But there was so much that was good about movie!IWTV!… I know I know, it’s fun to poke fun at it regardless… movie!QOTD was much more cinema sinful. IWTV’s greatest sin was Antonio!Armand but c’mon, ppl who didn’t read the books didn’t know that…
There’s two times in IWTV that Lestat says he just wanted to talk to Louis post-swamping.
1. “There’s something I must tell you… about that night in the swamp.“
^Lestat says this to Louis in Paris, at the Theatre des Vampires, re: smtg Lestat had wanted to tell Louis the night Louis and Claudia put him in the swamp, seemingly dead.
Neither of them ever bring it up again, but my guess would be that it had smtg to do with the feeling Louis had when he put Lestat in the swamp. In the book, he walks into the muck w/ Lestat’s body, going far from shore, and feels a pulling, like he should go down with the body:
“I felt a pull suddenly, as if some force were urging me to go down with him, to descend into the dark water and never come back. It was so distinct and so strong that it made the articulation of voices seem only a murmur by comparison. It spoke without language, saying, `You know what you must do. Come down into the darkness. Let it all go away.‘”
Being maker and fledgling, they technically cannot read eachother’s thoughts, so maybe, in this extremely emotional moment, Lestat was able to pierce that veil to cry out for Louis in the only way he could ;A; Or maybe it was just Louis feeling guilty about, idk, helping kill his own maker!!!
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2. “ ‘I wanted to talk to you so much,’ he said. `That night I came home in the Rue Royale I only wanted to talk to you!’… `I went to Paris after you…’ ”
^At the end of IWTV, when Louis finds a very decrepit (but not dying, Louis says “dying” but it’s emotionally dying, not physically) Lestat, Lestat insists he just wanted to talk to Louis the night he dragged his soggy butt out of the swamp and back to the Rue Royale, but it seems to refer to what he said in Paris, smtg about the swamp.
[^What a bittersweet moment in movie!IWTV, that “final” meeting before Louis goes to SF to find some cute guy to tell his life story to.]
Based on the fact that Lestat wrote an entire book in response to IWTV, he most likely wanted to tell Louis EVERY SINGLE THING that was in that book. It’s Lestat’s backstory, everything else he couldn’t tell Louis during the 65ish years they were together in NOLA, and most importantly, WHY he couldn’t tell him any of those things.
*nods* I know that feel. When writing fic, sometimes it’s easier to write Lestat from the outside, let other characters describe things about him that even he himself is unaware of. Someone telling a story about you, describing you, they’re painting a portrait like an artist would, and it’s often much more accurate than a photograph ❤
At the booksigning 11/30/16, AR told us this comment a friend made to her re: Lestat’s portrayal in IWTV
(bc even AR was surprised that Lestat was the one she wanted to explore more!):
“You drew Louis in black ink… and then painted Lestat in flaming colors!”
The Consulting Analyst Masterpost: Interview with the Vampire -Vrai Kaiser
Interview with the Vampire is a lot of things. A queer love story. A moving depiction of debilitating depression. Sometimes heartrending in its prose and sometimes an equally beautiful trainwreck. Frequently problematic from a modern perspective and yet unspeakably important as both an influential work of vampire fiction and one of the few widely-available works for queer kids to see themselves in. Above all, it’s dear to my heart. Which is probably why I spent several months flailing over it in considerable detail (along with the culture and various adaptations around it).
The entire series of essays is here collected for your reading pleasure – with plenty of time to catch up before we move to the next book.
…For our third annual Vampire Chronicles Secret Santa exchange!
If you participated last year, or participated in any of the other exchanges we hosted after, you should be familiar with how this works. Think Secret Santa, but with no sharing of physical addresses. The gifts given are all shared completely on Tumblr, be it drabbles, fanart, awesome graphics, or what have you. We’ve had great turn outs the past couple of years, and I am definitely looking forward to seeing what great stuff you guys submit this year!
If you would like to join, you can sign up until December 2nd at 11:59PM CST. On December 3rd, we will be assigning all of you your Santas. So, feel free to swing by the rules page, and once you’ve read that through, go ahead and join!
Do the thing, ppl! @merciful-death and I are once again mods of this event.
We need fanworks now more than ever!
We’ve gotten a lot of entries, this is shaping up to be another great exchange ❤ Remember to sign up!
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