OliveShark

Yes, I agree this fandom is very doomery. I do think though, given it's a largely queer fandom, there are a lot of people who have been very burned by queer media and are waiting for the whole thing to go arse-up. There are also probably a lot of queerbait victims and superwholock refugees who are afraid another beloved show is about to fuck them over.

I get it. I truly do. But a lot of people just aren't doing what the show has been asking from the first episode.

I fucking love it here, man.

In the lawyer scene, Louis says he felt like something was going on with Lestat, but didn’t know exactly what. He could tell *gestures vaguely* all that was one big cry for help. While Lestat took Louis’ doctor and his biographer and took on the persona created from the book, Lestat, apparently, hadn’t been directly trying to contact Louis. I’m not sure who dropped contact first, but it’s clear somewhere along the way that they did.

So without direct contact, Louis could still tell that something was going on with Lestat and without even being asked, called the lawyer meeting to check on him. He comes off as reserved, but just the fact he came to check on Lestat says a lot.

In contrast, Lestat had to repeatedly ask, if not beg Gabriella to come to him. He even makes a vodka reference, which some people have speculated was him trying to lure her with all parts of himself, even for things he doesn’t really want to do with her. And then Gabi comes, he tells her he needs help, and she gets off on his wounds.

Back to the lawyer scene, Louis comes to the meeting not expecting anything in return from this. He just wants to know what’s going on. The meeting is called because of the hotel’s damages, but the only reason it’s in-person is to check on Lestat.

And so going to the concert, Lestat flies up to Louis and hands him the book, the one with his thoughts and feelings bleeding all over it.

If someone hurts you, and you lose trust in them, you typically close yourself off to them. Lestat feels hurt by the book, but I think this act shows that he still places major trust in Louis. This is Lestat telling him what’s wrong. He wants Louis to understand what’s going on inside his head.

Then during the Danlou dinner, which is explicitly stated to be Louis fan fiction, Lestat imagines exactly this, Louis empathizing with him. He knows Louis would understand what he was trying to say and why he was hurt, and he even understands, in turn, that Louis wouldn’t have agreed to the book being published anyway.

It’s very interesting because while Lestat doesn’t believe Louis loves him (Lestat imagining Louis not feeling the maker-fledgling bond that Daniel talks about and even thinking it’s weird), he at least thinks Louis cares about him. Or at the very least is sympathetic enough to both understand and feel concern for him.

Interview With The Vampire 3.02 "Toledo"

Gollum's last moments before descending under the Misty Mountains:

After Frodo begins experiencing possessiveness for the Ring:

And John, and C— and N—'s wedding:

It is very important to me that Gideon Nav is seen as a Losergirl. Seriously, she isn’t suave. She THINKS she’s suave, but she isn’t. She IS funny, especially when she’s the one narrating. Gideon is, in canon, a homeschooled teenager from a religious backwater planet and has canonically never touched a titty that wasn’t printed on paper or attached to her body. Don’t get me wrong, she is The Character of All Time.