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vcpositivity:

“Summer 1997. First time away from home unattended by parents, and the first thing I did was rent and watch “IwTV” the one night I was staying at a cousin’s house. I bought the book the next day and smuggled it into Church Camp with me. I spent the two weeks I was there reading and re-reading it at night under the covers with a flashlight crying because finally, there were queer characters. Beautiful, ethereal queer characters. It was the first time I was no longer afraid of not being straight.”

You said you try to be the rper you want to be but what do you mean? I try but can’t always reply to posts right away.

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vagabonddaniel-recordedarchives:

Oh, anon, I’m glad you asked!

When I say I try to be the RPer I want others to be, I absolutely don’t mean replying to threads with ninja speed and being on top of your RP tumblr like being Lestat, etc, is your job. (Unless you have managed to make into a job in which case please explain how.) Everyone is busy and has obligations outside of tumblr. If you want to and can reply to things quickly, power to you! If you can’t, it’s not a big deal and anyone who doesn’t think your replies are worth waiting for you is probably not an RP buddy you want. 

What I mean is that I try to follow the Golden Rule: treat others as you want to be treated. Which means, essentially, put stuff out there, sending things out, foster interaction, and be open to being sending things to you. 

You’ve probably heard about reblog karma. This is a good thing, where if you reblog a meme, you send an ask to the person you reblogged from. Great. But how about instead of reblog karma, you think of it like RP Karma. This is a game that falls apart if everyone sits still and waits for things to come to them. 

So for example, if 6 people on my dash post a meme and I have time, whether or not I reblog it, I try to send everyone an ask. Sometimes the memes require thought and I can’t think of a question or ask for everyone and that’s fine. Sometimes I’m busy or on mobile and just can’t get to it. But if I can and and I have time, I make an effort. Especially if it’s a “send a symbol for a headcanon” type meme, just send some out! You can copy and paste the same one into everyone’s box if you want. 

Beyond memes, if you think of a question you want to ask, say, Louis. Send it to a Louis you follow. Hell, send it to ALL OF THE LOUIS RPERS! Why not. 

Or if someone posts an ask answer or a one liner* your muse has a reaction to, comment on it! React IC! That’s the point. If, say, Armand posts a line like “Banzai trees are hideous!” Lestat can reply that he’s making Banzai the official Coven Tree, Louis can argue that his banzai in Trinity Gate is quite lovely thanks, and Daniel can complain that he has no sense of cultivating something and watching it flourish. 

I’m also a fan of reblogging replies you really love or sending people messages to tell them how much you appreciate their work. RP seems to be a hobby where everyone has days they doubt themselves, so a little positivity goes a long way!

TL;DR: Basically, when you have time, energy, and inspiration, put things out there. Reply to other muses’ IC asks & posts, send asks (anon or IC), reblog replies you like, comment on posts, send kudos out through VC Positivity or just in general. Be the RPer you wish everyone else was in terms of what you put out there. Because if you don’t send things out and interact and make RPland a happy place, no one is going to do it for you. 

(*Obviously check RPer’s rules and if they don’t want people responding to things IC, heed their wishes.) 

^THIS.

Same goes for interaction with fanartist, cosplayers, general fandom ppl, etc. Don’t wait from someone to drop into your inbox, reach out to them! Be the blog you wish to see *u*

How do I hone my psychic powers to block out vampires who want to listen to my thoughts?

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the-gentleman-chronicler:

To hone your psychic powers for blocking out vampires, it takes a considerable period of time devoted to practice and a strengthening of your personal gifts.  Also, the success rate depends entirely upon the vampire in question.  Many have never honed their own psychic powers and are only able to read surface thoughts of humans.  A vampire who has mastered their abilities (Armand, as an example, is a master of those gifts) would be considerably more difficult to keep out.

Your mind is only as open as you permit it to be.  It has been described in the Chronicles how vampires keep their thoughts obscured from others.  Images, a closed door, or sounds and sensations intended to confuse the intruding mind.  My own psychic gifts were formidable enough towards the end of my mortal life that I was able to pick up on the thoughts of vampires and mask my own from them.  I’d had a lifetime of practice.

My preferred imagery is that of a jungle when I must guard my thoughts without much notice — like in an emergency.  I scatter my thoughts throughout it like drops of rain.  By the time they have made any progress in their trek to find them, I am usually gone and beyond their lasting mental reach.  My standard imagery is a library.  In that defensible mental place, I keep my thoughts and memories in the pages of the books, and a countless number of blank ones as handy camouflage.

If you want to be successful, then you should work upon your own method.  Use things that are so familiar to you in your physical world that they’d be mentally easy to grasp.  Music or radio static are simple things because they require no imagery.  Those two are rudimentary skills that are taught for those first learning their gifts in the Talamasca.  Or basic visual images.  A closed door, a locked gate.  Literal things.

Work on strengthening those blocks in your mind and keeping out a vampire will become easy over time.

How do you think Claudia’s life would of been if she was found and turned as a teenager (like 16 or 17 years old) or found and turned at age 18 or 19? How different would her relationship be with Lestat and Louis? Do you think Claudia still would of try to kill Lestat? Do you think Armand would of still had his coven of vampires kill her?

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Answered that mostly in my notp tag, in which annabellioncourt answered the aged-up Claudia question very well:

I’ve thought a lot on the Claudia/Louis thing, and while I don’t think an aged up Claudia would give a second thought to ravishing Louis, she’s a symbol for everything that horrifies him about himself, and I don’t think that that would exactly be grounds for amorous thoughts. Sure, he loves her and cares for her, but I think if she was an adult, it’d be a lot easier for him to see just how far mentally out there she is, how evil, how unable to understand human goodness she had grown to be.

With Lestat, I think it would be much the same.

I think Claudia still would have tried to kill Lestat, bc she was after his power, too, and disgruntled that he wouldn’t give them the answers about their origins as a species.

Armand still would have had his coven kill her (one could argue whether he orchestrated that or just went along with Santiago’s decision) because he wanted Louis all to himself, and knew that Louis would have a hard time ever separating himself from Claudia.

Headcanon about Daniel and the coven:

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amadeo-child-of-the-renaissance:

//I imagine that Daniel had to struggle with the rest of the coven for some time, until they got used to his presence.

I think that Lestat, Louis and Armand would probably have talked to each other in French all the time, whilst Armand would switch automatically back to (ancien venetian) Italian whenever he spoke with Marius.
Just out of habit! They have, after all, spoken with one another in the respective language for centuries.

So, there was Daniel, who probably couldn’t speak French to safe his immortal life and had to constantly remind them that it is rude not to let him in on conversations.
By now they all got used to talk in English constantly.

And Daniel has gained some skills in French, at least according to Armand…

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IWTV premiere, Savoy Cinema in Dublin, January 1995. 

“What attracted you to the vampire movie?”

“It was a very exotic story and uniquely told, and, to have the opportunity to work with Neil Jordan, I was very excited about that… wonderful actors to work with, with… there’s a… obviously it’s something I’d never done before!”

Posting under Fair Use for educational purposes. 

I take such issue w/ interviewer Colm Connolly’s second question more like a statement, “There were all kinds of stories that there were bad feelings on the set while you were making it…(?)” 

Tom had even given him an easy starter for a different line of questioning, when the guy said, “Welcome to Ireland!” Tom said, “Thank you, it’s good to be back.” That was an opportunity to ask him, “Oh, when were you here last? Was it when you were filming Far and Away?”

Like, Colm, c’mon, you really think Tom’s going to say, “Yeah I was an incredible diva and I upset everyone around me with my insane demands and jealousy over Brad’s intense hawtness bc he is going to replace me in Hollywood and I am so worried about getting older omgz-” ??! At the PREMIERE for his movie? ON CAMERA? Just bc you ASKED?

No. 

Don’t stir up drama. 

Especially Don’t stir up drama at the premiere for his movie.