This very much did brighten my day! You did well for our fandom ❤
The tsunami of fresh blood in our fandom is just, so heartwarming. I’m loving the fanart, the cosplay, there’s plenty of new fic, it’s awesome. Netflix has IWTV and QOTD up, so I think some ppl are seeing it there for the first time, there’s also the new book recently out…
I dug around in my memes for something special to give you for leading those two young twenty-somethings dressed in elegant business casual to the books, and this doesn’t entirely match up, but it spoke to me as wanting to be posted in response, so have this!:
As some of you may know, next Tuesday (that would be October 2nd), the new volume of The Vampire Chronicles is unleashed upon the world: Blood Communion.
This, of course, means that means on that day, I am reading the whole thing and liveblogging it. Hence the warning, as some of you may want to spare yourselves. I’ll tag all of the entries with “Blood Communion” for ease of blacklisting.
Let us all pray that this book is heavy on the Lestat/Louis relationship drama (I want wedding planning and Lestat being a huge bridezilla, you have NO IDEA how much I want that), and very, very light on Replimoids and space birds.
WARNING WARNING WARNING! Tomorrow is THREAT LEVEL: LESTAT day; with the exceptions of linking to the new Gothic Charm School post and whatever is in my queue, tomorrow is liveblogging Blood Communion. All of the liveblog posts will be tagged “Blood Communion”, so peeps who don’t want my probably incredulous reactions to vampire hijinks can nope out.
Do peeps want me to put plot elements behind Read More? Do any of you care about being spoiled for this book?
#Perfect gif is perfect
^Agreed to all of the above! Read more cuts are great!
I can’t liveblog it but I will share my thoughts as soon as I can. Can’t wait to see if ppl like it, so far, from what I heard of ppl who’ve gotten hold of advance reader copies, it’s gonna be a crowd-pleaser ❤
♫Put that thing back where it came from or so help me… so help me, so help me♫ – and CUT. We’re still working on it… it’s a work in progress but, hey, we need ushers!
Hello @veridian-stealth, thanks for being a long time follower! I admit I haven’t absorbed enough of canon sufficient to say I’m the most knowledgeable source, but I do what I can ^______^
I love the idea of your starting & ending high school drama club
with a VC quote, good closure there. Which did you start with?
I skimmed the first 2 books, and this is already a long post with only putting 5 in, bc these are the ones that jumped out at me. They’re small windows into evocative scenes. Things that I can see an actor giving to an audience, pieces that might be able to stand on their own apart from the rest of the fabric of VC.
TBH I can’t remember many monologues that really stood out for me in the rest of canon, but anyone is welcome to reblog/comment and add ones that they would suggest to you 😉 Let us know which you pick, share a video even!
No cuts bc I don’t think this is spoilery.
In order of canon appearance:
-> IWTV:
1) Louis talks about Paul and his death. I edited it down somewhat and took out Daniel’s dialogue but you should probably do it better than I did.
2) Lestat’s “Evil is a point of view” monologue, that would take a lot of editing, but if you want to take a stab at it, go for it! But keep in mind, the last bit is recognizable from movie!IWTV, and ppl will probably compare your performance to Cruise!Lestat. I also don’t think it ends on the best line, so yeah… with edits it could work and be vampiry. I’ve always loved this first para to it.
3) Armand re: inflexible minded vampires. This is really short but I’ve always loved this passage (BTW there’s a bunch of typos in my PDF of this, so you’ll have to check with a better copy).
-> TVL:
4) Lestat’s mercy kill, this might be my fave of these. You might want to give a little context, maybe add more about when he got back home and his brother accused him of making it up.
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