#TEAM ARMAND

[tschulijulesjulie]

had a discussion with my friend earlier about iwtv and twilight. and i was saying that Louis is kinda Bella-coded (she agreed) and then Lestat would be Edward and Armand would be Jacob. her reaction: but what about the imprinting on a baby? and i was like: well, Daniel is just a baby, so that also fits. so now everytime I look at this old man my mind helpfully supplies the "I'm just a baby" meme.

[rustingways]

Are y’all ready for me to hate read Blood and Gold? It’s probably just going to be me posting eye rolling emojis and “Booooo,” every few pages.

[annieqattheperipheral]

I loooove how high jump and pole vault events wrap up. The gold medal winner just keeps going until they hit a bar they can't clear and their fellow competitors cheer them on

The Greek bronze medalist just taped up the Swedish gold medalist's hand bw attempts, and the American silver medalist is standing next to him at the starting mark getting the audience hyped up🥹😭

edit: how sweet are these three!!!

helping him bw vaults to break his own world record

And he did!! Ring the bell mondo!!!!

[feddy-34]

mondo really built different huh

[thedevilsniki]

His kitten fangs! 🥺🥹

[queenoftheimps]

Daniel: I didn't forgive you for what you did to me. Armand: I don't owe YOoOoOoOoOoOu my GREATEST SHAME. Armand: And also look how smart you are you're so clever bb the brain damage did nothing Armand: Anyway I'm sorry Daniel: ... Daniel: I have no idea how to react to that. Louis: 🥺 Daniel: stop looking like that, you betrayed our alliance

[sentientsky]

source

on wrath. on fighting until the light breaks across your skin

[shelfperson]

my PERSONAL devil’s minion tinfoil theory is that armand has been stalking daniel in the shadows for years as a hobby, dropping in a different points in his life, interacting with him, then wiping his mind before doing it all again in a brand new disguise.

as a quaint alternative to louis, watching over danny from a fond distance, armand obsessively stalks him out of fascinated jealousy that turns over time into a reluctant affection. as opposed the an ever present song in daniel ‘s mind, armand could be ever present disorientation and dissatisfaction to parallel louis and armand’s predictions.

i ALSO think this could be why armand did the whole rashid disguise. like. if he’s been dropping in on daniel life in groucho marks classes like the evil theater kid he is for years, he probably assumed he could keep tabs on the interview this way without his real personality/eyes triggering daniel’s repressed memories of 1973. but then of course his hand is forced and he’s pulling a hail mary by directly influencing the narrative.

i ALSO ALSO think this is where the alice stuff comes in. like daniel DID spend time with alice in paris he DID eat that strawberry dessert thing with her she DID dye her eyebrow brown but he preferred it half blond. she is his real wife.

but maybe, during that time in paris, he struck up an acquaintance with an armand with brown contacts in still trying to figure out what makes him fascinating.

[sinnerjannik]

armand duplantis headers

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- this is part one of i don’t know how many because i love him so much and he’s so good and he just broke the world record at the olympics!!

- update: part two, three

[andiatas]

King Carl XVI Gustaf & Queen Silvia reacting to Armand Duplantis winning Olympic gold & a new world record at the Olympic Games in Paris | August 5, 2024

[fishylife]

the way duplantis did the yusuf dikec pistol pose after one of his really good pole vaults lmao

[brian-kinney-apologist]

yeah no but armand fr said sorry louis idgaf about your sister daughter, let alone her girlfriend 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[indelicateink]

been thinking a lot lately about IWTV's shifting POVs and "memory is a monster" as a foundation of the show, now and going forward.

bc storytelling-wise/audience-wise it's an interesting exercise in trust--and i'm curious to see how this exercise plays out: if can i remain emotionally invested if the property refuses to commit to the veracity of anyone's version of events?

if something devastating happens in the plot and I take that to heart for two years, and then they go back on it and i have to sit with that fallout, do I eventually become numbed to the ups and downs of the story? is it the-boy-who-cried-wolf heartbreak?

--genuine questions, I don't know the answer. I love the show. and people having conflicting POV about events is just life.

but as a storytelling conceit, it's interesting? Rashōmon was a movie of an hour and thirty minutes. IWTV is years (knock wood) of television. I adore the idea of uncertainty, but I am curious if I can sustain emotional investment if emotional beats, important facts, will all be ambiguous; if the default is to be on edge for the "gotcha" wet finger in my ear lol. i'm still game to find out.

[cupidofcaravaggio]

petition that for iwtv season 2 press, they lock Sam and Jacob in the hotel that replaced the popeyes that was built over Lestat’s canon burial site overnight and possibly turn it into an escape room and give Assad a mic to guide them with

[queenoftheimps]

Ahead of the finale, I would like to thank Daniel Molloy specifically for the fact that shitposting about the man has somehow gotten me to 2,000+ Tumblr followers and the second-most popular post I've ever made in 15 years on this hellsite

I'm just so glad to not be alone in my endless appreciation for a snarky bewildered old guy, fingers crossed he gets laid this weekend like he so richly deserves

[cakegatedisaster]

Something interesting to me about the dichotomy between the iwtv and the hotd fandoms is that it seems like the iwtv fandom are capable of seeing the complexity of the individual characters and allowing for distance between themselves and the fictional characters portrayed on screen, as opposed to the hotd fandom who all seem to have complexes when their favorite characters are even a smidge insulted, not allowing for any kind of debate and choosing to directly attack the owner of the opinions.