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I’ve been going through certain tags for certain reasons and I feel compelled to share that I love how the ‘porn for Louis’ tag is all, like, flowers and fires and flowers on fire and shit like that while the ‘porn for Lestat’ tag is actual porn and that really summarizes everything I love about the contrast between these two gloriously gay vampire bbs. Like, yes, opposites really do attract, and Anne damn well knows it. XD
Lol thank you for stalking those tags, I’m really picky about what I post there… And btw anyone is welcome to use those tags, too.
#porn for Louis / #porn for Lestat
Louis does get stimulated by fire, and unusual or gorgeous things in nature, just the immersive quality of those things. When he looks at these things, he’s mesmerized by the interplay of colors and shapes, the movement even in a still painting or photograph, it’s an immersive experience for him. So I’m very picky about what I put in that tag, only things that I feel like he would want to watch for a good long while as if he could enter the work itself, bodyless, just mentally engaging with the composition. That’s very stimulating for him.
In my mind, Lestat’s porn is usually more related to fashion, I’m thinking of it as like, adjacent to his need for retail therapy. The idea of wearing something and what it projects out to the world about you, the tactile nature of wearing it and being touched whilst wearing it, the interplay of the lighting, space, and environment in which you wear the thing. Dazzling a crowd of people without needing to say a word. The storyteller/actor/sensualist in him loves the idea of drenching oneself in shimmering dream skins, so it’s another type of immersive experience.
^Now I’ve sort of convinced myself that their porn, altho dissimilar on the surface, actually sort of brings them to a similar state of mind. Something immersive, some level of deeper appreciation for nature/art. Some level of changing reality, and for creatures that cannot themselves change, maybe that’s what is stimulating.
Being turned into a vampire is an act of metamorphosis, it’s the greatest intimacy they can experience. I would think that things that remind of them of transformation and complete immersion like that would be stimulating in what we might consider a sexual way.
Lestat would probably also love watching the sillier porn tropes like the pizza delivery guy thing, but more bc of the comedy than it being sexually stimulating. Probably also likes to watch vintage or vampiry ones with Daniel and/or Armand, like Intercourse with the Vampire, they’re all rolling on the couch, giggling at it like 7 yr olds.
Although, Lestat can also be somewhat deviant and cruel, to his loved ones but usually to his victims, so I would imagine he has trawled the internet and video stores for… more legit porn to watch alone. Even so, I would hope that he wouldn’t be into any really gross kinks, nothing really degrading to anyone involved. But I can’t say for sure bc he is highly Problematic :[
Can we please get a master post of every time Lestat and Louis are affectionate or that arguing old couple TM? I live for their relationship
Ah, yes, I can do that… books or movie? Probably both, I assume. That’ll take awhile to compile. Can’t promise I can do that very soon but maybe someone reading this wants to take it on? Hmmm? Volunteers? I still have the other proj of pulling ridiculous Lestat quotes from the rest of canon, which I have yet to sit down and do.
For now, try my #rue royale / #Another typical night at the Rue Royale tags, which have posts that I feel like are typical affectionate and/or arguing old couple™ stuff, not necessarily canon, but still… like this right here:
textsfromthevampire, submitted by alittlebitontuesdays.
(If you just want fluff, I have a #cuddles tag for that.)
Lestat are you real?
♛I’ve passed from fiction into legend.
Hey Lestat! I’m a huge fan! I’m looking for a set of fangs I can wear for Hallow’s Eve or on other occasions when I need a confidence boost, but I want to be as realistic as I can. Would you recommend a style, find me a picture (or take one!) of fangs as close to the ones you have as possible? If nobody makes them properly, I’ll at least need a picture so I can make them myself, since I know where to find all the necessary tools. Thanks in advance!
♛Of course you’re a huge fan of mine, how could you not be? *smiles*
Fangs do give mortals a noticeable confidence boost; every version of myself I see on the streets of New Orleans is just oozing with it. Even those masquerading in cosplay as Armand or Louis take pleasure in flaunting their fangs.
The only fangs I “make” are the ones grown naturally by my fledglings or the one custom pair that I discussed previously, which were realistic in shape but not material. Take note, I actually have six upper fangs. I don’t know why. Something to do with our appetites, perhaps. That’s all the advice I have on that.
//ooc; so Lestat obviously can’t really take a picture for you! But here’s a pic of Brad trying on fangs for IWTV. More angles here [X]. They did two sets in IWTV, these are the “attack” or “wide-shot” fangs, longer than the normal ones so that they’re visible from a distance.
Claudia’s here are shorter, possibly bc she was a child, but also bc Michele Burke was going for a vampire makeup in which at first the vampires looked like normal people, but w/ something slightly *off,* that they could conceal the fangs when speaking, passing for normal people, or reveal them if they chose to do so.
what is my life that I’m drawing whiskers on a pic of Brad Pitt from 1992 or ‘93 and indicating which of his teeth would be fangs OH WELL
^Basically you want the fangs to be long enough to be visible but not interfere when you close your mouth, so they’re really more draping along the outside of the lower teeth. To get that canine point looking sharp, curving it back like a snake’s makes sense.
The IWTV fangs also involve the lateral incisor, the tooth between the front and the canine, and here it’s also kind of pointed backwards here but I think Tom’s was done straighter. It also looks like Tom had the first premolars as fangs, too, but I’m not sure. Doing the lower canine is a thing other vampire media does, often. I’m not sure if they did that for IWTV. I don’t think so since this post has Brad’s fangs for sale on eBay and it’s only the upper teeth.
I imagine straight or curved, having one or two neighboring fangs would be beneficial for gripping a struggling victim’s flesh, sharing the strain put on the canines.
hey Lestat, uhhh weird question but do you consider yourself a top or bottom (if at all)?
♛My dear visage gris, are we speaking academically about my sexual preferences? Is this in the name of science? Are you Fareed under that mask? You know you can ask these things to my face, Brainy Smurf. And before anyone asks, yes, that is my pet name for him *smirk*
… or is this one of my multitudes of fans, who screamed for me in the crowd during my concert, or read my books and played my tapes on repeat from the comfort of their own lives decades later, who truly wants to know my position on this so that they might better imagine themselves with me in pursuit of sexual satisfaction? *grins*
Either way, you should know that I’m flexible in that regard. It depends on who I’m with, what period of my life we’re talking about, the mood, how voracious my hunger is for that person. Or persons. As desire builds, I’m willing to improvise, I’m not rigid about the manner in which I consume someone or allow them to consume me.
If one were to catalog all of my intimate encounters, it would show that I’m more often than not taking on more of a dominant role, “topping,” but I am extremely attentive to the needs of my “bottom”; my usual (and favorite!) “bottom” is what you call a “power bottom.” We’re both very demanding of each other.
The only real “rule” I try to keep is not about positions, but in delaying any serious drawing of blood until things are winding down, as it can exhaust myself or my partner(s) of the energy needed for… other absorbing actions.
Elaborating on your last post about fake fangs, what do you know about fangsmiths? Are those fangs durable? I’m just so curious because they sound awesome!
Hello! I am actually… really passionate about this and I’ve thought about doing it for myself, too! For now I settle with fanart of me w/ fangs…
[^Portrait of moi by the amazingly talented @vaciel, it’s a WIP, I hope they finish it someday][Ya can’t see them but I would have the canine fangs, too, you can only see the
lateral incisor fangs here
(that’s the tooth between the
front tooth and the canine)]
I actually don’t know the specifics, it depends on the fangsmith, but we have a few
fangsmiths
brought into Halloween Adventure here in NYC leading up to Halloween every year to make fangs, so you might get in touch with that store. They would probably need to be done in person so that the fangsmith can take a cast of your teeth so that their fangs will fit perfectly (my little story about the custom fangs, well, Lestat sneakily gets the cast by making the molds himself w/ Brian, during an evening of experimentation with Alginate ^____^ ) I’m pretty sure the fangsmiths all make their fangs removable.
One fangsmith, who I think is one of the Halloween Adventure ones, is Father Sebastiaan, and he has a gallery and prices. He has a list of pointers about his fangs that are probably true for other fangsmiths:
- “Fangs color match your teeth.
- They will last 2-3 years with good care, longer if you are careful.
- Not wise to sleep or eat with them.
- OK for smoking, drinking coffee, tea, alcohol, absinthe and sex.
- Made from high quality dental acrylics.
- 18 years of fang making experience.
- Good for singing.
- Feel like your real teeth when being worn.”
This is one of the customers in his gallery:
^IWTV-style fangs, I think, bc this dude vampire has the lateral incisors done, too ❤
Hit the jump for a little more, anyone w/ more info is welcome to share or tag someone who does!
I’ve also seen my fair share of custom fangs made by dentists who are willing to do cosmetic work, like the plastic surgeons who are willing to make your ears pointy for superficial reasons. Much more expensive, I would assume. Here’s a picture of a fan at a booksigning for PL in ‘14 who I think had permanent fangs and hers were… in my opinion… too big. She reminded me a little more of a sabretooth tiger than a vampiress but hey! It worked for her.
[X] Sorry for the low-res, it was hard to get any snaps of her! Her fangs were concealed when her mouth was closed, but her lip was pushed out to make room, I guess, and I think she had a little difficulty talking. Hers seemed very durable.
So I know that Louis doesn’t really like being objectified and doesn’t like being called beautiful and sexy and all but how would he react if he was called ugly?
I discussed this w/ @wicked-felina who says:
Hmm. Louis would probably believe criticism of his looks (I like the headcanon of various people, including @gairid) that he felt different and weird because of his androgynous beauty as a mortal. But he would protest that he doesn’t care about his looks
There was also a headcanon (@gairid‘s?) that his mother found his eye color strange and ruthlessly criticized him over that and other things about his appearance. Maybe that’s why Louis retreated into art and fiction for his aesthetic tastes, that the ideal of beauty captured by artists and writers was superior to what reality could offer, including his own appearance. The fact that he ran the family business and provided for his mother despite her attitude towards him taught him that actions, things you can change, have more weight than something you’re born with and cannot change, like your eye color.
I headcanon that Claudia playfully called him ugly on more than one occasion, and called him ugly on some not-so-playful occasions later on, too. Only someone he loved that much could wound him like she did about that subject.
Louis probably still has a lingering feeling from his mortal days about his looks, but if confronted about it, would probably roll his eyes and change the subject.
A young Robert Plant IS Lestat.
Oh definitely, he is alot of ppl’s headcanon for Lestat ❤ here is a teeeensy collection of him being Lestatuesque… if u wanna reblog these, reblog from their links instead of this post, or from both 😉
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[X] ^this may or may not be red f*cking velvet but close enough for me, and that blond mane just grazing his shoulder and rolling down behind his neck… <333
Do you have any favourite or well written vc fics? I keep only finding younger audience’s writing or things that aren’t to my taste
Hm, I mean, I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, I can see where you’re coming from… sometimes I’ll start reading a fic from a new writer and feel like they might not have read very much canon, or they’ve only seen the movie(s), so they don’t really have a take on the characters that meshes well enough with mine, so it makes it a little hard for me to suspend disbelief, but other times, I’m really impressed with their ideas! It’s pretty subjective but I like to be surprised *u*
^Kitty by @berrym [X]
For specifics, it depends what you’re looking for, which characters, pairings, time period, longfic/one-shots/drabbles, angst, fluff. So many!
I have a huge list of faves. HUGE. But the thing about VC fanfic is that we still have to be sort of careful about sharing it bc of reasons (under the cut).
Also, the danger of recommending any fic runs the same risk of doing those Follow Forever posts, which I don’t do, because I’ve seen ppl who were left out feel hurt and excluded. I like fluff and angst, and I ship L/L so most of my faves are L/L specific, and I also really love one-shots from the IWTV-era and TVL-era, and other “missing scenes” from canon books 3-5 and #current vampire happenings which could take place anywhere from 1986 to now. There are alot of good fics that don’t fall into those rubrics, which are very subjective, so ppl are free to reblog/comment with other stuff.
One of my most fave VC fanfics is an L/L-specific one, it’s incomplete but I recommend it whenever I have the opportunity: Gulfport: A British Petroleum Fanfic (Part One) by hw_campbell_jnr – There are 2 parts and, again, it’s incomplete, but this is devastatingly beautiful long!fic. Hipster modern Lestat and Louis, Lestat going by a pseudonym, politics woven in, it’s just too good. It annoys me how good it is. I am annoyed. I would be less annoyed if it were COMPLETED.
Since I’m on the GULFPORT (in caps bc I am just that passionate about it) subject I’ll elaborate a little. Not a lot happens plot-wise, but this is the kind of angst and fluff I really love. It offers an insight into their characters that hits me just right, I haven’t seen anything quite like it. It plays forwards and backwards in the established timeline, Lestat makes these strong statements and then immediately backtracks and scratches them out, harshly, it’s more of a train of thought sometimes than a narrative, it sprinkles in some headcanons, a peek into L/L email exchanges, and a little of Lestat’s recovery from his coma which just… really hurt my heart, in such a good way. It basically killed my muse for any creative fanworks for months after I first read it, bc I felt like, Why bother, if this exists? BC we always need more fanworks, we’re insatiable, fanworks are the lifeblood of a fandom, and even the person who wrote GULFPORT enjoys other’s fresh fanworks 😉
ANYWAY. We all know that there is fic in secret places and I don’t broadcast those places on my blog, in case certain ppl change their mind about their stance on it. However! Archive of Our Own (aka AO3) has a mission statement about protecting fanworks from copyright infringement arguments, so I feel pretty safe recc’ing stuff that’s on there (in no special order):
- Retail Therapy by Rebness (@wicked-felina) – what I love about this, among other things, is that it really is retail therapy for Lestat without that needing to be explained, and has a sweet ending ❤
- First Light by Rebness (@wicked-felina)
– Such feels, Claudia’s POV on her final night ;A;
- The Grim Brothers by Rebness (@wicked-felina) – incomplete but it’s a fun little werewolf AU! I hope the author picks it up again someday *NUDGES*
- The Hostile Takeover by StellaMachiavelli (@stellamachiavelliici) – is a legendary fic. “Lestat de Lioncourt is a high-flying businessman out for revenge on ruthless boss Santino, with the help of his best friend David Talbot. There’s just one complication: on Santino’s side is Lestat’s ex, Louis de Pointe du Lac.”
- The Sexting Caper by Gairid – because sexting!
- The Haunting by Gairid – A haunted object.
- Gairid (@gairid, @vampchronfic) also has some excellent long!fics and collaborations with Leshan that are worth checking out, too many to list here.
- My stuff… see Burnadette_dpdL. De Motu Cordis is not my fave but has one of the highest hit counts. L/L lovey fluff *blushes*
- One Night in New Orleans by iskra667 – L/L angst, fluff, warning: it explores some darker themes and contains dubious consent.
- Childhood memory – a harsh lesson is learned (not the official title) @devilsfool – not L/L but I always have to rec it, a response to an Ask, a first kiss, child!Lestat.
- Lestat’s actual birthday (not the official title) by @viaticumforthemarquise – not L/L but I always have to rec it, Gabrielle’s POV on the day Lestat is born oh gawds! Baby!Lestat
Anyone is welcome to reblog/comment with recs!
Hit the jump for a teensy fanfic history lesson.
In short, Anne Rice had waged war on VC fanfic in the mid-90s, sic’ing her lawyers on many fanfic writers, eventually breaking apart fanfic sites (“speculative fiction” or “spec” archives/communities) and driving many of these writers to stop writing altogether or do so in a more underground way ;A;
Currently, she’s had conflicting stances on fanfic, but hasn’t made outright war at nearly that level. I try not to tag her in discussions of it, basically, I don’t try to provoke her by making our caches of VC fanfic known. Especially on Facebook, where she’s very active and might see it. She posted this on her FB in 2014 (I think):
I-want-my-IWTV 