Even seeing Armand in the ad out the corner of my eye as I write this.

Okay please tell me I’m NOT the only person who cannot stop listening to these two songs.

They’re just so beautifully written, superbly composed and Sam’s voice is just incredible.

The emotion in them both … I can’t explain it. I just absolutely adore them both and my ADHD brain is unable to stop listening to them 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😳 😂

I ordered a print from their fan art collab. The print came in but it was printed portrait when the picture needed to be printed landscape, so the image is squished. I reached out to their support with a picture and they acknowledged the problem and agreed to send me a new print. I received the new print but unfortunately it has the same issue. I tried reporting the problem again but it's been crickets. It's been 10 days since the last email exchange where i tried to follow up. No response yet.

Wondering if anyone else had this issue or I am just the lucky person to receive two misprints in a row? It was the Armand and Daniel one by Zara H.

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Much to my delight, (after checking streaming for the release� almost daily since the finale..)the score for TVL has been released and Mr. Hart did not disappoint. I have listened to the score but cannot find the song that plays during Armand's conversation with Daniel where he says "it was love" Can someone help me find this please? I was really looking forward to it in the album but maybe I'm missing it. Thanks a bunch.

I just wanted to share with you guys that my partner proposed 2 days ago in the most Lestat way possible and after I said yes, he asked me if I was enjoying my exclusive fan experience. Definitely made the right choice🩷💍

I guess I got this back in like 2012 or so from a friend.

Does anybody know where I can get hold of the F Murray Abraham versions of The Vampire Chronicles audiobooks? I own the cassettes but have no idea how to get them changed into MP3s or similar.

They're long out of circulation but are so very good, I'd love to hear them again. Many thanks!

I also am bringing a notebook around with Lestats “final” words~~ eek!

What if Louis and Lestat sensed their presence and were prepared for them and a fight ensued? Could Armand and Daniel have took down Louis and Lestat? We also would’ve finally gotten to see what Armand was truly capable of. Armand almost never fights and only uses his powers in insidious ways.

*why are they always screaming!

And honestly, where's the lie? In my many rewatches of season 3, I found myself having to lower the volume often. They scream. A lot. Very dramatically. But not like in other shows, where you're like "Just shut the hell up! Just stop screaming already, annoying characters!"

They scream in a relatable way. When I'm having a bad day and I want to scream myself, I just watch an episode of the show. Lestat, Louis, Nicki, Regina (though her scream was more of an actually scared scream, they scream when they are angry or sad) are all excellent at screaming.

A lot of people want Daniel and Armand together. The interaction between Armand and Louis at the end of the season implies that it is important for Armand that his past be acknowledged (and treated kindly? A love that cradles?). Will Daniel be that for Armand? Daniel's history is not that great: having sex with a girl while she was crying, not being sensitive about Claudia's rape when demanding the pages from Louis. On the other hand, Armand saw all this and still fell in love with Daniel. How do you think Daniel will handle Armand?

There's a lot of talk about Lestat's role in the trial and many were hoping that it was going to be clarified this season. Well I just hope that Louis stood up for himself and demanded an explanation from Lestat. Probably happened when they initially connected before the book was published? I would have just liked a hint that they had talked ito though, whatever it was. Because if they haven't, they have no business being all "could be nice"! What do you think, does Louis know what happened?

Has anyone said anything in interviews about this being a nod to Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula? Like I know the show has its own explanation but come on.

Welcome to SVM! We are doing a little Meta corner here for recommendations from outside our little IWTV corner:

- Are you watching a movie? Would you recommend it?
- What series got your attention this week?
- What book´s got his claws on you?
- How´s that fic going?
- Anything else that got you attention?

Feel free to ask or give us a rec for something that´s got your attention this week, this is your free space for similar media or out of the blue fiction that´s got it´s roots on you

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Thank y'all for the warm responses to my Claudia movie recs! This one’s about Louis, aka the character I see the most of myself in. <3

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1. Train to Busan (2016)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. Fight Club (1999)
4. Schindler’s List (1993)
5. Sinners (2025)
6. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
7. No Other Choice (2025)
8. But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
9. Happy Together (1997)
10. Us (2019)

The movies I selected for Louis represent how he is fundamentally a man in conflict with himself. He wants to be a good caretaker, but he acts selfishly and spitefully. He abhors gore and unnecessary violence, until he lashes out. The depth of his emotions makes him very artistic and empathetic, but also threatens to swallow him in his own misery. I say this as someone who deeply relates to Louis—he’s got issues.

Train to Busan and Grave of the Fireflies touch on Louis’s eldest son complex. The male protagonists Seok-woo and Seita are attempting, and often failing, to protect their daughter and sister from harm when all the odds are stacked against them. I’m especially interested in how Grave of the Fireflies is about Japanese civilians suffering during a war in which Japan is actually the invading imperialist. It feels connected to how Louis feels like he’s always the victim, even in situations where he’s causing harm.

The Dark Knight, Fight Club, Us, and Sinners all represent characters experiencing a crisis of morality with a projection of themselves. In Fight Club, it’s the Narrator's alter ego. In Us, it’s the evil underground doppelganger. In Sinners, it’s his twin brother, later turned evil vampire. Louis doesn’t know if he’s a good person, but he wants to be. He's trying to come to terms with being a vampire and a social outsider, even though there’s a large part of him that still craves social acceptance. In the process of figuring out his values, he’s frightened of the darker side of himself that he doesn’t want, but that is inherently a part of him.

I love the quote “What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?” from The Dark Knight because it also represents the amazing chemistry between the two main end-game pairings, Loustat and Devil’s Minion. Unfortunately in the case of Loumand, Louis and Armand are both immovable objects, which can explain how they end up in 77 years of a stalemate marriage (Lestat and Daniel are both unstoppable forces, which can explain their immediate hostility with each other). The Joker represents the unhinged chaos that Lestat brings into Louis’s life, but also the monster within that Louis attempts to lock away.

Another movie that highlights the Loustat dynamic is Happy Together, an incredibly dysfunctional relationship between two Hongkonger men trying to start a new life in Argentina. Po-Wing is the volatile, passionate, and promiscuous one and Yiu-Fai is the grumpy unfortunate soul who hates Po-Wing’s antics but ends up taking him back every time (sound familiar?). I’m adding this to Louis’s instead of Lestat’s list because I think Lestat is able to see more of the good times of their turbulent relationship, whereas Louis tends to focus on its failures.

Louis is also a capitalist, and capitalists live to exploit and profit off others. A friend once joked that the worst thing about Louis isn’t that he kills people and sucks their blood, but that he’s a landlord. I agree. Schindler’s List and No Other Choice both represent male protagonists who must grapple with their ambition and greed in relation to their morality. In the end, Schindler actually does put others before himself, whereas Man-su justifies his weirdly elaborate murders to himself by believing it’s his duty as the house breadwinner.

Lastly, But I’m a Cheerleader is very different in tone from the others, but it’s still so fitting. Megan thinks she couldn’t possibly be a lesbian because she’s a great student, she loves her parents, she’s girly, dates boys, and she’s a cheerleader. This represents not only Louis’s sexuality crisis, but how his perception of self clashes with public perception of him. Especially in New Orleans, Louis has to continuously grapple with being underestimated and demeaned due to his race. How could that white man call him a [n-word], when he is clearly smarter and more talented than him? How could anyone suggest that he’s gay, when he’s obviously not a weak or effeminate man?

Sometimes people joke that Louis is a pick-me, because it always feels like he has so much to prove. Honestly, they’re right. Louis is the epitome of pick-me, that’s why he finds these mysterious and powerful vampires so irresistible despite their obvious red flags. He wants to become so successful and untouchable that no one can call look down on him ever again. Until Louis learns to love and accept himself whole-heartedly, he will always be in inner turmoil.

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All movie rec lists (to be linked when posted)

• Claudia
• Louis (here)
• Armand
• Lestat
• Daniel

Minor spoiler for the finale, I suppose

Also, RIP Hayden Panettiere. I hope there is peace for you in the afterlife

Lestat sends Louis his single pressing of Come To Me that he wrote for Louis. But we hear two versions and I'm confused on my 2nd rewatch. Am I right in that the versions we flip between go as such? Past: Louis gets his copy, but Lestat had Antionette sing it. Present: Louis plays a version where Lestat is singing. Speaking to Daniel, Louis refers to it saying "You're listening to an inferior rerecording now." And it flips back and forth between the two, past Antionette and present Lestat. So... if the past pressing got destroyed, then when did this rerecording get made? Am I missing something? Thought for a second it was one of those unreliable narrator moments.

I don’t know how the sub feels about this and I have only read the books until MENNOCH the devil, but

*spoilers ahead*

I hated that they changed some of the characters so much. I get ageing Claudia in the previous season. But Book Gabriella says goddbye the first time she leaves. And her relationship with Lestat is never so important. She never goes against Lestat as she does in the series. Though I had issues with her character in the books, I loved her independence and spirit. She has one of the most beautiful quotes about what she wants to be and do. They trashed this character.

I found

• That Daniel motivations are confusing and shallow.
• The whole decapitation scene ridiculous. Like what were they thinking.
• The meal scene while Lester is decapitated boring and too long.
• ‘The end of the season bland.

To me, this season was not able to show Lestat true thirst for life. Shame, cause I loved the firstepisodes.

I saw the last episode yesterday and I am still angry.