It’s Armand and it’s actually canonand one of my favorite parts to visualize in QotD(although it’s honky-tonk not ragtime, but their styles are related) I mean, just imagine Daniel waking up to that, looking completely DONE.
Queen of the Damned, page 88
It’s update time! You were right
@i-want-my-iwtv in your assumption that Lestat would love it.
Now go ahead and imagine them dancing to these tunes.
#IT GOT BETTER
Thanks for the update, @luthi69! If anyone is in a bad mood, just TRY and keep that mood with this bouncy happy music on, JUST TRY.
And now I AM imagining Lestat, Daniel, and Armand paying a jazz band to play this all night at a club in NOLA, dancing to it w/ people and having such a good time ❤
oscar wilde was literally the coolest guy who ever lived
master of sass
HE WAS BISEXUAL. We get to claim the sass master.
NO YOU REALLY JUST Oscar Wilde lived in the VICTORIAN ERA He was a really controversial guy. He hated his society. He also went to jail and destroyed his career because he was in a gay relationship with a Lord. He was a badass. To be honest
His last words were “either the wall paper goes or I do”
Oscar Wilde IS Lestat
#TRUTH
Friendly reminder that Oscar Wilde changed his name to Sebastian Melmoth when he went into exile and that is one of Lestat’s aliases (extract from the Tale of the Body Thief, page 81)
Oh god
YOU KIDDING! O_O Lestat you clever bastard! 😀
::whispers:: it got better
Forgot to mention it was the name Wilde adopted after his exile for homosexuality (extract from The Vampire Companion, page 266)
@luthi69 asked about dream cast for Santino and I have to admit that I don’t remember his story well enough to have a clear picture!
I did recently reread QOTD and he’s in there as part of the Council to Try to Change Power Feminist Akasha’s the Queen’s Brilliant SJW Plan for World Peace. He and Armand represent the Ex-Coven Master Division.
^YUM. I see him as dark, brooding, maybe even w/ facial hair (I don’t remember if it was specified that he has it or not but dammit I want some vampires with at least the OPTION), well-muscled and broad-shouldered and/or nice pecs *u*
Does anyone follow AR on FB who knows if she’s mentioned anyone she might like? I don’t always agree with her reccs on this topic, tho. She wanted Matthew Bomer for Louis and I just can’t agree. Yes, he looks great in a suit, and he’s cute and all, but he’s too manly, he has a kind of ballsy confidence that’s overshooting Louis.
i-want-my-iwtv So, back in 2010 she named Simon Woods for Armand (and Matthew MacFadyen for Marius, along with Richard Armitage for Lestat and Matt Bomer for Louis, god help us).
Here’s Simon Woods and Matthew MacFadyen (yes, yes, we are talking Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy lol)…
But can we please talk about Armand’s
(actually Andrei’s) Monastery of the Caves because it’s a real place!
Kiev Pechersk Lavra also
known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kiev. It was created in the early 11th century by an Orthodoxmonk named Anthony. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that
overlooked the Dnieper River. The Kiev Pechersk Lavra caverns are a very
complex system of narrow underground corridors (about 1-1½ metres wide and 2-2½ metres high), along with
numerous living quarters and underground chapels.
Even
found a small interview with one of the actual modern monks, who said “The monk is actually a person who,
ideally, should not face the world for he is constantly talking to God. Therefore, he goes underground, he buries himself
alive by digging his own grave – that is, his cell. And when the real death comes, the
cave takes his body for perpetual storage. Therefore,
every cave monastery is a kind of underground necropolis”.
I honestly have no idea how I’ve never researched this, but I finally have a visual and detailed reference and I’m SO happy.
Я в шоке – “подземный некрополь”, пещеры – могилы, хоронить себя заживо (пусть даже и в переносном смысле) – ШО ЗА БРЕХНЯ???!!!И где это откопали, простите за сарказм, такого монаха? Ну да ладно, сохраню чисто для истории. Покажу знатокам, пусть оценят.
But can we please talk about Armand’s
(actually Andrei’s) Monastery of the Caves because it’s a real place!
Kiev Pechersk Lavra also
known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kiev. It was created in the early 11th century by an Orthodoxmonk named Anthony. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that
overlooked the Dnieper River. The Kiev Pechersk Lavra caverns are a very
complex system of narrow underground corridors (about 1-1½ metres wide and 2-2½ metres high), along with
numerous living quarters and underground chapels.
Even
found a small interview with one of the actual modern monks, who said “The monk is actually a person who,
ideally, should not face the world for he is constantly talking to God. Therefore, he goes underground, he buries himself
alive by digging his own grave – that is, his cell. And when the real death comes, the
cave takes his body for perpetual storage. Therefore,
every cave monastery is a kind of an underground necropolis”.
I honestly have no idea how I’ve never researched this, but I finally have a visual and detailed reference and I’m SO happy.
My hat is off to you. This post is a brilliant, evocative piece of fandom research. The funny thing is that when I came to my dash and saw the photos I was thinking, OMG, SOMEONE FOUND SEVRAINE’S CAVES OF GOLD! and then… well, I’m floored!
It shows something that I hadn’t understood when I read Armand’s story: how the caves could seem safe, reassuring, even. How they could echo the womb in some way to one’s lizard brain, particularly for a kid who’s torn between two different ways of life and is told that this place will mean peace of a kind, rightness with God. Somehow I doubt there would’ve been so many candles back then, but any candlelight at all on walls of stone… I’d forgotten how it looks and feels, and somehow I’d always visualised the caves as having earthen walls, which of course makes no sense because they wouldn’t have stayed up!
When I find myself in times of trouble Father Louis come to me, speaking words of wisdom “You crazy, careless, flamboyant, vain monster, I don’t mean this to hurt you but I love you”. And he said all this in the space of 4 pages lol
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