What is your opinion about Marius/Pandora? Like, I shipped it real hard when I read the books, but at 14 I couldn’t really see the problematic aspects of it (i.e. everything). Now, over ten years later, I see it, but I still think, despite everything, they were the happiest they seem able to ever be, in the 200 years they were together- despite all the fights (or maybe because of it?). And I really don’t understand why there are so few M/P shippers, since most of us read it as young teens anyway

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[^Marius & Pandora by @danyanddany​]

Anon, your message sat in my inbox for over a week because I don’t remember enough about their relationship to answer this question. 

I’ll open it up to anyone to answer!

vampchronfic:

monstersinthecosmos:

While I was hunting for tacky stock photos to use as bad VC aesthetics, I found some interesting results for “same sex parents”.

This is sincerely amazing.

I saw someone asking about if vampires could have their picture taken and IIRC in Merrick Louis had a photograph of Claudia so it seems like vampires can have their picture taken right?

Yes, that’s in Merrick. It seems like Ricean vampires can be captured with photography, film, and video.

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[^X not quite the right Claudia, but this is an evocative photo titled Livia by Frederick Sommer.]

Louis tells David about it:

“But the photographs, the daguerreotypes, that’s what she wanted, the real image of herself on glass…. But then years later, when we reached Paris, in those lovely nights before we ever happened upon the Théâtre  des Vampires and the monsters who would destroy her, she found that the magic pictures could be taken at night, with artificial light!“ 

He seemed to be reliving the experience painfully, I remained quiet. 

“You can’t imagine her excitement. She had seen an exhibit by the famous photographer Nadar of pictures from the Paris catacombs. Pictures of cartloads of human bones. Nadar was quite the man, as I’m sure you know. She was thrilled by the pictures. She went to his studio, by special appointment, in the evening, and there this picture was made." 

He came towards me. 

"It’s a dim picture. It took an age for all the mirrors and the artificial lamps to do their work. And Claudia stood still for so long, well, only a vampire child might have worked such a trick. But she was very pleased with it. She kept it on her dressing table in the Hotel Saint-Gabriel, the last place that we ever called our home. We had such lovely rooms there. It was near to the Opera. I don’t think she ever unpacked the painted portraits. It was this that mattered to her. I’d actually thought she would come to be happy in Paris. Maybe she would have been … But there wasn’t time. This little picture, she felt it was only the beginning, and planned to return to Nadar with an even lovelier dress.”

Dear Lestat, how do you deal with a abusive relationship when you love the other person so much?

//ooc; it’s inappropriate to respond to this as a fictional character. 

Anon, I don’t know where you live, but google for help hotlines. Here’s one:

National Domestic Violence Hotline: http://www.thehotline.org/help/

Our advocates are available 24/7 at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) in over 170 languages. All calls are confidential and anonymous.

^That website has a lot of info about abusive relationships, please check it out. 

Also, the blog @advicefromsurvivors might have good advice for you, even though that blog is specific to advice from child abuse survivors.


As far as Lestat, he’s a survivor of child abuse, and he’s also suffered short-term abuse (forced into the dark gift), but he has been the abuser himself in more than one relationship. I don’t think he’s a very good person to ask for advice on this. 

To everyone else: for future reference, if you are sending an ask to one of my RP muses and don’t want me to freak out and think that you are actually having a real problem in real life, please include “(this is fictional)” before the message. Even then, it may not be appropriate for a fictional character to answer. 

Cher Lestat, what do you think of Aerosmith?

♛I love Aerosmith. Just Push Play is an excellent album. The title song in particular is a guaranteed spirit-booster for me:

Other notable songs: Sunshine, Light Inside, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Avant Garden, Under My Skin… and the obvious ones: Dream On, Janie’s Got a Gun, Livin’ on the Edge, Dude Looks Like a Lady (which will forever be linked to Mrs. Doubtfire for me), I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing (I hum this at Louis sometimes as he’s drifting off to sleep *blows kiss*).

I read somewhere that Aerosmith tests each song by recording it to cassette or CD and then piling into a car together and blasting it out of the speakers. If it sounds good there, the song is done. If not? Back to the studio! I’ve adopted the same method, but I prefer to test songs on motorcycle *winks*

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