Started a group chat for fellow Interview With the Vampire stans on Discord. I’m not familiar with Discord but I am learning, so please be patient with me😭
You know what I just thought after spending an hour scrolling through IWTV Tumblr (specifically our old man yaoi boy, I love him sm)
The actors and creators of IWTV just feel like a bunch of nerds super excited to do this thing. Like you can tell how much fun they're having making said thing, and playing with the story, and having fun with just something so inherently erotic and being like "yes, and.."
(literally Sam has always wanted to play or be a vampire, his lifelong dream to just be a vamp is materialized and you can tell in his performance)
It's just so great to see the openness and lightheartness they (personally) bring to a story that is obviously not necessarily the most light-hearted. With more topics that's also often villanized so deeply in media or things just generally not fully explored openly, and them being like:
"hehe, and It'd be really great if I could explore being a hot 70 year old vampire who fucks a gaslighting toxic 500 y/o vamp cause it's fun" like YES, GO OFF ERIC
Anyways. This fandom has been fun so far. Greatly enjoying.
“Oh, wow, Louis. Last time I talked to Louis was when we both played Mexico City, I think it was last year— might have been probably this year, no it was last year. I think so, I forget, time flies. Yeah, we stayed at the same hotel, it was a nice catch up. I really miss Louis. The success, this excitement around what’s happening, his new project, is incredible to see, and I love seeing all the fans really come strong for Louis ‘cause he really is a magical human. Whenever he puts his passion into something, the world feels it. He’s got that kind of touch, you know, there’s not many people that can actually do that, but Louis can. So, yeah, I love Louis. If you guys see Louis before I do, tell him I say ‘That’s my guy!’”
-Steve Aoki talking about Louis, via AskAnythingChat ❤️