#tomstat

[savagewildnerness]

A friend shared this snippet of a Tom Cruise Lestat interview:

Source: https://x.com/pureevilbich/status/1826962193142702132?s=46&t=_P7cxzX75FYGwaUYFWXbTg

[catkidjekyll]

flat color lestat! god

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[anastasiavixens]

NOTE: I'm not asking if Sam's portrayal is better btw

[rabbit-ina-trenchcoat]

why we pitting two bad bitches against each other we all know they would have annoying sex

[the-vampire-tomstat]

ok this is an interactive in character blog for lestat de lioncourt from interview with the vampire 1994.

mun - cole. he/it.

lestat - he/it. or whatever he dgaf

send anything you want to lestat. dms will not be replied to and neither will hateful asks. your speech is free but so is my block button. i will probably also not post any asks related to hate toward tom cruise lol

doubles are also allowed bc nothing is funnier frankly

lestats actions do not reflect muns etc etc

tags:

"interview with" - asks

"expedition" - reblogs

- "tomstat" - gifset reblogs

"lestat speaking" - posts

"mun speak!" - ooc posts or asks

[gaypeople]

samstat is clearing the other lestats and it’s not even close

[lydcruz]

saw a clip on tiktok of Elizabeth Debicki and it gave me major fem Lestat vibes so I screwed around on ibis paint and made these

[vampsstan]

I'll never get over this tbh

[sam-reid]

i don’t trust people who don’t think tom did an excellent fruity job of playing lestat, i’m not sorry

[savagewildnerness]

Suggestion by abstract_painter_313 on Instagram - thank you for the quote & suggestion!

“Kill them swiftly if you have to but do it! Embrace what you are! You are a killer, Louis!”

Wow it’s too hot to stay in this room today, so that’s THAT!

Sidenote: I love how Sam plays these lines as well as with the true emotion of the scene, like a wee homage to Tom Cruise Lestat. Just a cool little moment! The cadence of his delivery is 100% TomStat-coded.

I laughed my head off when I saw on YouTube someone posted both scenes in one video & the comments are full of folk arguing - “Sam’s better in this scene!” “Tom’s better in this scene!” & much as I adore Sam’s Lestat & could fully be convinced he was Lestat playing Sam Reid playing Lestat, *Lestat uncontrollable laughter* in terms of arguing about *this* scene in particular, in which Sam (which he very RARELY does!) literally pays homage to Tom in his lone delivery!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂

On a wider note: of course I prefer Sam’s Lestat! He literally is Lestat. But I don’t enjoy “who is better” discussion & find it disingenuous. There’s no need to put Tom’s performance down to make the point of how fabulous Sam is as Lestat. Tom Cruise is also utterly fabulous as Lestat. What a wonderful world that they can (other than on this scene!) play Lestat so differently, yet both so truthfully to who he is! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 To say that of Tom’s performance does not lessen the magnificence of Sam’s *Lestat has me heart & soul* performance one iota! That’s how I see it anyway!

(If anyone ever wishes me to improvise to any words from book/tv/film or to a clip, feel free to message with it! It may be rubbish & I may not do it immediately… but in some form, some time, I WILL do it!!! However awfully!!!!)

[catkidjekyll]

oghhh i am COOKING *guy whos bad with brown tones*

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[rabbit-ina-trenchcoat]

in lew of this post gaining attention

edit i will draw whatever the result is btw

[hallowvamp]

The difference between Tom's Lestat, Stuart's Lestat, and Sam's Lestat is that I would totally risk fighting Tomstat and Stuartstat in a life-or-death situation, but if I saw Samstat walking towards me, I would immediately accept my inevitable demise and I would start making my peace with God.

[time-lord-hilarious]

Baby Tomstat I got for the holidays! ❤️

[berryberrytaeberry]

You know what time it is!

It's ✨️brainrot about morphology and Lestat✨️ time!

Yes, at the same time! Obviously...

So, when I finished s2 of iwtv, I hadn't yet engaged with the fandom. I hadn't also yet read the books or seen the movie. Ya girl was a blank--albeit mortally hyperfixated on Lestat--state.

And so, as any self-respecting linguist (me) would do, I started making up words to really narrow in on my Lestat feelings. I decided, that I would prefix any lestat related item with Le-

Ex 1:

The Lesauce : me being in the sauce about Lestat

Ex 2:

The Lecoffin : Lestat's coffin

Ex 3:

The Lesuit : THEEE pinstripe suit s2 ep7 iykyk

Ex 4:

The Lewaist : Sam Reid's waist

Ex 5:

The Lewalk : how Lestat walks

And this is all fine and dandy WE LOVE morphemes and making words

But THEN I started engaging with the fandom. So then I learned about them calling hallucination Lestat, Dreamstat.

I'd come into contact this time with a SUFFIX: -stat

So here's where I really locked in on creating linguistic masterpieces. And I started reading the book. And I watched the movie. SOON EVERYTHING WAS -STAT-ED

Samstat : Sam Reid as Lestat

Tomstat : Tom Cruise as Lestat

Bookstat : Lestat in book

Swampstat : Tomstat dropped in swamp

Flamestat : Tomstat set on fire

Redeemedstat : Lestat but redeemed

Sadstat : Lestat but sad

And so on, so forth, ad infinitum

But here's WHATS COOL. (Get your linguist hats on kids, we're gonna look at some negative examples to figure out the meaning of these morphemes). These affixes can only be used under certain conditions!!!

*Lesam : incorrect lestat-ification of Sam Reid

*Suitstat : incorrect lestat-ification of s2 ep7 pinstripe suit

HOWEVER

Suitstat : Lestat but in a suit

So MY CONCLUSION BEING:

in my idiolect, I prefix nouns and verbs with Le- to mark said noun and verb as being uniquely lestat-ish.

Le- : Lestat describes X.

And I suffix nouns and adjectives with -stat to describe a form of Lestat in a specific way.

-stat : X describes lestat

Soooo it makes sense why Suitstat can only convey the meaning of "Lestat modified by the fact he is wearing a suit" and not referring to the actual suit itself, that is uniquely Lestat-ish. Because that would be Lesuit.

Is this something?

[aquarines]

all these fights over tomstat vs samstat are ridiculous when we should be focusing on the true evil... stuartstat