Gosh thanks! [Anon’s referring to this post X]
I can’t do ALL of them there are so many VC characters (I’ll do Lestat tho), pick the ones you want described *u*
Your Description of Louis was perfection. Can you describe how you see the others?
Lestat, who’s a better dancer you or Louis?
Lestat sounds like the kind of guy to become a Jerry Springer fan and contemplate inviting Louis and himself to the show. Maybe get Armand dragged in as well [We all know Lestat makes the most reasonable and thought-out decisions ever. Really].
Not sure about Armand’s willingness to be dragged into that circus, but this would be especially useful re: all the fledglings Lestat’s accused of making on a regular basis…
[As they walk out together]
Lestat: “SEEEEE? I can, in fact, keep my wrists in their sleeves on occasion. REALLY.”
Louis: “So it would seem, on this occasion.”
Lestat: “You’re not going to drag me back on this show next week with a new batch of accusations, are you?”
Louis: “Are you going to give me reason to do so?”
Lestat: “No, of course not! Maybe. Probably. BTW Did I tell you about this new musician I met? He is amazing…“
Louis: *sighs*
I hate when people ask me why I am always in such a melancholy mood. It’s part of who I am, and my past has shaped me to be this way. It’s seems that no matter how elated I get, I may never have my sunlight. May my deepest wishes never be granted?
♠ Dear Anon,
I deeply relate to your concerns and find it as irritating as you do when my attitude is questioned in this manner. I’ve often asked it of myself, whether this melancholy “mood” is simply an element of who I am, who I always was, and not only the result of what I’ve experienced.
I see others thriving in the sunlight, metaphorically, and I have yearned, at times, to strip away my burden and join them. I have only ever done that when in a state of mortal drunkenness, and even then, I never fully took leave of my senses.
But this pervasive feeling is not truly a burden, it has its benefits. Are we more introspective than others? Possibly. More sensitive to the pulse of life in a different way than they are. Not all flowers require sunlight, some can only bloom at night.
When curled up at home with
a good novel in my hands, only the song of the cicadas outside, and ambient lighting, that’s peace for me. I’m sure that you have similar moments. Your deepest wishes of happiness can be achieved in the simplicity of allowing yourself to enjoy the things you enjoy, and forgiving yourself for the way you are. Treat yourself as you would a very dear friend, not an enemy.
I was scrolling through your posts when I saw a production still of Louis wearing that coat he wears when he and Claudia arrive in Paris and he’s in a cemetery, maybe a cemetery in Paris? Is there any explanation for this production still? I’ve never seen it before.
That is a fabulous coat.
[X] Possibly a teensy ref to Lestat’s fur-lined cloak in TVL? Not fluffy enough to be wolf, but hopefully fake fur for the movie.
This is the image you referred to (it appears that he’s wearing the same coat with jacket underneath as in the screencap above):
I don’t know of any cemeteries that have multiple levels like that, what is that, stadium seating?, definitely not in NOLA (at least one of the cemeteries in NOLA is that crowded tho). There is a scene in one version of the script (thanks @thesaramonster!) that mentions a graveyard in Transylvania of course, when Claudia and Louis are on their own, searching for other vampires:
MONTAGE OF SKETCHES
A TRANSLYVANIAN VILLAGE, A GRAVEYARD.
RUINED CASTLE AFTER CASTLE, LOOKING INTO THE SKIES…
LOUISThe quest for these Old World
vampires filled me with bitterness.
We searched village after village,
ruin after ruin andI was glad when
always we found nothing. For what
could the damned really have to say
to the damned?
^So I don’t think Neil Jordan tried to include the scene in the book where they find and kill a zombpire, but that production still might have been sort of a reference to it.
But it’s especially sad that Louis still has that coat after Claudia’s been killed ;A;
Can you imagine how painful it would have been, returning to the hotel room he shared with Claudia, all her clothes and accessories exactly as they were when she left it last? ;A;
When someone tries to tell you that you have to be pale to be goth, just remember this picture.😘
Bringing this back! Someone actually stole this post (as in with my quote, I didn’t make the picture) but took the time to cut my username out and now its being shared all over facebook, ruuude~ So here is the original.:P
One of my fellow fanartists sent this message, and I wasn’t sure if she wanted me to publish her name, but she asked a really good question:
I was talking to a friend of mine whom I haven’t seen for some time and she’s missed the part where I became a so-called fan artist. She’s an artist herself and she was like “I don’t get fanart. Why do people do it? What is the reason?” And I couldn’t find one except that I love these shows and I love portraits. I feel like that wasn’t an explanation at all, though. What would you say? Why fanart? Why not anything else? I felt so awkward. I didn’t expect I would have to explain myself to another artist…
This happens to me a lot.
Most of the time, I just call myself a pop artist. Artists who don’t understand fanart know what pop art is. They know Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe. They know “the artist who painted Ben-Day dots.”
I almost never explain fanart as fanart to people unless they are genuinely receptive. In my experience, when someone says, “I don’t get fanart,” they usually do get fanart, but they don’t like it, and they expect you to defend it. “I don’t get fanart” is code for “Why are you wasting your time drawing this?”
I don’t waste time explaining myself to those people.
But for times when I think someone is genuinely receptive, or for times when I’m tired of the stigma of “fanart” and “fangirl,” and I’m fed up with feeling ashamed to call myself a fanartist, and I don’t think neatly fitting myself under the male-established pop art umbrella is satisfactory enough, and I’d rather be a loud motherfucker who pisses everyone off, which is always, I might say something like this:
The fanart I make is similar to pop art, but instead of commenting on pop culture as a whole, I share my art with a tightly knit and passionate community of mostly women and people in the queer community who are also fans of that story. And together, our community as a whole disestablishes male-dominated media by reclaiming mainstream stories for the minority. Fanart is a form of underground or outsider art, and it’s one powerful way that we take from a story and its characters the things that we relate to the most or enjoy the most as women and members of the queer community and transform them into our own stories and derivative works of art in order to reclaim the mythology that has been taken from us by a straight, white, patriarchal media.
I think the key word in all of that is “community.” Fanart is something you do because you want to be part of a community.
So pick your battles. ❤
