#I see what you are doing Armand

[cbrownjc]

The joke about the book Interview with the Vampire was that it was basically Louis complaining about his ex to a random guy he met in a bar for a couple of hours.

And the writers of the Interview with the Vampire show took that joke and said, “no, it was Louis seeking therapy for a whole host of issues he has, not just about things with his ex,” and sprinted with it.

Miss Lily was basically Louis’ first therapist before he was turned. That we saw. And he probably couldn’t even tell her everything. (I think he left out talking about his homosexuality with her.)

Who knows how long before that Louis was seeking someone to talk to deal with the things in his life? From the racism he faced, to his sexuality, to having to take care of his family. To Paul.

The first failed interview in 1973 was Louis seeking that type of therapy again. And now here Louis is, again, looking for the same thing.

IMO, Louis’ time with Armand is akin to being heavily medicated to deal with his depression, trauma, PTSD, etc. Memories altered to better help Louis live with what happened and the things he did.

Daniel should have asked Louis again if he ate the baby.

Anyway, for some reason, the “medication” isn’t working as it did before, I think. 

There may have been a blip when Armand’s influence over Louis/Louis’ mind slipped a bit back in 1973. And maybe something similar is happening now, again. The “interview” might be Louis trying to make what he wants to have been real, real in truth too. 

Because hell, if it’s published in a book that is his memoir, then it must all be true. Right? 

Louis went right into disassociation when Daniel began to challenge his account and memory. That, and the medication that is Armand, are clearly how he copes when the truth of what happened is there, pushed back at him, when he doesn’t just lash out in anger (such as him messing with Daniel’s Parkinsons.) 

[hvnnigrvhm]

which could mean nothing

[serpentarius]

can I just say that the “could be nothing” epidemic of us devil’s minioners re: every interaction between older Daniel and Armand is so dear to me. Like I KNOW it’s not gonna be for nothing but I GET where we’re coming from. Like it very possibly is something. But it also could be nothing yknow???

[naivety]

louis and lestat's conflicted yet harmonizing accounts of claudia's born again-ing perform the same function in that they both appear to be begging an audience to believe they genuinely cared about this girl they've both gotten killed. like i know we're a broken record at this point but it's still all about them, yeah. even when they conflict, they agree that she was a prop in their own stories, together AND apart, she's just an adornment. louis' audience daniel and the audience watching the stage play and the audience watching the show are left to argue amongst themselves about which of them is to be believed, maybe both, louis or lestat, look at how they use her to demonize each other. look at how they use her to keep each other. which of the two should we believe!! i need to kill them both with hammers

[disregardandfelicity]

so many posts like 'why did armand save and stay with louis if he wanted him dead?'

because he didn't want louis dead. he just didn't want to be alone, and louis's interest seemed fleeting. sure, he directed the play with gusto, but that's how armand adopts every role he's given, whether he cares about it or not. he is "the slave of everything that ever claimed him." he falls "under the spell of one and then the other." he led the children of darkness that way, and he led the theater that way.

[bigevildoeeyes]

What if i was a monster and you were a human and for all reason we should be opposed to the other yet fall in love anyways? What if it actually happens exactly Because you are mortal and i undead? What if we had an eye for finding the cracks in everyone but only recognized it in ourselves with eachother? What if i couldnt stand dragging you down to the hell of my nature so i free you to live without the burden of remembering what its like loving me?

What if you loved me for my power, how unfathomably supernatural i was, but then met me for the first time again 50 years later as an obedient servant and you still couldnt take your eyes off me? What if i was above you then below you and intrigued you just the same?

What if we loved and hated eachother and continue to do both because its all just different ways to say “you have a hold on me i cant shake?”

Because what if you became the first person to understand me as a being beyond the roles ive lived? What if I am not just the devil, master, slave, servant or hurting child i once was, but all of it and more, wholly incapsulated under the title of being your lover?

[kanjichris]

"why don't you want him to know how much you love him?" "that's a little personal. he knows." "uh-huh."

[isthatacalzone]

it's baffling to me the lengths to which people will try to frame anyone in iwtv as being better than anyone else. everyone who says they love each other is doing it poorly. Lestat apologised to Louis on that stage and it was real and it was also a performance. Armand feels genuine remorse for not saving Claudia, claims that he couldn't prevent it but we all know he could have. Louis loved Claudia and wanted the best for her, and she was a broken doll picked up and used to soothe his guilt. Even Claudia, who did love Louis, has a specific view of everything that happened to them, to her, that made her messy, that made her angry and awful at times. why would you flatten them? why would you take away what makes these emotions real and complicated?

[the-woman-upstairs]

Manifesting Daniel and Armand as the Roger and Jessica Rabbit of the vampire community.

[bishonenvoicedbyadyke]

made my pilgrimage to see saint armand <3 <3 <3

interesting to see that in real life the boy's skin is much darker, the whole painting is actually. i think the version they used in the show was based on the official photo on the louvre website and this reproduction is too contrasted and exposed.

[nashvillethotchicken]

Some Iwtv fans will seriously fight tooth and nail to argue that Armand is more evil or Lestat is more evil as if both them bitches aren't going to the hell under hell and then to the hell right under that one!

[sylvhen]

just having a normal one thinking about how badly Armand wants to be loved but every time he gets close to it, he self sabotages and ruins it. almost as if. he subconsciously doesn't think he deserves it.

[setevulpo]

feeling very green and yellow light in this dungeon tonight

angústia, florbela espanca (translated by me)

interview with the vampire, s02e05: "don't be afraid, just start the tape"

i lock you in an american sonnet that is part prison, terrance hayes

island of the sequined love nun, christopher moore

beautiful short loser, ocean vuong

kinnporsche, s01e11

red doc>, anne carson

[zeb-z]

the way they light their cigarettes okay. Louis and Armand always lighting their own cigarettes, until the end of episode four in s2, where Louis lit Armand’s for him with his powers as Armand called him maitre. while Louis and Lestat had always lit their cigarettes with the others light, never really lighting their own or lighting the others for them in any other way.

does it represent their true attempt at living as equals? maybe. their codependency? probably. their intimacy in all things, certainly. but what does that mean for Armand and Louis so far? healthier with proper boundaries until now? or showing a lack of that same intimacy?

[my-coven-is-claudia]

insane that we don’t discuss more the fact that armand hadn’t been painted in 400 years and that it was louis who finally recreated his image all those years later, this time actually capturing his authentic self and hidden vulnerability

[disregardandfelicity]

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