Tumblr is weird because one slip up can literally take you from beloved saint to being labeled as an irredeemable piece of trash. Like Joss Whedon. I’m not crazy about him, and some things in Age of Ultron did bother me, but damn. Suddenly everything he’s ever said or done is terrible. Like people used to love Buffy, Firefly and the first Avengers movie, and now suddenly everyone’s bending over backwards to find ways of accusing him of being a terrible, racist, sexist person. And it’s happened to a lot of people. You know you don’t have to agree with every damn thing a person says or does to like or respect them. People make mistakes sometimes. And it’s just weird because it’s such a hivemind, like one minute something is beloved by everyone, but then someone decides it’s bad and soon everyone is just condemning it as the worst thing in existence.
Absolutely agreed. I first read the first four Vampire Chronicles back in the 90s when I was fourteen and I knew then that the one more likely to lie to the reader, perhaps to protect his own ego, would be Lestat. As much as I love him he does have an ego and that was a pretty miserable condition he was in. He admitted he was in that condition yet denied the conversation. It seems more likely that it did happen than that it didn’t.
Yep, I think it did happen, and Lestat’s ego couldn’t handle it.
I decided I wanted to get a little closer to you guys and hear what you all had to say, so I decided to go ahead and set up a skype so that you can come talk to me in private! Everything is still anonymous, but if you’d like to chat, just add vcpositivity and I’ll be there.
^J/k. It’s not just about him it’s all about him. I don’t know of an official tag but I’ve seen:
VC, the vampire chronicles, vampire chronicles, vampire crackickles (we mean this in a loving sorta way), the vampire crackickles, interview with the vampire, iwtv (since alot of ppl dump all VC talk in the movie title tag),
the book being referenced, so QOTD for Queen of the Damned, etc.
… and of course any of the character’s names, (I indicate VC characters by adding “the vampire” Armand or “the vampire” Claudia, since they don’t have last names and there are other Armands and Claudias out there I don’t think I’ve been consistent in doing that w/ minor characters like Eleni and Madeleine and such oh well.)
There is the question of whether to include “the” and I don’t when I tag my stuff. I tag stuff with everything that’s in the post plus my stream of consciousness-type comments that don’t need to be in the version that ppl reblog and maybe ppl follow me for that commentary? Plus the fanart collection? I don’t question it, I just enjoy it.
