#and Lestat’s face at the end

[boopboop800-blog]

Oh god this gets me every time

"I didn't know it was a gift... I wore it like a curse... I was selfish… I tried to make nights awful for you… I wanted you to suffer... Because I was… suffering."

Interview with the Vampire Season 2 | Episode 8 "And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else"

[cvntdracvla]

lets all kill ourselves actually

[hyohaehyuk]

He got affairzoned (x)

The video interview is called Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid share all of the details on their series Interview With The Vampire S2 - People Interview

So in the interview they ask them what they would do in a day off and Jacob mentioned that spending his day off with his wife and kid is his happy place and Sam reaction just broke my heart.

Sam was trying so hard to have a normal reaction but I think he had a reality check and either he realized he was the mistress or that jacob is not interested on him at all romantically.

Like, call me delulu how much you want it but i bet any other cast member wouldn't even had bat an eye at Jacob' answear but Sam was clearly affected and couldn't keep a poker face (dude you are an actor. Do smth 😭).

To be frank i dont know if at that time they was aware of each other feelings (i dont even know if they are now) but if they was, then Jacob was really cruel answering that question in front of Sam*, especially bc in the previous one, about what it would be their last meal, Sam said the one he had in Prague with Jacob every single night and a bit later Sam even admitted he didn't liked the food which just meant what he liked was the company. Jacob, honey, read f*cking the room

*i dont know, he could just have said something more simplified with the same meaning, like "spending time with family and friends".

[theotherrichardpapen]

killing eve // wishbone; crush - richard siken // letters to milena - franz kafka // a primer for the small weird loves; crush - richard siken

[matrixwhore]

even tho that scene™️ in ep 5 is harrowing to watch, the scene that i actually struggle with the most (and literally have to fast forward through) is in ep 3 when Louis goes to give the twins presents like…i know what its like to be transformed by trauma in a “dark” way on top of already being different in a way that families often times aren’t accepting of. i know what its like to be desperate to appeal to their acceptance and feel loved by them even tho i can never be who they prefer i be. i’ve been reactive (meltdown) in an attempt to make a space for myself amongst them in the only ways i can. it hurts to watch that scene. it hurts to watch his mother grab his chin and say yes this is who you’ve always been to me finally revealed as if everything he did out of love and support for them will never outweigh the ways he disappoints them. but he feels the weight of having held them up only to be crushed by their refusal to give him the love and support in return in the way he needs it.

then he goes home to his husband who mocks him with an orgy he was never going to allow + delivers the news of the azalea like its nothing + “how dare you cheat on me back?” + he’s like ‘your ed is personally offending me and my hard on’ and then it only gets worse from there. ep 5 was built up so well and the escalation happening after their babytrap, the vampire Claudia, is born is so real idk how anyone was blindsided.

it’s actually in my top 3 fav episodes, if not my favorite even tho i struggle with it so much. i’m about to watch it again bc i like pain apparently

[fayevalcntine]

I don't really think when the meta writers hit back against the strict boxing of characters where once again the white man in a homosexual relationship got framed as the femme, they really were meaning to put Louis on the pedestal of a nurturing matriarch. Their little notes on their blogs do not excuse Louis's carelessness or selfishness when it comes to Claudia. They don't excuse his violence when it comes to Claudia. Their metas had mostly to do with their (Louis and Claudia's) dynamic against Lestat. And if in that Louis got projected as the matriarch then yeah, mothers can hurt their children. Ari aster in hereditary, in the movie witch, even in game of thrones, there are proofs of violence a mother can heave on her children.

The metas were mostly a reaction to how lestat got categorized. That's it.

I get what you mean, but as I previously said, I don't think the framing with solely the Edwardian marriage text in mind is completely necessary nor is it really capable of fully reflecting the familial dynamic we see by episode 6. The reason why we see Edward Carpenter's text in the episode is because of Louis, right? Louis as the narrator gives us literary references throughout his story that we can then use as hints so as to see what kind of dynamic he may allude to regarding him and Lestat. But those literary hints aren't the full constructed framing, they're just hints. Louis' story goes beyond them, as I mentioned in how his monologue during Claudia's train scene is explicit in the commentary of Claudia suffering from segregation laws and how even in spite of them, she found elation because it meant running away from Lestat. He made sure to state that even while having to hide in a train car that was used for luggage as a stowaway because of racist laws, Claudia didn't care about accommodations if it meant being free from her abusive father, therefore highlighting again how visceral her feelings of being trapped were.

I'm not here to tell meta writers what they should or shouldn't write, I just stated that when others only take this framing in mind and neglect the other obvious ones, they begin to lose important aspects that Louis repeatedly notes on in his story. And I don't think you have to do that when you're arguing against another overly simplistic viewing of the characters.

[riosnecktattoo]

cried my fuckin eyes out at 2x07 iwtv wtf wtf

[loverboybrightsideghost]

"the vampire armand, the love of my life"

it's been a few hours since i saw this episode for the first time and i just. oh louis. ohhh louis.

[colinrobinsonscardigan]

Something I'm glad has died down is people in vampire fandoms (Hellsing, Vampire Chronicles, etc) make fun of Twilight, as if we have a leg to stand on. Like I'm not going to sit here and say that Twilight is without issue (it is comprised largely of issue) but I also don't think Stephanie Meyer has described one of her characters pissing for two whole, entire and utterly godforsaken pages. Can we not all be cringe together?

[priisakilljoy]

They gave her a choice. She choose.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022 - ) I I Could Not Prevent It

[dxxtruction]

can I say something controversial?

[claudiadpdl]

whoever made the decision to cast jacob anderson as louis dpdl struck fucking gold and i mean that. not only is he a phenomenal actor but every time i look at his beautiful face i too realize that i would do utterly deranged, fucking unhinged shit to keep him in my life forever. at the end of the day lestat and armand and everyone else need not explain a damn thing.

[flintsilvers]

i like to think that this was claudia both cursing lestat and just her being a scared daughter looking to her father for comfort while in agony in a room full of people who cheered on as she burned.

on one hand i think this is her passing her own judgment on him, forcing him to face the consequences of his actions, of what he put her through. i do think she believed his version in the end (if her questioning louis and then changing her wording to "even if it is true" is anything to go by) but of course she does not forgive him. she cant. his explainations arent an excuse. none of it justifies what he did to her specifically, and both of them know it. i think its also why lestat doesnt even try to apologize to her.

and on the other hand, at this point madeleine was already dead, louis had been taken away and no one in the coven had any love or sympathy for her. lestat was all she had left, and he was the one who made her. we keep being told over and over how strong the vampire bond is in regards to louis and lestat but lestat made claudia too. he's watching his own blood die and he feels it, and she knows it, and knows that bond, that shared pain is the last shred of love she will ever feel.

[covenofthearticulate]

all jokes aside, i do want to eventually write a really tender and intimate fic where louis gets to instruct lestat on how to fuck him

[kandelia-mangrove]

Can we talk about how in the show Lestat and Armand are framed as narrative foils. Armand and Lestat who are both so aggressively theater kids, but Lestat who acts, who draws in the attention and holds it, and Armand who directs, who shapes and manipulates the narrative. Armand and Lestat's obsession with Louis and his love and frustration with his melancholy over Lestat and Claudia respectively. Who both felt second in his heart. Who fear loneliness above all else. Lestat taking what he wants to excess - no impulse control, and Armand letting things happen to him and trying to manipulate situations to get what he wants but never taking it. Armand, who even in the end, so much more powerful, never physically imposes himself on Louis. Armand who seeks complete control in subtle insidious ways. Lestat who seeks control in the physical. Armand and Lestat brought into vampire life in horrifying ways tangled up with SA. Armand who still talks about his maker with reverence, Lestat who hates his maker. Armand who pours all of himself into his partner, willing to shape himself into what they desire but ultimately needing control to feel safe. Lestat who pours all of his love into his partner but unwilling to change himself and ultimately cedes control in moments to maintain the relationship. Armand who clings to his breaking apart relationship for 77 YEARs, Lestat who let Louis go. Lestat and Armand who watch Claudia die, but one as a father and one as a murderer. Lestat and Armand so intense in their love but Lestat so painfully external and Armand so painfully internal as characters. Both constantly acting and putting on a face. Lestat as Mozart and Armand as Salieri (in the flashback scene!). Armand who loves routine and structure and repetion, Lestat who craves change and excitement. The calling cards are echos, who learned from who. Armand teaching Lestat the vampire gifts, Lestat teaching Armand a new way to live. on and on....

[laniidae-passerine]

Lestat admitting in public that he domestically abused Louis. and Louis knows this and experienced it. and still will never not love him. like truly love him for what he is, not just accepting the good with bad, but loving the bad the ruined the indefensible. what the fuck is wrong with you girl I would tell you to get out but you find a man who doesn’t attack you and you call him boring and dream of your crazy ex. you don’t want to get out. you just wish that your lion pet husband would learn the difference between biting and mauling.

there is something so entirely fucked about Louis’ psyche… look at it all! the physical beatings to an obscene degree, the damaging affairs, the psychological warfare, the public humiliation, the participation in the murder of their only beloved daughter. Lestat does this all to him, or a significant amount even if memory is playing its wicked games. Lestat is a vicious horrible thing with his teeth marks on every part of Louis and yet even with decades of freedom, a new partner, the ability to recognise and condemn cruelty and abusive actions, Louis still wants him back. Knowing what he is, what he can do, Louis wants him back. It never mattered if vampires can dream, for Lestat haunts his waking days, a torturous vision of the only living one Louis really loves.