#was to be the one to kill claudia

[indelicateink]

things that probably happened after the laudanum and arsenic kicked in

maybe

[somebody attacks lestat, something something memory is a monster]

Per Claudia's hobby of recording the dying words of her victims, lestat's final words are, "Mets-moi dans mon cercueil, Louis, Louis."

[something something louis changes out of bloody fancy dress clothes to put on new clothes to get blood on while disposing of bodies]

also over here in justfuckmeupsville i'm noticing louis folded lestat's left arm in to cradle lestat in his lap (lestat's arms had fallen out to the sides when he was on the floor)

something something somebody puts lestat in his coffin. somebody puts him out with the trash.

IWTV: ["'Claudia had wrapped Lestat's body in a sheet before I would even touch it, and then, to my horror, she had sprinkled it over with the long-stemmed chrysanthemums.'"]

In Louis's initial fantastical retelling, he drove them to the boat, but I mean he is not looking super together there, was he too distraught to be the one doing the driving, who knows

[kaitcake1289]

in paris you gotta sleep with one eye open

[sarcastic-clapping]

LET YOUR DAD DIE: IT'S FINE IT'S FINE IT'S WHAT HE DID TO HIS DAD.

Lestat + Claudia: Patricide & The Cycles of Violence - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022) - Catherine Lacy, "Cut" (2019) / Anne Rice, "The Vampire Lestat" (1985) / Anne Rice, "Interview with the Vampire" (1976)

[gaypeople]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE - 1.07 “The Thing Lay Still”

[ivyithink]

aaawwww, look at this vampire family just chilling! I’m sure nothing bad at all will happen to them, no sir!

[noianoranoia]

you know what i think armand really hid those pages of claudia's diary not because they show his involvement in her unjust killing but because her bitching about him was so poignant and truthful her shit talking so profoundly real her dragging abilities so disarming he couldn't ever possibly show his face in public ever again

[kanjichris]

"why don't you want him to know how much you love him?" "that's a little personal. he knows." "uh-huh."

[cuntmand]

something so beautiful about claudia sharing her diaries with madeleine after having both of her parents read them without her permission… they really are soulmates, why must they be taken away from me so soon 😞

[bigevildoeeyes]

Loumand is not and CANNOT be a one to one reimagining of their previous roles as sex slave and brothel owner. louis does not have an equivalent power over armand as he did on emotionally, socially, and/or financially vulnerable women in nola, and armand’s submission is not reflective of a real powerlessness under louis

If we want to look for a marius parallel, it wouldnt be in louis who responds to armands initiations and engages in a consensual dom/sub dynamic. if we want to look for a marius parallel, who is in the predatory position here? Who is controlling information and its access? Who is the one exploiting an experience, knowledge, and vampiric power gap to get the love he wants?

But isn’t that the point? That their relationship is a shallow imitation, a re-enactment of roles which comforts both parties for their familiarity and essentialness while they were mortal? Neither of them were ready to grapple with their own identity in a meaningful way and these roles are something safe to hold onto, which may or may not be productive or accurate but they very well know the performance of this position and it is Still and it is Safe and who cares about absolute truths when you’re one wrong thought away from killing yourself

When hannah says their room is like a brothel and when assad says they revert back to older versions of themselves I think it speaks much more on loumands fear and denial to question and understand themselves than it does being a sexploitation revival. Louis put on the masculine, capitalist decision maker persona to survive his racist heteronormative life, and armand embodied the selfless submissive to survive his oppressive life.

Their brothel bedroom is a reinforcement that they have yet to fully actualize their self identity outside the context of the systems of abuse and oppression they have endured. They are vampires, armand transcends the societies that shaped him but hes still living subject and response to it. Both unwilling to be active players in their own lives, still riddled with the weight of their history that dictate them but will not be unpacked

At the end of the day loumand were two deeply traumatized immortals still struggling to come to terms with the enormity of their self so they repeated the behaviours that made them survive. They cannot stomach themselves so they will keep this up, and together they kept on surviving. Until Louis was ready to do the second interview, ready to reflect, to accept himself and move beyond survival.

Armand u are Next.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

"after what you've put me through here i deserve this" armand says about killing the crying, exhausted boy in his arms and it's not about a meal or cleaning up the mess, really, it's about how this boy's been brought to the edge of accepting death; he's right there, longing for it, and armand can give it. and while he gives it, he feels it too. armand has been drowning for centuries, but he keeps himself afloat this way, by tasting death and feeling just the smallest respite, chasing his victims' slowing heartbeats right down into the dark until he backs away at the last moment. "the comfort we all long for." the comfort armand longs for -- the end.

[eloiscbridgerton]

random eloise bridgerton: 50/?

[freckleslikestars]

Claudia Black as Aeryn Sun in every episode of FARSCAPE

[mossycakes]

when are we gonna talk about claudia being forced into the rat box. that is... that is so fucking evil to me. the way she clawed her way out, screaming and crying, only to have her head forced down by the jeering coven. her first job, her last torture. louis perspective, he could only hear from the sack "when they found her". the trial was a scripted humiliation, but the rat box was just. uniquely evil. totally fucked up.

[unholiervenom]

i am the face of love’s rage.

i am the face of love’s rage.

[vanillaa-sky]

I cannot stop thinking about how tdp is and always has been, at its core, a show about parents and children….children breaking the cycle of their parents mistakes, parents facing those mistakes, parents and children going to the extremes for eachother, parents and children losing eachother…..

Arc 1 starts with the main trio making the decision to fix their parents mistakes (Callum and Ezran returning the egg to atone for their dad killing Avizandum, Rayla returning it because her parents ‘ran’) and arc 2 is so deeply about parent and child relationships (specifically fathers and daughters with Runaan and Rayla, Viren and Claudia, and Aaravos and Leola)

[ash-and-starlight]

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