#armandlouis

[hypermania]

what? wHaT? it's morning! i lost time. things got a little heated. with a boy. things got heated with a boy. i was at home picking lint off the sofa. i said to join us. the night's gone, the room's soiled, and once again i'm here with mop and mindlessness to clean it up. so the room got dirty so what i'll clean it up. no EYE clean it up! you make the mess and i clean it up. mark it on the calendar, align it with ursa major. louis' tri-annual FUCK OFF and find me with apologies to follow. i'm sOrRy. to seek comfort in the arms of lowlifes and unfortunates and broken children, fine. oh fine. the fine that doesn't sound like fine. but revealing our nature to a reporter you met in a bar ten hours ago? what if it was published? i was having some fun. we don't have enough to fear from paris? i was in the middle of ending things when you– no, you'd have been passed out on the floor next to him, louis. out on your feet from the drugs you stuffed him with. oh this is boring! you're boring. you! are so! boring! and here come the drugs. colorless. up the fangs. flavorless. down the throat. dull. into the heart. dull. and off with fingers, feet, and wallowing brain. dull nights. dull weeks. dull months. dull as FUCK! suffocation by the world's softest beigest pillow. the ten hours i spent with that boy were more exciting, more fascinating than DECADES with you! oh there it iiiiis. the half-blank half-apocalyptic look but what does it mean tonight? huh? does he wanna lick my boots 👅 ooorrr chop my hands off? is it the gremlin or the good nurse tonight? huh? okay. okay, perhaps. but am i as boring as the blather committed onto the ferric tapes of your fAsCiNaTiNg boy? oh it's so, so hard to be me. pIcKiNg LiNt OfF tHe sOfA? it's so hard to kill humans. i can feel their feelings as i drain them. louis the born-again– you sat on your hands and put your ear to the wind. everyone i know wrongs me. okay. okay. let's wake the boy up. and let's try you. i'm the vampire armand and my daddy vampire groomed me into a little bitch. mmmyyy broooother he tossed himself off a roof. the vampires who murdered my daddy made me pretend i didn't have a DICK. my sister she buried me alive. for two-hundred and forty years. my daughter was my sister was my throw pillow. well he wouldn't look at me kindly. lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat. I TALKED SHIT ABOUT HIM THE WHOLE TIME! SO WHAT? THE NAME! THE NAME! UNUTTERED IN OUR HOME FOR TWENTY-THREE YEARS SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL IT WAS POUNDING IN MY brain like a hammer. our problems aren't about him. and you threw her name around just for cover but it always circled back to him. i loved her. but she didn't love you! not like he did. not like i have. i know. I KNOW! yes. i know. thank you for saying it.

[prettysweetprettysweet]

it's incredible that in s2 of IWTV, of the four leads and six possible relationship configurations we are definitely going to see 5/6 of them (ArmandLouis, ArmandDaniel, ArmandLestat, LouisDaniel, LouisLestat) explored in what I imagine will be overwhelming, viscerally upsetting, disorientingly sexual, very gay emotional detail. and this is saying nothing of all their little polycules! god what an incredible premise. what a feverish little web of connections. a living breathing cacophony of unbalanced men that all want to fuck and kill and marry each other. I have never felt so invigorated in my fucking life I swear to fucking god

[lesbianboyfriend]

omg a second episode five has hit the juleswatch......would love to hear yr thoughts <3

yayyyy episode five!!!! my thoughts: i’m so scared for the next episode. i’m so scared for claudia. aha but really um crazymaking episode…..watching the armandlouis show waiting for the other shoe to drop and then. this. something really really fascinating about how daniel and louis were only able to have that conversation bc armand was gone specifically to psychologically manipulate someone else….crazy how armand is just lurking in the narrative in so many ways despite his best efforts to cut himself out. his “prison of empathy.” particularly the dynamics of well. agreeing not to kill daniel bc louis told him to so then taking the next best step of manipulating louis’ memories. especially invoking maitre and forcing louis to order him the whole dynamic there is so. AND MESSAGING LESTAT. he is so. curious what he said about atoning for his role in paris given what i know and don’t know about where its going….will have to pick that thread back up later. really really interesting episode for daniel as well….young daniel so silly. i’m honestly just soso impressed with how well luke matched eric’s mannerisms. and the ending was so. thats why i don’t remember. why don’t you. goddd i feel like so much happened this episode that its like i’m still trying to take it all in figure out how it colors everything else fit together the puzzle. so good.

[hypermania]

the other thing i love about that scene is "even his transgressions are ordinary." armand is so offended that he just got called boring (dull, even!) despite the fact that he's been gaslight gatekeep girlbossing his way through the past however many decades. i mean he killed claudia, arranged for louis' death, got practically his entire coven murdered, and inspired lestat to give his best performance to date and YET. meanwhile daniel put a paperbag over some girl's head once and louis is like omg look at this shiny toy!!! can't a deranged immortal catch a break

[hypermania]

i know this isn't actually what happened but i like to think that Certified Freak(tm) armand rifled through louis' memories while he was following him around paris and saw an absolutely unhinged louis saying, "i'm gonna take this hand here and wrap it around that scrawny neck of yours just like you did our daughter and i ain't gonna stop until your eyes pop and then i'm gonna find a big ol' butcher knife and chop your head off and then i'm gonna walk that head all the way to audobon park and i'm gonna feed it to the fucking lions and i'm gonna laaaaaauugh" and thought "yeah i could be into this for a few decades at least" and that's the real reason he gave him his business card

[hypermania]

possible reasons armand erased/edited louis' memories of san francisco:

1. louis really did ask him to

2. louis made an offhand comment about how he wished he could forget and armand's eyes immediately turned into hypnotic black and white circles vibrating at light speed

3. armand actually was picking lint off the sofa and he didn't want louis to remember that deeply embarrassing fact

4. the lestat of it all

5. armand was bored and thought the danger of getting found out would add some spice to the next several decades

6. it was part of a repeated pattern of behavior spanning their entire relationship (loumand fight -> armand "cleans" it up -> brief period of stability/happiness/whatever -> louis acts out -> loumand fight etc) and the only reason louis found out about this one was because daniel was also there for it

7. armand felt guilty for the things he said

8. ???