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So I'm new to the Interview With the Vampire fandom. But one thing about me is that I'm an amateur queer history nerd, and something that I've noticed in episode 5 of season 2-

Backgammon game, Louis??

For context, "backgammon player" is the older slur term for homosexual. It was created before Louis' time but it's very possible that it stayed around until near his time, and/or it was still in literature of his time and he heard it somewhere.

What I'm saying is, in historical context, Louis using a backgammon game might be his version of using something with pink and a lot of glitter. It's the historical version of stereotypically gay.

I don't know if that's what the writers intended with this but I noticed it and I think it's hilarious.

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interview with the vampire || anne rice, the vampire lestat

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well, fuck me then

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“You are mine, beautiful boy”

Prints available here

CW: smoking, blood

(ID: image 1: Armand and young Daniel curled up together in bed in an apartment in Paris, sunlight coming in through a window image 2: Armand lighting his cigarette from Daniel’s on Night Island in Miami image 3: Armand crouching over Daniel’s body after transforming him into a vampire on the floor in Dubai with the destroyed pages of the script scattered end ID)

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promise to be near you, promise i'll stay (louis & lestat)

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can my white ass get the good nurse tonight

nope. gremlin again

come on

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Armand and Daniel!!! Painting this felt sooo nice I love my boys

Commissioned by @ameliarose-blog

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you choose him over and over and over again and i scrounge about for what's left

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“to love me is to suffer me”

based on this post

thinking about how amc has the chance to make the absolute craziest move possible and cast a random ginger kid currently living with marius and going by amadeo in armand's place ☹️ i saw one (1) post about that hc/idea and it is now fully ingrained in my soul. it's as real to me as the armand is alice theory atp. i just need bookmand and showmand to have the most unhinged found family dynamic in the history of modern television. i know it's not plausible but it's also my birthday so let me have this 🤲

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one thing iwtv is really good at is body language. i was doing research for a post and i noticed something. in paris when louis is with armand he often has the same pose. this meek, servile, self protective, closed off pose with his hands covering his stomach:

he's partly putting on a mask in front of armand, partly mirroring him to pacify him (the difference is: armand is being regal cause he's maitre while louis is letting him know he recognises that), partly hiding from armand and instinctively protecting himself like an animal sensing danger.

he does this a lot in paris, then it seemingly disappears after the bench scene (louis really actually thought he finally got the upper hand and was in control of the situation).

but no, it sometimes still happens after paris. like in 2x01 when louis asks armand if he can see the missing pages from claudia's diary:

it looks like louis is just doing his buttons and belt but he's actually using this to hide his nervousness. he knows he shouldn't ask for this and he's somewhat scared of armand's reaction.

he also does this in 2x02 back in paris when armand introduces louis and claudia to the coven and someone asks about their maker. louis was already nervous before, you can see him fidgeting with his hands throughout the scene, but when asked about his maker he clutches his own clothes:

notice that claudia is better at keeping her cool, or maybe just less cautious at this point. (she's staring at lestat's portrait here btw.)

similarly, louis also uses his camera to adopt this pose while also trying to pass it off as casual instead of nervous, secretive and guarded. in 2x03 when armand comes to their apartment unannounced and uninvited louis goes to look who's at the door and he's pretty relaxed despite not waiting for anybody but as soon as he sees armand he instantly tenses up:

he keeps this pose throughout the scene and even later on when they go for a walk:

we also see a similar pose in 2x05 right before the fight, his hands going up to his stomach on instinct:

louis knows armand is pissed and he's ready to defend himself. this time it's not about seeming agreeable or respectful, it's about being ready to fight and literally throw hands with armand, which is exactly what happens cause they both can tell they're not letting it slide this time. they both WANT to fight, so they do.

i'll finish this by saying that louis is never ever like this with lestat. this pose is for armand and it speaks volumes.

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I sketched these when I had "Thorn" by The Knocks and Dragonette on loop, but the Jam picture drop today gave me the push I needed to finish these drawings!!!

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not the first time you meet, but the first time you recognize each other.

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marimand week, day 5

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ASSAD ZAMAN as THE VAMPIRE ARMAND Interview with the Vampire

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Thinking about the recent interviews and all the bits and pieces we're getting. The near messiah having a nervous breakdown comment, the hyper sexualized being comment, the everything informed by trauma comment, the following Anne Rice's lead by making the series take a dramatic turn with TVL comment. They're truly going to embrace the insane chaos that was Rice's storytelling while making it better for having the clarity of the entire story before them to mold. They've already proven it with the first part of the tale. I'm sure it's going to continue to be incredible.

But those comments have also created a stupid brainworm. What if Lestat's seemingly over-the-top murder of the priests in season one connects to his past and the monastery? What if something more happened there beyond being denied an education because his father didn't think much of it? What if that something is the reason he is brought home in the first place and the catalyst for his family's treatment of him after? What if him being locked away is punishment for what he suffers there? What if he's deemed a monster that tempted a priest and all that utter bullshit. The ocean between Christ and himself. What if "gifted pupil" has a darker, traumatic undertone.

What if Louis' priests were not as kind as Louis thought?

What if they were?

Trauma informs everything, right.

It wouldn't be specifically true to the original story, but this is an adaptation, and it's not that much of a stretch from Lestat's experiences in the chronicles. And when you think of his later book series interactions with the divine...

Or maybe not.

Time will tell.

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thinking about amc armand not being sure what his birth name is, coming from a diverse and multicultural area and not knowing exactly what faith his family had practiced, not being certain exactly what language had been spoken in his house, not being able to say whether he had had siblings and what they had been like, not being able to pick his parents out of a crowd or even say whether they had sold him away or lost him. thinking about armand spending centuries in a land so culturally different from his own that very few things would spark recognition or memory from that past life. thinking about armand not being able to place why something is familiar, armand not being sure if a memory belongs to him or to someone he's killed