly burned his daughter? Or was willing to see hee burned

How do we go from "rehearsed a play that burned your daughter alive" to "it's not on you?"

Sorry to unload all this on you, but I have a lot of thoughts on this and my friends have not watched the show so I've no one to talk this with but I'd very much appreciate if you chose to post this (but you ofc don't have to!)

good point about how most of the viewers want to see Lestat. As the central character of TVC, he can’t be vilified too much I suppose. And interesting thoughts about grief, I don’t think about it much, but I’ve heard that Anne Rice started this whole thing as a way to cope.

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this is how every argument goes

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Film Updates, the only valid awarding body.

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Lestat is pregnant with Viktor right now after his reunion with Louis.

And we love him for it 😄

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"All of those things are true."

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𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘶𝘳. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵.

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺.. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 "𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵".

𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥. 𝘖𝘳 "𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨"?

IWTV 2X02

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I come to you on this day to ask for your son’s hand in marriage…

I have fallen into the dangerous territory of fixating on minutiae to distract from lack of new content, so here's Lestat wearing a bright green tie and what *looks* like a white carnation. Green carnations, especially worn on the left lapel as he's doing here, became a symbol of queerness popularised by Oscar Wilde.

Something something the equivalent of Lestat wearing plausibly deniable pride merch to meet his bf's family for the first time.

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Chapter 5 of Latency is now up!!!

Rating: E

Pairings: Louis de Pointe du Lac/Lestat de Lioncourt, Madeleine Epavier/Claudia de Lioncourt

Tags: Eventual Happy Ending, Angst with a Happy Ending, AngstHurt/Comfort, Eating Disorders, Religious Guilt, Fix-It of Sorts, Reunions, Family Reunions, Getting Back Together, Getting Together, Past Infidelity, Canon-Typical Violence, Trauma, Alternate Universe - Human, Top Lestat de Lioncourt, Possessive Sex, Light Dom/sub, Therapy, Daniel Molloy is a therapist, Bottom Louis de Pointe du Lac

Summary: Claudia returns home for Christmas, newly engaged and on break from her first year of university in Paris. She finds her father, Louis, in a worse state than she's seen him in years. Reeling from the recent difficulties in her own relationship, and unable to burden Louis, she seeks out the man she hasn't long called a father. And suddenly, unintentionally, Lestat is brought back into their lives.

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Chapter 5 of Latency is now up!!!

Rating: E

Pairings: Louis de Pointe du Lac/Lestat de Lioncourt, Madeleine Epavier/Claudia de Lioncourt

Tags: Eventual Happy Ending, Angst with a Happy Ending, AngstHurt/Comfort, Eating Disorders, Religious Guilt, Fix-It of Sorts, Reunions, Family Reunions, Getting Back Together, Getting Together, Past Infidelity, Canon-Typical Violence, Trauma, Alternate Universe - Human, Top Lestat de Lioncourt, Possessive Sex, Light Dom/sub, Therapy, Daniel Molloy is a therapist, Bottom Louis de Pointe du Lac

Summary: Claudia returns home for Christmas, newly engaged and on break from her first year of university in Paris. She finds her father, Louis, in a worse state than she's seen him in years. Reeling from the recent difficulties in her own relationship, and unable to burden Louis, she seeks out the man she hasn't long called a father. And suddenly, unintentionally, Lestat is brought back into their lives.

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I love how Louis is trying to give Lestat a death glare, but instead all he gives off is “why is this bastard so beautiful?”

Louis, let me introduce you to Mr. Lestat de Lioncourt.

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helloo everyone here is some 𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 for you! well, wardrobe cosplay, really, I didn't make anything new for this.

These pictures go with the 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞 … 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

"Why now?" Why not? In my defense, I was left unsupervised, and so Lestat gives us three songs in one for Christmas, but recorded on Boxing Day, because that's when I had the idea. This is what you get, happy not-Christmas 2024! all vocals by Felix photo, video & set by Kit we have a shared cosplay page: @bittersuites

"It's a soothing trap!" - @mangle-my-mind

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He blames the skin of their hands.

He blames the moonlight that makes Lestat’s hair shine like finely spun silver and gold.

He blames their surroundings, he blames the fact that he is alone with Lestat in and by itself.

He blames the cool night air, making him lean in just a bit.

He blames the way Lestat looks so innocent and harmless.

He blames the way the blood rushes through his veins, the way the sated hunger opens up the hunger for different kinds of desires. he blames the way the skin of Lestat’s throat gleams in the moonlight.

He could not say who leans in first.

He could not say who pulls at whose hand.

He could not say who stumbles and who catches.

He could not say, and he does not care.

All there is to care about, is the way that Lestat’s lips taste.

All there is to care about, it's the way they fit.

All there is to care about, is the way it makes him feel.

The rush of heat up his spine. The twist of his stomach. The coiling in his guts.

Black tar heroine.

The best I’ve ever had.

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one of my finals :) i made a full title sequence for iwtv youtube link