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this is what i think i look like when i have a wife pleaser on

Interview With The Vampire 🧛🏽 Part II [2024]

2.04 I Want You More Than Anything In The World

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Pondering the significance of this line in the context of the Alice/Armand theory……

Louis has said that he felt he explored his homosexuality more in Paris rather than San Francisco. Was Louis hinting at something here? 👀

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but also claudia recording all her victims’ last words but we’ll never get to know what she said to Madeleine and Madeleine’s last words and she’s one of the only ones to have privacy in death even if it is displayed for all to see. goodbye

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dumping these portraits here, what a beautiful cast

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OOH OOH OHH WAHHAAAAAAAA

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I think in addition to talking about how Armand’s sexual trauma affects him, I think it’s also important to acknowledge that Armand just likes sex, and he likely would have a high sex drive even if he didn’t have sexual trauma that caused him to develop hyper sexual behavior. I get the impression that Armand, even if he had not went through the trauma that he did, just likes to have sex a lot. He likes the type of emotional connection and the non verbal communication of ur feelings, and he likes the sensory experience and the unique form of social interaction. Armand also likes the theater of it and the roleplay elements. In the books Armand is often described as someone who just loves to feel things and loves to feel good (as a human he also loved to eat). It’s kind of sad to me that Armand’s trauma so heavily affects his sexuality so that he has a barrier that prevents him from fully experiencing and enjoying smth that he just naturally likes. If Armand had never gone through what he did he could’ve had a very positive relationship with sex and kink, considering how he navigates other sensory experiences, but sex is always tainted in a way that makes it just a little bit painful always, and that sucks

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I'm a daniel molloy apologist, an armand apologist, a lestat apologist, a louis apologist, a claudia apologist. We exist.

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"so i can fuck whoever i want?"

"of course. of course! of course. as long as you come home to me. of course!" <- most jealous man in the world perchance

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i cant do this anymore every day i have to go on pinterest and save more pictures of that stupid blonde cunt in that stupid court chair in that stupid pinstripe suit. because i want him. and i need his gender. because of woke

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and I also see a lot of people saying claudia’s version is the truth, but I feel like people are conflating ‘reliable narrator’ (she doesn’t outwardly lie - to her knowledge at least) with unbiased: what we see through Claudia is always mediated through her own (teenage, then adult) brain, and her own experience. She isn’t an omnipresent neutral narrator, and I don’t think we can judge ‘who’s the bad guy’ (they all are 🫦😍) from her perspective either. It’s not because she isn’t directly in the duo that she isn’t impacted, in fact she is a very active participant in all the dynamics (to the dismay of all involved).

it doesn’t have to be louis’ version is the truth or lestat’s version is the truth or armand’s version is the truth but rather that the truth lies somewhere in between their perspectives. or, more accurately, that there is no singular “truth” and that each individual perspective was real to that person. each alleged heartbreak was truly experienced, each feeling however exaggerated or dishonest was still felt as true, each lie actually reveals some slither of truth. how you are perceived can change dramatically depending on who is perceiving you. history is only interpretation. and in my opinion that is the more compelling story

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Wait I’m sorry can we talk about how the Loustat reunion in 2x08 is the FIRST TIME we as the audience meet Lestat unfiltered??? Not Louis’ narrative of Lestat, not Armand’s, not a hallucination, but the genuine article, for the first time??? And he’s so sad, so vulnerable, so… human? You can feel how different he is— Sam plays him like a new Lestat, like how he conceived of Dreamstat and Armand’s Lestat as different Lestats from s1 Lestat— and the first impression you get from this is that time and grief have changed Lestat. But what if the difference is more than that— what if these have always been elements of Lestat, flattened by Louis’ memory?

Watching that scene, the revelation of caring, grieving, tender Lestat rippled back through the show for me, subtler but more powerful than the San Francisco revelations or the revisions from the trial. Because it’s true, isn’t it, that it’s so much easier to make monsters of the people who hurt us, to remember them as powerful, intentional, and fundamentally uncaring? The truth is much harder to bear— that those who maim and abuse us feel as deeply as we do, that they love and grieve and doubt, that they cry and shake and cling to us, just as small before the hurricane as we are

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HEY that's MY emotional support morally ambiguous misunderstood full of trauma touch starved yearning for love drenched in blood responsible for numerous atrocities comfort character who is TRYING & u will TREAT them with RESPECT

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i go into the interview with a vampire tag on tumblr to see the most beautiful fan art in the world and also the horrors

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AND one could even say that

armand is tashi

lestat is patrick

louis is art