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"Come home with me," he said. Such a human voice. So kind. “There's time to come here and reflect. Wouldn't you rather be home, in the Quarter, amongst our things?” If anything in the world could have truly comforted me, he would have been the thing— with just the beguiling tilt of his narrow head or the way that he kept looking at me, protecting me obviously with a confidential calm from what he must have feared for me, and for him, and perhaps for all of us.

— Memnoch the Devil (1995)

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Please participate in my research (also, if you say other, please put it in the tags/comments !)

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And with the two dead priests in his purview, the accused raised up his hands and took your face in them with a kiss of acceptance.

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like ohhhhhhhh my god like oh my goddddddddddddddd

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Delainey Hayles for filmupdates

Everything these actors say about that scene makes it more heartbreaking, damn

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.07 — I Could Not Prevent It

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Interview with the Vampire 1.07 · The Thing Lay Still — requested by anon ⁠

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JACOB ANDERSON talks about the reunion scene in episode 02.08 for TV Insider

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you've watched that more than once

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I'll light the fire by Munecabrava

Chapter 2/9 , 15k words, Louis/Lestat post-S2 canon fic

After the hurricane dies down, Louis buys an apartment. Lestat moves in. Maybe someday, Louis will too. A story about coming home.

In this chapter: Louis starts looking at apartments to buy in NOLA. He reckons with more of his past and his identity. And he and Lestat have another very necessary conversation.

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | SEASON 2

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022—) I didn't want this. But I have a capacity for enduring.

SAMREID: The problem with a character like Lestat is like, he's so extreme because he has no filter on the way that he can process his emotion.

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“You spend an hour alone with him and you’re breathing in sync together.”

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | SEASON 1

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Darkness was delirium. I tried to paint alternatives. Lucid what if's. Wear a different suit the night you meet Lestat at the Fair Play. Snatch the piece of candy back from the barber when you're seven years old. Would I have been stronger sooner? Would I have resisted Lestat two decades later? Snatch the candy!

Interview With The Vampire – 2.08: And That's The End Of It. There's Nothing Else

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Thoughts while reading Interview with the Vampire as a fan of the show, part three

(part one part two )

My god I love the beat of Louis saying, after the murder, that with Lestat, they were complete. Rather, Claudia was complete, with them on either side of her from the beginning. I adore that image and I would love if it comes up in the show.

I have lots of feelings about the differences surrounding Madeleine and her turning. Obviously, having her choose Claudia because she likes her and wants a life with her is very different from wanting to replace a lost child. The turning scene itself I thought was beautiful in the book, but I also adore it in the show, so it's just - two very different but equally great things. They never go to Armand to ask him to turn Madeleine in the book, which means that the 2x06 scene between Armand and Madeleine is completely thanks to the writers of the show, and I will kiss them for it someday!

I adore the show, obviously, but I do have some gripes with 2x06 - it has some of my favorite scenes in the show (like the Armand/Madeleine scene), but I also have issues with Louis' characterization in that episode. One aspect of that is that I don't think it's made clear enough what he's feeling in the aftermath of Madeleine, so the book explaining that he feels like turning her is the death of the 'last vestige in him that was human' is something that is so important and I'm glad to have that background now.

I didn't know it was a gift. I treated it like a curse is basically taken from a Louis/Armand conversation where Armand sees it as a gift and Louis like a curse. I just adore how they picked these little things and reworked them for the show. Lovelovelove. But also Armand seeing it that way because he thinks it was gift from Marius because he loved him so much...I really want to get to Marius both in the books and the show to see what that's all about.

Separate section for relationship thoughts because it got long.

I wasn't entirely sure in advance about how explicit the romances would be in this one - I thought they might be more subtextual in the first book and more explicit later on in the series. Turns out...kind of? Not entirely.

Louis/Claudia: I'm kind of...idk, shocked is too extreme but surprised, definitely, at how much they're essentially a...couple? Louis calls her his child all the time but also talks about her like they are in a relationship, basically, and they keep kissing a lot! I'm glad they lost the incest/pedophilia angle for the show but it makes me wonder what they'll do with Gabrielle/Lestat because from what I can tell people do seem to expect that incest-y subtext to be part of the show.

Louis/Armand: definitely the most explicit relationship. They kind of just meet and have one conversation and then Claudia is immediately saying he wants you as you want him and Louis decides to leave Claudia for him. No cute motorcycle dates! I thought their conversations were really interesting but I didn't feel the romance because it's so rushed.

Louis/Lestat - weird that this is then so subtextual in contrast. Armand and Louis meet for five seconds and he's like 'I loved him'. Meanwhile Louis and Lestat spend the entire first half of the book together, live together with their daughter for decades, and Lestat is still painted as just a villain who Louis finds annoying until suddenly - chapters after they killed him and Louis already met Armand - we get one of the most beautiful sections in the book (how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridencent eyes // what would Christ need have done to make me follow him etc) and then Lestat shows up begging Louis to come home and you're like oh...they're husbands...

I'm almost done with the book - only a few more chapters and then I'll make a last general thoughts post I think. This is long enough already.

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Narrator: He was not sorry, he was about to go lower