I see a lot of people saying that Old Man Daniel is repressing his sexuality/is in the closet/has a lot of internalized homophobia and I just don’t see it? Like, yes he’s married multiple women and had children with them but he’s bisexual. A man can marry a woman and still be bisexual. And every time he talks about his past marriages, he describes his ex wives with such adoration and fondness. It’s only when describing himself/the way he acted in these marriages that he starts to get bitter and angry and hateful. Like he really did love these women (or at the very least, Alice) but he knew he didn’t treat them the way they deserved. Because of his addiction, his mental health, and his fear of dying, he wasn’t as good of a husband or father as he should’ve been. And I think he hates himself because of that, not because he was secretly gay or because he didn’t love them.
And, when Daniel tells Louis he only went to that gay bar in San Francisco to score drugs, I don’t think that was him trying to claim he was straight or denying his sexuality. If anything, to me it felt like he was trying to deny the fact that he’d been attracted to Louis. Trying to hide the fact that Daniel followed Louis home, not because he wanted an interview or to buy drugs, but because he wanted to be with him. (And like, if you watch the flashback, it’s very clear Daniel was attracted to both Louis and Armand, and was hoping something would happen back at Louis’ apartment.)
Like, idk, let me know if I’m missing something? I think Daniel has a lot of self-hatred and shame, but I never got the vibe it was because he’s queer. I think he just has a lot of regrets in his life, and he hates the way he acted around people.
going to freak out about my bestie Daniel again by talking about headcanons but to me he's like. not only half-Armenian half-Irish (yes Molloy is an Irish surname but Eric is Armenian people. so what do we do we make the sensible choice and split the difference. put that shit in your fics my rep is lacking) but also Jewish. not necessarily practicing but yk. it's called his mother grows up in the US in a household where her father's Armenian Orthodox and her mother's Jewish and takes a little bit of both but mainly from her mother and then she meets his raised-Catholic nebulously-agnostic Irish-American father and gives shit a shot. and here's Molloy in the midst of it all, born to wreck marriages fail at parenting his own kids and get his shit absolutely fucking rocked by two vamps in the 70s
gah i have too many things i wanna do and make that i can't decide what to actually do or make!!!
and ofc i can't do things like work on my cidvayne typeset cos the blurry eyes just kicked in already too!!! maybe i just work on gifs..... or finish the zamasian softer world set i started 🤔
actually considering that i just realised why my caps of the NYC panels came out fucky aspect ratio, i've just redone them so now i have more to use so i think it's gotta be softer world today!
One thing that keeps me awake at night is that when Eric Bogosian was asked what he thinks happened between Armand and Daniel after the Dubai divorce he said something about them getting shitfaced together… but the only way Armand is getting drunk or high is if he drinks from an inebriated human so is the implication here that Daniel just said hi let me cheer you up, wanna watch me relapse and have a bite?