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What’s the difference between Verses and AU’s?

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This is a good question and it took me awhile to figure out the difference (and I might be wrong, so other ppl can reblog w/ their own explanation). 

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The confusion is bc “Verse” is an abbreviation for “universe,” and “AU” is an abbreviation for “Alternate Universe.” The difference is mainly in that the former is usually applied to RP and the latter is usually applied to fanfic and fanart, but both words can be used for both. 

A “Verse” (lots of different words for this, different RPers make them up) is more for RPers, bc it’s a time period set in canon, or a non-canon time period chosen between the RPers who are roleplaying together.

– So you can have a Louis RPer and a Lestat RPer referring to “Verse:One Happy Family” (or whatever name they choose for it), which refers to the time period in canon in which those muses were living with Claudia and all three of them were happy, before Claudia started to actually grow up.

– Or, you can have a Verse that is NOT in canon, like “Verse:Italian Tales” (or whatever name they choose for it) in which a Gabrielle RPer and an OC RPer are roleplaying stories from Gabrielle’s childhood in Italy, which was not explicitly written about in canon.

An "Alternate Universe” is more typically used in fanfic or fanart in which the characters and canon have been rearranged somehow, like a female!Lestat, or the idea like: Enkil awoke in 1984 and he is mindlessly on the warpath, terrorizing the world, and Akasha is trying to enlist the other vampires to help stop him. My fave AUs are ones in which lots of canon, fanon, or headcanon is part of the story.

– There is an incomplete fanfic on AO3 called The Grim Brothers that basically casts the VC characters into a Grim’s fairy tale, and they are not vampires in it, but some things from canon are retained or reworked: Louis and David are stepbrothers, which is technically sort of true!

Also, with Sebastian!Nicolas we can have ChrisEvans!Lestat too?He would fit the role kinda good. Or even as a flashback Marius(like he is 40 but a little flashback about his and Pandora’s first meeting)

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Chris Evans I see more as Daniel Molloy, don’t you think? Yeah, he has a Roman enough face/build for a young Marius but Marius is not likely to get a movie before Lestat does. 

But hey, I wouldn’t stand in the way of Evans doing a screen test as Lestat *u* He is almost too muscular for my taste, but I’ll deal with it, somehow, lol.

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This photoshoot by Tony Duran for Flaunt Magazine in 2004 was so Daniel to me:

1: “What fresh hell are we putting me through tonight Armand?”

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Two more under the cut.

2: “What am I doing? I’m taking polaroids of you that’s what I’m doing now pose, you demon. I posed for you.”

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3. “I’m exhausted Armand, it’s 4 am, so either pump me full of more caffeine or or smtg better ffs”

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I don’t understand–Lestat’s height is 187 cm or 183 cm?

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He actually says he’s 6 ft tall in canon, and google converts that to 182.88 cm. Much to Armand’s chagrin and before you ask, I don’t know Armand’s height, not sure if that was explicitly stated in canon, but it is fanon that he is on the shorter end of the coven.

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[fanart by @remarried]

If the book Merrick were to ever be made into a movie what do you think of Sherri Saum playing the part for Merrick Mayfair?

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Innnnteresting choice, I don’t know her work, only just googled her, but I’d screen test Sherri Saum! She does NOT look like she’s 40. I don’t remember how old Merrick was supposed to be, but I like the idea of her as a Real Adult Woman since she has to seduce Louis, and he was turned at 24, IIRC, so that could be very hawt, a slightly older lady, not yet a cougar, bewitching a younger man. We don’t see enough of that.

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^She has some solid sass in the vids and gifs I saw, that’s for sure, which is a necessary component to Merrick. Superficially she is gorgeous and I love her hair! Such great volume.

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^Great smile, too *u* She can already wrap you around her finger w/o resorting to Voo Doo, probably.

I’m not that anon from before but do you have any other Vc artist Tumblrs you know? I’m new to the fandom slightly and I’m not familiar with people on Tumblr. and I just adore your work! thanks for sharing it with us mwah :*

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sheepskeleton:

Hello there, another anon! 😉 Right off the bat, check out @remarried, she is hella awesome ❤ garama used to make cool VC art but he doesn’t anymore and deleted most of his old stuff but check out his blog anyway and @i-want-my-iwtv (aside from having an awesome VC blog herself!) has a nice collection of his works. @ashetray did some hella rad VC fanarts, so did @devmin-art. But I reccommend going into @i-want-my-iwtv‘s fanart tag, you will surely find something to enjoy 😉 

I probably forgot some people and I’m going to feel super bad in 3… 2… 1…

*appears in a magical sparkly cloud poof* DID SOMEONE SUMMON MOI?

Yes, @sheepskeleton is among those she mentioned as great fanartists in our fandom! We do have a bunch more active ones, but there is definitely some gold (older works or works by artists who have only done a small number of VC pieces) in my #fanart tag. All of our fanartists are awesome and some are even open to suggestion, if you send them an ask with a good prompt.

Some other VC fanartists that come to mind in addition to those already mentioned above, in no particular order:

@anaryawe, @jealizing, @kotilae, @n2015n, @amadeo-child-of-the-renaissance, @chrissydeath, @hedonistbyheart (more from this person on their deviantart page), @garama does spoil us by posting VC occasionally so I must keep them in this list, @obsessional-ram

Then there are a few I would recommend bc altho they do not post as often, they are definitely worth checking out (please do NOT take it personally if I didn’t mention you here, these are just the names that immediately come to mind):

@unionthesalmon, @vladrodriguez, @i-see-light, @muirin007, @florbe-triz (formerly “florbe91”) has some older stuff on her deviantart page worth your time 😉

I, personally, also draw and will hopefully be animating more, with the right amount of time and motivation…

In your mind, who do you think are the right person(s) to play Nicki? As an adult

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As usual, I gotta say that it’s not JUST about appearance, so I’m open to suggestions, and it would need to be someone who can make the transition between mortal and vampire really well.

THAT SAID: I would be looking for someone close to their 20’s, or looks like it, with luscious dark hair, A+ artist brooding skills, a smile that can melt your heart, and an almost feral edge, this is not your boy-next-door, but someone w/ razor sharp wit ever at the ready to stab you with, but he keeps it back as much as he can. Leashed cruelty.

Major plus if they can play violin, too, bc I know ppl are going to be watching their damn fingering and will criticize them up and down, even if they get training with it, bc violinning is such a huge part of that character.

Some ideas (in no particular order), and there are more in my #Nicolas de Lenfent tag, I’m just picking some favorites here:

Young Hugh Dancy:

So Hugh Dancy is not this age anymore, but we could find someone who resembled him at this time, as a starting-off point.

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90’s!Trent Reznor:

Same comment as for Hugh. Must be someone out there who looks like Trent did at this age. Trent could look like an almost-feminine beautiful mess,

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And he could look like he was barely tolerating your idiocy:

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Model Miles McMillan:

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Nicolas RPer @a-misunderstanding-my-love​ uses model Michael Gandolfi (and others, I think?):

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Nicolas RPer @darknessmolten uses David Garrett (who actually CAN violin!)

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90’s!Skeet Ulrich:

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Model Jonas Kesseler:

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Yeah uh just because you use a spn doesnt mean it needs to be tagged spn

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Thank you for this comment, bc I did some real percolating on it and I am happy to answer you.

I tagged it that way bc often I’ll see posts on my dash where someone has used a gif from a source, which hasn’t been tagged, and I’ll see tags or comments like, “Who is this hot guy?!” “Where is this from?!” which is so sad, bc they might really want to know and get into that fandom! So in tagging it #Supernatural, it’s actually free advertising BACK to Supernatural; someone might see my post on their dash, and think, “What is this from? Oh, it’s tagged Supernatural. Maybe I should check that show out, this guy looks like he could be a great actor…” And then you might gain awesome fresh blood in your fandom, who could turn out to be your new best friend (or even something more!, ppl meet the love of their life through fandom, I kinda hope to do so, too) ^_____^

I also enjoy the fact that other fandoms bleed into each other sometimes, bc fandom is an umbrella concept over so many of them (if not all). There are even crossover fanworks (fic, memes, etc.) between fandoms and different works of media, often enriching the experience of both. Especially when you have someone who can make really great meta-analysis comparing some aspect of one fandom to another, they might even make you ship smtg you never thought you’d ship.

As an example: One of our fandom ppl has moved onto the MCU!Avengers, but specifically the Steve Rogers/Tony Stark ship, and they convinced me that that ship has alot of similarity with Louis/Lestat. And now I can’t unsee it, and you could all lose me to Stony someday.

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^Lestat/Louis meet Tony Stark/Steve Rogers, hilarity ensues. This is a fanwork that crossovers two different fandoms, and so much is conveyed without any dialogue at all, it’s all in the facial expressions and body positions and it gives me such feels whenever I look at it. Drawn by @americancaptaincomic​

All that said, I’m sure I’m not the only one who has posted that gif with the #Supernatural tag. If you want a pure SPN tag, you can run your own blog and keep it as pure and clean as you like! And I don’t say that w/ any intended sassy attitude, it’s just a fact, and even though I wanted to keep my blog purely VC, I have found that embracing other fandoms is more inclusive and really does enrich the experience.

I really don’t get why we can’t have ship names? There is #novcfanfiction but why not vcshipnames?

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No one is saying you/we can’t have them, but I think it’s bc VC ships began sailing before ship naming was thing (which I think began gaining traction with Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez being “Bennifer” and Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie being “Brangelina”). Our ships were sailing even before “shipping” as a term was a thing! That said, I seem to recall seeing “Loustat” as a ship name for Louis/Lestat in the past few years, but can’t think of any others.

Go ahead and name your ships if you like, we’ll see if any catch on!

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Hello! I was wondering, since you’re a VC fandom veteran, do you have any idea why old fanfic writers had a tendency to write Marius as a villain in their stories? I came across many old fics that portrayed him as insanely controlling and abusive to other characters, and I know he’s no saint but he’s a lot more ethical than a lot of others, so I was wondering, was there a time when the fans expressed so much vitriol towards him?

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vampchronfic:

i-want-my-iwtv:

remarried:

vagabonddaniel:

coldinhumanity:

i-want-my-iwtv:

Ah, hmmmmmm…. I don’t remember that specifically, and I’m feeling like I should know that… 

^Lee Pace as Marius bc of reasons. 

… but I can surmise that since he was the only authority figure anyone paid respect to for awhile, that would naturally lead to them speculating on him abusing such status. 

Which he did, somewhat, with Armand, when he took him in. I haven’t personally dissected that ship too thoroughly, so I wouldn’t know. 

I’ll open this up to the group: Anyone out there have an answer for this anon?

//Haven’t been around long enough to know (only got into the fandom in 2005), but I would guess it’s just what you said.. that maybe his and Armand’s relationship as it came through in TVA and B&G was a negative surprise to people? Especially compared to how favourably he’s portrayed in say TVL/QotD.

ooc: I think it’s partially the later stuff with TVA and B&G, where he comes off as a not-so-nice guy. But back when there were only three books, Marius was the authority figure trying to implement rules for the vampires, so he was an obvious antagonist for The Brat Prince, resident rule-breaker. 

I read the books when I was 13 and was like, “wee everyone is hot” but then I reread them at 27 with more scrutiny and formed some vastly different opinions on characters. I realized I didn’t like Marius at all LMAO it’s just because he’s got a personality I’m not fond of in a man. 

So I imagine people might have been “eh *grunts & hand waves*” on Marius and that somehow designated him the one to make the villain when it suited. Fandom is not known for having impartial views on anything – now or back then.

^All good reasons, TVA and B&G would have had a big impact on fandom’s perception of Marius.

Later-canon Marius is very… um… he seems to have misplaced some of his marbles.  

#marius I leave u alone with my mortal luvvies for 5 DAMN SECONDS WTF

I don’t recall any specific fic where Marius was controlling or abusive though once TVA came out people began to think of him in less of a positive light partly because of  Armand’s specific reveals about him and also because he went against his own advice regarding making a vampire of a child (Armand was 17 which was perhaps why he admonished Lestat against such an action, but then how to explain Benji? Benji was made strong, to be sure, because, well, Marius—but he was still very young and Sybele was more than a little addled, so turning her was risky. It was around that time where people began writing more fic examining his darker side.

You a real body goals

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Aw thank u! I kind of regret bringing it up, but the flesh is always better on the other side of the window… oui?

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Real talk here, though: I love that they chose a realistic woman for Claudia to want to be, not some stick-figure blonde. Later, the lady killed on stage at the Theatre Des Vampires is more like that ideal, society’s projected perfection, but we’re not talking about her right now. This woman has kind of unusual boobs, as far as what we normally see in film, these are natural boobs, not hiked up in a bra to conform to some kind of perky ideal, and this woman has an actual tummy, maybe she’s had children, maybe she’s pregnant, either way, she appears to have FLESH THAT FUNCTIONS and is natural. “Pure Creole” as Lestat says appreciatively. And she’s kind of humming to herself, doing some kind of treatment to her body, just at peace with herself and the world, it seems. Claudia wants ALL of that.

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Later, we see Claudia humming (the same tune?!) as she draws from this model trying to achieve that same inner peace. Why do artists art? One reason is they’re trying to capture an ideal and/or something ephemeral, something that brings peace when you can put it down on paper. Writing can achieve that, too, as can making music, as can all the creative arts.

That’s definitely part of why I’m an artist. It’s a burning need to capture and become something through the creative act. An evolution of sorts.

You see why I’m trapped in this fandom? It touches on everything! I can never leave.