grow like a seed • spread like a disease

thinking of censorship and Gutenberg's printing press and theses on the wall and Bibles translated from Latin and the way Daniel and Louis's book represents a destabilization of vampire hierarchy re who is allowed to hide the secrets of the vampire mythology and control vampire futures (a continuation of the work Claudia began with her diaries and research, recording and investigating everything that older vampires kept hidden for the Greater Good). she's punished for sharing those secrets, but the records live on, and then they're shared with the world via the in-universe iwtv book. and then Louis continues that shift of informational power with his "I own the night" broadcast, creating the unstable environment that makes Lestat's rockstar escalation possible. all of which, of course, can only trigger further violent backlash the way expanding channels of information always trigger violent backlashes from the powers that be.

i mean we could talk about hypersexualized lestat who needs to feel desired to feel loved always performing with his shirt off so he can pick up his fans’ lust directly from their minds but it’s never enough because that’s not what love is. but that would hurt lol why would we do that

louis looking beautiful and moisturized lestat crispy eight days into a coke binge. and I said thank god

okay but the gabstat handjob in the trailer looks like it's happening when they're both human, implying the incestuous element of their relationship may start before vampirism in the show. in the books, lestat reacts to armand showing him a scene of his relationship as a child with marius with no reaction to that part and instead instant idolisation of and a strong desire to meet marius. which. depending how long his incestuous relationship to gabrielle has been happening, there could be a layer now in the show that he reacts like that's fine and normal because to him it IS!

men need to be androgynous little rock sluts again. hair gel and cheap black nail polish are still sold in stores. chop chop

the world is ready for you, rockstar lestat

loustat have every single one of these which is why they're the greatest fictional couple of all time period.

my mutuals can use me as a reference on their resumes at this point I don’t even care