#daniel's love language is armand (also arguing) (arguing is also one of armand's love languages)

[homoautoerotic]

anyway can't wait for the first time Daniel and Armand get to go to bed together post reunion (after all the screaming and crying and throwing up etc). it'll be the first time Armand's really allowed himself to go full comatose sleep around Daniel, and the first time they spend a night (day) together on the same internal clock, not having to worry about when they'll be forced to break apart again due to the sun. imagine Armand's relief at finally, finally being able to be held in deep sleep by his boy, the one he's ached for all these decades, and hold him in return.

[apoptoses]

Different anon but I recently watched crash because of your james spader posting and I loved it!! I also am exclusively picturing daniel as him now, he’s the perfect face claim. Also would love to hear your film recs!

yessss, it's such an insane movie, it's SO good! and it's not vampire-relevant at all but somehow a man who chases vampires and dates one and a man who chases the sexual thrill of car accidents are just two sides of the same coin imo

(and he is perfect, right?? welcome to the club 🥹)

so my offical spader recs are:

Sex Lies and Videotape

Spader plays Graham, a gentle weirdo who is impotent and has a kink for interviewing women about their sex lives and then watching the videos of said interviews back when he's alone.

watch it for: the interviewing the impotency combo have huge vampire!daniel vibes. he's so non-threatening, so politely weird, so eager to lie back and let a pretty auburn haired person touch his face. 100% molloy vibes.

Crash

you've already seen this, anon, but for anyone who hasn't: Spader is James Ballard, a guy who gets into a car accident and discovers a whole underground culture of weirdos who are horny for car crashes, and keep escalating their dangerous sex acts to find new thrills

watch it for: listen this movie is so outrageously horny and all about putting other people's lives at risk to get your own thrill, and if that isn't vampire adjacent i don't know what is. also the wife of spader's character is so emotionally flat and full of clinical vocabulary. the scene with her and spader in bed, talking about him sleeping with a man- it's armand and daniel, just trust me.

Secretary

a CLASSIC. he's the original Mr. Grey, deeply repressed dom who hires maggie gyllenhal as his secretary and ends up in a bdsm relationship with her. it's a very sweet movie with lots of kink, it's a lot of fun.

watch it for: the theme of letting your guard down and being fully understood. he's not at his most molloy here, but it's just a great film and gives you lots to think about in terms of what constitutes a relationship and letting another person in.

Dream Lover

Spader has a one night stand turned marriage with Madchen Amick, with all sorts of psychological twists and guessing games about who is the insane one and who is lying about their entire life.

watch it for: he's gorgeous, the sex scenes are 🥵 and if you squint you can blur Madchen Amick into looking like Armand lol he goes from gentle lover to mentally unhinged to murderer and looks beautiful the whole time, what else do you want?

Jack's Back

i don't even know how to explain this movie except to say that it's an 80's serial killer flick that's so bad it's good. Spader plays twins so you get to see him as the good boy and the bad boy here.

watch it for: the twin he plays in the first 1/4 of the movie is very molloy, so sweet and flirty and dedicated to his job. he does a lot of great eye rolling and arguing and then gets into the most weirdly kinky bad spot before his brother shows up. lots of nice shots of spader bloody, sweaty, smoking, exhausted, or some combination of all four. pure 80s trash but molloy adjacent in that he's a beautiful eyeful getting into trouble.

Bad Influence

More schlock in which Spader strikes up a friendship with bad boy Rob Lowe and gets his life ruined/is convinced to do some awful shit before embarking on a quest for revenge.

watch it for: Spader looking gorgeous in glasses, starting out innocent and then doing lots of unhinged things. it's more 'so bad it's good' stuff and seeing him be gentle but also get violent gives me so many thoughts about vampire daniel.

Stargate

A sci-fi flick in which he plays a physics nerd who is able to open a portal to another planet. Basically ancient aliens meets terminator.

watch it for: his character is literally named daniel and he's so sweetly passionate about his science stuff/ancient languages, very 'daniel molloy: pupil of marius' tbh

Other fun movies, but which are scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality or how often he appears:

•Tuff Turf (he is SO pretty in this one) •Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (watch a compilation of his scenes via youtube for some 80's daniel/angry daniel fodder) •Pretty in Pink (he's a wealthy 80s bad boy who's only in part of the film, the visuals are nice for picturing Night Island Daniel) •The New Kids (an awful movie in which hs plays an awful person but he gets covered in blood and has the kinkiest scene where he gets tied up, when you see it you'll know) •A Killer in the Family (more god awful stuff, but he's so so pretty and so permanently annoyed I couldn't look away) •Storyville (so, so dry but the jiujitsu scene and the kiss scene with the lawyer lady are worth seeing) •Curtain Call (really, really hard to hunt down but it's a cute romcom where he lives in a haunted house and is permanently annoyed, also him dancing with his love interest is so sweet and lovely i'm still picturing armand and daniel dancing like that)

I think this breaks down 80% of his filmography lol But really, watch sex lies and videotape, crash, and secretary for sure!! The rest are just excellent oggling material/potential smut inspo ♥

[the-least-innocent-angel]

This head cannon is so cute it inspired me to write a little mini fan fic of it! I hope it’s good it’s the first fic I’ve actually ever posted

Daniel was used to finding odd, intriguing and sometimes funny things scattered around whatever apartment or home Armand was currently inhabiting while following him across the globe, his most recent discovery was no different. He had entered his lovers room just before sunset while Armand was still asleep in his coffin safely locked away from the sun, as Daniel made his way further into the room his eyes landed on a large pile of rings on the dresser.

It didn’t seem to surprising, he knew Armand loved rings and always had several on but as he bent down to look closer at them he realized they weren’t the usual large jeweled rings made of gold and expensive gems Armand hoarded but instead they were the cheap plastic and metal mood rings children bought at book fairs. This made him chuckle, what could Armand ever want with a pile of mood rings?

Picking up a rather large one he slid it on his ring finger, it turned yellow, apparently he was feeling happy. Maybe these things did work he thought to himself with a smile as he moved to sit on the bed and flick on the tv, trying to kill time before night fell and he could see Armand.

Thankfully there were a few interesting action movies on and the time flew by faster than usual and before Daniel realized it the sky outside the window was dark and Armand was walking into the room fresh from the kill warm and red cheeked.

After being greeted with the usual kiss and warm embrace Armand sat beside him and reached for the remote not happy with the movie currently on. Before he could change it to something more his style Daniel had a question.

“What’s with the mood rings?” He asked with a chuckle, gesturing to the pile of rings still sitting on the dresser “usually you like higher class stuff”

“They can read emotions Daniel” Armand answered, as though they were some secret magic Daniel wouldn’t have heard of before. “It’s magic”

“No it’s not” Daniel said rolling his eyes as he took the one he was wearing off his finger for a demonstration “they change color based on temperature not emotion. See when it touched my finger it warmed up and turned yellow but when off my finger it cools down and turns blue”

“Daniel why would a ring read the temperature?” Armand scoffed at the very notion that his rings were anything but magic. “It clearly reads emotions, they’re called mood rings not temperature rings”

“You really think these things are magic?” Daniel asked, amused but also genuinely confused at Armands belief in magic.

“Yes!” Armand argued back, growing upset at Daniels' condescending tone as he snatched the ring out of Daniels hand and put it on, it immediately changed to a bright shade of red. “See! It knows I’m angry!”

“No it’s because you just fed!” Daniel shot back “you’re always warm after you feed!”

“It’s magic!” Armand snapped back “a witch in Venice taught me to read palms I should know magic when I see it!”

“Oh if you’re so magically inclined then read my palm” Daniel snarkily replied holding out his hand with a smirk.

Armand glared at him and accepted the challenge, gently taking Daniels outstretched hand into his own. Soothingly he traced the lines on Daniels palm and whispered soft things in a language Daniel could only assume to be Greek.

“So what’s my future?” Daniel asked, gently interrupting the ritual. “What does my palm say?”

Armand placed a soft kiss to Daniels palm before looking up at him with a smile.

“It says you’re an idiot”

I have a personal head cannon that Armand would be totally in love with and fascinated by mood rings. Having his own small collection of them and constantly asking Daniel how the ring could tell what he was feeling and Daniel rolling his eyes as he tries to explain that they’re based on temperature not actual mood and Armand not really getting it at first but still collecting them

Oh my God I love this?? And consider like you said they're based on temperature so, this little dead boy runs cold, so it's only really gonna change either when he's freshly fed or when he's doing something like holding Daniels' (warm, living, soft) hand. Which look, Daniel, it does work! Because freshly fed or holding hands= mood change and I know what I'm talking about Daniel a witch in Venice taught me to read palms so there.

Daniel really wonders how he got into this mess.