A Shark on a Mountaintop

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

I KNOWWWWW 😭

things armand loves:

structure

group of people meeting regularly and following the same rules

abstinence and self-denial

he sees an AA meeting and his eyes light up with a kaching noise like in a cartoon. he’s like oh great, rules given to me by a higher power? an opportunity for self-flagellation? set steps i have to follow to cleanse me of my sins?

Something something "144 years of life and you're still Louis the pimp, paying a whore to sit in a room and talk with you."

i am purely myself. i belong to no one.

JENNIFER EHLE as GABRIELLA

Rolin has been saying it. You need to be patient. This isn’t episodic television, it’s serialised. Like chapters in a book. This was the case for the first two seasons as well. The story right now is incomplete and Gabrielle has an entire arc we’ve yet to fully see.

That’s not to suggest you can’t form opinions on the show before it’s fully aired. It just means you should be open to those opinions changing the more you see.

It goes without saying that Whipping is something that Armand intrinsically associates with Marius, because Marius beat him with a whip frequently as a “punishment” when Armand was his slave and child. But oh oh it’s worse! Because important insane detail: Armand describes in The Vampire Armand how when he was human in the 1500s men were much older typically when they hit puberty than what is the norm now (this is true. Bodies are weird). So typically men didn’t start to physically develop until like 16-20. Armand describes how he hit puberty when he was 17, and so all the times he was abused and sexually assaulted and used by Marius and others he hadn’t yet developed the ability to actually Cum with Production of Sperm.

And we learn that the first time that Armand truly Cums is when he is seventeen. Marius is beating him with a whip so violently that Armand is sure in the moment that he is going to die. After he’s been “disfigured” with wounds on his thigh and blood running down his legs, Armand starts to dissociate from the pain (which is something he’s learned to do) and is able to convince his brain to mix it with the sensation of pleasure. And while he is in this state Marius starts to Molest Him and Touch his Privates Which gets Armand to cum for the first time, ever.