#iwtv book

[nespolkei]

loustat based on a scene from the tvl musical

[swedenis-h]

Lovebug !

[vamp4rebatscave]

Claudia

[klargreeves]

currently reading the vampire chronicles. finished iwtv, halfway through tvl.

kinda loving it, but can yall be honest and tell me which books in the series are absolutely worth reading and relevant?

[theworstcwshow]

Reading iwtv for the first time and Louis really spends the first half of the book berating lestat only to spend the second part crying about how much he misses him. Like girl pick a struggle

[brotherlouis]

found this avsolutely ANCIENT doodle of Daniel and Armand in my highschool maths notebook while reorganising the other day, may or may not have inspired me to start this sideblog…

I feel like Daniel is 100% the sort of guy who would desperately try to justify Armand acting… well… the way he does… when other people ask about him

[dalbitpotion]

oh hello,

[kaelio]

I stand by her locking in a canon happy ending before she went on to hers but. like it is worth marveling at, sometimes. so much talk about the former but the latter is genuinely brazen

[god-in-ruin]

thoughts on interview with the vampire (novel)

solid 6/10

I had actually watched the show when it came out in 2022 and later the movie and had been thinking about reading the book from time to time but just never came do doing it (lol). Thennn, I was at a discount book store like two weeks ago and I saw multiple copies of it and I just thought "about time I read it ig". Now I'm even more excited for the second season!‼️

(For those of you who have not seen the show/movie and/or have just never heard of the book 8P ) It's present day late 20th century and the 200 year old vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac is telling his story to this reporter known as "the boy". His point in telling his life story is to warn others of this type of life and doesn't find this eternal life a gift.

There were times throughout the book where the words started to just mesh together because it was just pages of Louis talking about the same thing in different words or just over explaining BUT there were other times where I was like glued to the damn thing lol. Also, I kinda wish that Armand and Louis had a happier ending, I kinda liked their dynamic when they had first met :,( .

One thing that I find weird that hasn't really been pointed out as far as I've seen is the pedo-ish tone when louis is talking about Claudia (5 year old child-turned vampire who is 75 towards the end of the book). I don't exactly understand the point of making such a character as her and his "descriptive" telling of her is never painted in a bad light. Like I don't really think her being 5 when she turned served any actual importance to anything whatsoever. I like how in the show they kept her strictly as a daughter-figure to Louis and actually aged her up to mid-teens.

Anyways thats all for this book. To put it in simpler terms, *gay vampires who simply never have sex and the main one just hates being a vampire* *and the cranky 75 year old vampire who is stuck in a childs body*

[sugxrwfflez]

I want to talk about loustat and love languages

I feel like the reason Loustat was destined to be toxic from the beginning was because Lestat and Louis show love in such fundamentally different ways that they almost couldn't possibly function well together.

Louis is the type of person to express love through subtle measures; like keeping the card Lestat gave him even after their fall out, the way he expresses such genuine affection at watching Lestat's love of music, etc. And even with his family he was giving money to the church and walking there with Paul every morning because he knew it was something that mattered to his brother. He danced at Grace's wedding even though he didn't really want to because he knew it would make her happy. He doesn't do grand gestures but he really values spending time with his loved ones and acts of service.

And then we have Lestat. We have the man that grew up ostracized from his family. Hated by his father. Was only acknowledged by his mother when he was in extreme distress. The only two people he thought really loved him were his mom and Nicki, and how did both of them show that love? Gifts. His mom gave him his first rifle, his first dog, the opportunity to run away and follow his dreams in Paris. Nicki gave him a brand new jacket and boots made from the wolves he'd killed, and he cherished them. He shows love to Louis by doing things like buying him clothes, and new books, and takiing him to the opera. In the show it's a bit different because he has already said he loved Louis multiple times, but in the novel those words are never said between either of them.

Louis sees a lot of the gifts that Lestat gave him as shallow, because he was raised in wealth. But Lestat grew up poor and the two most important people to him showed their love through gifts, so him giving those things to Louis are the ultimate expression of love from him.

[enigmaticdiary]

and so i have been thinking thoughts...

elicited from the new trailer. copy and pasted from my discord cause i do all my thinkin there n_n;;

claudia + louis

when i think back to the book and the movie claudia was obviously an extremely important turning point in louis' life but it never felt like she was... the center of it you know? despite the fact that she was that glue that kept louis tethered to anything human in him.

but the book felt like he was just telling his story to be a. Sad pathetic man thing for the sake of it. cause he had no purpose to exist alone. to exist without claudia or lestat (or armand but their dynamic is. different and dicier) but after claudia is killed something about her presence and the years she spent with louis while alive felt... shrugged off in a way? and its likely because she didn't really have much of an identity outside of him and lestat which is understandable because she was significantly more vulnerable in the book than in the show, so she lacked that autonomy to have that choice to exist outside of them.

and when madeleine was brought into the picture for her to get that autonomy it was unfortunately already too late...

~~[mild separation of thoughts because i left to take a shower]~~

theres a few things i want to mention. just thoughts in my head. claudia dies fighting HARD for her autonomy as a person and a vampire. in comparison to louis who in all honesty has (DEBATABLY) lived without a shred of having his own autonomy. with lestat, lestats love (as claudia very smartly puts it) keeps him in a box. louis is financially dependent on him as a black man in the jim crow era once he loses the azalea, hes cut off from his family, he has NO ONE.

the brief time of just him and claudia is a good moment in time for both of them , trying to discover vampiric history together(tho in the show it looks like before they get to paris its gonna be absolute dogshit in comparison to the book), but in louis' case i feel like its guided by guilt and some form of obligation, because if he didnt go with claudia–who was already set to do this traveling alone before lestat dragged her back–where WOULD he have gone? stayed in new orleans with lestat in the dump just waiting to crawl out? i think he would sooner kill himself if he was left alone like that.

with armand…………… loumand is definitely better than loustat in extremely complex ways that i cant put into words right now but simultaneously even worse because of HOW armand preys on louis. there is absolutely love between them and i wont deny it but armand is so INSANELY dependent on the love of others to give meaning to his existence that he leverages louis' weaknesses and frailities to ensure that they will spend an eternity together. like he was plotting from the second he met louis and claudia. he kills claudia and madeleine, which then makes louis kill all the other vampires of the coven, so that there is no one left, NO ONE for louis to be able to turn to for solace.

i think that him remembering what actually happened to him up until the present is so important to him because he'll finally be able to realize that he hasnt been allowed to properly exist for himself the entire duration of him being a vampire. and maybe he can decide what he wants to do, for himself.

devil's minion... (in the present)

[these thoughts are referring to a tweet that wonders if armand is going to end up alone in the end. note: i am not versed in devil's minion lore. i'm getting there but as of this post i have not reached it]

saw this [the tweet] and audibly exclaimed GOOD

i love armand but the guy is genuinely evil and has wronged every single character hes come across including lestat which i find is hard to do

I know ppl are excited for armandaniel and devils minion but Im not..going to lie ive been REALLY skeptical of it and how it would be explored in the context of the show without severely wronging louis and doing him EXTREMELY dirty.

people are allowed to like it in the bubble of the books but theres a really big shift in dynamic for the show in the fact that ... armand has definitely done... Something to daniel and louis, of what i cant say. but with the way that things are going, an ending in which daniel sides with armand after finding out exactly what armand did to louis and claudia in paris does NOT sit well with me?

and i love loumand but I am so uneasy about the inevitable breakup in regards to whats gonna happen AFTER it. I feel like daniel now is wise enough to not chase after a guy who is diabolically selfish and broken and leave louis behind to live out the vampire fantasy dreams of his youth. and in the trailer too im getting. Loudaniel vibes in terms of reconciling their past with the previous interview. And Heres my theory for Devils minion BUT ITS LOUDANIEL INSTEAD OF ARMANDANIEL (1/689)

[theworstcwshow]

Louis is so morrissey coded, he really spends the whole book moping around and writing about the curse of his existence, meanwhile everyone around him is fighting for his hand in marriage

[fff2dionysus]

ILOVEINTERVIEWWITHTHEVAMPIREALLMYHEART

GOSH IT'S INCREDIBLE I EAT EVERYTHING WHAT BELONGS TO THIS BOOK AWAAWWWAEAWAR

WHEN I WAS WATCHING SERIES I LAUGHED AT ALL CUTE DETAILS I MEAN CLAUDIA'S SMILE, LOUIS AND LESTAT'S INTERACTION 😭😭😭😭 I'M CRYING--

[demonicseries]

reading Anne Rice novels is just a cycle of “wow this is really good and profound” and “ew more incest undertones”