Louis and his experiences with one particular Christmas song throughout the years. Of course there’s also a bit of Lestat in there, because what would we do without him?
Inspired by one of @merciful-death’s great headcanons and originally written as a Secret Santa gift to her. @i-want-my-iwtv helped with feedback and improvements.
“First of all how dare you. I love it! …Very well done. I’m glad you took on the challenge of hitting all of her prompts, and it’s clear a lot of thought and care went into this.”
Some of my actual notes while beta’ing this lovely piece, in the order that the notes appeared:
We’ve had a few people notify us that their gifts will be sent late. If you’re running behind, please let us know. It just better helps us work out if we should have someone else fill in for you. This time of year is stressful and busy for everyone, so we definitely understand. And it’s no big deal if you’re a few days late, though if you can have your gifts to us sometime today, that would be super.
This exchange has been stellar. The mods have brainstormed a few ways to make future exchanges even better. These events are a constant learning experience for us, especially as participation grows. As we did last year, I’m thinking we will do a Secret Valentine in February, as our mini-exchange following this one.
I would like to give a big shout out to @i-want-my-iwtv, who has been such a phenomenal moderator for this event. I (merciful-death) have had a lot more on my plate this year than I did last year, so her help has been so much appreciated. There’s a lot that goes on to make these exchanges a success, and I could not have done it without her.
I hope that everyone who celebrates it has a Merry Christmas, that y’all who celebrates other holidays have had a great holiday season, and that the New Year will be awesome for everyone. The VC fandom is full of many wonderfully gifted and kind people.
Thanks, merciful-death
^All this, seconded, underlined, bolded. We are fortunate to have such a pool of talent in our fandom. I am impressed with ALL of the gifts.
;A; Thank u for the kind words, @merciful-death, I was honored to be part of it *hugs tightly* of course you know this means you’re stuck with me for the next one, if you’ll have me.
♛Do I enjoy Christmas at all, you know, my first reaction was Yes, of course, who wouldn’t?!
But, but… this holiday, like others, have been heavily commercialized. Some of the commercials are entertaining, admittedly, but advertisers are cramming it into our faces earlier and earlier on the calendar. It saps some of the real meaning out of it, which should be an appreciation for what we have and a hope for the new year to treat us well, too. Oh, and also, something about some religious figure’s birthday? Yeah, something about that kid born in a barn, too.
Who do I want to catch under the mistletoe? Aside from the usual suspect *cough* Louis *cough*, I hope I get David under there. I have spent too long without his touch, I know he holds back from physical affection when he visits so as not to offend Louis, but he should be aware by now that kissing is a greeting, like a handshake. It doesn’t have to lead any further. Although it cannnnn… And Louis is well aware that I… that my love is not a limited resource; spending it on David -or anyone else- does not mean less for Louis.
As for spending the holiday traditionally sedate or flashy ‘Hallmark’, every year is different. It depends on how well I’m getting along with my kin, how well they are getting along with each other, whether we can have a gathering and the traditional Ugly Sweater contest, so some years we have it very familial, lots of bells and whistles, less of Armand and I snapping at each other, but there are some years we choose to stay with our smaller coven units separately. Even if we’re getting along. Sometimes all you want is to curl up in front of the fire with the one person you love most for a good healing 7 hours or so. That’s the case this year.
One of my favorite Christmas parties was at Night Island, in which we invited a pack of fashionable white-collar evildoers, wined and dined them, and then on my signal (a ringing triangle!), we all pounced, devouring the feast together. What a fantastic mess! Blood spatter everywhere. It was deliciously gruesome, a blood fight is so much more sexual than a food fight. We were all wasted. Daniel passed out from the chemicals of his chosen victims.
Likes/dislikes about Christmas
So many things, but I’ll keep this short for the sake of my -and your- mental health.
A few things I enjoy about Christmas:
Wearing a red velvet Santa suit. Mine’s stylish, no fake belly + beard combo.
Flirting with the shop people when buying gifts for others. Sometimes while wearing the suit *smirks*
A few things I do not enjoy about Christmas:
Honestly I’m tired of buying old books for Louis. We have too many as it is. At this point I think he asks for them to annoy me.
Once is fine, but certain Christmas music on repeat is really detestable. Malls during the holidays are not a happy place for me for this reason.
On that note, I also despise all Christmas music sung by the Chipmunks.
So-called charity organizations who give only pennies to the dollar they receive to the people they are supposedly gathering the money for. Despicable.
I’ve been doodling fan art but I’ve been so busy that I haven’t really refined any of it, so here’s a lil thing I did a couple of weeks back. The perspective is a bit off and Viago’s quite a bit taller than I meant to make him but I still thought it was cute enough to upload!
Give me a heartwarming Christmas movie about Satan traveling around the world every Christmas to deliver presents to all the young kids and kids with learning disorders and disabilities who misspell “Santa” on their Christmas letters every year
And Santa’s all like, “You know, I can handle a few spelling mistakes, I got this,” and Lucifer is like “They’re addressed to me, fuck off, I’m doing it.”
Lucifer being protective of his fanmail is ceaselessly entertaining.
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