absolutely no worries on lateness, I’m sorry I couldn’t reply sooner. VERY touched by your words, so flattered to hear that I was the one (REALLY?? MOI??) that got you poisoned with this addiction back into our beloved fandom.
!ohmahfrickittyfrackettyharpsichords, I’m so touched, you hit me Right in the Feels in such a very good way! *attack hugs*
It continues to be mutually beneficial, as I have had to learn how to do new things in order to do them for THIS BLOG, like making gifs, and it’s also made me question my own ideas about the characters, and get to know all these people I never would have interacted with if not for our fandom, and so much more <3<3<3 Dare I say that it’s a huge part of my life? That’s probably obvious ^_______^
WAYYYYY back when I started this thing, I was afraid that I was offending our fandom with my sense of humor, as can be seen in one of my early memeythings:
Yeah, it is applicable to her situation gdi Claudia stop eating all your handlers or so help me but it was also my concern whether anyone thought I was being just offensive and not funny at all… clearly the People Off the Page (I love that you used my word for us, too, btw) convinced me that they really enjoy my brand of silly and now I go alot farther, still with the intention of keeping it tasteful (PUN INTENDED):
(Sometimes when I get an idea for one of these things I actually make myself laugh just thinking about it until I can get home to make it)
… and actually I enjoy her choices so I’ll just edit them *u*
1. New Orleans Saints football, well tbh I only really know of Drew Brees and I approve of their uniforms very much, so I’ll say instead, NOLA in general (flora, fauna, cemeteries, ghost tours, adult beverages, French cuisine, the Garden District, the French Quarter, the architecture, the music, the people, okay I’ll stop), and I plan to make a big post about my last visit, it will happen, I PROMISE. And definitely going again w/ some fandom ppl WHICH WILL ALSO HAPPEN.
2. Vampire Chronicles fandom – OF COURSE DUH
3. creepy/horror films & stories – OF COURSE DUH
4. Gardening and cooking: I do not have a green thumb and can barely manage making egg-based meals, so I’ll just say I appreciate other people’s gardening immensely and there’s nothing like a home-cooked meal from your family/friends ❤
5. Books/Libraries – OF COURSE DUH but for travel, I do love the convenience of my e-reader.
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, he knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‘Why, God? Why me?’ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‘There’s just something about you that pisses me off.’
Stephen King, Storm of the Century (via devilsfool)
(I assume you mean more than just unconscious sleep, which yes, he did sleep with her, that’s canon)
Y’know that’s smtg I’ve thought about, too. Was it only her body/age that was the obstacle there? She seemed to think so… or so it seems from what Louis shares with us re: just a few times when she even opened the subject with him.
Particularly that time in Europe when they had just killed the Icky Gross Mindless Vampire, and they’re totally exhausted and hungry, and she offers him her wrist:
“ `Drink,’ she whispered, drawing nearer. `Drink.’ And she held the
soft, tender flesh of the wrist towards me. ‘No, I know what to do;
haven’t I done it in the past?’ I said to her.” <—- REJECTED. I don’t think Claudia shared blood w/ either Lestat or Louis, at least not in any intimate way, ever, which had to have been part of her not-growing-up frustration.
SO BACK TO THE QUESTION AT HAND:
No, I don’t think Louis would have slept with Claudia if she had been turned at 18+ bc there were more obstacles than just her physical form.
For one thing, Louis was in a relationship already with Lestat, even though it was a problematic one.
The chemistry between people (even IRL) has to work in that way for there to be any sexual attraction.
He always cared for her like a daughter. She was very much his own security blanket, a buffer and a glue between him and Lestat.
She was less human than either of them, which did not seem to be something that made her more attractive, but less comprehensible to him: ” `I love you now with my human nature, if ever had it,’ I said to her.
“ `Ah yes …’ she answered, still musing. `Yes, and that’s your flaw,
and why your face was miserable when I said as humans say, ” I hate
you, “ and why you look at me as you do now. Human nature. I have
no human nature.’ ”
Also, in terms of canon vampire physiology, the Ricean vampires seem to be asexual, blood gives them all the satisfaction they need/want in that regard. It’s in fanon and RP that they’re sexual.
As a side note, claudiaindarkness might have some good opinions on this, bc she often RPs Claudia aged up. thevampire-claudia also had a thread in which Claudia was aged up and *ahem* had some private time with a Louis (merciful-death) if u need some tasteful au smut ;]
*attack hugs* Thank you bb, nonono, no self-hate over late bday wishes! Thank u kindly, I did have a great one this year… blood cake, um, well, I love red velvet cake! Never tried blood pudding… I actually had chocolate zucchini birthday cake, highly recommend it.
Oh I was not supposed to drink the mysterious bottle of red wine? Lestat said I could pretend it was wine tho??! It seemed safe?? I think it was more blood than wine, I think he added alot of sugar or smtg, little bastard.
OH and thank u for that very informative info re: Lestat’s Sebastian Melmoth alias. I HAVE THE VAMPIRE COMPANION and have not actually read it cover-to-cover! *slaps self*
I just thought of something painful involving Prince Lestat.
So he had his father’s old castle refurbished…imagine one day he gets a call from the people who were adding some modern plumbing, and electrical lines, digging around parts of the property and they came across a collection of bones.
They’re too close together to be an old cemetery, even a private one—besides, there’s still some old mossy headstones with barely legible carvings of “Lioncourt” on them in the village nearby, signaling that even the lords were buried in it. No, no, this speaks more of a post-battle burial, hasty, but there’s no metal, no remains of anything of value, and digging farther down, pulling out and separating the fragile old bones and eventually finding ones belonging to children.
“French Revolution, probably,” says the man on the phone, “Funny to think it, they might even be some ancestors of yours,”
