lestat cries like every other page

like i'd seen jokes about it but i'm still taken aback at how MUCH this goddamn man weeps and sobs

he doesn't even seem that sad like there's the pressing existential terror but he's having fun in paris he just loves crying

in the aftermath of getting turned he shits himself and then is like "y'know i don't even give a fuck"

he throws up blood after seeing The Horrors but then is promptly like oh damn. blood. nice. and licks the blood he just puked off the floor

after a day napping post-turning he then puts on his super fancy outfit and does many cartwheels and somersaults in the woods

"i went to visit lestat and he was crying a lot. dying probably. so i left and sat and ate some grass and armand broke up with me except i didn't really realize that was what happened until like a month later. anyway now i just wander the night bc i'm too afraid to kill myself :)"

antoinette is antoine, except he actually isn't named for quite a while and he's just Some Guy lestat hung out with sometimes and randomly turned into a vampire

louis attacks claudia but doesn't kill her, later lestat says, quote "I am like a mother. . . I want a child!" and goes and gets her and turns her

louis jumps into a window then closes it behind him, causing lestat who is chasing him to just sort of crash into it looney-tunes style

lestat likes shakespeare but he dozed through operas

"We went to every performance, even those by amateurs, and Lestat would stride home afterwards, repeating the lines to me and even shouting out to passers-by with an Outstretched finger, `Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow!' until they skirted him as if he were drunk."

the first coven member louis meets in paris is santiago, who is inexplicably dressed exactly like louis and perfectly imitating everything he says and does like a mirror image, until louis calls him a buffoon

armand claims he's not the leader of the coven

also everyone other than armand (who is ginger) has their hair dyed black

the first introduction to telepathic communication from vampires isn't until louis and claudia meet armand at the theater for the first time, where armand immediately starts telepathically telling claudia to die like 5 minutes after meeting her

"Knowledge would never be withheld by Armand, I knew it." lol. lmao, even

when asked about vampire crimes they acted like the only one was killing another vampire

i'm used to being mad at adaptations for adapting things badly. being mad at the source material for not being as good as the adaptation is new to me

so like straight off the bat, louis' method of proving he's a vampire is...turning on the regular overhead light, which reveals that he's Really White and also Unnerving looking. and that's enough? i've seen some weird looking white guys this is not convincing. if he's genuinely so weird looking that if he's not in a dimly lit bar you can immediately tell he's inhuman, how is he able to effectively hunt or blend in with society??

also ofc i like that in the show louis doesn't even just flash his fangs, but specifically jumpscares daniel a bit - it's a little mean which i think is more effective in-story and out

also his description of his family is just so...nothing. i really don't get a strong impression of his dynamic with them

People in society asked my sister offensive questions about the whole incident, and she became an hysteric. She wasn't really an hysteric. She simply thought she ought to react that way, so she did.

this is an insane thing to say but i genuinely can't tell if anne realized that when she wrote it or if it's just some good ole internalized misogyny going on?