Lestat here.

Hello you beautiful creatures! Starting this post off to wish everyone a wonderful Holidays and New Year; I hope all of your celebrations were festive and/or merry and I hope that you all had a splendid time! (I could hear the occasional fire work crackling from my room, but no matter...)

I am excited to see what 2024 holds for all of us, and I hope that this year is a year of happiness, love, laughter and of good mental (and physical) health! You are all wonderful!

I may still take a bit of a retreat from social media in the next few weeks/next month; just to get myself back into the swing of everything and get used to hearing from all of you again!

Have a splendid year everyone.

Lestat out. xoxo

How long did it take you to paint my bedroom and wax all of the floors? I am thoroughly shocked but not entirely surprised that you would get up to some antics while I was under....

About four hours. Do you like it?

it's you and me. me and you['re not here]

ASSAD ZAMAN as Armand INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2024) | An Extended Look at Season 2

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Lestat + violently screaming (at his family)

ldpdl, ethnicity, and the false monolith of blackness

there's this false tendency to think amc louis being made black is pandering, or a means of removing louis from his oh-so-detailed /sarcasm/ background in the books. i also find that people tend to not even understand what show louis's ethnic background is, despite rolin jones the showrunner and even the fictional louis both coalescing around this multigenerational explanation of the gens de couleur in new orleans, and how jim crow disempowered them.

I came around to his ethnicity a sort of interesting way which is through Lestat. [ … ] I was like lets give him a legitimate a third attempt at figuring how to be with somebody for the rest of his life and how to not repeat your mistakes. [ … ] I started from there so it had to be someone with some money cause he had to be with his own folks and I thought he wanted someone who could fight back and who could be a challenge and would force him to restrain himself. And nobody at AMC was interested in 7 seasons of the regretful plantation owner, so we made Louis come from a lineage that did have a plantation and did own slaves.

rolin jones in the s1 post-finale episode of the podcast names how he came to this understanding of louis's character. lestat, after failing to make a bride of his mother, and a concubine of nicki, was seeking for someone of a similar background, or the most approximate equivalent. he would not have been interested in louis if louis was an anglophone baptist black man descended from upper-south arrivals into new orleans, nor would he have been interested in louis if louis was a poor black creole honestly s1 does not give a good reading of claudia's ethnic bg in new orleans, but since she cannot understand french, we can presume shes either a poor creole removed from her cultural background with her vampiric adoption narrative in mind, or was also of an anglophone baptist black background like claudia was. louis coming from this fallen sort of gentry, the free gens de couleur, similar to that of the tvl lestat who came from this barren aristocracy dating back to the crusades, was key to lestat's long-term goals with louis.

Capital accrued from plantations of sugar and the blood of men who looked like my great grandfather but did not have his standing. But then decades of Jim Crow and the electrified light of a new century had vanquished any idea of a free man of color. - AMC IWTV 1x01

louis was of the first generations of the gens de couleur to be born, raised into, and face the institutional and personal ramifications of being viewed as black in america. this fuels much of the character's rage as he moves through storyville, trying to continue the similar modality of exploitation to the contrary of pretty baby with brooke shields, majority of the brothel circuit was statistically black girls + women being sexually pawned off to white men but ultimately failing to do so bc of the anglophone white american class that now rules over him. [tom anderson, alderman fenwick, finn o’shea starting out as louis’s subordinate then ending w/ him entering whiteness by having a sporting house throwing torches at louis’s brothel in s1e3]

By 1850, the free population of color, beset by the hostility of white supremacy, was economically diminished and residentially segregated. The Americanization of Louisiana, and in particular New Orleans, was completed before the state became the sixth to secede from the Union in 1861 in the struggle over the perpetuation of slavery. [link] The Democratic redeemers who came to power in 1877 lost no time in redefining the Negro's "place" in Louisiana life. They immediately restored the color line in the New Orleans public schools and offered silent support to de facto segregation practices in places of public accommodation. With the assistance of two landmark decisions by the United States Supreme Court, the redeemers soon dismantled the egalitarian legal apparatus put together piece by piece under the Radicals. Finally in 1890 they began to write their "final solution" into Louisiana law with a series of "separate but equal" statutes. Soon New Orleans Negroes were again segregated in virtually every public pursuit. [link]

“Their bond is stronger than the vampire bond. They share blood, they share a heartbeat. Louis and Lestat are so deeply connected to one another but he knows that Louis does have this temper that drives Lestat wild.” - Sam Reid

there seems to be far too many fans who can't seem to wrap their head around the fact that no relationship in the Vampire Chronicles is healthy. every relationship includes an element of abuse/power imbalance by normal standards. literally every single one.

they are all monsters who are no longer constrained by societal rules. so I don't think it's too crazy to expect them to do mosntorus things. the genre is Gothic HORROR. the show really prioritizes the HORROR element more so than other adaptaions, which i love.

i don't need louis to be a liar to enjoy lestat. if louis lied or misremebered things about the fight in episode 5, i literally do not care because it's never gonna make me hate louis. the baseline of what constitutes "evil" or "bad" is so different in iwtv because of the fact that they are NOT HUMAN. Claudia is literally a serial killer and she's still mother to me. ykwim?

the nature of vampirism is they have to kill to survive. so it would be really cool if people could accept louis, armand, and claudia as complex characters who are fundamentally not good people (because they aren't people!) without being racist about it. THEY ARE ALL KILLERS

im more interested in this exploration of the complexities of memory and seeing how the show integrates the other books into this story in a way that hasn't been done before than I am in discoursing about whether louis is a liar or not. who gives a shit???? grow up and realize that there are no good guys here and that's OKAY

ill never finish this pls accept it as is

You’re 262? Who at the nursing home let you have a tumblr account, gramps?

Lestat here. You are being impeccably rude! It is my right to be on the internet and have an account, and I'm not even in a nursing home!

I am young and spritely for my age, if you want to ask anyone why they have a Tumblr account, talk to the 514 year old @ask-armand who clearly outnumbers me in years spent on this planet.

Lestat out. xoxo

Lestat here.

Armand, I beg of you not to buy this juicer that you are ever-so intent on! I do not think I could handle you running around and juicing whatever you so please, in fact, I am very much chilled to the core to think about such an outcome.

I'd like to imagine that you would not like another ban from my home, although, it always seems to hurt me more than it hurts you.

Lestat out. xoxo

I already bought it.

I was just thinking about this ice cream I had about a week ago, and how it's suddenly hit me for some reason that it reminds me of IWTV and TVL. Why? Because the cone was black whereas the ice cream itself was an extremely vibrant pink and green which was (as you can probably imagine) very jarring to look at. Just like reading IWTV and TVL back to back is – jarring. Just two completely different vibes, one being dark and gothic and the other one being fun and kinda crazy but in the best way possible.

It's also giving these houses:

I love that Lestat was literally begging for dick when he got Body Thiefed and still couldn't get any I love that so much. what a loser <3

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Interview With The Vampire 1.06 "Like Angels Put in Hell by God"

#married