i think the show's exploration of fanatical obsession within stan culture this season wrt lestat and his fans and haters is so interesting because of how different their obsessions run and where they stem from yet how it all still ultimately leads to same end point of extreme levels of violence against their obsession (which often includes sexual violence as well.)
like, there's magnus who was so "in love" with lestat that he stalks, abducts, rapes, kills, and forces him to become a vampire. there's the fang gang that hates lestat so much due to an obsession with armand and the great laws that they attempted to kill him—and given how graphically violent and sexual their shrine of hatred to him was along with harassing him at the urinals while inviting him back to their place and using baby jenks to drug and have sex with him as part of their plan to kill him, i don't think it's exactly outside of the realm of possibility that they planned to rape him as well (or again, given how extremely dubious the circumstances of the threesome with baby jenks in the elevator was.) and then with the last episode, there's the conspiracy theorist, vampire truther that was brushed off in the first episode of the season only to return in this one, trying to prove that lestat is a vampire by shooting him multiple times.
like, it's a whole wide range of how far—and violent—obsession can go (and it makes me wonder what might be coming next.)
