#Louis knows what his Louies want

[sunshineandlyrics]

The show went from a G to R rating with 1 jacket being the difference

FITFWT Hollywood Bowl, 30 June 2023

#Louis knows hes hot #Louis knows what his Louies want #get you a man who can do both #TANK TOP LOUIS #FITFWT Hollywood Bowl #30 June 2023 #Louis Tomlinson #Fashion Louis #Louis memes #mine

[suddenly-frankenstein]

just them, you know

#idk just some funny sketches ehehe #Louis just wants to read some ghost stories peacefully in his coffin #and Lestat is always in his diva era #but you know what? Louis definitely can wear this pretty widow robe too (but Lestat would never wear that nightgown lmao) #iwtv #iwtv fanart #interview with the vampire #amc interview with the vampire #iwtv louis #iwtv lestat #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #loustat

[statementlou]

hello :) could you maybe explain a little bit how dan wootton blackmailed louis?

ugh sorry for taking a while to get to this. The problem is I feel like the only two ways to answer this are by spending a week and a half of full time labor sifting through old posts and evidence to get every detail right and lay out an airtight case, or to halfass something very serious, and so I felt a little stuck. So since I can't seem to find a good halfway point, apologies but here is the half assed version, if you want to get into it more I invite you to do your own deep dive or talk to other people, but here's how I remember things. Louis has almost never on video explicitly said things about Larry not being real and/or anything negative about fans and their theories (mostly the opposite), up until the last couple years when he obviously decided to make a major change he didn't talk about Freddie much at all let alone saying he was his kid, honestly not that much about Eleanor even; except for in two major interviews with Dan Wootton, each of which lined up with a serious traumatic Tomlinson family event that they managed to keep out of the tabloids until the very end (Jay's illness and Fizzy's struggles with substance abuse). After the fact of those events a lot of small things that didn't make sense at the time came together to look very much like Louis traded those interviews (and those answers) for having his family's private matters kept private. Story trading of this kind is a publicly known real thing that happens, and there were various clues that suggested he was being leaned on about those stories to lend legitimacy to the idea that it was something that happened in these cases. Given what we know about Dan Wootton and how he operates even before the recent flood of information and even more now, I think it's more than likely that he has been holding the threat of outing Louis (as he has done to many other public figures) over his head for over a decade, and has used his family's tragic struggles to get Louis to dance like a fucking puppet for him and I will REJOICE at his downfall when it comes whether it is now or 20 years from now... because someday it will, he has made too many enemies to stay above it forever

#I did start to try to deep dive before I realized it was too much #but I was reminded that when Louis was doing txf as a judge while fizzy was struggling #many people thought he had been pressured somehow into it; later when we knew what had been going on people were like #oh maybe he just wanted to be close to home to deal with fizzy stuff or somethng #but also: keeping fizzy stuff quiet would potentially be the info we didn't have at that time that could answer that q too of what they use #given the DW🤝simon jones🤝simon cowell cursed connections #(for the newbies: simon jones aka DWs bestie is Louis' publicist for no apparent reason even now long after he has gotten free of the rest #of the modest/syco/simon cowell shitshow) #anyway another example of story trading in our fandom is zayn's baby sister's teen pregnancy #which was known to the fandom early on but kept super quiet by respectful fans- during this time Z did some unprecedented actual interviews #for no obvious reason #and then iirc pretty much the day she turned 17 a very lowkey article reported on her marrying her bf and mentioning a pregnancy #but as if it was recent not like 7 months along #and even when she gave birth soon after it was all kind of... glossed over and around and not reported until a little later #blah blah blah #I felt like it was weird to talk about this for some reason but when I thought about it #I don't know if it matters. Like maybe talking about him not being a dad and being gay or whatever at all is bad #but assuming we're doing that anyway. why not talk about the struggles around that #and the creeps holding it over his head #dan wootton

[nashvillethotchicken]

Thinking about Lestat seeing Louis’s eating patterns as a waste of his gift/himself while Armand gives Louis food that he literally can not enjoy or digest just so he has something on his stomach

#if i had to give each of louis relationship a theme loustat would be shame and loumand would be enabling #which are both really bad ways of “helping” a partner with an ed #lestats shame and anger tactics only make louis more resentful and less likely to eat #while armand having the little drinks and exotic animals and the human food dont actually deal with louis problem head on- #cus at the end of the day louis is still not eating enough #and i think they really exemplifies both of their trauma and abandonment issues #both of them came up chronically food insecure #lestat was put into the role of provider at a very early age and stayed in that role until he died/was turned #so for him rejecting what lestat gives is like rejecting lestat cus he doesnt have anything else to make him “useful” #and lestats reaction to rejection is anger and control so he tries to shame and control louis into eating more/human #while armand has been abandoned by literally everyone he loves up till this point so for him its like #ok i can make people dtay if i give them what they want and what louis wants is to not feel bad about eating and so armand does that #but it still doesnt get to the root of the issue which is louis having poor coping mechanisms for his grief and other emotions #like either way you slice it. louis is not meeting his nutritional needs. he eats drinks from one guy eats a fox or some other small animal #when he should be having like two dudes at least #and then he has human food which according to anne rice makes vampires vomit up their whole stomach content so... #louis imma send you to my therapist shes great #interview with the vampire #iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #amc iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #ldpdl #iwtv 2022 #armand iwtv #armand #loumand #loustat #like armand gives louis food he cant eat just so he knows theres something in louis stomach even for a short while

[loustatapologist]

Coming here with the most unpopular fucking opinion: i fucking loved this episode. That ending was so fucking upsetting i kept looking away .

Truly hannibal season 2 ending level of fucked up

#iwtv #loustat #interview with the vampire #we all know what louis and claudia are about to do to him #i guess they wanted to make it justified #i understand why so many people are upset #and of course i wouldn't condone this in a real life setting #but this is fantasy!! #they are monsters!! #it was disturbing #but i love how disturbing they are together. #and i guess since i know they get him for this I'm less upset #like if this wouldn't be the setting up for his murder i would be having a different take for sure

[brother-emperors]

ascanio and louis xii

so

Milan Undone, Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars, John Gagné

extremely bold of louis xii to assume that ascanio, who has a reputation for conspiracy, wouldn't turn around and say 'fuck you,' after all of that™

(Ibid.)

it IS funny how men in power keep thinking they can put him on a leash like, pal. the odds are NOT in your favor

#ludovico couldn't keep his brother on a leash what makes you think YOU can #(guiliano della rovere is excluded from this club bc he actually succeeded on that front but i dont respect him) #anyway you guys ever think about how ascanio just wanted to be in milan but the milan that was your home doesnt exist anymore #like you're never gonna be able to go back. and ludovico at one point made arrangements for ascanio's body #to be brought back to milan back when everyone thought he was going to die. but he's going to die in rome and he's staying there #augh. AUGH #actually the shift in the relationship between ludovico and ascanio from a general sense of unease to ludovico #wanting ascanio buried with his wife (and the scale of grief that ludovico had at the death of beatrice. oughhhh) is. oof #there's a second very Hm™ comparison here that i will bite my tongue on but it's also their parents fault for it. so. #drawing tag #italian renaissance tag #ascanio sforza #do i have a tag for louis xii. i know ive drawn him before. I HATE HIS HAIR. i might throw out referencing his historical portraits #entirely and just borrow a portrayal of him from television or something #i was not made to draw straight hair

[cuntylestat]

Fifty years later, you talk like he was your soulmate, like you were locked in some fucked up gothic romance.

“This is the odyssey of recollection.” The tapes are an admitted performance. This is the premise of our interview. Half a century later, allow me my odyssey. 

#interview with the vampire #iwtvedit #louisedit #tvedit #cinematv #iwtv #iwtv spoilers #edits #gifs #i feel like we have not talked enough about jacob's performance in these moments. hence these gifs #like i want to know what he's feeling at this moment #while he's listening to himself talk about lestat in the past #compared to how he sees him in the present #the past is a foreign country and memory is a monster #eric bogosian said on the podcast that once you reach a certain age your past self is like a different person #is that how louis feels listening to himself in 1973? #god i want to study him #the quality is bad but i wanted to focus on his acting

[pittsburghhockeybirds]

Enola: My nincompoop is too tall for me to kiss him, what do I do?

Eudoria: Punch him in the stomach, then when your boy doubles over in pain, kiss him.

Edith: Tackle him!

Mycroft: Dump him.

Sherlock: Kick your boy in the shin.

Tewkesbury: NO ENOLA! NO TO ALL OF THOSE, JUST ASK ME TO LEAN DOWN!

#I haven't seen a post about this incorrect quote with them BUT nO this is so ACcuratE- Mycroft wanted Tewkesbury to tame her and welllllllll #staying true to Eudoria and Sherlock calling Tewks her boy ;) ;) ;)))))))))))))))))))));;) #Sherlock knows Enola fights to prove a point. he knows what he's saying- he knows Enola too well and that's so wholesome! bro & sis bonding #Edith is waiting for the day where Enola tackles him- she's so “go get your boy/go to your boy” #and then there's poor Tewkes who Enola should've gone to in the first place-but he secretly likes how his height gives him an advantage 👀 #enola holmes 2 #enola holmes #enola 2 #enola x tewkesbury #enola and sherlock #incorrect quotes #holmesbury #millie bobby brown #louis partridge

[eyestrain-addict]

Honestly very generous of Louis not to tell Daniel about the times I'm certain Lestat got down on his knees and BEGGED Louis to let him hit. Not even just during the years claudia was gone, like any time at all.

#if they ever get to tvl i want louis to be like “i care for u and dont wanna see u get murdered by the other vamps. but i dont wanna be in #a relationship with u either.“ and really makes lestat work for it #i wanna see louis with his legs and arms crossed and lestat on his knees- chin on louis' knee and hands on his thighs- BEGGING #ya know that one video where the guys like “anD I LOVE YOU NO MATTER WHAT *sounds of sobbing so hard he vomits*” #thats what i want lestat to be like #for MY vampire queen #lmao #lmfao #iwtv #interview with the vampire #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #loustat

[louisplumpyass]

I WANT A BEARD BURN FROM THIS MAN

#i have rised from the dead and i have my DEMANDS #louis tomlinson #harry styles #I WANT HIS BB IN BETWEEN MY.. #you know what i mean girl don't make me say it #larry #louis and harry #larry stylinson #stylinson #harry and louis #larries #daddy louis #one direction #one direction fandom

[black-and-yellow]

Wake up it's time for Hotel Dusk posting.

#hotel dusk room 215 #last window the secret of cape west #kyle hyde #louis denonno #LWDE (last window Denonno edition) #i've been thinking of the mental Last Window AU a lot. #I think either Dunning finally decides to fix up the hotel so it has to close for a while #or Louie just leaves of his own volition. or gets fired. whichever #either way he's gotta be out of there #obviously he knows where Kyle lives cause he has the guest logs #he turns up at his door like 'yo hyde guess who' and Kyle is like 'great' but lets him stay anyway because #why wouldn't you. it's louie #he crashes on the couch but he's pretty content there. #lends a hand at Lucky's Cafe mixing drinks. earns his keep #when he first arrives Tony asks him for money which starts them off on a bad foot #when Marie's ring goes missing and Tony gets blamed he's like 'no way. it's that shady guy who's staying with Hyde' #obviously Kyle is torn because he knows Louie has a history and Tony's not exactly honest #but he wants to believe he's innocent #drama !! #so yeah that's what I've been thinking about #guess who's listening to Romeo by Basement Jaxx again

[statementlou]

why do you talk about Louis using blue and green signalling as if it isn't about Harry, that what the blue and green are- do you not believe in larrie?

short answer for the reading challenged trolls to cut down on asks yes I am a larrie, not that anything is wrong with not being one. But longer (much more interesting imo) answer: We know H and L were together, but no one really knows if they are still or again- I personally mostly believe that they are, but I get why people don't think so and can't see any reason to get pressed about it. But you make a solid point- blue and green and certainly things like Louis wearing the H shirt don't potentially signify anything other than larry right? Well that's what makes it so interesting to me- I kind of don't think Louis IS using those things that way! As my recent anon pointed out (and I agree) he wants people to think he is Freddie's dad, he is not presently trying to be perceived as gay in the face of people trying to force him in the closet- he is in charge of his image and is choosing to publicly put forward that he is a guy who got someone pregnant and dates women. And I do think him and H are together, but I don't think he particularly wants to talk to us about that, if that makes sense? But I believe he does want to connect with his beloved fans on a more personal level, to revel in the acceptance and love and shared wink, I know you know I know, me and you until the end, our eyes meet, together we're the greatest- and I think he uses the larry imagery to do that, rather than to talk about his relationship. I could do this for days he gives us SO MANY examples to choose from but just to pick one: the all blue and green lighting for All This Time. Think about it- if he actually had images of a rainbow flag on the screens at his shows or waved one or something, it would make the articles and press and be a whole thing and revive every rumor ever about him in every tabloid! But if he makes the entire lighting and screens for a song blue and green (or wears a shirt with a giant H on it or any of the other one million coded things he does), well so what? No journalist would think a thing of it, nothing to see here- but the larrie majority of his fanbase hears him saying "you were right about everything and yes I am gay and I love you for seeing it" and go completely bananas! It's fucking ingenious tbh, SBB at his finest! And the fact that the song he chose for his current unhinged bluegreener fest was All This Time was for me the thing that really cemented this theory for me; I know some people disagree, but to me that song reads as being about him being closeted and his public life and the fans and choosing this lighting for that rather than for like We Made It or something really feeds my conviction that he is bluegreening on main as a way to tell us that he is gay rather than to tell us anything about his personal relationship. TLDR yeah I DO think he is signaling, a lot, but I don't think it tells us anything about the status of his relationship with Harry or anyone else and the reasons I think they are together don't have anything to do with Louis' stage lighting choices, but also that means I don't think it makes sense to say he's not signaling anything ever because you don't think they're together; both can coexist and I think it's just weird to act like he's not making pretty clear choices

#yeah yeah like I said I know some people disagree and think ATT is about harry #but that's true about literally anything he's ever written (which is annoying tbh) and I just don't agree ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sorry #none of us know for sure! your take is as valid as mine! but this is mine #SBB #this is just about Louis harry blue greens and other things like mad too but with him #well I don't feel the same tbh #I think he is talking about Louis specifically much more often #but then his situation around what people think and what he wants them to think is different so there ya go

[silverfoxlou]

The thing is,

Fans do not comprehend that being private means that he can have a whole relationship, doing things that people in relationships do, and no one would have a clue. Fans keep implying that while it’d be private, somehow they’d have some insight into knowing he’s not single. Which is extra hilarious to me. Fans also don’t know that a select few people can witness things in real life and never say a word. Being a huge fan of an artist for so many years does tear down rational thinking. They really can’t seem to accept that unless we see Louis with our eyes, we have /no/ clue what he’s doing. The ones who run into him naturally in his private life and keep it a secret know quite well that we don’t know this man outside of being a celebrity.

Mhhmmm

#as an example #fans were talking about how he Was at Barney’s the other night with only Chris… #because he was the only one in the photos… #when Oli and the band were in fact there as well #so if incomplete and incorrect info came from a night where we did see photos of home… imagine what he’s able to get away with #him* #if no one takes a photo or mentions that he was there #I have no doubts that Louis has figured out a system and a life that works for him #And it’s his and his alone to know #And the counter argument that if Louis happens to be seen #it’s because he wanted to be seen or was trying to place himself somewhere #instead of him… just living his life #is also a really bad take #These tags do not make sense but i am not rewriting them to be clearer lol

[nashvillethotchicken]

The way louis has always had his sense of self created by his proximity to others because hes never been alone in his life...

#Jacob Anderson #louis de pointe du lac #interview with the vampire #like louis has been lonely before. everyone has #but theres something about living and being alone that helps shape ones sense of self that louis hasnt gotten yet #his whole life hes been someones something. someones/son/father/wife/husband/whipping boy/partner #i dont thinks hes ever had to be louis. i dont even think hed know how to be just louis bc he “thrives” being partnered #and frankly i dont know if hed want to. being alone and knowing oneself is hard and what if he doesnt like him? #like really doesnt like him

[meyhew]

.

#btw. since i am seeing tomfoolery — louis wanting a number 1 album after he said he isnt chasing charts does not make him a hypocrite #louis wanting something he has put his heart and soul into to perform well DOES NOT make him a hypocrite #he hasnt let go of his artistic integrity he isnt blindly chasing commercial success #and he wont spiral into self deprecation if he doesnt hit number 1 #u guys are soooo stupid thinking hes fake for wanting a top spot like be fucking serious lmao. #the album is GOOD. its stellar even and he deserves praise for it. its not unreasonable for him to crave some praise #he can want to top charts AND be grounded enough to know that not doing so is not a measure of failure #if you cant celebrate him NOW then what r u even doing here. seriously what is the purpose of being bitter right now...

[finexbright]

in just a few hours louis' gonna walk down the red carpet looking absolutely stunning for a documentary he's wanted to put out that features his story in his own words, something he wants to share with the world. everything else aside, it'll be a celebration of everything he's achieved and how far he's come and the beginning of the journey of everything that's still left to come. i hope we focus on that, the joy and achievements and pride.

#all of those voices #look i get that we're anxious but i think at the end of the day you need to remember that he is a public figure. a celebrity #he wants to share a SLICE of his life with us. he's not gonna do a tell all he's not gonna share everything with us. ever #he's going to talk about his public persona and how HE navigates it #i guess what i'm saying is that there will be some things that will go along with the public narrative and it'll be uncomfortable for us #who know what is actually going on to see his public narrative put on blast like that #this is a documentary that'll deal with his public life not his private one #and it's also a documentary that's being released in cinemas worldwide which means it will have a commercialisation aspect to it too #it's curated and crafted for a certain purpose #so i guess then it's upto you whether you're okay with this trajectory of things whether you can remember that #this is about louis and his public life and what he wants to share and that it's got nothing to do with any particular individual