#i understand lestat

[bludhavensbirdboy]

my two fav things confirmed by s2x8 iwtv

- she/her lestat (try pry that from my hands idc)

- lestat also being a sticky ipad kid

[daftmooncretin]

iwtv fandom constantly arguing about who the real bad guy is when shit hits the fan like oh its lestats fault or armands or actually louis is the real villain!! IRRELEVANT. disregard. the reason everything always goes to shit in this show is because unfortunately louis and lestat do match eachothers freak and the resonant harmony of their freakiness sends pure unfiltered wavelengths of suffering to every single characters vampire brainstem and ruins their lives. in this business we call it the invisible chord.

[monlestat]

my brother!!!!! he tossed himself off a roof! my sister!!!!!!! she buried me alive! my daughter was my sister was my throw pillow when he wouldn’t look at me kindly!!!!!! lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat LESTAT-

[superkitty21]

Anne Rice will write the most loving, nuanced, sympathetic portrayal of a complex messy character and you'll find out she hated them. Like what the hell.

[sandushengshou]

Interview with the Vampire | 1.01 “In Throes of Increasing Wonder…”

[hauntedorpheum]

It's cunting season!!!!!

[librarygf]

i actually believe in lestat’s remorse and i think it only makes this story more complex. his dynamic with louis is so entrenched in the unequal power dynamic, and the same with claudia. he’s the maker, the father, the wolf. he’s white, he has money, he’s cursed with his father’s/marker’s temper. and he loves louis, and claudia too. and still, the relationship is not an equal one, and he harms them both horribly by enacting his role as the maker/father/wolf. it’s not that he’s not responsible or complicit, he is. but i think the show is saying something interesting about the dynamics and power structures that create abuse, and the way that even the ones in power don’t get what they really want, unless what they really want is simply control. it’s not just that some people are uniquely horrible, although that can also be true. it’s more that the patriarch is a role that only guarantees you power, not necessarily love. that it’s inherited, the way lestat has inherited his from his father and maker. and that to want to have or own someone, to feel entitled to them, can never be the basis of a real companionship. this part especially is true of armand and louis’s relationship as well. only love without ownership, the kind that claudia and madelaine share, is truly real. and that’s what i gather lestat’s apology is about

[herefornewthings]

Lestat the wolf killer, I hold you oh so close to my heart. Lestat who felt human loneliness. Lestat who knew of lashings by the hands of his father and abandonment by the indifference of his mother. Lestat who had many a different interests. Lestat the enjoyer of serenity in a monastery. Lestat the performer. Lestat the lover of scraping affection from the very ground if anyone allowed it. I love you so much.

[lesbianmaxevans]

The status I enjoyed in Storyville did not extend itself to the operators and patrons of the French Opera House on Bourbon and Toulouse. We did what we always did to avoid conflicts there. I performed as his valet, walked a pace behind him, took his overcoat once we found our seats, remained standing in the back of the box until the lights went down, and only joined next to him once the overture had begun.

[jaggedjot]

the notion that queer men can be flamboyantly theatrical, perform in drag, even occasionally refer to themselves with female pronouns, and nevertheless willfully uphold and enforce patriarchal norms, would have been a well worn complaint in any given 1970s lesbian collective, and yet

[schrutexbucks]

just some of my favorite tweets about tonight's (absolutely perfect, truly work of art) episode of interview with the vampire 1/xx

bonus crossover of what we do in the shadows

[volera-zdl]

"Да пшёл ты нахуй" which means "F*ck you" or more like "Go f*ck yourself"

[in-kyblogs]

“I remember the night I was made, the fire chokin' me, you carryin' me out through the flame and the smokes. But then why'd you take me home? Why not a hospital?” “You... You were barely breathin'.” “But I was breathin'!”

My Claudia. My redemption.

[kingroan]

not to ramble about iwtv but i think a lot of people who balk at the unsavory parts of gothic fiction are people who have either 1) never truly had to face an onslaught of the macabre in their own life 2) have not actually sat with the discomfort of the darker parts of existence or simply not learned or had to learn how to process truly twisted emotions within themselves. and i bring this up in relation to iwtv because i see a lot of people pointing out 'problematic' parts of the book or bemoaning which ships are more or less toxic. and it's like it's a cow farm there's gonna be cows on the cow farm.

yeah anne rice wrote some weird shit and some of it is definitely unnecessary, most of those elements were corrected in the show. but a lot of it is just gothic fiction. you don't get to have sexy vampires, romanticism and tortured yearning without the inappropriate attachments, the true face of grief and the blurred lines between violence and eroticism which has evoked great interest in humans for centuries.

[moonydee]

tbh the loustat situationship era only works as long as they're not in the same room. the moment they're face to face all bets are off. louis is extremely aware of this and that's why he never goes to his concerts. lestat knows this too but doesn't care and keeps writing songs with innuendos and references to their past to rile him up. daniel is taking turns babysitting both of them and he's tired

[winepresswrath]

Louis, 100 years later: My goal in this interview is to be honest with you and present a nuanced portrait of a complicated situation. I want to be clear, so I’m going to share something very important: Antoinette had a flat ass, and it’s not me who said so. A third party specifically pointed that out. It’s crucial that you know how flat her ass was, so you can have the full context of what happened. I hope you’re writing this down. Your readers should know.