Wow, it’s a huge time ago! We put
our first VC fanart on the net on early 2000s, so… well it’s great to be still here and to keep finding people who loved our work. 😉 Thank you!
Dany&Dany are a fandom treasure ❤ So great to see them here on tumblr sharing their art, old and new *u*
Another fanart of Lestat from the Vampire Chronicles. We drew it something like 15 years ago and the pic was taken with a camera from the original drawing… sorry for the bad resolution. ^^ Hope you like it all the same!
Ok, another very old Vampire Chronicle fanart (15 years ago, maybe…), a Lestat/Louis one. 😉 Sorry for the low res, it’s a photo of the original sketch. Hope you like it all the same!
*swoons*
We thought you could find interesting to see the work in progress of our latest Louis fanart too. 😀
Work in progress gif of our latest Armand fanart. Hope you enjoy it! 🙂
Our latest fanart of the Vampire Chronicles: Armand. It’s the doodle we did to thank for the 3000 likes to our fb page Dany&Dany. 🙂
Thanks for the compliments on my blargh! *u* I try to answer asks thoughtfully and respectfully and expect the same consideration back from whoever reads my answers ^_____^
As always, #your headcanon may vary, bc we’re talking about fictional vampires, they are not people. Whether you consider them to be people in their own world is up to you. For me, I see them as ex-people. They share a supernatural parasite that gradually eats away at their mortal parts, replacing it with its own immortal substance, perfecting their host bodies to its own design. So they exist beyond the definitions of sex and gender for me.
I do not believe the vampires are canonically capable of penetrative sex but do I love fanart/fanfic/RP where they have penetrative sex? YES, YES I DO, MORE PLZ. Have I commissioned such fanart of it for myself? Y E S. Will I commission more of it or write my own in the future? YOU’RE GOTDAMN RIGHT I WILL. I love the creativity of the fanon interpretations and I will support these ideas forever.
[^Louis + Lestat by @danyanddany
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According to Lestat vampires don’t feel sex drive,
I don’t recall anywhere in canon where Lestat says that vampires do not feel a sex drive. He has described himself as a sensualist, and we know he falls in love easily. I think that they do feel a sex drive, just not in the genitally-penetrative sex way (not the most eloquent phrasing there but I can’t think of another way to put it; “PIV/penis-in-vagina” just doesn’t apply to most of our gay ships).
Turning vampires seems to be their ultimate “sexual” act that they can perform, bc it is equivalent to pregnancy (a fledgling is being “born to darkness”), and it is always described primarily as the sharing of the Blood between maker and fledgling. I headcanon that Lestat loves the act of performing this, and that’s partly why he has had SO MANY FLEDGLINGS. So I believe that they still do feel sexual lust, it’s channeled through the experience of taking/sharing blood, and other sensually physical things.
In fanon there is a wide spectrum of whether they can have genitally-penetrative sex, some even speculate that their um… output… would be very bloody. There is fanart/fanfics/RP/etc. in which they can have that kind of sex, and ones in which they cannot.
in The Tale of the Body Thief one of the things he wants to expierence when he has a human body is sex because he says this is something he can’t do with his vampire body.
^This is up to every reader’s interpretation, and yes, in my opinion, Ricean vampires in canon cannot have penetrative sex. My main evidence for them as being unable to have genitally-penetrative sex comes from [hit the jump for spoilers].
AR has written alot of other novels with genitally-penetrative sex being an important factor, so I doubt it was an oversight in denying it to her vampires. If you want to go by her as the authority on her novels, and many ppl do, she posted definitively about it when asked about Daniel and Marius in PL:
AR does not go into much further detail than that, even in canon, other than the fact that the sharing of blood is more intimate for them than than simple mortal penetrative sex. Part of why she chose this may be to avoid the issue of pregnancy the way mortals do it; a baby cannot grow in undead flesh, y’know?
TL;DR: Personally, I headcanon them as unable to have genitally-penetrative sex. There are human couples who are unable (or do not want) to experience genitally-penetrative sex, and they can still be sexually intimate with each other in other ways. So it’s partly in how you define sex and intimacy.
For more on this, I have these tags: #asexuality, #asexual, #sex, #sexuality, #lets talk about sex.
Hit the jump for spoilers.
But in his book Armand mentions that he had sex with Marius several times.
Armand was mortal for some of that book, and Marius did sexual things with him, but not genitally-penetrative sex. After Armand is turned, Marius and Armand have an intimate moment with a mortal woman together, but again, it is not genitally-penetrative sex for them.
My main evidence for them as being unable to have genitally-penetrative sex comes from:
Claudia asks Louis about sex in IWTV, and he replies that it “‘…was something hurried…And… it was seldom savored… something acute that was quickly lost. I think that it was the pale shadow of killing.’”
^He’s talking about it as occurring in the past, I think he means when he was mortal. Here he says it’s not equivalent to the act of taking blood from a victim, sex is a lesser experience for him.
“I studied my reflection … and the organ, the organ we don’t need, poised as if ready for what it would never again know how to do or want to do, marble, a Priapus at a gate” – Lestat, Queen of the Damned
^This quote has been interpreted over and over again as meaning many things, one of which being that the vampires have a permanent boner, which I disagree with. I highly doubt Louis, someone with a lot of dignity, would be fine with walking around for eternity with a permanent boner. I blame this misunderstanding on the translators who translated “poised” to “erect” in various other languages.
I interpret that quote as meaning that his Priapus is just “waiting.”
He covered me and kissed my cheek. “Drink from me,” he said, “drink until the pain goes away. It’s only the body dying, drink Pandora, you are immortal.“
“Fill me, take me,” I said. I reached down between his legs.
“It doesn’t matter now.”
But it was hard, this organ I sought, the organ forever lost to the god Osiris. I guided it, hard and cold as it was, into my body. Then I drank and drank, and when I felt his teeth again on my neck, when he began to draw from me the new mixture that filled my veins, it was sweet suckling, and I knew him and loved him and knew all his secrets in one flash which meant nothing. He was right. The lower organs meant nothing. He fed on me. I fed on him. This was our marriage. –Pandora
I think AR is telling us that in order to be immortal, a great sacrifice must be made. Not just outliving your loved ones, food and drink, sunlight, and your appearance being altered. For many people, sex is as necessary to life as eating and breathing. To give that up for eternity is a huge sacrifice, but, you do get super powers an immortality. Fair trade?
Ah yes compliments are always welcome! Thank u *hugs*
Fanfic?? there’s no such thing as VC fanfic… pfffft. What are you crazy honestly??!
^Lestat is laughing bc he knows I is sarcastic.
[^by Dany&Dany]
The thing about VC fanfic is that we still have to be sort of careful about sharing it bc of reasons. Even so, I feel compelled to give you something. And again, I try not to play favorites *sigh* but in the case of fanfic, I can be a little more lenient and rec a few things out ^_____^ The following content is slightly revised from how I answered an Ask seeking fanfic awhile back.
I have to recc my own stuff first (which is mostly L/L) on AO3 under Burnadette_dpdL. De Motu Cordis
has one of the highest hit counts. L/L lovey fluff *blushes* so maybe start there, but A Precious Material is probably one of my own faves.
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 but dL anything you like, just in case, bc authors also sometimes remove their works w/o warning.
Hit the jump for some reccs
There are also drabbles and links to fic of L/L and/or other characters in my
#fanfic, and #damn you and your perfect headcanon perfection tags here. There’s also some fine stuff in the @vcsecretgifts archive.
For post-PL, you might ask @antoineandthepiano, @roselioncourt, and @viktor-de-lioncourt who are RPers set post-PL.
♛*stretches out on the couch* How I’ve missed answering questions for you darlings. Been nearly a month. Louis and I have been off the grid.
We’re back now, for the time being. He’s sitting beside me now rolling his eyes at your comment, but I’m defending you! His hair is absolutely – positively – amazingly beautiful, although not as gorgeous as mine, of course. Mine is more of an experience than a simple physical material.
You know, now that I’m reflecting on it, his hair looks most sexy when it’s wet, either damp from the misty rain we get in New Orleans, or when it’s made almost liquid in some secluded pool rigged with lighting under the surface. He likes to swim under water, and when his head rises above the surface, the way his hair sweeps forward around his neck… it’s almost as if it moves under his command, as part of his own personal brand of witchcraft. Very sexy when it’s sticking in vein-shapes to his flesh from bloodsweat… *flicks at his fang* Now you’ve got me drooling. How embarrassing…
*Adjusts position, wipes at his chin, composes himself* Of course he lets me brush his hair! Louis prefers a wide-toothed comb or finger-combing. He dislikes the chemical fragrances of your usual modern haircare products, but every so often I earn the reward of sharing a steaming hot bath in which I am permitted to lather his hair up with organic shampoo and conditioner. Lately, he prefers these almond or mint scented.
I tend not to brush my hair often, as it separates the twists, but I do love to have it pulled when we are engaged in that special kind of heated debate… And fortunately for me, he loves to pull it.
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Naughty little Anon >;} There are two ways to answer this question, the physiological side and the behavioral side (and there is some overlap). Sex is an act of intimacy, and many ppl have different definitions of intimacy, more than just “insert tab A into slot B,” y’know? Some ppl are not stimulated by penetrative sex, or can’t have it for whatever reason. Some ppl are only stimulated that way.
I’m not going to go into the physiological aspect (for example, the length of their refractory period, u can google what that is) or getting too detailed re: specific body positions or toy preferences, bc I don’t think that’s what you’re asking. But several kinks will be addressed generally 😉
(Briefly, physiologically: they would probably be shooting blanks, since the female of the species is unable to carry a child to term. So I would imagine seminal fluid might look similar to the usual fluid, but be tinted pink, since all of their bodily fluids (tears, sweat) have some amount of blood content. And they would be able to swallow it, bc of the blood content, like they can consume tears).
Sex as an act depends on what part of canon we’re talking about, what’s the state of their ship, tons of factors. But most of my answer below works even if you headcanon that the bloodsharing is all they can do.
Basically, they’re both very curious, and willing to try new things, so there’s almost no limit re: sexytiems! It would be intensely hot.
Hit the jump for sexytiems ideas…
Locations are very important to them. Sometimes just their cozy bed right after they wake up, and it’s gentle and slow with alot of cuddling and praise. Sometimes in the confines of a coffin for old-times sake and the spacial restriction. Other times it’s right before dawn and it’s so rough that things (bedding and furniture) get totally destroyed!
They love to do it in public (although sometimes that’s unintentional, just one of those exchanges like, “Shut UP already,” “Oh yeah? Make me.” can ignite them), somewhere just off the beaten path, where they could be discovered easily, so they have to try to keep as quiet as possible.
^[X] Even more than location are the positions that locations can afford. One of the first times they were intimate was in a tree. It required a lot of balance, but the curve of the trunk and branches added a huge thrill to the experience. Against walls and other structures is always a plus.
Oral action, of course. Bc w/ fangs, anywhere can be an erogenous zone ;D
As far as who’s on top, alot of ppl seem to headcanon that Lestat would mostly be a top or a very bossy bottom. I would bet that they switch, but that Louis will really only bottom for Lestat (or Armand when he was with him!). When Louis bottoms, he is rendered pretty inarticulate at a certain point and that drives Lestat right over the edge!
Language- Typically a lot of teasing and cursing in French, specifically the older French they spoke in the late 18th – early 19th centuries.
They accessorize- Lots of lace, they like to buy each other things to dress up in! Tho, Louis won’t put on the cheerleader outfit that Lestat won from a real NFL cheerleader, so Lestat wears that one.
Sometimes Lestat will deck Louis out in jewels (even putting a ton of diamond barrettes in his hair) and nothing else. Something about Louis wearing only sparkles is a huge turn-on for Lestat.
They play with toys… I think this is pretty self-explanatory. There was an issue re: a haunted dildo (CHECK IT OUT HERE). They also sometimes make their own toys ^u^
Bondage. Definitely. BC reasons. Although they’re both so strong that the bondage device itself has to be respected, or else they’d just break right out of anything. Almost harder to not break these fragile little things like fur-lined cuffs and leather collars.
Sensory deprivation, like blindfolding.
Louis, of course, likes the room lit with candles, and they sometimes play with the melted wax.
Lestat fantasizes about threesomes, and on a few rare occasions, Louis has given in but would never admit that he enjoyed the extra attention (bc of course he was the center of attention!).
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