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Hey so I really want to make VC fanart. Does Anne Rice still do legal things when she finds out? I know that all happened a while ago (wayyyyyy before my time in being in fandoms) and I know there is fanart and fanfic out there but I am still paranoid.

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^This is a legit screencap from her FB page, I just added the highlight. For the record, AR loves fanart, so keep it coming! ☆° ｡:.ﾟヽ(´∀`｡)ﾉﾟ.:｡+ﾟ ☆

As for the fanfic, here’s my long post on it, with a bunch of her statements about it, but basically, she ignores fanfic:

“I got upset about 20 years ago because I thought it would block me,” she says. “However, it’s been very easy to avoid reading any, so live and let live.

If I were a young writer, I’d want to own my own ideas. But maybe fan fiction is a transitional phase: whatever gets you there, gets you there.” – Anne Rice, Nov. 2012.

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Still, her POTP occasionally bring things to her attention needlessly (like this blog post about someone’s bad experience in VC RP), with overly polite language like, “Anne, I hope that you’re aware that…” trying to provoke a response out of her. She still has rights and a lot more money than we do, so it’s important that we respect her. 

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“To get ready to write any novel does take a lot of preparation. I do a lot of research. I do a lot of coexisting with the ideas about what the novel’s going to be. I take a lot of notes beforehand. I write in freeform on my computer; I just create different documents discussing all aspect of the novel. But then when I actually plunge into the novel, and live in the novel’s world, I have a very hard time doing anything but writing. I write from the first page to the end, going back and forth, back and forth revising the whole time, but I’m living in that novel in a very painful and joyful way. I frequently sit that the computer writing for hours everyday talking out loud while I’m writing — actually reading the words, or speaking the words, especially if they’re dialogue. To prepare for that, you prepare your own courage to take that kind of plunge; to loose yourself totally; to take yourself that far away from the delicious idleness that the rest of life seems to be.”

– Anne Rice [7/10/16 X]

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“I get feelings of total defeat. I get feelings of total nihilism. I get so depressed sometimes that I look at my hands and I think why even lift them off the table…why turn on the computer…why touch the keys…why write anything? But what I do then is write about that. If nothing else, I turn it on and I write about despair, and I try to write my way through it. I think the most important thing, more than anything in the world, is to write, and use any excuse in your mind that you can to write. Don’t ever let despair or depression stop you. Remember this, that if you don’t write it, it isn’t going to be there. It’s that simple. And, if you are really down and out and really sad, look at it this way–decide that you are going to write it, and if you don’t like it, you are going to throw it away. I’ve done that quite a few times, and I’ve never wound up throwing the book away.”

– Anne Rice [6/26/16 X]

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sixtyforty:

i believe very passionately in doing absolutely nothing for as long as you want or need without feeling guilty about it because capitalism sees free-time as its mortal enemy. the lack of free-time is the death of creativity, personal reflection, real sleep, and just sheer goddamn relaxation. capitalism realizes it must crush this in order to squeeze every last drop of cash and blood it can out of you before it discards your dried up and utterly spent husk onto the burning trash heap. do as much nothing as you can.

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dirtydirtychai:

art–felt:

I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally can’t hold on to all of it. So what I’ve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed

so what you’re saying is that when i cry tears of rage it’s because i have more rage than is humanly possible to hold inside

this makes so much sense

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emmyc:

crowbara:

psshaw:

gerrark:

grapeyguts:

a generalization of what i and most other artists experience constantly, it’s happened like 3 or 4 times in the past two days and wow had to get this out

I cannot lie, I’ve done this, and still find myself about to do it occasionally. Don’t everyone, it’s really awkward. Talk a bit, and if you find common ground, you’ll hit it off. If not, well, that’s okay. Can’t be friends with everyone.

The best one of these I’ve seen yet— in-depth and adorably illustrated.

The first and last examples have made great friends, the former with some coaxing because when I first talk to you the last thing I want to talk about is your creative insecurity, holy god.

The middle ones, I just wait for them to flutter off to their next obsession.

what marissa said, haha this is spot on

omg this is so accurate

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livelyspaghetti:

When I tell people to delete anon hate, to not publish it, it’s not me saying “ignore it and it’ll stop; don’t fight back.” It is 100% petty and spiteful. Honestly, I can’t think of anything better than the person who sent the hate obsessively checking your blog and refreshing and refreshing, waiting for you to reply, and getting increasingly frustrated when the ask they so masterfully crafted never pops up & you just keep posting cute pictures of your pets and talking about how nice your day was.