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“It was Daniel who had languished for many a year—shocked, deranged, lost, unable to care for himself—in Marius’s care… | Marius loved Daniel. He had salvaged Daniel from the aftermath of that storm, and never for one moment regretted it. Marius knew that Daniel had also salvaged him from the same chaos..” – From “Prince Lestat”
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I need to take a minute and thank everyone again for your support, but a super massive huge, sobbing shoutout to:
The Vampire Chronicles Fandom
You have all collectively helped me more than anyone I know in Real Life. Just when I think I am not going to have any more feels about this I get another note or a Paypal notification and I am overwhelmed all over again. You are all amazing and I love you. Up until now most of my life it’s been the vamps and their incredible stories that have kept me going, but now it’s literally the fanbase that’s helping me keep my head above the water. I owe this fandom so, so much.
Hi Tumblr. I hate to do this, but I am running out of options.
I’m Morgues, and prior to this clusterfudge I’ve been a Tumblr dork, fandom geek, and an aspiring writer and filmmaker. And this is my long story short: my soon-to-be ex up and split town on me. He was the main source of income at the time. This is a good thing in that he was abusive, sleeping around, and had dove back into drugs and gambling., His splitting town happened after I called BS and got help from domestic violence services and also pointed out that he was not doing jack about the bills we had. The downside of this is that it’s left me with those bills. Plus an eviction notice. Yup, his lack of assistance with the bills went that deep. I’m guessing the money he was making went to cocaine and booze.
I have until Tuesday to try and come up with rent either for where I live (which is $2200 due to him not paying anything for the last THREE MONTHS) or $500 for a new place I can sublet. Otherwise I’ll be going to a women’s shelter IF they have room for me. I’m currently on a waitlist for that and I am not at the top of the list. I also don’t know what I’m going to do with my cat. I am almost more angry about that than anything – the possibility of losing my cat. He’s my stress pet and he’s old (14 years old now) and he does not deserve to go to an animal shelter because of this mess: I don’t want to lose my kitty.
I am currently unemployed and looking for full time work (I was working online as a transcriptionist but the Internet got shut down at I cannot connect via most of the wifi places in town so my income has been cut off), which is proving a little emotionally draining, but dammit I’m trying. On top of the impending divorce and dealing with the support group meetings for the abuse, I am also bipolar, suffering from PTSD (even more so now from what’s happened) and a handful of other delightful mental and physical health issues. I sucked it up and tried appealing to my family, but I’m still dead to them since I’m not straight. My mother straight up told me the little bit I talked to her on the phone that I deserved the abuse. Yeah, not going to get any help there. Another result of being queer this also means most local church assistance is also closed to me.
I am appealing to you, Tumblr, as my last ditch effort for help. Until I am LITERALLY homeless and on the street I’ve been denied assistance by local government agencies. I am currently in the middle of trying to liquidate what I own to make cash and that is hurting my heart as people are already trying to take advantage of the situation by lowballing me on the value of what I’m selling and this is how I’m trying to make ends meet and survive.
Anything helps at this point. I’m not using GoFundMe since they take a chunk. I’m also not a big believer in something for nothing, so if you want to donate something and leave me a note with it about your fandoms or something, it will take me some time, but I will write you a drabble or make a photo edit or icons or something. Again I have super spotty internet unless I’m at the local library, but I’ll eventually get it to you.
So that’s it, my appeal to you Tumblr. I figured it couldn’t hurt since Tumblr raised enough money to save DashCon and that sad ballpit, and I have seen miracles happen for others as well.. If you can’t help, a reblog and signal boost would be appreciated. Again, I am about to be homeless as of Tuesday, June 16th if I cannot get some kind of assistance.
Paypal: morgaineangelowe@gmail.com
^SIGNAL BOOST.
tl;dr, no really, read it. C’mon VC (and others!) fandom. If just some of our followers sent her $1 yes I know paypal has a fee but humor me for a second here it would make an enormous difference to her.
She’s not looking for a free ride, she’s essentially opened commissions for the money. If you can’t give, please reblog, maybe one of your followers can.
The film is slated to hit cinemas in 2018, but before that Boone is working on The Vampire Chronicles, a reboot based on the Anne Rice novels that were turned into Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
ooc; Hidden in this article about X-Men. Interesting to see mention of the VC films, since we were teased about the Tale of the Body Thief movie that never happened for several years. (via merciful-death)
Warning; I’m about to wax at length about a
Daniel thing in Prince Lestat.
I’m probably “interrogating the text from the wrong perspective”, but so be it!
😀
So I’m poking my way through Prince Lestat again, because I
cannot resist squeezing every last bit of interesting detail out of any of the
Chronicles that has to do with Daniel, and I couldn’t resist taking a good long
look at this particular bit because I was also made to suffer four years of
seminary during my late teens, so any chance to use that knowledge for
something I actually enjoy is occasionally entertaining for this heathen.
The line from Prince Lestat I’ve been
pondering the last day or so:
Prince Lestat: He
and Daniel had to leave Brazil. This was a safe place no longer. Daniel said he
understood. “Whither thou goest, I go,”
he had said.
This is, of course, a partial quote from The
Old Testament which is full is:
Ruth 1:16:And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to
return from following after thee: for whither
thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people
shall be my people, and thy God my God
With the last name Molloy,
it’s obvious that Daniel is of Irish descent, and so it seems to have become a
fairly consistent fan belief over the years (based on the fic and discussions
out there) that Daniel was likely raised in a Catholic environment. Personally,
this quote just cemented that fan-canon thought for me even more, and with that
in mind, it really added a new layer of depth to what Daniel is saying here.
I know it’s also been
speculated post Blood And Gold
that Daniel is in a situation he has little or no control over, being left or
taken into Marius’ care. That somehow he’s become a ‘lackey’ or he’d become a low-level
replacement for Those Who Must Be Kept. I know because I was a party of that
fan-camp of thought for quite some time. So believe me, this is a really big 180° for me to be taking.
It’s become clear in Prince Lestat that Daniel has
come back to his senses, but this particular line seems to also establish that
Daniel has remained and continues to remain with Marius of his own volition. His reference of The Book of Ruth is a pretty
subtle but clear indication that he’s accepted his companion and wants to
remain at his side. Wherever Marius goes, he’s going, and where Marius chooses
to live, that’s where Daniel will live.
It also adds an additional
potential layer of Daniel’s mindset toward Armand. In the Bible, Ruth
chooses to stay with her mother-in-law, Naomi, instead of going home to her
family, hence the famous quote. I can’t help but wonder if Daniel’s also subtly
referencing that even though Armand isn’t dead in the literalist of senses,
their relationship is. That of course also begs the question if he then thinks of Marius in a ‘familiar, paternal kind of way’ but I’m not going there right now. That’ll be for another time.
I am flailing so hard right now because I’ve wondered about that line and I love you to death for drawing this out and pointing out its implications in the context of Daniel-as-Catholic, and the relevance of the passage to Daniel’s situation.
Personally I got the feeling that Marius was doing some recovery of his own, and that possibly Daniel is staying with him for the time being because he’s needed, and Marius has done a lot for him. That’s not to say that I disagree entirely about his thinking re:Armand, I do think their reunion in PL is probably the first since Daniel ‘went mad’. So he wouldn’t have any particular reason to think they could pick their relationship back up, but he still seems pretty eager to go to Trinity and see everyone – and if going to Trinity meant ‘seeing the ex’ I think we could expect slightly more mixed feelings on Dan’s part? So while I do think he’s definitely staying with Marius by his own choice at this point, I guess I’m not sure about the finality of it. (But this post is really awesome and I love it.)
Yeah, I like the idea that the relationship (whether it’s just paternal or romantic) between Marius and Daniel has been therapeutic on both sides. I think that because neither made the other there’s a lack of pressure, and they were living together at what was clearly a very difficult time for both of them.
We get very little from Daniel’s POV in BaG but I suspect that for every one of Daniel’s worst moments as described by Marius, Daniel has also watched Marius spend an entire night just staring at the wall, or constantly putting an order for paint in an Amazon basket and then deleting it, putting it in and deleting it…
Warning; I’m about to wax at length about a
Daniel thing in Prince Lestat.
I’m probably “interrogating the text from the wrong perspective”, but so be it!
😀
So I’m poking my way through Prince Lestat again, because I
cannot resist squeezing every last bit of interesting detail out of any of the
Chronicles that has to do with Daniel, and I couldn’t resist taking a good long
look at this particular bit because I was also made to suffer four years of
seminary during my late teens, so any chance to use that knowledge for
something I actually enjoy is occasionally entertaining for this heathen.
The line from Prince Lestat I’ve been
pondering the last day or so:
Prince Lestat: He
and Daniel had to leave Brazil. This was a safe place no longer. Daniel said he
understood. “Whither thou goest, I go,”
he had said.
This is, of course, a partial quote from The
Old Testament which is full is:
Ruth 1:16:And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to
return from following after thee: for whither
thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people
shall be my people, and thy God my God
With the last name Molloy,
it’s obvious that Daniel is of Irish descent, and so it seems to have become a
fairly consistent fan belief over the years (based on the fic and discussions
out there) that Daniel was likely raised in a Catholic environment. Personally,
this quote just cemented that fan-canon thought for me even more, and with that
in mind, it really added a new layer of depth to what Daniel is saying here.
I know it’s also been
speculated post Blood And Gold
that Daniel is in a situation he has little or no control over, being left or
taken into Marius’ care. That somehow he’s become a ‘lackey’ or he’d become a low-level
replacement for Those Who Must Be Kept. I know because I was a party of that
fan-camp of thought for quite some time. So believe me, this is a really big 180° for me to be taking.
It’s become clear in Prince Lestat that Daniel has
come back to his senses, but this particular line seems to also establish that
Daniel has remained and continues to remain with Marius of his own volition. His reference of The Book of Ruth is a pretty
subtle but clear indication that he’s accepted his companion and wants to
remain at his side. Wherever Marius goes, he’s going, and where Marius chooses
to live, that’s where Daniel will live.
It also adds an additional
potential layer of Daniel’s mindset toward Armand. In the Bible, Ruth
chooses to stay with her mother-in-law, Naomi, instead of going home to her
family, hence the famous quote. I can’t help but wonder if Daniel’s also subtly
referencing that even though Armand isn’t dead in the literalist of senses,
their relationship is. That of course also begs the question if he then thinks of Marius in a ‘familiar, paternal kind of way’ but I’m not going there right now. That’ll be for another time.
I woke up to the finished product of the tattoo commission in my inbox from sheepskeleton this morning, and all of the feels promptly exploded in my heart:
( Lestat/Daniel commission by sheepskeleton. Her commission’s info is here. Go. Go give her your monies. Fistfuls and bagfuls of monies. All the monies! )
Seriously, commission her, you won’t be sorry. Everything I wanted for this piece, all my requests, I got. She nailed it, guys.
The look between them. I know they’re one of the least popular VC ships out there, but frankly, and especially as I’m looking at this, I don’t give a damn. There’s no decades or centuries worth of bad blood between them yet. There’s no history of betrayal, abandonment, manipulation, or heartbreak between them. Sure, it’s there in their personal experiences, but not with one another, not yet. Would theirs be a waistcoat-ripping, fire-setting, loss-riddled, globe-stalking, psychologically damaging, deliver-you-to-death’s-doorstep romance?
No. But it could be something good. Lestat has been searching for goodness for centuries, and I’ll be damned if Daniel doesn’t deserve some goodness after everything he’s been through. I love this ship for it’s potential. Because it could possibly be functional. Daniel is a listener and Lestat is a talker. Daniel likes kissing and snuggling dead things and Lestat is amourous. Both are risk-takers in their own right so there’s opportunity for lots of fun and adventure. Because these are two personalities that I think would mesh well more often than they would clash. Because Daniel went searching for him and has been vampire fanboy number one for sixty years, and Lestat adores adoration. Because Lestat took the time during the potential annihilation of all of vampire-kind by Akasha to note that Daniel was pretty. Because Daniel would go with Lestat if he asked him too. And if wanting to see a ship that has capacity for good and such potential is wrong, I don’t ever want to be right.
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