#ARMAND KISSES HIM

[chicago-geniza]

I'm so sorry I need to work but these archival notes literally derailed my entire day. I have "Anne Rice's vampire dysphoria" as a running tag and she just tweeted it out

[ladyofthecreeddraws]

The only thing I'm gonna say about this is uh. imagine the sounds.

Full: direct | Bsky

[userarmand]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned"

[ldrloversblog]

Someone could ask Assad how his theater rehearsal went and he would start yapping about how MUCH he wants to get his guts rearranged and back blown out by Luke and Eric (especially by his favourite senior citizen) on camera and off camera with the giddiest, biggest smile on his face “😁🤭”.

Just freaked out 25/8. Fujoshing 7 days a week. Every day he clocks in the “Freak Factory” and says the wildest shit.

Jut greedy. He’s the worst, a freak (I love him).

[dreadfuldevotee]

we arent exaggerating their height difference enough

[xjade-lotusx]

I need Armand to be so unhinged next season. Let's bring out the man who makes frightful concoctions with a blender and cooks rats and roaches in a microwave oven. I want to see full gremlin mode.

[novablisters]

assad zaman is actually so beautiful it’s downright villainous actually

[whatrudoingbree]

REST.

[skylessknights]

"We do it together. Like everything we've done for the past 70 years."

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.01 | What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned

[sentientsky]

armand is so fucking pretty. genuinely WHO allowed tbis

[platoapproved]

[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

[biilodyfangs]

this is so funny, imagine starting a show in your late 60s/early 70s, meeting the people you're gonna work with and your younger co-star in his 30s keeps telling you "yeah, we're hooking up"

also, looks like Assad likes devil's minion a lot !! i do hope they give us both modern moments with Daniel and Armand and flashbacks with young Daniel after what happened in 1973

[nanathebunny]

musing abt how holding armand tight and scratching his hair as if he’s a doll must do wonders to regulate and soothe marius….. his little son his darling his baby

also having armand suck his blood like a kitten, must be grounding and nice and comforting

[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.

[aquarines]

serving face? the love of your life is about to leave you for another man for 70+ years and you're serving face?