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I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally can’t hold on to all of it. So what I’ve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed
SHIT WHAT
Also let yourself cry. It really is a biochemical release valve to dump out all the chemicals that make you feel stuff.
I honestly think one reason men in western culture have so many problems is that we don’t let them cry, and literally their brains get stuffed with all this crap that doesn’t have a release valve. Men, please cry. You’ll feel better. It’s ok. You are not lesser for taking care of your health.
This is why tears from different emotions look different under an electron microscope. They’re literally made up of different things.
Happy tears are structurally different than sad tears than angry tears than overwhelmed tears etc.
“Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there’s nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don’t know the trick. It’s like whistling or singing.”
– Lestat de Lioncourt, Memnoch the Devil
New pictures from the Interview with the Vampire shoot
Lestat- Alyson Tabbitha
Louis- MichaelBGB
Claudia and victim- Hope SoapaminePhotography- David Love Photography
Hey! I wanted to refer to fics where Lestat bottoms in general but still , thank you a lot for the fic rec!!!! And I love your blog :)
(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
“The Vampire Chronicles” meets “The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo”
Look. Look at these stupid memes I made on Snapchat.
(The images I used are from this post: https://half-ace.tumblr.com/post/163601482010/the-signs-as-freckle)
Lestat de Lioncourt
(music: Cinema Strange – Intermezzo: Bright Violet Euphoria)
Lestat, are you a cat or a dog person? 🖤
Do you know/have any fics where Lestat subs?
I don’t know of any in the sense of the BDSM term “submissive,” I know of only one in which he is more of a “bottom” at one point…
One Night in New Orleans by iskra667 – L/L angst, fluff, warning: it explores some darker themes and contains dubious consent. Somnophila, too, so it would count as nonconsent.
I’ve read, I think, alot of VC fanfic and Lestat being more of a “bottom” is pretty rare? He’s usually more of a pitcher than a catcher. I headcanon that he really only “bottomed” for Nicki when he was mortal, and as a vampire, he currently “switches” with Louis, and David, separately, sometimes. But the BDSM term “submissive,” idk about him doing that.
Anon, you could write some *nudges*
Anyone is welcome to write some, and/or share links to fic (on AO3 and tumblr only, please).
Lestat “A Child Will Fix My Marriage” de Lioncourt
Well, you’re not wrong…
(Digging up an oldie from the archive, wow, this one is almost 4 yrs old, can you believe I’ve been on here over 4 yrs! *keanu reeves voice* woahhh)
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Some thoughts on this under the cut, cut for length.
It is, admittedly, always fun to deride Lestat for this
screwup
decision when Marius (for all his own f*cked-upedness, he does have a little decent advice to give at various points) specifically told him: DO. NOT. TURN CHILDREN. INTO VAMPIRES. EXCEEDINGLY NOT COOL.
In TVL, Lestat says he wanted to do it just because he wanted to see what would happen:
^I don’t think this is the reason (or at least not the MAIN reason), I think this is Lestat’s bravado, and knowing that he’s writing the book FOR LOUIS, really, knowing Louis is going to be reading it, and this is the answer he’s putting out there to make himself look that much more callous, bc the real answer is too painful to share.
Someone (she’s not on tumblr, I’d tag her if she was) once suggested that Lestat made Claudia to keep Louis’ conscience clear; after all, Lestat is essentially ‘saving’ her from death. The line in the movie is, “Your conscience is clear.” If Louis had actually killed a child (a Holy Innocent!) that night, it would have been the worst crime he’d committed in vampiring, and Lestat didn’t want Louis to bear that burden of guilt. Louis might have even felt guilty enough to kill himself over it, also something Lestat did not want to happen.
So I think Lestat would prefer that Louis think of this as just another gross, horrible act to add to the list of gross, horrible things Lestat has done, and he’d prefer that we write him off as an antagonist, which is easier than being confronted with what he does and why he does it.
I know it’s a bit of a reach, but I feel like Lestat admitting that he made a child into a vampire, knowing it was a crime against nature, and condemning her to the body she was turned in, was a sacrifice he made to prevent Louis from bearing the guilt of her death, it’s all too painful, and could invite questions about it, and he just can’t let anyone in that close.
I understand that it’s a very problematic book, but this is also why I can’t throw the entirety of TOBT out, because Claudia comes back to haunt Lestat to confront him with the decision of turning her. He reflects on it off and on throughout the book and finally admits that even knowing what he knows now, he would still do it all over again, and that’s taking into account the joy they all experienced as a little family, but also the pain and suffering she felt as she became aware of the trap of her own body.
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