Eve has all the pieces she’s won set around her edge of the board. Adam has organized all of his neatly inside the painted person on the table. I wonder how much of that is Adam and how much is Tom.
Someone edited R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” to be in major instead of minor and it is absurd.
That’s me in the corner 😀
That’s me in the spot 😀 light 😀Losing my religion XDDD
Marius: “To be godless is probably the first
step to innocence, to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief
for things supposed to be lost.”
Lestat:
“So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of
illusions.”
Marius:
“An absence of need for illusions. A love of and respect for what is right
before your eyes.”
Interview with the Vampire (book) Sentence Starters
I’m in a mood, so here’s another sentence meme.
“Evil is always possible.”
“The world chances, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”
“Evil is a point of view.”
“God kills, and so shall we.”
“The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”
“Goodness is eternally difficult.”
“And sometimes i found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there.”
“Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually… it doesn’t matter.”
“I knew I was home.”
“I walked the streets.”
“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?”
“Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”
“Don’t you see?”
“I’m at odds with everything and always have been!”
“I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!”
“I love you still, that’s the torment of it.”
“The measure of my hatred is that love.”
“Do you know now how much I hate you?”
“Don’t be a fool for the Devil, darling.”
“You see that old woman?”
“You will never grow old, and you will never die.”
“I shall never ever grow up.”
“Let the flesh instruct the mind.”
“A starving child is a frightful sight.”
“I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.”
“Mortal beauty often makes me ache.”
“That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I.”
“Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us?”
“I look like an angel, but I’m not.”
“We’re beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we’re merciless killers.”
“You know nothing.”
“And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.”
“But I can’t hate you, my love.”
“Now it’s time to leave him.”
“What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?”
“I wanted love and goodness.”
“It was my death.”
“I saw my last sunrise.”
“And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.”
“You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me.”
“I might have known what it was to walk at your side.”
“Aren’t there gradations of evil?”
“Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”
“I never changed after that.”
“I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.”
“You are the night, and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms.”
“How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?”
“My power would be your power.”
“I have the dreadful feeling that I don’t exist at all.”
“I shudder when I’m near you.”
“You cannot pass back to the world of human warmth with your new eyes.”
“Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.”
“I wish I could.”
“You reflect your age differently. You reflect its broken heart.”
“Killing is no ordinary act.”
“Only the doll had a human face, only the doll.”
“Well, I tell you I am no longer that passive, weak creature that has spun evil from evil until the web is vast and thick while I remain its stultified victim.”
“It’s over!”
“Sending a shoutout to all of the quiet people who slip in and out of the fandom leaving comments and positive energy, thinking that they’re invisible or unnoticed. You’re not. You are noticed and you are valued. Thank you for being here, maintaining your presence, and for supporting others. Thank you for contributing to this vibrant community and everything that you do.”
that’s really nice! Q^Q
and as a person who feels directed with have to thank whoever wrote this! :3
Yes, this is directed at you! Among others ❤
Free Pass: So. Was it really the blood of Christ, or were we both mad?
Oh Lestat.
I don’t know. I still think about it, perhaps more frequently than you imagine. The things I saw in the blood, the things I felt… the awe and the terror. At the time, I believed it may have been real. That having tried to enter the holy of holies and see for myself, I’d been found wanting, and cast aside.
Now… I’m not so sure. It seems hubristic, doesn’t it? To think that such powers would interfere with us? I think that whatever it was that could create such spectacles, could remove you entirely from our ability to sense your presence in the world, it had power, immense power. And perhaps, after all, the being that sought you out was the Devil – I mean to say perhaps it was the entity which through its dealings with man had inspired the idea of the Devil, thousands of years ago. But God? Heaven? Christ?
Call me the puritan fool if you will, but if such divinity exists, I distrust the idea that beings such as ourselves would merit its attention.
Was the grape scene in the movie scripted?
As far as I know, after 400 years, 21 years of torturing myself with this trash i love, that scene was unscripted, but it was probably storyboarded!
Although I don’t have them for this scene, I’ve found a few storyboards by Martin Asbury for this movie. Someone needs to pry it from him!!!
I did check, this scene is not in the April ‘92 script, but much of that script changed. Someone out there must have a more recent script… There are several that were written after the movie came out, those are transcriptions of what was released in the final cut, not the last shooting script.
Fashion exclusive! You can actually vote by reblogging or sending a note to my Ask, if I get 10 responses I’ll update it.
…inspired by a comment from faceofabotticelliangel
ooc: btw this is p random but i felt the need to voice my opinion so if you’re not interested feel free to ignore it!!
See, I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about Marius’ personality, not only here, but among good part of VC fans who I’ve came across in the past regarding his book Blood and Gold. I would like to point some things that I find important and that maybe would help you to have a second thought about it.
I reblogged from the source and cut it for length, but give this a read, this is very well-said, and applicable to many of the problematic characters in the VC.
They were human once, they’re not perfect creatures. I think if there was one message AR really wanted us to take away from the entirety of canon, it would probably be: These characters are like us, imperfect, searching for answers, longing to belong, to love, and be loved in return.
Some choices made in pursuit of those things are impulsive, some are well-planned, some had terrible results in retrospect, but hindsight is 20/20. We can only learn from the past and try to make better choices, moving forward… ask for forgiveness for our trespasses and strive to forgive those who trespassed against us ❤
When I read Blood and Gold for the first time, I felt a slight emptiness, and that familiar feeling of disappointment in the pit of my stomach after knowing closely some of his choices and attitudes – and more than that; his true persona, after all. But after a while thinking about it, I realized that no matter how wrong he was by some of his choices, each one of them made who he truly is: selfish, yes, but compassionate, an artist, melancholic, and undoubtedly proud, but good and gentle at heart.
He is far from being perfect even though we enjoyed to believe that he was due to numerous descriptions we had of him in TVA, TVL, QOTD and Pandora. But he isn’t. He commits mistakes as everyone else, and if we were to compare him to Louis, Lestat and Armand, for example, judging by all the years that Marius is alive, I honestly don’t think his mistakes were so numerous. Some of them were intense, and most of them regrettable, yes, but I do not think that makes him a “bad character” or that he is any less of what Lestat, Pandora, Armand, etc, describe in their respective books.
Only because he was described by many as a “sage”, a “philosopher”, etc, it doesn’t change the fact that before he was turned, he was also a human. And Marius, in my opinion, is one of the most “human” vampires among the coven. His mistakes were in it’s majority also ridiculously human, being driven by the impulse of his emotions.
So I think that instead of focusing only on the bad things, you also should remember how wonderful his good side is. How loving, caring, compassionate, intelligent and cultured Marius is.
Marius was not the only one to commit mistakes. And it is good that he did because it’s a nice reminder that not even “immortal beings” are perfect, no matter how godlike they appear to be.
Therefore, my point is: instead of simply judging and saying that he is a shitty character because he was not what you thought he was, give it a second thought. No one is made only by their good sides, nor by their mistakes alone.
To like him or dislike him is personal, though. Yet, to say that his character sucks only because you don’t like it…. it’s hella stupid and makes me hella pissed.
Misconception: you smell like dust
Send me a misconception you think people have about my character and I’ll explain if it’s true or not
That’s a myth Lestat created in order to dissuade any possible suitors from appearing in his absence.
In The Vampire Lestat, didn’t Lestat describe his eyes changing color to a much more grey-blue type color?
“My eyes are gray, but they absorb the colors blue or violet easily from surfaces around them.” – TVL
His first study of his own reflection after being turned: “and my eyes had been transformed from their usual blue to a mingling of violet and cobalt that was softly iridescent.” – TVL
Magnus, in TVL: “…and the blue sky fixed forever in your eyes.” Magnus, TVL
So Lestat’s eyes:
- had this effect as a mortal and looked blue to Magnus; or
- were actually blue as a mortal and not gray-blue-violet-magical until he was turned; or
- really were always closer to gray-blue than just gray.
This is if we trust Magnus, do we really? IIRC, it’s the only description we have of mortal!Lestat’s eye color. IDK! Lestat supposedly shares his mother’s features
and coloring
(”In fact I resemble her at least superficially.” –TVL) and she is described as having blue eyes:
Lestat, in TVL about mortal!Gabrielle: “And she had very clear cobalt blue eyes fringed with thick ashen lashes.”
Khayman, in QOTD: “There wasn’t a particle of fear in her cold blue eyes…”
Lestat, in TVL about vampire!Gabrielle:
“Her eyes opened. Violet blue and glittering,”
Okay so I can’t dig up every single quote about Lestat’s eyes from other’s POVs bc c’mon I am human, so here’s a few:
Marius, in QOTD: “The ice-blue eyes, darkening with laughter…”
Khayman, in QOTD: “… [Lestat’s] violet blue eyes.”
Jesse, in QOTD: “[Lestat’s] pale crystalline blue eyes…”
Akasha, in QOTD: “to see the light in your blue eyes,”
