Fanfic?? there’s no such thing as VC fanfic… pfffft. What are you crazy honestly??!

^Lestat is laughing bc he knows I is sarcastic.

I have a huge list of faves. HUGE. But the thing about VC fanfic is that we still have to be sort of careful about sharing it bc of reasons (under the cut if you wanna know why). 

MY faves may not be what you’re looking for as I tend to skew L/L, since they are the OTP I am hopelessly afflicted with, but I have some drabbles and links to fic saved with 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.

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:

• Gulfport: A British Petroleum Fanfic (Part One) by hw_campbell_jnr  – There are 2 parts and it’s incomplete but this is devastatingly beautiful long!fic. Hipster modern Lestat and Louis, Lestat going by a pseudonym, politics woven in, it’s just too good. It annoys me how good it is. I am annoyed. I would be less annoyed if it were COMPLETED.

• First Light by Rebness – Such feels, Claudia’s POV on her final night ;A;

• The Grim Brothers by Rebness  – incomplete but it’s a fun little werewolf AU! I hope the author picks it up again someday.

• The Sexting Caper by Gairid – because sexting!

• The Haunting by Gairid  – A haunted object. 

• Gairid also has some excellent long!fics and collaborations with Leshan that are worth checking out, too many to list here.

• My stuff… see Burnadette_dpdL. De Motu Cordis is not my fave but has one of the highest hit counts. L/L lovey fluff *blushes*

• One Night in New Orleans by iskra667  – L/L dubcon angst, fluff, I just really enjoy it.

• Childhood memory – a harsh lesson is learned (not the official title) @devilsfool – a response to an Ask, a first kiss, child!Lestat.
• Lestat’s actual birthday (not the official title) by @viaticumforthemarquise – Gabrielle’s POV on the day Lestat is born oh gawds! Baby!Lestat

Hit the jump for a teensy fanfic history lesson.

In short, Anne Rice had waged war on VC fanfic in the mid-90s, sic’ing her lawyers on many fanfic writers, eventually breaking apart fanfic sites (“speculative fiction” or “spec” archives/communities) and driving many of these writers to stop writing altogether or do so in a more underground way.

Currently, she’s had conflicting stances on fanfic, but hasn’t made outright war at nearly that level. We try not to tag her in discussions of it, basically, we don’t try to provoke her by making our caches of VC fanfic known. Especially on Facebook, where she’s very active and might see it. She posted this on her FB in 2014 (I think):