#lestat and his babies!

[laniidae-passerine]

genuinely pathetic how Brad Pitt refused to give a good performance in the IWTV film because Tom Cruise, despite all his immense flaws as a real person, was serving undead bisexual cunt. he was never able to reach his highest heights without a good Louis to play off but his Lestat laid the foundations for what we have now. and despite my common sense I am undeniably fond

#like OBVIOUSLY the tv show is better. there’s no Louis better than Jacob and that’s for forever baby #but c’mon. the blond freak slay has been eternal #I do feel a little bit bad for cult member cruise because he was really giving it his all #religious insanity aside he would have clearly and happily acted out all of Lestat’s bisexual madness in front of middle america #and he deserves some applause for that. the man should probably be jailed for whatever crimes he’s abetted but his Lestat was so good fr #iwtv #amc iwtv #interview with the vampire #iwtv film #iwtv movie

[nashvillethotchicken]

Lestat trying to fuck Louis in 1910

#i truly think louis would have a normie insta very much posts fav shops on his story and be like omg howd you kno? #babe hes been stalking all your socials the past 6 months #he saw your fairy tale wedding moodboard saw a still from belle and rodger and hammersteins Cinderella on it and said score #he been asking your homegirls about you #he can literally read your mind he know baby girl #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #iwtv 2022 #ldpdl #loustat

[spending-life-pretending]

“You think a song’s gonna get a rise out of me?!” shouts local vampire dripping river water all over your floor after swimming the Mississippi and kicking down a door just to break six years of the silent treatment

#me #interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #Louis….don’t freak out but…I think the song may be getting a rise out of you #loustat #so funny to me that these were his FIRST WORDS to Lestat in six years #‘six years of begging u think a songs gonna get a rise out of me?’ #CLEARLY IT DID MY GOOD SIR #YOU JUST SWAM THE FUCKING MISSISSIPPI JUST TO SMASH THE RECORD ON HIS FLOOR #Louis baby have some dignity #get up king

[jaggedjot]

Honestly, if any character deserves to go on a hashtag misandrist genocide it is Claudia.

#there is a good AU where Claudia survives the events of the trial and ends up getting involved with Akasha #this post has been sitting in my drafts for months waiting for the second season #almost posted it when whoever pointed out that Santiago is likely seen by Claudia as a replacement for Lestat #was waiting until Louis does the archetypal post divorce father thing of wanting to invest all his energy into his new family instead #but the reveal today that Claudia's stage name is 'Baby Lou Lou' has finally pushed me over the edge #truly every man is her father and they all want her dead #even Louis manages to embody some of the worst elements of both the mother and father roles #Claudia #Akasha #Interview with the Vampire

[hekateinhell]

"Flowers," Armand spoke for Lestat's benefit. "What better embodiment of our existence than the birth, bloom, and decay of flowers? Only in paradise do petals truly last forever." 

"Renewal," Daniel added quietly. "Just because the petals fall off doesn't mean the plant is dead, Armand. The flowers will bloom again and they'll be as beautiful the hundredth time as they were the first time. It's the circle of life, and we're part of it." 

"I suppose," Armand didn't argue, seemingly content to lose himself in the black curves and lines. His eyes focused and unblinking, tongue peeking out from between his lips in concentration. 

It’s a cluster of flowers... Honeysuckle, peach, and wisteria blossoms. A dahlia, a rose, a chrysanthemum, and a lily of the valley. 

Such familiar flowers! 

Beautifully laid out on Lestat's bronzed skin by Armand's masterful hand. How many of those flowers had Armand shown Daniel in the garden he'd created for him, the last thing he had ever shown him before the veil came down between them forever?

How could Daniel help but recall now what he'd said when he shared the story of himself and Armand with Lestat on Night Island in the aftermath of Akasha? In the language of an ancient people the word for flowers was the same as the word for blood.

Blood, same as that which Armand meticulously wiped off of Lestat's skin. The scent permeated the air, arousing to the senses even when diluted with ink.

[READ ON AO3]

#this one got away from me rip #because your honor i just love them so much #baby's first banner too i'm embarrassed but i'm obsessed with flowers (and armand and his guys) #the vampire chronicles #vc #armand/daniel #armand/lestat/daniel #armand/lestat #armand #lestat de lioncourt #daniel molloy #fic: the language of flowers #my fics

[eyestrain-addict]

I take some solace in knowing that if Lestat were a real person, he would brutally murder everyone who bad talks Louis.

#lestans so quickly forget that louis is his baby. his fuckin cinnamon apple. #iwtv #interview with the vampire #loustat #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #lmao

[amarettas]

armand PLEASE

its a small redraw from a trailer of — ironically — tim burtons upcoming series 'wednesday' where i thought that its definitely something armand would say. and honestly? him and wednesday share a vibe for me.

#armand #go stab lestat baby #the vampire chronicles #interview with the vampire #vc fanart #the vampire armand #tvc #amiart #also i think this new boy is cute #but i dont have a name for him yet #they should be friends <3 #armand casually terrifying his peers #haha peers #and then this boy is like 'youre so cool' #following armand everywhere #sharing his lunch bcs he doesnt know yet #basically annoying but tolerable #thats what hed tell louis when hes back home #idk where lestat is tho #[enter lestat]: bonjour! [holds a girls school uniform for armand]

[rainbowcarousels]

It might still be a day or two before it materialises, but there is some mortal Nicki/Lestat coming your way. Here is a brief preview of their ridiculousness before the clothes come off.

“If everything went as it was supposed to, I’d be a lawyer and you’d be what, a priest?” Nicolas shook his head and stretched out onto the tiles, his feet finding purchase on some delt or other. “I don’t believe in fate. I believe in will and choice. And so do you! You'd make a terrible priest, you ask too many questions and the vow of obedience to the will of a god you don’t believe in would have destroyed you." Lestat wanted to argue but couldn't find the words.

"You live in a state of chaotic disobedience, Lestat," Nicolas continued on. "Even with all of that light inside you, that's just something that you have, it's not bestowed by some divine being anymore than it’s divine than how you look or walk or your ability to leave your hair all over me and make people wonder if I have a disobedient pup at home.”

“I bite less than pups do,” Lestat told him, even though he could see the fading telltale bruise on Nicki’s open shirt that indicated perhaps that wasn’t entirely true and by the look Nicolas was giving him, he knew it too.  “Besides, I will have you know plenty of people have asked me if I made some deal with the devil for my good looks.”

“And little do they know that you are in fact the very devil they speak of,” Nicolas sniped.

No, that wasn’t right. That wasn't right at all.

“Don’t say that,” Lestat said. 

“Why?” Nicolas said. “Was the devil not the most beautiful of angels before he crashed bloody into the fall? One man’s fall is another ascension, be they angels or devils. You don't need religion to tell you that.”

“You don’t believe in either.” And yet, the very thought sat uncomfortably in his chest. "But that doesn't mean you have to say it."

“I believe in nothing but the music,” Nicolas said, waiting only for a beat before he continued. “And you. I do believe in you.”

“Do you really?” Lestat asked.

The expression didn’t look hopeful. If anything, it looked as if he were admitting some terrible atrocity. “Yes,” Nicki said, lifting his chin. “And it’s terrible.  I think I could have lived what was left of my miserable life destitute and dreary if not for the fact I do believe in you, in that dizzying hope that only you possess.”

“Hope is everywhere,” Lestat insisted. “You just need to look for it.”

“If you start proselytising hope to me, you won’t have to worry about slipping from this roof.” Nicki mutters. “I shall push you off it.”

#lestat/nicki #vc #fic preview #wip #still a little rough and ready but it's a few thousand words so it's taking a while to edit #also baby lelio lestat is an intolerable ball of sunshine to hide his anxieties and i love him #(so does nicki he's just bad at expressing it)

[jacquelying]

your heart, love, is such darkness i feel it in the corners of the room

#iwtv #ldpdl #louis de pointe du lac #we got religious imagery #christmas carol-like ghosts of louis retelling his story to eric over and over #light of god bringing demonic failings into sharp relief #and more #bc i had no plan while drawing #so take your pick #<3 #his hair is causing the devil horn shadows.. i think #god or lestat or eric or claudia or his mother or his baby nephew is shining this light on him.. ig

[jcams88]

It's 2022. Lestat is awake and he's hovering outside the windows of the penthouse blasting Always Be My Baby from a 90's boombox.

#he happened to catch Say Anything on tv when he first woke up and went 'yes. that.' #sometimes he screams the chorus as loud as he can over the music #especially the 'i'm part of you indefinitely' part #louis will indeed always be his baby #he flips armand off every time he comes to the window #interview with the vampire #iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac

[nashvillethotchicken]

I'm think about claudia and louis again. 79 dead 1903 injured

#all that work to leave her abuser and get a better life for her and louis just to get taken out by louis husband again like omg #she shoulda been in the club! she should have been an aka! or an sgrho! she shoulda been upwardly mobile! but instead shes in an urn #on louis mantle with her picture looking down #or a tree in a garden in dubai or in a locket held tight in louis’s fist #like i truly feel for her so much #that baby is trapped!!! she literally cant escape not only from lestat but louis as well! #louis needs something to cling onto and its claudia #its always been claudia even when it was paul or grace or lestat or armand its always been claudia #and she cant leave his heart cus hell die if she does and oh how horrible itd be for the both of them #and she dont even get anything outta it! she love her father so much and all she got outta it was a soft casket #do you think she thinks about how louis killed her. even outside of what she says in ep 5 like louis killed her. he was the prox cause of- #the storyville fires/race riot like do you ever think about that? #do you ever think about how louis ended her life just to restart his own? cus i do. so fuckin often #and its not like she couldnt have done something with herself outside of them! she can! bailey!claudia was light enough where she could pass #for white pretty well and go and live whatever like she wanted but she didnt. cus she loves and misses her father so much and she wanted- #a life with him and her without the specter of lestat over them and louis couldnt let it go for her #see thats louis problem. he cant let anything go #couldnt let paul go. couldnt let lestat go. couldnt let humanity go couldnt let claudia go kept all them damn newspapers looking for a- #glimpse of his heart his baby his angel his claudia #claudia belonged to louis. cus nothing belongs to louis really #not the home he lives in (either rue royale or his childhood home) #he doesnt own his husband who galavants up and down the quarter with a white woman who isnt an 1/8th of him #he dont own his business cus that can be taken away by a lynch mob or a plague or a drink too many #he dont own his family who replaced him with some broke ass nigga the second paul passed #he dont own his brother who lives quietly in a mausoleum louis is so sure he put him in #he dont own his sister who so wants to connect with louis even when its rough and its eating at her like he almost did Benny #the only thing he really really owns is claudia. thats HIS blood. thats HIS daughter #he didnt make her but she is HIS and no lestat or armand or freaky vampire lufe can take that from him #claudia du pointe du lac #louis de pointe du lac

[blueiight]

Coming slowly to know his evil, or being catapulted into it ... was all the same. I wanted none of it finally. And, deserving nothing better, I closed up like a spider in the flame of a match. And even Armand who was my constant companion, and my only companion, existed at a great distance from me, beyond that veil which separated me from all living things, a veil which was a form of shroud. (IWTV, 1976)

#yn. #iwtv #tvc #armand #louis de pointe du lac #how u gone tell this story w him in the same room👀🫣 #AxL being together in the amc show verse has so many implications #what stage r we in the AxL relationship? i find it so fascinating. #all the hooplah on DM cuz white fans need a white face to insert in& im like did lou already bury armand in the st louis cemetery?… #no shade but im js if they kept a or l as white we would have more convos/speculative fiction on the nature of their dynamic #i fucking love it. lou terrified deathly of the fact that there is no maker sister wife dynamic w armand #meeting an entire vampire cult. knowing hes in charge of them. & he let u kill them all. whos to say ur not next? #a spider in the flame of the match… bait for a shark. the way lou frames himself here is fascinating #armand’s later descriptions fawning over how pitiful and morose and easy to abandon louis was #getting broke up w in audubon park cuz armand wanted to see if les would snitch on himself & spur lou into some emotion… #louis making up the part about lestat and the baby. my god💔💔💔💔 #ig this is an answer to one of my old anons who wondered if book lou harbored suspicions on a & his role in clauds death.. yea #i love how amc made all the retcons part of the question of memory itself & what is narrative #the hegemony & hierarchy of relatability - the white man as the conduit for a tale told thru a black man’s complex lense #s

[mmmngoc]

Louis | serpentwithfeet - redemption

Somehow I thought the sweet perfume of our truths rotting inside your belly could free me.

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #iwtv edit #iwtv amc #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #loustat #jacob anderson #serpentwithfeet #i just love this song it’s so louis coded #neither vampirism nor his love for lestat could 'save' him #baby save yourself #go to therapy

[viciousland]

People, help me understand myself a bit better. Lestat is one of my favorite characters of all time. I love him an insurmountable amount, ans yet I feel so much joy whenever he suffers? Like what?

If his choices bite him in the ass... I cheer. I'm overcome by joy.

Whyyyyy?

#only when his troubles are caused by his own stupid ass #If someone comes for my baby without a reason #I hate them forever #lestat de lioncourt #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv

[vorbarrsultana]

i’m so intrigued by the idea of nickistat during the french revolution and the way they may tackle it in the show

#iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #nicolas de lenfent #nickistat #mostly because i can't imagine lestat staying on the sidelines during that #especially his early tvl self #the /i beieve in goodness above everything/ self #the /i hate the lifestyle of my aristocratic family because they are content with rotting away instead of changing for better/ self #the /imagine the beauty of secular world where no one is burned on stake/ self #and it would add another interesting layer to the story because then the death of lestat's mortal family #(including his baby nieces and nephews) #would be indirect consequence of his actions #and thematically it's so in line with book!lestat tragedy of wanting to do good and failing miserably #and nicki..... what would nicki who doesn't believe in anything do?? #so many interesting possibilities

[fire-gift]

Tbh the scene i'm looking forward the most on iwtv s2 is the loustat reunion at the end of the book because i love pain and angst and suffering

#like i still think about that part were louis has the baby in his arms and lestat hugging him and crying begging him to stay with him 😩😭 #like..... i feel like the baby isn't gonna even gonna be in the show but a bitch can hope #it all depends about how it plays out at the end... #i mean lestat's murder from ep7 was different from the book so that's why i'm kinda :/ #x #but oh well...we'll see