#damek iwtv

[pinkdreamcollectorsworld]

It's Louis needs to stick his fangs in my neck Friday 🥵

[hobermallowed]

iwtv + text post part 47

[gimme-some-face]

01.02-After the Phantoms of Your Former Self

A Gifset per Episode: 2/15

[and-fishing-equipment]

might need to write damek/real rashid.... much to think about

[jaypentaghast]

Interview with the Vampire (2022) | Season 1, Episode 2 Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac & Kirill Sheynerman as Damek

[lestatbratposting]

Louis double tapping Damek's neck before he starts drinking him is the funniest fucking thing he does in the first season.

[bayoubodycount]

Title: Safe with Me

Rated: E

Word Count: 2.7k

Ship: RealRashid/Damek

Characters: Real Rashid, Damek, drunk a$$hole

Warning: Disturbing memories of a homophobic act of violence

Summary: After an unsettling incident at a private party, Rashid brings Damek home to calm him down. What happens there, takes their relationship to the next level.

@vampirefest

Kinktober Day 2 prompt: Mutual Masterbation plus Day 12 prompt: Touch Starved and Day 24 prompt: Voyeurism

[blueiight]

Sometimes u think ur a crazy fujoshi but lestat literally says

[birdisland]

Daniel and Damek go on a date to Kite Beach in matching t-shirts. Damek’s shirt says “Sugar” and Daniel’s says “Daddy”. 

Armand and Louis last seen in the kitchen as Louis tries to stop Armand from diving head first into the blender.

[vincentpriceofficial]

Just got to Louis slapping damek’s neck before biting him in my rewatch and i once again . Think i hauve covid

[tired-of-straight-lines]

had blood drawn today and all I could think of was this scene

[adaftanddewyeyedmizz]

I really want Damek to not want to be a vampire. I want him to be someone who fell into being a walking sippy cup because he was saying “yes” to life and thinks it’ll be a fun thing to think about later in life

[knifeeater]

imho louis feeding from armand is something they do outside of daniel being there, the scene has a quality of putting the bedroom on display for someone you're seducing. it's not only sexual but also a controlled way for louis to feed in the sense that he can abandon himself to the hunger without the fear of killing his victim. (at the same time still in a second hand way sharing in armands kills, something i’m sure he supresses to hell and back.) it's an interesting reversal also in the coding of feeding on someone as taking on a dominant role. like you said ‘feeding a baby bird’ is indicative of nurture which is on 1st sight the role of a servant (rashid) but is revealed to be on 2dn sight creating a space for louis to give over control over his own needs and desires to someone else (armand). service dom armand truthers please stand up.

i've just been rereading the theatre des vampires part and one of my favorite lines which i think speaks to this is: "my heart growing calmer, as if his calm were drawing off my trepidation, my care, like the sea drawing something into itself from the land." this illustrates not only that it's armand's quality of drawing pain and depression into himself that appeals to louis so much, but also one of the main attractions for him being enabled (in a way almost forced) to relinquish control and further down the line learning to self-regulate. (something which armand is exceptionally skilled at to the same amount that it's the very antithesis to lestat unbridled indulgence de lioncourt. there's another essay right there.)

this ofc returns in the infamous ldpdl tradwife great feminine longing line because the only way anne rice could conceive of those dynamics is in binarily gendered terms, which is why i'm very happy the show complicates them in a more complex and interesting way.

octavia butler voice dependency is deeply sexy if it is chosen and not coercive louis in choosing to drink from people repeatedly and non-fatally instead of killing becomes dependent on their consent for his basic needs. in his quest for control over himself he has to give up some control over others and be in relationship with people who would otherwise be objects or animals to him. but of course he does still have power in these relationships because we can assume most/all of these people are employees who need the money – perhaps desperately – and then that leads us to real-world analogies like selling your plasma and paid surrogacy and oh look at that we've arrived back at sex work. in the ideal scenario you would have a kind of even pull of mutual need and trust between louis and the people working for him, but the real world is often not ideal.

and these are all men everyone you see in the house is a young man, and the sexual element of that is unavoidable but also kind of distant and sterilized. louis is clearly invested in maintaining relationships with the people he's biting that are at least like. one-to-one and professional and respectful and that's pretty much what he achieves, or at least succeeds in projecting to daniel. but it's not sexy beyond the conceptual. the way he interacts with damek isn't intimate it's polite it's like damek came to drop off his dry cleaning.

and then there's rashid and this is where i'm coming at long last to my point which is like. post the armand reveal the context of that contrast changes dramatically. the beautiful young man who works for louis but also loves him and stuffs himself with sweet things before he offers up his neck – which from one perspective is a submission to him but from another is feeding him like a little baby bird – doesn't exist. it's a fantasy. it's a relationship he doesn't have with the people he's drinking from but possibly wishes he did. and we don't know if they're performing this primarily for each other or for daniel and what that expresses about what dependencies they really have going on but it is interesting in that it's like. almost aspirational

[ropebunnykant]

obsessed with damek and also louis interacting with him

[murfpersonalblog]

IWTV S3 Promo/Teaser: Freaking Out - Lestat & Daniel are Unhinged

As usual, Imma try to go frame by frame thru AMC's IWTV S3 promo, but I was laughing so hard I had one hand slapped over my forehead trying not to pass out and die--WHAT am I looking at in the year of our lord 2024!? 🫣 AMC is so goated for doing this!

Daniel oughta be sued for this alone--he should've tracked down Damek if he just needed a random blonde white guy if Lestat refused to show up! XD STUNT QUEENS!

Mark Johnson: "I think he's entertaining someone?" Daniel: "Do we have insurance for homicide?"

Yeah, YOURS! 😂

And they got the gallon of blood in a pewter goblet, WHY? XD That don't even look warm! 😭

Daniel: "That HIM. Jesus Christ, look at him!"

By the tone of his voice I can't tell if Daniel was creaming himself or pissing himself, or both. 😝

LESTAT IS WEARING CLAUDIA'S YELLOW COLOR I AM UNWELL NOBODY TOUCH ME 😭💔

Mark Johnson: Mr. Lioncourt, hi, Mark Johnson, I'm the executive producer. We talked on the phone a couple of times; we're really excited about the-- Lestat: I don't remember you. Mark Johnson: --documentary.... Ok.

GOD. 🤣🤦

Sam's midriff, I can't; Carol Cutshall, Imma send you my therapy bills.

Get this coked out queen off my dang screen. 🤣🤦

Not the blood-red choker where Louis slit his throat-- He wears blood like jewels, y'all! XD You can't talk about Louis now, hypocrite! 😝

Christine Claire: You have 45 minutes and he's gone. Daniel: Who the f**k are you? Staff: This is Christine Claire, Mr Lioncourt's lawyer.

REALLY, Les? Really?

Staff: Hair and makeup, now-- Lestat: Do I look like I need you? 💅💎

💀👻 This diva bish.

Lestat: There's a goblet on the table. 🧿👄🧿🔪 Daniel: You don't like the goblet? Can we get rid of the goblet, please, thank you~!

The way Lestat death-stares the poor sound-man just for being dehydrated, omg.

"Armand told the truth" tattoo--are y'all effing kidding me? 🤣 Daniel Molloy and cinematographer Jesse M. Feldman; you've got a mole in your studio!

Lestat is PIIIIIISSSED! 🤣At long last, the meme has been realized!

Daniel: I see you have my book there, what do you think--*choking*

Oml, Lestat's finna kill Daniel by the end of this interview! 😭 I am DYING of laughter, y'all.

"I am The Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal...more or less. The light of the sun...the sustained heat of an intense fire.... These things might destroy me. But then again...they might not.

Sam, you WERK, bish!

His vocals on the song snippet sound REALLY good! While I'm bummed we won't get that Nu Metal sound from the QotD movie, I'm glad they're going with Euro-sounding Glam Rock for AMC!Lestat!

Nice nod to Count Dracula's ah-ah-ah laugh! XD

They just CANNOT decide which contacts to give this man, it's hilarious at this point.

What on earth is he doing? XD

God, he's killed someone on set. XD

Louis finna show up at the studio with the divorce papers this time. XD

Nope, that face won't save you now! XD

Lestat once Daniel's done tearing his dignity to shreds.

He's cracked, your honor.

This promo was SO much fun, omg, I haven't laughed like that in a hot minute; thank you AMC! ❤️

[oliviascully]

I’m always thinking about IWTV 1x05 when Louis is feeding off Armand (Rashid) at the table and then goes on to call Daniel out for this thoughts about what Armand tastes like… like why did Louis do that?? I’m sure Daniel is thinking all sorts of things about them the whole time, so why that?

My take is that Louis was pissed off and jealous of whatever unspoken feelings still lie between Daniel and Armand, which become increasingly apparent, and wanted to make them uncomfortable. First of all, why did Armand make the whole thing sooo sensual like basically cumming at the table, meanwhile he’s still playing a human servant at that point? Like an actual human would be feeling weak and in pain. And Armand is doing all that that for Daniel to see, not Louis.

And then, like the real freak Daniel is about Armand, his response is to think what does he taste like?? Hello??! That is such a sexually charged thought. Clearly didn’t cross his mind about Damek. And as a human with no taste for blood, why else would you wonder what someone tastes like…

Then Louis taunts Daniel and asks him if he wants a sample. And the whole exchange just seems to adds that much more tension between Daniel and Armand. Louis only seems to call out Daniel’s thoughts when he’s upset and trying to bring him down a notch. Anyways these bitches are so messy and I just think about this moment a lot.