It's funny that Louis is canonically always on the grind. He's investing he's a real estate mogul he's a multi millionaire he watches the stock market open and all his husbands are cringefail jobless art guys who also suck so bad. Except for human Daniel who has two pulitzers.

no but it’s even funnier when you think that daniel only has those pulitzers because louis like,,, gave him his grind. daniel was in fact also a cringefail jobless art guy until louis basically rewired his brain to make him the most employable journalist on the planet.

legitimately nothing funnier on earth than louis' side of the bedroom very prim lovely woodwork immensely chic vs lestat's full sized double wide floor mirror. and absolutely nothing else

sex mirror+ privately commissioned rococo portrait of maman vs the literal fucking closet

louis mon chère pourquoi are they saying that my iconique leyendecker gentleman’s smoking jacquet est une cardigan féminin ? do these moche millennials really believe that je suis some sort de femme émasculée ?? mais c’est trop stupide ! i am un homme mais non ?? do you not believe that i am manly, louis ??? SAY THAT I AM UN HOMME, LOUIS !!!!!!!! JE VAIS TUER– mais non ! bien sûr i am not angry with you louis ….. tu est trop belle to be angry with ….. you are mon how you say uhh ….. malewife ! you are l’amour de ma vie éternelle …. mais oh la la now claudia is triggerée …… s’il te plaît dis-la que i did not mean to throw all our belongings across the room …. oh mais c’est ne matter pas, parce que bien sûr mon truc préférée dans cette maison c’est toi ……. now come to coffin mon chère … papa est fatigué

i dont even think this is textual i think it’s really just another fault of how much of a mess the pacing was but god this just screws heavily with the depiction of louis’ love for claudia. the only confirmation we get is that it was lestat who was the one that saved which like. ok so? claudia is dead! he still did that fucking play! he was not forced to be there, for all we know! and all you know louis! for all you know louis, he couldve prevented that! ​like it’s not that he went back to lestat because he didn’t Really and i knew he would and i wanted him to Because i knew he would but for so little??? the margins were damning evidence but he didn’t doubt it for a second he said any evidence that lestat is in the smallest way going back to is evidence enough for me which. that’s fine but write me a stronger reason! like. their final scene didn’t play as forgiveness but it also didn’t not and a lot of the thanking just read as. ‘yeah ok you had a point’ to. what exactly? to do what lestat did???????? the writing itself in the scene was iffy at best because i dont. i dont think they were trying to go for an all excusatory reconciliation but whatever ‘this is complicated there were things done that are inexcusable but i will acknowledge the things that have moved me deeply’ + ‘we (circling back to the novel’s original inspiration) are both parent’s grieving this child we both failed (although on very different levels here, which i feel the writing also did not. distinguish.)’ angle they were going for did not come through and just. in the end it just feels rushed. which unfortunately can’t be reason to say the way things came off is exactly what the writers meant but then. why did they fucking rush it and pace it like that.

well i guess it’s textual because the writers are saying it so. anyway this also ruined daniel’s final divorce blow to armand and louis’ marriage. his reveal was less about exposing armand to louis because louis was being manipulated and lied to again by his companion, and more about a ‘lestat is actually your true love! he’s been your true love all along, don’t you see?!’ which. not a stance i’d expect from daniel molloy i must say.

reading the oresteia so you can read king lear so you can read paradise lost so you can read lolita so you can read the cairo trilogy so you can watch revolutionary girl utena so you can watch succession so you can understand what an abusive patriarch looks like so you can watch interview with the vampire