#I'm being glib but it's like being punched in the stomach

[audible-smiles]

cause of my death: the chapter in TVL immediately after Armand's impromptu autobiographical moment, when he's grasping at the idea of leaving Paris with Lestat and Gabrielle because he's anhedonic and completely floundering in existential crisis and doesn't know what else to do with himself, and they're like. okay! so that's not happening because we don't want custody of a whole guy! but let's maybe brainstorm some alternatives to killing yourself; have you ever thought about directorial work?