#the vampires? chefs kiss

[distinguished-slacker]

I just had the thought of how sad it is that OnS has so many cool character and weapon designs yet not many people in the anime/manga community will ever see them…

[myrkulitescourge]

can i just say, it still makes me feel a little crazy how astarion, come act 3, still can’t quite put a name to his relationship with his partner, but he WILL tell them he wants to keep them both safe.

he won’t say i love you just yet but he will say forever, for good.

[justabiteofspite]

I honestly don't get the spawn vs ascended debate when we really should all be coming together to shame those who think it's "unrealistic" that Astarion could fall in love with default dragonborn Durge on account of that Durge "not being attractive."

Like, I'm sorry, but are you fucking high? In what world is Default Durge not peak sex appeal? Big, tall, muscley thicc ass man who can barely run because he's so caked up with a deep, haunted voice struggling to overcome the darkness within himself all while looking like he could bite Cazador's head off in one satisfying crunch? You're telling me Astarion wouldn't be speed running that romance arc to climb him like a tree? Like that wet pathetic cat man looking for protection and attention wouldn't be the president, vice president, and treasurer of the "Top That Nice But Kind of Disturbed Hot Lizard" club?

Get fucking real.

[thebibliosphere]

Re-reading Ch28 of Phangs to double-check some details (just as well because I completely fucked up Vlad's room in the next book.) and not to toot my own horn or anything, but it's so fucking funny from an ADHD perspective.

Nathan just walked into a veritable treasure trove of Vlad's psyche.

He's walking around in awe, like, whoa, is that a hand-painted celestial map on the ceiling? Gods, Vlad's so talented. I bet there's nothing he can't do. Oh, a pianoforte! He's musical! Wow, look at all these books. He's so smart. I love how smart he is. I want to fuck his brains out. Oh! Look! A telescope!

As opposed to Vlad, whose internal monologue is: don't look at the mess, don't look at the mess, don't look at the mess. Okay, just act normal. How... how do I do that? Oh gods please don't think I'm weird. Please like me.

I know I wrote him, but he's in such a mood sometimes, lol.

[hangonsnoopy19]

Gif credit @sophsun1

Slays me that Armand is upset about this as if a regularly scheduled “fuck off and find me” isn’t the whole basis for his devil’s minion era relationship with Daniel

[harbingerofsoup]

daniel really is the number one freak of iwtv because he’s Like That™ as a human, the rest of these freaks at least got vampirism as an excuse for their freakishness

[stevenrogered]

Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2x01

[bl0rbohandbag]

louis and daniel having this emotionally charged conversation, recollecting the horrors they went through in san francisco

AND

ARMAND

PULLS UP

LIKE

THIS

[whiskeysorrows]

ok so in classics my teacher started talking about roman fascinus, which are literally phallus-shaped items to ward from the evil eye, and then he started talking about the etymology and how we got the word "fascinating" from fascinus because to be fascinated is to be distracted by dick. now, you may be wondering, patroclus what does this have to do with anything? well yk how in s2ep5 of iwtv armand was going on and on about daniel being so fascinating and wanting desperately to learn how to also be fascinating via week long torture spiral. there's a high likelihood armand knows the etymology of the word what with marius being roman and him living in renaissance venice so what he's really asking daniel is why is your dick so distracting and how can i make mine just as distracting. which is SO armand bc he places his self worth in his desirability. but also a fascinus was a religious item so what armand is really REALLY asking is daniel can your distracting dick ward away the evil eye and can you teach me to do it as well so your protection will be with me always?

anyways yeah. idk what possessed me to write that but i came here to share it anyway

[armands-cuck-chair]

To me, Loustat and Devil's Minion are mostly their own things, but y'know, sometimes all four of them get together and then Loumand, Danlou, and Danstat all get to play. 💖

[itisiives]

While you're here...

[aquarines]

"i'm a top" "i'm a bottom" okay? my daughter was my sister was my throw pillow when he wouldn't look at me kindly lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat-

[inkpotsprite]

Dead Boy Detectives and Interview with the Vampire are the best shows of 2024, in this essay I will–

[dxxtruction]

Louis' "You're boring!" Could mean so many things, but I think what's most apparent about that line is that Armand takes no initiative just for himself. He's not really anybody, because he never goes out and finds himself or gets attached to anyone but Louis. Without Louis as his guide he's literally just sitting on a couch picking lint! That's the thing.

He orbits constantly around what would make Louis happy, and never really fully going what would make me happy? Ultimately that drive to please Louis is what drives him to torturing Daniel, not so much that he'd care to just do it. Ultimately, not giving proper care to Louis is just a way to make sure Louis knows he has to orbit around him as well, with shoving Lestat onto him just that other nail on the coffin. So, even if he fails to figure out how to make Louis happy with him, he still knows what Armand is good for, and better than.

That dependency is what drives Armand's abuse. It really just comes down to that. Armand doesn't even realize how suffocated he is by his own dependency. This is just how life is to him. (It shouldn't be lost either that dependency is a theme considering this episode also deals with addiction).

Daniel's fascinating because he's just so driven to be somebody. He's largely independent, he seeks things because he wants them. It's his drug to poke and prod at all the things that he shouldn't. Daniel's exciting because he lets Louis in to something different, lets him in to all this potential in another person that he can also do the same with for himself. It's a real connection. A two way street. It's easy to tell how Armand can be smothering then because he's never introducing him to anything really new, and most the ways both of them connect are all painful and traumatic. It's never just fun because there's always that layer of that pain. Fun died with Claudia.

50 years on they've gotten to a lot better place, both of them, but it's still that same shit. No seriously, "How is this any different from last time, Louis?"

Well... Because Armand's going to be, at the very least, making one [1] decision only for himself - and that's to hold power over Daniel's life. Fucking sick foreshadowing.

They aren't driving each other to the brink anymore but "The vampire is bored" STILL. Maybe it's even worse, despite being in better places, because Louis' sort of just been defeated by it. (I mean, can he even really leave this either?). He's accepting the dependancy cause he kind of has to. He'd literally ended up letting all the enjoyment be up where he can't reach [The book shelves]. Armand so desperately wants Louis happiness but what really ends up happening is that Louis ends up having to give Armand all his own. He's got no one or anything else to get it from. But like an iPad and an over the top eating ritual. Two extremes of what's just more lint picking.

This whole relationship is one I find just tragic inside and out. You have to just pity it, really. There's ways in which you can find yourself feeling bad for both of them. But you can only really be mad at Armand for any of it. Armand, who isn't even 'free' in any sense, having so little concept of his own independence, but is at the same time so controlling over other's. It's a tragic cycle. It's an infuriating one.

Louis at least has the mind to know when enough is enough. If just needing that extra push to get there. Armand's too scared of it being over to even try.

[s3when]

in honor of unofficial betty day i finally got myself to finish a 1.2yo wip

[theoncomingchaos]