HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE CHARACTER OF ALL TIME LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC. LOVER. MOTHER. FATHER. AVID READER.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE CHARACTER OF ALL TIME LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC. LOVER. MOTHER. FATHER. AVID READER. CHRONICALLY DEPRESSED. BEAUTIFUL ONE. KILLER. OWNER OF THE NICHT.

𝔻𝕒𝕪 𝕆𝕟𝕖 of LDPDL BirthMonth celebration!

Prompt: Day 1 | Humanity/Human Life | Love/Family | "For the first time in my life, I was seen."

Oneshot | Gen | Family Feels

Blurb: At the time it had felt like curiosity, that is what he had told Armand. But now, looking around him, feeling the warmth of those around him, maybe it had been longing. To belong again. Somewhere. Somewhere other than his and Armand's world. Somewhere that felt bigger than his own life.

Or

Louis gets invited to a cookout.

Back to prompt/fic list...

i love your fics a lot and think you have a wonderful (and true) understanding of louis and lestats uuhm manifestations of desire? Idk how to ask that but- could you like.. describe what connections to canon you use as indicators of louis wanting what he wants in your fics? (not like. a dick. but- be cared for, forced to abandon his shame/enjoy it, feminization, motherhood, protection)

these are just off the top of my head so i'm sure there's something obvious i'm missing and anyone can add on as they'd like but yeah. tried including from both seasons but i've obv sat longer with season 1 so those come easier for me.

cared for/protection: him hating/being miserable in the protector/provider role through which we meet him in 101; Paul paralleling Levi taking care of Grace to whether Louis is going to continue meeting w Lestat and committing only after he seems to have gotten confirmation for himself that they both now have someone in their life to take care of them; his pleasure having lestat backing him despite simultaneously being annoyed that he needs a white male backer anyway and how he’s upset at lestat when lestat first tells him no and visibly softens when he gets what he wants; his pouting when he’s fake crying about not having kids of his own (even though as a human he’d resigned himself to just being Paul’s keeper and had no visible intention of marrying a woman, so even this complaining is informed by him wanting this with/from lestat) and his joy when Lestat indulges him and spoils him (yes the valet thing sucks but his main emotion is happiness and we’re shown that Louis has no issue refusing these dates when he really doesn’t want to); his pure happiness in e4 when they’re playing house and it’s Lestat’s money fueling them; that the “sacrifice” he wants Lestat to make in e6 is going back to this time; this desire for care and protection is romantic for him bc he’s uncomfortable when Claudia’s the one who has to take of him in 106/201; that Claudia is specifically like give yourself to him, not just play nice with him but give yourself to him again, and that for Louis this is the most dangerous and totalizing way he can love lestat; how in 202/203 he tries goading Armand into making the first move: he prefers to be wanted, not to be the one doing the wanted; how dreamstat manifests as both his self loathing at believing he’s weak as well as him going to dreamstat for reassurance and to be coddled; how miserable he is starting the maitre thing w armand and 206 in general

forced to abandon his shame: how turned on he is being “emasculated” by lestat, wanting to be talked into going upstairs with Lestat in 101 but then surrendering himself totally when Lestat backs him up to a safe corner; the entire turning scene but notably him kissing Lestat with the priest’s blood on his mouth when so much of his shame is tied into being Catholic; again his joy in 104 tho i wanna be careful w this since the external force is obviously a very negative one but just thinking about how this role is his happiest but it’s not something he would’ve likely allowed himself if there was another choice if this makes sense. which is still fair like he’s a gay black man there are practicalities. but when the practicalities don’t matter as much and everything has been destroyed and he has nothing left to lose, that’s when he usually begins to shine and can be his truest self: see also 208 or 107; him doing the interview w the rudest journalist in the world in the first place as follow up

feminization and motherhood: historically there were no male creole brothel owners, all of them were women w powerful white husbands, but even without knowing that the relationship he has w the women on screen esp brick is pretty obviously distinct from how male pimps work then or now; how turned on he was being emasculated x2 and just his attraction to lestat being so tied into lestat making him feel like less of a man: that’s a turn on for him; his dynamic w his family esp his mother is more like that of an eldest daughter than an eldest son: the self sacrificing, the expectations and disdain and taking on a parental/caretaker role from what’s implied to be a young age, even before his father passed; their first time the creole woman that Lestat used to show louis he’s more of a man than Louis falls asleep and Louis comes to life and pounces on him, and for Louis, Lestat’s domination of him is tied into Lestat’s pinnacle masculinity and his own unmanliness, and this is something we watch Louis happily submit to. I am not saying that i believe that fem=sub but he’s a black Catholic in 1910 lol and even if it’s not polite to say on tumblr, for gay men being the submissive receiving partner in a gay relationship is more often than not associated w being the more fem one bc femininity is made up and this is subversive for a gay man regardless of whether it’s equal enough on tumblr; him handling Lestat’s wardrobe and furnishing his new house are typically a wife’s duties; the multiple parallels/foils between him and women in the show, from Lily to the random black woman watching her man eye another woman to dascia to Grace to Madeleine, as well as the acting choices Jacob references being mostly black women + one gnc effeminate man + Louis’ refs from rolin and the writers room being mostly women as well; Claudia views Louis as a housewife; even the racists like Tom Anderson pointedly do not project the typical racist myths about black men during Jim Crow onto louis, I can elaborate on this later if you want but their racism instead adjusts to match their understanding of Louis as not masculine enough instead of hypermasculine; even in the trial in 207 the initial beat w him as aggressive pursuer immediately does a hard shift to his greatest crime being that he was a jezebel (racist caricature of black women) who seduces a white man to commit the great crime of creating a tragic mulatto child even though it’s against the law and he would’ve never done this if not for the jezebel’s raw sensuality; the way Claudia comes to view her dads relationship after being assaulted by a white man is significant bc she comes to view it as another tragic case of a black person trapped in a facade of romance w a white man, and just historically that black person would’ve been a black woman. loustat’s long term common law marriage w an illegitimate child is just not how same sex intimacy bw black and white men usually went during this era, and the model the show is using is clearly that of a consensual bw/wm relationship that was shaky not only bc of il/legality but also bc the more common story for this racial dynamic was bw being assaulted by wm, with many prominent cases happening on or around college campuses like happens to Claudia. and since she’s reading about this stuff it’s safe to assume she came across the several huge stories that suggest that specific dynamic was the norm, not what her parents had. welcome to fairyland but Julio capo for info on how same sex relationships between powerful white men and less powerful black men usually went and “it was like we had all been raped” by danielle mcguire? for the rest

201 a woman vampire / a mom and just the full parallel between her made wrong child being deemed disgusting and inhumane by foreign vampires who kill him and she’s never able to have another child again so she commits suicide; idk most mother daughter relationships?😭 the enmeshment they have w e/o specifically is this type instead of a father/daughter thing; how they talk about raising Claudia is just pretty explicitly gendered in the sort of coddling suffocating mother/strict emotionless father dynamic stereotype lol; Louis is the primary parent which is the mom 99% of the time; 104 and carols costume choices and her explanation; New Orleans is feminized multiple times in the show and it couldn’t be more explicit that New Orleans=Louis; when he’s not actively performing masculinity he is just generally more feminine idk some stuff is just that we live in a society and there are things we know to be true.

St. Louis 2024 starts today!

This October, we are celebrating our titular vampire's 147th birthday with a month-long creative challenge. This is the second edition of this event, and you can see the fan creations shared last year in the tag ►

Learn all about this event in this post ►

Saint Louis of the Vieux Carré —an LDPDL fan event

A month-long creative challenge to celebrate Louis's 146th birthday, this October 4th. Starting October 1st and through the whole month, we'll be celebrating AMC IWTV's Louis de Pointe du Lac, who turns 146 this year! 

Starting October 1st, you’ll be able to see the fan creations shared as part of the event in the tag, here »

31 prompts

day 1. humanity | human life

day 2. crossover

day 3. confession | penance

day 4. through the decades

day 5. hunger | feeding habits

day 6. canon divergence

day 7. memory | keepsake

day 8. fashion

day 9. epistolary | handwritten

day 10. missing scene

day 11. literature | intertext

day 12. intoxication

day 13. floral | the last bouquet

day 14. dubai

day 15. love | lust

day 16. parenthood

day 17. canvas | visual arts

day 18. storytelling

day 19. marriage | relationships

day 20. new orleans

day 21. performance | gender

day 22. family

day 23. fairy tales | monsters

day 24. photography

day 25. faith | purpose

day 26. alternative universe

day 27. grief | ghosts

day 28. paris

day 29. childhood | innocence

day 30. music

day 31. halloween | haunted houses

How does this event work?

Every day of the month has an assigned prompt. The real challenge is to try and create something new for each day and each prompt.

But, of course, that is an ambitious goal! There are easier options.

If you...

create only one thing, or two, or three

only create something for two or three of these prompts

create something for a prompt but post it a few days later

don’t follow the prompts at all

...you’re still participating —as long as your creation is about Louis de Pointe du Lac, as portrayed by Jacob Anderson. 

And Louis's character exists in relation with others, of course! So your contribution could be a portrait of the entire du Lac family, a playlist about one of his romantic relationships, a comic about his relationship with Claudia from her point of view, etc.

If Louis is at the heart of your creation, then your piece is in the spirit of this event.

This challenge isn’t limited to fanfiction or fanart!

Your contributions as a fan don’t have to be restricted to the most usual mediums. Beyond fanfic and fanart, some things that you may decide to create include: fanmixes, moodboards, gifsets, photomanips and graphics; fanedits and AMVs; meta and analysis in written, audio or video form; poetry, music, a blog post about your headcanons, your meta, or your favorite fanworks; and anything else you can think of. 

Your creations can be related to your own or others’ existing work as well —if, for example, you want to use one of the prompts to add to an existing fanfiction series, or as inspiration for fanart of your favorite fic, that’s totally within the scope of this challenge! 

You can start working on your creations for this challenge with as much (or as little) anticipation as you like, but remember to hold off from sharing them until the event starts. And, if you are taking inspiration from a prompt, we encourage you to share your work on that day.

Reblog or repost this text and graphic to spread the love; and don't forget to tag your posts with #IWTVfanevents or tag @iwtvfanevents so we can share them on the blog, and add them to the collection on AO3: Happy birthday LDPDL!

Happy birthday to Louis! Helen of Troy. The next coming christ. Literally best busy to ever live. Your presence is a gift to have.