what the hell, people

Lestat's tiny little interactions with Fareed are so cute and sweet and Lestat clearly likes him so much but since he cannot catch anything resembling a break this season I am now suddenly terrified that Fareed is an opp 😭

can someone ask one of these screeners causing trouble a REAL question that's actually important (will I get more fareedstat question mark)

armand was genuinely so funny last episode like he’s planning out his apology tour and he’s like “okay let’s start with lestat…i will break into his trailer while he’s sleeping and everyone else is gone which won’t freak him out at all because i have never once been involved in the disappearance of his loved ones, and then i will read my apology letter which goes chronologically and doesn’t start with the murder of his daughter which is clearly the main thing he’s upset about and also our last interaction with each other and then i will tell him to stop making music that announces vampires exist even though i contributed to a book that also announced vampires exist and that he was one and included his full name and physical description and instructions on how to kill him that people have been attempting to do in my name”

the writers did so fucking well at portraying and deconstructing the over abundant amount that lestat in the text romanticizes his abusers. he calls it the "seduction of magnus" multiple times throughout the vampire chronicles instead of admitting he was preyed upon. when you read the books you have to look between the lines of his flowery prose and avoidance but the show took a corny over the top music video style approach and then slammed it next to a full blown ptsd flashback to make sure the audience did not have a chance to misinterpret or mock anything and i respect them for that

lestat calling nicki his “bipolar boyfriend” breaks my heart because what do you MEAN nicki died before he had a name for what he was feeling and why he was feeling it, let alone any treatment for it?? what do you MEAN lestat learned the term as it came about in the 20th century and recognized it in the memories of his dead first love????????? what do you MEANNNN

i have a lot of thoughts on the matter but i will say that fandom moving from semi-private blogs and communities to extremely public and algorithm-driven social media was a huge mistake that has changed fandom culture for the worse