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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

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*~ Open call to all fandoms ~*

Draw my your favorite characters doing the Ice bucket challenge!! Can be just 1 image, or a comic, or doodles… anything works! Donate to ALS too, if you can.

Show us the ICEBUCKETRY…. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

Kicking this off w/ some of my fave fanartists, feel free to add your own:

unionthesalmon, permanentglitter, reapersun, florbe-triz, cloudsinvenice, liquorandptsdvarietyshow, brb-being-brazilian, devmin, hrim, sheepskeleton, foreordain, mortcharmant, dogmaticcrescendo, chrissydeath, derlaine, thacmis, zeeewa, remcovanstraten, tohdaryl, lestattheonetruepope

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cloudsinvenice:

arollercoasterthatonlygoesup:

if the phantom of the opera has taught me anything it’s that if all else fails you set the place on fire and cry

And if the Vampire Chronicles have taught me anything it’s that if all else fails, you set the place on fire and mope. 

Yeah, pretty much! 

We make fun of Louis for his pyromania so much hell I do it too!, but he was a plantation owner and that means slash & burn may have been part of the regular crop production. Setting fires was a step in standard operating procedure. Wiki says: “The resulting ash fertilizes the soil and the burned field is then planted at the beginning of the next rainy season with crops…”

But then you have this exchange from IWTV:

“ ‘Fire purifies …’ Claudia said. And I said, `No, fire merely destroys…’ ”

So yeah maybe it’s just the pyromania… 

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i-want-my-iwtv:

cloudsinvenice:

So my boyfriend got thinking again about how they’d have cast Interview with the Vampire if it’d been made in 1940, complete with the fact they would probably have insisted on making Louis into “Louise” (then I told him about Anne Rice’s putative genderswitched version with Cher and his head exploded).

Anyway, he figured that, after Wuthering Heights, Laurence Olivier would be a shoo-in for Lestat, while Vivien Leigh would be the inevitable (if horribly miscast) Louise. And Claudia is always and forever Shirley Temple…

Your boyfriend is so awesome, can you please make copies and distribute them? His VC thoughts are priceless. 

This idea of his is especially interesting because, if Louis became Louise, Claudia might not have felt so connected to her, because Louise would have the very body Claudia wanted to have for herself so badly… it would have introduced an entirely new angle of hatred from her… would she have killed Louise instead of Lestat? Hmmm… 

At any rate, your casting choices are great and you made me do this.

Exhibit A:

Claudia: “You MADE us what we are, DIDN’T you?!”

Exhibit B:

Recast IWTV

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#casually reblogs

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cloudsinvenice:

i-want-my-iwtv:

from Anne Rice’s FB page (8/7/14):

“Do you think that I, as an author, should have a press agent who controls and ultimately filters every public utterance I make? Should this page reflect only statements by me which have been approved and packaged by a press agent? Should all the public utterances of authors be controlled by press agents? —- Think what this would mean for this page. No more spontaneous conversational posts, no more immediate reactions to news stories brought to the page, offering them to others for comment; no more immediate and spontaneous reactions to current events; no more up to the moment participation in debates and discussions; and no more answering of questions every day and all during the day. Would this be a good thing? Is this what you want? —— I’m asking because some one seriously suggested this to me yesterday (in an Amazon Forum Discussion). I (and all authors) should be controlled by press agents. The person seemed to be perfectly sincere, and neither cynical nor disingenuous. The person said she was trying to “help” me. The person advised me that I was a “brand” and that I was damaging my brand. Of course this person obviously didn’t approve of the things I was saying in the Forum discussion, but the larger point seemed to be that authors should not make controversial statements publicly at all, that it is not appropriate for them to do so, that all communication from authors should be filtered properly by others and controlled. The person apparently believes authors are not competent to judge their public utterances on their own. And there was the implication that once authors become known, they forfeit the prerogative or privilege of open and spontaneous participation in public forums. ——- Well, I think you know what I think about this, and I think you know that this page is in no danger of becoming the packaged utterances of a brand. But I would sincerely like to know what you think, and what sort of communication you value with the authors whom you personally read.”

I actually enjoy reading her questions and opinions on things, even if I don’t agree with them. It’s intriguing, for better or worse. 

Same here. I have to wonder whether in this case someone was responding to some old Amazon rant-type thing. And regardless of the hair-tearing frustration of a lot of stuff she’s said, overall I do think she gains as many readers as she loses from her web presence – perhaps more, since the non-fannish readers (i.e. not those hit by her legal attacks/au fait with the Amazon rant etc.) will exist in higher numbers than the fannish ones. So the person may have been wrong and right at the same time…

^Agreed on all points. Maybe it was someone anticipating AR’s explosive rebuttals rational and careful responses to the upcoming terrible and offensive rational and careful reviews of Prince Lestat. 

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Am I the only one who actually liked Tom Cruise as Lestat..? I see a lot of people in the fandom claiming Townsend did much better and I don’t see it—at all. I honestly hated Townsend as Lestat, all he did was sit pretty…

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cloudsinvenice:

i-want-my-iwtv:

The short answer is that I think the majority of the VC fandom preferred Cruise ;D

Compare:

A) Cruise was Lestat. Even in this production still he was Lestat. 

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B) Townsend going for like bratty!Lestat:

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(by textsfromthevampire ^This meme actually works in reference to Lestat and Stuart Townsend AS Lestat.)

The long answer is:

I didn’t hate Townsend. I don’t like to throw hate on actors for their acting (except James Franco, lol). I’d say ST did the best he could with what he was given. His failure as Lestat was a group effort (makeup, costume, script writer, dialogue coach, director, editor, sfx, etc. all had a hand in what we got on the screen) much as Cruise’s success was a group effort (wherein all those things previously mentioned came together so perfectly).

The actor is one part of the machine in creating that character. The failure or success of the character can ultimately be placed on the director since s/he’s the one who coordinates and makes all the aesthetic choices for the entire film. 

Agreed. I think that with a decent script and a different approach, we might never have had the kind of group recoil from Townsend that we did. The thing about that movie is that there’s times when the aesthetics and atmosphere were really right (I still weep over Maharet’s house, or the deleted scenes’ original version of the intro), but more times when it bowed to the obvious attempt to make a commercial boy/girl/ancient vampire queen love triangle movie for a generation of teens who liked Aaliyah and/or Korn, which apparently was the only idea they could be arsed executing/move quickly enough on when they finally realised the rights were going to run out and needed exploiting. 

Jesus christ. It’s been TWELVE YEARS and, despite the mild affection I’ve weirdly developed for the movie (apparently just because it’s been around for so long, and mocked for so long, like an ugly family heirloom), apparently I still find it hard to talk about it without ranting. 😛

I can’t believe you’ve seen the deleted scenes, ffs! Impressive commitment there. It IS an ugle family heirloom. Like the butchering they did to the Lestat musical when it came to NY. Apparently it was a shell of the successful production they had going in San Francisco; much of the best was cut out as, I believe, it was deemed “too gay” for NY…

Agreed on all points that I can agree to, considering that I haven’t been able to sit through the whole movie. From what I’ve seen, it’s enough torment. 

Korn was the band of choice then, as far as “Not safe for public consumption, it’s pure corruption of the innocents!” music at the time, along with Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and Tool… definitely some others I’m neglecting, but maybe the producers went with Korn bc it was the only band willing to write songs for a movie in that way. NIN certainly had only dabbled in soundtracks at that time, as I recall, and they generally never play those songs (e.g. “the Perfect Drug”) live, for some reason. Maybe it’s a rights issue.

ANYWAY. I do think Townsend had a chance, and he did the best with what he was given. 

Vampire Chronicles, for @diplomacywink and @i-want-my-iwtv

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cloudsinvenice:

i-want-my-iwtv:

cloudsinvenice:

  • Funniest character: Mael is just always very funny to me. He would hate that, which increases the funny. 

Also I agree, Mael is unintentionally amusing and he WOULD hate that anyone thinks so. He has this earnestness and rageness, just always on the edge of (and threatening to be) breaking out a can of whoopass. Like a perpetually PMSing Thor, maybe.

I just have to reblog this for i-want-my-iwtv’s majestic definition of Mael. This one is for the ages. In twelve years in this fandom I have never seen this bettered. 

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Vampire Chronicles, for @diplomacywink and @i-want-my-iwtv

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cloudsinvenice:

  • Favourite Female: Pandora. But this is really hard because I also want to say Gabrielle. 
  • Favourite Male: Marius. 
  • 3 Other Favourite Characters: Lestat, Gabrielle (yay!), 
  • 3 OTPs: Pandora/Marius, Lestat/Daniel, and also Eric/Santino because I’ve been reading old fics and now I have all the feelings. 
  • Notp: Lestat/whoever the plot revolved around in that book. It has just never been known to end well. 
  • Funniest character: Mael is just always very funny to me. He would hate that, which increases the funny. 
  • Prettiest character: Armand. The fan art cannot lie. 
  • Most Annoying Character: Sybelle and Benji. They’re a unit. 
  • Most badass character: Lestat. Credit where credit’s due. 
  • Character I’d like as my BFF: Marius. I think I’d want the book-borrowing rights and the philosophical conversations, but as a husband he’d be controlling and patronising and occasionally turn up with random people from a thousand years ago going, “We can be an OT3 now, is that cool? It’ll be cool!”
  • Female Character I’d Marry: I feel like Eleni would be an awesome person to be married to. And we could run a theatre together, this time without the killing. Well, maybe we could lure bad people to performances and kill them. 
  • Male Character I’d Marry: Daniel. The more I think about this, the more it makes sense. Lestat would be the worst husband ever; Louis and I would have one of those polite marriages arranged by parents for financial/bloodline/land reasons in Regency novels, in which we don’t really dare find out whether or not we disagree about things or what we want in bed; Marius’s faults have been covered and Armand… well, Armand is too young, forever, but also, HE EXPERIMENTS WITH BLENDERS. Whereas I think Daniel just has a healthy sense of humour about the inherent ridiculousness of being a vampire, and something in his perspective would always stay human and curious and not get overwhelmed by all that portentous shit the others tend to drown themselves in. Also, I would be so into helping him build miniature landscapes. 
  • Character I hate/dislike/least like: Sybelle and Benji are tied here.

These answers are priceless and hard to disagree with *u*

Also I agree, Mael is unintentionally amusing and he WOULD hate that anyone thinks so. He has this earnestness and rageness, just always on the edge of (and threatening to be) breaking out a can of whoopass. Like a perpetually PMSing Thor, maybe.