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Those who must be kept


Fun fact: If you google “Those who must be kept”, this is the second picture to come up… and it was done by me… in December 2009. That’s 8 years ago!! And I still kind of like it. A lot.

The clothing is all wrong, of course…

I remember how proud I was about the texts having some meaning… I cheated a lot and just copied existing texts and changed some words in them… and added some “I’ll just write it like usual but with a hierogyph-font”… 

It sais something like this:

at their feet

Left:
“Mother of Gods”
“Full Of Magic”
“Ruler Of The Universe”
Akasha

Right:
“Ruler Of Eternity”
“Great God”
“The Perfect One”
“First Son”
Enkil

on the left
See! They are the Beginning. She is the Mother. He is the Father. Those Who Must Be Kept. Protect and enshrine them, the progenitors of all vampires. They are our destiny.

*Beloved Son Marius, for us you give your freedom and your love. We will always remember you.*

They are the Beginning.

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All those Names are the Names used for Isis and Osiris. (Except the “first son”)

(On a sidenote and before people come at me and accuse me of whitewashing: Read the books: As vampires they had Alabaster skin. On this picture they are supposed to have been vampires for quite some time already. So cut my younger self some slack, ‘kay?)

Oh!! And I think THIS is the first piece of my works that @amadeo-child-of-the-renaissance ever commented on.

This is how we had our very fist contact… in 2010!!

Beautiful! I love these kind of stories!

(I’m sorry you felt you needed to add the side note about POC. This is a hotly debated thing. 1) AR was adhering to the vampire physiology rules she had already set in place in the first few books, that vampire skin becomes lighter with age, and 2) we do not know definitively what color mortal!Akasha’s skin would have been, given that not all Egyptians are necessarily dark skinned. Rami Malek, for example, is a light-skinned Egyptian-American).

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sheepskeleton:

Fun story time: you guys know how in TVA and B&G everyone freaked out about the speed with which Marius painted?

So, in this ‘Paint like Botticelli’ class I joined, I didn’t tell anyone about my experience, and especially not about Vincent, because I just want to go there to paint without facing any expectations. And most of the people there are amateurs, they hardly have any previous experience with oil paint.

So, I picked a spot in the corner and started to quietly paint my portrait.

Some 4 hours later a group of wide eyed people:

HOLY SHIT WHAT HOW??? YOU CAME HERE WHEN I DID, WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU PAINTED AN ENTIRE OIL PORTRAIT, WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?????!

I’m not saying I feel like Marius, but I totally do xD I have a secret superpower :3

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monstersinthecosmos:

it’s been awesome hanging out with @yureiyume ! tonight we went to a café and she drew vampires while i wrote drabbles. it was so cool flipping through her book and seeing all her fanart with my own eyeballs. 😀 😀 I DIDN’T REALIZE THAT THESE PICTURES OF MARIUS AND ARMAND WERE ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER AND IT BROKE MY HEART A LITTLE.

Source: monstersinthecosmos

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elisepolo:

I’m so glad I was the one who had to empty
the mailbox today, if my mother found this I would have to do a whole lot of
explaining. Also, the postman probably thinks I’m crazy now for receiving this.

I opened the mailbox hoping that my Ebay package had arrived. But when I looked I saw this, the flipside with
my name on it caught my eye. I never get postcards, from who could this be? I
twist it around and see this crazy picture and suddenly I remember, this is
from I-want-my-IWTV! A big smile appears on my face, I totally wasn’t expecting
this and I had already kind of forgotten about her saying that I would get
this. My fangirl feelings suddenly went through the roof. It was kinda
awesome to pretend that this card might have come from Mr. de Lioncourt himself 🙂  Thank you @i-want-my-iwtv you have made my day. The text on the back was also very fitting.

Afterwards I had to get some groceries
and I was smiling constantly while shopping just because this card was such a
nice surprise. I thought showing it with my VC books would be fitting, so I
did.

I approve of the choice of display <333 And what a nice story to add to it, I’m very pleased with your reaction ^_____^

P.S. There are alot of judgemental postal workers who’ve seen these cards, I’m sure… but maybe some were VC fans? And were jealous?!

ANYWAY you’re very welcome, and actually, I sent myself one for the same purpose… I wanted a card from them, too! *u*

Here’s that fanart by @ashetray, btw. 

When was the first time you saw Interview with the Vampire? For me I watched it at age 10 or 11 I think, I do remember I was very young. I remember my older sister watching it and I guess I decided to watch it along with her. I remember watching it with her when we visited our dad and he wasn’t home. We weren’t allowed to watch such movies like that but we didn’t care. My dad’s from Liberia and they’re very superstitious (well at least my dad is) and movies like IWTV frighten them.

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Well first of all, #I love these kind of stories, where ppl talk about how they got sucked into this fandom, whether it’s when they first saw movie!IWTV (or movie!QOTD) or starting reading one of the books…

Movie!IWTV is frightening, there are brutally scary parts. It touches on a lot of taboo subjects. The kind of violence it has is scary partly because there’s the element of betrayal in many instances, definitely when Claudia knifes Lestat, and then when Louis sets him on fire ;A; We laugh about it now bc if we didn’t have a sense of humor about it, it would just be too cruel. But that is really cute that you watched it with your older sister, hopefully she explained things that were confusing or at least provided some support during the scary parts ;]

I was given book!IWTV when I was 11 and saw the movie soon after, sneaking over to my best friend’s house bc it was rated R and I wasn’t allowed to watch it. It was dark comedy to us, and we ended up watching it repeatedly, trying to memorize the lines so we could say them along with the movie. Our favorite line had to be: 

“Just remember: Life – without me – would be even more unbearable.” And I can’t really gif that out, the shot is pretty dark, but you remember, it was here:

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That line was a declaration between us, too. We’re still best friends to this day, 20+ years after bonding over this series!

VC had a huge enough influence on us. For better or worse *shrugs*

I was an ambivert. I was completely obsessed with antagonists, too. The VC encouraged me to develop all those extroverted traits I loved in Lestat, which other characters didn’t always approve of, but he dgaf! He marched to his own drum. He craves the spotlight for validation but his own love for himself outweighs these external rewards. The VC has been a huge source of strength. So much great advice. Here’s an example, that suffering can be embraced as being a valuable part of our experience, too:

“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.” – Lestat, Queen of the Damned  

But really, the quote that bound me and my best friend together, that’s what I hope for fandom to accomplish. We do come and go, but I’ve been in this for 20+ years, and it seems to me that VC fandom as a whole will always be here for those who want it.

“Just remember: Life – without me – would be even more unbearable.”

^What I think is also worth mentioning here is that Lestat could have killed Louis or just left Louis in NOLA at any time (before Claudia). But he didn’t. Even at his worst, Lestat was still fascinated with Louis, and life – without him – would have been even more unbearable ❤

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sailor-sparkle-kicks:

halbeary:

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birditude:

interstellarsentience:

once upon a time young young teenage me used to write fan fiction like my life depended on it, new fics every week and I had no idea there was someone out there printing out my fics and putting them in a box to read when they needed something to cheer them up

anyways fast forward to 20 year old me on my third date with Emily and she mentions offhand that she’s got this box of fic she printed out and saved

it’s a few months later after that and she shows me one of the fics in the box and holy shit that’s my garbage fic from so long ago

anyways my point is life is a fucking trip my dude

i still remember when we found this out. i don’t think either of us stopped yelling for hours

look it’s been eight years and I’m still like LMAO I MARRIED A FAN

This is the cutest thing I’ve ever read in my whole life

; w ; omg…I would yell for hours, too.

I read iwtv when I was 11 too! =D

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We were captured by this young, when we were still small and fluffy! 

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Tell me your story bc #I love these kind of stories. 

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.

I like Lestat so much purely because of how much he reminds me of myself. I fancied myself as looking somewhat like him before even getting into IWTV, and I just keep finding more reflections of myself in his personality. We have incredibly similar philosophies about life, existence, morality and tradition, and even a lot of the same flaws and difficulties relating to others. The main difference is I’m not brave enough to handle being famous.

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♫WE WILL WE WILL ROCK U♫

Yeah, same here! (except that I don’t look like him at all *cries*) We can go along with him on his journey and gather the reasons for our own philosophical choices and see the mistakes and why he made them, and ask ourselves what we would have done differently, or the same, in his position.

He does have flaws, for sure. Flaws that could spiral anyone into depression. But his lust for life overrides everything ❤

And I think part of why we all love him against our own better judgment is that even when he royally fracks up, he gets back up, dusts himself off, and careens into the next car. 

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I just wanted to let you know I really liked your fan-fiction. I’m kinda new and young to the vampire chronicles but my mom is an Anne Rice Veteran (read @ 12), and I used to try to read her copies when I was very small but she chased me off in a “not yet little one” manner. Well I rediscovered them recently through a friend and I appreciate them so much more than I would have at 8 b/c I’d have missed many nuances. Your interpretation btw of the characters is so spot on I adore it. Keep it up!!

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Merci beaucoup!! You made my day

♥u♥

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(of course I don’t write fanfic, anywhere, what kind of horrible meanie would do that?? yes i do actually)(And that is so sweet of you, my interpretation of the characters is spot on?! *hugs* Most of it comes from my own headcanon, but I’m also grateful to be in this fandom and have the benefit of such good headcanons to absorb through other ppls fanworks and RP, etc. <3)

#I love these kind of stories, how ppl got their first taste of this stuff… you were 8?? That’s very young, yep, you probably would have missed certain things… and it sounds to me like it got this Forbidden Fruit quality for you like it did for me. I was 11, and while my parents didn’t stop me from reading it, I wasn’t old enough to see the movie!IWTV in 1994, so I had to wait until it was on VHS (YES I AM THAT OLD) to see it, and even then, it was rated R so I had to sneak over to my friend’s house to watch it. I had bought a copy from another friend and relabeled the tape Forrest Gump, and for some reason my parents never thought it strange that I had 2 copies of that movie… they probably never noticed lol.

But I am jealous that your mom (AR Veteran! omg I bet I am closer to her age than yours) is into it. I tried to get my parents into it a few yrs back, and they made it through the first two books and then dropped it. OH WELL. At least now I can quote canon occasionally and they have an idea of what I’m referencing.