BlueBell

they dont tell you this but you carry your upset younger self in you like a parasitic twin

For my sanity: if you believe that Louis would judge Lestat for the abuse he endures or that he doesn't love Lestat based on the one second clip you saw, please block me now.

Look I love Louis de Pointe du Lac, I love Loustat, I do, but I am truly baffled at the amount of people saying "Lestat should have trusted him with more information about all his traumas :(" based on today's promos, when we, the audience, already know it would have wound up in the book that's given Lestat PTSD flashbacks for like six months

TVL is some of the densest writing I have ever seen on a tv show. The writers treat every single line like it needs to be doing three jobs at once - foreshadowing, character work AND a callback to something said in season one. No show is above criticism and when all is said and done i'll have my own critiques of season 3 but the quality of the writing or the writers room not understanding these characters is not one of them. you WILL need the rewatch. you WILL need to pay attention or you miss something important or misunderstand the characters. they will not hand it to you easily.

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

I know lestat wanted to kiss the fuck out of louis when he let out that little annoyed roar

iwtv continues to be so smart in its portrayal of memories and trauma, the way lestat’s memories of his family are so obnoxiously loud, everyone’s screaming all the time for no reason and everyone’s acting like caricatures, like an actual assault on the senses, as if lestat’s mind is filled with unbearable noise every time he thinks about them. lestat’s memories coming at him all fragmented and loud and violent, attacking him and beating him into submission as he desperately tries to escape them is such an interesting contrast to how louis would carefully weave a thread of his past pretending the glaring holes in it weren’t there

turning a big dial labeled "victim" on one end and "perpetrator" on the other back and forth and constantly looking back at the audience for approval