#ASSAD ZAMAN

[wildeoscars]

release the bats was written for them, actually

[sentientsky]

greetings, beloved. i have just returned from my visit to the office of the psychiatrist you picked out. don’t look at me like that, daniel, it went fine. everything is fine. we’re all fine. why is your eye twitching, beloved? regardless, after she attempted to diagnose me with several disturbances of the mind, i promptly made her aware of the fact that her husband intends to leave her for the clinic’s receptionist. it was with very little effort that i was able to induce weeping. before long, i, i was the one behind the desk. are you not proud of me, my darling? for, i was maître once more. maître of mental health. beloved you cannot be upset. stop pinching the bridge of your nose. no. no remove your head from your hands. look, my love, i made her pay me a sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for the hour. i can buy more robux now, daniel. isn’t this delightful

[losingbenni]

ASSAD ZAMAN as Armand

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2024) 2.05 – Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape

[violinsandblood]

do you have games on your phone?

[archvillainofromance]

Interview with the Vampire Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death

I do believe I felt some trepidation when the name Lestat was uttered. Who? My dear American friend, who thinks of me often and who has dominated my mind ever since I laid eyes upon him... don't.

[shuploc]

And now here I am, and you can rest...

[excesslibris]

Some studies of everyone’s favourite gremlin.

[sonofcelluloid]

Daniel, why are your fans creating video edits of our paparazzi photos set to Casual by Chappell Roan? Our love is nothing like that of Casual. It is more akin to the kind described in The Only Time by Nine Inch Nails. Or Naked in Manhattan. You agree. We must remedy this. I’ve placed an anonymous phone call to the TMZ. I’d like to drink your blood in view of their cameras. I have set aside an outfit for you. Chop chop, beloved.

[cannibalspicnic]

Unsolicited Armand thoughts. (book spoilers for The Vampire Lestat)

Especially after re-reading The Vampire Lestat (and finally being able to recall stuff from it), I am just as insatiably curious as anyone else about what actually went down with Armand and Lestat.

But possibly even more than that, I'm desperate to see what happened with Armand and the coven.

During my TVL re-read, I had to put the book down and laugh for like a full five minutes when I found out that Armand just went on a murderous rampage and slaughtered most the coven himself because

Oh, is that so, Armand? Did they? 😂

I love him. I love him so much.

Reading that, maybe more than anything, made me feel like I understood him. I honestly think reason is not the best lens to use to examine Armand's actions. Starting with a kind of chaotic turmoil and working my way from there worked much better for me.

Maybe the show will do something different, but I really hope they keep this bit.

[stella-grier]

Louis's True Savior vs. The Traitor

[tooteadoo]

tumblrrrrrr ugghhhh look at these photos of assad GOODDDDD i can't believe i'd never seen them before he looks so uguuguggahHAHHHHH

[lady-phasma]

Sometimes having a couple Art History degrees is useful when watching a series or, at least, makes things more interesting. I've been thinking about potential series canon for future seasons and how perfectly Assad's casting and Armand's updated/modified history can still fit with Andrei in the books.

The name Arun that they chose for him is actually a Hindu name, but his timeline aligns with the beginnings of the Mughal Empire in 17th century India. So let's assume they keep the artist theme for Arun (pre-Amadeo) like it was in the books, how perfect would it be that he converted from Hinduism to Islam before he left India? I envision illuminated manuscripts of the Qur'an that he painted and tracked down over five centuries later. Like these pictured below from past Sotheby's auctions, they exemplify Anne's descriptions of the religious ikons "not painted by human hands" even if Islam is iconoclastic.

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Full volumes under glass, framed single sheets from long-damaged copies, I can picture so many versions of these illuminations that he might recover and deem precious simply because they came from a time that appears (to him in hindsight) to have more freedom than anything he knew for centuries later.

This part is pure conjecture (and a bit of hope): if his parents were Hindu, maybe he converted to Islam on his own. I doubt it based on his age at the time he was sold (15 years old in the series). But I would love it for him if, after centuries of forced belief in a system based on a response to Catholicism, he was able to go back to a religion that provides him some comfort. Anne wrote Armand as one of the more religious of her characters and I trust these show runners implicitly - I believe they will exceed my expectations. I need Armand to have something that is his, truly and completely his.

[cupids-fiction]

ik armand’s eyes are golden-brown technically but Im also just *so* obsessed with this imagery

Yellow core, honey, sweetness, innocence.

Orange ring, amber, encapsulating the past like a fossil.

Red outer ring, blood, death, darkness as a shield.

[losingbenni]

ASSAD ZAMAN as Lot We Work for the Dead (2024)

[terrorgirls]

Armand + "The Look"

Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre // Chatting with Assad Zaman, Katie O'Shaughnessy // Assad Zaman on Armand's love for Louis, Collider

[part 1/?]

[4th-make-quail]

i cannot deal with this fucking CUTENESS