#rashmand

[haredjarris]

“Mr Du Lac occasionally finds it difficult to talk about Claudia.” is THEEE most deranged sentence in the whole show once you know who Rashmand is

[hobermallowed]

Armand + text posts

Bonus!

[xxhellonursexx]

“Rashid, are you awake?” 😉

Armand is getting REAL TIRED of the whole 24/7 “Rashid” act. 

Also YES I KNOW our lovely ✨Armand/Rashid doesn’t REALLY need to put his hair in rollers but I think it looks FUNNY it’s a joooooooke

[lestatslestits]

[glennethph]

Daniel has always been annoyed at Rashmand, even from the start. Now he (& we) know why…

[matrixwhore]

iwtv ep 5 rewatch thoughts

opening with the scene within which i have built a home and become a permanent resident. right here in the moment rashmand smiles stupidly and louis slonks (🤭) every last drop of his blood. how anyone thinks they’re boring idk idk idk

they are being clear here that this isn’t consumption for the sake of sustenance. this is bloodletting as sex play and as power play. Danny is not having dinner. so its clear that this isn’t feeding as a meal but it is feeding as sexual exhibition at its most delicious. Danny is reading about claudia’s violent acts via the written recording of her victim’s last words while loumand basically vampire fuck at the other end of the table. this is also setting up the sexual violence to come for claudia and also for louis.

i think it is intentional that louis is the one feeding from armand for several reasons. one being because of what lestat does to him, which we see later on. this is power play for louis in a setting where he has voluntarily and possibly in some aspects dubiously relinquished control over to his lover armand. also bc of the connection between daniel and armand. they are revealing rashid as armand slowly here and his and louis’ involvement with daniel in the past. Daniel isn’t dumb. they know he can figure out the inconsistencies of louis drinking from armand and louis drinking from damek. this leads to daniels curiosity about how armand tastes like and his weight and louis puts daniel’s hidden attraction out on display against his wishes to throw him off. and daniel orders rashid around to take back some power.

i also think it’s a call back to the power dynamic of their first meeting. louis has power over daniel, and it seems he’s the one in control of the entire situation but then he checks in with armand before moving forward. in this moment in the present dubai 2020 setting louis has power over daniel (regardless of him no longer being that naive young man) and he plays the role of the one with the power over rashid, but the power he is receiving is from armands 500+ year old blood that he is offering to louis as the character he is playing. lord take me.

i think it’s interesting that daniel is feasting on claudia’s private memories but objects to louis reading and exposing his personal thoughts. even tho louis has shown time and again that he does that and would do it again. choices/consent is the big issue in this episode.

Daniel: man with green vest: please no. man with fat fingers: please stop. window washer: i can’t die like this. woman with purple shoes: please. boy with inner tube and dog: let my dog live. please no. please stop. stop. oh here’s a good one—man in the last row of The Son of Sheik picture show: You said you had cigarettes.

this is the first recounts we hear him read from claudia’s journal—claudia, who did not get a say in whether her voice and story be used by louis, armand and daniel in this way. He reads this and it’s clear that he [daniel] hadn’t actually consented to being the voyeur of loumand’s sex play given his visible discomfort/agitation. He continues anyways, trying his best to focus on the task at hand and not his bisexual longing for the men at the other end of the table bc even with everything he is reading and witnessing he is still attracted to them in all their insanity and monstrosity.

im interested in the fact that he pointedly reads out (“here’s a good one”) the misleading nature of the last one. “You said you had cigarettes.” i think it speaks to the fact that daniel came here to dubai for a supposed second interview and is slowly but surely realizing he is getting something else entirely. he continues “School teacher, guard your heart. i’m trying to think of something more fucked up than this.” he could be just talking about what claudia has written, but i think it’s also the fact that this is the section of his reading that loumand have chosen to be overtly sexual in front of him for as he reads. all this and he doesn’t even know yet of rashid being armand and his role in claudia’s death, though i’m sure he’s having suspicions of everything by now. also that louis, with being faced with the piece of claudia he doesn’t like to acknowledge, the monstrosity of her vampire nature, focuses of drinking from armand the man who killed his beloved daughter (something he said about “i run to the bottle” etc. etc). it does in fact get more fucked up danny.

and when armand implies that daniel is no better by revealing the danger it poses on louis and exposing louis’ suicidality without his permission (“he lives to share these opinions even when they are not solicited”) and revealing he doesn’t even want this book to happen, louis fights back by leaning into his power over daniel and exposing his thoughts about armand, and continues to, even when danny makes it clear his thoughts were not being voluntarily shared—that he did not want louis in his mind at all. he even interrupts rashmand in the middle of telling daniel he wouldn’t let him near his neck to offer up more information abt rashid (much to armands annoyance) that clearly isn’t even true after reading daniel’s mind again when daniel just explicitly told him not to. and when louis does that daniel fights back by leaning into his perceived power over rashid—louis’ servant—by demanding more of something to drink without even looking at him. and at this armand picks up his lil ipad and leaves without even picking up daniel’s glass, being the one who is actually the most powerful in the room. this is crazy. this is actually insane.

all this and armand is the one who killed claudia!!!! the only one who doesn’t get to fight back against her agency being taken from her in this scene!!! i’m going to fucking throw up. who is bored with them!? they are literally putting on thee insane sexy bdsm emo freaks show like…

“ The Son of Sheik” also alludes to the upcoming sexual assault btw. It’s a sequel to “The Sheik” where the protagonist is the son of the sheik in the first film who falls in love with a traveling dancer Yasmine. He rapes her out of retaliation for having been kidnapped and later whipped, which he believes to be her fault bc she is falsely accused of it. like in this episode and like claudia, yasmine’s rape is strongly implied in the movie with the use of pointed language and a scene cut.

this scene closes out with daniel pointing out he can’t get to accurate statistics of claudia’s murders to corroborate her accounts whether he thinks its more or less than what she recounts im unsure. louis points out that he wouldn’t be able to get an accurate account anyways bc of their disposal practices and how cities tend to downplay the dangers within them. daniel wanting all the details and louis making it clear he will have to accept that he can’t always have all the details will be a point of contention later on as we know.

[in-kyblogs]

I love that when Daniel reads Claudia’s list of last words from people she killed and says “I can’t think of anything more fucked up than this”, Rashmand (that btw is being sucked by Louis at that point) laughs in is face. He just laughs, bless his creepy heart, like “Oh I can think of so many things more fucked up than this do you wanna hear about them? I’ve tried a couple” “There are 42 pages if I remember correctly” yeah I bet you studied all 42 of them in search of inspiration you filthy waif of the netherworld etc etc

[omnidove]

Doodle of potential AMC Devils Minion!! I really want to know if they’re actually gonna exist in the tv show universe 🥺

[haredjarris]

Louis and Armand totally had a fight later over Louis offering a taste of Rashmand to Daniel.

“What if he’d accepted?! I don’t want that… mortal’s mouth slobbering on my neck!”

But really he’s just mortified because he’s still attracted to Daniel against his better judgement and getting drunk by him would NOT help.

[boydollie]

Good morning ... Armand (🟠_🟠)

( Inspired by a post I saw earlier , I saw it and I was like I need to draw that !? )

( the post I'm referring to was made by @lgbtiwtv )

[whatrudoingbree]

I painted Louis and Rashid because…

“What’s he taste like? Honey and pineapple.” -Louis

[xxhellonursexx]

After Serving Martini 🍸

The only thing colder and drier than Rashid’s martini is Rashid himself after being sharply rebuked by Louis. 

[lestatslestits]

I literally go into hysterics every time I think of Assad getting called for audition after audition for just some guy named Rashid and trying to figure out what on earth was going on there.

[myrashidmond]

I painted Louis and Rashid because…

“What’s he taste like? Honey and pineapple.”

[goldenfurevamp]

Armand and Lestat's meeting.

El encuentro de Armand y Lestat.

- Vampire Chronicles-

[omnidove]

I’m so excited to see more of him, I’m so hyped season 2 😔