Dearest Lestat, I must say I am vaguely curious as to if you enjoy Christmas at all. And if so, do you prefer the more traditional kind of Christmas or the kind of ‘Hallmark’ kind of Christmas with all its bells and whistles? And is there anyone you’d like to meet under the mistletoe for a kiss??

♛Do I enjoy Christmas at all, you know, my first reaction was Yes, of course, who wouldn’t?!

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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.

greetings. my name is Princess Nicole I am fascinated with Lestat. he intrigues me.

♛ Is “Nicole” your family name? So bold to name a child “Princess”!  Alright, alright… I’m kidding, love.

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What is it you find the most fascinating about me? My physical beauty? My fashion sense? My refusal to surrender in the face of adversity? My knack for creating adversity? 

And let’s not forget the fangs *grins widely* I bet it’s the fangs. People who know what I am almost always want to see and touch the fangs, as if they’re the definitive proof of my supernaturalness. Anyone with the time and the money can get fangs made by a fangsmith. It’s not that special.

The proof is when I scoop you up and we shoot up into the sky to see the citylights from above. Few mortals can actually handle such physicality and I’ve had more than one passenger “toss their cookies,” as they say.  

It’s a habit now that I’ll say “SHUT UP LOUIS!” as an insult.

 ♠*siiiigh*

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#shut up louis #its exra funny bc really Louis hardly gets to have an opinion #those few times when he does #lestat doesnt care for your bullshit    #BASICALLY #poor louis  #in truth he could be devastatingly mean to lestat #but he withholds it bc he knows lestat cant actually take it 

///Just out of curiosity: Who would you see playing Nicolette in an AU? I see Angie doing the thing

I think u got it right with Kristen Stewart, tbh! if she’d be willing to play a vampire of real substance of course

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Angelina is more than welcome to join the party tho, maybe as femme!Santino? “Santina”? Or the old queen, Allesandra?

Okay so like, I haven’t read a lot of the series, so I’m really curious about this because I at least think I saw something about it a while ago but I’ve never really been certain. Does Armand have a band, or is it just Lestat??

Yep, it’s just Lestat, with his band, Satan’s Night Out, not Armand ;]

How Lestat wants to look on stage:

[fanart source unknown]

How he really looks on stage:

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And…

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But also this:

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Did anybody like Anne Rice or the director of IWTV have anything to say with the way Armand was portrait in the movie. Did they say why movie Armand didn’t have red short hair and wasn’t 17?

Well, I have never come across an interview with AR or director Neil Jordan about why Antonio was cast for Armand. I should have an FAQ and when I do, this will be right up at the top of that list! 

I should probably watch IWTV with the director commentary again; he might have mentioned smtg about it and I’ve just forgotten, so I will do that.

ANYWAY, there are a bunch of theories as to why Armand is portrayed the way he is in the movie and my fave explanation, currently, is that movie!Armand is actually a blend of Armand and Santino. 

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Why do that?:

  • If they had cast a cherubic teenage redhead (or older creepy cherub dude trying to look 17 *cough cough* movie!QotD *cough*) it might have made Louis look like a pedophile, dumping his 11 yr old “beloved” (as he calls her) for someone only 6 yrs older (in appearance, anyway).
  • For people who hadn’t read the book, someone cuter than Louis might have taken the sympathy away from him (who was supposed to remain the focus, it’s HIS story, after all). That would have been compromised by omg cute little redhead bby we want to snuggles you! 
  • Armand was supposed to replace Lestat in the sense of being a better mentor/teacher/father figure to Louis, and so that someone had to be more paternal-looking. Someone who would look older.
  • The actor had to be a bigger star than Brad Pitt (or at least older than BP)
  • And he had to have some European or other ethnicity, because these Parisian vampires were supposed to be darker, scarier, more like Real Vampires of the Old Ways than the softer Americanized Vampires. Their vampire makeup (aside from their TdV costuming) shows them to almost be a different, more vicious species from Louis (who has to still maintain his “most human”-looking vampire status).

In all this, Santino really fits the bill better, and my guess is that AR suggested it, she was the screenwriter, after all. 

For more on this, check out my #Defending Antonio tag.

Also go check out this memeything by @luthi69​ bc it is relevant.

Can we give Claudia Blak a second chance(she played Panda in the movie we don’t talk about) and cast her as Gabrielle?

Well my initial thought was We can forgive but we will never forget.

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^But tbh this was not her fault, and I’m sure she did the best she could, and honestly, I had no idea how beautiful she really is under all that hideous makeup like wtf was up with that extra pocket of white shimmer eye powder in the inner tear duct area on all those vampires in QOTD it was hella weird!

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And how playful she can be!

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And how seasonally appropriate!

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In short Yes, let’s please give Claudia Black a second chance at VC. As someone. Maybe Gabrielle even!

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Do you have any fanfiction recommendations? Personal favorites?

Fanfic?? there’s no such thing as VC fanfic… pfffft. What are you crazy honestly??!

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^Lestat is laughing bc he knows I is sarcastic.

I have a huge list of faves. HUGE. But the thing about VC fanfic is that we still have to be sort of careful about sharing it bc of reasons (under the cut if you wanna know why). 

MY faves may not be what you’re looking for as I tend to skew L/L, since they are the OTP I am hopelessly afflicted with, but I have some drabbles and links to fic saved with other characters in my #fanfic, and #damn you and your perfect headcanon perfection tags here. There’s also some fine stuff in the @vcsecretgifts archive.

Archive of Our Own (aka AO3)

has a mission statement about protecting fanworks from copyright infringement arguments, so I feel pretty safe recc’ing stuff that’s on there:

  • Gulfport: A British Petroleum Fanfic (Part One) by hw_campbell_jnr  – There are 2 parts and it’s incomplete but this is devastatingly beautiful long!fic. Hipster modern Lestat and Louis, Lestat going by a pseudonym, politics woven in, it’s just too good. It annoys me how good it is. I am annoyed. I would be less annoyed if it were COMPLETED.

Hit the jump for a teensy fanfic history lesson.


In short, Anne Rice had waged war on VC fanfic in the mid-90s, sic’ing her lawyers on many fanfic writers, eventually breaking apart fanfic sites (“speculative fiction” or “spec” archives/communities) and driving many of these writers to stop writing altogether or do so in a more underground way.

Currently, she’s had conflicting stances on fanfic, but hasn’t made outright war at nearly that level. We try not to tag her in discussions of it, basically, we don’t try to provoke her by making our caches of VC fanfic known. Especially on Facebook, where she’s very active and might see it. She posted this on her FB in 2014 (I think):

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Thank god for this blog! It’s nice to see that the fandom is still so thriving and active. ❤

Merci beaucoup, such kind words, I’m very touched *u*

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I’m happy to see the fandom as lively as it is, too. It fluctuates over time. The next official book will undoubtedly send us all into a massive frenzy, whether we like it or not.

I was going to listen to the IWTV soundtrack while in the shower, and had it playing on my computer which was on the counter, and as I began to undress I just saw that one piercing eye staring at me and was just like “nope, you’re not going to watch me shower,” and I quickly turned the computer around.

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#so inappropriate Lestat #very bad boy #*smacks with rolled-up magazine* #NO #that is NOT how we treat our friends #lestat

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#sprays with holy water [fanart by @mortcharmant]