#but so did lestat

[knownoshamc]

I’ve seen that godawful theory about how the reason Armand saved Louis from the wall only because Lestat threatened or begged him to multiple times. (Once with the especially gross speculation that what Lestat promised Armand was a sexual/romantic relationship.) And like…can you imagine hating a ship/character this much?? Ffs.

Some people really think Armand is just the opposite of what Assad has said: a moustache twirling villain (oh but I forgot Assad was joking when he said that about hia character). And Lestat has never done anything wrong in his life and if he has, it's okay cause at least he really loves Louis.

Look, I'm okay with people hating on characters. I'm not okay with some racist undertones in a lot of these takes... and also putting that on the tag. Why would you do that? Also see going to the tag and reblogging something to tell the person that they are wrong.

[prouvaireafterdark]

listen I know it's heartbreaking that Claudia dies and it's understandable to wish she didn't, but let's please not accuse the writers of fridging her. to do so is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story and is frankly insulting to the intelligence and skill of the writers of the show.

Claudia's death, and the overwhelming grief and regret her parents experience because of it, is quite literally the point of the entire story. she dies because Anne's daughter Michele died of leukemia when she was five years old and there was nothing she or her husband could do to prevent it.

writing IWTV was how Anne coped with the unimaginable loss of a parent losing her child. she created a story about a little girl that could not die and then killed her anyway. Claudia's death is a senseless, unavoidable tragedy, just like Michele's was. the grief that haunts Louis and Lestat for the rest of their lives is the same grief that haunted Anne and her husband.

so when you're accusing people of killing Claudia off to benefit a story about two men, please remember that in real life sometimes parents lose their children. please remember Michele Rice.

she's the reason Claudia exists.

she's also the reason Claudia cannot be saved.

[queenoftheimps]

Imagine you're Louis de Pointe du Lac, you've just divorced your second husband and reevaluated all of your life choices, you've spent a cool $10 million on what are essentially your therapy bills, you hop on a 12-hour flight across the world, you return to your hometown, you reunite with your first ex-husband, you process your grief over your daughter a little bit, you're stuck in a hurricane but it's all okay, it was all worth it because you're in a better place now emotionally and can start to move forward

And then, on the vampire-exclusive psychic channel, you hear the voice of your Definitely Still Human buddy Daniel going "hey Louis uh quick update for ya"

[ayo-edebiri]

The last thing she saw on Earth was him.

[sam-reid]

The projections went off sync. Lestat went off script again.

Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.07: I COULD NOT PREVENT IT.

[jaypentaghast]

Interview with the Vampire (2022) | Season 1, Episode 6 & Season 2, Episode 8

[nashvillethotchicken]

I stand with Louis no matter what. If either lestat or armand did that shit to me and people talked about me the way they talk about louis on here and on twitter you're gonna see me in history books

[sunonwaxyleaves]

I feel like we, as a community, do not talk enough about the fact that Louis held onto Lestat’s card that he gave him when they first met FOR OVER 100 YEARS!!!!!!!!

[cuntylouis]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.03 "No Pain"

[userarmand]

[lesbianmaxevans]

daniel molloy, my new bestie

[nalyra-dreaming]

I just realized you can see Louis hold open the door for Lestat there, and argue with the air… 😳

[inheroes--wetrust]

iwtv: ten minutes to your entrance...monsieur de lioncourt

me:

[queenoftheimps]

Armand: Yeah listen I did hook up with Lestat before Louis but its nbd Armand: We just had hot erotic public sex in a theater Armand: In a lush private box Armand: While we said we loved each other and his boyfriend watched while dramatically weeping and playing the violin Armand: anyway this all definitely happened exactly as I said it did so don't worry about it Daniel: I was asking you about search engines

[joseigamer]

Interview with the Vampire Manga Adaptation (Yoake no Vampire) by Udoh Shinohara + DL Link

DL LINK HERE

Happy new episode of IWTV AMC day! Today though, I want to share something I've teased earlier on my blog, which is the Japanese manga adaptation of the Interview with the Vampire gothic horror novel. See under the cut for more details!

It came out in 1994, a bit after the movie, but it only referenced the book itself. It consisted of a single volume made up of three chapters, so events are condensed and abridged, and it skips Part II in Eastern Europe. The first two chapters were scanlated into English by a group named Trine and distributed on the aarinfantasy forums in 2007, but the third chapter was kind of lost to time, especially after all the links to the raw Japanese scans went down years ago. However, I discovered that a now defunct Portuguese scanlation group did the whole thing (individual credits included in the .zip), and I was able to recover chapter three, use heavily cross-checked and edited MTL (PT-ENG), and deliver the final product to you all. See more notes about this process or where to read the PT version in the readme file included in the .zip! It's not 100% perfect and I would not call it true 'scanlation' obviously, so if anyone can do a better job I welcome them to! I hope more visibility on this manga makes the raws become available again so a true JPN-ENG translation can be done on the last chapter!

This manga obviously has major IWTV book spoilers, but it does NOT include anything from later books in the series and is honestly quite faithful overall. It even includes Lestat's father. I might actually call it slightly gayer than the book, since Louis and Armand become more obviously in love. I would recommend it to anyone who's watching the series and hasn't read the book yet, as well as to anyone who enjoys the books alone! The art style is very 90s, but it has some really beautiful visuals sometimes, especially with Claudia. I hope everyone enjoys reading it!

[hallowvamp]

I love Lestat, but I can't stand some Lestat stans. I make jokes sometimes about him never doing anything wrong, but I forget there are people who actually believe that.

Lestat himself was like "Yeah I totally deserved that murder attempt. I was fucking crazy. What I did was horrible and irredeemable. I don't blame Claudia and Louis at all. They did what they had to do" and yet some Lestat stans are still like "Poor baby! He didn't deserve it!" Yeah he did! And he would be the first to tell you that.

Baby girl needed that murder attempt to reset his entire brain on a molecular level. He needed it to slap some sense into him and make him see how off the rails he had gone.