I see a lot of people saying that Old Man Daniel is repressing his sexuality/is in the closet/has a lot of internalized homophobia and I just don’t see it? Like, yes he’s married multiple women and had children with them but he’s bisexual. A man can marry a woman and still be bisexual. And every time he talks about his past marriages, he describes his ex wives with such adoration and fondness. It’s only when describing himself/the way he acted in these marriages that he starts to get bitter and angry and hateful. Like he really did love these women (or at the very least, Alice) but he knew he didn’t treat them the way they deserved. Because of his addiction, his mental health, and his fear of dying, he wasn’t as good of a husband or father as he should’ve been. And I think he hates himself because of that, not because he was secretly gay or because he didn’t love them.
And, when Daniel tells Louis he only went to that gay bar in San Francisco to score drugs, I don’t think that was him trying to claim he was straight or denying his sexuality. If anything, to me it felt like he was trying to deny the fact that he’d been attracted to Louis. Trying to hide the fact that Daniel followed Louis home, not because he wanted an interview or to buy drugs, but because he wanted to be with him. (And like, if you watch the flashback, it’s very clear Daniel was attracted to both Louis and Armand, and was hoping something would happen back at Louis’ apartment.)
Like, idk, let me know if I’m missing something? I think Daniel has a lot of self-hatred and shame, but I never got the vibe it was because he’s queer. I think he just has a lot of regrets in his life, and he hates the way he acted around people.
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“It’s Only a Paper Moon” is THE Loumand song.
While the song originally came out in 1933, it didn’t become popular until after WWII, when singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra began releasing famous covers of it (so around the time Louis and Armand first got together). The song is featured in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, which is one of the most famous and beloved pieces of media set in New Orleans (as someone who currently lives in NoLa, I swear people here freaking LOVE this play). The scene in Streetcar that features this song is the scene where it’s revealed that the main character, Blanche, has been lying to and manipulating her loved ones. And the song itself? It sounds like a very cliché and cheesy love song, but if you listen to the lyrics, it’s about someone trying to convince their lover to stay in a world— and, by extension, in a relationship— that is, at it’s core, fake and an illusion.
Again, it is literally THE Loumand song and no one can convince me otherwise.
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Louis will not be "blinking twice" he's too busy letting armand crawl inside him and trying to convince Daniel to join their fucked up no safeword but very hot bdsm marriage
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If you can’t beat ‘em
The Dubai penthouse has surprisingly thin walls.
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Well, Louis probably didn't pay him but still
the first gif from @losingbenni
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