*aggressively slams hands on table* YES DEFINITELY
I got this almost a month ago 😛 sorries for the delay in reply but
*aggressively slams hands on table again* I AM DOING A THING FOR IT SO PLEASE WAIT IT WILL BE WORTH IT I PROMISE.
(Oh, I would think Lestat might bottom more often in Lestat/Nicolas fics, try searching for that pairing on AO3! You’re welcome, re: that one fic I rec’d, I hope you like it, even though it does come with a lot of warnings.)
Thank u for loving this blargh! Much appreciated <333
IKR?? That’s why I reblogged it, too. Like, REALLY? And that post of all posts?? There are sexier posts, like even most aesthetic posts are sexier than that one.
Even if the bot picks posts based on notes, I have original posts with way more notes than that one. What even are their parameters, sheesh.
It’s a touchy subject, recommending blogs, as inevitably I’ll leave someone out and then they may feel, well, LEFT OUT :-
I don’t follow as many RP blogs as I used to, it was too much to keep up with the various threads, some have gone inactive, new ones have started up… All attempts to make VC directories usually fail.
However, and that said, so you know I’m not playing favorites, there are some I remember by name, and so I tagged them below, but this is an incomplete list. Let’s make this an Ask Armand and Armand RPer roundup! People Off The Page, reblog/comment with any Ask Armand and Armand RPer blog I left out 😉
(in no special order, active-status not guaranteed):
Hope that helps!
Do you mean the ridiculous things he said? I can do that 😉 Will post that momentarily.
Oh noes I’m about to be in transit offline, ppl, somebody watch this and take notes! For the fandom!
I didn’t know what gif to use so have this one. It IS almost dinner time for me so it works.
Thanks! Much appreciated. Here’s an oldie but a goodie for ya…
I’ll try to keep making fresh ones, buuuut… I bet I have some old ones you haven’t seen in my #memeything tag, and also! The #vintage meme tag has a few that inspired me to start making my own.
…..aaaaand these ppl make VC memes! Check theirs out, I might have some of their memes mixed into my #by someone else tag (in no special order):
If anyone knows of other blogs that do VC memes/memeythings, reblog/comment plz.
Why do I call them memeythings?? Well, when I started making them, I wasn’t sure if they really counted as “memes” bc “memes” as I understood them, had to be some widely-accepted joke first… text from somewhere else, so I called mine memeythings instead, bc I did some of my own “writing” for them, like this “boop your nose” one, but now it’s normal to make up your own text or grab text from anywhere and it counts as a “meme,” I think. I still like the word, tho, so I’m keeping it.
You’re so welcome! You made my day! *hugs*
You might want to send a similar message to Anne Rice herself over on FB, not that she would answer it necessarily, but I do think she appreciates it every time when she gets messages like these, and I think she would be supportive of your love for her books ❤
While I’m always grateful to receive messages like these (notes like these keep this blog alive!), I’ve held it for a week bc I wanted to collect myself, and be very careful in answering it.
I didn’t set out with the intention of providing a place where VC fans can share their thoughts and feelings, that was a happy accident, and I engage with those thoughts and feelings as selectively as I do in any conversation online or in real life. I’m not an official/paid VC spokesperson, not an authority, and never claimed to be, I’m just one fan who enjoys VC and wants to do that in my own specific way. It’s been wonderful to find others who also enjoy VC, the discussions here can be informative, and sharing headcanons/fanart/fanfic/etc. has been the gift that keeps on giving ❤ I’ve made some of the best friends of my life here.
TL;DR: I hope you make friends here, Anon, and can see that you can love these books with others. Don’t let your mom trample on you for what you enjoy. Don’t argue with her, just don’t take those comments to heart.
Hit the jump for more, cut for length.
“Lately my mother has been ridiculing me for having read the VC, she will say things like: “You and your stupid vampire books.” Which is not something I like to hear.”
^I find that kind of dismissive language/attitude really insulting, too. She must not see what you and I do. You’re not alone. This is a small fandom but a growing one, where fanartists are inspired to draw the characters, writers inspired to write fic about them, cosplayers to dress up like them! People use these stories and characters as an outlet for their own self-expression, their own beliefs about life.
I agree w/ you, VC has taught me a lot about life, too. We all come to VC with our own experiences/imagination and we take from it what works for us… but the common thread I’ve seen throughout all these years is that the impact VC has had on many of the fans seems to come directly from the work Anne Rice put into it in those first few books. In those books, she was working through the kind of pain few people can really understand or survive, working through her demons she was working straw into gold, and we found it relatable. We watched Louis struggle through his issues with religion and having to kill people to survive. We watched Claudia suffer with the realities of her existence and try to deal with it as best she could. We got Lestat’s life story and how miserable his beginnings were and how he managed to keep a kind heart and aim for goodness despite all the failures and obstacles in his way. There’s a lot of pain in these first few books, but there’s also love and triumph, too. Not always a clear distinction between good/bad, there are difficult choices, and not always the best results, but the general direction always felt like the characters were trying. That’s my own interpretation and what I’ve gotten out of it.
Straw into gold, that’s what I think we have in VC, and those who fail to see that? Well, maybe they’ve found something more relatable somewhere else, or they didn’t need it, but for people like your mom to trample on others for finding relatable value in a fictional work?I can’t support that, personally. I admit that I do poke fun at the Twilight fans occasionally, as they probably poke fun at VC fans, but deep in my heart, I respect them and I would hope that they respect us. They are no less “worthy” of liking what they like – and finding something in it that gives them life – than anyone else.
“I appreciate that I can just go onto your blog and see that other people love these books too.”
We do love these books! I hope you come off anon and make some friends here. Friends are the family you choose for yourself. Don’t let your mom trample on you for enjoying what you enjoy.
“Daddy issues” is an unfair term in real life bc it’s a judgment that carries different implications, either that someone is functioning badly bc of a bad relationship with their father, or that they had too good of a relationship with their father and are spoiled; etc.; there is a wide range, but it basically all boils down to the cheap jab: “That person has daddy issues.”
When I see that term used on fictional characters, it’s more about people outright shitposting or having a touch of dark humor (sometimes more than a touch!) because we know these characters are not real people, they’ll never actually hear us insulting them. And what’s intriguing to me about that term used in analysis or in canon about these characters is that sometimes it’s considered a huge fault, something you say to put a character down; but at other times, it’s a badge of honor that a character can function so well even carrying the burden of “daddy issues.”
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(530): THAT GUY IS NOTHING BUT TROUBLE. HE’S 40% PRETTY HAIR AND 60% DADDY ISSUES.
Loki and Tony Stark are great examples of fictional characters w/ “daddy issues,” bc they both had unhealthy relationships with their fathers and it was a very formative experience for them. They are very layered and intellectually stimulating characters, would they be this way if they’d had the benefit of better relationships with their fathers? Isn’t there a kind of catharsis in watching them struggle and battle through their demons in order to reach their goals? Isn’t there extra reward when we see them succeed despite the emotional burdens they bear? And especially when others taunt them about their “daddy issues” and they are strong in the face of that adversity, too?
Google gives the definition of “Daddy issues” as:
“a pejorative for a lot of social, psychological or behavioral issues that may OR MAY NOT stem from an unhealthy relationship with one’s father. It’s usually used to marginalize issues women are having, though to be honest men are perfectly capable of having “daddy issues” too.”
I was asked this a few months ago and it’s a delicate subject bc, again, “daddy issues” is a pejorative, and therefore it can belittle/marginalize real people who have ‘social, psychological or behavioral issues that may OR MAY NOT stem from an unhealthy relationship with one’s father.’
But since these are fictional characters I feel like we can discuss it without causing harm, and I would agree with @vampires-and-witches who had made commentary that Claudia would probably be the fictional character with the most daddy issues in VC [X].
^And yet, in spite of her “daddy issues,” Claudia had persevered (at least, temporarily) when she thought she had killed her own dad/maker. As much as I love Lestat, he did have that coming to him, he deserved it, and he doesn’t even blame her for doing it. So when Claudia rose up and attacked the one who had wronged her the most? 12 year old me was thrilled, cheering her on! I wasn’t about to copy her and kill my parents *eyeroll* but what it showed me was the immense strength of character, someone who was at a great physical disadvantage, AND burdened with “daddy issues,” and yet she executed her plan entirely on her own and succeeded!
I will add that I think VC has a ton of terrible fictional parents (mortal/biological and vampiric/makers). Many are neglectful, abusive, manipulative, etc. or a combination. A terrible or absent parent/maker can affect someone’s future relationships with everyone they interact with. It’s those fictional characters who bear that burden and rise up and succeed (or at least keep trying!) despite it, those are some of the best characters in the series, in my opinion.
So I’ll open this up, anyone can reblog/comment about the characters with the most “daddy/maker issues”!
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