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unfortunately re: the serving cunt line you can just tell the writers have become too cognizant of fandom. i do not want diegetic references to lestat popping his pussy any more than i want armand playing minecraft or saying he's too wife to be cancelled for abuse. like i get that this is yet another thing to seize and emphasize how absurd lestat can be and it does track with his propensity to update his vocabulary but you need to remember that this is a 268-year-old vampire from the french colonial empire whose achilles heel has always been literacy and who spent the second half of the twentieth century to the early 2020s in self-imposed, haggard exile. he's not deep in the trenches on tumblr or stan twitter he's getting duped by ai reels of anthropomorphized dogs on youtube

what iwtv the show has done well is deduce how much of louis’s first interview is really just an attempt to exorcize or consolidate his attraction to lestat, primarily through emasculation. in both the book and the show louis does this by opining how feeble and incapable lestat is, which clashes with how fearful and reverent louis becomes at the sound of lestat’s footsteps, how offhandedly he rhapsodies about his strength or clings to him in moments of peril. but i think hands down the funniest and most flagrant example of this is when book louis is like “and then i saw armand’s masculine face, more masculine than i’d ever seen lestat’s” and then you keep reading and find out armand looks like castrato ariana grande