#iwtv thoughts

[milfromanroy]

okay but Rashid revealing himself to be Armand and Louis calling him "the love of his life" with that forced look on his face felt like watching a horror movie where it's revealed the protagonist never truly escaped the monster and they're still trapped

[impressionism]

It’s been a WHILE but I’m in bed just thinking about WHY Rashid/Armand was even present for this “interview” or putting up the facade with Louis in front of Daniel. THIS MAN DOESNT REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE! Why!!?!

Did you miss him? Is that why? You weren’t stalking him from a distance all those years ago? S2, you better give me answers.

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[thisismycursed3rdblog]

My IWTV season 2 theory (Spoilers)

Ok so in the novel the big reason why at the end of interview Louis was still mad at Lestat is he believes that he was the one who cause Claudia's death, but later he learns that actually was Armand.

So in the show my theory is during the first interview with Daniel in the 90s he was still under this belief that Lestat was the cause but over the next few years he somehow learns the truth it was Armand, who he is in a relationship with. Louis can't get rid of Armand alone, he already needed help with Lestat and Armand is way stronger. So he calls up Daniel to get him to re-do the interview and get it made in to a book so Lestat will be able to find him to help him get away from Armand who he now knows is the reason for Claudia's fate.

If they keep Armand to the book personality wise he's way more toxic and possessive then Lestat (which is saying a lot!). So once he has Louis he won't give him up ever. The series shows that Louis could break up with Lestat and get somewhat away from him but with Armand he wouldn't be able to do that at all.

He needs Lestat to gain any freedom so he's doing the interview to do that to get Lestat to come to him

[laufire]

I haven’t read anything from Anne Rice and I never saw the original Interview with the Vampire (I think Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise are two of the worst, blandest actors upon the Earth and the idea of staring at BOTH of their impasive faces for ~2h bores me to tears). so my knowledge is limited, to say the least.

but I saw a gifset with the line (by... Louis I think? about Lestat) that went “He was my mentor, my lover, and my maker. In the quiet dark, we were equals.” and I immediately went “well I hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me”

[occasionalficwriter]

Thoughts on Interview with the Vampire - Book I of The Vampire Chronicles

“First considerations: I watched the tv show and then the movie and now I’m reading the books, i tried not to read the books because I wanted to enjoy the tv show without any expectations but I really couldn’t stop myself, so here I am. A lot of my thoughts are going to be comparisons with the movie and tv show probably.

Warning: This is long.

Part I:

“There was a tragedy...(...) It was my younger brother... He died.” - So the show is more faithful here than the movie and he didn’t have a wife and kid that died?

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.” - No thoughts i just love this quote.

“You see, he [Lestat] wanted Pointe du Lac, my plantation.” - Interesting that Lestat isn’t rich here.

“From then on I experienced only increasing wonder.” - Episode titile?

“He [Lestat] had human problems, a blind father who did not know his son was a vampire and must not find out.” - Oh so this Lestat is a baby if his father is still alive.

“I had seen my becoming a vampire in two lights:(...) But the other light was my wish for self-destruction. My desire to be thoroughly damned.” - A totally normal character not at all fucked up.

“I refused to look at him [Lestat], to be spellbound by the sheer beauty of his appearance.” - Is he... you know.. *limp wrist gesture*

“He [Lestat] spoke my name to me softly, laughing. As I said, he was determined to have the plantation.” - I’m sure that’s all he wants.

“Yes, that is my name,” - Not me only realizing now Louis hasn’t said his name. We knew Lestat’s name before his, and we only find Louis’ name when Lestat says it 😭. Also I didn’t think this book was going to be an interview the entire time, I kinda expected us to go into Louis’ mind at some point like in Wuthering Heights, for example.

“his [Lestat’s] movement so graceful and so personal that at once it made me think of a lover.(...) he put his right arm around me and pulled me close to his chest.(...) he pressed his right fingers against my lips” - This entire section of Louis’ being turned is so intimate.

“I remember that the movement of his lips raised the hair all over my body, sent a shock of sensation through my body that was not unlike the pleasure of passion...” - Ahem

“I checked myself because I realized that the drum was my heart, and the second drum had been his.” - Oh this is directly from the book, I love this quote.

“Lestat was being a perfect idiot.” - 😭 Lestat’s such a bad teacher.

“You’ll have to bed down with me this morning.(...) The coffin struck such a chord of terror in me I think it absorbed all the capacity for terror I had left.” - This is where he draws the line.

“All my life I’d feared closed places.” - Well, thank you for reminding me I’m claustrophobic really hadn’t thought about the logistics of sleeping in a coffin for some reason.

“I lay face-down on him, utterly confused by my absence of dread and filled with a distaste for being so close to him, handsome and intriguing though he was.” - Yes, I’m sure what you’re feeling is distaste.

“The first thing which became apparent to me,(...) was that I did not like Lestat at all.” - I feel like I watched the movie 10 years ago and not two weeks ago, because I don’t remember anything anymore, did the Louis in the movie dislike Lestat?

“In my own inexperience I still thought of them as childlike savages barely domesticated by slavery.” - Well this worse than the movie which was already bad, I’m so glad the tv show changed things this entire plot line is so uncomfortable and this going to be my last comment on it. Even present Louis’ reflection on the past are not much better, so.

“Lestat bungled it with his characteristic lack of common sense.” “Lestat, had he any native intelligence,” - Damn Louis, drag him 😭

“[Lestat was] As boring as a mortal, as trivial and unhappy as a mortal,” - Fascinating that Louis thinks he’s more in tune with his vampire side than Lestat.

“He [Lestat] must guide me through the necessary lessons, if there were any more real lessons,” - I once again don’t remember he having this curiosity about being a vampire in any of the adaptations, that he wants Lestat teach him everything he knows.

“What I’d felt as a vampire was far too powerful to be wasted(...) It is like love,” - Humm

“Just provide for them [Louis’ mom and sister] and for my [Lestat’s] father,” - It’s so interesting that Lestat in this book has a relationship with his father when in the tv show he criticized Louis for still trying to have a relationship with his family. I mean the Lestat in the show is much older, but still.

“Being a vampire for him [Lestat] meant revenge. Revenge against life itself.” - I don’t have anything to comment, it’s just an interesting observation.

“You [Babette] can rule the plantation and you can save it.” - Louis Feminist King.

“It’s all right, father. You must rest easy. I [Lestat] hold nothing against you,” - I’m sad this didn’t happen in the tv show, and if it does happen Louis won’t be present.

“‘If I held something too close...’ And when the vampire said this his face darkened for an instant. He frowned,(...) ‘If I held something too close for you to ask about it, I would not bring it up in the first place,” - Ok Mr. Unreliable Narrator.

“I was thinking at that moment, wordlessly and rather deeply, how sublime friendship between Lestat and me might have been;(...) Lestat a brilliant pupil, a lover of books that had been burned. I knew only the Lestat who sneered at my library, called it a pile of dust, ridiculed relentlessly my reading, my meditations.” - How SUBLIME. Oh 🥺. This is the most... fondness... no, longing?idk that Louis has shown towards Lestat after calling him stupid in 5 different languages.

“I hated him and wanted to leave him; yet could I leave him?” - I wanna rewatch the movie because i swear I didn’t get this impression at all, Louis in the movie was way more passive for me, even in the tv show he was more passive than the book!Louis, who wants to leave Lestat and wants to know more about being a vampire.

“But I found her [Babette] more alluring than any woman I’d know in mortal life.” - So it’s her that’s alluring, or is it more her humanity? And his lack of? idk

“Yes, die. I wanted to die before. Now I wish to die. I saw it with such sweet clarity, such dead calm.” - 🥺

“‘You’re being morbid!’ Lestat said suddenly.” - Lestat 😭

“Is my very nature that of a devil?” - Episode title spotting! Also, I wonder if when I get to part II I can try guessing possible episode titles for season 2 of the show?

“we [Louis and Lestat] fought as we’d never fought before.(...) I was down on the floor then, and he was standing over me, his eyes cold, though his chest heaved.” - Hm, I remember seeing people that read the books criticizing episode 5 because Lestat would never do that and yet here they are fighting, it might not be as bad as in the tv show but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“You chase after the phantoms of your former self.” - Episode title spotting!

“And in your romance with mortal life, you’re dead to your vampire nature!” - Ok, so Lestat disagrees with Louis’ perspective that he is more a vampire than Lestat is. Not that I’m surprised. And I agree with Lestat here idk what my man Louis was thinking.

“My vampire nature has been for me the greatest adventure of my life;” - Ok, so when he uses this frase he’s straight up lying 📝

“‘Vampires are killers,’ he [Lestat] said now. ‘Predators, Whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.” - Wait, isn’t Louis that says this is the tv show? So he’s repeating Lestat’s words to him?

“and if you find one or more of them [vampires] together it will be for safety only, and one will be the slave of the other, the way you are of me.” - Oh, so this Lestat isn’t even pretending lmao.

“the killing of anything less than a human being brought nothing but a vague longing,(...) I was no vampire.” - So earlier when he said he was more of a vampire than Lestat he was lying to himself, noted.

“He was going to go away. But now he’s not. Because he wants to stay and take care of you [Claudia] and make you happy.” - This entire sequence is very much how i remember from the movie, but it’s interesting that earlier in the book present day Louis says Lestat would have killed him if he tried to leave, but we see that what he actually does is create a daughter so Louis won’t leave him.

“also fierce killer now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child’s demanding.” - Episode title spotting!

“He [Lestat] did not have to be loved, but he would not be ignored;” - When was therapy invented? Asking for a friend.

“once he even flew at her, shouting that he would slap her, and I found myself in the wretched position of fighting him as I’d done years before she’d come to us.” - Don’t mind me, just collecting some receipts.

“Then, are you [Lestat] master of us all? You didn’t teach her [Claudia] that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?” - So much resentment packed in a small line.

“I felt it for you again, a vile unsupportable hunger for your hammering heart,” - Episode title spotting!

“Something in her [Claudia] was as akin to me as anything in her could have been. That thing in Lestat was the same. We could not bear to live alone! We needed our little company!(...) ‘Locked together in hatred,’” - biting something biting something biting something biting something biting something biting something biting something biting something biting something

“You loved me [Claudia] with your vampire nature.(...) I am your vampire self more than you are.”  - Obsessed with everything about this.

“And I thought of what I always felt when I heard him [Lestat] coming, a vague anxiety, a vague need.” - Need to comb through everything this man says.

“At one point, I wanted to go to her [Claudia] and tell her we must abandon everything,(...) and live as we had before.” - Why Louis, tell me why?

“‘I wish you would play the music’ I said softly, unobtrusively, but as persuasively as possible. Sometimes this worked with Lestat. If I said something just right he found himself doing what I’d said. And now he did just that: with a little snarl, as if to say, ‘You fool’,” - Everything about this imagine is making me want to chew on glass.

“Don’t come, Claudia, I was thinking, feeling; go away from it before we’re all destroyed.” - 🤐

“‘You’re [Lestat] my father,’ she [Claudia] said. ‘I want to make peace with you. I want things to be as they were.’” - Oh I can’t think about them.

“I drew nearer, the table between us.” - Louis is so.......................... I need to shake him.

“Claudia! Don’t do this thing!” - Too late!! I’m shaking him.

“The thing lay still.” - Episode tittle spotting :(

“I went deeper and deeper in with Lestat’s remains, though why, I did not know.” - This man drives me insane.

“The numbness which had protected me since the carriage let the Rue Royale threatened to lift and leave me flayed suddenly, staring, thinking: This is Lestat.(...) I felt a pull suddenly, as if some force were urging me to go down with him, to descend into the dark water and never come back.” - The fact this man spends the entire book only saying bad things about Lestat and now he’s like this???? you drive me insane Louis!!!! He only showed that he cared a bit about Lestat after Claudia was already planning his murder.

“His coffin lay there, heaped with scarves and pieces of tapestry. I had the compulsion to open it. I had the wish to see him there.” - I honestly can’t believe him.

“‘I don’t want you [Claudia] near me. Sleep in that box you bought for yourself. Don’t come near me.’ ‘I told you I was going to do it. I told you...’” - On Claudia’s side here, he changed his mind too late, she even told him he never found Lestat charming and he said nothing, is she supposed to read minds? I mean, is she? I don’t think so, right?

 “I am not mortal, father, but immortal and damned, like angels put in hell by God.” - Episode title spotting. And that’s all of them I think. Also the fact that Louis is the one that brutalizes a priest in the book, and because he’s grieving Lestat.. anyway.

“I should have taught her something to prevail against her desire to kill Lestat. For my own sake, I should have done that.” - Ok, so he does know it’s his fault lmao

Final thoughts: I don’t have many, I’m enjoying it so far.

[artemiseamoon]

I’m comfort rewatching IWTV and just My God. I was so weary going in but I’m so inlove with this adaption. I’m glued to my tv again like the first time.

As a bi person with Louisiana creole ancestry, Louis being a gay creole black man just made this story so much more personal, it amplifies this world for me.

I didn’t even like book Louis, always been a Lestat gal (yes yes I know he’s problematic, a pretty package of red flags and yes he’s crazy.) (and yes I adored TC as Lestat, otherwise eww to TC) I appreciate both portrayals of Lestat, and the differences. I love them both.

This adaption and Jacob have made me like a character I previously didn’t care for at all. Except for when he says Armand is the love of his life cause come on 🙄 stop lying Louis. BP as Louis in the 90s was pretty to look at, def ultimate emo goth pretty boy but he always felt like he didn’t want to be there to me. Learning later he didn’t made so much sense.

And Sam as Lestat 😍💐💐💐💐

I didn’t care for book or movie Daniel, he was annoying esp in the movie, but older Daniel in the show ??? Fucking perfect. I love that choice and hope we see more flashbacks of him younger.

I loved KD as Claudia, even if I didn’t agree with Claudia as a character at certain points, but Bailey sky rocketed that character to the fucking moon for me. Standing ovation girl. Why can’t you come back for s2????? 😩😩😩

I first came upon Anne Rice as a teen, reread my favs over the years since then. Secretly wrote fics (anyone around at that time will understand why) I was totally wrapped up in the late 90s craze with my friends. Now, at 39, I have this version and it’s a gift I didn’t know I needed and never imagined I’d get.

Plus this version gave me Lily, so thank you. And I can finally use my long time obsession with Storyville in writing. 😁

Love love love this. Minus that one episode but it was via Claudia POV , who hates Lestat and sees him as a monster, so I’m pretending that didn’t happen like that. 🙈

No we do not talk about that other movie here. Only the soundtrack and Aaliyah as Akasha exist, the rest never happened. That soundtrack is 🔥 tho, I still listen to it.

[thevampirearchive]

Commentary on Interview With The Vampire - Episode 5 (Spoilers)

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Right of bad I am Screaming, sucking on blood while Daniel reads out loud, all that’s missing is Lestat to clap. Cuz what’s going on 😭

I’m obsessed!, she’s like a little serial killer. Did she keep trophies too or just the list? Cuz girl…. I bet she was tryna see sum 💀

Please not come and fight him… I mean yeah idk what y’all expected.

‘Look in the mirror’ damn Rashid, you bold, I like it.

Lmao Honey and pinapple? Like the girlies on Twitter? Good for him. It’s giving pussy tight pussy clean Pussy fresh🙏🏾

Bahahahahaha Rashid really said ‘you ain’t ever getting a nibble bitch” as he should. Daniel stay curious.

It’s giving slave auction on crack. Why are daniels taught so… wilding. Lmao he’s SO curious… same.

Hunger strike? She’s lestat’s spawn babes, shes probably out here eating everybody.

LMAO not the pigeons in her room! Someone pls stop this man before the rats start taking over now that their largest predators being used like this! This is harassment Louis you need to control yourself!

Imagine you haven’t been eaten for days and your dad suggests Ice cubes and one Barrie. Do you even love her Lou?😭 But one meal a night when her dad is not looking? That sounds like starvation too Uncle Les..

Lmao not the lid getting ripped off I- 💀 he didn’t have to literally tear her Princess coffin in two, now how will she sleep? Lift it each time? Sigh

Pls Louis listen to this man cuz yalls little girl is a vampire vampire, she probably on a corner gettibg her 3rd body in. As she should.

I’d actually thought Louis would be the diary reader type BUT, he has access to her thoughts so maybe it’s not as juicy. this feels slightly out of character for Lestat(he is mad so .. makes sense)

LMAOOOOO let us ignore the fact that this man is even reading a single sentence from a book that hasn’t been read outloud to him first, THE WAY I SCREAMED! IM LITERALLY YELLING! LESTAT LOOKS MORTIFIED! He thought he was bold and shit, now he looks like he’s gonna be sick.

No but seriously, will she forever be a virgin? Note to self: make sure to suggest having sex or at least NOT HAVING YOUR HYMEN BROKE CUZ WTF. Cuz that would be very upsetting to live with.

Ah there it is, Louis invading her privacy 🫶🏾 As I knew he would. Go on King, worry 🫡

‘I couldn’t hear you over the tugboat’ CLAUDIA PLEASE LMAOOOO SHES A VAMPIRE! ISNT HER HEARING SUPER?! Why does she play this much!

Lmaooo I cannot take her seriously she’s so adorable, too adorable to be a killer 😭 but here she is, killing.

I shouldn’t be laughing but did he have to lay in her coffin like that? They couldn’t hve him dramatically turn around in a chair?😭

Nobody’s up awake and concern besides you Louis, Lestat knew she was fed good, speak for yourself lil Pigeon muncher (derogatory)

Y’all worried about an incinerator, I’m worried about the investigation her lil spree will evoke. A WHOLE FAMILY AND CREW? Baby that’s too many people in one spot! Gotta make it look random! (I say as if she isn’t going thru major trauma and this is her way of coping… and she’s hungry…)

“I did, inked with ungreatfulness-‘ I AM SCREAMING! LESTAT PLS 💀

Imagine your dad and his lover, your uncle, going thru your intimate thoughts (idk why she’s keeping a record, but I guess that’s them human instincts) and now you’ve gotta hear their thoughts about it? I’d start fist fighting ngl. Cuz what?! Y’all heard about MY HYMEN?, Nah, I’m jumping out the window there’s no way.

LMAOOOOO she’s so fucking smug I love it,

Now Lestat take your hands off my niece before we start beefing Fr. I don’t like this one bit, even tho I did say she needs be tussled with (by someone her size hello? An age mate…)

Not her looking to Louis, sweetie you have a better chance asking GOD 💀 Louis seems to have gotten into a state of ‘watch and speak loudly, but not loud enough’ imma need you to put your foot in it, before this man puts weight on our girls neck >:/

I’m kinda mad he didn’t say sum frfr. like I thought you were the ‘better’ of the two, I guess y’all evil twins now (good.. but how this benefit her?)

I was ready to holler as she packed a scarf with things and bound it onto a stick💀 but no, we’re just telling our dads we hate them — she’s the original Angsty teen! Good on her.

Snapped the whole mirror, I felt that. Mariah could never.

The looks Lestat is giving to Louis 💀 he’s mad mad and he needs you to fix it or he will and y’all won’t like it if he attempts. I might but let’s see.

Not the bodies upon bodies— my god.

Again, when did they teach Lestat to read! He reads the paper??

56?! CLAUDIA BE FUCKING FR! Nobody’s that fucking hungry! Maybe she was tryna experimenter. FIFTY SIX? I need to sit down.

Not only has she taken the lives of 56 ppl, she’s taking bodie parts. This wouldn’t have happened if she had a black mother, I am so fucking serious. Where are her parents? Y’all thought she was just sat in her room writing and being angry? Be FUCKING FR? No parental overview or nun and now their shocked?.. Cuz what is going on in her little mind? She’s lucky I love her or I’d be throwing up screaming crying yelling. 56?! I mean she’ll have to kill more if she stays alive but damn ..

Is she tryna play a frankinstain? Who needs ONE boob? Exactly take the set at least 😭

I love when he freezes time :)

Not this man smelling up lestats expensive perfumes >:( who let this OP in?

Claudia did; ofc, why she laughing in the back pls someone 😭 she’s giving youngest sibling vibe, only child, my parents hate eachother so I get away with everything every, living her best/worst life

SO SHES DRUNK? 😭 WAIT? 💀

Thé deputy sees a drunk child and this a whole grown woman 😭 she’s like what? 19? 20 by now ? Still who gave her liquor? Baby is swaying

Louis not the shrug! Commit to it damn it! Why can’t he lie? You’ve been (and still is) a closeted gay man, PUT YOUR BACK INTO IT!

Not the tit in her draw… under one item of clothing. How many years have passed and they’ve taught her nothing?😭 I just know her room stank!

CLAUDIA! NoT A WHOLE CORPSE! YOUNG LADY WHAT IN THE NIGHTMARE HELL IS THIS !

Not the shushing of the dying man I- 🧍🏾‍♀️

She’s cleaver tho, but only when she wants to be.

Not the guy falling i- this episode is taking a toll on my body I need to pause and breath

Not them threatening to call CPS😭 and Louis was about to get him back but now he’s being reminded of how much they sentences the queers 💀 imagine? 5 years just cuz you gay? 🧍🏾‍♀️ And I bet that’s the minimum. Yeah let’s just smile and wave.

“You wanted her you fix her” okay firstly, can these two maybe not fight infront her like this? Clearly she’s going thru the worst of worst emotions to be hiding whole bodies in her room. At least she’s too busy being drunk. It’s not even her fault, she’s intoxicated byproxy and nobody thought to offer therapy. Like damn.

“We doing this together” at no point was this a joint venture babes idk who you tryna lie to! Why does Louis still thinks this is the result of a join decision?! Yeah he didn’t have a gun to Lestats head when he turned her but if he leaves Lestat would be destroyed (which is really on him, should have told your man’s no and dealt with it then. Now this toddler body grown woman giving your bone shaking headaches everyday of your waking existence) 😭

“Which one of y’all is gonna fuck me”

I’ve not gasped and fallen this silent since they took Carlisle’s head. I really felt like I was in that room listening to her very short list of appropriate not so appropriate sexual partners and never once did I think her GUARDIANS were in the roaster…

LESTAT WHY R YOU ANSWERING HER I AM GONNA LOOSE IT! I’m glad he set it streight tho, thanks but no thanks 💀

Thé second she said ‘why can’t I make one’ I just knew Lestat I started having war flashbacks… this why you share so your family don’t become like every aspect of your very sick and very traumatizing past 😭 no cuz imagine finding out your spawn has been doing what your maker was doing before finding you? I’d pass out and stay down. WHAT?

No let me not blame him, cuz he tried to warn yallz and look, she’s attempted so much, she’s lost it. Either y’all move somewhere secluded b get a handle on it or one of y’all need to die (I’m starting to see why Ann did what she did)

This is actually so upsetting, cuz 1. This isn’t how this shit work, you don’t just turn randoms but clearly she’s in a dark desperate place where she thinks she’ll be alone forever. Lestat turne louis with purpuse and clearly cuz he knows being turned when y’a don’t want or understand it is traumatizing, yOUR HERE CUZ LOUIS WAS GOING STURR CRAZY! Can we just go back to episode 3/4 and have Claudia be brough to the hospital, a few drops to save her life and the Louis can obsess over her till she dies a natural death? Like a normal vampire? Cuz this is doing a lot (hey at least it’s better then the books, no weird shit)

Idk I’m a little insulted ngl, but why are they shocked? Ofc she tried to make someone! Look at her! 😭she’s in the trenches!

Not him holding her whole chin and calling her a mistake, baby girl pls start SWINING, at this point there’s nothing to loose cuz Louis ain’t doing nothing but standing and yelling. can he do smt? Man’s last meal was probably a mosquito, 😭 there’s no hope!

No actually I’m so pissed! Why does he keep putting his hands on her like this :( who’s making these decisions?!

“To refuse me one love when you got two” 😞 right in my chest yall

Not her calling Louis a housewife I- let me not laugh cuz this a serious scene. Girl come on now let’s calm down it wasn’t even that FUCKIBG funny

But no… so Lestat is seeing someone…. MISS A… okay…. This is why he didn’t notice? Or why he ain’t say sum?

“I’ll kill her soon” thanks ? I guess 💀 and I know he meant well with that, but babes, look at where we are, the tension has tension 😭 why was that all he said? 💀

Is she really gonna try and find other vampires cuz last I recalled thé onces Lestat has run into we’re absolutely vile and unhinge demonic + his mom, so I don’t think the odds are with 😭 like how bad you gotta be for Lestat to call you vile? BAD!

Damn speak on it — see and this is why we don’t turn everybody! cuz not everybody is meant for this life. And this is especially why we don’t pick those who’ve yet to live a life, cuz regret will occure *stares at Bella swan* anyways, Lestat warned him and here we are, the pressure is getting worser.

“we” WHO IS WE? WE YOUR PEOPLE? WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? OUI OUI FRENCH WE? Who is WE? —

Let me stop yelling cuz this is sad and all I have is anger,I fear

Lmaoooo not Daniels respond, I am so mad that was me (well not fully)

He thinks there’s a context where this will make it better? Louis blink twice! She took someone’s boob, ONE, the streets are gonna chew her up if they think this is remotely real💀

They about to make Lolita vampire gothic murder documentary, the serial killerstans x pedo’s will have a field day!!! PLS

I love how this is them now (no I don’t, this makes me very upset) I cannot believe he said Paris… he’s proud but in a fake ‘my country is better then the others’ way, ew never actually go back or he’d have panic attacks IN THE CARGO! WE DONT TALK ABOUT PARIS! NOT LIKE THAT!

And now they sleeping angry as they always do, sigh. Even tho some allegedly hated it.

LESTAT MISSED THE ROARING 20’s? Fake news. There’s no fucking way he missed it, sTOP LYING

I understand him but I also need him to learn and evolve. This is so… sad..

CLAUDIA! Idk who that man is (I will-still guess) but I need her to know better then to just share a meal with a strange vampire! You don’t know his moral baseline! Yes he helpe you but CAUSE HE FELT YOU!

Pls their house is a mess, Lestat must have really given up. He gives maximalism purposeful, this looks tragic… Hoarder ‘our daughter left us n now we have nothing’ energy.

Hey at least there’s no murder charges…

Louis leave your man alone, y’all have suffered enough — so much so everybody and they mama know y’all miserable in there

Copenhagen, aye love a shoutout! 😌

‘Naw’ why does she talk like that💀 how much time has passed? Where ARE WE? I’m getting irritated

“Strange, European” aren’t they all 😭

“You kill like a killer-“ what does this mean? You want him to change his name from Bruce to killer ? Be for real please. No but Fr she sees n sense that n you still here? Baby I don’t trust this one pls let’s go

Did he just give her a …. *stares at camera* … and I’m assuming he found her all cuz what, Louis be screaming her name everybody hears, I’d be AGGY!

See how everywhere she go, everybody got sum to say about how she’s a vampire ? Exactly girl come on now LEARN! Do better 😭

Oky let me stfu and defend my niece instead of this hostility, SOMEONE GET THIS MAN AWAY FROM HER!

*insert profanities and muttered screams*

Had to pause and just breath…man’s even broke her fucking legs so she— let’s take some more breaths.

No cuz be Fr, this was added why, no TW nothing just …. No cuz what the fuck is going on. Idk what’s worst, this insertion or that they didn’t think the heavy emotional shit wasn’t enough! THIS ISNT HOW THIS IS SUPPOSE TO HO!

Daniel…. Compose yourself.

And now I’m gasping again cuz Daniel bitch slapped Louis.. y’all need to give me a second so I can think 🧍🏾‍♀️ Too much is happening..

Okay continue i guess ;I say as if I’m not the one pressing play.

Aww Lestat :/

Why is she shocked ? Babes, YOU KNEW HE WAS DIFF WHEN UR MOM FLIPPED! You saw him break the door down? Never age! Never out WHNE the sun was out? I’d be shocked too just cuz it’s one thing to see it over and over on some rare occasions shit.

See, now I’m yelling. “Whomever you are” sigh, anyways chile, y’all got me heated and now I’m sat thru this, — can’t even be too mad cuz this is exactly what we knew would happen and Louis still ain’t get it does he ? This wAs never going to work…

His own grave… at least she invited him, but that’s the cut off? Damn. Not even a ‘we’re done’, but a ‘you’re dead to me’.

I love the idea of vampires staying in contact with their family line till it does out or smt but that won’t be the case here I see. Lestat was right, once again.

Is that miss ClaudiiiiiaAa :) hi baby, what r u doing here :) come back :/ pls 🥺

Okay now im like ehhh. Cuz 1. Lestat seems like the ‘throw yourself at his feet and beg for forgiveness tell him he was right and you’ll never defy you’ cuz clearly he has a deep need to protect and safe, cuz that be him, but also doenst understand that these people aren’t him and he’s in a loose loose situation. Like I truly feel that if he’d supported Louis (even tho he tried and still tries) they’d still have been here and gotten Claudia, but he should have refused to turn her, but again, anything for Louis — even if it means loosing his sanity, popping a forhead vain every 2-3 business days and being DISREPECTed/disobeyed. I’m just glad he’s used to chaos so this isn’t too far out of his baseline (it’s sad but yeah ;/)

And there it is … the first. Okay let’s get it all out y’all, everybody just go awf! Speak yalls peace! See she ain’t meant shit lmao she’s here to get her dad and GO!

😀 WAIT! … 😳

NO! Don’t tell him to read her mind! Argh! He knows cuz that was him, he KNOWS! CUZ THAT WAS HIM! ENOUGH! Argh! No no no no no STOP BEING CRUIL! WHO EVEN IS RHIS? WHAT IS THIS BEHAVIOR?! LESTAT WOULD NEVER !

Had to stop, I feel sick ngl.

That doenst feel like smt he’d do… throw it in her face? And Claudia is tryna expose him to Louis as if Louis not just standing there, knowing, he knows how Lestat is and he always excused it — even the bad and the worst, but I fear he’ll do nothing! PLS DO SOMETHING! Istg this man feels defeated like Louis PLS!

I’m back and should have stayed my ass curious.

Now this a throw down but my god… is Lestat that much stronger or is Louis just not throwing these punches hard enough? Okay jokes aside, this is not giving lestat’s he’s not a ‘fight me’ and actually fights type of bitch, he’s a ‘yells in your face 2 coffins part, gets in your face twice till you hit him where it hurts and he falls to the ground like a rag doll forced into a trance of femme icing and remembering how far he’s come, not realizing you’ve left him with all his unresolved trauma’ type. ACTUALLY THROWING DOWN? He did that what, ONCE? But— yeah let me continue I guess

Bless Louis for trying to keep her out of this, he shouldn’t have to… no cuz wasn’t i yelling for him to do something? And now he’s getting his ass beaten? I should have stfu cuz I don’t want THAT to happen. :(

Okay. We’re dragging our man’s by the jaw… this could have been an iconic shot if it wasn't Lou … like it looks so… vicious. :/

Not the flying :/ we’re going backwards damn it (I say as if there’s any going back from that)

Whomever wrote this episode wanted PROBLEMS my god. WHAT AM I WATCHING

And he said it, let go, and he did, let go. But let me guess, Lestat gonna be back on some forgive me. Sigh, I thought they read the books wtf is this (that speech was good tho, just hate it was held this way… like this? While he’s so…. Literally hanging on by a thread. cuz phew.)

There’s literally no coming back, so is Lestat dying in the next Ep? cuz if they’re tryna wrap up and rush us then, congratulations, I’’m rushed thru. Feel like I was just forcefully thrusted into something.

And this was what? Claudia’s POV? With Louis’ inputs? When will Lestat speak? No cuz wtf is happening for us to get from A to Z? Even if Lestat speaks I don’t trust anybody! I need the neighbors pov. I wanna see all angles cuz clearly someoens lying and idc what anybody says if that’s what Claudia saw, that’s what she saw..

Last note, if this had been true to the rest of the plot/script so far, I feel like Louis and Claudia would have simply left and Lestat would have let them (been angry bitter and hated it) cuz the whole point of much of former episodes showed us that Lestat quote literally was never gonna hurt Louis intentionally. He gave him FREEDOME and if Louis wanted to leave and that’s as what he wanted, Lestat would have let him go. Not drop from the sky after beating the dog shit out of him. Who was that? Whomever is behind this episode, wtf is your damage bro?

Am I a Lestat apologist still? Yes, idk this Lestat right here, but the one I defend and apologize for ? Always, the girlies that get it, get it.

[jamiie-tartt]

I knew he enjoyed it when I fought back.

[dazedinaphase]

I want to know what’s going on with the twitter IWTV fandom...but I’m scared to know what’s going on with the twitter IWTV fandom.

The mysterious discourse is calling to me like a siren song.

[marisatomay]

so cool that fanfiction won anne rice’s war on fanfiction

[twobrokenwyngs]

surprise daniel this relationship is toxic too

[impressionism]

I wonder what would be (or take) the breaking point for Daniel where he’d want to leave… and I wonder how much it would take him for him to stay in Dubai. Cos honestly after how the season ended, I’d put my hands up and exclaim “I think I’m done here! You can keep the money and invest it in therapy with your rent boy” and just scream while I pack my bags.

[vega-international]

THEY ONLY WANT YOU WHEN YOU'RE SEVENTEEN

[long-cold-winterr]

Interview with the Vampire thoughts

It’s probably an unpopular opinion but I didn’t particularly like Claudia in the movie, I found her kind of annoying - which I’m guessing may have been intentional in the beginning as she was meant to be 12 years old, so now that we’ve reached the Claudia storyline I’m a little - eh about it. But it seems like they made her a little older in the show so hopefully we’ll see a rather different portrayal of her character. 

[occasionalficwriter]

Thoughts on Interview with the Vampire - Book I of the Vampire Chronicles

Part II:

Warning: I’ve watched the movie so some spoilers of that in here

“Because there would be no rest in damnation,” - I feel like I miss out on a lot by simply not having been raised catholic. Or in any religion really.

“I had perceived certain changes in her [Claudia] which made me at once aware she was Lestat’s daughter as well as my own. From me she had learned the value of money, but from Lestat she had inherited a passion for spending it;” - I have nothing to comment really, just wanna save this.

“In every village where we [Louis and Claudia] did encounter the vampire, it was the same.(...) A mindless corpse” - Ok this is curious, I wonder how they’re made, maybe it’s accidental?

“I wanted to forget him [Lestat], and yet it seemed I thought of him always.” - This had more to do with the first part than this one really, but I’ve been thinking about the tragedy of Lestat being fated to be killed by Claudia and Louis, and Claudia being fated to die.

“I wanted him [Lestat] alive! In the dark night of eastern Europe, Lestat was the only vampire I’d found.” - Oh, why did he have to say that.

“‘As much as I hated him [Lestat], with him we were... complete’ ‘No, only you were complete...’ I said to her. ‘Because there were two of us, one on either side of you, from the beginning.’” - What I said earlier fits in here much better.

Final thoughts: I guess this was a transition chapter/part/whatever. Not much to say. I wish there were chapters in this book, I suffered deciding when to stop reading during the first part, but here I could just read this entire part in one sitting.

[artemiseamoon]

I’ve started reading Interview with the vampire (book) again because the show transported me back to falling inlove with the chronicles. It took me back to reading the book, for the first time, in the late 90s when I was an all black clothes / fishnet/ / fiery red hair/ silver moon boots wearin and lunchbox carrying hs freshman.

Yes the adaptation is different in many ways but I still am head over heels for it. The main thing that sold me is how the actors truly understand the characters and that is sooooo important to me. They’ve acted out and bought to life things I’ve imaged or read between Annes lines. These characters have lived with me since I was a teen and tho I was very hesitant about this adaptation, I’m so pleased and now I trust them with the material.

I could rant about this forever, so I’ll just try to keep it shortish. All the problematic and disturbing stuff aside, and there is lots of it, (as I grow older I just skim past that stuff and pretend it’s not there but I’m sure the books could be hard for people nowadays and those more immediately sensitive to things ) the vampire chronicles still mean so much to me.

One of my first friends in HS was this kid who dressed like lestat and modeled himself after him. I saw the guy and went “omg we must be friends”. I’m a shy person, even now I have a hard time initiating friendships, even if I really want to, but I did take the lead with that one. The girl who introduced me to the series was the only other quiet girl in class, the both of us sat in the back and would scribble in our notebooks with headphones on. One day she handed me her worn and frayed copy of IWTV and said “check it out, I think you’ll like it” -

Around the time I discovered the books, I was also figuring out my own sexuality and queerness. I’ve always been a vampire girl and used to watch the old black and white vamp films. These books came into my life at a time I really needed a world to escape to and this took me there. I have the whole collection and still go back and reread some of them. The Vampire Chronicles will always be important to me and hold a special place in my heart.

There are many things I love about the shows version. I want to wrap this up, so for now I’ll just make mention of Louis being a gay creole black man. As someone of direct Creole LA ancestry, it just touches me even deeper and makes the world of IWTV so much richer for me. I just - I love it. I can now understand things about Louis and connect to him in a way I couldn’t before. In fact, I like him better this way. Louis wasn’t my fav in the original but this Louis, Jacobs Louis, I love it and tho it’s different there are still essential parts that make Louis - Louis.

Ps: I have a few fav characters but I’ve always been a Lestat gal (even wrote lots of fanfic scribbled in notebooks that no one but me ever saw) and Sam - he did that shit. I’m so picky how all the characters are depicted but the most picky about my problematic complicated French vampire. And I bow to Sam- it’s a standing ovation from me. And Jacobs Louis, chefs kiss. Flowers! All of them really! I’m only undecided about Armand- we’ll see how I feel in S2.