#get his ass louis

[asraeas]

Interview with the Vampire 2.04 'I Want You More Than Anything in the World'

[pinimi]

cannot BELIEVE that they made Louis the one to babytrap Lestat instead

[bivampir]

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[shesnake]

Assad Zaman & Jacob Anderson as Armand & Louis in Interview with the Vampire season 2 (2024).

[johnlockdynamic]

Daniel Molloy + iconic probing questions

[nashvillethotchicken]

Horrific psychological abuse and lynching plot aside, Armand was just not a nice partner to Louis. Always interrupting him, extremely dismissive of Louis’s concerns, super mean about his photography to the point where Louis became extremely insecure about in the span of 2 episodes, super insistent on a serious relationship when that's not what Louis wanted or something that was even feasible for the two of them since Armand slept on the floor with 16 racist roommates who hated Louis bad, mean as hell to his daughter, always made things about himself, stopped Louis from going to Rogets and gwtting his husbands money but had no money of his own, made shitty plays and made louis go see them, like the list is endless.

[bunnithechubs]

i cried making these and so did jack louis...

[if-i-look-straight-look-again]

The look Daniel gives Armand when Louis walks out like “yeah mom believes ME you’re found out dumbass” lmaooo he’s had it out for him since episode 5 when he remembered San Francisco and he’s finally getting his revenge

[machonnes]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) — 1.05 "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart"

[fayevalcntine]

The whole framing of Lestat as the sole symbol of patriarchy that fandom is so desperate to put him in doesn't work unless you deliberately ignore how he was also a victim of rape and abuse before he was turned. People want him to be fit into this strict role of "father figure/violent husband/perpetrator" that is only that and not even a whole person, and in doing so they need to push aside the fact that despite being his family's provider, he was also pushed into that role when his father forbid him from joining a monastery or gaining an education that he wanted. Lestat wanted to run away with a theater group as a kid, and actually managed to do so once Gabrielle gave him her blessing and monetary support in order to go to Paris. He didn't always want to be the provider, he was forced into that role and became despondent when he thought he would never get a chance to leave his home.

His new life prior to being turned is pretty much the antithesis to the whole "Lestat is a manly man who would sooner throw up than be compared to a woman" spiel: he lived with another man in Paris while also being an actor, having left his family and "responsibility" to them. The only family member he was ever close to was his mother, all the other male members shunned or ridiculed him. Add onto that the fact that his turning firmly placed him within the role of the damsel/victim: he's kidnapped from his bed by a stranger, taken into a tower and left to rot while being fed on for a week, before then being raped and violently turned all while never even being asked if he would consent to it in any normal circumstance. But you of course have to ignore all of this if you want him to only represent the aggressor/patriarch while Louis is the helpless unhappy matriarch of the family.

My issue isn't that I think Louis isn't a victim, it's that it's not unrealistic for Lestat to be an aggressor/abuser while also displaying traits that aren't regularly assigned to stereotypical depictions of male characters. He's abusive to Claudia while also having been a victim of abuse from his own family. He's not a good maker/teacher, but he also didn't even have one when he was turned. He's the provider/attempted protector of the family and seemed to like being that, while also having run away from his own family prior to this to act in a theater in Paris. He's a rich white man while also being obviously effeminate in public spaces, even to Tom's own bigoted humor.

Like Louis' own complicated story with being his family's benefactor and provider, you can't firmly place Lestat as being one thing or another in terms of gender ideals without deliberately ignoring parts about him that don't fit this. And I don't think it's an absolute necessity, when even in Louis' own story, Lestat isn't stripped of his effeminate mannerisms or behavior while also being the abusive maker/father/lover.

[dreadfuldevotee]

would love to have in-depth conversations on here about Louis and Armand's sex life and the ways it helps and hurts them but we haven't even grasped top/bottom ≠ dom/sub, so...

[thegetdownrebooter]

“White master, black student but equal in the dark“

Die Daniel.

[tododeku-or-bust]

"So i can fuck anybody i want?"

This why Lestat not getting chose 🤣

[auguste-marmonts-only-fan]

I absolutely love watercolor

It's my favorite medium and these following photos are beautiful but....

HES SO GOOFY LOOKING 😭😭

Like look at that....he looks like he drives a white van and offers kids candy 💀

[johnlockdynamic]

get his ass

[nashvillethotchicken]

I wonder what Louis’s doing now that he's living alone for the first time in 145 years