I think someone told me they were like 3 yrs old when they first saw movie!IWTV, … they must have told me privately bc I can’t find it in my tag… I have ppl reporting that they got into this as young as 8 though! I might have been ready for it then, I already loved the Scary Stories books.
#don’t you love the way Claudia snuggles in there #tucks herself in #like she’s actually Louis’ doll?
#she is 80% made of that dress and those curls
#how he places that little kiss on top of her head right before he shuts the lid #Right before theyll be in total darkness #just to reassure her #He is such a good mom
Idk about your friends not understanding the allure of the VC fandom. Some ppl write off all vampire media these days bc we’re so saturated with it. Some ppl write off the movie bc Tom Cruise is in it, or the problematic elements in the books are too problematic for them… there are alot of reasons ppl are resistant to VC and I don’t blame them, the series is not for everyone. Oprah walked out of movie!IWTV (after 15 min I think?)!
Anyway notes like this one mean SO MUCH to me. I’m not planning on inventing anything, proving myself in some kind of athletic competition, winning any awards, or leaving my mark in some other more societally-approved way.Â
If I can just share the love for this one pile of dysfunctional vampires w/ other like-minded ppl, and encourage the fanworks to keep the fandom alive, I’m perfectly fine with that. THIS IS MY LEGACY.Â
Yep, good motivation to be in the shape you want to be in! You never know when a vampire might offer you eternal life and not be willing to wait ;}
^This is Raja from RuPaul’s Drag Race bc IDK I LIKE THEIR BODY I LIKE THEIR WHOLE LOOK! Slay.Â
(Ricean vampires do get a light makeover in the process; Gabrielle got some 30 years wiped away, ending up w/ a more youthful appearance. But it won’t lose you 30 lbs.)
Fingernails are not subject to the Rule of As-Is, my new term for the aspects of appearance someone has as a mortal that will be strictly adhered to when they are turned (like the fact that they are missing a limb, or their hair is shoulder-length, things like that).
[X Lestat left one of his vicious little thumb rings w/ me <3]
It could stay uneven/broken for other vampires in other media.
Why aren’t Ricean vampire fingernails subject to the Rule of As-Is? Well, as you say, an uneven/broken nail would be hella inconvenient for eternity! But none of AR’s vampires ever mentioned having this issue, and with so many vampires, who have known so many more vampires, collectively, surely one of them would have brought it up by now if it were a thing. So I have to conclude that fingernails are not subject to the Rule of As-Is.
[^Claudia’s aren’t long but she was a child, special exception. In Ricean vampires, their nails also have a kind of glassy sheen also my hands are prettier than Louis’ hands]
I headcanon that their nails grow to a certain length when they are turned, longer than they were in life, and will grow back to that length after being filed down. Lestat files his nails, he’s doing it in IWTV:
“And he drew
from his pocket a nail file, and, seating himself on the foot of the old
man’s bed, he began to file his long nails… Â I could
hear the old man talking to Lestat; Lestat, who sat with his legs crossed,
filing and filing, one eyebrow arched, his attention on his perfect nails.”
Bc in vampire lore, in general, abnormally long fingernails are considered a sign of being a vampire. This comes from the fact that when you exhume a body from its coffin (to check to see whether dead Auntie Vivienne has been turned into a vampire *gasp*), the nails appear to have continued to grow, therefore, Auntie Viv must be undead! In fact:
“It is not that the fingernails are growing, but that the skin around them retracts as it becomes dehydrated, making them appear longer. When preparing a body, funeral directors will sometimes moisturise the fingertips to counteract this.” [X]
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