#also not just Louis' team

[faithinlouisfuture]

hi I'm the anon who asked you if you're going to the Jakarta show. sorry to hear that you won't be able to go and sorry also about how Louis' team is treating the Asia show, you guys deserve so much better! I do hope you get to see him somehow though

thank you it's kind of you to come back just to say this 🙏🏽

[dreamings-free]

how many interviews did louis do when FITF was released, talking about the album? a lot. he even did an hour long sit down talking about his influences inspiration and process.

so you want me to believe here SEVENTEEN months later he sits down with some nobody self-proclaimed journo and pulls not one, not two but three never before mentioned influences for the album out of the hat ?! okay….

[finexbright]

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[prouvaireafterdark]

I personally don't think season 3 will or should be Lestat writing his own book. First of all, because of the abuse, I sincerely think any Lestat POV also needs another party present to call him out and not just let the audience assume his side is the truth, otherwise it will seem like the show is implicitly taking the abuser's side of the story (especially after how it framed Daniel's role in digging through Louis's story). Either he will show up to the penthouse and continue the "interview" framing or he will tell his story to Louis so both can be there to hash out what happened between them or something of that sort.

A straight up Lestat POV where he gets to paint himself as the victim would be pretty gross after what we've seen him do honestly and honestly why would the audience take anything he has to say seriously?

Okay I'm gonna be really honest here, unless Louis and Lestat's reunion has already happened and/or he's in a coma in the basement, I have no idea how people expect him to crash the interview at this point. Like it just does not make sense to me that he would just magically appear like that.

Honestly, I would much prefer that Lestat skips the memoir part and becomes a famous rockstar after reading Louis' interview and asks Louis to meet him with his song lyrics/media exposure so he can tell Louis his story himself before the San Francisco concert because that means we get maximum Louis. If Daniel is there to call him out on his bullshit, all the better, but I do want the story from Lestat's lips because the comedy of his narration is just too good to pass up. I've waited 15 years to hear Lestat describe himself with his own clown mouth and I hope season 3 doesn't disappoint.

Also, I just want to mention this because I feel like when people talk about Lestat there's a tendency to think about Lestat discussing his trauma as him painting himself as the victim and it really grates on me because two things can be true at once. Like, Lestat isn't the victim in his relationships with Louis and Claudia, obviously, but he absolutely was a victim. He was horrifically abused and neglected by his family his entire life growing up and was abandoned by every person he ever loved, even his own mother after he saved her life by making her a vampire bc she never wanted to be his mom (or a mom at all) in the first place. He is profoundly fucked up because of these traumatic events and they have a direct relationship to why he was so abusive to Louis and Claudia. Like he's probably got every trauma-induced personality disorder in the DSM-5 and literally cannot regulate his emotions or make himself stop being terrible until Louis hits his hard factory reset button and gives him an intervention by making him rot in the dump for a while so he's forced to think about what he's done.

Does that excuse any of his horrific behavior? No.

Does that mean he shouldn't have to atone for his bad decisions and the pain he's inflicted on other people? No.

Does that mean we should take every word he says as gospel and cast suspicion on Louis and Claudia's narratives? No.

But that doesn't mean every word out of his mouth is a lie either, and honestly, it's not like Lestat ever says "actually, every bad thing Louis and Claudia said I did was a lie because they're liars and I was a perfect father and husband and they tried to kill me for no reason." He fully admits that Claudia was right to kill him and that it's the kind of thing he would have done himself.

And like, in order for there to be a cycle of abuse, one has to first be abused. That's just how it works. And I don't really get why people are so set on erasing Lestat's traumatic history or viewing it as an either/or situation where only one of them is allowed to have been a victim of abuse and that if Lestat is allowed to talk about his abuse in season 3 he's by definition excusing his actions and challenging Louis' narrative.

I feel like part of the point of Anne Rice's work is that these vampires are, all of them, extremely monstrous AND deeply traumatized. They are both victims AND victimizers. It's what makes them so compelling and nuanced. I don't understand why some people want Lestat to be a cartoon villain with no redeeming qualities or path to redemption, and I also don't know why people seem to think that a season 3 from Lestat's perspective can only mean that the audience will not be asked to question or interrogate his perspective the way they've been asked to with Louis and Claudia in season 1.

Like, after everything they made Lestat do in season 1, if you're genuinely worrying that the writers are going to say "none of Louis or Claudia's trauma happened at all and actually Lestat was a perfect, sad angel the whole time who was unjustly wronged by Louis and Claudia and this is something you, the audience, are meant to uncritically believe because Lestat bat his eyelashes while he said it," I literally don't know what to say. It sounds ridiculous because it is.

There's just no way they're doing that and I think everyone should take a breath and stop stressing over it.

[twiensat]

the decision to put it on the same platform they used for the 2020 livestream is simply because they're trying to recreate the success the livestream had, i mean it broke all sorts of records so rationally you'd understand why they did it. joke's on them tho, because the fandom is not the same it was three years ago and expecting the same success when a huge chuck of the fandom already saw the documentary is naïve. the math is not mathing

[statementlou]

I might be wrong but I'm not sure that Louis is communicating his sexuality as much as people think/want him to. He did put Freddie in his documentary after all. He wants us to think he is a dad and got a woman pregnant.

I mean I think he's doing both personally but no one can know for sure! (except Oli) It's my opinion though that it would be pretty fucking weird for him to choose to do some of the extremely easily avoidable things he does if he didn't want to have them interpreted the way he and his team definitely know they will be. Like there are a lot of things that people think are signals that I don't think so- I would guess NO ONE agrees 100% with anyone else about what is and is not- but there are other things that to me are simply not ambiguous or accidental. (I also would say that over the years there have been times when he swung further in both directions, sometimes signaling very hard and very much a lot, and sometimes trying to put a lid on all of that and tamp down speculation and any guess that tries to draw a single conclusion by mashing together 12 years all as one doesn't make sense.) But in the present here and now I think that he would like people to think that Freddie is his son, and that he also continues to play to his majority larrie fanbase in a lot of ways. Some people think he does it for sales or something; I personally do not think so. I think that as a queer person who has visibly struggled with closeting throughout his career he gets a lot from connecting to the fans in that way and that when he talks about how much he loves the fans and appreciates the freedom we give him, that is part of what he is talking about, and that many of the songs he wrote after finally getting out there and seeing what his fandom really were like talk about this pretty loudly. But that's me! YMMV and none of us know it all! (except, once again: Oli)

[mad-komet]

IF I were to pick a MLB team (IF!!!!!!!!) there are a few options...

that said this is merely a fleeting inquiry that will probably not go anywhere. the idea of having A Team is just too tempting

[blusical]

Hockey fans, who's your least favorite player on your favorite team?

I'll start: Thomas Greiss (and Jordan Binnington) for the Blues and *maybe* Carl Hagelin for the Caps.

[lhrry]

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[dreamings-free]

Hi, do you know if this true? https://www.tumblr.com/awesomefringey/736084928800964608/hmmm-do-you-know-anything-about-this-some-says?source=share

hmm I don’t know.. just like op of that post, I have no knowledge of who he did or didn’t (un)follow. and most of louis’ band and management still follow him.. but I agree it is weird how he seems to have left very suddenly. I think the last time we saw him with louis was lisbon.. and then he was just.. not there for the rest of europe? he wasn’t even there for louis’ huge milestone moments on the uk tour leg which seemed very strange after how long they’ve been working together 🙁

[st-louis]

3/9/23, nyr @ mtl, by martin chevalier

[finexbright]

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[silverfoxlou]

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[faith--in-the-future]

people on twitter dragging him for demand tho because he’s not selling these venues and ngl i feel low-key scared that he won’t sell it and is going to play in empty venues :( i hate the fact that bmg and matt vines don’t have a plan at all to fucking promote louis and his tour. they had so many opportunities ffs, make written all over your face a single and PROMOTE IT, release a fucking documentary and use it to promote his tour, they ‘promoted’ tour along with the album but they didn’t promote the album at all as well 😭 they thought the fans will buy the tickets as always and when it didn’t happen they choose to promote it or whatever they’re doing in the simplest way. it’s embarrassing for them and i can’t even describe how much i hate them. instead of doing these shitty interviews about how louis’ fans are 14 yo maybe they should’ve done with the promotion and stuff better lol fuck them. also i bet louis thinks he was too ambitious with this tour and it makes me so :(

the fans did buy the tickets! I'm sure once all the dates are out and u count the tickets sold they won't be less than what he sold for ltwt the problem is that if u make a bigger tour u HAVE to EXPAND your fanbase, you can't rely on the existing one bc well.. the math just doesn't make sense! and Matt vines is so fucking stupid for saying he doesn't care about radioplay and charts bc bitch that's the only way people van actually listen to his music and become fans !! if u don't make the fanbase grow how can u expect to make the tour grow !! it's DUMB! I'm sure the latam leg will sell easily once the dates are out but Europe and North America are I think around 60% /70% sold rn (which doesn't mean empty venues but considering how little he's charging and how much more everything costs after the pandemic that could very possibly be a problem in terms of covering the costs imo)

i really hope that louis doesn't start blaming himself for this bc it.is not his fault tbh, he isn't a manager or a tour organizer or a marketing expert, he should blame the people who he pays for that and who are clearly not doing their jobs ! and I hope he realizes that this can't go on !

[icedhockey]

jordan kyrou has both the most points and the worst plus-minus on the blues this season

blues fans please explain

[twoweekhome]

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