My friend had a dream where someone stole Armand’s blender. He killed the person who did so.

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I almost didn’t answer this bc it looks very much like bait. I was tempted to respond humorously, and that might have upset ppl who adore Armand, bc even joking about it, it makes him look like evil incarnate, you know? To kill someone over stealing a blender? I believe in making fun of fictional characters and these are serial killers, let’s not forget that, and I don’t shy away from discussing dark fiction but this was not a setup for being playful. 

…I mean, you’re saying this was a dream and we’re getting it secondhand from you, Anon, so we shouldn’t take it so seriously, but I think that was out of character even for Armand, that thief must have done something else than just steal a piece of kitchenware to deserve the death penalty :(((

My ask is always open but this kind of message struck me as a little on the borderline of trolling, there are ppl out there who love Armand as a character. Please don’t send me messages like this. 

If you wanted to phrase this a little more tastefully, add another sentence to invite discussion:

My friend had a dream where someone stole Armand’s blender. He killed the person who did so. Do you think Armand would kill someone over an offense this small?

or

My friend had a dream where someone stole Armand’s blender. He killed the person who did so. Since dreams may expose something but ourselves, do you think dreaming about a fictional character killing someone, for any reason, means anything? Should I be worried about my friend?

See the difference? Rather than just dropping a potential bomb into my inbox that I have to worry about answering in a humorous way for fear of hurting someone’s feelings, like cutting the right wire to dismantle a bomb… and sometimes it’s not so obvious which wire should be cut 😛

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…you can provide food for an intellectually stimulating discussion, making both our lives better!

Wire cutting gif under the cut, cut for explosion, death trigger warning.


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Is there any official merch for this fandom?

There has been, historically, very little VC merch bc AR didn’t have the rights to sell things for the years when other ppl had those rights and they mostly just sat on those rights? I guess?

AR has sold varying interesting things over the years anyway on her own site, annerice.com, I should make a compilation… these things come to mind:

Technically there is Anne Rice’s website store, where you can purchase a limited number of items (with really decent prices, it looks like!) including these must-haves (/s):

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^I’d rather that ppl did not know that I read that book upon first meeting me, and risk discussing BIRB ALIEMS but anyway…

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^Boss asking if you got the memo on the new cover sheets for TPS reports? Or putting in hours on Saturday? Terrify your boss with this on your desk! 

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^Technically only one person, the actual Lestat, can wear this honestly, but he’s fictional so… idk…

Over the years there may have been official merch for:

  • the Interview with the Vampire movie (1994) – I don’t remember if there was official merch, but I doubt it. 
  • Queen of the Damned movie (2002) – Probably there was merch for this? I don’t remember.
  • Lestat the Musical (2005, 2006) – I know someone has a t-shirt! 

^So check eBay for that stuff 😉

Lestat, what’s your opinion on football?

♛Spandex-clad muscled men running back and forth on a field, wearing some protective gear, and slamming into each other at full speed? I love it. It’s like modern-day jousting! 

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(^//ooc: oooh I got to dig an oldie up from the archive, I made this for @gairid​ / @vampchronfic​​ ages ago!)

//ooc: Louis loves Drew Brees from the NOLA Saints bc of course he does.

Don’t gamble on anything with Louis. Even sports. He keeps up w/ stats, but more importantly, he can size up a team pretty quickly and estimate their odds with a lot of accuracy.

i have two approaches to canon

scribefindegil:

  1. So if we extrapolate from this one-off line in episode fifteen, as well as this tweet by the creator and the answers given at this comic con panel from 2014, we can infer that this character’s relationship with salad is more complex than it first appears …
  2. *pulls down sunglasses and points a flamethrower at the source material* Death of the author, baby.

writers:

ironinkpen:

  • break up your paragraphs. big paragraphs are scary, your readers will get scared
  • fuuuuck epithets. “the other man got up” “the taller woman sat down” “the blonde walked away” nahhh. call them by their names or rework the sentence. you can do so much better than this (exception: if the reader doesn’t know the character(s) you’re referring to yet, it’s a-okay to refer to them by an identifying trait)
  • blunette is not a thing
  • new speaker, new paragraph. please.
  • “said” is such a great word. use it. make sweet love to it. but don’t kill it
  • use “said” more than you use synonyms for it. that way the use of synonyms gets more exciting. getting a sudden description of how a character is saying something (screaming, mumbling, sighing) is more interesting that way.
  • if your summary says “I suck at summaries” or “story better than summary” you’re turning off the reader, my dude. your summary is supposed to be your hook. you gotta own it, just like you’re gonna own the story they’re about to read
  • follow long sentences w short ones and short ones w long ones. same goes for paragraphs
  • your writing is always better than you think it is. you just think it’s bad because the story’s always gonna be predicable to the one who’s writing it
  • i love u guys keep on trucking

Salting sour fruits i.e. lemons makes them sweeter. The salt reacts with the sour acids to make a more neutral chemical. It kills the sour so you can taste the sweet.

i-want-my-iwtv:

Wow. I had no idea! Ya learn smtg new every day 😀

Maybe that applies to fandom in some way, too… bc the joke “When you’re motivated to write smut out of spite,” that’s being salty about someone’s sour opinion about a ship, I would guess, and OP writing smut of that ship just to rebel, that’s the sour to the saltiness? 

Salty, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, umami… all the flavors can be applied to fandom, too, and they’re all of value. We consume canon, fanon, etc… we create our own. This is probably not any kind of definitive statement on flavor (partly bc they’re lumping umami and salty? oddly?) but this article has some interesting info on flavor interactions that could probably be applied to fiction/media/fanworks/etc….

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So YEAH in the article linked above, we get these recommendations with cooking that I think applies to fanfic. Maybe this will help someone with their writing!

Salty & Savory/Umami –

Balances

bitterness. Enhances sweetness.

Sweet –

Balances

sourness, bitterness, spice. Enhances saltiness.

Sour –

Balances

spice, sweetness, bitterness. Enhances saltiness.

Bitterness –

Balances

sweetness, saltiness.

Spicy – Balances sweetness.

where’s that damn types of fanfic graph?

i-want-my-iwtv:

literallylottie:

professorfangirl:

I’m trying to find this great graphic I saw ages ago about types of fanfic, where, say, the source text would be a continuous line, and an augmenting fanfic would be a line that takes off at at angle, or an AU would be a line separate from the canon line—does this ring a bell with anyone?

At your service:

Source: goodboydummy

THIS. Is one of my favorite posts re: fanfic and I am so glad I found it again to reblog it here. Such accurate description of what fanfic is/seeks to achieve in its many forms. I’m sure someone out there is thinking it’s incomplete, and maybe that’s true, but I love this for what it explains anyway and so HERE IT IS.

I would add that Drabbles and Additions exist within canon, filling out interstices of the overall story.

And I also find this diagram creatively inspiring. If you’re stuck, you might find a way through by choosing a different route based on these diagrams.