Within the canon of the Vampire Chronicles, can vamps get sick?

Sick meaning: the flu, viruses (like HIV), and cancer? From my understanding, no, Ricean vampires are not susceptible to these kinds of diseases. In Only Lovers Left Alive, those vampires have arrangements w/ mortal agents to get clean blood rather than risk taking victims, whose blood could be tainted w/ modern disease or drugs, which OLLA vampires are vulnerable to (but they don’t go into much detail about it). I can’t think of any other vampire media that even touches on the issue of blood diseases and/or other physical illnesses. 

@anton-mordrid makes an excellent point here [X]: #1 how the fuck can you not associate HIV/AIDS with vampires, you personally literally made it a blood disease transmitted by explicitly sexual acts between your gay male protagonists.

I’m not educated enough to go any further on this issue, but if you want more on this, go to @vraik and @anton-mordrid

Sick meaning: physically repulsed to the point of having a visceral reaction? Yes.

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[^Horror Vacui, Exploring the darkness (2/?) by @sheepskeleton]

In TVL, Lestat tosses his cookies (ok he vomits some blood, no cookies tossed) at the sight of a pile of dead bodies the night he’s turned. (He also hurls as he’s escorted down to the Children of Darkness meeting).

“In a deep prison cell lay a heap of corpses in all states of decay, the bones and rotted flesh crawling with worms and insects. Rats ran from the light of the torch, brushing past my legs as they made for the stairs. And my nausea became a knot in my throat. The stench suffocated me.

He also says that vampires can’t stand to be around the dead bodies of their kills, either:

Revulsion at the sight or smell of death seemed part of my nature. I couldn’t watch executions any more than when I was that trembling boy from the Auvergne, and corpses made me cover my face. I think I was offended by death unless I was the cause of it! And I had to get clean away from my dead victims almost immediately.

Dead blood is not poisonous to them, just distasteful. In TVL, Lestat goes to Armand in Paris for help after Claudia and Louis try to assassinate him a second time, and Armand throws him in a locked cell with a dead mortal for dinner: “Sometime in the dark, I discovered a mortal victim there. But the victim was dead. Cold blood, nauseating blood. The worst kind of feeding, lying on that clammy corpse, sucking up what was left.”

^So clearly dead blood is not bad in the sense of being poisonous, just icky 😛

amadeo-child-of-the-renaissance:

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//This is from

14.06.2012 and it had been reposted on tumblr before I even had an account here. After I found it I never re-uploaded it on my blog since I thought I would never get the amount of reblogs/likes the other had, but @i-want-my-iwtv just encouraged me.So, here you go: one of my first VC fanworks ever.

Give this wonderful fanartist some love, their fanart was reposted ages ago, and used in aesthetic posts w/o credit, but this is the original artist for this very classic fanart of Nicolas de Lenfent ❤ 

Lol I’m so stupid I laugh at my really bad puns/jokes but the other day I was like. “well, you got to hand it to Armand for-” and then I stopped mid-sentence and was like WAIT. HAND. You gotta HAND it to Armand. bahahahah

You gotta give him a hand! At least one. 

(Bc I couldn’t choose which one, you get both a silly and a sad fanart)

The silly:

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trueevilplz by Kikane

 


The sad:

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^X Our Oldest Friend by Mizzy-chan

…in the book Armand cut off another Vampires hands so he wouldnt kill himself. In “The Vampire Lestat” Armand is this kind of really i cant think of any other word to describe him but “emo” vampire. So I just kind of imagined Armand sitting there all emo holding another Vampires severed hands. I dunno…

reapersun:

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Month before last someone on my Patreon requested Addams Family AU for the Murder Family and I love it ;w; Will is an ancient warlock full of dark and powerful magic and Hannibal is still a creepy serial killer who can’t get enough of his husband and Abigail is their daughter who keeps losing her head~ Extra points if you recognize Thing~

superhiki:

Armand after his little tussle with Lestat in TVL. I thought it was just the most wonderfully written violence, I loved the idea of Armand’s beautiful face broken in two because of Lestat’s beating. So wonderful.