#loumand musings

[thequeenofsastiel]

Intellectually I understand that it almost certainly won't go like this, but I can't deny that I'd be disappointed to find out that Armand didn't stay in Dubai to look after Louis. He was clearly very protective of Louis and still in love with him. I find it unlikely that he'd be the one feeling put upon in the breakup, given the reason for it. So he's probably continuing to feel protective of and in love with Louis. Personally, if I was in his situation, I would hide myself from Louis but still guard him as best I could. I can't imagine just abandoning him knowing that he was likely about to get attacked by a fuckton of vampires. And I hope dearly that for Armand it's the same.

Unlikely, since the show wants to push Loustat and Devil's Minion and leave Loumand behind, but I still personally feel like that would make the most sense for Armand to do.

[lafamilledelioncourt]

we joke about louis being helen of troy, but guys, he got lestat and armand in a singular look down bad crying at the gym.

these ancient vampires who were feral about each other took one look at his bright ass eyes and his cocky little half smile and just lost their fucking minds.

their asses 404 errored the second he batted his eyes in their direction. there is no recovery.

[platoapproved]

After the first night, I thought I would die of this thirst. After the second, I thought I would perish screaming. After the third, I only dreamed of it in weeping and in desperation, licking at my own blood tears on my fingertips. After six nights of this when I could bear the thirst no longer, they brought a struggling victim to me.

At the end of seven more nights, when I was starved to the point where even the scent of the blood didn't rouse me, they laid the victim-a small boy child of the streets crying for pity-directly in my arms.

Some twenty weeks were passed in this misery. I didn't even believe anymore that the bright and fantastical world of Venice had ever existed. And I knew my Master was dead. I knew it. I knew that all I loved was dead. I was dead.

2X08 "AND THAT'S THE END OF IT. THERE'S NOTHING ELSE." || The Vampire Armand

[hechose]

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[murfpersonalblog]

IWTV S2 Ep3 Musings - Lesmand vs Loumand Parallels/Foreshadowing (Spoilers)

AMC, this is SINISTER writing. 👀

SINISTER, I say! 😈🔥

[maester-of-spreadsheets]

DASH!!! or; kpop music to listen to when you're a vampire chasing someone for sport. or maybe just walking really fast and vibing sometimes because, like, whatever you'll catch the guy eventually.

Track list:

Shadow - f(x): why not warm up with an amazing song about stalking

Dash - NMIXX: I wanna dash, I wanna run it, I wanna run it run it DASH!

Baddie - IVE: I'm a baddie, ba-ba-baddie, baddie/Pretty little risky baddie/뭐든 될 대로 되라지/Catch me if you caAAAAan

The Chaser - INFINITE: definitely one i added because of the title and bpm but the lyrics are weirdly appropriate so here we are

LOVE BOMB - fromis_9: I MEAN...

As if it's Your Last - Blackpink: It's certainly going to be someone's last

I'm so sick - Apink: I'm so sick of lying........ You gotta know that☹️

Sleepless Night - 9 Muses: Metronomic!

Feel My Rhythm - Red Velvet: look it's sampling bach and it's cute but the hihats make it sound it lowkey wants to kill you what else was i supposed to do?

Eve, Psyche & The Bluebeard's wife - LE SSERAFIM: this is probably the title of a painting in the Loumand loft

Catellena - Orange Caramel: okay so here we have a kpop song sampling a punjabi folk song and the lyrics have all the antagonistic homoerotic yearning of Jolene and the music video has an extended metaphor comparing sushi to beauty standards and maybe capitalism?? i'm just saying it's avant garde enough for Armand

YES or YES - TWICE: 😊 Hey boy! /Look, I'm gonna make this simple for you😊 /You got two choices😊/Yes or YES? 😊

Hold on Tight - aepsa: Keep on moving!

PICK ME - PRODUCE 48: From now on, you’re mine, mine, mine, only mine mine, mine, mine (Superstar)

BBoom BBoom - Momoland: Great!

LIAR LIAR - Oh My Girl: Your freedom is OVER!

Oh! my mistake - April: You’re not allowed to make me feel lonely

Gotta Go - Chung Ha: Gotta go, gotta go

Smiley - Yena: [through gritted teeth] And I say, hey!/I’m gonna make it smile, smile, smile away/I’ll smile prettily and move past it/Just smile away, just smile away-ay,

GingaMingaYo - Billlie: Wel! Come! to! the! Strangeee-eeee! World! WOW!

Catch Me if You Can - SNSD: yeah, good luck with that

Wife - (G)I-DLE: I [pick lint off your couch] it's so twinkle twinkle

Run - BTS: Run, run, run!

RUN2U - StayC: So I run to you!! [unsettling chord progression]

Up & Down - EXID: free shit post vid idea...Armand telephathically moving Daniel's chair up and down during the chorus

Magnetic (Starlight Remix) - ILLIT: Dash-da-da, dash-da-da, dash-da, like it's magnetic

ETA - NewJeans: The day you couldn't come [home from your fuck pad]/The day [Daniel] got in so much trouble/The day [I] couldn't break up with [my husband]/The day [I had to kill our neighbor]/The day [Lestat's voice showed up in my mind]/I HEARD. HIM. SAY.......

I Don't Care - 2NE1: I don't care e e e e e, I don't care e e e e e e

Red Flavor -Red Velvet: Red flavor, I'm curious, honey/It tastes like slowly melting strawberry when I bite into it

ASAP - NewJeans: H-h-h-hi, it's me again, I'm back (hey)/Let's talk ASAP/Do you have the time?//A-S-A-P, baby/Hurry up, don't be lazy/A-S-A-P, baby/Hurry up, don't say maybe/A-S-A-P, baby/Hurry up, don't say/Hurry up, don't say/Just for a minute/Tik-tok, tik-tok, tik-tok, tik, tik tik-tok, tik-tok, tik-tok, tik, tik tik-tok, tik-tok, tik-tok, tik, tik...........

[indelicateink]

some random recent wishes from the bounty of IWTV kink meme requests--the full list is amazing!

note: so many thanks to @vampire-dove for maintaining this anon kink meme for us.

to play: click on the form link on the left side of the kink meme page. please go add more. please fill prompts. have you mused about your favs exploring each others’ bodies today? NO? would you like to?

Armand/Louis de Pointe du Lac Blood Drinking

loumand have been fucking but they haven't shared blood yet

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Raglan James/Daniel Molloy

Daniel Molloy and whoever the hell Justin Kirk is playing (Raglan? Marius?). Dubai, pre-vampire Daniel. Just two old men screwing while screwing over vampires.

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Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Past Rape/Non-con, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

modern-day au. when impoverished Lestat de Lioncourt comes into the vast inheritance left to him by his stalker, he makes a lot of changes in his life. the first is tackling his illiteracy. he's making steady progress, but braving the public library has been life-altering--especially since meeting the hot librarian who recommends him books for them to argue about.

other life goals include buying an actual house, exploring the wonders of having health insurance, enjoying the ability to buy new clothes. and getting over the trauma of magnus's attack. and being able to be intimate with someone again. little things like that. mostly he just wants to hang out around all the free books, in sight of his very beautiful new friend.

non-ao3 tags: anxiety about sex, louis is compassionate, adult learning is not a punchline, louis knows all the best erotica

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Claudia/Madeleine Claudia starts realizing that she's getting the same kind of butterflies around Madeleine as she did around boys, perhaps even stronger. One night after Madeleine called to visit, Claudia takes her exploration into her own hands and imagination.

While Claudia is in the throes of her self pleasure, Madeleine returns to retrieve something she'd forgotten, only to hear Claudia's moans through the half-closed door. Peering inside, she watches for a moment, her own hunger growing inside her, before she can't hold herself back. Swooping into the room, Madeleine takes charge of the situation (not in a dom sense; just in an experienced sense) and shows Claudia the joys of lesbian sex.

TLDR: Claudeleine + masturbation interruptus, first times, (slight) voyeurism, experienced teaching the inexperienced

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Armand/Daniel Molloy, Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Possessive Behavior, Possessive Armand, Vampire Daniel Molloy

Daniel wants to interview Lestat, but apparently he’s like catnip to older vampires. Lestat flirts relentlessly, Louis finds it funny, and Armand is possessive.

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Armand/Louis de Pointe du Lac Trans Louis de Pointe du Lac, Trans Armand, Lesbian Sex

dyke loumand have sex on a motorbike

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Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Birthday Sex, Consensual Somnophilia, Marathon Sex, Established Relationship, Consensual Kink Loustat having (enthusiastic!) free use agreement on their respective birthdays (including somnophilia).

I couldn't find free use kink tag so let's pretend it's there. Ideally, would have two parts, one on louis' birthday, one on lestat's, but picking one would be good too!

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Daniel Molloy/Louis de Pointe du Lac Post-Season/Series 02, Canon Compliant, Murder, Blood Drinking, Shower Sex, Bottom Louis de Pointe du Lac louis gets back home a few days later to a newly turned daniel who has been holed up in the penthouse since he killed a couple employees as soon as he'd gone through the worst of his transformation. vampire daniel with newfound zest for life comes onto him.

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Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Top Louis de Pointe du Lac, Bottom Lestat de Lioncourt, Dominant Louis de Pointe du Lac, Submissive Lestat de Lioncourt, Spanking, Crybaby Lestat de Lioncourt, Cock Warming, Orgasm Delay, Orgasm Denial, Orgasm Edging, Begging

After Lestat comes back home flaunting Antoinette's scent, trying to get a rise out of Louis, he gets what he wants. But Louis, determined not to give in so easily, makes him beg for it.

Bonus points if Louis makes Lestat play the piano with his cock in him.

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Daniel Molloy/Louis de Pointe du Lac Painplay, High Heels, Foot Fetish, Orgasm Edging, Verbal Humiliation, Bottom Louis de Pointe du Lac could be an AU or canonverse. louis likes high heels, daniel likes it when louis gets a little mean.

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so I am but one cheerleader--if anyone else wants to make posts promoting requests they'd like to see, you might catch the eye of a like-minded author or fellow dreamer!

[lafamilledelioncourt]

louis: sucking off rashid!armand's neck making little gasping sounds as he loudly eats

rashid!armand: staring directly at daniel, smiling like a drunk person, and carrying on a morbid conversation with his ex-boytoy with absolute fondness

daniel: in front of my fucking salad you nutjobs?

[lestatlovesboypussy]

Eyes On Me, Love

Pairing: Loumand Rating: Explicit Tags: Porn Without Plot, Gentle Dom Louis de Pointe du Lac, Light BDSM, Praise Kink, Blowjobs, Dry Humping, Paris Era

Sprung from my musings on Loumand earlier

Summary:

Sometimes Armand needs to let go. Louis is there for him however he needs it, soft or hard. Tonight, he needs soft. Or: Louis is the kindest and gentlest Dom when he wants to be, and Armand is so very well behaved for him.

Read here on AO3

“Hey, baby,” Louis greeted as he heard Armand let himself in the front door. He was humming softly to himself, developing some photographs he’d taken the night before. After a moment, he realised that Armand hadn’t come to say hello, and stuck his head out of the door to look into the living room. 

Armand was standing quietly in the middle of the room, looking miserable, his shoulders rounded with tiredness. Louis’ heart squeezed. He hung up the last photo to dry and quickly wiped his hands with a nearby rag. He padded out to his lover in his bare feet, smiling slightly as Armand looked at him through his eyelashes. 

“Can I…?” Armand sounded nervous. He always sounded nervous when he was initiating, even after a year of this. 

Louis lifted his hand to cup the back of Armand’s neck, thumb rubbing the hinge of his jaw. “Oh, love. Of course you can. On your knees, now.”

The relief with which Armand dropped to his knees was obvious, a quiet sigh escaping him. He kept his eyes lowered, sitting on his heels with his hands in his lap. “Thank you, Maître.”

“What do you need tonight, love? Hm? Soft or hard?” Louis ran his fingers through Armand’s hair gently, encouraging it to break free of the gel that was holding it in place. He knew that, as much as Armand liked to look good with it slicked back, the stiff feeling of his hair like this drove him a bit crazy after a few hours. Armand had a lot of these little quirks - certain sensations really bothered him for reasons he couldn’t explain. Louis liked him to be comfortable when he was here.

Armand contemplated it for a moment, and Louis was glad to see it. Sometimes Armand answered ‘hard’ too quickly, desperate to be harshly punished for some perceived flaw or misstep. Louis had been trying to get it through his head that he didn’t deserve to be bruised for being imperfect, and he took Armand’s hesitation to consider what he actually wanted as a good sign. “Soft, please, Maître. Thank you, Maître,” he said, his fingers rubbing the knuckles of his other hand.

“Good boy. Soft it is.” Louis was glad; he was feeling relaxed and content, and though he would’ve given Armand a hard scene if he’d really needed it, it wouldn’t have come naturally to him tonight. He walked over to the armchair, grabbing a book on his way. “Come on over here, love. At my feet.”

Armand hesitated, his eyes darting up to the younger man’s face and then away at the floor again. Louis smiled. Armand always had such specific plans for any given evening, and he got uneasy if Louis didn’t follow it. Sometimes he liked to play with this, especially when Armand really needed his feelings wrung out of him, but tonight Louis mostly just wanted Armand to relax.

“What is it, love? Tell me.”

“In my clothes?”

Louis chuckled as he sat down. “Alright, you may remove your clothes and then come and sit at my feet, as long as you’re quick.”

Sure enough, Louis barely had time to open his book before Armand had disrobed, left his clothes neatly folded on the bed and come to kneel once more in front of Louis. The younger vampire made a satisfied sound, reaching out for Armand’s hair once more. Armand closed his eyes as Louis’ fingers tangled in it, and a little bit of tension bled from his shoulders. 

“Come here, rest your chin here, on my knee, love.” He gently arranged Armand’s body so that his knees were apart, Louis’ leg between them, with Armand’s chin gently resting on Louis’ knee. It left Armand’s spine straight, and his eyes encouraged to either look up at Louis, or at Louis’ clothed crotch. Armand squirmed a little, unsure where to put his hands. “You can hold onto my pants if you need to.”

Armand’s fingers immediately knotted in the fabric covering Louis’ calf, and he closed his eyes, settling into the position. He rubbed his cheek on Louis’ knee affectionately, breathing in the smell of him deeply.

“Eyes on me, love.” Louis said without looking at him, and Armand swallowed hard, his amber eyes gazing up at his lover’s face. “Good boy.” Louis’ free hand ghosted over Armand’s cheek, making him melt. “I’d like you to keep looking at me, but stay still, love. Just spend some time thinking about Maître and all the ways I make you feel good. Can you do that for me?” He looked down at Armand as he asked, trying to look kind but uninterested, though he was not very good at acting as though he were uninterested in Armand.

“Yes, Maître,” Armand agreed, voice soft but eager. “Thank you, Maître.”

“You’re welcome, love. Now, eyes on me, quiet and still, hm?” 

Armand nodded, and Louis smiled at him before turning his attention to his book. It was difficult at first to focus with those pretty eyes burning holes in his face, but his stroking of Armand’s hair helped to lull him into a meditative state as surely as it did for Armand. He relaxed, his leg accidentally-on-purpose straightening out just enough for his ankle to make contact with Armand’s balls, which made the older man huff out a surprised breath. Louis listened out carefully, all his senses attuned to Armand and whether he would be greedy and grind up against him for some relief on his straining cock. After a moment of Armand remaining as still as a statue, Louis looked down at him. 

“Good boy.”

Armand didn’t say anything, but his eyes flickered with the sweetest mix of arousal, relief, gratitude and peace. His fingers tightened just the slightest amount on Louis’ trousers, but he allowed it, turning his attention back to the book.

The two of them sat like that for just over an hour, Armand’s eyes growing heavy with relaxation, his heart rate slowing right down. His erection didn’t wilt, though - Louis felt it throbbing against his shin, and it made his own arousal simmer. He enjoyed the sensation of slowly growing hard without anything other than Armand’s desperation to ease him along. Eventually, though, he wanted Armand to touch him, so he set the book aside. 

Armand perked up a little as Louis did so, his eyes tracking the book’s journey from Louis’ hand to the table and then snapped back to Louis’ face. Sure enough, though, he stayed perfectly still, even when Louis’ hand slipped down from his hair to his cheek. Louis gently rubbed Armand’s lower lip, encouraging him to open his mouth.

“Watch your fangs, love,” Louis warned fondly, and Armand blushed. He hadn’t realised they’d dropped, apparently. They slowly retracted, and Louis cooed at him, slipping two fingers into his mouth. “You’ve been so good. So patient and still, even with your pretty head so full and your cock so needy. How’s it feeling now, love? Hmm?”

“Better, Maître,” Armand answered around Louis’ fingers, sucking on them slowly. His eyes were intent and heavy-lidded, and it made Louis squirm a little in the chair. 

“Good. Good boy. Look at you, so pretty.” He rubbed Armand’s tongue, the backs of his teeth, toying with him. “I’m lucky to have you in my service.”

Armand shook his head, and Louis smirked, his eyebrows furrowing slightly as he pulled his fingers out and firmly gripped Armand’s chin. 

“Are you disagreeing with me, love?”

Armand shook his head, bashful. “No, Maître.”

“I am lucky to have such a beautiful, sweet boy. One who serves me so well. Would you like to serve me now, love?” He asked, and Armand shifted closer, nodding. “Say it.”

“I want to serve you, Maître,” Armand said, voice hushed with reverence.

Louis leaned forwards to kiss him softly, and Armand whimpered, arching up into it. “It’s alright, love, I’ve got you,” he murmured as he pulled back, unzipping his trousers.

Armand settled back on his knees as Louis pulled out his erection, eyes fixed on it, his mouth slightly wet from spit. Louis chuckled softly, making Armand look up at his face. “Maître?”

“Go on, love, I’m yours. Take it as you wish.”

Louis gasped softly as Armand lunged forwards too quickly for him to see, engulfing his entire cock in his mouth in less than a second. Armand lost himself in it, taking Louis in deep then drawing him out slowly, enjoying himself unself-consciously, and it had Louis panting in minutes. He was clinging on to Armand’s hair with both hands but more for purchase than to guide the older man. He swore quietly under his breath and Armand’s eyes lit up, sinking his throat down all the way until Louis’ toes were curling.

“Good boy,” Louis moaned, petting Armand’s hair with shaking fingers. “Oh, love, that feels so fucking good. You want my cum real bad, huh?”

Armand pulled off, spit all over the lower half of his face. It was the messiest Louis had ever seen him, but he didn’t seem to care. “Yes, Maître,” he said, voice rough, before sucking Louis down once more. 

“Fuck,” Louis spat, gasping with pleasure as he started to cum, and Armand pulled back enough so Louis’ cum burst across his outstretched tongue, a satisfied smirk on his face as he watched Louis twitch with the aftershocks. He made a show of swallowing, which made Louis’ cock flex all over again. “Good boy,” Louis panted, smiling lazily. “Fuck, love, you’re so good to me. How do you wanna cum, baby? Anything you want.”

“Like this,” Armand said, his own breathing heavy as he shifted closer and ground his cock up against Louis’ leg. 

Louis hummed, trying to collect himself from the mindblowing orgasm he’d just had, but he felt dazed in the best way. “You wanna hump my leg, love? Cum right there on your knees like a good boy?”

“Yes, Maître,” Armand answered, eyes beseeching as he nuzzled Louis’ thigh through the fabric of his trousers. 

“Alright, love, go ahead. Eyes on me.” 

Armand didn’t hesitate now, his fingers digging into Louis’ trousers at his calf as he rolled his hips against the soft fabric covering the hard line of Louis’ shin. “Please, Maître,” he mumbled, eyes glazed with pleasure as he held eye contact with Louis. Poor thing had been thinking of this for over an hour, Louis knew it wouldn’t take long.

He knew what his lover needed. “So pretty, love, such a pretty boy I’ve got. I’m so lucky, you’re so precious, my lovely Armand.” He petted Armand’s cheek and hair tenderly, thumb catching on his lower lip for a moment. “Are you gonna be a good boy and cum for me just like this?”

“Yes, Maître,” Armand whined, hips hunching desperately. “Yes, yes, yes…”

“Cum for Maître, Armand,” Louis commanded, tugging gently on his hair, “now.”

Armand keened, his eyes squeezing shut as he reached his peak, pleasured sobs catching in his throat. Oh, but he was so beautiful like this, Louis thought, watching him ride it out. “Fuck…” Armand whispered, shivering. 

Louis chuckled, smoothing his hair back from his face before gathering him up and lifting him into his lap. “You done, love?”

Armand buried his face in Louis’ throat, nodding. Louis relaxed back into the chair, rubbing Armand’s back. The two of them were quiet for several long, content moments, broken eventually by a loud, happy, relaxed sigh from Armand. 

“You were amazing, baby,” Louis told him quietly, and he felt Armand’s lips smile against his pulse point. 

“So were you,” Armand replied, lifting his head. He looked well and truly fucked, his face sticky with drool and his hair all over the place, and it spoke to how relaxed he was that he didn’t seem to care. “Thank you, Maître.”

“Louis now, baby, scene’s over,” Louis reminded him, taking his sleeve and wiping the older man’s face. “Did you get what you needed?”

“Yes,” Armand answered, sucking his lower lip into his mouth. “I will wash your trousers.”

Louis laughed, so hard he threw his head back, and Armand smiled with his teeth. “Thank you, baby. I appreciate that.”

“Thank you,” Armand mumbled, ducking his head. “For making things better.”

“It’s what I’m here for,” Louis assured him, kissing his lips softly. “I love you.”

“I love you too,” the older man sighed dreamily, “so much, Louis.”

[nightcolorz]

Okayyyy. I have some kinda unconventional ones, and others that are just kinda vibes. Or lame.

The Stolen Child | Loreena McKennitt - A beautiful setting of the Yeats poem. It's about a child being lured by fairies. Is Armand the child, or the fairy? Depends on the time in his life. It's just. Ugh.

Away with us he's going, The solemn-eyed: He'll hear no more the lowing Of the calves on the warm hillside Or the kettle on the hob Sing peace into his breast, Or see the brown mice bob Round and round the oatmeal chest. For he comes, the human child, To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.

Tragedy Bound | The Bravery - A guy's musings on a survivor of sexual abuse.

Cry Little Sister | Chvrches - I mean, literally a song about a vampire, idk. This version in particular is ethereal and creepy.

Foolish Games | Jewel - Loumand in the show, Lesmand everywhere. Just all his loves where he feels it more deeply than they do.

oooooo omg!!!! I LOVE these AHHH!!!! I love that u guys r sending me Armand songs this is like my favorite thing ever. All of these r so good ‼️‼️

[noliaert]

NOLIAERT'S IWTV WIPS

Okay so I thought to show off some of my WIPs for IWTV (amc), especially since I've not managed to finish off most of my WIPS regardless of how excited I have been for them :/ IWTV in 2022 was like a muse to me! I had so many wips! But little or nothing to show for it (cause extensive projects got overwhelming) 😔 I have however finished off 2 loumand pieces since S2 started off, 1 that had too been a wip from 2022 (I'll edit in a link once I post it, I've done so on twitter, but I feel the need to fix on some things... majorly is the issue one of the louis-es as it was a 3, initially 4,-in-1 piece :/ was rushing cause of the looming loumand divorce and doom, otherwise known as S2 "trial" finality, was approaching... and I was feeling 😅 about the reception of softer loumand kisses at the time. Like- timing!)!

1. Batnight: I worked out this timeglass composition to symbolise Louis' transformation into vampirism after he entered that church one fateful night. The trifecta of the vampfam, the time encapsulated by death and by blood, something which Louis seemingly has a different relationship to than most living vampires as the "tortured vampire". All focusing on the drop of blood, but with different expressions. Idk if i should do anything with the background of the bottom half of the timeglass though 🤔I'm meant to sketch out Louis' family and community from the wedding on the top half, as the sun sets (or rise...) behind the family home (sorry), a life now closed off to him. Vampires and bats- uncontested. The church? It is one from New Orleans S1 and I remember asking for the ref, but I am uncertain that it is the correct church when thinking back on it. Which is 🧍 Also as I started on this late 2022, I had only Bailey!Claudia to go off of, which I'll probably stick to for this one. Would be cool with both! But idk if I can extend that energy. I do need to figure out which of her hairstyles to do though 🤔 and I've been learning more about how to draw black hair so that's fun too

CLAUDIA WIPS! (Both from late 2022)

2: For the first one? Something about the tragedy of claudia, for S1, leaning towards the middle, Claudia the child, the eternal teenager, but a breaking into maturity and adulthood, on... the child witnessing the troubles of their parents, and of the child failed by their parents. Claudia standing in ashes alone (oh not the born from ashes turned to ashes 😭 at least she wasn't entirely alone by the end but had someone choose to face the same fate with her over her own living ♡), looked down upon from our pov to showcase her continued positions of disadvantage. Not the most thought out composition or anything, just wanted to draw Claudia, but these were the things I was thinking about while doing so. Also just really want to try make more dynamic compositions. Try that is.

3: The second one is me wanting to either do a 3-piece with smaller edits, or a 3(+?)-in-1, showing off a little vaguely different stages in Claudia's life back in S1. Or maybe a combined 1 if I figure it out. Combining the cutesy and the horror ✌️ Since these were majorly just sketches, I should be able to try draw Delainey!Claudia! And though S2 makes for SO MUCH inspo too, I'm scared to start on more new things. An irony. But I'd like to finish some more ideas.

4 & 5: Lestat wips! First one is really just a sketch trying to capture his face, buuut the second one? My attempts at a gorier more horrific looking corpsestat since I was feeling robbed by the S1 finale? Oh certainly 🙏 gotta figure out how best to pose Claudia and Louis though, to make sure I make the right impression I wanted 🤔 may have to flip him over too... idk just... extensive work, but I've been especially excited about this one as well as batnight (and the soon-to-be-posted loumands)!! Both from late 2022.

6: St. Paul! Ah the brothers! 🙏 the impact his family, and specifically Paul, has on Louis cannot be understated (S2E8 final dubai scene 😊). Kinda get so emotional when I've been rewatching S1E1 too ;-; another wip from 2022! I so rarely have seen pieces of Louis' family, or human family, which is a shame. I really wanted to do one for Louis and Paul though, and so I ended up with this wip meant to symbolically (far from vague though hah) capture some of that "confessional relationship" (can't escape the catholism) they had, but in a more playful youthful setting. Lowkey pointing towards an elevated sainthood of the future dead too. Paul being Louis' closest confidante, and someone who wanted to be a priest. Many thoughts on Paul really. Paul practicing I suppose, during their teenage years, Louis happily entertaining him and then glancing over his shoulder at- I am thinking Grace, their sister. I found the angle of Louis' head challenging though (been feeling intimately on my limitations), and as it is, I need some refs of Jacob to actually capture HIM too, and not just the angle.

Now unfinished iwtv wips from 2024...

Armand wips! But yea, I already had ideas, but I've felt prompted during S2 to draw more Armand due to the whole Assad Zaman fanbook thing that I thought could be nice to join in on. I've struggled to draw though, even if I have finished the 3-in-1 loumand thing and the spontaneous loumand cig-kiss piece, so I was really damn rushing 😅

7: It's possible I'm mixing ideas... different intents. So I'll have to review it again. I wanted one more bitey one, I was thinking of the "easeful death" scene of E5, but with a different angle. Was initially thinking active feeding I think, with half-lidded eyes or direct eye contact... to put emphasis on the darkening of his eyes in those moments. It's funky and I really wanted to draw it, though I guess this is getting too distant to really see it much. Something something generally about vampirism, a general victim, putting emphasis on the blood that they provide. First by extended blood dripping down the throat, now by the body being the blood fully visually. Something classy, yet... I want to reposition the arms and have the head burrowed further into the neck to actively feed as first intended. I also think I am certainly thinking about an intimate art piece for the whole gentlemanly death feel, so maybe i should try actually find the piece for reference. Also, it's not exactly in this sketch, but I too want to have him in that E2 or E3 coven suit, with vague coven/cult figures in the background. We never really see him feed (properly, of a human), but I've been thinking about the... parent providing food for his children thing (motorbike scene E2), or the "let me teach you" of E3... So a "lead by example" sort of thing, like pre of the picture of the mountain lion and her cub feeding of a carcass sort of thing XD leant too much into the whole typical romantic imagery as I kept going and finally got some of that posture right (and so I tought). But these are the ideas ✨️

8: Armand too got ahold of a switch btw <3 Armand and electronics huh, or... not necessarily only electronics and technology. There's a general almost manic curiosity, which is especially found in that one DM chapter that I kind of adore (smh to private island and blabla tho). A mood, though I'm not making ratshakes 🫢 Assad was talking about it too in an interview though, relating to that fascination, so I kinda wanted to make a piece leaning in on that. Had a few vague compositions, some with more of that almost cold intensity of E5, but here he's more just chilling (doesnt mean it doesnt get intense) ^^ I also wanted to display an evolution of technologies, at least within a certain timeframe, so physically stacking a room with different stuff? Like that works XD because I was rushing for the deadline, I fear I only got to send in the wip (one in an even earlier stage than this one)... which is a real shame 😔 I am excited to finish it though!

Anyway 👍

[nalyra-dreaming]

Idk why is anon so averse to Armand/Daniel as endgame or whatever. In the very very short time I have been here, it seems like VC doesn't work like other fandoms with a particular set of otps. If you are a loumand fan then loumand is there. If you are a lesmand fan then lesmand is there. If you want loustat, then there is loustat. The way I have seen the book fans talk about the characters, from my perspective it seems like these beings are tight knit. They betray, they hurt, they seek forgiveness, they are forgiven, they love. And it makes sense. They have eternity. Gosh eternity can mean till the human species goes extinct or the sun eventually runs out of fuel Or like if there are heaven and hell and spirits in this universe then maybe beyond that too. How can you spend eternity without loving every vampire whom you have come across. Only they would know the horror of eternity.

Exactly. This is even written by Lestat (here musing to/about Armand (on the phone) and about Louis):

I wanted to say we all love one another. We all have to love one another. If you and I and Louis don’t love one another after all we’ve been through, well, then all our powers mean nothing, and our dreams mean nothing, and so we have to love one another.

Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

[crazykuroneko]

My IWTV S2 EP 3 musings

Rewatched the episode while waiting for Episode 4. There have been a lot of great metas here that I have reblogged, so I won't repeat them. So, these are things I am still picking up anyway

• Daniel didn't bring his laptop outside Loumand's penthouse. So, the hacking is an inside job? Rashid? From internet? Is that what air drop is? (yes, I have never used Apple in my life)

• 100 nights. so TdV was supposedly 3 months-ish when Lestat left

• *insert that Comic Book Resources article about how great IWTV using their music, because that violin during the Lesmand theatre box scene is so chef's kiss*

• What stands out the most from Armand's retelling of his past + the end of this episode: how little his power is over his flock (supposedly).

• Also, the new way of storytelling: fade out from an image of TdV burning. I assume this means they continue the interview after Loumand finish with their business and Daniel doesn't interrupt them at all? Tbqh, I don't really like it.

• Louis: outside Chicago. Claudia Springfield

• "I remember what I remember" isn't that the crux of this show?

• Ghostat appeared right when the conversation turned into about him and Armand. Aw Louis.

• Meanwhile, Armand always mentions his coven when they get serious.

• *Santiago's having a chat with Claudia* so before I kill my victims, I have a chat with them. See you on stage, Claude! - I hate (affectionately) these writers!

• OH SHIT CLAUDIA ANSWERED WHEN SANTIAGO ASKED ABOUT HER LIFE IN CHICAGO! it's supposed to be Louis' town. I mean, her answer is right, she's from Springfield. But normal non lying people would have said, "Oh, the one from Chicago is Louis, I'm from Springfield"💀

• Santiago, after Claudia talks about lying and confirming where Louis came from: stick with it, Puce. You're almost there 💀💀

• So unlike memories which vampires can see like picture shows, Ghostat only can be seen by Louis. Others can't see what he's doing. But Armand can sense him.

• There have been a lot of great talks about Claudia's scene on Tumblr and how it relates to the previous season and her whole self. But once again, I'm very grateful for this show. How careful they are presenting her story. There's literally no music whatsoever to add some "drama". You just hear the clock ticking. The shot is just of her face and Louis'. We're there with them, we're there with Louis listening to Claudia telling what happened to her in detail for the first time. That's a careful storytelling, that's a respect.

• It's so funny how we watched the Five Great Laws and a lot of people went "but Lestat still lives!" no one remembers they did kill Antoinette 🤣😭

• I find it so sad that even after losing Children of Darkness, Armand has TdV and still uses the laws, something that isn't part of Lestat's suggestion. I think Lestat would find it very ridiculous if he finds they still use those laws. Armand even picked five laws that he could maintain throughout the years out of a hundred(?). He can't help but go back to them .

• Loumand: *kissing*

Me: *kissing The Five Great Laws in the IWTV S2 OST album* my favorite tracks never fail to deliver 😭😭😭

[murfpersonalblog]

IWTV S2 Ep5 Musings - Vampiric Self-Immolation, and "Rescue" (Spoilers)

Loumand in SanFran - IWTV (S02E05, S02E01) Nandermo at Jan's Wellness Center - WWDITS (S03E08)

[camellia-thea]

what aspects of the armand/daniel relationship do you find particularly compelling? what are your hopes for how their relationship is portrayed in season 3?

so. um. i have had to split this ask because i wrote an essay and i straight up did not talk about the show. so that will be posted separately and you can have a proper answer to this. here is the other post

take two!

obvious preface, but i love the relationship in the book. i think it discusses the inherent power dynamics between vampires and mortals really well, and i love how it characterises both daniel and armand, as the two -- especially daniel -- are not really dug into in the previous novels. daniel is quite literally a narrative frame, and is unnamed until the third book.

i went into the iwtv show wanting devil's minion, and the pieces we've been given so far (i am looking especially at s2e5) are amazing. i definitely think that had i not been familiar with the books beforehand i would probably be less into devil's minion conceptually and more on the side of loumand, but knowing what i do, i can't help but desperately want there to be more.

i think armand and daniel work for one another. i've talked a little about it in the other post. i think old maniel has similar qualities, though they've changed as he's aged. he's a little more cynical now, a little less naive. but he still values the world around him, even if individual life is a less important to him now than it was then.

this is also in the other post, but i think it's relevant; i think daniel gives armand the potential to be more than who he was made to be, the roles he was put into. the muse, the protégé, the cult leader, the coven member, he lingers in his own victimhood, and i think it’s a very interesting thing. the nursemaid for louis, daniel's presence in dubai allows him to break from that, and daniel's presence in san fransisco back then did something similar, but... different. san fransisco was armand desperately searching for something to catch louis' attention once again, and i think it's fascinating (ha). then he slips into his gentleman death form, which is another little book reference i adore.

they also... match each other's freak, as it were.

i'd love for s3 to play with the chase era of devil's minion, especially if they make 70s dm canon. having armand chase daniel across the world in the 70s and then daniel chase armand? it'd be so good.

i'd also love to see daniel's transformation, because i don't think louis is necessarily right about daniel being turned out of spite.

i think that playing with armand not being able to witness daniel's mortality, despite being willing to let daniel die in the past, is something that would be so good to play with.

there are also a couple of book conversations that i'd love to see translated into the show. like the telephone scene (for the comedy), but also the sections in the villa of mysteries, and some of the conversation that take place around daniel's transformation too.

i have one final addition; night island. please.

however i am uncertain of whether s3 is going to follow the vampire lestat exclusively or merge with qotd. and obviously very very very early days, s3 has only been official for a few weeks at this point, but i think the frame will dictate what i want to see and what i think will happen.

i think s3 will probably have daniel interviewing lestat in some capacity, because i don't think they can really set daniel aside in the way he is in the books (or at least, i hope so? this might be wishful thinking on my part!). having daniel learn about armand from lestat's perspective is something that i think would be really interesting. especially since lestat knows marius, which will be fascinating.

[ruinscollector]

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