Since you just wrote that you are re-reading TVA: How many times have you read the books? :o And omg how many times have you seen the first movie?

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(Yep, I’m rereading TVA and at about 80 pages in, WOW, so much I had forgotten! There is a lot of action packed into this one book.)

“Might as well ask heaven what it sees, no human can know….”

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How many times have I seen the movie/read the books? Y’know, I have lost count… re: the movie, definitely has to be more times than Neil Jordan has seen it. Maybe more times than it’s editor has seen it. The fact that I have a copy of it to pull gifs and screencaps from makes it so I can watch it frame-by-frame in excruciating detail and even re-edit parts of it to suit my needs…

BTW: This is a good official book I only read 1x and should reread, even if some info might conflict with canon info: The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice’s “The Vampire Chronicles” This book was published in ‘93, before AR got as responsive over social media as she is now, and she is asked things to this day that she has explained in this book already, so I take this book as being more true to canon than her current answers, which may differ.

I will add that one weekend, around Halloween one year, movie!IWTV was on TV alot, and I ended up watching it 4 times in one weekend and THAT IS TOO MUCH. Even for me.

My favorite viewings are with other ppl though, where we say the lines out loud and make fun of all the stuff that can be made fun of.

As for the books, lost count on that, too 😛

Cut for length, not spoilers.

At some point I’ve gone back to all of the books to look for info, except Vittorio, which is not VC and I didn’t care much for him or his story. Some of them, I’ll admit I only read them start to finish 1x each (like BF, BC, Pandora, PL). It was never important to me to keep track of how many times I had read any of them, just that each time was a different point in my life and with that different perspective I was reading the same stories but I related to different characters and/or was focused on different things.*

I have this weird mixed feeling of being equally ashamed that I’ve read these so many times and being ashamed that I haven’t read them enough times to really qualify as An Authority. Does that make any sense? Pfffft…. I never claimed I was An Authority. I’m just doing my own thing with this addiction and trying to infect others with it and I’m happy to have you along for the ride ;]

*Just for one example, and being very simplistic about it: I related to Claudia when I was 11, and empathized with her frustrations at not being taken seriously as an adult, and later, when I had had child-care related jobs (babysitting, camp counselor, swim teacher, etc.) and was old enough to be a parent myself, I could empathize more with Lestat and Louis’s struggle to “parent” Claudia, who had a very real set of limitations and a lot of pain due largely to those limitations, and they were not at all equipped to handle any of that.

Not wanting to bother you but a while ago you said you’d do a headcanon on Armand after you had done Louis and Nicolas (/post/150171804542/omg-pls-do-nicholas-and-armand), and I just wanted to remind you because I love your headcanons and I can’t wait to hear about your Armand headcanon! Thank you so much! You’re awesome!

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[Anon refers to this one right here] Omg, that’s so sweet of you to nudge me on that! And merci for the lovely compliments.

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I was away on vacation for almost a week and mostly offline, and I decided I needed to reread TVA in order to properly provide this headcanon. So guess who’s rereading TVA? IT’S ME I AM REREADING IT. I want to see if my impression of him changes this time around, bc my headcanon of him is mostly based on IWTV and TVL.

I’m probably not going to do any major TVA analysis, unless something really strikes me, but I know Armand is a fandom fave, so I want to do my headcanon of him justice. 

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superhiki:

superhiki:

It’s summertime, I’m unemployed in-between gigs, and I want to open up commissions once more to help pay for monthly expenses in the meanwhile! Let me draw your favorite characters, your OCs, your next phone background! It’s all good~! Just send me a message and we can start today!

I ask for half the commission as a non-refundable deposit upfront, you will receive a preview upon completion and then after the amount is paid in full- you get your illustration!  

Prices above reflect only standalone characters, if you want a reference sheet, rooms, backgrounds, props, etc, we’ll negotiate a price based on complexity. 

NFSW is welcome if you’re of legal age, otherwise no. 

UPDATE: I’m actually gonna be reblogging this a lot this week because of some unexpected losses. Know that literally every cent will go to bills, hahahaha.

If you want to keep from seeing this post please blacklist “Hiki Commissions” and you’ll be fine. I’d appreciate any reblogs.

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euclase:

earl-of-221b:

bamf-castiel:

I had a dream in which I doubted all my artistic abilities and I sat in front of my sketches and almost cried, but then euclase showed up and said that all kind of art is amazing and with enough practice I will be able to achieve any goal I want. All I have to do is to keep going and never give up.

It was literally one of the most positive dreams I had, ever.

@euclase

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thorinthesassmaster:

suicidalnot:

phineas4cobain:

3rdquartermoon:

i-wanne-be-your-arabella:

Kurt Cobain was so important

So amazing

never took his eyes off the guy (and it was a guy groping a girl)…

he was PISSED.

Kurt Cobain the beautiful male feminist

no but seriously real talk for a second kurt was an amazing and beautiful person and did stuff like this all the time!

“At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records. Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song Polly I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience.” – Kurt Cobain

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Kurt cared about a lot of things despite his attitude may have projected and I think that this is what should come to mind when we think about him. Not his drug use, not how depressed he was or how he killed himself, but the fact that performing at a No On 9 benefit, (supporting defeating of Measure 9 an anti-homosexuality measure) he was approached by a kid that suggested he and Guns and Roses patch thing up. He responded with, “No, kid, you’re really wrong. Those people are total sexist jerks, and the reason we’re playing this show is to fight homophobia in a real small way. The guy is a fucking sexist and a racist and a homophobe, and you can’t be on his side and be on our side. I’m sorry that I have to divide this up like this, but it’s something you can’t ignore.”

Why don’t we talk about this enough humm?

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I feel that Queen of The Damned would have been so much better if they replaced the actress for Akasha and re-filmed her scenes/finished filming given that Aaliyah died (may her soul rest in peace)

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Aaliyah was one of the only at least halfway decent things about that movie! 

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I bet they’d used too much of the budget to re-film her scenes, but really, she was one of the only things they got right (well, maybe not “right” but close enough). I really like that she was a vampire of color who kept her color, despite being described as white (not Caucasian but light-skinned) in canon. I don’t know if ancient Egyptians were in fact light or dark skinned but in a series of alot of white ppl, it was good to see some diversity.

Crew morale was probably very low after she died, they might not have wanted to even try to replace her 😦

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retroautomaton:

Some crying tips. I’m pretty bored of seeing movies with clean crying, but wow it’s by no means clean. It’s gross and messy and just downright fun to draw.

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What do you think of Lestat from the Queen of the Damned movie?

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I really dislike that movie as a whole, but I know many ppl enjoy it for what it is and/or find it nostalgic, so I try to keep my negative opinions about it to myself.

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(by textsfromthevampire ^This meme actually works in reference to Lestat and Stuart Townsend AS Lestat.)

The long answer is:

I didn’t hate Townsend. I don’t like to throw hate on actors for their acting. I’d say ST did the best he could with what he was given. His failure as Lestat was a group effort (makeup, costume, script writer, dialogue coach, director, editor, sfx, etc. all had a hand in what we got on the screen) much as Cruise’s success was a group effort (wherein all those things previously mentioned came together so perfectly).

The actor is one part of the machine in creating that character. The failure or success of the character can ultimately be placed on the director since s/he’s the one who coordinates and makes all the aesthetic choices for the entire film.

But again, some ppl really enjoyed him as Lestat, maybe for the same reasons I /disliked/ his performance! Everyone has their own taste, ppl frequently disagree with the Academy Awards (why hasn’t Tom Cruise gotten one yet???!!), it’s all very subjective.