As some of you may know, next Tuesday (that would be October 2nd), the new volume of The Vampire Chronicles is unleashed upon the world: Blood Communion.
This, of course, means that means on that day, I am reading the whole thing and liveblogging it. Hence the warning, as some of you may want to spare yourselves. I’ll tag all of the entries with “Blood Communion” for ease of blacklisting.
Let us all pray that this book is heavy on the Lestat/Louis relationship drama (I want wedding planning and Lestat being a huge bridezilla, you have NO IDEA how much I want that), and very, very light on Replimoids and space birds.
WARNING WARNING WARNING! Tomorrow is THREAT LEVEL: LESTAT day; with the exceptions of linking to the new Gothic Charm School post and whatever is in my queue, tomorrow is liveblogging Blood Communion. All of the liveblog posts will be tagged “Blood Communion”, so peeps who don’t want my probably incredulous reactions to vampire hijinks can nope out.
Do peeps want me to put plot elements behind Read More? Do any of you care about being spoiled for this book?
#Perfect gif is perfect
^Agreed to all of the above! Read more cuts are great!
I can’t liveblog it but I will share my thoughts as soon as I can. Can’t wait to see if ppl like it, so far, from what I heard of ppl who’ve gotten hold of advance reader copies, it’s gonna be a crowd-pleaser ❤
Today, again on the recommendation of @i-want-my-iwtv, I visited Oak Alley Plantation, the plantation Pointe Du Locke was based on, and the filming location for Pointe Du Locke in the film.
Once again I have captioned each of these photos with where they appear in the film/their relevance to the series. If you would like to see the other photos I took/their info just message me.
Fun fact about this location – Brad Pitt returned to the NOLA area after IWTV for 12 Years a Slave, and Oak Alley was the neighboring plantation set for that film. He occasionally visits on his own and stays in one of the guest houses.
This is great @stardustschild! ❤ I’m glad you took my suggestion and visited Oak Alley Pointe du Lac Plantation and shared your lovely photoset with us ^______^
I had to pull this comparison out, of the dining room:
♛Mademoiselle King, I am struck by your attention to detail, well done *applauds*
Ordinarily, you might think that information like this would send me into a froth of jealous rage, that he would wear my clothes to court a witch while I lay incapacitated and alone on the cold stone floor. The real fury was at the larger issue, that she had plotted this all out and ensnared him, and that we almost lost him forever! What he was wearing, destroyed, presumably to impress her, was a misdemeanor.
Fury. Death for her for her crimes… would have happened, had I not heard the entire story from everyone involved. I heard it in more variation than I would have liked, considering that it all boiled down to – as you put it so concisely – that Louis was completely bewitched by Merrick. So thoroughly bewitched that he did things he would not have ordinarily done. I forgave him his trespasses, and I forgave Merrick for what she did to him, because at the end of it all, she did come to love him, and wanted to give more than what she originally sought to take from him. I felt that she had earned a place in our coven, but perhaps she had bewitched me, as well. She was a powerful witch.
As he’s told me of that particular infraction – and mind you, he is always welcome to the contents of my closet, and it usually charms me when he wears anything of mine – it happened quite by accident.
If you recall, I was not myself. Louis had visited my quarters and spent some time reminiscing among my things, seeking some clarity from the thick confusion Merrick had spun in his mind by that point, seeking a key that might wake me from my sleep. He put on that suit and tie, and several of my rings, being one of the last outfits he had seen me wear in livelier times, and fell into some contemplation there, in my room.
When the time called for it, without even thinking to change, he flew to her. So he was wearing it when he met with her.
I-want-my-IWTV 