#Interview with the vampire show

[haflacky]

Old love

[skltart]

I think lestat should get to drape himself in some sort of cloth to make himself look like he's wearing a dress, I need it for science

[lestatslestits]

Incomplete list of things I NEED AMC to release

(AKA: Rolin Jones I am in your walls)

Sam’s audition tape complete with his little zoom in tool

Jacob’s audition tape

Jacob and Sam’s chemistry read

THOMAS ANTONY OLAJIDE’S LOUIS AUDITION TAPE

Blooper reel

Pirouette cut

Knife lick cut

[blackcatsbiggestfan]

"Lestat. Lestat. Lestat. Lestat. Lestat. Lestat."

What if I pull a Paul and jump off a roof?

[aroundevil]

Interview With the Vampire Icons

/like or reblog if you save/

[onedaymyflowergardenwillbloom]

Louis: I’m really depressed and going through a horrible, traumatic break-up…

Armand: *slides in his DMS* oh that’s rough buddy…wtd? 😏😛

[betternamenot2come]

Me, after having just finished season 1 of Interview with the Vampire: I’m pretty sure this Armand guy is a lying piece of shit

@daisystano as I explain what happened in the finale: no shit babe he’s like the villain of the whole series

Me: I thought that was Lestat? I’ve not read the book

[f1restart3rr]

“Karma's gonna come for all of us, and I hope, I hope, I just hope, she comes, comes for you first“ paramore - you first

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

All the Black Femmes || Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire

[cloudofbutterflies]

One of the main reasons I've always been fascinated by Luis & Lestat's relationship is the fact that while they do love each other, the fact that they are both heavily traumatised in almost polar opposite ways that makes it very hard for them to not be toxic to each other.

Lestat is entirely comfortable in his own skin, with his queerness and his vampirism.

One of the reasons I think so many queer people love him/want to be him is because he is someone who is entirely comfortable in his own skin and entirely unapologetic about who he is, which is something a lot of us struggle to be, even if we want to be that.

But he's nowhere near perfect, as you probably know. He is deeply traumatised by the fact that every single person he was loved has, in some way, abandoned him. As far as my memory goes, only one of them is an actual "I'm going to walk off into the woods and not speak to you for potentially forever" abandonment, but to have someone turn on you suddenly and for reasons outside of your control, or to be send away suddenly by someone who said that they would have you are also abandonment, just presented differently.

Not to mention the fact that he cannot recognize a toxic relationship if one runs him over, because he had a whopping six mounths in Paris with Nickki where he is not regularly spending time with someone toxic, whether that be one-way or mutually toxic.

He does not understand how to communicate his wants and needs to someone, or how to react to something he doesn't like in a relationship with actual healthy communication and expression of his concerns because all he has really known is relationships that were, toxic, abusive, or surrounded by toxicity and abuse on both sides.

Lestat is comfortable in who he is and what he wants, but he does not know how to properly express that to those he loves, while acting impulsively and stupidly to keep them, because he's never gotten to keep anyone before.

On the other hand, Luis does have a family who loves him, and who he loves, and he does know what a healthy relationship looks like. And while he might eventually had to have started hiding his queerness, that wasn't until he was at least a teenager. He has had friends, if not close ones, and he has several examples throughout his life of what a healthy relationship looks like, and he can recognise when a relationship is toxic and communicate his feelings and needs to the people around him.

Luis's problem is that he does not really know what his problems are. He has spent his entire life ashamed of who he is, his queerness and also his vampirism, unable to embrace himself and be unapologetically him in the way that Lestat is, because of his religion and the queerphobic,and racist (in the show) time he was raised in.

He is stuck wearing the hats of all the people he is good at being, or pretending to be, and so the fact he struggles at being a vampire is even harder for him to deal with.

Luis loves his family, and he knows what it is like to have a healthy relationship with someone you love and communicate with those people well, but he does not know what it is he is trying to communicate because he has not yet gotten to truly be himself and not apologize for it.

He is the one a lot of queer people see themselves in.

I think this is why it took them two hundred years of growth and working through that trauma separately, of spending time with others and finding healthier relationships and other people who accept them for who they are, not in spite of it, for them to have their happy ending.

They do love each other, very deeply, but they are both so traumatized in opposing ways that they can't fit together healthily until they have started to truly heal.

[haflacky]

You’re mine, beautiful boy

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[skltart]

love iwtv, wish gay people were real

(coloured version under the cut)

[lestatslestits]

[fandomsnerd]

I genuinely don't understand the seeming uptick in hatred for Interview With The Vampire the movie that seems to have emerged alongside the release of the show. Like people understand... you can like both right? You don't have to decide you hate the film to enjoy the show-

[volixia669]

Disappointed but not surprised Interview with the Vampire didn't get an Emmy nomination.

They took the original text and created an AMAZING piece of art, that not only made the cast more diverse, but actually considered how that changes the dynamics of the characters.

The scene where the camera focuses on Claudia during the fight? (chefs kiss) Excellent cinematography choice, that in its use of unreliable narrator (did Louis, a vampire who wasn't eating people really hold his own in that fight?) primarily focused on the "child" of the situation, thereby making it so much more real.

But alas, the Emmy's are run by people who don't care about how a show's story can be improved by making the cast more diverse.

The Emmy's are also run by people who are disgusted by the messy queer dynamics, who'd rather any queerness at the Emmy's to be more clean.

This isn't to say that any queer media at the Emmy's is bad.

It's just more...PR friendly. More acceptable to the types of folks who'll nominate some media with queer characters for brownie points, while not actually caring.

The IWTV show though? Holy shit, it just feels so much more real to me. Simply because they're all dramatic bitches who refuse to let each other go even if it's toxic.

Oh, also horror rarely does well in awards shows just because horror tends to not be most people's cup of tea. And IWTV is indeed horror.

Sure Last of Us got nominated, but like, the zombie genre was fairly overdone by the time films poking fun at it like Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead came out. It's not "shocking".

Interview With the Vampire however, oh. Oh boy. See, like with any good gothic horror, the actual horror isn't the obvious. The vampires aren't the ACTUAL horror. No, the actual horror is in their very human albeit turned up several notches (melooooooodraaama) dynamics.

The actual horror is the racism Louis & Claudia encounter even as vampires, because being a vampire doesn't erase their blackness.

The actual horror is the dawning realization that Louis is once again in an abusive relationship.

The actual horror is being a child while your parents fight and there's nothing you can do.

All of these things and how they were shown are extremely shocking, and uncomfortable. Which makes the show better in my eyes, but not in the eyes of Emmy nominating folks.

So yeah. Interview with a Vampire, a show that legit surprised me in how well done it was especially with (stares in how badly the books needed an editor), absolutely deserved several Emmy nominations.

Yet until the awards shows actually change systemically, there's no way it or any shows like it would be nominated.

[deadinthename]

Im supposed to be asexual. What is happening oh my god