Oh dear dad
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I’ll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I’ll hold the pain
Release me
Oh dear dad
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I’ll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I’ll hold the pain
Release me
“…so often we pretend to be gods in Gucci clothes, and it’s nonsense. It’s just to reassure ourselves and live in this illusion that we are solid as hell and we’re not water, and we know what we’re doing. We don’t, and that’s okay. If you know everything, then you’re probably not open to new discoveries. What was the line from one of those Guinness commercials I did? “If you keep an open mind, you’ll discover dark secrets.” ~ Rutger Hauer [ image source ]

I fucked up with the eye so i drew an eyepatch; but a crying lestat for @honey-in-the-sunshine
That totally works for his return from Hell in MtD, though!

“viaticumforthemarquise was one of the best Gabrielle portrayals I’ve ever seen. They gave life to a character that Anne’s sometimes neglected. Prior to their RP, I’d never considered Gabrielle/Bianca as a ship. Their threads with everlastingporcelain made me ship it. I also adored all of Gabrielle’s no-nonsense approaches to Lestat and Louis. Them deleting their blog was a loss to the community. :(”

“Summer 1997. First time away from home unattended by parents, and the first thing I did was rent and watch “IwTV” the one night I was staying at a cousin’s house. I bought the book the next day and smuggled it into Church Camp with me. I spent the two weeks I was there reading and re-reading it at night under the covers with a flashlight crying because finally, there were queer characters. Beautiful, ethereal queer characters. It was the first time I was no longer afraid of not being straight.”

“I met my best friend through The Vampire Chronicles. We RPed VC together for nearly 4 years when she went offline after becoming very down with her life. I thought the worst after a couple of weeks before she popped back up, literally on my doorstep. She moved half-way across the world, on her own with nothing but a bag of clothes and a copy of IWTV. She started her life over here and still tells me how it was our RPs that got her through and inspired her to move away from the toxicity.”
dogs deserve to live forever
There’s something we have at work that really helps people going through grieving after euthanizing their dog. It says:
“Humans live as long as they do to learn to love with all their heart. Dogs are born with this ability, and that’s why they don’t live as long.”

“‘All a misunderstanding, my love,’ he said. Acid on the tongue. ‘It was to hurt others, don’t you see, the violin playing, to anger them, to secure for me an island where they could not rule. They would watch my ruin, unable to do anything about it.’” – Nicolas de Lenfent, The Vampire Lestat

For the next five questions my muse can not tell a lie.
What if it was all three put together, hm? -long, heavy sigh-
Fine.
I took you because the very first time I caught sight of you my heart stopped, I swear it did. The emerald of your eyes held me enthralled, the depth of your despair penetrated something vital and the damage was irreversible. You may not know this, but I followed you for nights before I finally approached you and in that time I could look upon no other. I became obsessed with the idea of having you, of possessing you. Still, I could not yet tell what precisely I wanted from you. Would I suck your soul down into that sweet oblivion, or would I pluck you from mortality to be forever by my side?
Even as my fangs sunk into the delectable yielding flesh of your mortal throat, I still did not know. Sure, I had made up my mind to make you mine, but could I follow through with it? You were so succulent, your mind so tantalizing that I briefly fantasized about killing you, but the thought of it was unbearable. I needed to have you. Alive. Immortal. My lover.
So you ask why? It could not possibly be that I was irretrievably in love with you.