omg thats so cute! I always love to hear stories of how people got into this series *u*
You can thank Dante Ferretti for the gorgeous set designs. I believe he was told to make the whole feel of it “like a funeral parlor,” and he was also inspired by old prints and the surreal environments of Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
My story is similar. I was around that age, and had to sneak it. I saw the movie on VHS tape. That meant it had to be rewound each time. And they said it would lose quality over numbers of plays! I would pause it and try to draw the beautiful characters, too.
Don’t even ask bc thankfully those drawings are LONG GONE.
I woke up to the finished product of the tattoo commission in my inbox from sheepskeleton this morning, and all of the feels promptly exploded in my heart:
( Lestat/Daniel commission by sheepskeleton. Her commission’s info is here. Go. Go give her your monies. Fistfuls and bagfuls of monies. All the monies! )
Seriously, commission her, you won’t be sorry. Everything I wanted for this piece, all my requests, I got. She nailed it, guys.
The look between them. I know they’re one of the least popular VC ships out there, but frankly, and especially as I’m looking at this, I don’t give a damn. There’s no decades or centuries worth of bad blood between them yet. There’s no history of betrayal, abandonment, manipulation, or heartbreak between them. Sure, it’s there in their personal experiences, but not with one another, not yet. Would theirs be a waistcoat-ripping, fire-setting, loss-riddled, globe-stalking, psychologically damaging, deliver-you-to-death’s-doorstep romance?
No. But it could be something good. Lestat has been searching for goodness for centuries, and I’ll be damned if Daniel doesn’t deserve some goodness after everything he’s been through. I love this ship for it’s potential. Because it could possibly be functional. Daniel is a listener and Lestat is a talker. Daniel likes kissing and snuggling dead things and Lestat is amourous. Both are risk-takers in their own right so there’s opportunity for lots of fun and adventure. Because these are two personalities that I think would mesh well more often than they would clash. Because Daniel went searching for him and has been vampire fanboy number one for sixty years, and Lestat adores adoration. Because Lestat took the time during the potential annihilation of all of vampire-kind by Akasha to note that Daniel was pretty. Because Daniel would go with Lestat if he asked him too. And if wanting to see a ship that has capacity for good and such potential is wrong, I don’t ever want to be right.
I’ve never been happy with my designs for Armand and Daniel sooooo I drew some I liked and then made unreadable notes. I can never get rid of very young!Daniel wearing glasses, even if they were just to make him look more serious.
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