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What are VC fans called?

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To my knowledge, we don’t really have a name, like the Potterheads for HP or the Hiddlestoners for Tom Hiddleston 😦  

We’re just “VC fans.” If I’m differentiating between different vampire media, I’ll say “Ricean vampires” or “VC vampires.” 

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It’s an old fandom, so old that I’m pretty sure it predates fandom being the recognized thing it is today. We were also strongly discouraged from creating fanfic, so maybe that’s why we don’t have a name. VC fanfic was underground, the fandom was in hiding, we didn’t want to draw unwanted attention by having a name. The Talamasca slogan might as well be our fandom’s slogan, too: We watch and we are always here. 

Sometimes I refer to us as “People Off the Page,” to differentiate us from the VC Facebook fans who Anne Rice calls her “People of the Page.” More on that here. They used to be a formidable army she could sic on other fans/reviewers/etc., but things have been peaceful for awhile now, thankfully.

I used to refer to us tumblr fans as “fanged little trash kittens” or “fanged little trash monsters” more frequently than I do now. Probably had to do with the fandom trend at one point of saying “I’m such X-trash!/I’m trash for X!” meaning that you loved X thing/character. Seemed only natural that we would be fanged trash creatures. And it’s gender-neutral. 

Any variation on the words Vampire and Chronicles doesn’t wholly work for us, since there are so many other Vampire series and Chronicles series. 

is it actually possible for louis and lestat to be in a coffin together? i know louis and claudia could share one because she is so small and young, but aren’t both of them like, fully grown men?

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Yes! 

I can’t find it rn and so I can’t remember if it was an ask directly sent to me or just a post I reblogged… 😛 sorries… but someone had reported that they and their friend (significant other maybe?) were in a funeral parlor, owned by a relative I think, and were allowed to climb into a few coffins to test that question, and YES, two full-grown adults were able to fit comfortably in a standard-size coffin. Louis and Lestat are both 6 ft tall with Lestat being slightly taller, so yeah, that’s a lot of person when doubled. It was also unnaturally tall for that time period.

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^IDK if the coffins in the movie were accurate to the time period, probably yes. That one looked plenty big enough for them to both get in and why didn’t they!!! but I didn’t see any cushions at all, that might have made the fit a little tighter. 

Currently, ppl can have custom coffins made, it would be easy enough to order one of any size 😉

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FILED AS: #lestat likes this #lestat is all #omg I am so proud of you #even tho u are slamming me into a tree #look at you finally testing your strength!! #my son #my husband #ily SO MUCH #imma tap your beautiful head to show you how proud I am of you

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Lestat, what’s your opinion on football?

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♛Spandex-clad muscled men running back and forth on a field, wearing some protective gear, and slamming into each other at full speed? I love it. It’s like modern-day jousting! 

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(^//ooc: oooh I got to dig an oldie up from the archive, I made this for @gairid​ / @vampchronfic​​ ages ago!)

//ooc: Louis loves Drew Brees from the NOLA Saints bc of course he does.

Don’t gamble on anything with Louis. Even sports. He keeps up w/ stats, but more importantly, he can size up a team pretty quickly and estimate their odds with a lot of accuracy.

What do you do when you fall in love with two fictional characters who are in love with each other? (*Cough cough* Lestat And Louis *cough cough)

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There’s room for you, anon! In between them… 

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[^Don’t share with him bc Lestat’s pig ok, we all know it]

No but really, I think that’s what shipping is about. You can live vicariously through one or the other of them, and get the best of the whole ship ❤

I do think there’s some truth to the idea of shipping as a way of learning about relationships and in engaging with the characters, who are otherwise just ink on paper and only really exist in your imagination. Lestat speaks directly to the reader, breaking the fourth wall, but he can’t really speak to each individual reader, he doesn’t know your name or anything about you specifically, but it’s a form of intimacy bc you know so much about him. It’s the one-sided relationship of an actor to their audience. He knows he has an audience and he can see faces in the crowd, but he can’t actually have a relationship with a real reader since he’s fictional.

But you can get close to the characters by identifying with them. I can love Lestat for some of the reasons Louis does, and I can love Louis for some of the reasons Lestat does, and in agreeing with them, it’s a form of connecting with them individually. Like we’re sitting at a cafe together gushing about how cute it is when Lestat throws a tantrum over someone (usually just himself) spilling blood on his new Gucci blazer (bc deep down he doesn’t mind that much, he just likes having smtg to throw a tantrum about), or Louis defending his right to making stacks of books in the parlor (bc deep down he likes having an excuse to talk about books in any capacity). That kinda thing.

I think that’s where ppl are really going when they say, “My son” or “My husband” or whatever, about fictional characters, you want to express a form of devotion to them bc they belong to you, too; your vision of them (your headcanon) is truly your own. 

So you can have them both, you’re invited into that ship whenever you open a book or read/write fanfic about them, enjoy/draw fanart of them, individually and as a ship!

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*~REMINDER Dec. 22, 2017~*

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[GIFT REMINDERS INTENSIFY]

The gifts have started coming in! Yissss. Wrap yours up (pun intended) and send it in asap, they are due tomorrow night. (Dec. 23, 2017 at

11:59 PM , Central Standard Time (CST), or Dec. 24, 2017 at 5:59 AM Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)).

Get a glass of your beverage of choice and finish your gifts 😉

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That’s only 2 days away! Again, if you can’t finish your gift in time, it’s ok, just please let us know so we can reassign 😉

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me: I’m queen of hell I’m the baddest bitch look at my eyebrows

for  eibhlis97 ❤

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A chronological retrospective of the two rings Louis wears. For 200 years. Apparently Lestat could get him to change his wardrobe, kill people, and all kinds of other depraved things etc., but Louis kept his jewelry to a strict minimum.

One appears to be his wedding ring.

  • in the movie version, Louis is a widow. Maybe the ring was his wedding ring.
  • After the Dark Gift, he keeps it on. Maybe it’s earned new significance towards Lestat, now. 
  • After Lestat’s “death,” Louis continues to wear the ring. Maybe it’s significant to both people he’s lost.

The other is a pinky ring.

  • This one may have just been fashionable to begin with.
  • Maybe it symbolized the child who died with his wife in childbirth.
  • Later, maybe it’s earned new significance when Claudia is given the Dark Gift.
  • After Claudia’s death, Louis continues to wear the ring. Maybe it’s significant to both “children” he’s lost.

UPDATE: anaryawe says:

(re: Louis & rings in the film) pinky ring was a gay code, or “no marriage plz”-code at some point. I’ve always thought that Louis’ pinky ring is his dead wifes wedding ring, and so signifies both “all the loves I’ve lost” and “tried heterosexuality once and it was a disaster”…