obsessional-ram:

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tasty fans i don’t know that sounds like a good catchphrase

oh and heres a colored version of lestat

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again, am i kicked out of the fandom yet

You’ll have to try MUCH HARDER to be kicked out the fandom now that we are aware of your artistic skill. You’re a gift to us. So sayeth Uncle Lestan.

PS. I approve of this “Tasty fans” catchphrase, yes, good. 

PPS. If you are about to accuse moi of taking up too much space avec my autograph, I say this: she asked for it One must adequately mark one’s property or it may be stolen. It’s happened too many damned times. ARMAND I’M LOOKING AT U I SWEAR TO GOD HAD I TATTOOED MY NAME ACROSS LOUIS’ CHEST BEFORE I TURNED HIM…

HEADCANON TIME!! ! ! ! ! ! AGGRESSIVE HEADCANON TIME ! ! !!!

i-want-my-iwtv:

faceofabotticelliangel:

monsieur-le-rockstar:

OKAY OKAY 

so magnus stole the blood from an unnamed vampire three hundred years or so before he made lestat right? right. SOOOOOO SOO SOS OSOSOS  HE KNEW VAMPIRES WERE A REAL THING SO ODOSOOSOSOS?? ?? WHAT IF! !!?!!? WHAT IF HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE TALAMASCA!!!!!>!»!>!> 

LIKE

WGHAT IF!!V ! !

I like how this stemmed off wantingvto watch The Princess Bride

But oui it makes sense since he was an alchemist and somehow knew enough about vampires then to keep one captive and take their blood to transform them )

I HAD THIS VERY THOUGHT, TOO. Was Magnus in any other book than TVL, which explains more about him? I don’t remember. 

I would imagine Lestat loves the Princess Bride so much that he’s memorized the lines and will parrot them theatrically during the movie. And he makes Louis speak all of Buttercup’s lines, which Louis will do, as deadpan as possible. 

^ Just want to point out that this headcanon was posted around Nov. 3, 2013. And then in Prince Lestat… spoiler under cut:

WE FIND OUT THAT THE TALAMASCA IS BASICALLY RUN BY VAMPIRES.

*sighs dreamily* My hero *heart eyes, motherfucker*

*hugs tightly* you’re very welcome! I aim to please ^3^ /

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With great graphics power comes great responsibility. 

No but really I have the VC fandom to thank for my current (and evolving) graphic skill set, bc I saw gifs that I felt like I could do better, so I learned how to make gifs! Truly, my graphics skills have improved immensely just having this blog and being encouraged by ppl like you to keep improving and learning how to achieve better graphics! So I definitely hearteyes you all back, motherfuckers ❤

TAG YER SPOILERS KTHNXBAI

monsieur-le-rockstar:

Okay, so we’re about to face an important day and I’d like to say rock and roll we’ve made it, the impossible is now possible!! Anne said she would never write another vampire chronicles book but here we are!! This is a very exciting time for all of us and honestly, I couldn’t be happier about it. But let us not forget to TAG OUR SPOILERS for those who don’t have access to it as soon as they would like to. I myself am having trouble with my account so I’m not going to be able to get it until about a week or two after it comes out, and I won’t be on tumblr because of spoilers that I know will happen. So that being said, feel free to leave my lestat messages about the book if you want, or me, or if you just need to holy shit about it! Feel free!

But like I said, be courteous, tag your spoilers along the lines of #princelestatspoilers, and don’t forget to put your discussions under a readmore. This is a very exciting time for all of us and we all want the same experience of surprise and adventure without the ending or plot being spoiled.

Thanks friends!

^AGREED. Please tag your spoilers, y’all. #princelestatspoilers is a good tag… I’ll be using that and plain old #spoiler.

What are some of your favorite Lestat facts and head canons? (Book and IWTV movie versions)

Are you the same Anon who asked me this a month ago? Why ask me when there are perfectly wonderful Lestat RPers who have full writeups about him, as well? I’ve listed them again at the end of this post.

I have alot of headcanons, and really, these are the seeds for fic/RPs. Headcanons come from canon, author interviews, and fanfic/RP. When they come from fanfic/RP, it’s ideas that fans have developed to answer the gaps left in canon, so they’re kind of preciously guarded until they are written into fic and released that way. 

Go to my headcanon accepted tag for headcanons of others that I’ve agreed with ;] but gdi you twisted my arm, so here’s a little peek into my own headcanons… in general strokes. I wouldn’t say favorites. Just ideas that are floating around, begging to be written as fic. They apply to book!Lestat more than movie!Lestat, I guess.

  • Lestat’s birthday is November 7. This is undisputed. He always acts like he couldn’t care less, but if nothing happens that night, he’s wildly offended and can sulk for weeks or more afterwards. So Louis has calendar reminders far in advance so he can arrange an appropriately decadent outing/event/gift of some kind.
  • What do you get the man who has everything and can do anything? Experiences. Everyone in Lestat’s inner circle try to set aside the norm in order to try to give him a unique thrill for his birthday. More often than not they just decide to give him what he wants in the bedroom 😉
  • Lestat knows the date that he was turned and does not celebrate it, but spends it in service to others somehow; being kept busy for that entire night is especially important. He does not like to be in France on that night. 
  • Lestat will lapse into paralysis when overcome with emotion, and Louis is the best at drawing him back out of it, with gentle touches and soothing words, or a little blood-dipped kiss, but even he usually just has to wait until Lestat resurfaces on his own. Sometimes Lestat is not himself if he’s “woken up” from it and it’s jarring to watch.
  • Lestat is a believer in Retail Therapy and has bought things immediately after or during an argument (even something as simple as a pair of shades at a gas station) in order to regain control of his emotions. It’s partly because he enjoys the whole exchange he has with the retail person.
  • Lestat had time to know his little sister, and mourned her loss, but didn’t write about it, ever, because it was too painful. She died young, she didn’t have enough hand-eye coordination developed yet to learn to hunt with him, but he wanted that for her so badly, and Gabrielle would have allowed it. 
  • Lestat has a recent foot fetish. About his own feet. He can spend hours in a CVS picking out nail colors and he paints his toenails himself. He has 3 shoeboxes full of colors and glitters. Louis dislikes the smell, so Lestat will do it in the courtyard and wait until dry before showing off his artwork. 
  • Lestat used to paint Claudia’s little fingernails. He did all sorts of girly activities with her, since it was difficult to find any children her age to befriend her.

Lestat RPers I’ve seen and enjoy watching (in no special order): askthebratprinceeternallyfabulousbratlestatmonsieur-le-rockstarmaestrolestatgorgeous-fiendprincelestatprimusduxasavagegardenindeedlestattheonetruepope, mortcharmant

I’m also tagging viaticumforthemarquise, who, as his mother, has her own headcanons about her son. 

And merciful-death, who, as his #1 bitch, has his own headcanons about his maker.

What do you think would happen if a vampire got a tattoo? Would it stay?

Well first of all, there are so many kinds of vampires to consider, all different interpretations, different physiologies, blah blah… my immediate thought is that 30 Days of Night vampires could have tattoos from before they were turned that would endure, and same for The Lost Boys vampires, and further, I think The Lost Boys vampires could get permanent tattoos after being turned, too. I don’t think we ever see if they do, that’d be a question for skeletalroses (Can you speak to that?).

RICEAN vampires are my fave (of course)(this being a Vampire Chronicles blog) so I’ll just focus on them.

So I don’t remember, but I think one of the Fang Gang dudes from QotD had tattoos… 

As far as my opinion tho… I think they CAN GET a tattoo because they can be pierced with needles and such (especially when they’re allowing themselves to be cut/pierced) but it wouldn’t stay too long. The ink would probably be rejected by their system the same way alcohol and drugs swim around, affecting them temporarily, but evaporate eventually. 

So they could get a tattoo and it might last a night or so. Think of the terrible tatts Lestat could get! Cheesy “MOM” hearts, or “Born to be Wild” for example. We could keep going. They would all be out-of-touch trying-to-be-cool things that he would torture Louis with. Even face tattoos, like the one in the Hangover

Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages was Aging-Brunet-Mortal!Lestat. Just look at this dude. Crucifix on the forearm, pistols on the waistband-area… a dragon curling around a pec, batwings on his back… ugh my heart.

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Advice for VC fandom newbies?

i-want-my-iwtv:

advice? ADVICE? Um, wowww… so I usually have strong opinions on ALOT of things, especially VC-related, but this sort of knocked me speechless. For about a minute. Then I wanted to write a thesis on the subject but managed to keep it to this much.

I would suggest that:

  • If you want to RP as one of the characters, or an OC, you really have to read at least the first 3 books. And lots of fanfiction 😉
  • We have awesome fanfiction and AO3 aims to protect it.
  • Did I mention the fanfiction? It fills in the gaps that canon leaves. And it’s also just delishus.
  • The RPers on here are SO fun to follow. Try finding some in the vcdirectory or the vcdirectoryold (I don’t know the difference, but hey, go investigate!)
  • With the canon: you should have an open mind to Crazy Shit Happening

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  • DUE to the Crazy Shit that Happens later in the series, you are not required to consider it all canon 😉 Alot of people don’t consider books 5-10 to be canon. Or 4-10. Or wherever they want to draw the line. That is FINE.
  • Brace yourself, because Prince Lestat is coming. No, not like that, you filthy thing! ARRIVING. 10/28/14. And, depending on its crackiness, there is going to be a divide between people who consider it to be canon and people who do not, and that is FINE. 
  • There’s a divide between People of the Page and People Off the Page, described here.
  • In general the People Off the Page are a low-drama fandom, but we do have our spats, even the illustrious human behind i-want-my-iwtv has experienced a few direct situations, and that’s just life, bc people are people, after all. I’ve accepted my share of the fault in these situations and learned from the experiences. I’m not perfect, nobody is :-

The bottom line is that it’s a fandom that only in the past year or so has really come back to life, we were in hiding bc Anne Rice disapproved of fanfic and waged war on us in the 90’s for it. Now that she seems to have lowered her weapons about that, and even praised some VC fanart – permanentglitter for example! – and with the announcement in March of the new book, well, we’re all coming out into the light and making friends and it’s been wonderful!  

I hope you see this, Anon, because we all know there’s a human behind that gray face, too, and I want to personally welcome you and anyone who’s just joining us now… we are a different kind of vampire fandom, that’s for sure. 

monsieur-le-rockstar said: Prince Lestat is coming. No, not like that, you filthy thing! HEY MAN MAYBE HE”S COMING

I stand – possibly – corrected. I can’t speak to Lestat’s current whereabouts or bodily functions.