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Do the VC vampires do anything for 4th of July?

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They all love the fireworks, and sometimes make a point to meet up somewhere special to watch them!

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This year, however, Lestat and Louis failed to leave on time to meet up w/ the coven in Florida and they landed on a beach in Delaware, made passionate love under the boardwalk as fireworks went off. After that they walked up to the water’s edge, wrapped up together in a big cheap beach towel they’d found under the boardwalk bc their clothes were bloody and shredded to bits! No surprise there. 

They watched the kids darting around and Louis was, as always, intrigued by the sparklers waving swoops and shapes of fractured light. One little girl approached them to compliment their Frozen towel and handed Louis a sparkler. He was very touched and forgot all about the gritty sand sticking to the blood across his chest and backside (under the towel, fortunately!).

Lestat watched the light of the sparkler reflected in Louis’ eyes, and for a moment, it was as if they were both just mortal boys, delighted by and in awe of this simple magic as Louis drew heart shapes, circles, and infinity loops against the darkness. 

Lestat made a mental note to buy packs of them.

So, I’ve actually stopped reading the VC after “The Vampire Armand” (of course I picked up again at “Prince Lestat) – what do you think, should I read “Merrick”?

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Yes, READ THE BOOK!

Idk, I would always advocate reading the books, as cracky as some of them can be, bc there are always moments that are really great! Single lines worth digging up, some phrasing that hits you #Right in the Feels. Don’t you want to know what happened to Louis, David, and Lestat, before PL? You don’t have to agree with it but the ride is always at the very least stimulating… you can always just skim it for plot points if reading it is too much of an investment.

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[^bookwormmykitty from here X]

If you like Louis, especially yes! This is a story he gets a starring role in. It’s cracky but heartbreaking, and it changes the dynamics of the relationship between Louis and David, and between Louis and Lestat, and also there’s a strong FEMALE character?! Who is NOT a Mary Sue (ok she has some Mary Sue elements but whatever I liked her)? Woah. 

It also changes Louis physically, gives him the powers we see him use in PL, and it also allows him to experience a new level of intimacy with Lestat (and others potentially) that he refused to have before. It changes him emotionally, but we don’t get too deep into the specifics on that, but I think we’re starting to see those effects in PL. 

My main issue with it is that it would have been SO MUCH MORE fun from Merrick’s (or Louis’!) own POV, rather than David’s. David was largely a third wheel and I didn’t really care about his youth in the jungles. More interested in the voodoo that Merrick could do, and especially how she used it on Louis ;A; <—Hopefully not really spoiling anything there bc I’m being really general in that statement.

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[^Melodie Monrose as Merrick and Jackson Rado as Louis de Pointe du Lac]

antoineandthepiano made this lovely aesthetic pic set and description about Merrick, but there ARE spoilers there, FYI. antoineandthepiano’s description is gr9 tho and worth being spoiled for. YOU MAKE THAT CHOICE YERSELF THO.

I don’t remember if Merrick spoils any other major plot points from books that come before it, I don’t think so. I recall it as being almost a standalone novel. 

Hello, I need the VC fandoms help remembering something. In the IWTV movie, there are the scenes where claudia has dolls and rejects them, and where she cuts her hair and learns it does not grow back. Question: where were these in the books?(1 of 2)

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(2 of 2) I remember these scenes somewhere in the books pretty vividly, but I just reread IWTV over again and couldnt find them. Did i dream them being in the books after years of watching the movie?

So actually, I couldn’t remember either, so I just skimmed IWTV, and neither actually happened quite that way in that book. But it’s still sort of canon bc Anne Rice wrote the script, and she was trying to incorporate later canon stuff where she could. 

In QOTD, Claudia mentions it in her diary: “Of course, he gave me a doll as usual, the replica of me, which as always wears a duplicate of my newest
dress. To France he sends for these dolls, he wants me to know. And what should I do with it? Play with it
as if I were really a child?…

He has given me thirty such dolls over the years if recollection serves me…

They would crowd me out of my bedroom if I
kept them. But I do not keep them. I burn them, sooner or later. I smash their china faces with the poker. I
watch the fire eat their hair.”

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[X] In IWTV, Claudia crushes a doll in front of Louis and she talks about being disappointed in baby dolls… she was pretty spoiled by her dads, so I would bet she got them at other times than just her “birthday,” too! Maybe the fanciest ones were received annually.

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^The haircut thing is actually something Gabrielle experienced in TVL. She had cut it and the next night it had grown back to its full length it had been when she died:

Her long heavy hair had slipped over
her shoulders again, and exasperated, she took hold of it in both
hands. Then suddenly she made a low hissing sound, and her body
went rigid. She was holding her long tresses and staring at them. 

“My God, ” she whispered. And then in a spasm, she let go of her
hair and screamed.

The sound paralyzed me. It sent a flash of white
pain through my head. I had never heard her scream. And she
screamed again as if she were on fire.

Hey, I forgot what happened to Lestat former band or Mater just never mentioned them? Like, what happened to that musicians? They were on the highest moments of fame and success and them BOOM their vocalist went m.i.a. Idk, I just caught myself thinking about it today. That must have been so confusing for them

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Lestat tells us in QOTD that they survived and moved on w/o him:

“[The Coven was] relieved that the Vampire Lestat had died in the pages of the newspapers; that the debacle of the
concert had been forgotten. No provable fatalities, no true injuries; everybody bought off handsomely; the
band, receiving my share of everything, was touring again under its old name.”

Slightly on topic: @everlastingporcelain​ got a t-shirt for bangin’ Lestat’s mom! [X]

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Hey, have any of you vampires argued about the whole white and gold, blue and black dress thing?

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Yes, in fact they did!

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Faceclaims: 

David: Sendhil Ramamurthy

Louis: Miles McMillan

Armand: Kirill Nikolini

Marius: fanart by @sheepskeleton 

Lestat: Martin Rolinski

Tweets from celebs [X]

Bon anniversaire!! I’ve followed you for years, just on various blogs (this one is fairly new) and it has never stopped being fantastic. Have a beautiful day! :)

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OMG you’ve been following me for Y E A R S ?! That is a seriously high compliment, sounds like you’re hopelessly stuck w/ me and I should pity your soul.

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Thank you for confessing this to me, hopefully I will continue to deliver the quality VC drugs you’ve come to expect AND MOAR *,….,*

Hi there! It’s Michaela, Lestat’s mun, dropping by to say hello and that I hope you’re having a wonderful day or night, ha ha! Psst: I LOVE your blog. <3)

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Merci beaucoup, Michaela! My blog feeds on the love even tho I recognize that I’m getting pickier about fanworks and more relaxed about cat pics these days OH WELL. 

Today and this whole week has been so frickin’ chill I don’t know how I deserved to have this much freedom to prioritize myself, but I don’t take it for granted. So good to feel needed by our fandom and my RL ppl. 

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BTW, always good to have a freshly unhiatused Lestat roaming around ;D That muse is insatiable…

It’s your birthday today?! Well then a very Happy Birthday to you, my beautiful friend!! 🍷❤️

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Thank u so much!

I am so terrible for not replying sooner, but u know how these things are, the longer they go unreplied to the harder it is to DO IT

Here’s smtg fresh I found, posting it now in your honor, concept art from IWTV….

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Interview with the Vampire – final scene artwork – copy used on set – (28 x 16) INT. INN SUPPER ROOM. By Dante Ferretti. Will post it separately, too. 

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@jellywholockian​ submitted: We should buy this for Lestat XD

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When Lestat gives his name at Starbucks occasionally they’ll get it right but most of the time it’s stuff like “Lester” “Leslie” “Leshan” and on one occasion he spent the night in a huff because they gave him a cup that just said “La Shat”