2) But suddenly there come books as MTD, TOTBT or even the last one, where it’s not about them being a vampire. It could have even happened to a mortal. It is an adventure of its own, right? In a way at least. (I hope you understand what I mean). For me this was hard to accept and sort in. In a way it was not what I read the VC for. I was very confused at the beginning.

3) But now I think about it like that: Anne Rice’s vampires write the books themselves. They don’t think “I am a vampire so I have to act like one and can only write about my vampiric aspects.” No, they simply write about whatever happens to them or whatever fascinates them at the moment. As we are used to it when it comes to books about mortals. When we read those books we don’t think “wait, but why is this not about how they were born and what they eat and when they sleep?”

4) We accept the adventure they tell us. But vampires are supposed to just write about them being vampires. But those not. They talk simply about themselves. So theoretically Lestat could publish one day a book about tigers that he studied in Asia. I don’t know if I would read it, but what I love about the children of darkness is that they are simply themselves. Not vampires in a drawer. They take us beyond the vampiric life.

(Anon’s reading of canon is here, and anyone is welcome to comment/reblog with their ideas about it!)