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One last thing about fanfic as a medium/community dynamic is that I remember once when I was posting Gulfport in instalments to a fan comm on LJ, someone made the very kind comment that they felt like someone clamouring at the docks for instalments of the latest Dickens story. I thought that was very generous of them considering my meagre offering, and also hilariously meta considering how consistently every character in VC wanks on about Dickens (I THINK ANNE RICE MIGHT LIKE HIM), but also, it really made me think. Writing for a fan comm was a really specific experience. I really liked the challenge of making every instalment dynamic and paced right while being subject to character restrictions and the like, and also writing to a regular, waiting audience on a vague schedule. Again, I think these challenges occur in many other writing gigs, but my first real experience of that was in fanfic.

The Forever Companion – Gairid – Vampire Chronicles – All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

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Just a little bit of fun after Lestat’s appearance on Ms. Rice’s FB page.

Mmmm, this is just right. It also touches on my recent wonderings about the in-universe publishing of the VC books. Short and lovely. 🙂

katzenfabrik, if you liked that one, I think you’ll like this one, too, also set within in-universe publishing of the VC books ;]

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Who’s your favourite charactor of IWTV, mine is Santiago, it’s bad that he isn’t that much in the movie cause he’s awesome.

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Y’know I have to give you some credit for choosing Santiago bc he does not get nearly enough attention. Yes he’s a terrible, awful, monster, but he was a great character, a fantastic actor, a cruel antagonist… it takes some effort to be that evil!

I suspect and there is a secret fanfic that supports this theory that Santiago considered himself 2nd-in-command and maybe more to Armand, and he felt himself very usurped when Louis came into the picture, and had it in for Louis from the first moment Armand made heart-eyes at Louis. 

Santiago deserved some decent backstory. 

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MY favorite character of IWTV… that’s tough. In terms of the movie I think all of the actors (even Antonio!!!) did a fantastic job with their roles. I’d go with Claudia only because she was just the perfect mix of sweetness and icy screamy-ness and just had Louis wrapped around her little finger. 

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In book!IWTV it’s Lestat who’s my fave… How can you not love him with this combination (and more!) of character traits: Charismatic, mixing silly with sinister, mysteriously hinting at a rich and traumatic backstory (which we definitely got later), and of course, lastly, intensely handsome. 

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