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you want to die by his hand so bad it makes you look stupid

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#noel istg...when liam gets you...

sometimes i get mad at noel and then i just remember come august liam will be slobbering all over him in public every single night and theres nothing he can do about it. get loved idiot.

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every time liam wears that damn tambourine on his head i want to make some kind of crown of thorns metaphor. and i mean, he was often the scapegoat, was he not? the extent of the metaphor is beyond me, but it keeps tickling my brain.

i mean, look at him and tell me this doesn't scream martyr

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Listen, we all have headcannons about Daniel meeting Lestat for the first time, I want to add another: Daniel meeting Lestat and having a self reflection crisis cause if this is the guy that both Armand and Louis slept with, that caused issues in their marriage, then why the fuck is Armand going for him?

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Red on Maroon A 16-page IWTV (2022) fancomic about the vampire Armand and journalist Daniel Molloy visiting the Mark Rothko retrospective in 2024 Paris. Content mentions & warnings: The comic depicts Daniel’s internalized ableism. Rothko’s suicide is acknowledged but not discussed in detail. There’s angst, talk about kink and lots of fluff. Louis is mentioned as well as Daniel’s daughters. Marius is not named but is hinted at. The comic is set up in post-Dubai-interview time and based on my knowledge about s1 of AMC’s IWTV with sprinkles of book canon. Some notes about the comic below:

As with my last comic, I am not a native English speaker, so I hope you keep that in mind when reading <3 trying my best here meow meow

The Rothko retrospective can be visited until 2nd of April of 2024 in Louis Vuitton Foundation. I visited the place in January, so the comic’s surroundings are a mix of memories and some image searches, but in no way fully accurate. Since visiting Paris next week is probably not an option for most people, the foundation has a very cool free app, where you can listen to an audio guide about Rothko and paintings in the exhibition. I mostly used their app as a source for this comic, so in case you want to learn more, go here: https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/events/mark-rothko

 I listened to a lot of Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel -album while making this. So put it in playing in the background if you’re into that sort of thing. Link to the playlist on youtube

Since I am Finnish and I found out that one of LVF’s first exhibition had some Finnish painter’s work, ofc I had to include them… Page 14 has Schjerfbeck’s “Dancing Shoes”  and Gallen-Kallela’s “Kullervo Cursing”.

Ok finally some headcanon stuff: in my head, while writing this comic, I imagined Daniel having accepted the dark gift from Armand, but both of them wanting him to live as a human as long as possible to enjoy the benefits of a… mortal body. :’D Since, you know, vampirism is forever anyway, so why not enjoy the variety of bodily fluids, body heat, aches and weirdness of aging? While having a chronic illness is shitty, his life is not, and while his disability marginalizes him, there’s a perspective there, a person living and enjoying things, allowed to take space and feel his thoughts develop from these changes (that also affect over 6 million people around the world with Parkinson’s).

After finishing the comic I am not so sure if Daniel is going to be turned into a vampire after all. So your guesses are as good as mine, would love to hear your suggestions, hehe!

I wish we knew more about Daniel’s daughters! I just came up with something here because I wanted to draw them and wanted to see their dynamics as a family.

I have now read the Devil’s Minion part from Queen of the Damned as a separate short story and appreciate the TV show’s changes to Daniel even more. I can’t wait for S2…..

My sincerest thanks to @anaid-queen for being a test audience, my informant and such a cheerleader the past week <3<3<3

Hope you enjoy xoxo

SORRY I POSTED THE WRONG IMAGE FILES FIRST WAHHH I had to repost ;_;

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me: separate the actor from their characters, they're just very good at their jobs. and don't grow a parasocial relationship.

eric bogosian in 1991: I know y'all hate me, but I don't care. cuz at least I realize I'm a shit. for that tiny fragment of truth, I respect myself. that's why normalcy is so far to my reach, cuz you just have to be blind to be normal, you have to like yourself. the thought that is so repellent to me, that I'm ecstatic to be in the depressing place that I'm in.

me:

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#louder for ppl in the back #and that's what makes him so fascinating

“i could be your lestat, your claudia, but better.” yeah yeah daniel is delusional let’s all laugh. except so often what comes out of daniel’s mouth is just the show grabbing you by the collar and screaming its point in your face…. “i had a daughter” and “WHICH ONE OF YOU GONNA FUCK ME?” and “I am a full blooded adult with all the right appendages” and “it was never you.” oh daniel, the fuckable claudia, the lestat who would never have the power to abuse louis. yes, you do have both of them in you, and you do have a couple of things they don’t.

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obsessed with their dynamic

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Daniel, my beloved, you know people on that twitter website say I'm a beautiful princess defrocked of His grace and mercy, which I find quite interesting that mortals...what? that's not what 'disorder' means? ...they think I have a 'personality disorder'? No. Daniel, no, but it is understandable that your medical professionals think naively about vampire's nature. You see, we have a far better sense and control over our body fluids than that of human's, of whom also gave up upon phlebotomy since the last century, but as for vampires, for blood being the essential diet...love? Are you still listening? The point being that I'm confident in maintaining my homours and...Daniel! I must say I feel disappointed that you don't take this seriously enough since it's all so relevant- Daniel!

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Special Effects (1984)

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"I would say Louis has a puzzle that hasn’t been solved by a guy who spends his life getting the story. And I find one of the most interesting lines in the whole show is that I’m describing my former self and I say, “It’s a tale told to an idiot.” Well, who’s the idiot? That’s me. I’m calling myself an idiot. So, I’m calling my youthful self an idiot and I want to make up for that by going back and finding what had to be the greatest story I had ever investigated, but ineptly forty something years ago. I can easily imagine that. That comes up all the time in everyone’s life. I mean, it’s in its worst form. It’s like you get a Facebook account and you find that person you wanted to go out with in the ninth grade. You find them again, it turns out they will go out with you on a date and you’re willing to go and you’re just like, “Maybe this time I can get her to kiss me.” So maybe this time Louis will kiss me." Eric Bogosian (x)

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so ppl are saying danlou are platonic bff and it's very important for louis that he has non-romantic connection such and such and I get it. I get it okay and I actually agree. kinda. that's why it's also important for me that they're having no homo bro sex. just some✨bestie4bestie✨ things yk. like college dorm room mutual masturbation session, but in a yuri kind of way. your very pretty roommate that you're not so close but on a friendly base with. She's always in a messy relationship and you know she's screaming crying fighting with her boyfriend again and she rushes home with a ton of booze dragging you into drinking with her. and it always turns into a full on venting session shitting on her ex-boyfriend. after a certain blood alcohol level she would start to admit she misses him and oh btw he has a really big di-. she calls you 'her girl' and says men are evil scumbags and you need to promise her you'll never mingle with them and you'll be her best friend forever.

(you are not even ordinary friends.)

but you're also in over your head a little and all you can think of is OH SHE PRETTY.

In the end she snuggles up with you on your bed and you're dozing off together. but then you feel a hand under your pj and every ounce of alcohol gets scared out of your system. you don't know if you should acknowledge it or not, don't know if you should let her. the next thing you know is she's groping your tits, and you go stiff all over, wouldn't dare to move a finger, wouldn't dare to breath. but you realise you're also kinda turned on. just when you're about to accept the fact that this is the night you'd fuck your roommate and you'll probably never forget about this. you feel she stops moving. you turn your head. she's fallen asleep.

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ngl I'm still debating if I want to accept the canon that Ed in s2 is such a dumb bitch💀.

Like you know I was thinking 'I love him but wow another whimsical neurodivergent coded male character with his weaponized competence (there is no such thing I made it up)' before all of this.

But.

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Okay so, I saw someone on twitter the other day said that ofc Izzy would fall for Frenchie since Frenchie is basically young Ed but emotionally stable (kinda). Then I have to say ouizzy under kraken Ed is just goldenboy reimagined.

Like this show is all about fucking parallels (even when half of them in S2 hold no points) so we must catch up with the spirit here, like Ed made Frenchie watch when he cut off that third toe or something.

(Okay to be fair, he didn't MAKE make him watch, but he also didn't give him a chance to slip off so, here we are.)

I think Izzy must be accustomed to this from his hornigold era, but since Frenchie's like, 20-smth-year younger so it added some new extra flavor of humiliation there and he died a little (a LOT) inside. Fortunately for him! He was quick to spiral into some ptsd flashback delirium (with the help of a little fever from infection) and could not tell when's when.

Or who's who. So he might have called out the wrong person a few times. But luckily, it's either 'Captain' or 'Ed', so it didn't matter it's not the right captain. or Ed. Ed was not finding out anyway.

But Frenchie definitely did, cuz Izzy's like suddenly, super fucking obedient and shit, like his mannerism was all off. ALL different. And Frenchie was deeply unsettled by it. But also, he's never seen Izzy like this before so he's kinda–I wouldn't say turned on, cuz our babygirl here is a good boy–he was kinda INTRIGUED. Like a Bard would when they sense a good tale. So he got all sorts of scenes and plots going on in his head.

When it's all over. They were fucking off together. Izzy passed out almost soon as they exited the captain cabin. And Frenchie carried him back to his bunk, cleaning his wound and all that. After, he sat on Izzy's side, dugged up his lute, and starting to play a quiet little song of the goldenboy tale (that he imagined them to be).

But in Izzy's fever dream. Izzy felt like it's Ed who's taking care of him. Young Ed from back in the days, with blurred, indistinguishable lyrics playing in the background.

And you know how a sailor would view it when he heard fucking melody while in a post blood loss turmoil. He thought he heard siren. Death call. Hell's gate. Whatever name that is.

And so he let himself drift, away into dreaming, peacefully for once in a very long time. In this cradle of his siren's music.