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The vampire lestat 03.06 | “Montreal”

This idea formed when a few Loustat fans were talking and realized there was a severe deficit of positivity and creativity in the fandom directly after TVL. So, @loustatified and @lovstat set off to try and fix that. Shortly after, the Loustat Bingo event was born! Special thanks to @ainosgarden @educatedinyellow @greyyourwarden and @houseofvamps we borrowed prompt ideas from them to fill the board out fully!

Here are the rules and guidelines:

We love the community of friends and connections that’s formed around talking about Loustat on here and we wanted to something to celebrate that! So this is predominantly a Loustat event. Works that follow Louis or Lestat are fine, but please remember to focus on their relationship with one another if you would like to be featured in this event.

Works we would love to see in the #loustatbingo tag:

Fanfiction: could be any length and any rating. Just make sure that it is tagged appropriately and content warning mentioned if any.

Art: could be your finished pieces, sketches, comics, or doodles. NSFW welcome.

Gifsets & gifs

Moodboards

Fan edits / videos Be creative, and spread joy and love for our favs!

A few gentle rules

Tag warnings and ratings appropriately, especially for anything explicit or heavy.

Be kind in the tag. Comment, reblog, hype each other up. Please remember this is a fandom positivity event, not a contest.

Timeline

Event runs: Sep 20 - Sep 26

Please remember to tag your work #loustatbingo so we can find it and share it!

if anything, the arguments presented by iwtv and tvl are that nobody comes to violence on their own. hurt people, the show argues, hurt people. and perhaps most difficult to accept in a society like ours: harming other people can be, itself, traumatic.

this is a story about cycles of trauma and abuse, and it posits that breaking out of it is a choice a person has to make, for one. and two, that someone's ability to make that choice depends on the tools they have at their disposal (for example: louis and lestat finally realizing they gotta work on themselves AND understanding that they lacked a lot of the tools to arrive at that conclusion because of the time they were born in). yes, there's systemic shit, but individuals also have power within themselves to Choose to Stop, to be and do better.

worth noting, though, that the show isn't arguing for a can't we all just get along vision of breaking the cycle. sometimes you have to carry the fact you caused harm that won't be neatly resolved (like, say, daniel and his daughters). some bridges are burned (perhaps) forever, but that also doesn't mean the people that were hurt are caught up in their own pain. you don't need to forgive to move on, nor do you need to be forgiven to move on.

yet, i don't think the show is arguing against the possibility of reconciliation, either. the argument seems to be that there can be no reconciliation without acknowledgement that people have a right to self-determination. and perhaps the way to get there is through compassion.

ultimately, compassion seems to be precisely what the show asks of the viewer and the characters both. it does so by eliciting sympathy through interiority. that is, by exposing the private selves of these characters. through that exposition, the show invites the viewer to reflect on what suffering does to people as well as what it leads people to do.

Ask for it wolfkiller and you shall live forever