"sister. daughter. infant death."

lestat calls his relationship with gabriella 'oedipal' for the obvious reason but can we please perhaps talk about how louis and claudia's relationship could ALSO be called oedipal in a way. because you know who else had a daughter who was also his sister? thats right, Oedipus did! and the louis-claudia relationship has so much in common with the oedipus-antigone relationship. both claudia and antigone being frozen in the roles of daughter and sister because of the nature of their families and their parents' relationship, never getting to grow up and 'become a woman' in the eyes of their societies. claudia's "maybe I'd have a handsome husband by now... I'd be sweepin' floors, makin' dinners, nursin' babies," to antigone's "no part in the bridal song, the bridal bed, denied all joy of marriage, raising children--" antigone leading a (literally) blind oedipus out of thebes, just as claudia led a (metaphorically) blind louis out of new orleans. "your marriage strikes from the grave to murder mine". is anyone else seeing the parallels. can anyone hear me

#both being sentenced to death at a farcical trial#haemon killing himself to be with antigone in death and madeleine deciding to burn together with claudia (via antigone-deactivated)

Love Daniel realizing Louis glazed the SHIT out of Lestat and he’s actually kind of a loser.

#i guess louis' type is sopping wet cat of a disaster loser#although to be fair... i think lestat is doing a LOT worse than usual bc he's getting an extremely honest eye opener to how#his loved ones ACTUALLY see him as.#like he knew he was horrible to louis and apologized for it (what he thought he needed to apologized for)#but he's REALLY getting to see just how bad his day to day attitude affected Louis and Claudia and how much they resented him#that's not an easy pill to swallow. It's clear he's not handling the revelation well and its making him spiral BAD#(i wonder if the Lestat in the book reminded him of his father) !!! (via @cussundria-nerd-kneal)

#lestat is weird and compelling but honestly Louis is just simply attracted to him#and that sweet soul he's hiding #all of them have horrible taste in men though - Louis is definitely not special#claudia would come in here and punk all their asses (via angrybubbles)