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Miserably, our dog Louis collapsed and was found to have cancer last Monday, the same day there was an unexpected human death in my immediate family. Louis had a cutting edge new surgery to save his life but needs much more help, and we are out of money.
Please read our story and consider sharing, donating or even lending us some funds that we can return down the line. We really aren't able to deal with the fallout of this crisis in any way right now.
oresteia, robert icke // theatre of the oppressed, augusto boal // song of achilles, madeline miller // the book thief, markus zusak // antigone, jean anouilh // revisiting mockingjay ahead of the hunger games prequel, entertainment weekly // romeo and juliet, shakespeare // h of h playbook, anne carson // war of the foxes, richard siken // the road to hell (reprise), hadestown // planet of love, richard siken // they both die at the end, adam silvera
The number one funniest example of people inventing bullshit reasons ships they don't like are "problematic" that I've ever seen was people calling Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister "like siblings".
Fam.
Have you forgotten the number one most notable trait about Jaime Lannister.
Joe Keery - GQ Photo Shoot
Not Armand saying he was attracted to how Louis mirrored his misery... and Marius actually reinforcing that belief.
Joke's on them both because Louis's misery (after 'Merrick') was the one that helped Armand create Trinity Gate so they could heal together.
(Quotes from 'The Vampire Armand')
also like. idk what theyre gonna end up doing in the show re: claudia's death but i can so easily grasp how louis and armand would be so drawn to each other and end up just staying together for over half a century even knowing theyre set up for failure from the start like they both share this immense earthshattering desperate need to be loved but w louis its this combination of masochism and hedonism the desire to be cared for and lavished w attention and also consumed and overwhelmed and ground to dust. and with armand i dont think he wants to obliterate himself so much as he wants transcendent meaning and purpose. so it is actually a very (in the most literal sense) functional relationship where louis gets attention to the point of obliteration and armand gets to exercise his tremendous capacity for giving and louis cannot be too needy and armand cannot be too smothering. Like i understand how they can exist in such perfectly stable symbiosis that theyre in a concrete box a mile above ground with only each other for company for 20 years. theyre meeting each others most essential needs and in doing so have reduced each other to those needs. most successful miserable failmarriage of all time
“I thought of how much I loved Louis, and had ever since I had become Lestat’s fledgling. I thought of how deeply I depended upon him, and what I would do for him. It was the love of Louis which had at times crippled Lestat, and enslaved Armand. Louis need have no consciousness of his own beauty, of his own obvious and natural charm.”
–David Talbot, Merrick.
what if i trapped you in a flooded cellar for three days after finding you breaking into the house where my ex’s ex who i’m psychosexually obsessed with is hibernating and then i stalked you across the globe in a four year game of cat and mouse and then when you finally gave in to me i kept you dependent and delirious by my side and explored the 20th century with you as my guide and bought you everything you could ever want bc i couldn’t bear to let you go and all the while you begged me desperately to let you be with me forever but i refused because i also couldn’t bear for you to change your mind as you eventually would with eternity stretched out before you but then the state of madness and addiction i had driven you into threatened to kill you so at last i gave in and made you like me and STILL. still. i didn’t believe you loved me. and we were both boys
jenny zhang, in an interview with thora siemsen
Interview with the Vampire (2022-)
Bonus:
You’re basic if your favorite vampire chronicles character is Louis
I am basic. Shamelessly basic since book 1. Even after Louis set his husband of sixty years on fire, abandoned his family for a former cult leader, spent 200 years crying and complaining, set his plantation on fire, was basically called “lame” by the original vampire, set his apartment on fire, narrated a blatantly untrue memoir that trashed his ex, set his other apartment on fire, offered up his biographer like a coked up sex toy as a break-up gift to the former cult leader, tried to raise the demon ghost of his dead child, and inexplicably turned straight after 30 rl years of flaming it up with every male vampire he encountered in the series. I am basic for Louis.
Interview with the Vampire + Arrested Development
Louis de Pointe du Lac + text posts part 2
Have you seen the new interview with the vampire show?
I have seen exactly one episode. And for no other reason than because I have a crazy relationship with Anne Rice, having been completely re-shaped as a person when I first discovered her books as a (too young) kid, and because I was afraid to start the show and hate it. I have read so much Anne Rice, but this one-- this one, my beloved Interview-- was the first, the gateway and possibly the most formative thing I've read in my whole life. I felt certain the show would be bad. I knew from watching past interviews that Christopher Rice was excited to adapt The Vampire Lestat with his mother, but then Anne died, and it seemed to me that this latest adaptation was wrestled away from him and made into another Interview adaptation that he seemed to feel was unnecessary. And maybe it was taken from him? I have no idea, because I haven't looked into it at all. I see he's credited as an executive producer on this show, but that's a ceremonial title in most cases, so who knows? Besides, the '90s movie with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise is, in my opinion, as good an adaptation as one could hope for (minus a better casting for Armand). Why did we need another adaptation?
Anyway, it took me an extra minute, because early pictures of Louis in a hoodie made me want to set myself on fire. Whatever else she might have thought of this show, Anne is definitely rolling over in her grave over that one. My boy would never. But something else I'm positive of is that Anne would have LOVED Sam Reid's Lestat. I'm honestly shocked by how perfect this casting was. I didn't think anyone could do a convincing Lestat performance. The character is... a lot lol. I admit to loving Tom Cruise's Lestat, but I think it's safe to say that he was never Anne's Lestat. I believe with everything in me that Sam Reid would have been Anne's Lestat. Perfection. (We're not gonna talk about Stuart Townsend's Lestat.)
So, my thoughts:
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