Forgive me. My hands are much older than the rest of me.

As a Daniel enjoyer, can I just say, the racism is the point. The ableism is the point, the bag on her head as she cried, the student used aggressively, the estranged daughters. This is a boomer monster. Remember how he lectured Lestat's head on having carved out a path for himself? That's boomer talk. You dislike him by design, because he is a bad person and I'd never seen a so thoroughly boomer evil on tv, it's very interesting and timely, you just gotta understand that it's not a blind spot in the writing, it's intentional. Just like it's intentional that Armand torture Louis, and the shockingly evil ugliness of that. The ugliness of incest, of murder, nothing is sanitized.

Incredible “saying the most harmful things I can think of to my parents to try to make them feel the way they make me feel” performance from Delainey

Nicki and Lestat had loads of non-sexual intimacy in the books. Loads. Our conversation. Music. Picnics in the orchard. Even the "it's alright, it's alright" was something in the book. Nicki used his music to soothe Lestat at least 2 or 3 times.