"Did You Love Him?"

Listen as though I'm the voice of God or an angel talking to you. Telling you this room doesn't matter, this night doesn't matter. You're not inconsequential or a junkie. You're a bright young reporter with a point of view.

daniel molloy 📼

Some things I think about a lot:

Bill saying if Arthur’s hair grows any longer he'll have to put a dress on him

Bill being tied up in that way when Arthur saves him from bounty hunters

Lenny getting praised by Bill

Karen saying Arthur is more kissable without the beard

One of the girls (I THINK IT'S SADIE) suggesting Arthur wear pig tails when his hair is long

Micah making himself crack up calling Arthur Santa Claus

Javier sitting there while Bill gushes about how scary he was that one time

All of Hosea and Dutch's camp interactions

Abigail telling Molly that she understands ("Unfortunately, I do")

John rejecting Jack wanting to play, and in chp 6 actively playing with him

Pearson's interaction with Mary-Beth

Tilly and Mary-Beth's friendship

Trelawny

When Dutch and Grimshaw dance

Karen "I'll scratch your eyes out before my coffee" Jones and Charles just accepting that

Uncle

SUNRISE, PARABELLUM!

Maître

I keep thinking about loustat and photos of drag queens and their normal ass boyfriends

Like

I was so scared chapter five begun that I decided to replay rdr1

saw a post (i don't know who op is sorry!!) about how armand calls daniel a black hole while being the most black hole-coded character in existence and i can’t stop thinking about it because YES. everyone latches onto the innuendo of “not much more to you than a hole” (and sure, it’s iconic i love some devils minion), but armand being a literal black hole metaphor across the vampire chronicles is so intense and weirdly consistent that it stops being subtle and starts feeling like a cosmic joke

lestat in tvl straight up talks about armand pulling him into his orbit. like, not metaphorically—he literally describes being caught in armand’s gravitational pull, like he’s circling something ancient and destructive and beautiful and terrifying. he feels like armand wants to consume him, strip him down to nothing. that's not just magnetic energy. that's black hole behavior

then in iwtv, louis tells armand (in the most devastating breakup scene ever) that being with him drained all the life out of him. that he was interesting because he was different, but armand pulled him in and now he’s empty too. literally tells him he made him just like him. that’s the event horizon! you cross the threshold and there’s no going back!

qotd really hammers it home—daniel talks about how armand has this bizarre magnetic pull that draws people in. it’s not even intentional. he just exists and people fall into him. and by being with him, daniel starts getting drained too. again. same cycle. same gravity well. armand doesn’t even mean to destroy people—he just does, because that’s what he is

and the creepiest part is how often older men project their obsession onto him. “i don’t know what it is about you, armand, you’re just so... captivating.” like okay. maybe take a moment and examine your own weird fixation before blaming the literal 17-year-old-looking vampire. but no. it’s always framed like armand has some unnatural power when really they’re just falling into their own desire and blaming the gravity on him

oh and let’s talk about how he hunts. armand doesn’t chase. he doesn’t go looking. he just hangs out in public being beautiful and unreadable and lets people come to him. and they always do. they throw themselves at him. it’s terrifying when you realize he doesn’t need to do anything except exist and wait for people to offer themselves up

so yeah. the line is a banger. it’s brutal. it’s layered. but it’s also projection in real time. armand isn’t talking about a black hole—he is the black hole. he pulls people in, drains them dry, and leaves them hollow. the vampire chronicles don’t even try to be subtle about it. and i love that for him. horrifying little cosmic void of a man

All of her sorrow won’t fit in her chest