I don't know if this is just a Twitter phenomenon, but I am sick of some IWTV fans acting like those who identify Lestat as being abusive are being dramatic or misreading the show. Lestat's villainy intersects racial and supernatural lines; every power he has over Louis, physically or societally, he subtly uses to lure him in and to control him. He's a fantastic character precisely because he's charismatic, beautifully polished, thoughtful, and passionate, but also cruel, hiding a profound ugliness, so deranged about love it turns around into something monstrous, capable of unthinkable violence towards those he loves. And the first set of traits (are used by him to) disguise the second set. He's obviously purposefully written like that and dismissing that is doing the writers a disservice. They wrote an amazing fucking character, and he's selfish, manipulative, and yes, abusive to Louis and Claudia, and he's so cleverly written that even at his most cruel when he gets what he deserves, you can't help but feel just a little bit sorry for him. Ignoring that brilliance just to unironically uwu softboy he never did anything wrong babygirlify him is soooo lame sorry
Once it's over there is kind of a melancholy that sets in, you know what I mean? This last year, 2023, was just fantastic. There was just so much work and so many different places that we went, and then finally we ended it off with The Game Awards performance. There was a launch party in Finland and then I came back and I was like... where is everybody??
[Discusses Charles' dislike for understeer and preference for oversteer/loose rear end.] It's something that's been said of Max as well, that he likes to have a car that's 'on the edge.' Do you ever sometimes look at that Red Bull next to you and think 'I wonder what I could if I was in a direct competition against Max'? Because you raced against him for so much of your career as well.
Charles: "We did race together for a very long time in karting. Then we had a slightly different path in formula racing until we got to race each other again in Formula 1. For now, unfortunately especially in a year like this, we don't race very often together as they are in a league of their own. I don't really think to that because Ferrari is so special, and I wouldn't change my position with anybody else on the grid. Do I want to win world championships? Of course, this is the same for everybody. But do I want to change my place with anybody? No, I don't."
Louis forcing himself to eat human food once a week even though it tastes like shit to him just to try and stay in touch with his humanity after a meal of donated blood from a hospital, some rare animal, and some guy who you KNOW is in a tight spot so he sells his blood for money? It's all just PEAK Louis, the front and hypocrisy if it all while he is 100% serious and you still feel bad for his suffering. And he picked his human meal from Daniel's memoir, he's cold and divorced from humanity and then startlingly human and kind