known religion hater Lestat de Lioncourt hanging a very suggestive/blasphemous painting titled "Young Man Kneeling before God the Father" (Egon Schiele, 1908) in his and his husband's bedroom. is anyone surprised

The Hunger + script

im absolutely losing my mind over these

i keep on thinking: in the 80s Marius used to just stick a tv in akasha and enkils faces and keep it on mtv for some fucked up reason. TV is kinda de@d now so wtf would he even do now…Akasha is stuck watching ridiculousnesses reruns

Another book detail that feels insane in the remembering… absolute choice to embed Mother and Father in a Nam June Paik installation… it’s going to be Lestat’s five hour long confessional YouTube stream

Armand lived in Venice during the absolute sluttiest period for mens’ clothes and I gotta talk about it.

Anne constantly used Botticelli as a reference for clothes (who was at his peak in the 1470s/1480s) but Armand was in Florence when Savonarola died, which puts him in Venice the late 1490′s. Fashion was moving fast, there was a big moral panic over society falling apart and becoming too secular, and in Venice it was time to let your inner ho out.

The look: Short. Tight. Made of as many expensive scraps as possible.

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daniel interviewing lestat in season 3

We would live in a utopian society if Gabrielle, Akasha, Maharet, Mekare, Pandora, Jesse, Merrick, and Rowan formed a polycule even half as toxic as what the men have going on

About half these people are reasonable adults with no underlying personality disorders though.

So is Armand actually swimming twice a day when he’s feeling one kilo too “plump,” or was Louis making up stuff to make him seem more human?

Because if I had to spend 500 years feeling insecure about my weight, I’d… Like I’m not even eating food except maybe pineapples to make my boyfriend happier?!

(Gif of me trying to get a mediocre star to chicharrone my body)

I honestly wonder if this was meant as an indication that the showrunners have changed the worldbuilding (again) re vamps being physically constant, because it would be insane for Louis to have improvised that piece of Rashid lore on the spot in response to Daniel’s stray thought. That being said, I can’t imagine the rules being changed to the effect that these immortal beings gain any benefit from exercise. What even is the point then lol. (That Armand likes to swim in this ‘verse I’m prepared to accept? That Louis had encountered a real human minion that had had this particular hang up and remembered it is feasible, but somehow feels wrong. I don’t expect this ever to come up again later in the series mind you)

“The other really exciting and really challenging part of that set was curating the artwork around him. For me, Rolin’s mandates were that he’s this cultured, international person and it needs to broadcast that there’s a lot of wealth, so we knew we needed some big names. But I didn’t just want it to be big for the sake of being big, but that there would be connections to the study of psychology, connections to African American culture in the United States. So, there’s a lot of Basquiat, but then also Bacon. And then we have a Vivian Maier photograph. She’s in the dining room in the back. What else did we have? We had a few artists from New Orleans, some contemporary. I wanted there to be his connection to New Orleans, to home, his connection to his race, his connection to international travel, to psychology. There’s also a textile piece that’s hanging that’s a kimono by a Korean artist. I think that knowing Louis’s character, there’s different paintings in the background that relate to women — whether that’s an allusion to Claudia or his sister or his mother — but these devastating relationships, so there’s imagery of women that we wanted to capture. We suffered quite a bit over making sure we were getting all these things that have way more significance for us than I’m sure the average person, but for me Louis was such a fascinating character. And again, with someone with infinite wealth, access, and resources, it was a really, really cool challenge. The hardest part is always just balancing the financial with the reality of getting the rights for things because we had to get the rights or all those things. In the end I think we were all really happy with what we ended up with.”

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Only saw the instructor name *after* I read this on AO3 last night then reblogged today lmao. I can tell we're gonna be invoking Todd Haynes a whole lot in this house

I’ve been thinking about this book that amc-Daniel wrote about the growing AIDS crisis. The back blurb says it was first published as a running series on Kaposi Sarcoma during the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic, which was before it was even called AIDS. Which means Daniel would have been in his late-20s at the time when writing about it (circa 1981). 

This means that Daniel was writing a running series for some newspaper (or maybe multiple papers) about this illness that seemed to be infecting only gay men (which is what was thought about the disease at the time - the original name for AIDS was GRID: “gay-related immune deficiency.”) Given how Daniel frequented gay bars, plus lived in both San Fransisco and New York, he might have even known a person or two who contracted it.  

If Devil’s Minion did happen in the past (and the hints even from the showrunners and cast is that it did), and it happened for the same length of time that it did in the books, then that also means Daniel was still writing, and was specifically writing a lot about this topic, even when he was entangled with Armand (and possibly Louis as well too in the show’s version of it). 

Thank goodness for the price of lumber or whatever it was. Especially this year after coming off several lavishly beautiful and expensive Amazon adaptations with pacing issues (all of which I enjoyed more than not… still, either too few episodes, too many, or weird choices in what to cut or focus on). That being said, I can somewhat mentally reconstruct the counterfactual, and I wouldn’t have minded it: you could telescope 5 and 6 (Claudia didn’t need to make two attempts to leave before the one that took, basically, and I could really have done without the SA in retrospect) and tighten the edit to do the New Orleans arc in 6 eps then Paris in a brisk 4. You can see the elements of the setup that allow Paris to be all quick payoff: pre-establish Claudia’s resentment of Louis, pre-establish Armand as Louis’s longterm partner and the overall tenor of their relationship.

As it is, s2 will run longer than its material unless significantly rejigged: as Rolin Jones points out, the canon is a lot of sitting around and talking (followed by murder). You’d have to give Europe a whole episode, Claudia and Madeleine a whole episode probably, and go completely hog wild on the Dubai and San Fran bits. There’s an obvious temptation to bring in the TVL Paris timeline as a parallel, but 1) you can’t shoehorn Lestat’s narrative into the Dubai framing, 2) conversely, you won’t be able to do it all in 8. I count TVL among the grandly problématique French historical novels of the 20th century that happened not to be written in French (think Angélique), and like the showrunner I want it to have a lot of room to breathe lol.

(To be honest, putting on my project manager hat, if AMC had Amazon Studios’ cash flows, they should shoot S2 (IWTV pt 2) and S3 (TVL) simultaneously: very little cast overlap, but a lot of set overlap.)

Can we talk about Daniel's off hand remark about Paris...

Because, of course Louis would know that street, Armand's house (which he refurbished for him) is not that far off...

Could this mean Armand was aware of Daniel all along? Following along as he proposed to his first wife?

(I did not need this pain today, but here I am. If I am in pain, so are you.)