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Have you read any good Louis/ Lestat fics that you would recommend?

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Fanfic?? there’s no such thing as VC fanfic… pfffft. What are you crazy honestly??! J/k it’s out there. *blows kisses at AO3* 

Recommendations…

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Thanks for asking! I haven’t had a fanfic rec request in awhile. 

However, as far as “good L/L fics,” that is wholly and wildly subjective. 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. 

Recommending fic feels slightly different to me bc it’s up to every reader whether they like something or not, and I don’t read every fic with that pairing. My closer VC friends and I happen to agree on many favorite fics and that’s been wonderful, but please ask other ppl for recommendations, too. Anyone is welcome to reblog/comment with recs!

My tags:

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:

  • Gulfport: A British Petroleum Fanfic (Part One) by hw_campbell_jnr – There are 2 parts and 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.

Anyone is welcome to reblog/comment with recs.

would you happen to have any ridiculous Lestat quotes? im looking for new tattoo ideas thankssssss

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Oooh! That’s a cool idea… Fandom, let’s gather some ridiculous Lestat quotes for a tatt on this post. Mention the book it came from, too, if you can.

Here’s some I grabbed from IWTV, they’re not all ridiculous but they might work as a tatt, anyways. They all sound like canon to me, but check a legit copy of the book bc these are from an unreliable PDF.

Ridiculous Lestat quotes from IWTV: 

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I’ll play the drum if I like! 

[^fanart by @garama]

  • Stop looking at my buttons,
  • Don’t fall
    so madly in love with the night that you lose your way!

  • You’re dying, that’s all; don’t be a fool.

  • You’ll have to bed down with me this morning. I
    haven’t prepared you a coffin.

  • If I want to sleep all day
    and drink all night, I’ll do it, damn you!

  • Now, I’m getting into the coffin, and you will get in on top of me if you
    know what’s good for you.
  • The hell I won’t!

  • He’s dead, you idiot!

  • Don’t be such a damned idiot. Haven’t you ever seen a rat?

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  • Rats can be quite nice
  • [Re: a shattered crystal glass that he shattered] You don’t mind, do you? I surely hope you
    don’t, because there’s nothing much you can do about it if you do
    mind.
  • I’d like to meet the devil some night, I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I
    am the devil.

  • I ought to drive your horse
    into the swamps. You’d have to dig yourself a hole and smother!

  • You whining coward of a vampire who prowls the night killing alley
    cats and rats and staring for hours at candles as if they were people and standing in the rain like a zombie until your clothes are drenched and you smell like old wardrobe trunks in attics and have the look of a
    baffled idiot at the zoo. (<— This is probably too long but a piece of it might work, like “Staring at nature like a baffled idiot at the zoo” which is my tag for cool nature-related stuff, and some ppl have even adopted it from me.)

  • You’re being morbid! It’s almost dawn.
  • I
    can give you death more easily than I gave you life!
  • Did I kill him or did I not kill
    him! What’s your guess?

hey cupcake! how are you?:D you know a lot of VC and I was just wondering how do you think lestat, Louis, Armand and Marius react to someone who has healing powers? (even bring back from dead)? I’m sorry i’m just writing a weird fanfic hehe :P thanks!

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I’m a cupcake, hmm? Delish! Your idea reminds me a little of Pushing Daisies, which has a pie-maker with the ability to bring dead things back to life with his touch, an ability that comes with stipulations.

I don’t know enough about your character’s healing abilities to really have an opinion 😛

How would you like the canon characters to react to such an ability?  That’s part of the fun of writing a fanfic! Go for it! 

Anyone is welcome to reblog/comment in response to Anon w/ their own ideas.

So have Louis, Lestat, Armand, Marius, Daniel and co established like a formal coven of sorts; like are there other vampire covens, how do they see our gang? Or is coven just a word thrown around to describe them in groups, like it’s not an official sort of House or Clan? I just like to imagine Lestat picking out “coven colors” and symbols and being very exclusive on who gets to join.

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As I just mentioned before, I’m posting this for the group to answer. Fandom? Got an answer for Anon?

I just like to imagine Lestat picking out “coven colors” and symbols and being very exclusive on who gets to join.

^I think you meant this in a more fun way than I responded in my previous post, but I think I have some level of responsibility to take certain issues more seriously… Group dynamics that deal with suggesting that character X being very exclusive on who gets to join, even in an [unofficial] sort of House or Clan, has the potential to trample on someone’s headcanons and hurt feelings. 

I’m a casual consumer of series that have Clans/Houses and I admit that I don’t really understand the appeal of organizing and teaming up characters (as with the Sorting Hat in HP). However, I know that there are many VC fans who love organizing and teaming up characters this way, choosing symbols and colors, and so anyone is free to answer more along those lines, and please note that anyone who chooses to do so, let’s assume they are doing it for fun and not to trample on anyone’s headcanons or hurt anyone’s feelings.

Did you get my coven ask? Just wondering and a little worried since I have had a terrible streak of tumblr eating them or them not going thru. Thank you!

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Yes, I did get your ask, but I have decided not to answer it. I still haven’t finished PLROA bc of reasons, but bc I still don’t entirely accept PL as canon, I will just post to the fandom to answer, momentarily.

Re: Whether our gang of vampires are a formal coven, and what that means, and how welcoming they are of eachother and how welcoming they are towards the as-yet unknown vampires? There is alot of welcoming in PL and PLROA towards new and unknown vampires. They all seem to want to be together. What do we really know of the covens of old? The Children of Darkness were a coven, with branches in different locations, that all served (probably) a Dark Pope of some kind. Or maybe it was a democracy? We don’t really know. We know that they had laws, rites, and a sense of purpose. They had common goals. 

What is a coven?: With people, there is wide variation in what constitutes the structure of witch covens. Vampires are not people. I don’t know that I would call the Children of Darkness a “cult” even, I feel like it was more like the wolf packs that occur in the wild. More organized because the vampires had communication, written texts, and more goals than simply survival, but I would think there would have to be a major amount of inhuman element(s) to it all.

Just discussing the dividing up of vampires into covens is a delicate issue bc it deals with the exclusivity of vampires being already set apart from society as a whole, and then this whole push in the recent books to gather them up into a *~Tribe~* so that they no longer have to be wandering lost souls and/or forming their own small covens. It’s 2017, and according to canon, they’ve gathered, they’ve chosen a LEADER. They have the beginnings of a community to share their knowledge/gifts/news, they have the beginnings of a justice system, for the airing of grievances. They have court performances for entertainment! It feels like we have the United Vampires of the World ™ or something. 

*~Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.~*

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[^This gif is from the ‘91 movie ‘Hook’** in which we have a tribe of Lost Boys (it’s no mere coincidence that there’s also a vampire movie called ‘the Lost Boys,’) with a leader they elect, who reluctantly takes on that role. It’s kinda like Lestat accepting leadership of the vampires of the world even though, yes, the power and camaraderie is nice, does he really want to sacrifice so much of his own nightly freedom for it? ‘Hook’’s Peter Pan doesn’t want to stay in Neverland despite all the benefits, so he delegates leadership before he goes back to Real Life.]

So, the Tribe concept, well, it’s clear to me that it’s something many fans really enjoy, and I enjoy it as AU fanfic. Even if noone else enjoyed it but AR herself, it falls under #Live and Let Live ^______^ IDK what the breakdown is within the Tribe itself, but from my reading, it feels nebulous and amorphous, most of the vampires (those in good standing in the Tribe) are basically invited to come and go as they please from one coven house to another all over the world.

TL;DR: So many VC relationships, both platonic and romantic, are up to the individual reader’s interpretation, and how much the individual reader projects their own imagination onto it, that’s where groupings of any kind are formed.  

**More comparisons between VC and Peter Pan could be made, especially w/ this adaptation, but that’s for another blogger and/or another time.

re: vc casting. What about Samuel Larsen as Louis?

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Maybe! I haven’t seen him in anything, so I don’t know acting-wise, but physically I think it could work. 

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^He has that good narrow-ness of face that I headcanon for Louis… or Nicolas. He has these nice slightly feathered eyebrows, light eyes that will work with green contacts…a nice set of full lips.

TBH from these gifs, there’s a sass and a mischief that just feels more Nicki to me!

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Also, I’m gonna reblog a fanart of him that I think has a Nicki-esqueness to it, watch for it 😉

Why did Louis have a wife in the movie, instead of a brother?

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I don’t know the real reason, I don’t know anyone who does. I don’t know if it was Anne Rice’s choice, or Neil Jordan’s. 

I think there were a lot of factors that went into that decision, and it stirs up alot of issues and questions, alot has been written about it and alot more can be written about it!

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TL;DR: 1) I think it was done to cut time, Louis being distraught about losing a wife and child is immediately understandable to anyone who hasn’t read the books. It starts off the film with Louis questioning the reasons of a God that could punish him for seemingly no reason at all.* 

2) The other main issue is whether Louis is/was straight or if he actually was bisexual/homosexual/etc. as a mortal and Lestat entering the picture and pulling Louis into vampiring made it possible for Louis to let go of his preconceived ideas and social/religious/etc. repression and accept himself for what he really was. Neil Jordan probably wanted that left open-ended and unanswered. 

(*It could have set up the whole Louis-frustrated-about-how-religion-plays-into-vampiring, but that was cut from the film, too.)

1) One of the audiobook recordings for IWTV has a runtime of 14 hours and 28 minutes [X] and that’s ALOT OF STORY to condense down into a movie that can’t be that long. Scenes have to be cut. 

  • The movie we got is 2 hours long, and in 1994, I seem to remember movies being more in the 1.5 hour range. Titanic, clocking in at a little over 3 hours long, was kind of ridiculed by the critics for that lengthy runtime. These days, a 2-3 hour movie is not really as big a deal.
  • Building in the right amount of time/scenes to show the circumstances of Paul’s death and why Louis felt so responsible for it, that would have increased the runtime and delayed the amount of time we get to the actual vampiring. I can’t check the film right now but I think Lestat appears within the first 15 minutes of the movie, for good reason. To get the vampiring STARTED.

2)

In 1994, same-sex marriage was legal in zero states. Now it is the law of the land. Movie!IWTV was already pushing the envelope to suggest that Louis/Lestat were in a romantic relationship together. So, if Louis starts his story as having been married to a woman, it would appear that he’s established as being straight. On the surface. 

  • HOWEVER! this is a Neil Jordan movie, and one of his previous movies, the Crying Game, Jordan had gender issues and sexual orientations as main concerns, so perhaps starting Louis off as SEEMING TO BE STRAIGHT and then having Lestat swoop in and now Louis is “with” Lestat somehow, experiences that moment of intense intimacy when he is given the Dark Gift… so Jordan seems to be asking the audience if Louis was actually bisexual or homosexual as a mortal and suppressed it? Since we never see Louis and Lestat actually make love on screen (aside from the Dark Gift happening), does it still count as a homosexual relationship?
  • ^I think Neil Jordan wanted these questions left open-ended, and for that to be part of the exquisite torture that is the Louis/Lestat ship. Is it platonic or romantic? Jordan isn’t telling, and neither is Louis. 

There is, as I said, a lot more to it than that, but these are the main issues that come to mind for me, and I’m also trying to be concise. Anyone can reblog/comment with more ideas.

Just found out from my mom that my childhood hairdresser used to cosplay as Lestat and Louis with his boyfriend… If only I could meet them now cx

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Aww, yeah I’d love to see some cosplay pics from decades ago… And I feel like a hairdresser could actually do really well w/ their hair. Hair styling is an art form!

Interviews & Rec (11/?)

OMG I’M SO GLAD YOU CAME BACK WITH YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEOS THEY ARE SO GREAT I SERIOUSLY CAN’T <333333

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REALLY? omg this makes my heart happy. JUST THIS ONE REACTION made the vid worth doing… *hugs Anon*

I have other ideas in the pipeline JUST YOU WAIT at least one of them, just talking about the CONCEPT makes me laugh so I know it’s worth the effort.