#louclaudia

[wildm00re]

when armand tells louis that claudia did not love him (as much as lestat did nor as much as he does) and louis defeatedly replies with “i know” i just 😭😭😭😭😭

because he genuinely believes claudia did not love him when that is farther from the truth.

she was angry and resentful towards him (and ofc had every right to be) but the fact that he thought that meant she didn’t love him is so devastating for me

bc the way she jumped on lestat to try and defend louis knowing well she was no match against that madman in 1x05?? the way she spent all of 2x01 sniping at louis but the moment one of the revenant vampires attacks louis she jumps on his back and rips his eyes out??

what especially gets me is when she sees louis talking to grace in 1x05 and comes to the realization that she was selfishly made to be someone for louis’ comfort and then she goes back to be just that for him

she’s a lot like louis in the sense that they can’t seem to express to the people they love that they do in fact love them i guess? (their inability to do so stemming from the trauma they carry with them it seems)

[summerscaries]

LOUSTAT: Pushing it Down and Praying

(iwtvtober day 5: companion)

[woundcat]

louis intimately and wholeheartedly knowing what it's like to be suicidal and knowing what might trigger claudia to feel that way and knowing that mental illness has touched his family and telling claudia that if he sees her going that way he will pull her back, because he could not pull paul back because he could not pull himself back because he was going to die that night because paul did die that morning because you cannot run from despair. a woman jumped into the fire in front of him and his daughter because there was nothing left for her, but everything was left for claudia. there was so much life for her to live. for louis too. and despite his endless depression he knew that. he knew that and he fought like hell for it in that moment. the life of a vampire is just as hopeless as the life of a human but that doesn't mean you ever fucking stop trying.

[ldpdluvr]

sorry to come back to this but claudia was soooo happy for him to have a life again, for him to not be stuck at home miserable without her, she was the one who watched him as he disassociated, she was the one who helped him put himself back together after the drop, she was the one who conducted the plan that helped them escape like of course she loves him and is happy that he's living and engaging in something he cares about

I think people see how upset she was about her turning, how frustrated she was by his inaction at times, his inability to completely kill lestat and let him go and her frustration/sadness over not being his first choice but that doesn't mean that there was no love there at all, all of these emotions can and do coexist and that's what makes their relationship (and their relationship with lestat) so tragic, they all loved each other and yet...

“but she didn’t love you”

ok liar. lying liar. who lies. lyingly

[dlsintegration]

[stewyscufflinks]

Had a dream where louis and Claudia hugged in paris

CALL ALL THE HOTLINES!!QUICK!

[claudiablogger]

truest thing this man has ever said. armand's full time job is gaslighter and manipulator

[nalyra-dreaming]

Would you say Lestat didn't really got over his past traumas and that's why he looked so devastated in the S3 clip? Sure you never get over the horror but in S1 he told a part of his story to Louis and Claudia and the very worst with Magnus but he didn't look like in the clip so i'm wondering what changed between telling his story to Daniel and telling to Louclaudia?

Nonny, Lestat has PTSD up to the last book.

Not kidding.

So no, he has not gotten over his trauma. And no, he did NOT tell the very worst with Magnus to Louis and Claudia. He barely touched the surface, and if you really think he was fine there you might want to watch again. Body language, coping mechanisms and all that.

[summerscaries]

One of my absolute favorite headcanons is that after the “it works like love scene” on the bayou with Claudia catching fireflies in the jar, Louis calls Claudia “firefly” or “lightning bug” just bc I think calling someone “bug” as a pet name is cute and it is such an endearing moment.

[louisdulacblog]

I just realised something I JUST REALISED SOMETHING. We all know that Armand was running two operations at once. Planning to kill LouClaudia and also making sure Louis doesn't know. But like the line "his methodology is never painful" describing how Armand kills explains why he let Louis believe things were going their way. That their romance was blooming. Even up till the fucking end. The fucking flower tree and the whole shebang. Because he was giving Louis mercy. Going on a double date not only made it an easier ambush but also giving Louis the mercy of having happiness. Lessening the pain before the final blow.

And then kill him slowly.

...that's so fucked up. I can't put this in a coherent thought but wow. It's just. Like it makes me think man. Armand stalked, hunted, chased Louis. The end goal was always to get rid of Claudia. But things just kept spiraling out of control for him. Louis knew Lestat. Was made by Lestat. They had been lovers. Now he loves Louis. And Louis wanted him back. And-

Like I just (bites shirt) ARMAND YOU BIT-

[wildm00re]

the fandom being so ready to take lestat’s pov as the accurate retelling of how events played out is so…

because what makes lestat’s pov much more reliable than louis and claudia’s?

i thought the whole point of the show was the “unreliable narrator” aspect of it?

why are certain people saying they can’t wait to find out how things “really happened” from lestat’s pov?

because is lestat not just as capable of having biases and having his own traumas distort his memories? why is his pov more reliable than louclaudia’s, huh?

[ca-suffit]

Tw csa. I haven't read all the books and ik Louis is weird about his love for Claudia but some people liken it to Marius's outright pedophile acts and I just want to put it here if anyone would like to reply to this with receipts that it is in fact very different. The language around louclaudia is very murky and ykw I'm fine because that's just how gothic lit goes but Marius. Marius has outright sexual abuse described for him and yea again not saying it's bad she wrote him or any of that like I'm not morality policing here but this is about the Marius Stans likening these two relationships to paint Louis as a pedophile too. So I'm asking if any book fans can clarify, because as far as ik Louis' relationship with Claudia was never sexually abusing, just his love is romantic in the gothic sense. Idk if this makes sense but I had a Marius defender go Louis is a pedo too by your standards like no ma'am. He's not. He never put a hand on her, he's not turning children left and right while yea the water is murky those are not the same.

sry it took me a min to get to this.

ur never going to win with certain anne rice ppl bcuz the point is never to talk critically about anything, only deflect to other topics. it shouldn't matter what any other character is like in order to talk about marius by himself, they just don't want to.

a lot of the louis pedo talk has increased since the show came out too. I had a lot of this in my inbox in early days. ppl's agendas are always p clear here tbh.

I grabbed two examples for ppl to look at of the difference between how IWTV writes about louis and claudia and how TVA talks about armand and marius. anyone else can add whatver u want.

TW ABUSE AND CSA (mainly in TVA sample) (sry TVA is split from two sources bcuz I realized halfway thru that one wasn't the full text)

skipping ahead some

[nattyontherun]

Okay. Okay fine! I'll explain (some!) of the YOI IWTV AU :] (no one asked. The one person who asked has been crying and served me divorce papers already. That's alright, I'll win them back. @sugarbunbie haha takemebackplsibegimnothingwithoutyo-- EHM EHM ANYWAYS!!)

So I've been having brainworms. Brainworms in proportions hitherto undreamth of. And those brainworms begin and end with Viktor as Lestat!

Haha. I'm not joking.

If you follow me on AO3, or at least read a few of my latest (very short) fics, you'll be well aware that the reason I've slowed down writing is because my laptop is busted and I've been using my phone to update stuff. Very sad, I know. What I did NOT account for, however, is the utter lack of decorum watching s2 of IWTV would give me, let alone the grand ol' idea of making a YOI AU out of it.

I'm still kinda stuck at the stage where haha, Viktor!Stat.

Anyways seeing as updates are slow and, very likely, I won't dive beyond IWTV s1-2 in terms of plot points (and since it's not a 1:1, at all, I say that with a lot of caveats. Character journey, perchance? Emotionally, rather than physically and actually. Smth smth self actualization for our LouClaudia characters, ehm. As I was saying!!) so I figured I'd make a small Tumblr post the way I did for my NRT threesome AU series ( - which I HAVE NOT DROPPED BTW!!! It's just really long and plotty, and I need an actual writing-specific device to work on it since I need to do more research!!!), just explain a few things that may be lost to the crevices of the AU series.

1. I described the first part of the series, seek me with dead eyes (embody me) as kind of a stand-in for the San Francisco fiasco in 1973, because it's not a proper "interview". I'm debating on keeping it that way for the sake of a more compact story, particularly because I don't plan to delve more into the "DM" of this AU,,,, but I will confirm that the interview with Georgi is the basis for many of the fics that follow, even if Georgi doesn't feature predominantly/at all.

2. Yes, there will be Yuuri and Viktor-centric fics to come. Yuuri's will probably be the last one of the series, and the Viktor fic will be a gift. I'm honestly excited to write it, he's the whole reason I bothered to drag my fingers over my phone keyboard and WORK at this au!!

3. Reiterating that Yuri and Yuuri share the burden of being both Louis and Claudia, for the reason that neither of them could EVER be a 1:1 of either of those characters and to put them in such boxes would be a disservice to all four characters involved lmao.

It's particularly for this reason, plus the fact that I'm not framing Yuri as a "son" for Viktuuri, that the focus of the series has morphed. I still think and want to ensure that the AU remains very much about grief, loss and loneliness - but the heart of it will not be about the horrible death of a child.

Will the fic series be less devastating to account for these changes? Maybe? I'm very inclined towards horror myself, if you've looked into my catalogue more, so I'm not shy about introducing some of the more grotesque, vile shit that happens in IWTV, but I figure if it doesn't serve a purpose in the narrative I'm building, I won't bother with writing it out because, again, I'm using my phone and I have wrist problems djsjsjjdjd.

4. Speaking of: there are plenty more characters in the AU, from YOI, that serve as an amalgam of IWTV characters too! Unlike YuuYu however, they have no counterpart to 'shoulder the burden' so to speak. You'll probably know them when you see them, as they crop up over time. It's especially relevant for Viktor's half of the enfolding story!!

5. I'm honestly just making this Tumblr post because I'm a. Bored and b. Driving myself up the wall with each new revelation I'm making out of this AU. None of which I've put on here, I think, thankfully. Very spoiler-y, that. Hahahahahaha. I wrote much of the very first fic in a mad haze and now I'm rethreading it to write out the plot more, beyond that burst of sudden all encompassing inspiration - and I am absolutely insane. I really am. Feel free to DM me here or on Discord or utilize asks if you're intrigued or wanna toss questions - I will absolutely answer because it's all I'm yapping about for the next forever and ever.

K thanks bye!!!

[deathlonging]

OMG angelista you have to listen to rachel’s album for meeeee plzzzz

augh i've been meaning to and now i can never resist a potential addition to the claudia playlist....so hard to find good louclaudia songs. plus never need me was unfortunately a shiver inducing song i require little convincing. looked it up and the album cover is unusually good for a pop record LMAO she rlly knows what shes doing like....

that's so evocative !! consider it added to the list

[claudiablogger]

hi it's louclaudia hours.....

[domithanasia]

two birds regina spektor louclaudia amv when...