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armandromanus:

vita—ante—acta:

merciful-death:

vagabondangelchild:

hyperbeeb:

armandromanus:

I want a VC movie where it’s just a two hour footage of Louis looking done with everything

A sequel which is just two two hours of footage of Lestat looking super done with Louis

A third installment where it is just two hours of footage of Marius looking done with everyone.

ooc; A fourth installment where it is just two hours of footage of VC fans looking done with Anne Rice.

A fifth installment where it is just two hours of footage of Anne Rice looking done with VC fans.

Also a two hour footage of everyone getting sued by Anne Rice.

gorgeous-fiend: #IT GOT BETTER

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Christopher Rice on “The Vines”, “The Vampire Chronicles” and Universal

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i-lie-awake-in-some-silent-night:

Christopher Rice, New York Times Best-Selling author of “A Density of Souls”, “The Snow Garden”, “The Heaven’s Rise” and many others including his latest, “The

Christopher Rice with some more news about the acquisition of The Vampire Chronicles by Universal.

Christopher Rice on “The Vines”, “The Vampire Chronicles” and Universal

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taihaku-tk:

Bless this family.

I WANT PANCAKES WHERES THE LADY WHO MAKES PANCAKES?

^THIS. omg. Why doesn’t this have a bazillion notes? It really should.

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communistdracula:

sometimes i think about the fact daniel probs has many excerpts from louis of armand sharing his sexual prowess and he was like ‘this is good playboy material’ one night in 1979 and armand was like ‘oh yes there was much playing involved’

Here’s an IWTV short story written by AR in Playboy

“….But the book as published represents only a portion of the tapes of that interview made by the reporter. Louis told the young man much that was not included, particularly with regard to the master vampire, Armand, whom he had met in Paris. One tale was Armand’s account of his methods of seduction; that is, the art of the vampire at its peak in the year 1876.”

!!OMG VC FANFIC BY AR!! 

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from Anne Rice’s FB page (8/7/14):

“Do you think that I, as an author, should have a press agent who controls and ultimately filters every public utterance I make? Should this page reflect only statements by me which have been approved and packaged by a press agent? Should all the public utterances of authors be controlled by press agents? — Think what this would mean for this page. No more spontaneous conversational posts, no more immediate reactions to news stories brought to the page, offering them to others for comment; no more immediate and spontaneous reactions to current events; no more up to the moment participation in debates and discussions; and no more answering of questions every day and all during the day. Would this be a good thing? Is this what you want? —- I’m asking because some one seriously suggested this to me yesterday (in an Amazon Forum Discussion). I (and all authors) should be controlled by press agents. The person seemed to be perfectly sincere, and neither cynical nor disingenuous. The person said she was trying to “help” me. The person advised me that I was a “brand” and that I was damaging my brand. Of course this person obviously didn’t approve of the things I was saying in the Forum discussion, but the larger point seemed to be that authors should not make controversial statements publicly at all, that it is not appropriate for them to do so, that all communication from authors should be filtered properly by others and controlled. The person apparently believes authors are not competent to judge their public utterances on their own. And there was the implication that once authors become known, they forfeit the prerogative or privilege of open and spontaneous participation in public forums. —– Well, I think you know what I think about this, and I think you know that this page is in no danger of becoming the packaged utterances of a brand. But I would sincerely like to know what you think, and what sort of communication you value with the authors whom you personally read.”

I actually enjoy reading her questions and opinions on things, even if I don’t agree with them. It’s intriguing, for better or worse. 

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jardinsalvaje:

Si no es otra Crónica, mejor no òwó

bueno sí u_u

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if you’re not writting another VC, we don’t wanna know ùwú

ok maybe

She posted this today, 8/1/14. Probably for the best that she’s starting a new one before PL is out, so she’s not affected by reviews (for better or for worse!)

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sleptsolong2002:

Anne Rice’s confirmation, that yes, that was her review on Amazon and not someone pretending to be her. Edited minor-ly to remove out-of-date info.

“Dear Ones,

I must confess: I can not answer any more Emails sent to AnneOBrienRice@mac.com. There are nearly 200 Emails on the site right now,…

So this is a letter from AR from 2004 regarding the whole rebuttal against the bad Blood Canticle reviews drama but this needed to be highlighted:

"Post Script: If anyone wants to send back a book for refund, by all means do it. We’ll be glad to send you your refund, and we’ll put the book into the next package to be shipped to the soldiers overseas. We get plenty of letters from them. All blessings, Anne.”

I love the idea of soldiers reading Blood Canticle. For free! A returned book from an unhappy fan in the hands of someone defending our country who’s doing real violence, and reading about the Mind Gift and possibly thinking:

"Well shit that would make all this A LOT easier…”

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Just got this message from an Anon, and if it is to be believed, it sounds like AR had an unnecessarily vitriolic reaction to an innocent fan *hugs Anon* 

I know I should have just posted your story without commentary but it got me to thinking about the criticism aspect of your story… I’m always intrigued by these kinds of interactions with Mater Glorioso, if anyone has more, please share!

On criticism: when one criticizes someone’s work… telling them what you don’t like about it… whether they are a Tumblr RPer, or a globally-known best-selling author of incalculable wealth/prestige, that’s a very delicate subject. Especially for THIS best-selling author of incalculable wealth/prestige, who hasn’t had a beta-reader since VC book 4 (that is speculation) and won’t collaborate with anyone (including her best-selling author of a son) because of the level of control she needs in order to craft her stories. Criticism can come across as a personal attack bc an author’s writing is the conduit to their deepest self; some of the best writing seems to be explorations of what they want to explore in their own psyche. 

For this reason, I try not to negatively criticize anyone’s work negatively bc I know I can be vicious. One has to establish a foundation of trust first. Even that is not always enough. That’s why people choose their beta-readers carefully, when they want one, bc it has to be someone that can criticize constructively and if they DO come across as hurtful, the writer knows it’s unintentionally hurtful. 

I don’t mean to criticize you for criticizing her, just attempting to explain why she may have overreacted the way it sounds like she did *hugs Anon again*

Advice for VC fandom newbies?

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advice? ADVICE? Um, wowww… so I usually have strong opinions on ALOT of things, especially VC-related, but this sort of knocked me speechless. For about a minute. Then I wanted to write a thesis on the subject but managed to keep it to this much.

I would suggest that:

  • If you want to RP as one of the characters, or an OC, you really have to read at least the first 3 books. And lots of fanfiction 😉
  • We have awesome fanfiction and AO3 aims to protect it.
  • Did I mention the fanfiction? It fills in the gaps that canon leaves. And it’s also just delishus.
  • The RPers on here are SO fun to follow. Try finding some in the vcdirectory! 
  • With the canon: you should have an open mind to Crazy Shit Happening

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  • DUE to the Crazy Shit that Happens later in the series, you are not required to consider it all canon 😉 Alot of people don’t consider books 5-10 to be canon. Or 4-10. Or wherever they want to draw the line. That is FINE.
  • Brace yourself, because Prince Lestat is coming. No, not like that, you filthy thing! ARRIVING. 10/28/14. And, depending on its crackiness, there is going to be a divide between people who consider it to be canon and people who do not, and that is FINE. 
  • There’s a divide between People of the Page and People Off the Page, described here.
  • In general the People Off the Page are a low-drama fandom, but we do have our spats, even the illustrious human behind i-want-my-iwtv has experienced a few direct situations, and that’s just life, bc people are people, after all. I’ve accepted my share of the fault in these situations and learned from the experiences. I’m not perfect, nobody is :-

The bottom line is that it’s a fandom that only in the past year or so has really come back to life, we were in hiding bc Anne Rice disapproved of fanfic and waged war on us in the 90’s for it. Now that she seems to have lowered her weapons about that, and even praised some VC fanart – permanentglitter for example! – and with the announcement in March of the new book, well, we’re all coming out into the light and making friends and it’s been wonderful!  

I hope you see this, Anon, because we all know there’s a human behind that gray face, too, and I want to personally welcome you and anyone who’s just joining us now… we are a different kind of vampire fandom, that’s for sure.