Prince Lestat
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do lestat and louis actually date in the books this is a srs question pls answer
No, they don’t really date in canon *cries* You gotta read between the lines!
[^from Mad Magazine. Date night used to involve getting all dolled up, sharing a nice French “wine” and then pretending to eat dinner and this is where alot of my sense of humor originally came from btw]
They had a very intense and rocky beginning that seemed to skip over the dating phase directly to marriage, then parenting, and then the separation for around 100 years.
I wouldn’t say they “date” in canon in the conventional sense of the word. There are certain moments they have together like that heartbreaking little scene when they met the night before Lestat’s concert (TVL), and another time when Lestat drags Louis against his will to go pester David Talbot for the first time (QOTD) 😛
You might like my #Another typical night at the Rue Royale tag for some date-y stuff.
…But in a more general sense, they do sort of Netflix and chill together. From Tale of the Body Thief:
“It’s amazing how often he came to visit me in my overheated and brilliantly illuminated rooms downtown. There he watched my giant television screen for hours. Sometimes he brought his own films for it on disk or tape. The Company of Wolves, that was one which he watched over and over… There were many other films which delighted him. But these visits could never be commanded by me, and they never lasted very long. He often deplored the “rank materialism” in which I “wallowed” and turned his back on my velvet cushions and thickly carpeted floor, and lavish marble bath. He drifted off again, to his forlorn and vine-covered shack.”
Sadly, both Louis and Lestat don’t kiss and tell much when it comes to their romantic interactions. There’s alot of Lestat pining for Louis, bc (in the immortal words of @hyperbeeb) #nobody ships Louis and Lestat harder than Lestat ships Louis and Lestat…
You’d think, for one of the fandom’s main ships, there would be more of it explicitly canon. There just isn’t, sadly. Part of why it’s such a tough ship is that AR just does not let us have much in terms of fluff of them! It mostly happens off-screen. Which is where fanfic steps in to satisfy that need ;]
(ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧
@i-want-my-iwtv blog turning 3 yrs old on 7/25/16!
[^X from my first post!]
From the fans who fell into VC since before my time, to the fresh blood (heh heh) who are just wading into it w/ us now, you’ve all made my tumblr experience so rich, I can’t even properly express how blown away I am on a daily basis how many of you send me such lovely messages and intriguing asks, and fanart, etc. and just… how, with your input, this blog has become the blog I wanted to find for all the years I searched for one. Thank you all for laying your affections w/ me over this pile of dysfunctional vampires!
So in the absence of a Follow Forever I’m doing a giveaway ^u^
I bought a few copies of VC books, and I will send them anywhere in the world as long as you have an address I can post snail mail to (and that you’re willing to share your address with me, of course!). The winners will be drawn randomly from ppl who reblog this post.
- 5 books up for winning: IWTV (gold hardcover), the Witching Hour (large paperback, it’s VC adjacent bc of the later crossover books), IWTV (paperback), TOBT (paperback w/ dual covers), Merrick (paperback). I may add a few more winnable things to this.
- Winner also gets a personal handwritten message from me in the book or separately on a card. Winner specifies.
- I will contact the winners here on tumblr, so keep your ask/chat open. If I cannot reach you in 48 hours, I will have to pick another winner :-
- Only Reblogs will count as entries, and only one per blog counts.
- No “giveaway” blogs can win.
- I will not be able to disburse tracking for the mail, sorries, but you can send me $ for it via paypal.
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This giveaway ends July 29, 2016.
Thank you for again for validating my presence in the fandom here, sharing fanworks, headcanons, the RPers. You’re all wonderful and I feel lucky to have you following me!
*~*~*~*~Merci beaucoup and bonne chance!~*~*~*~*
I have mixed feelings about Lestat. Especially with his parenting skills. I think I prefer Louis, honestly. ~ Random Vampire.
Y’know tbqh Lestat had (1) a very finicky eater and then (2) made sort of a crime against nature so you can’t 100% blame his parenting skills.
Oh and if you prefer Louis let’s not forget that all of Louis’ fledglings die.
[X] ^Even tho that happened on nearly a nightly basis, there was a long period of good times, wherein the “one happy family” phrase was not used sarcastically ;A;
The Vampire Lestat: the story of a very bi vampire who needs a hug
@pitypartybinch:
mood: *cr1tikal voice* alright i guess ill go fuck myself then
Tumblr has done something and my theme is currently even crappier than before ;A; I apologize for the inconvenience. I might risk trashing the site by putting in the new HTML code sooner than I planned, so you might want to reblog things from me to save stuff just in case.
you make all your own graphics and things right? Can you recommend tools/art programs etc that you use? I know photoshop is good but i can’t afford that :/
Graphics that are watermarked w/ my url are mines, I also use other ppl’s graphics/gifs and include the sources*.
I use a legal version of adobe photoshop to manipulate images and compress gifs, and a legal version of premiere to make video edits and pull footage for gifs.
I don’t know of free programs to recc, ppl can feel free to reblog/comment w/ suggestions on that. I’m wary of freeware bc viruses ;A;
Sorry I can’t be of any direct help on that 😛
I didn’t watermark the images above bc they’re both screencaps, even though I did some manipulation to Claudia’s drawing to flip it and take her hand out. I decide whether to watermark based on how much I’m adding to it and/or how potentially offensive it is, so when it’s not edited very much or it’s pushing the envelope of offense, I don’t watermark it.
*If all I’m doing is taking a gif someone else made from the movie and brightening it I usually don’t watermark or source it. The reason I don’t source those is that I am adding something to them, but since it’s just frames from the movie, it doesn’t really belong to either of us.
You know what sounded like a great idea, let’s paint Lestat in a flower crown, yes that character from a movie that nobody has seen in 10 years that came out on VHS in the 80′s. Yeah let’s do that!
I’m about 6-8 hours in at this point and still have a good amount of work ahead of me. I’ve decided since starting this project though that if Lestat ever ran a tumblr blog it would be nothing but pictures of hot guys in flower crowns, cigarettes, white mochas, quotes that point out how he’s better than he everyone else, and occasionally crazy posts about Brad Pitt leaving him that everyone will think is about his boyfriend.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to throw him up in my print shop after this because everyone needs a pastel Lestat on a mug with a catchy play on words right? Or at least I do.
PS: I’m also trying a new painting style for this to stick more with my blending oil style that I do when I paint on actual canvas.
Fabulous!
IM READY [X]
If I knew how nice Lestat was to people that had nightmares about him, maybe he wouldn’t have plagued so many nights of my childhood (I saw IWTV when I was around seven with my sis, waay to early for some scenes) :D
Awww, I’m sure it wasn’t his intention to be your nightmare material! He’s very apologetic, both to you, and to anyone else he’s frightened. He says Tom’s portrayal was actually much kinder than the truth and he’s grateful certain things were toned down or left out entirely.
He’s not responding to this message directly himself bc he’s feeling a little defensive about it. Lestat takes issue w/ the adults who let you watch that movie at such a young age, like the adults who made him go on that fun field trip to the witches’ place where innocent people were burned to death. Adults sometimes don’t get how impressionable children are, or they don’t care. Lestat’s guilty of terrifying his own fledglings, but there was usually a good reason for it. Like knocking some sense into them!
Lestat’s also reminding me that Louis told that story to Daniel, who was an adult (at least legally) at the time, and Louis intended that story to get to Lestat, to provoke him and raise him from wherever he was hiding. It was intended to portray Lestat as both a sweet dream and a beautiful nightmare, anything less might not have pissed him off enough to resurrect him ;]
When I was a kid, I sought out scary stories, bc even though I got nightmares from them, the stories themselves gave me a path through the terror and provided the catharsis of the resolution at the end. Even if it was an unhappy ending, the book/movie ended, and the monster had no more story to tell. It was empowering for me, and I think the way I see monsters like Lestat (bc he IS a monster, let’s not forget that) now is through radical empathy, asking again and again what made him as nasty as he was in IWTV? So many things. Knowing where that kind of behavior comes from is insightful and can give you the keys to dealing with difficult ppl in real life, bc they are EVERYWHERE and they come in endless variations!
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