#no context iwtv

[crinolinedream]

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[cloudabserk]

fuzzy socks (in case vampires feet get chilly…)

[shesnake]

hello here's my little Armand essay. spoilers for season 2 and content warnings for discussions of racism, csa, intimate partner violence.

[st-ignatius]

actually, daniel molloy is so real. cause if i offered to get on my knees for a guy and he telepathically shoved me to my knees, i would get a boner too

[jaypentaghast]

imagine it is confirmed that past devil's minion happened, we don't necessarily see flashbacks just yet but we know it happened. Imagine that and then rewatching their scenes with that bit of added context

[nocontextlestat]

it’s my birthday

[dykesynthezoid]

Will never not be obsessed w both Louis and Armand calling Daniel “boy” and it’s never lost on me that they both have the context to understand “boy” as a social caste in a way many people (esp white people) living today might not immediately recognize… I think the context w Louis is perhaps more readily obvious to modern people (understandably) but man the reality of the word “boy” is that its usage to indicate a power discrepancy really goes back to ancient history.

In Ancient Rome, you literally could not be referred to using the term for an adult male if you were enslaved. You would forever be called a boy; “puer;” regardless of age.

Boyhood in Ancient Rome is simultaneously a marginalized, romanticized, and even eroticized position. That romanticization of youth, of youthful masculinity in all its perceived contradiction, taken to its logical extreme in such a sternly patriarchal society. The puer delicatus archetype certainly didn’t suddenly disappear with Rome’s collapse; we can see how it endures through the Renaissance, just objectively. And I would say Marius acts almost as a physical representation for the influence certain Ancient Roman ideas continued to have on Renaissance Italy, in this context. Armand is someone who actively can never fully escape his casting into this role, (can even never physically grow beyond it in the books).

In Middle English, the word “boye/boi” is most typically used to describe a male servant. Its connotation has more to do with class than age. And I think many of us are aware how that idea was preserved in American slavery and the post-slavery treatment of Black men.

I think examples like these really help illuminate the ways in which “boyhood” has always been a distinct social class, and in some cases has even occupied what is essentially a third gender role, especially in strongly patriarchal and/or martial societies.

So when Louis and Armand call Daniel “boy,” well. They certainly mean it in one or two very specific ways. (Personally I think Louis is more likely to mean it in a disparaging way since that’s the only way he’s ever heard it used for him; meanwhile I think Armand is more likely to see it as something inherently vulnerable and even potentially worthy of veneration, even if it’s in a way that’s paternalistic).

[1960z]

something that I think is cool about iwtv is that jacob anderson and assad zaman (actually esp assad when it comes to this specifically) really do convince me of their characters’ ages, like louis and armand genuinely do feel that old. I really believe armand is 514 years old, he carries the weight of that history in everything he does, in how he carries himself.

old man daniel literally seems like a kid when he’s in the room with them sometimes. he has so much less life experience than them, giving quippy, cocky remarks about things that, from their perspective at least, he couldn’t possibly understand. at the young age he is.

in season one daniel states very emphatically to louis “I’m not your fucking boy” and of course that’s a reference to that in the original book, he isn’t called anything except “the boy” but the thing is to louis the only drastic change in daniel, the one that’s foreign to him is his appearance, but mentally? he still sees daniel as that same kid he met in the 70s. the difference between 20 and 60 is nothing to him. he’s a boy. and you feel that.

[disregardandfelicity]

Lestat, surrounded by feral vampires and wracking his brain on how to save himself, nicki and gabrielle, but still finding time to flirt:

[vaperarmand]

daniel has never been revolted by armand btw. if you even care. all he’s ever felt for him is ravening and hopeless desire.

[platoapproved]

iwtv ships + book quotes

[nocontextdilfs]

Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt

[paranoiac1963]

[slimeouppy]

employees at a local Coffee Shop Inside Of A Big Bookstore Chain are reporting an incident that took place around 3pm yesterday wherein a man alleged by one employee to be Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and author of the controversial 2021 book Interview With The Vampire daniel molloy had an aggravated phone conversation while waiting for his drink. although we were only able to get reports on his side of the conversation, it apparently went something like "what? i'm at starbucks, why? yeah the one in barnes and noble. how do you know that- you're still tracking my phone. i told you to stop doing that, why am i surprised you didn't stop? we'll talk about this later. no i won't be late. i'm getting an americano, why? yes they're making it with the machine. you want what? why? of course that's why. no i will not get one for you that would be a waste of money. you won't drink it, in what universe would you drink it? i don't think you would even like a frappuccino if you could taste it. no i will not record them making it in the blender for you! i won't describe them making it either! you of all people should know what a blender looks like when it blends sugar and ice! if you're that invested in it you can come here and order one yourself! you're- okay. okay you know what sure. yeah. see you in ten." some time later, a younger man walked in, briefly joined molloy, and then proceeded to order a Caramel Ribbon Frappachino from the cafe. the man allegedly stared down the employee making the beverage, fixating particularly on the blender. when asked to comment on the incident, the employee in question stated "he creeped me out. i don't think i saw him blink even once, and he didn't even tip that well."

[lovefrombegonia]

IWTV has some great out-of-context lines

Louis: Picking LINT off the SOFAAAAA?!????!!!

Lestat: Siri Pause~

Daniel: It's a telenovela!!

Claudia: Now I know what two blood fat cocks slapping hands feel like, so thank you for that.

Santiago: I am about to violate the Fifth.

Lestat: And you have to drain her first Louis--!!

Armand: Ohh it's so hard to be me~!!

Louis: The Biggest.

Daniel: Are you the Zodiac Killer???