Valentines Day, 2015 by cloudsinvenice
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“Put it away, John. There’s no point.”
“You are so clever, aren’t you, Sherlock Holmes. So very clever. Perhaps I should keep you…”
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when i was 12 or 13 i got way into the vampire chronicles and ended up reading so many awful vampire novels because of it and p much nothing topped lestat okay
what a little bitch
also there were only four books nothing after body thief counts you can’t convince me otherwise memnoch who da fuck is that idekAnd Lestat would be SO into Sherlock and would turn him and then be completely surprised when their relationship became a clusterfuck. But he’d still hold out hope! 😀
Greek bust, British Museum vs. i-want-my-iwtv, actual Greek goddess ;]
In before: the angle isn’t identical! but you get the idea. I’m actually jealous that the statue has a bigger smile and a bit more nose than I do *siiiigh* Artistic license. I gots a better neck and my eyebrow game is strong.
[Greek bust pic taken by @cloudsinvenice]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LESTAT! HAVE A SMILING LOUIS…
Louis in this outfit would be the perfect birthday present ❤u❤
Lestat, what are you gonna dress up as for tomorrow?
♛Darling Rose! I really should keep it a surprise, but…
I’ll be the White Rabbit and Louis has agreed to be “Alec” in Wonderland. Genderbent version. Not that he doesn’t look stunning in a dress, but, it was a dream I had and I wanted to see it realized.
2013 will always stand out as a highlight for me, as I was going to be the popular thunder god Thor, and Louis was going to be Loki, but we had gone off into a darkened corner and… well… we emerged with swapped costumes. It happens ❤
Perhaps next year I’ll be the Big Bad Wolf if you’ll be my Little Red…
What Lestat and Louis did for Hallowe’en.
*DYING*
But can we please talk about Armand’s
(actually Andrei’s) Monastery of the Caves because it’s a real place!Kiev Pechersk Lavra also
known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kiev. It was created in the early 11th century by an Orthodox monk named Anthony. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that
overlooked the Dnieper River. The Kiev Pechersk Lavra caverns are a very
complex system of narrow underground corridors (about 1-1½ metres wide and 2-2½ metres high), along with
numerous living quarters and underground chapels.Even
found a small interview with one of the actual modern monks, who said “The monk is actually a person who,
ideally, should not face the world for he is constantly talking to God. Therefore, he goes underground, he buries himself
alive by digging his own grave – that is, his cell. And when the real death comes, the
cave takes his body for perpetual storage. Therefore,
every cave monastery is a kind of an underground necropolis”.I honestly have no idea how I’ve never researched this, but I finally have a visual and detailed reference and I’m SO happy.
My hat is off to you. This post is a brilliant, evocative piece of fandom research. The funny thing is that when I came to my dash and saw the photos I was thinking, OMG, SOMEONE FOUND SEVRAINE’S CAVES OF GOLD! and then… well, I’m floored!
It shows something that I hadn’t understood when I read Armand’s story: how the caves could seem safe, reassuring, even. How they could echo the womb in some way to one’s lizard brain, particularly for a kid who’s torn between two different ways of life and is told that this place will mean peace of a kind, rightness with God. Somehow I doubt there would’ve been so many candles back then, but any candlelight at all on walls of stone… I’d forgotten how it looks and feels, and somehow I’d always visualised the caves as having earthen walls, which of course makes no sense because they wouldn’t have stayed up!
OMG
My boyfriend just looked at this and went, “That’s Claudia… and Lurch standing behind… and Ed Milliband sitting.“
Yeah, I think something went wrong with this cover… kind of interesting, though, that the blurb was so up-front about the erotic quality of Claudia’s attraction for Louis.
Please, if anyone knows who made this amazing Armand, I can’t find it on deviantart. Tell me please!!
Someone on a Russian forum had saved the file with the name Armand_by_MaGLIL, but that user on deviantART doesn’t have it in their gallery, or favourites for that matter. I followed a few other trails where people had saved it on Pinterest and it was attributed to a dA user, but again, I wouldn’t find it when I went to look there. I hate it when this happens; it’s such nice art! Anybody?
Had to dig into the past in my DeviantArt account, but yes, the original artist is maglil, I know this because I once posted (2009!, gosh it’s been a while) a desktop screenshot and I tagged her (The-Vampire-Armand).
I do have the original she posted saved (still!) on my computer and it’s very close to the quality of the one shared here, so… hope that answers your questions.Yes, it does, thank you so much! 🙂
Does anyone has thoughts on vampires and polar night? do they need to go to sleep if there is no daylight?
I think if there’s answers anywhere, they’ll be in Blood and Gold, but I’m not sure if she spelled it out re: Thorne… I’m curious about whether staying awake indefinitely would produce the same effects in vampires as in humans. Lestat’s state in QotD suggests that it might – it seems like Akasha flies him around the world keeping pace with the night, and this is part of why he’s so discombobulated. She apparently controls him by – amongst other things – not letting him experience anything but ‘mortal sleep’ for a long time.
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