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GLUMP!!

What sound would a predatory tunicate make? Resembling a piranha plant from Super Mario Bros., these transparent invertebrates live anchored along the deep sea canyon walls and seafloor, patiently waiting for unsuspecting prey to wander by or swim into their cavernous hoods.

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Rewind the tape —Episode 7 highlights

One of our favorite outfits is...

…the suit that Claudia wears to their meeting with Anderson. This is the first —and so far only— time we see Claudia wear a suit. Combined with her hair, which she started to wear pulled up in episode six, and her grown woman’s purse, this is the closest she gets to shedding the facade of youth while in public —but, of course, Tom’s “little girl” reminds us that she can never fully access womanhood.  But she’s trying, and the suit symbolizes her new position in the family structure, the attempt to make herself into an equal: at the start of episode five she was still the daughter left home while her parents went to meet Anderson, now she not only attends the negotiations, but is an active participant, handing Tom the list that ends up defining his decision. The palettes of their outfits seem heavily symbolic too: Claudia, in beige, brown and red, stands apart from Louis and Lestat’s blue suits, but Louis keeps “a little shelf” for her, a touch of red in his tie that matches her crimson shirt.

What's a favorite look of yours? Claudia's high-waist pants and cape from the New Year party? One of their Mardi Gras outfits? Armand's unsubtly vampiric coat?

Reblog with your highlights, or make a new post with the tag #vampterview to join the conversation! And, if you're just getting caught up, learn all about our group rewatch here ►

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Rewind the tape- Episode 7

What's a favorite look of yours?

Definitely Claudia's red power-sleeves

I just love this look so much, especially when contrasted with how she looked in the beginning of the episode, wearing a beige cardigan, light green shirt, and neutral plaid skirt.

She adopts a younger look here, almost reflecting her teenage years, although those can never really be returned to again, as evidenced by hair, which, though down, is rolled up on the front left side. She's aiming for a more inoffensive, girly, dutiful daughter appearance, something that can blend into the background and escape Lestat's notice.

From "Bloody Fashionable: A Costume Analysis of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire" by Eliza Niblett:

As she gets older, red and other warm tones feature more heavily in what she wears, which usually contrasts Louis and Lestat, who are more often seen in neutrals and cooler colours. The red clearly reflects her violent and ruthless nature, but by setting her apart from Louis and Lestat, it also highlights her isolation, which leads to a drastic plan. (x)

When she puts on the bolder red, takes out her earrings, and puts her hair fully up, she is now ready to make her moves against Lestat, and wants to be noticed by him.

I also got that same red shirt and tie three years ago when I was going through my 40s fashion phase, so that may be why I'm also partial to it :)

#vampterview #spark in the dark #rewind the tape #claudia #iwtv #interview with the vampire

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From Emmy Magazine

#!!! #claudia #iwtv #interview with the vampire

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#previous tags #video #q

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Cause the first man I killed called me the devil, and the last boy I killed, the last boy I’ll ever love in the world, called me an angel. So that means I’m on the right path. And that means there’s so much more fun out there to have. I’m just getting started.

#i love this edit #claudia #iwtv #interview with the vampire

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When you have differing opinions on interior design, explore.org

#they'll move it back when the other's not looking too #eagle #bald eagle #nature #video #i'm officially like my dad i am obsessed with these guys

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We have a live cam in our aquarium of a bald eagle's nest, and I got so excited passing by, I dropped whatever I was doing to film this, because Whiskey and Xray were out and about! <3

Both are doing well and so are the parents. Usually with eaglets, there's the risk of the parents prioritizing the older one food-wise (Whiskey was born two days before Xray), but Mum and Dad are very experienced and seem to be showing them both attention right now.

You watch the livestream here :)

#mum was looking like a wet cat this morning in the rain lol she looked SO mad #couldn't blame her #eagle #bald eagle #eaglet #eaglets #baby animals #animal video #wildlife #aquablr

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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]

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#lestat de lioncourt and Other Things That Ruined My Life: An Autobiography by aquaristintern

#it's true though #okay last one i promise!

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I’ve been silent for too long and can no longer bear to keep this inside: @undecimber-of-joy is a good person and deserves many good things.

#and then i remembered this blog existed! :) #mutual appreciation

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Pour one out for #claudia.

#yeah... #claudia #iwtv #interview with the vampire

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I love swimming SO much i'm always thinking about swimming

#always #someone made a mistake making me because i was clearly destined for the water

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JACOB ANDERSON as Louis de Pointe du Lac INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2024) | First Look

#louis de pointe du lac #iwtv #interview with the vampire #q

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Dev Patel for BBC Radio 1

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in monkey man when dev patel makes the final confrontation he asks "do you know my mother's name? do you know any of their names?" and that's when it hit me...his character has no name and we've gone the entire movie without him ever identifying himself that way. when you give up a part of yourself for a righteous cause, losing his name so he can fully embody hanuman...yeah this movie is so good

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hey… don’t cry… look… two seals kissing

#marine life #q