#dubai penthouse

[apollodreams]

Hey babe are you alright? I noticed the set designers made it so that the only room in our home with colors and warm lighting was our bedroom indicating that our marriage is essentially lifeless outside of sex. Also there's iron bars around our bed?

[holographic-abstract]

You can see the toys in their bedroom, briefly, in S02E04. They are on Armand's side of the bed.

[canonicallysoulmates]

I'm sure others have pointed it out already but look at the difference in how the penthouse looks between when it was Louis and Armand's place vs. when it's just Louis place. It went from looking cold and impersonal to looking warm and inviting.

(not to mention that you can't really see it here but Louis is back to wearing color, and comfy sweaters!)

[revengeagainstlifeitself]

The Self Seers II (Death and Man) by Egon Schiele in the Dubai Penthouse Bedroom.

thank you @90sgreggaraki for identifying the painting

[instumpin]

[revengeagainstlifeitself]

ok but who hung the painting?

Egon Schiele : the Leopold collection, Vienna Texts by Magdalena Dabrowski and Rudolf Leopold

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[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

i mean wouldn't it be funny if by "we" Armand was just referring to himself, and anyone else Daniel asked describe the building's noise as just plain "creaking" or whatever the fuck.

[carveredlunds]

i know everyone has said this before, but the dubai penthouse is a concrete cell with huge dining tables and muted colours and tastefully modern décor that is actually soulless. the dubai penthouse audibly creaks and groans so often that louis and armand just call the sounds "the groan" and ignore them. the dubai penthouse is a monochrome empty space where louis and armand can't decide what to put on the walls to hide the cracks. louis and armand act out married life like a sitcom couple with their matching pyjamas and their double bed and their handholding when really they're both in this loveless sinking ship of a marriage because louis wanted to hurt lestat and armand doesn't think he deserves better than this. the dubai penthouse is a place of stagnation and bitterness, a prison of their own making. there is a rock garden full of rocks just like the ones louis was buried beneath. there are books up high in the rock garden room where armand can fly to grab them but louis can't reach them because armand keeps knowledge out of louis' reach. where's your coffin? daniel asked. you're standing in it, louis said.

[revengeagainstlifeitself]

Love so much about the dubai penthouse renovation for louis but he fixed the bookshelves and left them on the ceiling???

[gilberttheboy]

Thinking about Armand and Louis getting closer and closer over ep 2x2 until Armand's half in his lap. Like,,,you have a member of the press in your living room. A two-time Pulitzer winner, at that.

[instumpin]

[phantomsofmyformerself]

lestat and daniel should hook up during the documentary making whilst armand is standing outside the studio in the rain like a kicked puppy.

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

i just don't think there's a case for the subtext of the scene where Daniel walks in on "Rashid" praying being that they want to fuck each other. like you have Daniel, who doesn't remember San Francisco or Armand yet, who hasn't moved from "gay bars were a good place to score" to "Louis please tell me we fucked in the 70s", whose main goal is to "win" this interview and write this book and maybe prove himself worthy to Louis-- worthy of the mission he gave him in 1973 that neither of them remember and maybe worthy of being a vampire. and then there's Armand, who doesn't want Daniel there and is trying (successfully, at this point!!) to appease Louis without exposing any of his marriage-ruining secrets. even if Daniel is attracted to Armand, he's in that scene to get information and to figure out if Armand is really who he says he is. he's not even going about it in a coy way-- he's actually going about it in a weird and kinda racist way.

and Armand is being polite and giving him puppy eyes etc because he is playing the role of someone who is being paid to be polite to Louis' guests-- a role that, not for nothing, had explicit sexual implications for most of Armand's life that weren't necessarily his choice. like there is a LOT of subtext in that scene, especially once it's given the context of season 2. but what it's actually saying about the characters has nothing to do with (and tbh is more interesting than) their attraction to each other.

to me the point of the scene is to show once again that Daniel is willing to get like, downright mean in order to get the truth out of someone; and that Armand is willing to restrain himself even when someone is being an asshole to him, in service of Louis and the story that Louis is trying to tell. and reducing that to "they were flirting here" seems. idk. boring at best.

[gimpwithoutorgans]

Not to be a freak on main (or sound like Lestat and Armand) but….dom top Louis🤤🤤

He’s heavily into degradation and humiliation( it’s the catholicism). Has the fanciest equipment. All that repressed rage makes him an excellent sadist. Loves bondage. An expert rigger. He’ll suspend you from the ceiling like a chandelier and then go back to reading his books while mostly ignoring you.

The way he so smoothly establishes his dom/sub relationship with Armand during the bench scene turned me into a barking dog ngl. Armand De Worst Submissive Ever may have fumbled but I wouldn’t have😏.

[lestatitties]

Armand would go to jail in Dubai because of his tits, legally speaking.