💖💖💖) and was super flattered! Selfies are haaard bc IDK ~Beauty Standards~ and all, so you get a dump of them and probably no more for a long long time:
(1) overly brightened version of me wearing my hoodie up a la Children of Satan style, (2) bathroom selfie bc y’know (btw I made that necklace I’m wearing in top right), (3) a TINY smile, bc St. Patrick’s cathedral is in the bg and classing things up, (4) blue-filtered nonsense in front of another church to look like a frame from an indie movie about whether or not the Manic Pixie Dream girl will accept Loser Dude and the church message is encouraging a yes? IDK. (5) Felt like posing with this model showing her my hand modeling game is better than hers so there, (6) Got a pic with Gaspard Ulliel and NO the fact that he’s 5 times bigger than me won’t be a problem for us we are in LOVE. (7) #45 in fact is a neighbor of mine, not next door thank goodness, but a walkable number of avenue blocks away OH WELL.
Bonus:
Yes that is 100% real plastic diamond I’m wearing.
Tagging ppl who have tagged me in a get-to-know-me-meme recently (I’m flattered that you tagged me, not sure if I’ll answer)(I’m sorry sometimes I get shy and don’t want to #be social #on a social network) or in the past, or just been in my activity feed recently, but please, consider yourself tagged, I’d love to see more of your faces!
No pressure if you are tagged, you can post a selfie or give me 5 things that make you happy. If you’re an RP blog, you can do it in character ;}
Lestat by @good-evening-kiss, this is a cropped version of the fanart I commissioned, will post the larger image later! I love it, and g.e.k. was lovely to work with, highly recommend ❤
I’M? LIKE? I think shoving your commissioned fanart avatar into someone’s dreams is a level of psychological presence Lestat would be hella pleased about.
SO FOR YOU I’ll post the full image so you can see what was projected onto the ice during your dream hockey game:
Wow! One year ago today I created this blog, and it has been a lot of fun. As a sort of anniversary gift to myself I present a timeline of the events within the first three books. I hope to add to it as I reread the rest of the series, but it could be a year or two before I finish. I hope this can help all those in the fandom, and I hope this is an improvement over what is found in The Vampire Companion.
Note: IwtV may not be quite as complete and in depth as the other two since I started taking notes on it first about two years ago when I was not as dedicated.
On the whole pronunciation of Lestat (LestAHt vs Lesaught) my theory is that it’s both. If we accept Lestat’s story from Blackwood Farm that his parents made up his name from the first letters of his brothers’ names, then maybe they never came up with an exact way to pronounce it. Maybe Gabrielle always called him by one, while his father would use the other. This has led to Lestat changing up they way he introduces himself for 250 years.
//or maybe they just called him “you” since their relationship wasn’t too… affective
^Ya, I like all this. I don’t LOVE Blackwood Farm but that explanation is as good as any. I’m sure his family called him all kinds of bad stuff including purposely
making
his name sound bad, and yes, maybe they never came up with a specific way to pronounce it. I think part of his self-deprecation comes from getting so little affection in his formative years, and not even having a consistently pronounced name is pretty mean ;A;
Anyone can pronounce his name however they want, I think he would be pretty chill about that. Especially considering that people have native accents that affect their pronunciation of words anyway, given how much international travel/business/etc. he does, I don’t think he’d be making an issue with every single person he encounters about the pronunciation of his name.
AR had intended to write his name as “Lestan” after her husband “Stan” + the French word for “the” which is “Le” when preceding masculine words. She’s said that “Lestat” was a typo that she ended up liking.
ANYWAY, since “Stan” is pronounced like “stand” and not “ton” my preference is to go with the ‘a’ of Lestat as like “stand” or “cat.” I kinda feel like AR’s whole obsession with pronouncing it like “Les-TOT” is another way she divides the “real fans” from the rest of the fans; if you don’t pronounce it her preferred way then you’re not really talking about HER character. But that’s just a theory.
I headcanon that Lestat likes nicknames based on his name, especially “’Stat,” a medical term: “Stat, used as a directive to medical personnel during in an emergency situation, is from the Latin word statim, which means “instantly” or “immediately.”” [X]
I always figured when Anne says “lesTOT” she’s just trying to write/say it in a way that – based on American English vowel pronunciations – approximates European [a], which is much closer to what English has in e.g. “father”, and kinda close to what American English has in “tot”, since that’s the sound it would have been in French. A French person would not say [lestæt] like “cat”.
Personally I like the more French/European pronunciation over the American [lestæt], because I’m not an English speaker, so I’m used to European pronunciation. And I’m not sure he would have Anglified his first name that much. But in the end it just comes down to how much you think he’s “gone native” tbh. But ya after 200 years in the US I doubt he minds people pronouncing his name the English way.
On the whole pronunciation of Lestat (LestAHt vs Lesaught) my theory is that it’s both. If we accept Lestat’s story from Blackwood Farm that his parents made up his name from the first letters of his brothers’ names, then maybe they never came up with an exact way to pronounce it. Maybe Gabrielle always called him by one, while his father would use the other. This has led to Lestat changing up they way he introduces himself for 250 years.
//or maybe they just called him “you” since their relationship wasn’t too… affective
^Ya, I like all this. I don’t LOVE Blackwood Farm but that explanation is as good as any. I’m sure his family called him all kinds of bad stuff including purposely
making
his name sound bad, and yes, maybe they never came up with a specific way to pronounce it. I think part of his self-deprecation comes from getting so little affection in his formative years, and not even having a consistently pronounced name is pretty mean ;A;
Anyone can pronounce his name however they want, I think he would be pretty chill about that. Especially considering that people have native accents that affect their pronunciation of words anyway, given how much international travel/business/etc. he does, I don’t think he’d be making an issue with every single person he encounters about the pronunciation of his name.
AR had intended to write his name as “Lestan” after her husband “Stan” + the French word for “the” which is “Le” when preceding masculine words. She’s said that “Lestat” was a typo that she ended up liking.
ANYWAY, since “Stan” is pronounced like “stand” and not “ton” my preference is to go with the ‘a’ of Lestat as like “stand” or “cat.” I kinda feel like AR’s whole obsession with pronouncing it like “Les-TOT” is another way she divides the “real fans” from the rest of the fans; if you don’t pronounce it her preferred way then you’re not really talking about HER character. But that’s just a theory.
I headcanon that Lestat likes nicknames based on his name, especially “’Stat,” a medical term: “Stat, used as a directive to medical personnel during in an emergency situation, is from the Latin word statim, which means “instantly” or “immediately.”” [X]
And so he ran after me all the way back to the hotel, all the way across the rooftops, where I hoped to lose him, until I leaped in the window of the parlor and turned in rage and slammed the window shut. He hit it, arms outstretched, like a bird who seeks to fly through glass, and shook the frame.
Louis de Pointe du Lac describing my absolute favourite moment in the entire series that needs to be talked about more. (via just-another-vcblog)
What book is this from, i need to know , what did i miss (via vampatiddy)
I’m sure we are all familiar with the scene where Lestat is speaking with Claudia and quips “I hope it’s a beautiful woman, with endowments you’ll never possess.” The line is often seen as Lestat being an absolute dick, and don’t get me wrong, he totally is here, but I think it also shows his fatherly side.
Maybe it’s just a case of my family being terrible (which I don’t think they are, usually at least), but things like that were said to me a lot growing up. That is, the “don’t grow up” part, not the “I have a murder victim in the next room” part. What I mean is that I think of this scene more in the sense of parents sensing their children are growing up, but they want to hold on to the illusion that the child is still young and in need of guidance and is completely reliant.
I think the line is really just one of Lestat’s many messed up ways of trying to say “I love you. Please don’t leave me.”
Alright, I am writing this all out again because I thought I answered it last night but tumblr decided to send it to the void instead of to my blog.
@wicked-felina ask and I shall deliver. If I talked about all my faves I would be writing about over 100 songs, so I’m just going to write about a few that I have specific characters or circumstances in mind.
(I Don’t Know Why) But I Do – I imagine a dimly lit yet cozy room in New York in the earlier 1960’s. Louis and Armand are slowly dancing to the radio, holding each other in their arms. This song comes on, neither admitting to the other just how much it encapsulates their feelings, but they look into each other’s eyes and they know.
When We Were Gods – Since the first time I heard this song I have gotten Lestat/Akasha vibes. While it’s not something I ship, I do find their relationship fascinating. They both display an almost naive infatuation with the other, causing them to love and excuse the very behaviours they condemn and slaughter others for. And the regret and the horror, as well as the remaining love which Lestat ponders at the beginning of TotBT is heartbreaking.
Rainbow in the Dark – This one is actually a bit of an in-joke for myself. Have you ever been to one of those shows where they adapt an existing work but add in hits from the ‘70’s or ‘80’s? The actors are all over dramatic and the songs only vaguely relate to the subject matter, but the audience as well as the actors are all having an absolutely wonderful time. That is my ideal adaptation of TVL. I feel as though it would really capture the spirit of the young Lestat. This song would be sung by Armand when he explains their ways to Lestat. “You’ve been left on your own, like a rainbow in the dark!”
Moving In Stereo – This is the perfect hunting song, particularly for Louis. Slow, methodic, yet almost mindlessly driven, creating a trance like state, the beat like the ebb and flow of the tide or the beating of a heart.
Korobushka – This is one of my all time favourite songs. A slow beginning gives rise to a feverish melody of strings. If you consider Prince Lestat canon imagine a ballroom full of vampires all dancing in perfect sync, twisting and twirling to the precisely organized chaos.
That’s all I’ll write about for now at least, since (like the playlist) this became far longer than I intended.
JUST BECAUSE I WANT EVERYONE TO ENJOY THIS FULLY – I’m linking the playlist again to save confusion. =D HERE!
Rainbow in the Dark is such an excellent VC vibe gotdamn haha. =D
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