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is anyone gonna play surgery with him :(

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i wanted to draw a background of some sort and a tiny theatre scene seemed like a good idea :)

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people must think daniel molloy is so fucking embarrassing and insane in-universe like this 70 year old two time pulitzer prize winner is not only constantly insisting that his new book is non fiction and that vampires are real, he's also touring with and making a documentary about an obvious industry plant whose whole persona is based off a vampire from his book. and to top it all off he's also allegedly dating a 27 year old who apparently 24/7 roleplays as yet another vampire character from his book

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my inner monologue on repeat everytime im in the tag

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did i misread the arun/maitre stuff or was that whole thing designed for armand's gratification, not louis'? the "armand was a sex slave ofc he's good in bed" take is crass imo, but also misses the point? louis is the one bartering w desire now for his own (& claudia's) survival. he's the one adopting a fake persona & going through the motions to appease a partner who threatens him. if the sex is mid it's not bc armand lacks "technical skill" or w/e it's bc he doesn't care abt louis' pleasure, agency, or even his waning interest so long as he toes the line. & yes 2 things can be true, sexual chemistry can co-exist w abuse/coercion. but if l0umand's sex was fire the show didn't convey that? in the closest we get to a sex scene (ep6) louis was grimly disengaged & armand was midway through scripting his lynching. i doubt the writers did this by accident?

yeah exactly exactly …people literally do seem to think it was by accident😭 the takes when episode six aired that were like “you guys just aren’t ready to see gay men who are switches in a bdsm relationship” Like woah this isn’t found fucking footage This is a constructed narrative with deliberate framing 😭😭😭 and they reallyyyy wanted that narrative to be l/a romance and it’s simply not . WHICH is why the service-oriented “””””””wife guy””””” fan characterization of armand pisses me off so much like neither armand’s control nor his “submission” are for louis’s benefit and it’s a huge and obvious lie he tells (for the control; i don’t even think Armand pretends the roleplay is for louis’s benefit people just ran with that) that anything he does makes louis happy. Or honestly even the idea that he wants to make louis happy and just doesn’t know how lets armand off the hook . It’s killing me actually we’re literally given a scene w armand w big wet eyes saying it was love about the events leading to louis’s lynching, in the episode after we see him torture louis and then erase it from his memory. and now i have to see 9 million posts like It was love guys it was loveee armand just didn’t knowwwww any better bc he was born in a cardboard box and only knew cults 🥺 No it was strategic from the start his veneer of generosity is so fucking transparent !!

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whenever people say "the tragedy on iwtv is that everyone loved each other" ummmmmm. not armand. but nice try

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i just realized i draw daniel in striped apparel too much for my comfort?? now it’s a complex.

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Loustat short comics - There is nothing else until the storm is over - Interview with the Vampire TV Series

text transcription under the cut ⬇️

Fake magazine illustration

Page 1 Daniel : So, tell me... Did you see Lestat again?

Page 2 Louis : When he's not on Tour, he would occasionally visits.

Page 3 Daniel : So you're what, now? Friends?

Louis : [Hello Lestat.]

Lestat : [Hello Louis.]

It would be too simple. You know us.

Louis : [ That's new. Still enjoying the glitz and glamor?]

But there is this arrangement we are both fine with.

Page 4 When two people hurt each other so deeply, what is left afterwards?

Page 5 Things like that, it seals doors once still unlocked at the time. Can time really heal everything?

[Mets moi dans mon cercueil, Louis, Louis...]

Page 6 [Stay down chéri, I don't want to fight like this. I'll stay. I'll stay, I'll never leave you ever again. I promise. I'll be happy. For you. For her. Please please please please]

Some things were flipped over to show the truth. Others, I learned to see differently. I faced my wrongs.

[I'll be anything please please please please please please. I didn't know it was a gift. I wore it like a curse. I was selfish. I wanted you to suffer. Because I was. Suffering. I came to thank you.]

Page 7 Do we love each other still? Yes. Can we live under the same roof, share the same spaces, the same bed, for an extended period of time, again? No. But this raging, all devouring passion, it is now replaced by something that can never be altered. Is this the price we had to pay to finally be equals?

Page 8 We have never been more understanding of each other. A shadow of something that could have been from the start. Friendly jokes. Bickering I will never admit enjoying. Respect. And then, the always surprising softness. So eerie after all that happened. Yet, we always welcome it.

Page 9 Daniel : [How dramatic. Not ready to live together again, yet he's all over your coffee table.]

Louis: [I didn't buy these.]

Daniel : [Sure. Will you let me know the next time he passes by?]

Louis : [Well I can't. This is his safe place. You will have to find him by yourself I'm afraid.]

Daniel : [Of course. He can't make anything easy. As if he didn't have enough safe places with his ten properties.]

Page 10 Louis: [Nice chat. Bye, Daniel.]

Lestat : [Only when I'm not on Tour, hm?]

Louis [Approximately.]

Lestat : [Thanks.]

Louis : [Did you really just say thank-]

Lestat: *kisses Louis* [...too soon?]

Page 11 Louis : Almost a century is enough waiting.

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lestat's hair getting longer between season 1 and 2 is so funny to me. do you think louis approached daniel after 1.07 like "daniel, i want to thank you for what you said to me last night about lestat's murder. i have been reevaluating certain events, gaining new, truer perspectives. i feel that i need to tell you, daniel.... i lied to you, and to myself, about lestat's hairstyle. it was longer than i led you to believe, more shoulder length really, though no less seductive.... i want our readers to understand that" and daniel wrote in his notes for lestat "no cunty bob"

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An onyx statue of a young man, another item from @erebus0dora 's Daniel's storage. Pale translucent green with deep red streak.

(I'm absolutely sure Armand was really impressed by Daniel stealing and dragging it to his impromptu treasury, he absolutely had to finally show up).

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Can you imagine Daniel and Armand watching The Shining and during the axe in the door scene Armand casually just laughs and goes “I did that once”

And Daniel just turns to him like:

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girl someone on ao3 has had enough

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The thing people miss when they say that Lestat acts predatory towards Louis in season 1 is that he literally is a predator (vampires are predators to humans in particular) but he is not looking at Louis as a predator chasing his victim: he wants to make Louis a predator too. And Louis, whose human job is to exploit other people to his gain, says yes when presented with the choice to be a predator too

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the devil's minion chapter is so good because the core of why armand and daniel work so well together is that they're certified yappers! they're out there harassing the locals about philosophy and sex. "my lover and i really dug your answers on anatheism. would you like to bed him while i watch from the chair?" people were probably getting so sick of them. that's why they kept moving around!

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been thinking about this vs the end of iwtv in the show and i do think it's a shame they didn't keep some element of this. It's a very different setup for the interview so you can't compare too much. But in general i don't think i love what they did with Louis' character in the final episode specifically-- the 'empowering' act of violence, the cringy 'i own the night' -- meh. That more than the lestat reunion felt cheesy to me.

I think Armand not facing the consequences of his actions is somehow essential to the book. I'm not sure why. But it contributes to the overall feel of murkiness to vampire relationships and their lack of consistent moral code. Maybe.

the Armand louis breakup scene at the end of iwtv is so sad. So dramatic. Armand says he’s dying and leaves Louis. Louis later finds his abandoned coffin and destroys it. You’d think he was actually dead, and Louis killed him.

Meanwhile Armand just left his coffin behind because he moved to New Orleans and the moment Daniel sets foot in it is like well well well time to scare the bejeezus out of this guy, call him pretty, threaten to murder him, chase him across several continents in a fucked up game of catch, fall in love, decide not to kill him, initiate blood addiction, encourage other addictions, become obsessed with blenders, make him sleep with strangers, see 2433434 movies, try on new clothes, adopt a dancer, steal a painting, buy an island,

like was louis aware of any of that lol. Or did he just think he killed Armand with the power of depression while Armand was off stealing jean jackets off his victims and getting freaky in the Villa of Mysteries