rosesocietyy
Modern Louis might be vampire of all time idk something about his cold, overly controlled mannerisms and house of concrete and stone is morbidly appealing to me sorry. He has his own wing at the airport, he has a blood farm, he shares the same private doctor as the prime minister, he has dozens of servants at his beck and call, he wanted to revisit the memories of his first marriage that destroyed every fiber of his being and his partner of 70+ years said yes of course baby let's do that, he's pyrokenetic, his walls are lined with stolen art, he's writing a novel-sized suicide note in purple prose, and most importantly, he wears matching blacks.
skellynoodle
Lmao I got really mad at the show and didn't finish this, but now Im somewhat chill with everything,,, love gay vampire drama
losingbenni
JACOB ANDERSON as Louis de Pointe du Lac
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022)
1.01 - In Throes of Increasing Wonder…
cogcltrcorn
"the blood-drinking no longer needs to be queercoding or sexual because the queerness is overt" yeah, 100 percent yes, (also. I need you all to pay attention to the claudia factor, as in, they clearly do not want the viewer to get squeezy about whether or not those guys TECHNICALLY sexually assaulted the child they turned) but. But. the feeding may not be sexual by default, but TO LOUIS IT IS.
like. we really only see him feeding in two types of ways: 1) people that he finds morally reprehensible (that lawyer in ep2, alderman, whoever got his jaw ripped the fuck off), and those are clearly the easiest kills for him to justify, those are things he allows himself to eat when he is generally fasting/attempting to fast. like he doesn't go straight for the cake, he goes for the sugar-free cookies because they are permissible in his mind and then eats seven boxes
2) men he finds hot (the sailor, damek, armand, he possibly wanted to eat jonah??, and yeah every time he bites lestat it's clearly sexual). the cake. the thing he really really wants but doesn't allow himself to indulge in. so we generally don't See him indulging in it, except for the times when he has separate justifications for it (like his whole "I do not kill" farce with the farm and whatnot. "I am allowed this piece of cake because I am going on a treadmill later")
and those are all the times we see louis, the main character of the show, feed on humans. because louis as a narrator finds feeding unsightly, disturbing (and utilizes it in his performance to daniel accordingly. like, apparently every meal they have together follows the same pattern of transition from normal ("look I am eating from a bowl like a normal guy!! so normal!!") to sexual/disturbing (which are, as I am trying to argue here, the same thing to louis).
and then when you add it up with how louis connects feeding properly to his libido, which in turn is directly connected to his relationship with lestat (with rejecting feeding becoming rejection of lestat) we get this. fucking gordean knot with louis in the middle. conflation of vampirism and queerness, denial and absolution, sex and murder, men you want to fuck and men you want to eat.
cogcltrcorn
tags by @savage-garden-nights
YEAH!!!! YEAH!!! a frequently forgotten/misunderstood aspect of ed's is the fact that the most appealing aspect of it is control, and there are few things that make you want control harder than feeling powerless in your everyday life. louis is striving for control with everything he does, I would argue that one of the reasons he is so adamant about continuing to run his business is this need to have control over something in his life, and, big surprise, the episode dedicated to louis stopping feeding is also the episode focused on his business being taken away from him. like, the amount of stress in his life increases radically, and "suddenly" louis feels the need to reclaim control over himself. and then the situation with the business gets worse, and lestat once again makes the situation worse (by misreading the situation on all fronts, and applying the additional pressure with the whole. antoinette thing.) and by ep 4 louis has essentially no autonomy or control. luckily for him, claudia needs management, so he can get part of his fix there, and parenting in tandem with his newly found safe food get him through the next 4 years relatively ok. then he loses the opportunity to exercise control in parenting, and we all know what happens then.
I guess I find interesting the switch in ep6. it's both an another attempt to manage himself into a suitable partner/person/etc, (he is making an executive decision that he is no longer going to do That, because that affords him a little control over his family situation), and, apparently, one of the early signs that he is giving up completely.
I have frankly no idea what the fuck is going on in dubai. I am skeptical of people that assume that the whatever the fuck is going on in the penthouse is all armand's doing, considering what we know of how armand usually chooses to live (when given the opportunity armand lives on a private island filled with casinos and malls. this man is incapable of minimalism), what seems more likely to me is that louis is going through his semicentennial self-flagelation episode. this time in a concrete box. armand is far too desperate to say no when louis asks him to make their lives hell of his own design, so they are now stuck there.
frankly I think a lot of louis's problems could be solved if he picked up the sims
LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC
Interview with the Vampire | 1.07 “The Thing Lay Still”
Interview with the Vampire (2022-)
1.07 “The Thing Lay Still"
