can there be a thing called self insert day where everybody just draws themselves hanging out with their fave fictional characters and we all have a collective party so nobody feels self-conscious about posting self insert fanart online
omg this is gaining rapid notes and everybody seems so pumped for this. Can I pick a day and we actually do this?? um. um. How about June 27&28? Self insert weekend!!! that gives ppl three weeks to prepare!! (tag things as #self insert weekend if you actually do it cuz I wanna see your guys’ drawings hehe)
Canonically, his hair is first (and arguably best) described here:
“He stared at the vampire’s full black hair, […] the curls that barely touched the edge of the white collar.” – Interview with the Vampire
^But he might have trimmed it that night, he did dress up for the interview, too! So he did pay some attention to his appearance.
I can’t recall anywhere in canon that Louis wears a hair ribbon/tie, which would give us that it’s at least long enough for that, so I don’t think it’s necessarily even that long.
Re: Brad!Louis hair: When I read IWTV for the first time it was the summer before the movie came out; they were already teasing about the movie, we knew who was playing Louis, and I’d seen Brad in other things and then saw the movie itself, so I admit that Brad!Louis influenced my headcanon of him in the beginning; I would have answered Brad!Louis then. Especially bc I have wavy-curly hair myself and had fought it most of my childhood, so Louis’ hair being described as silky was my idea of manageable (straight, slightly wavy) hair!
^And this can’t be an accident that they included this very blatant non-consensual fondling of Louis’ hair right when he’s about to be punished by Santiago & Co.
Since that time, I’ve read plenty of fanfic and seen plenty of fanart that depicts Louis with varying hair lengths and textures, and after private debates with @wicked-felina, I accepted canon!Louis hair as preferable, but really, I love it all. I have an ability to enjoy
contradictory
canon and fanfic, parallel processing them both.
Most recently I’ve been very supportive of Ezra Miller’s hair from Madame Bovary as Louis hair. It’s full, meaning VOLUME, it’s more wavy at the top and curlier further down, and just long enough to touch his collar:
Hauls out all these fuckin books… anon why u kill me…
“He stared at the vampire’s full black hair, […] the curls that barely touched the edge of the white collar.” -Interview with the Vampire
“Those green eyes gazed at me […] with a mindless innocence,” -Interview with the Vampire
“I fell fatally in love with Louis, a young dark-haired bourgeois planter, graceful of speech and fastidious of manner,” -The Vampire Lestat
“His blindness to the motives or the suffering of others was as much a part of his charm as his soft unkempt black hair or the eternally troubled expression in his green eyes.” -The Vampire Lestat
“Tall, slender figure. Short dark hair. […] Black hair, green eyes, […] a frayed black sweater that hung shapelessly from his shoulders, legs like long black spokes.” -The Vampire Lestat
“his black hair full and disheveled as it had always been in the old days, and his green eyes full of melancholy wonder,” -The Queen of the Damned
“I touched his face again, the cheekbones, the arch beneath the black eyebrow. What a finely made thing he was.” -The Queen of the Damned
“He ran his fingers back through his hair. Such fine black hair. The first thing I’d ever noticed about him–well, after his green eyes, that is–was his black hair. No, all that’s a lie. It was his expression; the passion and the innocence and the delicacy of conscience.” -The Queen of the Damned
“his face sharpening, the whole picture of high cheekbones and dark probing green eyes firing beautifully.” -The Queen of the Damned
“His face, quite thin and finely drawn by nature, an exquisitely delicate face for all its obvious strength,” -The Tale of the Body Thief
“I glared at him, at the sharp graceful angles of his imperturbable face, […] his wide-set eyes, with their fine rich black lashes. How perfect the tender indentation of his upper lip.” -The Tale of the Body Thief
“Louis de Pointe du Lac, […] slender, slightly less tall than Lestat […] black of hair, gaunt and white of skin, with
amazingly long and delicate fingers […]
whose
green eyes are soulful, the very mirror of patient misery, soft-voiced, very human,” -The Vampire Armand
“I followed his slim, delicate figure as it picked its way
through the clutter and nineteenth-century Paris, I knew that this black-clad darkhaired
gentleman, so lean, so finely sculpted, so sensitive in all his lineaments,” -The Vampire Armand
“it seemed to me that he was a vision of male perfection […] his curly black hair […] combed back over his ears and curling above his collar” -Merrick
“he seemed a young man of twenty-four–with sharply defined and beautiful features, and gaunt well-modeled cheeks.” -Merrick
That only took forever… even with all my dog-ears… anyways, Louis is a pale skinny dude with a Beauteous Male Model face, short, curly black hair, and green eyes, as described over and over and over and over again in almost every book. Brad Pitt was way off.
Also I think this accidentally became a testament to how fucking gay everyone is for Louis, it’s really unbelievable. I even tried to cut out most of the superfluous gay bits and still,
“And I realized what a dreadful
change had come over his narrow face” – Tale of the Body Thief
As an artist I can give you a snapshot into a world.
But a writer.
A writer can take you there.
They can weave together words and create a portal to anywhere. You can visit those places instead of looking out a window and wishing to be a part of it.
I envy writers.
I envy artists.
A writer can give you a story.
But an artist.
An artist can show you the exact emotions behind everything.
They can paint a picture worth a thousand words without ever writing one. They can show you every single emotion, every single thought in a second. They can show emotion like a writer never could.
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