#Loustat

[userarmand]

Lestat de Lioncourt & Louis de Pointe du Lac INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE — “Like Angels Put in Hell by God”

[reticent-vampire]

Interview with the vampire 1.02

[johnlock-meowmeow]

Lestat googling this obsessively

[splashesdarling]

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” - Flannery O'Connor

[lioncourtz]

yearning™

[alltears]

all-timer daniel molloy questions:

1. did you eat the baby?

2. are you schizophrenic, louis?

3. and then what?

4. fuck, man, are you the zodiac killer?

5. YOU BOTH FUCKED LESTAT?

[midnightearlgrey]

A real rockstar career will solve this part of their problems I’m sure….

maybe top 10 posts ever

[reyreedlioncourt]

oh he KNEW he looked fine af in those glasses

[loveridden1999]

[littlegirlinvisible]

JACOB ANDERSON & SAM REID as LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC & LESTAT DE LIONCOURT in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022 —)

[theimpious]

he was curling his lips so bad that he turned to that frowning emoji

[nocontextlestat]

louwee…. mon cher i have une question of utmost importance pour toi…. but you must answer me avec sincérité….. mon cœur…. would you still love me if i was one of those… slimy little creatures?…. comment dire….. a wörm? would you still love me if i was a worm, louieis? mais non! don’t turn away from me! c’est important! je refuse to sleep until you answer me!! or would you rather i have nightmares??? louies??? LOUIUIES!!!!!!

[lexdelioncourt]

Every time an IWTV fic writer slips the word "preternatural" into one of their stories, the ghost of Anne Rice has an orgasm

[kritzy]

louis and lestat but furry by sort of popular demand on twitter lmao

louis a fruit bat and lestat a lion

[murfpersonalblog]

@darnmand A friendly reminder that Anne Rice's official biography confirmed that Lestat was based on Stan too, and how Anne (sub)consciously felt about their strained marriage at times. Multiple things can be true at once.

Yes, AR based Loustat on different aspects of herself. But she also based them on the people around her, to represent both the internal (Anne) AND external factors/influences/inspos that shaped her outlook on life: parts of Lestat are based on her husband Stan; just like parts of Louis are based on her mother Katherine; and parts of Claudia are based on Michelle (external), but parts of Claudia are based on AR's childhood & relationship with her mom (internal).

AR's biography explained how Stan reminded her of her hero, James Dean, and how James Dean became the blueprint for Lestat, too--cuz Stan AND Dean represented the type of active man Anne liked most, and Louis represented the type of passive mindset Anne liked least about herself.

And best of all, Christopher Rice himself confirmed that Loustat were based on BOTH of his parents, Anne AND Stan.

TL;DR: The blanket statement that "Lestat was NEVER based on Stan" is just not factual; there's way more to it than that, as AR's biography laid out piece by piece.

AR was a very complex & multifaceted & multidimensional person, who wanted her characters to be the same way, representing the ofttimes contradictory dualities & dichotomies within people, that is the very hallmark of Gothic literature itself.

I had an idea of Lestat as the man of action, the man that could do things that I never could, the man who could make decisions that I’d never had the nerve to make, and the person who could go through life joyfully in spite of the questions that torment me, the doubts that torment me, the horror of death that torments me. (...) [Lestat] never really absorbs a tragic definition of himself for very long. He always comes back laughing at everything and just rebounding. It may take him a few years, but he always does it. I really wanted to explore a personality different from my own. - Anne Rice (source)