#mw asks

Meet Sorrel & Rosemary. Decided to stick with the whole plant name theme. I imagine Clover having her mother’s hair & her dad’s fur & eyes. The picture above is from ep 4 & the comic’s from this. Character Clover belongs to @zetaalpha10

Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of the brand AMC tries to cultivate is critical darlings with a niche, devoted audience, so Mayfair Witches doing better broadly, but failing to develop either the acclaim or the fandom I think is probably an issue for them in terms of what the studio wants and - I hate to say it, but they exist in creative industries too! A the KPIs they’re trying to meet.

a somewhat comprehensive list of kinks i believe Louis is into.

1. Exhibitionism. (loustat and loumand but probably something he discovered more with loumand bc of how careful loustat had to be at the time. but in later times with loustat too.)

2. Role play (loumand centric, but i also think loustat get into the theatrics)

3. Breeding (loustat centric. i dont feel that armand wants this for himself lmao. also not in the sense that i think louis thinks he’s a woman, or wants to be one esp bc not every woman can and not every woman does. just like as he probably likes the idea of being able to have a child. and likes leaning into that when having condomless sex. also like look at the material)

4. Age gap (again the materiel)

5. I suspect. Daddy kink (Loustat centric, but also with loumand)

6. BDSM (loumand and loustat but in different ways)

7. Scene Play (loumand scentric)

8. Dom/Sub/Switch (dom/sub loustat, dom/sub/switch loumand)

9. Praise kink(loustat and loumand but lestat and armand approach it i ways that lends to their personalities)

10. dependency kink. (Loumand and Loustat)

11. Quirofilia - attraction to hands. (Loustst centric bc of Lestats hands. like the size of them. how he uses them when he talks and in bed)

12. Edge Play (Loumand centric but also loustat)

13. Sensitivity play (Loustst centric but also loumand)

14. Blood Kink (All em)

15. Katoptronophilia - mirror sex (loustat centric and his version of being voyeuristic where he’s the one getting the attention. i dont think hes too much a voyeur unless its watching masturbation bc i dont think he likes to see his partners with others lol. also i think he prefers the attention. also i dont know to much about his loumand era bc i dont think he really was reflective of himself and i dont remember seeing many mirrors if any?? lmk)

16. size queen/gagging/face fucking (specifically as it pertains to lestat’s considerables. but also with loumand as well)

17. being a pillow princess and not doing any of the work.

18. Hypnokink - erotic hypnosis to work through sexual trauma, or feel more connected to a partner during sex (loumand centric)

19. i’ve said this before but im not sure what being vacuumed in a latex box falls under. probably bondage. which falls under BDSM. i think he specifically would not like rope bondage but would like cuffs, bondage chairs and tables. etc. (loumand centric) EDIT - ive been informed this is breathplay/latex play! thanks yn.

20. Sadist/Masochism

21. Snowballing come/blood (all of them. but i think louis likes receiving the blood more)

22. begging (more so in the way that he cant help it. lestat likes this the most. but i also think armand gets a great deal of satisfaction from it. i also think louis likes to get lestat to a begging place and deny him until lestat can’t take it anymore.)

thank you for those tags. i've always been of the opinion that the racist violence that lestat couldn't take out on louis he did on claudia.

calling her names that are basically racist dog whistles. and obviously the one you just gave which is an example of lestat knowing his place in society as a white man and using it against a black girl.

IM YELLING!! Its so so weird. like ppl want to say he doesn’t actively lean into the racism but what of only bringing home white soldiers?? what of killing miss lily and keeping annie???? what of fooling around with her WHERE EVERYONE CAN SEE bc he KNOWS he can. BC SHES WHITE and staring louis down while he does it knowing they have to be more discreet. please he absolutely plays the fool. just like he said he can in ep 3.

yeah i definitely think those six years made her feel a like she was well on her way to getting what she wanted for sure, but i also think she believes she won simply by being a white woman. like from day one i think she thought she had it in the bag. i don’t think she takes louis seriously at all.

anyone who asks ppl to consider what we would feel if we were in her shoes misses the point that only a white woman could be in her shoes. along with the way lestat is playing her, she feeds her delusions with the fact that between her and louis she is the one who can give lestat what he seems to desire in louis officially in the eyes of society. thats what makes her such a threat to louis. she can be his wife for real by being a woman and being a white woman. lestat will come around eventually in her mind bc if he wants a real family then naturally it’s got to be her. she probably sees louis as a temporary thing. since lestat does like woman too and wants a family and shes the one who can actually give it to him, then louis and lestat are just playing house in her eyes.

in that moment in the bed even after the gifts and the song when louis tells her get the fuck out she’s like uhhh lestat handle him he thinks he runs things around here…she thinks lestat is with her in the way shes with him even then. i think that night is when she truly realizes her place in all this bc what an alarming experience to watch them fucking in your house. like they were in the other room and moved to the exact room with where she could see them through the window. louis de petty du lac. and i just know lestat put in work she ain’t seen from him yet. devastation.

I always wondered why in those 6 years did she not leave NOLA? We see that Louis is physically perfectly fine by year 3. She must've known with the non-stop gifts from Lestat it was only a matter of time before Louis was worn down.

im gonna push back on this hard. i want you to know that i’m not like mad or angry or shutting you down. im just VERY passionate about children especially black children.

before i get into it we do not see a louis who is perfectly fine ever. there is not a single episode when louis is in anyway stable. this is a assertion that does not take into account the beast of PTSD. that shit showed up with flashbacks in Dubai. He was not okay. and Claudia knew that.

also before i get to whats really driving me to push back. we are disagreeing in Lestat playing his part well. Louis is in love and bonded (the real actual definition of trauma bonded, not like how its been wildly misinterpreted) to lestat. He is not going along with this because Lestat is playing his part well. He is manipulating Louis. He is trying to manipulate Claudia. Lestat is the one who broke their relationship it does not matter that he’s not being provocative or aggressive in this scene. the last ten or so minutes ep 5 is enough of a reason for her to NEVER trust him again. What does it say that ANYONE should expect her to over look that alone and play nice because in this moment he’s not doing anything that is a take i cannot and will not agree with.

but ep 5 is not a stand alone. he been provocative and aggressive from the beginning.

but im gonna have to push back on something that has been bothering me. Claudia is not without emotion. and she is not without feeling. in fact locked up at fourteen she is MADE UP of emotion and feeling. she is NOT just a plotting monster. i thought i challenged this take enough in my rewatch but imma have to get into it more. maybe she doesnt feel the ramifications of her actions. maybe she isnt burdened by guilt bc of her age. maybe shes more ruthless bc of her age. why should i not attribute emotion to that. this is where i think ppl like to refuse the full breath of children’s humanity. kids seek nurture and care. they’ll do anything for it. they don’t have an full understanding of everything. but they are not these unfeeling cold monsters that just go about being destructive and not caring. a friend of mine told me onetime he took i think it was a jelly fish or something from the sea and put it in the bathwater bc he wanted to keep it. he didnt understand that would kill it. when it died he was so fucking anguished he cried for the rest of the day especially when his parents told him it happened bc he put it in the bath. that it belongs in the sea.

he didnt do that bc children are cruel monsters. he did that because he didnt understand the variety of life and the particular needs of that animal. but he is full of emotion. it was love that made him pick up that animal. it was love that made him want to keep it. it was love that crushed him when he found out what he had done.

now. i see to much that y’all wanna only allow the monster piece in claudia and it drives me up the wall. and her childhood is often used agaisnt her. shes more of a monster bc she didnt get to live a full life she let go of her humanity bc she didnt have all the years of humanity loustat did. except she had 14 years of humanity. in 14 years she lived a life. and i refuse to take that away from her. she is angry!! she is angry and sad and lonely and frustrated and isolated and alienated and reaching for connection and she is time and again denied her personhood. That is the humanity in her. she also fed the fuck up!!! and how she chooses to go about getting her ass out of there does not take away her humanity.

she is also curious. she also is loving and wants love in return. she is also nurturing and wants to be nurtured back. she is also gentle and wants gentleness back. ALL of this drives her ruthlessness for fighting back. her ruthlessness for killing. her ruthlessness for surviving. and her ruthless for doing what needs to be done to get out.

yeah. i saw from many book readers that one of the things about tvc is that they aren’t able to have sex in the book. (which i guess is later amended with lestat going through a procedure that allows him to)