#we love you louis

[loveforbrave]

Happy Birthday to our Sass masta from Doncasta

To the most beautiful soul in the world

We love you, Louis

[zouisforya]

I LOVE LOUIS SO FOOKING MUCH. HE SOLD OUT ENTIRE O2 ARENA IN MINUTES. IF IT WASN'T FOR THE UNNECESSARY HATE HE WOULD HAVE MANY MORE FANS. AND HE IS A BLACKLISTED ARTIST SO HE SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO THIS BUT HE DID IT. UNDERSTAND HIS POTENTIAL PEOPLE. IM SO PROUD OF HIM AND I LOVE HIM SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO MUCH.

LIKE LOUIS TOMLINSON IS THE MOST UNDERRATED CELEBRITY I KNOWS I KNOW AND HE ALMOST ALWAYS GETS HATE FOR EVERYTHING HE DOES. BUT MOMENTS LIKE CINDERELLA BALL IS LIVING PROOF THAT BEHIND THE DRUG SCANDALS AND BABYGATE AND ALL THOSE FALSE ACCUSATIONS, IS A MAN WITH HEART OF PURE GOLD WHO WOULD GIVE UP THE WHOLE WORLD FOR PEOPLE HE CARES ABOUT AND HIS FANS. LOUIS IS A PRINCE AND A HERO AND ITS TIME PEOPLE KNOW IT.

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND THINK THAT MY LOVE FOR LOUIS CANNOT INCREASE MORE BUT EVERY SINGLE DAY IM PROVEN WRONG.

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I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HIM LIVE. I WOULD DIE WITHOUT LOUIS.

HE IS AN PRECIOUS ANGEL.

PEOPLE SHOULD LEAVE BEHIND ALL THAT SHIT, AND ACTUALLY SEE HOW TALENTED HE IS. ITS FOOKING TIME PEOPLE KNOW WHO LOUIS WILLIAM TOMLINSON REALLY IS.

I JUST HOPE LOUIS APPRECIATES HIMSELF AS MUCH AS WE DO AND STOP UNDERESTIMATING HIMSELF.

LOUIS WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU. AND WE LOVE YOU A LOT. MOST OF US WOULD DIE WITHOUT YOU. YOU HAVE SAVED MANY PEOPLE'S LIVES AND HAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON OUR LIVES. I ON BEHALF OF ALL THE LOUIES THANK THE STRANGER WHO SAVED SO LOUIS AND IN THAT WAY SAVED MANY OF US. LIKE WHEN IM TENSED OR ANXIOUS OR BEFORE MY EXAM I JUST LISTEN TO LOUIS' MUSIC AND IT MAKES ME FEEL SO MUCH BETTER. HIS VOICE AND MUSIC IS JUST SO CLOSE AND PERSONAL TO ME , WHENEVER I HEAR IT I FEEL LIKE IM HOME BECAUSE ITS SO FAMILIAR. YOU ARE THE BEST THING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED TO ME

I JUST WISH TO MEET YOU BEFORE I DIE. MY LIFE WOULD BE COMPLETE ONCE I MEET YOU.

SINCERELY,

LOUIES. xxxxxx

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a mini photo dump

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I WOULD LITERALLY DIE FOR YOU AND WITHOUT YOU. I LOVE YOU A LOT BOOBEAR <3

[cuntmand]

there is only one person who can save louis, claudia and madeleine now…

[lizardkingeliot]

He had taken what he called un petit coup. The little drink. 

[dreadfuldevotee]

relapsed. relapsed. relapsed. the loumand/claudeleine bar scene is so fucking diabolical because what do you mean they're all sitting around smiling and laughing, talking about their blossoming lives together. What do you mean Cladeleine are growing flowers out of their victims remains. That Claudia has finally found the peace she deserves to go and let life and love carry her without fear. What do you mean Madeleine puts in plain words that Louis is in love with Armand, that she can feel it through him and subsequently, Armand's wondering if he does. Armand turning to smile at him, giving a gorgeous little laugh before kissing Louis cheek and standing from the table. "Why don't you want him to know how much you love him?" "he knows" as the joy slides off Armand's face and he steps out of the warmth he has forsaken.

[hallowvamp]

If you wanted to see ethical characters and perfect, healthy, wholesome, non-toxic relationships, then clicking on a gothic romance involving murderous blood sucking monsters with centuries of trauma was your first mistake.

[laniidae-passerine]

There’s a very easy way to get around the fact that Assad is unable to pass for a teeenager if the show wants to adapt TVA and that’s to rely on the theme of unreliable narration. Armand begins retelling his history and according to him, he looked like he was in his early adulthood. No older than twenty four, for sure, but also not any younger than twenty. And then, just when the audience has bought it, just when this version of events has been presented as the truth for long enough, someone questions it. Asks if he really looked like that. Asks if he’s being honest with himself. And for the briefest moment, we flashback to Amadeo, the age he was when Marius first saw him. Beaten, shackled, afraid. And undeniably a child.

[debdarkpetal]

[rodrickheffeley]

[90sgreggaraki]

i cant stop thinking about "you led him there so he could destroy it"

you led him (lestat) there (your coven) so he could destroy it

you led him (louis) there (theatre des vampires) so he could destroy it

you led him (daniel) there (dubai) so he could destroy it.

[pleaseinsertwittyurl]

There are always 2 sides.

The discourse around Louis and Lestat being a victim and abuser and nothing more drives me insane.

Something i don't think enough people remember is that the very same reason the fight began in 1×05 (lestat grabbing claudia by the throat when she tries to "take louis away") we see Louis himself do to her in 1×07 when she tries to get Louis to burn Lestat.

They BOTH would harm her rather than live in a world without the other. They are both guilty of abusing her and each other.

There is an implication that a good deal of time passed between Louis and Lestat meeting and the church. Louis expresses that he shares himself with Lestat in a way he only had with Paul. I would assume that goes both ways, to a degree. We know Louis knows at least enough about Nicki to discourage Claudia poking that wound. He also clearly knows that the threat of leaving is his most powerful weapon against Lestat.

Mental abuse is abuse. And Louis abused Lestat mentally for years. Shaming him, ridiculing him, shutting him out, manipulating him into making Claudia (a traumatic moment for him, whether Louis understands the depths of it or not) by promising to give him what he's being denying him, promising to never put him through what he fears the most.

Louis admits to purposely making Lestat suffer. He admits he was warned that Claudia would suffer and he wanted her anyway because he needed to feel redeemed. He is not innocent. He is not a trapped, weak victim. He made choices to hurt both Lestat and Claudia time and time again.

Does this justify Lestat's actions in 1×05? Obviously not. But we now know Louis was not willing to stop the fight. He taunted Lestat the same way he taunted the Alderman. He was unleashing years of frustrations just as Lestat was. His priority was not to protect Claudia, it was to hurt Lestat, consequences be damned.

I hate the drop scene as much as the next person and Lestat has admitted he will never earn forgiveness for what he did. But if you view Louis as some squeaky clean victim who was manipulated, trapped, and abused by Lestat you are missing so much of what this show is conveying.

We will always tend to paint ourselves as the hero of our own story. It is hard to accept your faults or that you hurt people you love. It is much easier to shift that blame on to someone else, to frame them as the villian. But life is not usually that black and white. Claudia had harsh words for them both in her diary, even before they got to Europe, for a reason. They both made hurtful mistakes with her, both treated her like a pawn in their relationship instead of a person, both harmed her, took away her choice, never prioritized her.

That is the great tragedy. That she never had a choice and was not allowed to be her own person. And in the end, they both are responsible for her misery and her death. That's what makes the reunion scene so important. They have been grieving her and carrying that guilt alone, all the while longing for the comfort of the other for 70+ years. Louis has found clarity in his memories, he has accepted his role in their suffering, he has seen Lestat's perspective more fully. Lestat is broken, totally consumed with that guilt and grief. Both know that although they cannot change what they've done, they can forgive the other, even if they can't forgive themselves. They can love each other despite everything they've done to one another because they cannot stop loving each other. But now they can try to rebuild that love from the rubble.

[cuntylestat]

seeing lestat tonight, it's a bad idea, right?

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[asthedeathoflight]

Thinking again about the tendency to try and sort loumand into victim/abuser which does them an injustice imo because the thing about loumand is that they're just so so bad for each other in a beautifully symmetrical way. If this were a textbook I would make a diagram but this is tumblr so just bear with me

Okay so first of all Louis and Armand are both attracted to things in each other that remind them of their abusers. Louis likes Armand being dramatic and old and sophisticated. Armand likes that Louis is contemplative, interested in art and culture. (we see this in his flirting technique, trying to show off his friendship with Sartre, which doesn't really work on Louis but would have worked on Marius, I think)

They also both excuse behaviors in each other that were present in their former abusive relationships because they believe that this is what they deserve (Armand) or that this is just how love between two vampires/men is (Louis). Armand is unphased by Louis feeling entitled to his body or not returning Armand's declarations of affection. Louis is certainly bothered by Armand being controlling and having a temper but seems to have done the math and determined that Armand is better than Lestat, so he doesn't really care.

Armand is also fairly obviously Marius-like in his relationship with Louis, believing that he knows what's best for Louis and ignoring issues of consent or power imbalance between them.

Now I think the place where people think the math works out to Louis being the victim is that Armand acts like both Lestat and Marius, but Louis does not act like Lestat, and the places where he acts like Marius are partially engineered by Armand himself. However I think the subtlety this ignores is that while Louis may not be behaving like Lestat, he IS behaving like his MOTHER. He's disdainful of Armand's vulnerability and perceived weakness, he's emotionally withdrawn, he's judgmental (through dreamstat), and he expects Armand to play the role of protector and provider while Louis verbally berates him and tells him he's nothing because that's just Armand's job in their little family unit.

In general i think Florence's abuse deserves a bigger spotlight when it comes to discussing Louis and his psychology, because Louis does not just have one abusive relationship to process but two and in fact went directly from being under his mother's control to being under Lestat's and that absolutely informs how he approaches his third attempt at domesticity with Armand.

[lizardkingeliot]

In the event that you are reading this, something dreadful has occurred, which is not my own death, but rather the fact that we both now exist in two different worlds. Do not waste your life seeking revenge on the person or persons who did this. Do not give them the satisfaction of the hunt. Let treachery eat away at them from within. And you... you go carry on with your living. Know only this, mon cher, you are the only being I trust, and whom I love, above and beyond myself. All my love belongs to you. You are its keeper. A veil will now forever separate our union. But it is a thin veil. And I am always on the other side, face pressed up against your longing.

[casualavocados]

#he doesn't want to fight with you ai di, he wants to Kiss🙄💘🥺

Nat Chen as CHEN YI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[spacedlexi]

"sounds nice... having a partner"