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— A flaccid full-length play based on nothing other than the superficial observations of the vampire Sam, his meditation on vampiric existence and enduring. — Strange, I remember you racing back from rehearsals to tell me how ambitious the conceit was.
#iwtvedit#iwtv#interview with the vampire#armand#one reason i love making gifsets is that while i'm scrolling around looking for things i notice moments i completely missed#and maybe never would have spotted otherwise#anyway imho armand is lowkey blinking back tears here. those angsty meditations on the awfulness of being a vampire have him CHOKED UP.#louis is right he was eating that shit up.#idk idk maybe i'm reading too much into it. but that's really what it looks like to me.
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big bummer that lestat slept through the 60s… like rip king you should have fucked simon and garfunkel
#ik there’s a world out there where lestat caused the simon and garfunkel schism#my first thought reading the vampire lestat was aw dang he never saw star trek#but being real lestat would not have given a fuck about star trek because sci fi is armands special interest and therefore disgusting to hi#but that bitch would have been so into simon and garfunkel#but alas i fear louis went to scarbourough fair by himself#iwtv#anne rice#simon and garfunkel#lestat de lioncourt#louis de pointe du lac#loumand#interview with the vampire#vampire chronicles#armand
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We are brothers. It's my job to take care of you— I don't need it. If you are that free, go find Zhang Teng. Or you can go back to the headquarters and take care of our boss.
KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 04
#kiseki: dear to me#kisekiedit#kdtm#kiseki dear to me#ai di x chen yi#chen yi x ai di#louis chiang#chiang tien#jiang dian#nat chen#chen bowen#uservid#userspring#userrain#userspicy#pdribs#userjjessi#*cajedit#*gif#flashing gif#love chen yi treading the line between 'ai di is my brother but cdy is not my father' & 'cdy is my honorary father & ai di is my....what'#bc so much of it is projection of feelings onto cdy 'cause it's easier to combine romantic feelings with existing feelings of worship & awe#like being brothers with ai di is so easy too bc hes been there by his side his whole life like the rest of the gang brothers.#but that doesnt explain why chen yi loses it when ai di isnt around. something something souls entwined you know but he doesnt get it#you see in the third gif the way his eyes flick when ai di says 'it makes me happy'. he's like. but you are clearly not happy.#youre lying to me. why are you lying to me. im hurt bc i dont understand what youre feeling & youre not telling me when i deserve to know#(this ties to ep9 'ai di will get angry if he hears us' he KNOWS ai di is protective of him. but he doesnt know the underlying emotion)#then ai di's next line & chen yi sets his jaw like. 'you dont want me here? fine.' ai di is actually surprised & misinterprets his anger#('ofc i know whom he likes') - chen yi WAS upset about that dig but hes much more upset that ai di is pushing him away.#but despite being hurt he shows up hours later to help drunk ai di cuz even if he doesnt fully understand why. ai di always comes first
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The whole framing of Lestat as the sole symbol of patriarchy that fandom is so desperate to put him in doesn't work unless you deliberately ignore how he was also a victim of rape and abuse before he was turned. People want him to be fit into this strict role of "father figure/violent husband/perpetrator" that is only that and not even a whole person, and in doing so they need to push aside the fact that despite being his family's provider, he was also pushed into that role when his father forbid him from joining a monastery or gaining an education that he wanted. Lestat wanted to run away with a theater group as a kid, and actually managed to do so once Gabrielle gave him her blessing and monetary support in order to go to Paris. He didn't always want to be the provider, he was forced into that role and became despondent when he thought he would never get a chance to leave his home.
His new life prior to being turned is pretty much the antithesis to the whole "Lestat is a manly man who would sooner throw up than be compared to a woman" spiel: he lived with another man in Paris while also being an actor, having left his family and "responsibility" to them. The only family member he was ever close to was his mother, all the other male members shunned or ridiculed him. Add onto that the fact that his turning firmly placed him within the role of the damsel/victim: he's kidnapped from his bed by a stranger, taken into a tower and left to rot while being fed on for a week, before then being raped and violently turned all while never even being asked if he would consent to it in any normal circumstance. But you of course have to ignore all of this if you want him to only represent the aggressor/patriarch while Louis is the helpless unhappy matriarch of the family.
My issue isn't that I think Louis isn't a victim, it's that it's not unrealistic for Lestat to be an aggressor/abuser while also displaying traits that aren't regularly assigned to stereotypical depictions of male characters. He's abusive to Claudia while also having been a victim of abuse from his own family. He's not a good maker/teacher, but he also didn't even have one when he was turned. He's the provider/attempted protector of the family and seemed to like being that, while also having run away from his own family prior to this to act in a theater in Paris. He's a rich white man while also being obviously effeminate in public spaces, even to Tom's own bigoted humor.
Like Louis' own complicated story with being his family's benefactor and provider, you can't firmly place Lestat as being one thing or another in terms of gender ideals without deliberately ignoring parts about him that don't fit this. And I don't think it's an absolute necessity, when even in Louis' own story, Lestat isn't stripped of his effeminate mannerisms or behavior while also being the abusive maker/father/lover.
#interview with the vampire#lestat de lioncourt#like even Louis doesn't try to act like Lestat was only ever the powerful 'daddy' of the house#if he was I doubt he'd even feature Lestat wanting to be king of mardi gras and doing that extremely flamboyant display#to the public's chagrin/disgust#the only people in awe of Lestat's peacocking are the women in ep7 like that man was NOT accepted by other rich men like Tom#and I don't point this out in order to dismiss the notion that he could be abusive/horrible#rather that it's completely possible for both things to be true?#also to the people that will likely go: but how does him being a victim of abuse negate him being a patriarch#idk maybe redirect your question to the Edwardian wife fanatics that think that no male character can be a victim unless he is assigned#the female while he is in a relationship with another man 🤷♀️#I'll never forget how someone was also like 'Lestat fakes his femininity for the public' why? no one likes his effeminate ass anywhere#he holds more power by being white + rich than by being effeminate in order to ''''hide'''' his power which he never has or cared to#when Fenwick suggested to Louis to get a business under Lestat's name it's because Lestat being white could pass segregation laws...#not because his effeminate mannerisms grant him more favor.....
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Louis found a toy someone's been sleeping with...how's that line go? Something something, you're my only hope?
#drawns#gid#getting in deep#louis patriarch#it is truly baffling to me how closely luke's desert outfit action figure looks to Louis' vore outfit when just in lines#it's got the same pockets and straps and Boots and gloves#will has basically been sleeping with a miniature of louis but with a lightsaber#it's a call for help. please Louis. please#please come save him from the awful nightmares.#if you do not go down his throat or at least let him hold you while he's sleeping soon it's going to end up being too late
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louis not considering himself a practicing catholic / not having faith anymore vs still being obsessed with the aesthetics of the catholic church .
#* ch. study .#being obsessed and fascinated#and still a bit afraid and in awe#with the church#and all of its representatives#walking into a church and still crossing himself#still holding a lot of respect for priests#it's not just the catholic guilt#it's all still there#i imagine back in new orleans#the church was responsible for helping out with paul#when they took him out of the “hospital” and back home#going to church was also a ritual which the whole family practiced#but also a source of great fear regarding his sexuality#and his habits his work his aspirations#the catholic church is a toxic parent and#as difficult of a relationship as he has with it#louis still cannot bring himself to scorn it
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I keep thinking about the scene at the opera in season one. Lestat confessing to Louis that his greatest fear is loneliness and Louis sort of fumbling the moment by immediately asking Lestat how many vampires there are in the world. I don’t think Louis intentionally meant to upset Lestat (or perhaps he just wanted to deflect some of the strong emotions of Lestat’s confession) but I can only imagine how that felt to Lestat. His deep insecurity was probably immediately triggered by thoughts that Louis would want to find other vampires. I’m not justifying Lestat’s possessiveness, it’s just another instance of their inability to communicate properly and it drives me crazy. But that’s why it makes for such good drama.
Such good drama, anon. I love how there are those moments in those early episodes where they fundamentally don't actually understand each other. That separation of race, class and sexuality is complicated, but they're also informed entirely by the fact that they're from different eras and different countries, and the contexts of their own traumas and upbringings. The way that leads to that sort of dislocation in their ability to communicate what they need from each other in those early days is so compelling, and it hurts in the best possible way that when they do grow to understand what the other needs, they both so often weaponise it against each other. It's messy and toxic and I love that for me personally, haha.
#i love that scene at the opera too#that entire sequence actually i love lestat being so awful to the poor singer lol#lestat x louis#iwtv asks#welcome to my ama
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I love that in louis & lestat's big fight at the townhouse in new orleans we see The Unreticent Vampire Louis in all his glory. covered in blood and threatening lestat with the predator that lestat loves, the thing lestat says he saw first in louis. the fact that when pushed far enough, louis becomes an unblinking force of will to destroy anything that has hurt the things he holds to be most important. the part of him that loved killing that man before his death lead to the riot and the fire in Claudia's home. but here we see not only gleeful rejoicing in the little power he has to protect and hurt, but one of those little calculations he makes. he loved lestat, once, and will again, but in this moment he chooses Claudia maybe the most decisively he ever does (and then lestat tried to kill him for it...) because Claudia is more important then. there's something here about him threatening his brother pre vampirism and him threatening lestat here, about how when he was human it was a matter of business interests vs someone he loves. business interests to him meaning survival first, and second a chance at dignity in life and a position in society. and Claudia here I think represents life to Louis. the thing he needs to survive. she wasn't his X, but she was the thing he needed to survive. more than Lestat, Claudia was a future. a chance at a good life. he pressed a knife to his brother's breastbone to preserve his chance at a good life. a straightforward escalation of power and time brings us to the fight at the townhouse. insane that for Lestat the only thing he's thinking about in this moment is being left behind and that Louis doesn't love him The Most. and then he drops him from the sky for it.
#louis + armand => the stochastically systematic obliteration of your ability to concieve of your agency in your relationships bcus of trauma#'trauma' feels like NOT at all the right word for this. i mean lestat dropping louis from the SKY and the studio burning down after Armand's#turning. i mean like world shatteringly awful things happening that force the characters to make big sacrifices to endure/recover#like one step forward a billion steps back and also all your bones are broken. for both of them it eventually becomes self inflicted#in the way they both abdictate control or responsibility in various ways and clearly desire to escape Being Agents in their own lives#like louis is the vampire observer. he notices trends and places bets on them. he collects and archives history. he looks with eyes#unlimited by the scope of human lives. and then armand is well. armand#also i have to jsut tack on i love this fight. i love seeing this louis. the louis that burned down the theatre. he is everything to me#mine
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finally watching the interview with the vampire show as i have been thinking about doing for several months and. boy. that lestat sure can lestat!
#he's just... ough. he's SO MUCH. he's a lot. he's like if howl pendragon were deeply evil i'm obsessed with him#and he’s SO fucking funny. i’ll never get past it. i’ve been saying ‘well i like to do it. i enjoy it’ to myself for hours now#and cracking myself up every time. this immediately following ‘so no more of your SoUNd can pollute this Wuhrrld.’?#the most back-to-back line deliveries of ever. god he’s so awful#louis is also FASCINATING... he's on at least four levels of repression at all points in time. so many Issues (affectionate)#and i guess i haven't technically read the book to compare but GOOD fucking move on the show's part making him a black man#makes his character and story and relationship with lestat so much more compelling on every level in addition to being. you know.#not as racist as the original novel in which i as i understand it he owns a slave plantation.#and GOD the performances are SO FUCKING GOOD... the chemistry between the two of them is insane.#i love it when relationships are horrible and toxic and awful and have a body count in the hundreds! 🥰#caseyposting
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#just watched s 2 ep 7 of the vampire show#and these are just some ramblings that hopefully will not offend fans of the show im just trying to articulate my thoughts to myself#i think it was a cool idea to turn their trial into one of the theatrical performances onstage#however im still annoyed at how the domestic violence episode happened and was apparently a real thing#like idk it just ruins the whole vibe in the book of how these characters were living together doing awful things to humans yet#somehow mostly carrying on in civilized peace and not ever directing that violence toward each other for decades on end#this choice messes up the characterizations and relationship dynamics too much for me somehow#also messes up the aesthetics that are a delicate balance between the savage and grotesque and polite and refined#it was important to me that lestat wasnt the one to first cross that line in the books and that claudia was#i feel like kinda the one thing that lestat had going for him in the first book as a standalone story#was that he didnt ever cross certain lines with louis and claudia that the show made him cross there?#he seemed to have a different inner set of rules when it came to what violence he would do to humans and what he would do to them#it's hard to even articulate what kind of shittiness is a dealbreaker in a character or a ship to me#especially when theyre constantly doing stuff like feeding on people to stay alive#but for some reason lestat and louis beating the shit out of each other is just such a nonsense ooc thing to make them do in my opinion#also claudia in the book was valid for what she did to lestat already i thought. i dont see why they had to change or add to the motives#she was turned into a vampire at age 5 and therefore almost purely a vampire in nature and also totally valid in not being happy about it#and in the books lestat made her a vampire on his own after louis fed on her and they did not discuss it beforehand#and he never mentioned rules about a child vampire being forbidden and louis did not beg him to do it. in fact one of the biggest reasons#that louis and claudia decide to turn on lestat is because theyre convinced hes just pretending to know more than he does about vampirism#and either has nothing to teach them or wont ever let them go so they can find out anything for real about their own kind#these changes in the show bother me too but i think im not that good at articulating why#i also feel like as much as book louis's weakness and passiveness and guilt can get frustrating and isn't always interesting to follow#in a way that's kinda one of his more saving graces and most defining traits as a vampire as well - so i dont always know how to feel#about them making his character more powerful and aggressive and involved in things in the show at times?#on one hand i often get frustrated at his moping and indecisiveness and inactivity in the books#and yet on the other hand i find i miss his quieter softer excruciatingly polite book personality when i am watching the show at times too#p#vmpcs
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these were originally tags i made on a rb'd post but i want them to be seen because there is Too Much nuance-less armand hatred flinging around in the iwtv tag for my liking
i honestly believe at this point that the trial and armand being "unable to prevent" claudia's death was another case of his self-ingrained false helplessness - i think there's a very good chance armand BELIEVED he couldn't have stopped it.
was that belief reinforced over 70 years of telling himself that since to alleviate responsibility? perhaps! was that belief impacted by the fact he really didn't care for claudia all that much? almost definitely! but i think he was complicit as opposed to actively masterminding
he prefers to feel the victim because it's a familiar (dare i say comfortable) place for him to be with his specific brand of trauma
that said i do think he was absolutely lying about claudia's death that louis didn't see - making it sound more noble than it was so louis would be less distressed about it. 'i protect his happiness' etc. etc.
#anyway i will continue to rb memes about armand being Guarded by sam because i do think they're funny as fuck#yes the obstacles were a kiddy gate!!!! but what y'all are missing is that i really think this man doesn't believe he can open those!!!!!#armand the character that you are#i stand with my cancelled monster of a wife#he has done AWFUL things but masterminding that feels slightly off?#mainly because of how risky this was for louis in ways maybe armand ACTUALLY couldn't have prevented#iwtv#iwtv spoilers#iwtv 2x07
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heyyyyyyy hey wait I forgot I follow up on this, you mentioned there was tea regarding Adam’s dad and his first wife 👁️ is that something you’re willing to share bc I am all ears
ahhhh yes yes yes. my LORE!!!!!!! i am absolutely happy to spill that tea. i did indeed mention here that adam is the product of his father’s second wife, not his first. so let me divulge all the stuff that went down before adam came around!!
so, first, some backstory on louis, adam’s father. he was his father, king antoine’s, firstborn. four years later, he has a brother named adrien. adrien dies of illness around age five, and young louis is devastated, but his father is tough and hard and tells his son to buck up! crying is for the ladies. a few years later, louis’s mother, anne michelle, also dies. louis doesn’t cope well with this at all, but he’s so scared of his abusive father that he hides his feelings once again. soon, king antoine remarries. he and his new wife have a daughter, and they name her genevieve after her mother. they entirely dote on genevieve, completely neglecting louis, leaving him to his own devices. he becomes miserable and cruel, and an entirely reckless young man.
when prince louis is 24, king antoine has a health scare that causes him concern. he fears he may not live much longer, and he sees that his son is in no place to take the throne, should he die. so, he arranges for his reckless son to marry an upstanding young lady, to ensure that louis could become king at the moment of antoine’s passing. louis is less than thrilled about his bride, but when they meet on their wedding day, there is actually a spark between them. her name is agnès claudine marie. she was chosen because their marriage would be politically advantageous, as well as look very perfect to the public eye. louis was all ready to loathe this new wife of his. but he just… didn’t.
agnès was firey and stood her ground. she challenged him constantly and louis was pretty shocked by it. (but also… turned on by it as well.) louis was still a very shitty person, like, agnès did Not make him a better man. but they sort of got along in their own twisted way. they appeared a perfect, prim and proper couple to the public eye, but behind closed doors they were very just… toxic and messy. and what made matters worse was that king antoine died shortly after they were married, so louis had to grapple with his father’s death (sprouting the classic, complicated grief that comes along with losing an abusive father), and handle being king, all while never being mentally or emotionally prepared for it, nor having anyone to lean on in the process. it’s ROUGH.
louis had such a quick temper and was insanely jealous. he got pissed at agnès for even so much as talking to another man at a party, even if he was right there by her side. after the parties would end, he’d throw things and break things and scream at her and she’d scream right back, bullying him just as much as he berated her. these arguments almost always ended in ridiculously hot sex. which is funny and i don’t know why i feel the need to mention it but. as a fake historian it’s my duty to share all fake facts. anyway.
eventually, louis and agnès had a daughter. they named her claudine. louis doesn’t feel MUCH about this, as he very much needs a son to be his heir, but he does care enough about agnès to not completely despise his daughter. he’s a pretty indifferent father at this point. although i’m sure he always made claudine feel fairly useless, just for being a girl.
about six years later, agnès became pregnant with their second child. tragedy struck, however, when she died in childbirth. she delivered a boy, but he did not live longer than a day.
THIS is really the turning point where louis goes from bad to the absolute worst. it’s all buried and complicated inside him but he’s truly devastated by agnès’s death. she was always so alive with passion he just never expected to lose her. and the fact that he loses their son, HIS SON, within a day, it just breaks him for good. he goes from awful to downright ruthless. he grows more wicked toward his daughter, seeing too much of her mother in her and blaming her for it. blaming her too, for not being his much-needed male heir. he also becomes a terror in his court, and in general just a horrible person to be around.
unfortunately at this point, the psychological damage that has been done to him just really causes him to spiral out of control. he’s blinded by unprocessed grief and unfounded rage. and the people are in an uproar! who will be their heir! where is the dauphin of france!! all this just makes him desperate to find another wife to give him a male heir. it’s all he cares about now. so, less than a year later, louis found someone. it was similar to prologue adam’s parties where the villages and towns were taxed to send all their maidens. and renée elizabeth aubert was the only daughter of five children. her parents OF COURSE wanted to give her the opportunity to marry THE KING!
and… it worked. louis saw her and found her to be beautiful. (oh, shall i mention here that he’s 30 and she’s 17?) renée wasn’t as tenacious as agnès but she was gorgeous and held her head high. she intrigued him. (and her mentioning that she had four brothers was definitely a factor for louis.) so, he courted her and married her swiftly.
renée settled into her new life as queen. louis distracted and enticed her with the finest clothes and jewelry, making her feel so very adored. she tried to get along with her step-daughter, claudine, who was around 7 years old at this point, but poor princess claudine was so traumatized from losing her mother and from louis’s abuse, so she didn’t really want to connect much with renée. so, claudine spend the vast majority of her time with her governess, who was basically raising her fully at that point.
soon, renée became pregnant, and successfully delivered a boy! huzzah!! adam is here!!
for a few years, things carry on. louis grows more twisted and disinterested in his wife and children. he hardly sees claudine, and he’s disappointed in adam thus far. (adam didn’t start speaking or walking until he was like 2-3, so louis was convinced he was just “stupid” and they all got worried he was possibly deaf. but renée knew her boy wasn’t deaf or stupid, because she actually spent time with him and could see that his mind just worked differently. and he always looked up at her when she called his name.) regardless, louis was also getting increasingly frustrated with renée, because she kept miscarrying pregnancies. (i think giving birth to adam very nearly killed her, and left damage that just made carrying any future pregnancy to full term impossible.) so, louis was now stuck with a useless daughter and a worthless son and a dysfunctional wife. and he made sure they all knew it! he continued to drink and be abusive. claudine sort of gets out of it, eventually going to live in paris for private tutoring and finishing school.
but! claudine would still come home for christmas, and other events. well, approaching one christmas, louis and renée had been away on a trip for diplomatic reasons. on the trip, renée had caught some sort of illness. when they returned, they kept adam away from her (for fear that the heir would catch it) but unfortunately, princess claudine was there, and caught the illness. renée recovered in a couple of weeks. the princess, however, died. she was 12 years old.
adam was 4, and doesn’t really have any memories of his sister claudine. especially since they didn’t really grow up under the same roof. but anyway, louis is just angered by yet ANOTHER death in this godforsaken family of his. and he, despite caring very little for claudine, IS saddened because she WAS his last piece of agnès. he decided to blame renée, since she’s the one who brought the illness home.
well. time carries on. some years later, when adam is nine and a half, he loses his mother, queen renée, to illness as well. he’s left alone with his father, and you know how the story goes…
anyway my take is that the de beaumont family is quite literally cursed by death and for generations they’re just plagued to lose people but Just Enough survive to maintain the family line. and adam, breaking his own separate curse by the enchantress, does then, in turn, break the beaumont family death curse as well. because true love conquers ALL. thank you 💙
#MWAHAHAH!! MY LORE!!!!!! >:D#also i am posting this on march 21st which IS the day that i’ve marked as renée’s passing 🥺 so pour one out for her!!#anyway thank you for asking#i feel like i could say so many more things. the nitty gritty details#but this is a solid overview of this disastrous family#doesn’t it just make the adam & belle stories so much more beautiful?? knowing all the AWFULNESS that happened there before???#it makes me insane. personally.#but wow !! thank you !! that was fun to write. i had so many tabs of all my notes open in front of me lmao#i love being a fake historian who is an expert on all these fake facts 😌#adam#queen renée#king louis#batb headcanons#batb 2017
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I support everyone’s right to read whatever nasty smut they want, but I see some of these dark romance books that get popular and I can’t help but pass severe judgement on them. Not because they’re “too dark” or “all smut and no plot” but because they’re either so poorly written you’d think ChatGP was the author or they fail to commit to the bit of their purported genre.
Much like the Joker bemoaning the state of crime in Gotham, I just want a better class of book for people.
#i read Blood Meridian for in high school; trust me when I say books being ‘too dark’ is not a problem#this post brought to you by me finding out the male love interest of Haunting Adeline#is a thinly veiled Tim Ballard expy who busts sex trafficking rings as a job#so despite being a rapist to our heroine he’s actually not that bad of a guy#i had the same issue with Butcher & Blackbird (which I really wanted to like)#everyone fell short of being truly awful without some traumatic backstory to excuse it#like can we please get some real nasties in here!!!#there’s just way better shit out there I know it!#no wonder people were upset about Louis/Lester revealed to be abusive; everyone’s reading stories bad dudes have their edges sanded down#and if a woman is nastier and meaner than the man? well she might as well be a war criminal who should be tried at The Hague
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good morning i have woken up thinking about (see: overanalyzing) louis saying during their argument that armand forgot he had a dick while he was leading the paris coven pre-theatre. like what conversation did they have about this which led this line being in the middle of all the really hurtful things they're saying to each other.
#i just need a full season about their relationship and i'll Never Get It#because everyone thinks everyone is there for the other pairing#:((((#like that being alongside louis mocking armand for being fucking groomed and sa'd for his literal entire childhood????#there's gotta be something armand has said about how awful that time was specifically related to like... sex or at least relationships
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good luck now that you've kicked the hornet nest because people who adhere to "louis is basically a woman" meta are particularly rabid and have a tendency to harass anyone who disagrees with them. interestingly you'll also notice their only comeback is to claim the only alternative viewpoint is "lestat as mother" even when nobody said that. as though a relationship between two men must entail one being the "woman." of course ultimately you need only glance briefly at the loustat ao3 tag to realize that this argument is by and large nothing more than justification of feminization fetish in disguise. most of this analysis is blatantly not in good faith
I'll be honest I'm surprised you got right down to the point with this message anrkfje. But I appreciate it. And yeah some of the various "lestat is mother" memes that I've seen are more often in the vein of "evil stepmother", which honestly the show doesn't even directly argue against when you have him cartoonishly take off the record player needle in episode 5 or arguing that Claudia is trying to steal Louis away from him. The latter in particular just reminds me of how various women irl have noted that their female relatives directly thought of them as threats for their men's attention even when they were just children. But as I said, this doesn't negate that Lestat is still her father who abuses her, and given how so much of the focus is placed on that throughout episode 6.
#interview with the vampire#answered#i also just dislike this insistence in the fandom that Lestat's effeminate mannerisms are performative or fake#in order for him to 'disguise' his role as patriarch when he has practically no reason to do so#i mean you could sooner argue that he likes being called daddy in a 'man providing materialistic worth' so?#but the notion that femininity cannot possibly be done by someone who isn't inherently nurturing or positive is so simplistic to me#Lestat's behavior towards Claudia as her parental figure is awful; him being effeminate doesn't deny this#nor does it deny his horrible behavior towards Louis as well
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I'm new to the show having finally watched season 1, and this is probably a controversial take, but I hope to God that it goes even more off the rails from the source material in the 2022 timeline this upcomig season. In fact, I'd be cool with season 3 with TVL being it for the show. I don't need to delve into any of that nonesense that comes after.
#I read the books a long long time ago#up to QotD#(then randomly blood canticle)#because after that they seem to get progressively worse and worse#Lestat is f*king awful to Louis post reunion#idc what anyone says otherwise#and him essentually being made omnipotent is not something I need to see play out on screen#nor watch literally every other character being obsessed and in love with him#and him in love with all of them too#that's boring as hell#never have I ever been interested in Anne's raging hard-on for him as the “hero” of her series#I've only been a diehard Loustat girlie all these years because of fandom#that's the only saving grace for the Vampire Chronicles#the incredible fanwork#iwtv#amc iwtv
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