#armand when i catch you

[mossycakes]

watching my husband and his daughter and her girlfriend get sentenced to death and shaking my head the entire time so they know i think its wrong

[inheroes--wetrust]

the entirety of that fucking trial and lestat looked at louis TWICE. once to acknowledge him in the beginning and once at the very end of the apology. he talks directly to claudia only when they're arguing. everything else, every scripted line that he has to say, he turns to face them for the benefit of the audience but he's just staring off into space, he's looking above them or off to the side, he will not look them in the eye unless HE is speaking to them with his own words.

god he does not want to be there and he was tortured and manipulated into it and he cannot bear to look at his family while the coven forces him to sign their death certificates

[dulacdat]

something about louis being severely traumatized by his fall in s1e5 even as he recalls it to Daniel a century later and how his house in Dubai is literally so high that they can feel the building sway from time to time.

(really trying not to be cynical with the show BUT)

it seems to fit well with how loumand's house is full of symbolism- with how louis is literally caged in the home, he doesn't have his coffin, is in one of the hottest countries in the world while being "sunchallenged" and can't really access his books that are high up to the ceilings. the house being really high is just another way to torment him imo.

"I protect louis even when he can't himself" (not verbatim) in the sense that armand has "justifications" for these choices. Dubai has privacy, the building provides safety, the tint protects you from the sun-you don't need a coffin,, etc.

(louis not using his coffin is also interesting to me. thought it was the trauma with s2e7 aftermath, but he had it in sanfran? although that could just be there out of necessity? will unpack later)

thinking about how triggering that might be; the feeling of falling every time you feel a shake or you hear a groan. (and with heightened senses)

[waterghoulcalamity]

i was doing my weekly rewatch and i don't know if this is cornplating or if everyone already noticed and i'm late but i just noticed that, when lestat is talking about meeting louis, you can see the caricature of lestat being mind-controlled on the screen behind him and the caricature-lestat and man-lestat then align perfectly to make it seem like lestat is being mind-controlled.... like this is so genius but also it doesn't get any more unsubtle than this jsksjsj

[lazyasexual]

Armand, probably the most powerful vampire in the entire coven, that possess various powers including mind controll and time control: I could not prevent it

[apinchofm]

Daniel coming in and destroying Louis' marriage in two weeks is amazing work.

[mangle-my-mind]

"Do you remember what you told me years ago, before we ever left home? You said it the very day that he came up the mountains with the merchants to give me the red cloak. You said that his father was so angry with him for his violin playing that he was threatening to break his hands. Do you think we find our destiny somehow, no matter what happens? I mean, do you think that even as immortals we follow some path that was already marked for us when we were alive? Imagine it, the coven master cut off his hands."

I feel insane

[baelavelaryon]

"he wants you in pieces for the satisfaction of putting them back together" me when every accusation is a confession

[lioncourt1985]

just read the first chapter of the iwtv epilogue in the vampire lestat

[devildarling08]

oh my actual goodness 😨 /pos

i will be your shadow, i will follow you, never let you go

[shortviolet]

HE'S MAKING HER WEAR THE COSTUME 24/7 ????

[caeliflammae]

anne rice said "erotica", the fans said "oh hm this is horror and abuse! let's turn this into a deeply upsetting character study about how abuse can create cruel people who perpetuate cycles."

iwtv (2022) writers said "this is a literal fucking saw trap" the fans said "but what if they were in love <3"

[dreadfuldevotee]

Popular IWTV cosplayer(s) currently getting put on blast for posting about going on haunted plantation tours and taking photos of their (white) LDPDL funko pop out front like its a cute little photo op. And ykw I won't pretend to be surprised because non-Black people, American and Non-American, think of slavery as a foot note in their antebellum fantasy or, at best, a gotcha card when they decide they wanna be morally superior. Its not an IWTV specific issue because regular degular people romp through these plantations for weddings or to talk about everything but the black people who maintained this estate so that willfully ignorant tourists could gloss over their very existence. But a racist source material breeds racist fans and TVC is ripe with both so who is to sit here and gasp and clutch their pearls like we haven't been seeing the very thought patterns that lead to this kind of bullshit

[devildarling08]

meet my wife 🫶🫶🫶

gremlin

[creativelycomplex]

My pookie princess who has never done anything wrong in her life, was so happy here. Queen you have to run.

[bardly-working]

So a lot of us have already seen the screenshots of the Talamasca files Daniel has, collected by the amazing @nalyra-dreaming (I cannot count the number of times I've gone back to that post to check something, tysm 🫡). But it's funny, today I suddenly remembered Daniel searching Marius de Romanus at the end of episode 4 and looking at the painting of his that Louis and Armand have, and I got curious... so I went back to the episode.

I've been thinking this whole time that the Talamasca provided Daniel with a highly truncated and redacted selection of files specifically relevant to the interview... but wouldn't you know it: they gave Daniel access to the whole ass vampire database.

...including the files on Marius de Romanus.

It's only there for a freaking fraction of a second (ep 4, at 49:15 in the regular version 48:13 in the uncut one? which is weird), but here's a screenshot. This isn't even everything, but there's so much! Rome, Antioch, Italy, his assets, fledglings, paramours (same thing tbf), the druid grove...

And one of those files is labelled Current Whereabouts... which means that over the course of researching during the writing of the book, Daniel probably found out that Marius is alive.

EVERY VAMPIRE IN THE DAMN WORLD KNOWS THIS BITCH IS ALIVE EXCEPT ARMAND 😆😂😭