Dykes For Armand

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TVL x DOAB

Daniel can’t have his maker

Lestat can’t have his sanity

Neither of them can have peace

can we talk about this bookshelf??? 🍉 🍉 🍉

All About Love by bell hooks - PDF

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi - PDF

so we can see that when lestat is struggling he turns to his mom. and when he was with louis, louis kept him at a distance and that literally destroyed lestat with his abandonment issues. he couldn't turn to his mom, or i guess didn't want to, so he essentially recreated her.

i say that he recreated her because he sought antoinette out when him and louis weren't doing good, and because of her androgyny. remember the scenes of her in a suit? we all know gabrielle is very androgynous and even wants to be lestat in a way.

"Were you a stutterer as a child?"

Louis tells us a story for the first two seasons, and it IS a tale of seduction. It's about his romantic partners (Lestat, Armand) but it's also about HIS identity. Louis becomes comfortable with his identity as a vampire: "the dark gift" and the seasons close with him seeing vampirism as a gift rather than a curse.

Louis is turned out of love. Lestat loves him, and when he turns him into a vampire, he asks if this is what he wants. Lestat repeats Louis HAS to nod/say yes.

By contrast, Lestat is not turned into a vampire out of love. (book spoilers) he's turned out of force, and he resists until the end. And our introduction into his world is similarly chaotic.

the concept of a cynical, acerbic old journalist who battled a lifetime of trauma and addiction being faced with mortality through a fatal degenerative disease that will slowly rob him of his autonomy. a closeted elder gay man who spent the 80s in the queer scene in san francisco living through the aids crisis. he’s persistently clever and cunning and is strongly implied to have some sort of resistance towards mind control. he’s ruined every single relationship in his life so now he’s an asshole old man living alone with a terminal illness and his daughters don’t even talk to him while he keeps their childhood belongings in his closet. he ruins lives and people but is an expert at self-preservation.