#Mayfair Witches

[meerawrites]

*correct buzzer noise* everyone say thank you and/or apologies to Anne Rice right now.

[talamasca-amc]

Fascinating stuff coming out of this GoldDerby article this morning:

tl;dr? Guy is a skeptic, Helen is sketchy, and Jasper is fighting for the proletariat... apparently?

…I kind of love it 🫣

[murfpersonalblog]

AMC, is this Talamas.ca website CANON?

Imma just assume everything on this site is legit, cuz it's more fun that way, duh. 😅

"de Lioncourt de Pointe du Lac," IS THIS CANON, AMC? 👀 Did that Black girl LEGALLY walk around in Jim Crow NOLA with TWO DIFFERENT MEN WITH TWO DIFFERENT LAST NAMES' & TWO DIFFERENT RACES' surnames? Explain!!!!

Ok, confirmation that Sept 21st really is Claudia's birthday. So it's NOT the date that she was Turned? (I assumed she was Turned sometime between Sept 1st - Nov 12th.)

Uh, NO ONE in either season has ever referred to Lestat as "the Brat Prince." Yes, Louis said in 1x6 that Lestat was a brat (derogatory) for not killing Antoinette, but he didn't call him a prince. So where is the Talamasca getting this information from? Is this something DANIEL calls Lestat in the actual book/tour?

I like that the Talamasca is letting it be known that the Cloud Gift is NOT a "baseline vampiric power." This is NOT something the average vamps can do by default. The Cloud Gift is the mark of an exceptionally strong vampire, and it's a BIG deal that Lestat can do it pre-QotD, cuz it implies that he drank A LOT of Akasha's blood the very first time in the 1700s, unlike book!Lestat. Which means Les is MUCH more powerful than he was in the books. And also means the Ep5 fight was NOT EVEN.

Lestat is "KNOWN" to Turn humans against their will--wuuut? 🫖👀 Wait--how are they gonna spin Lestat turning Nicki then? 👀 Cuz the argument can 100% be made that neither Nicki nor Louis were in the right or healthy mental/psychological state to properly CONSENT to become vampires, esp. since Nicki was actively losing his mind and Louis was roaring drunk & suicidal. And ofc Claudia said during the Trial how "that f****r didn't ask, gave me no say!," directly paralleling Lestat with Magnus. But is David Talbot actually gonna be a thing?! 😱😩 PLEASE say it ain't so, AMC, I can only take so many racist old white men on the same show, and that slot's already been filled, thank you very much!

Previous lovers are indeed Lestat's weak spot--and Rhoshamandes exploited TF outta that factoid in the PL Trilogy; GOD I hope AMC gets that far with the books!

Why bother greying out Louis' profile and put it all the way at the end of the list? (Thank you @crazykuroneko for the unblurred image!)

Ok, confirmation that Louis' birthday really is 1877, and that the 1878 & 1879 dates in the other episodes were dead wrong.

Claudia called Louis the "BLACK Angel," not the "Dark Angel" wtf

It's not human "emotion" that makes Louis empathetic, it's about humane treatment & giving people the DIGNITY & RESPECT that HE was never given as a Black man in racist AF America. He hates the "extravagant/sadistic" killing of Lestat & the "cruel, barely motivated violence" of the Theatre coven. It has nothing to do with human "EMOTION;" he just tries to prove that just cuz vampires are monsters doesn't mean they have to behave monstrously--Jacob said Louis tries to be "elegant" and rise above his biology, even when he too wants nothing more than to swim in blood. Who TF made this website? This can't be canon. 🤦

"PRESUMED deceased." 👀 Jfc are they bringing him back for S3?

The shapeshifting & dematerialization etc only counts while Lasher was a GHOST--that isn't a natural Taltos ability though. Their records should've specified that--I HATE that Esta didn't stick to the source material, where the book was VERY explicitly a GHOST story about a haunted house/family of witches.

The Talamasca should know what Taltos abilities actually are now, since they now have all of Cip's biological GRANDCHILDREN (Lasher's kids).

And I guess this also confirms that The Talamasca DON'T have Emaleth in custody, which means she really is missing. 👀

Yawn, as usual.

TL;DR: I hope this website isn't canon, and if it is, I hope they edit/update it with more accurate/precise information. Cuz this ain't it, chief. For a Talamasca database/bestiary website, I'd hope/expect them to be on their A-Game, esp. since they know what a "rabid/unwell" fanbase they have, and that book readers are also watching what they do with the lore.

[lasaraconor]

[arun-armand-amadeo]

That Mayfair Witches clip made me realise that Armand made his first ever Fledgling after over 500 years and that Fledgling has immediately become the problem child of all vampire kind, and honestly? Love that for Daniel. You go baby girl.

[haredjarris]

some interview with the vampire/mayfair witches parallels i've spotted on my mw rewatch (no spoilers for mw s2 in the tags/reblogs please, i haven't got around to watching it yet)

[katherine-mcnamara]

[luckydiorxoxo]

[deaddovehasbeeneaten]

tvc or mayfair witches? Rowan could kill a pack of wolves but Lestat would die in med school.

[debdarkpetal]

Hello just watched season 2 episode 6 of Mayfair Witches and Daniel Molloy's name was dropped!

[talamasca-amc]

The Talamasca website has updated!

I’m not sure when this happened but there are some new security videos and a countdown!

Just happened to check it on a whim and noticed lol.

[sam-reid]

'Katherine Mayfair, August 12th, 1946. He urges me to bond with him in a way I cannot allow myself. To do so would be dangerous and foolhardy. I wake from dreams certain he has used me to perform grotesque deeds. My heart races. Terrified, I disavow him. If he haunts my sleep, I will not sleep again.'

MAYFAIR WITCHES 2.01: LASHER.

[vampire-chronicles]

Immortal Jackson Square in Anne Rice's Immortal Universe

[lilyflowerhere]

It's a show / movie about witches and-

Me:

[sunnyside30]

So AMC Networks just signed a deal with an AI company to start implementing generative AI in promotional materials for its shows. This alone is bad enough, but it might get worse.

In case you haven't seen it, The Hollywood Reporter wrote an article about this —which is how we're finding out about the situation at all— and this particular paragraph stands out:

Read that? "At this point." There's no guarantee that they won't be using it in the future, if this deal is deemed profitable enough. I think AMC will be testing the waters for now, seeing what it can get away with, so it's important to make our position clear from the get go. Complain about the deal on social media. Complain to AMC directly. Look out for signs of GenAI on promotional images and videos. Refuse to engage with such content.

AMC has always done a piss-poor job at marketing its Immortal Universe shows, which could be attributed to a lack of budget, but using AI to cut corners/make cheap advertising is not the way to go. GenAI companies shouldn't get to profit off of real artists' work.

Here's the link to The Hollywood Reporter's article on the situation, for those who want to read it in full: