#daniel asks

[pynkhues]

hii! this might be a very stupid question but do we know if Louis actually wanted his book to be published. i always thought that he maintained the interview as a way to get Daniel to take an interest again and maybe because Louis knew deep down that something wasn't right with his memories. that everything that happened these two seasons was for himself, in order to take back control over his life. also at the end he tries to burn Daniel's laptop. and it seemes to me that it was never about telling his story to humans but to himself

Hi! Not a stupid question at all, anon! It's actually a really interesting one to consider, especially since Louis' end of the bargain for Daniel seems to be the money and the permission to publish.

I think it kind of depends on what you think about two things, firstly how much you think Louis' motivation for doing the interview changed between 1973 and the present day, and secondly, why you think he torched Daniel's laptop.

In terms of the motivation for the first interview, Armand actually explicitly calls Louis on it in 2.05. A big part of the reason he's doing it is specifically for it to be published in the hopes that he might bait Lestat out of wherever he's been hiding. The question is, has that changed? I'd say it probably has? The interview has a very different tone, Louis' older and more self-reflective, and I believe him when he says that he wants to remember. How that impacts whether or not he wants the interview published, I don't know, but I actually do think the show's underscored quite a lot that Louis' generally a man of his word. He always has been professionally, and he has been personally too with his sister, Armand and Lestat (in fact, the only person he regularly breaks his word to is, in true Bad Dad form, Claudia).

As for why he burnt the laptop - - I've wondered that a lot, actually. I think it was a casual display of power in a lot of ways? To show his degree of authority and control, which he'd just displayed to Armand and now wanted to emphasise with Daniel. A sort of don't cross me, and don't follow me given from memory, he knows Daniel's files are backed up (I'm at work, so can't check, sorry!)

I actually also wondered if burning Daniel's laptop was more about cutting the Talamasca out of the conversation than it was about getting rid of the files? That's how Raglan's been predominantly communicating with Daniel, and Louis now knows the Talamasca had Armand's annotated script from the trial, among other Paris ephemera. It wouldn't surprise me if a part of burning the laptop was more a fuck you to them than it was a message to Daniel about the book.

So yeah! I actually don't know, but I think I'd probably say that Louis might not have actively wanted the book published, but that he was okay with it and understood it to be a part of the transaction with Daniel. He certainly feels like he can say no to a sequel. I'm curious though now, haha, what do other people think?

[cryptocism]

that half-blank, half-apocalyptic look

"i can b ur angle or yuor devil" etc etc "get a man who can do both" etc etc

obsessed with this vamp i think he should get to do whatever he wants forever

[umulata]

- Babe. My beautiful angel. My darling nightmare on legs. What the fuck. Is that.  - Do you like it, beloved? I designed this myself  - Wow, hm 

((happee birday @hummingbee-o0o) (i hope you'll appreciate the tears and blood that went into this horror))

[sylvies-chen]

no one:

literally no one:

eric bogosian at every public panel: the people are DYING for me to have SEX with ARMAND they like our GRAPHIC INTERCOURSE oh my! yes they do! they want to WATCH us fuck NASTY and so do I because I am a SLUT and armand and daniel are soooo into each other they need to kiss on the MOUTHS and actually where’s assad and luke let’s start filming this rolin get a pen write this down-

[kanjichris]

[demonic0angel]

Phantom member of JLA hears about the other sidekicks making a team.

Asks if it is okay for his to join them.

Que them meeting Dani/Ellie.

Superman I didn't know you had another sister after seeing them interacting.

Only to be told nope she's my clone

Superman burst into a coughing fit.

Wonder Woman paused and then said, "Oh, that's wonderful! How do you consider her? A sister? A daughter? Perhaps a cousin?"

Phantom and Spirit beamed at her. Phantom answered, "She's a little bit of everything? But mostly a little sister to me."

Then Superman blurted out, "But she's a clone! Shouldn't— I mean— isn't it strange?"

Both ghosts turned to him with green, glowing eyes.

"Pardon?"

"Say that again?"

Superman coughed. "Well— it's just— doesn't it make you uncomfortable that someone with your DNA, who was created by someone that's not you with unknown purposes, is just walking around? Don't you feel like it's an invasion of privacy and ethics to have clones of yourself walking around?"

Phantom and Spirit stared at him.

Then they looked at each other.

Then they both reached inside of themselves and pulled out a notepad and pen, respectively.

Spirit handed Phantom her pulled out item and he wrote something on it before ripping out a page and then giving it to Superman.

Superman stared at the set of numbers in front of him with confusion.

Spirit reached over and patted his elbow.

"It's the number to a trusted psychiatrist. You need it."

[lingrimmart]

doppelbebes

[fascinationstreetmp3]

Bartering with desire. Is that what makes you fascinating?

[barnespls]

Would love to see vamp Daniel covered in blood !!!!!

Messy fledgling! 😩

[astronnova]

proposition: danny's hair turns white in random patches when he's used too much power, he just dyes it back to all black when he gets home

[ikiprian]

Ghost Kitchen (brought to you by criminal entrepreneur, Red Hood)

Danny’s got the easiest job in Gotham.

He works as a fry cook at a shoddily-run, independent burger joint. Hardly anyone comes in, despite prices being criminally low, and portions insanely large, and while the manager looks like the average tough-as-nails ex-con, he lets Danny mess around in the kitchen whenever the place is empty. (Which is often. This place has to be the city’s hidden gem or something!)

Mr. Manager’s the only one ever there with Danny, except for sometimes when his buddies come over to smoke and play cards. Danny would find it shady, except part of his job is not to ask questions. Literally, he was told during the interview.

(It was a weird interview. Why would they need to hire someone who’s been in a gunfight before? Like, he has, but Gotham’s idea of “hirable qualities” is so bizarre.)

So instead he whips up some killer burgers with the frozen ingredients, and basks in the praise as the guys tell him he shouldn’t have, he does too much for this joint, ain’t that friendly!

Now, Danny’s a chef on the newer side. As a teen he’d preferred the look of Nasty Burger over anything with Michelin stars, and he only really took up cooking after Jazz moved out for college. But just like ecto-exposure used to turn the groceries sentient, Danny’s low-level ecto signature imbues all his food with something historically haunted Gothamites just love! And Danny’s never been one to half-ass a job when it makes people happy.

With fresher produce, real meat, Danny’s sure he can take his dishes to the next level. It takes a couple months of badgering, but his manager finally agrees to contact the mysterious store owner, who keeps the place going, despite profits Danny knows have to be in the red.

Danny spends the morning prepping. He pours his heart into his food, eager to impress. The big boss will be here soon, and he wants to prove that despite the dangerous location, this place has real potential!

It isn’t until the Red Hood shows up that Danny realizes he’s been working for a money laundering scheme.

[pynkhues]

young Daniel and Louis were so hilarious together. Danie going from so terrified to just sheer delight at Louis' fangs. And then Armand and young Daniel were so terrifying. My favorite Armand scene is his "what makes you fascinating", Assad just killed that on all levels. I love the fight scene, for sure, but that's more about Louis/Jacob to me--the "what makes you fascinating" scene is peak Armand/Assad.

I love them together, anon! I also love the way Jacob talks about Louis putting Daniel in a little brother box, especially because he's like, the polar opposite of Paul? I just find it so funny that Louis has got a baby brother in Paul who's vulnerable and gentle, but also so dogmatic and devout, and yet all these years later sees a sardonic, messy, high as a kite baby journalist who grows into a still-sardonic, still-messy, prickly old man journalist, and is like, yeah, I'm going to put them on the shelf together in both my head and in my heart, haha.

That Armand scene is definitely one of my favourites too. Assad always plays the duality of him so well, but that bit in particular you really feel it. Just - - love it.

[evermorepeyton]

i just love how phil’s tiktok is like those weird brainrot songs, dogs and cats and animals and then something that reminds him of dan probably, and every now and then a random man’s ass will appear and yeah it’s alright but what makes it funnier is that phil’s ALWAYS like “omg my algorithm is the best, am i not the Best TikTok Watcher there’s ever been?”

and dan will also always without missing a step reply with something along the lines of “yes i haaaate tiktok SO MUCH but you are The Best TikTok Scroller there is and ever has been my love, you sit there with your towel for hours and you’ve crafted the best algorithm tiktok has ever known, you are just a genius, and i will never use tiktok ever for my own enjoyment but oh how i love watching this silly app through your eyes phil lester”

and then it’s like a cat jumping

[lilianade-comics]

I know it's probably unlikely to occur in your comic since this is after Vlad's accident, but what do you think would happen if Danielle somehow ran into Jack and Maddie in the past?

This incident would be like flinging a grenade into the timeline and it causes half of the Observant High Council to resign.

[jajanvm-imbi]

They really did the Hallmark Christmas Movie poster thing where one of them is in green and the other one is in red

What if I just killed myself ?

12/12/24 update:

From Phil's instagram story

Fuck OOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[amid-fandoms]

dan howell acting like he's experiencing brain damage at the thought of saying anything nice about phil when his dramatic ass tweeted this a month after meeting him cause he couldn't cope with not living in his bedside drawer 🙄