❝ You whining coward of a vampire who prowls the night killing alley cats and rats and staring for hours at candles as if they were people and standing in the rain like a zombie until your clothes are drenched and you smell like old wardrobe trunks in attics and have the look of a baffled idiot at the zoo.❞
“merciful-death’s Louis is definitely one of the best portrayals I have seen of him to date. their interactions with other roleplayers {especially Lestat blogs} are absolutely perfect, and absolutely in character! might even be Louis in disguise, you never know.”
ooc; You guys are way too kind to me. ;; Thank you.
I think some ppl have forgotten how to fandom or never knew, it’s not like there’s a manual of etiquette. That’s the short answer. And hasn’t this all been said in infinite variations?
Isn’t fandom about making/keeping friends who can revel in your deepest desires with you? Who can respect the fantasy world you want to live in, and go there with you?
Unfortunately, thanks to Tumblrland Hyperbole™ – which seems to have escalated exponentially in the past year – there are now:
Winner-take-all SJW attitudes about one-up-man-ship (”YOU ARE SO WRONG ABOUT YOUR HEADCANON AND IT OFFENDS ME GRRRR”; you can respectfully disagree, but do you need to take every opinion posted on someone else’s blog as a chance to soapbox?), or
Unnecessary competitions for popularity (”THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE RPer FOR THIS CANON CHARACTER”; no, they’re fictional, the internet is big enough for everyone to play with them, too).
There’s a daily parade of Real Life ppl who call us “creepy” for loving vampires, robots, thawed-out super soldiers, billionaire playboy philanthropists, aliens, women warriors, etc.
I’ve been called “creepy” at work. I tend to wear alot of black bc I don’t want to spend alot of money on work clothes, and sometimes I let my “macabre” interests slip out, seeking to make a connection; I shared a picture of Halloween makeup (Redditor Specialxk’s zombie walk face-and-throat trompe l’oeil makeup job) with someone at work I thought might be as impressed at the artistic skill as I was, and that person still won’t talk to me, some 3 weeks later.
Fandom, for me, is about making/keeping friends who can – and want to! – revel in our deepest desires, who can – and want to! – respect the fantasy world we want to live in, and go there together!
Specifically, currently, there are ppl in the fandom who seem to thrive on drama, and I considered answering this privately bc I don’t want to encourage it, but I’m going to take this as an opportunity to pay tribute to the one – yet another among MANY over the past several years that I’ve witnessed – who’s been pushed out because of it.
I don’t know what their public participation will be like in the future, I for one hope that the mun will take time off, and the fandom can collectively welcome them back, or the fandom can fracture, and let those who want to fandom with the mun do so, and those don’t should ignore ppl they don’t like, and invest the time and effort spent anonhating in more positive ways.
It seems like we’ve lost another RPer (merciful-death-archive), and what’s especially sad is that this RPer had been active for 3+ yrs, responding #ic and #ooc to all kinds of fandom topics, and these responses were often so well done that the mun was often complimented as sounding like the canon character! For their writing and all the mun did to encourage building friendships and welcome new people into the fandom, bringing ppl together to squee and critique and all the fun stuff we like to do about this series and its characters, this RPer was nominated as the fandom “Mom” figure, and it stuck.
This RPer was popular. Maybe it was the mun’s popularity that drove a group of ppl to try, time and time again, to tear the mun down with anonhate. They have their reasons. Supporters of the mun rallied time and time again to try to solve the issues as they arose, both privately and publicly, with little success, although there were periods when the anonhate tapered off.
This RPer was greatly appreciated by the fans in fandom who want to participate and actually make friends, isn’t that what fandom is about? The mun was someone who tried to promote building relationships in fandom, through fandom positivity. With the positivity blog, they did it anonymously, on their own time, spending tireless unpaid hours on it, so it wasn’t for self-promotion. It was for actual love of the fandom and the ppl in it who make it worth the effort by giving that love back through responses and fanworks.
We’ll miss merciful-death-archive, and I for one will welcome the mun (and all who have been pushed out) back when/if they are ready to return.
He collects books, obviously. Tons and tons of books, and he particularly likes finding first editions of classics. He knows where all of his favorites are around the house, even if they’re in some random drawer or placed under a pillow somewhere. He’s not tidy at all and, as I mentioned a few days ago in a headcanon post, he had a tendency to leave a trail of his stuff behind him when he gets up or leaves.
Besides books, he loves office supplies. A lot. He’s got dozens of notebooks that he’s never written in, and more nice, smooth-writing pens than he can remember. He constantly buys new things because he actually can’t remember where he put that-notebook-he-bought-last-week.
He also hoards various knick-knacks that he finds in stores that he thinks are pretty/useful/whatever. They end up everywhere.
Wrath: a headcanon about your character and their anger management
ooc; Louis is super passive aggressive. He’s very pretentious and always tries to keep up this courteous image, so when he doesn’t like someone, he very rarely comes out with it. He’s more likely to just make subtle hints at the fact that he dislikes/is angry at someone, particularly with people he’s not super invested in.
He generally lets his anger exist on a slow simmer below the surface, but Lestat’s an exception. Lestat can work him up very fast, and while he’ll play the passive aggressive game with him as well (ie: responding to texts with just smiley faces or one-worded replies, ignoring him around the house), he also has no problem speaking his mind to him. He loves when Lestat asks him if he’s angry of if something is wrong, since it gives him an excuse to go off, if it’s a non-major issue. If it’s something he’s really peeved about, he has no issue skipping the passive aggression and just going for gold. Their fights can be really explosive.
He doesn’t get in a rage very often, but when he’s really angry, he’s very quiet, cold, and calculating. He will ruin you lol. Probably in a fire.
//OOC: Yeah, so here’s actual the question I asked on Facebook AND the response, for those interested, since there’s a version going around without the question. Never actually asked about sex just the depth of the relationship, but Anne does usually throw that in during ship questions. (I still apply fanon logic since Ursula banged Vittorio in his book. Discrepancies, love it for fic and RP reasons.)
Yeah.. well, we all read PL, right? In this book EVERYONE loves EVERYONE and EVERYTHING in EVERY moment EVER mentioned! So yeah, of course that Marius loves Daniel. It does not confirm anything.
And sex. Didn’t Lestat say in QOTD that his johnson was like priapus ready for something that could never been performed anymore? Not with pleaure that is. So, well, technically, penetration is possible…but orgasm through that? Nah…
merciful-death said: ooc; Didn’t post the full question because I didn’t want to show disrespect by posting your real name on Tumblr. I apologize.
Yeah, I’d have done the same, Merciful “D”. 😉
//OOC: It was never explicitly stated in PL that Daniel reciprocated feelings for Marius, which is why I asked. With Anne’s response, now we know. Again, the point of this question was the ship, not sex, but the fandom seems incapable of enjoying the happy parts of anything without someone having a fit.
The Vampire Chronicles: If you shipped it, it was or will be canon at some point. The ship whore’s delight.
I imagine Louis walking through, say the airport, and people stopping and turning to gawp, mouths open, drooling. Lestat catches up and says “All I have to do to find you, Louis is follow the pools of drool…”
#HEADCANON ACCEPTED.
Louis’ ass has hypnotizing effects, it’s part of his unconscious Mesmerizing Gift, teee heeee *u*
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