Beautiful Flowers Engulfed in Flames by 蒋志|Jiangzhi
“Beautiful things and objects themselves will ultimately disappear, but
the beauty itself will live on, as well as love. Perhaps this is what I
am trying to express. This series of works is actually just that, a
series of ”Love Letters“.
Beauty, pain, transience and eternity, blossoming and wilting, passion
and grace, dedication, giving and sacrifice … These are all about love.”
— 蒋志|Jiangzhi
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Who’s your favorite character and why?
It changes over time, I have a place in my heart for all the main characters from earlier canon (mainly books 1-5).
My gateway character was Claudia, definitely my fave when I first read IWTV when I was 11. I could relate to her frustration at not being taken seriously as an adult. She was just the perfect mix of sweetness and icy screamy-ness and had Louis wrapped around her little finger (WHICH btw, I saw as a purely platonic relationship).
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Of course I loved Louis after her. How could I not? For his dignified manner, his high tolerance for bullshit, his love for books, his ability to hold back, and his ability to break out a can of fiery whoopass when it’s called for. For his frayed sweaters and how he doesn’t really care about fashion but how good he looks when he lets Lestat or Claudia play dress up with him. Because he probably smells like beeswax candles and jasmine.
He’s also very pretty and his hair feels like silk.
… All that said, Lestat was my real spirit animal in adolescence, and he’s the one that I keep coming back to as my true fave.
Lestat was someone I needed as I confronted the usual bullying in school, the usual seeking my own way into this world and the obstacles that go along with that. He taught me so many things. Most importantly, to have faith in yourself and not be afraid to try new things, meet new ppl. Some ppl will reject you just for being new. Some may reject you because you don’t have good chemistry with them. That’s all fine. You might become very close with some, and fail each other in some way, or just end up growing apart. It happens.
How could I not love him with this combination (and more!) of character traits: Charismatic, mixing silly with sinister, mysteriously hinting at a rich and traumatic backstory in IWTV (which we definitely got later), and of course, lastly, pretty damn good-looking.
And he does make mistakes, tons of them! If you really read the books, that’s where he lays out his mistakes and apologizes in the way he’s better able to do than verbally.
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I’ve always loved mean characters, antagonists, monsters… those who were written off as “just mean,” “just evil,” or “just crazy,” these are the ones I want to know more about. Why are they this way? Is this a shield they put up to protect themselves from further hurt?
My grandmother was like this. I broke through her tough exterior and found a kindred spirit. She’s gone now, and I think my radical empathy for antagonists is kind of a search to find her in other ppl, fictional and real alike.
You’re mine and Louis’ daughter now. You see, Louis was going to leave us, he was going to go away, but now he’s not. Now, he’s going to stay and make you happy.
I watched Interview with a Vampire again recently!! I love these three I had to draw some happy little vampire murder family art. 🍷💉
Do Louis and lestat have a romantic relationship throughout the whole series? Or is it over after IWTV/TVL? I haven’t read that far and I’m curious, because they’re my favorite couple
Yes, they do, but it’s mostly between-the-lines ;A;
[I’ll warm your cold blood by DrKav]
You’d think, for one of the fandom’s main ships, there would be more of it explicitly canon. There just isn’t, sadly. But Lestat pines for Louis QUITE ALOT. In the immortal words of @hyperbeeb, “Now matter how hard you ship Louis and Lestat you will never ship Louis and Lestat as hard as Lestat does.” [X]
Part of why it’s such a tough ship is that AR just does not let us have much in terms of fluff of them! It mostly happens off-screen. Which is where fanfic steps in to satisfy that need ;]
lestat what do you think about depression and or mental illness?
♛I think they are very real and they cause suffering for those who carry them.
Depression is a familiar emotion for me. I saw it in my Nicolas and ignored the signs, thinking I could fill the void he carried within him because he meant absolutely everything to me. He might have even led me to believe I was helping him, but when he could no longer play along, well… that was the end of us.
I’ve known depression. I wouldn’t know if it’s the “normal” amount we’re meant to experience as opposed to the deeper kind Science has discovered; more to do with brain chemistry than anything else… but mine was a sludge that seeped out to greet me whenever I returned home as a mortal boy, to a family that ignored me at best, and physically beat me on a regular basis at worst. A terrible, sinking feeling.
I felt it when I found out about Nicolas’ death.
I felt it when my mother, my only companion, disappeared one night without leaving any way to contact her again.
I felt it when I looked into my daughter’s crystal blue eyes and no longer recognized her.
I felt it when I had been essentially murdered and left for dead. More than once. Physically and psychologically broken, cocooned in a derelict old shelter, barely able to feed, embracing the dust and the moldy floorboards for months at a time. Self-imposed solitary confinement. Prisoners at least have their meals delivered to them.
The road to recovery from all those and more has not been easy. I am still drawn back down that spiral by a phantom Vaudeville hook, always hovering just off-stage for me. Being alone, well, no one can hurt you, no one can leave you. So I understand those who choose to suffer alone.
I’m doing well now. Others in the coven tease me for my materialistic ways, and yes, this is a new pair of sunglasses. It’s less about the ownership of things and more about the ease in going out and interacting with the salespeople, the moving men, the accountants. Being out there amongst people.
Being there when Louis wants to curl up on the Italian silk couch with me under a cashmere throw. The flat screen showing us so much detail that it’s as though we truly are outside in a gondola at the magic hour, when the sunlight slants in diagonally. The waters are blue.
Life, in almost any form, is worth living, as bad as it can seem. It’s worth the effort.
Drawing more scenes that I like from Tale of the Body Thief.
I love how Mojo and Lestat connect instantly, such a good puppy. Also, learning that Louis would come over to Lestat’s for movie watching sessions is… Delicious, hahahah.
This is almost a sequence:
Lestat: hoe don’t do it-
Louis: *knocks over the candles*
Lestat: *as the fire spreads* oh my god
Such chemistry. Wow. [X]
#the resemblance is uncanny
#seriously tho Louis #that is a TON of fabric #and this is the yearround heat of New Orleans #plus the humidity of a swamp #so there is NO WAY you are cold enough to need to do this w/ your cape #and no that is not going to protect your clothes from getting gross #IN A SWAMP #as if u cared about that anyway #youre just upset that you just got steamrolled into helping dispose of the body #of someone you had alot of feelings for #positive and negative #a murder you condoned with your passivity #NICE JOB COPARENTING THERE. #as pixellated as this image is you can see that Louis is 110% DONE #frack #”is this swamp big enough for two?” #”I should follow Lestat’s desiccated corpse” #you know what Nah
Louis confesses his true feelings towards Lestat. [X]
I-want-my-IWTV 