What do I think about Amel… I have mixed feelings. On the one hand I find the idea of him in the earlier books and his role in the vampire origin story fascinating on a spiritual and physiological level, a cosmic accident being the reason for vampires is still, to my mind, a very unique take on that. I liked his interactions with mortals before he fused with Akasha, and I liked the idea of him as an intellectually dormant substance that bound all the vampires together.
^Later, when Amel became conscious, I also was intrigued by the concept of him riding along with one specific vampire but able to run around the web of them on visits. I wrote two fics post-PL in which Lestat deals with this.
A Brief Reprieve–After the events of Prince Lestat, Lestat reflects on certain aspects of his new spirit animal, snuggled up lovingly with Armand by a fire in winter. Slightly AU in that they are snuggled up together lovingly by a fire in winter!
Bad Connection–Daniel and Lestat are out on the town when Amel decides to join them. He is very much a painful third wheel, and Daniel has to help Lestat through the attack.
On the other hand, I struggle to buy Amel’s backstory according to PL&PLROA, and I didn’t personally need him to be more special than he already was, being a spirit and indefinable, with nebulous origins, that was fine for me. But more power to the ppl who liked his backstory!
I’ve only seen a few pieces of Amel fanart, but it exists! I’m about to reblog one but check my #Amel tag for the rest.
Anyone else have Amel fanart? Tag me or send the link over 😀
As asked by @i-want-my-iwtv, this is my second tattoo, in honor of Armand (if it wasn’t that obvious^^).
“If I’m an angel, paint me with black wings”
It took 7 hours for the first time, and 2 more hours a month later for retouching some parts.
I choose lace because Armand love Belgium Lace, and I do handmade lace.
Roses, because as these flowers, he is dangerous and beautiful.
The feather is more for me, because, I write, and draw a lot.
And the collar with the cameo and little red gemms is just a vampire Allegory.
I didn’t choose this words just because Armand said them. It’s more because of the echo they have in me.
Fun fact: my name is Morgane, and the artist who was tattooing me was named Merlin ^^
OH RIGHT I do remember this tatt, it’s lovely and I love your description of it so I’m slamming the reblog 💕
The quality isn’t that hot but this here’s the entire show (pssst download them just in case they gets taken down!):
Opening night on Broadway, NYC, version:
San Francisco version:
MOST PPL I’ve talked to say they prefer the SF version. I gotta watch the SF version bc I saw the NYC version and it was apparently stripped of alot of the awesome that the SF version had, sadly, and that’s one of the reasons ppl suggest for why it was so short-lived ;A; It was painful to watch. I remember one joke, Gabrielle to Lestat, smtg about childbirth.
@rookhart suggested I add this video “which has the actor who played Armand taking over the role of Lestat. He doesn’t look the part as much, but I’d suggest it if only for the fact that it’s later in the run, and they have Lestat’s transformation scene (and some other things) down much better, some really awesome stuff :)”
If anyone out there has a better quality vid, plz reblog and share w/ the class ^,….,^
Ya might also like my #Lestat the Musical tag, which has costume designs and fanart and stuff specific to the musical.
I tried a colored version, not good as I wish. But, well… I know that I need practicing ^^ I’ll try a version on tablet too, when I’ll have time, and moral for it. Hope you’ll like it anyway!
OMG LOOK AT THIS… @morganeskylar shared this w/ me. Dark Love has these deliciously goth chocolate collections at reasonable prices, no less.
EDIT: September 22, 2018: People have been cutting off the original caption which has the link to buy these, and then later reblogs accuse OP of not having the link! So I edited the original post so the link is above the caption, AND to include Dark Love’s NEW OFFERING: the Undead collection!
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I bought the original set and they were delicious, a coven party in my mouth, A++++ highly recommend.
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