I’m really grateful you came back and saw this! I never know if anons will ever see their ask answered, and I always hope that they do. No worries at all, I spend time when it’s something that I care deeply about, and apparently I care deeply about soul-searching why I can’t answer certain things, hahaha…
Come off anon, let me love you, you fanged little trash kitten! ❤
(psssst: Ask me about specific characters in specific parts of canon, that’s much easier to answer!)
So what, are you planning on becoming a boring old fart with no hobbies or interests? Without us “old people” you wouldn’t even know what fanfiction is.
hoooooly balls
no offence to young talents (and i use this word for a reason – young writers might surely have talent, but not experience) but i’d like to see anon enjoy a fandom where all the fic was produced strictly by 15 yr olds
and the irony of this being a reaction to a post/piece of history that clearly shows who are the people that kickstarted fandom as we know it today.. wow
At lease in our fandom, we treat many of the older works and writers with the utmost respect. Older works had to survive through wars on fanfic and fanart just to be around for the younger ppl to enjoy.
With age comes experience and talent can be found in younger ppl but it can also be accrued over time. You should appreciate your fandom elders and their contributions. Many of us DO have lives, outside of fandom, and we have limited time to continue to share accrued gifts with you, in the form of fanart, fanfic, meta, etc.
Fandom is like any other hobby, what makes it more or less worthwhile than any other for an older fan to continue? I’ve loved swimming since I was a little kid GUESS I BETTER STOP now that I’m in my 30s?
First of all thank you for such a lovely compliment! THAT MEANS ALOT AND YOU MEAN ALOT.
I made this the blog I wanted to find when I was looking for VC fandom action. People like you who follow it and love it and tell me so, you give me life.
*cries a little bc of the feels*
AHEM okay, *straightens up* so, as far as VC casting, I was asked this awhile back and I still haven’t been able to answer, and couldn’t figure out why I was feeling speechless about it. That’s why I’m attempting to answer now, with this “I can’t answer!” answer. Why not? Why can’t I seem to motivate myself to do a full VC cast when it would be a fun thing to attempt?? After some introspection…
Short answer is:
When you say ALL, there are so many characters to consider I get overwhelmed,
I have a relatively open mind, which means I might consider ppl who may not “look the part,”**
And there are ppl from different eras who are too old now who I WOULD HAVE WANTED SO MUCH.
I prefer fanart of the characters over a lot of the current actors available. Check my #fave tag for my faves ^_____^
(**After all, AR was vociferous about Tom Cruise not “looking the part” but then when she saw his performance she praised him to high heaven; showing us all that it’s somewhat unfair not to give an actor the chance to prove his craft, that he’s more than his physical attributes.
Really phenomenal acting transcends physical appearance, it can even alter physical appearance within one scene.
Also isn’t that Hamilton Musical doing great w/ race-swapped characters? So that’s another consideration, too.)
That’s the abridged gist of it :- so check my #vc castingtag, it has a wide variety of character options to peruse (some were submitted or suggested to me, some I’ve offered up for consideration) and my opinions about them *u*
Hit the jump for the long-windier reasons why “I can’t answer!”
1 – There are TONS of characters in VC, I mean, do you want to go into minor characters, as far as like, that mortal Emily who was already dead in IWTV, killed by that zombie vampire, and her bereft spouse/fiancé/boyfriend Morgan (I think that was his name, can’t check rn)? Arjun? Is he a minor character? Not in Pandora’s book, but he’s hardly sketched out in Blood and Gold.
There are a lot of characters and honestly if I were to do a post like that, I would want to be very thorough, with notes backing my reasons, it would be a REALLY long post, possibly need to be done in several parts, it would take hours, and it would probably be met with like 5 likes, 2 reblogs, and possibly a bunch of disagreement 😦
While I don’t post things For the Notes, when I’m going to invest a good chunk of my time in a fandom Thing, I do it for something I can’t resist doing bc I care about it deeply, or it’s for someone I know specifically, or it’s something hilarious that I have a pretty good feeling will amuse my kind of people.
I did this long post about casting Rose de Lioncourt, and it got 16 notes, so it seeeeems like ppl didn’t really care enough about her, and it took me at least an hour to put that together, it was basically a labor of love from me since I cared about it deeply enough. *shrugs*
VC casting is fun to discuss but bc we had such a terrible experience with QOTD, and there’s been little news of another adaptation, it’s hard to get REALLY excited about ;n;
2 – So as I said, I’m really generous with actors, so I have trouble picking just ONE per role, I would need them to screentest!
It also depends on their combinations with other actors and which story the director has chosen to tell. For example, whoever is cast as Louis has to work well with be really gay with whoever is cast as Lestat *u* BUT they have a very different relationship in IWTV than they do in TOBT.
Same goes for casting someone like Armand, if we’re telling the story of TVA, the actor will need to be able to show the evolution from mortal to vampire, and a lot of other major changes in his life and unlife. But if it’s QOTD, it’s not Armand’s story specifically, but his role is more about his relationship with Daniel. That affects the casting choice.
3 – A lot of singers from the 90’s, or 80’s, or even earlier, would make fantastic Lestats.
I would hope that the next VC movie shows Lestat as Monsieur Le Rockstar, if not on stage, at least working something out privately at home, and actually singing lyrics that are not terrible, lol. I would want a Lestat who can sing, since it’s such a huge part of his identity as a performer.
Also, that Björn Andrésen is pretty much my purest headcanon for Armand, but alas, that actor is 61 now ;A;
With actors who are too old, we can use them as a point of inspiration, casting agents probably take kid!pics of adult actors in order to find a point of inspiration when they need to cast the child version of those actors in films.
4 – The fanart in our fandom is incredible. So much of it! We are spoiled with so many fandom treasures in our fanartist collection. We have hilarious fanartists, serious ones, all flavors. Check my #fave tag for my faves ^_____^
At least some of our fandom collectively lost our shit when Rock of Ages came out and tbh this is one of the best uses of publicity from that film, behold: Lestat on Rolling Stone’s cover.by LilithMF
July♥ 414 (the generator missed this one! I had to add it in myself)
Louis is Mostly Straight. While not as successful as the Bob’s Burgers x IWTV from June, it’s a longer scene and was still fun to make.
Y’know I don’t have the time to go around checking sources, so idk if I believe you. It might be his quote. Might not.
Even if it isn’t him, it’s a lovely image and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands.
A 2011 GoodReads discussion board also noticed Tiffany’s comment, and pointed out, “Tiffany’s post was from July [2011] while all the posts that mention Rickman with [the quote] weren’t until a couple of weeks ago [in 2011].”
I think he would have agreed with such a sentiment.
So for future reference: if you’re going to correct anyone’s post re: the source or any other reason, YOU do the homework first, and YOU provide the link, k? That’s only fair 😉
{I assume this is a question for the mun and not the muse bc of obv. reasons}
Both, both is good! All the cake and pie!
^I saw this doge in NOLA and he is very much alive, just playing dead drunk. This is me after like one slice of cake and/or pie, too.
[I am not a foodie but I have a very serious sweet tooth bc ‘MURICA. Dark chocolate bars are my fave. 2nd is white chocolate. White chocolate kitkat bars omg… Milk chocolate is kinda boring to me but I do like M&Ms and Reese’s cups. Mint choc. chip ice-cream is a real guilty pleasure *drools*]
My RL best friend is a foodie and she is gonna laugh her ass off at my vivid display of foodieism below but OH WELL.
If I had to choose, the Oreo pie at the Court of the Two Sisters in NOLA one of my absolute faves, and it is very cake-like. I wish I had a pic but I generally just do not take pics of my food so i guess i will have to go back there! While I love a slab of NYC cheesecake, after the first few bites, I need help finishing it bc it’s so homogeneous. The Oreo pie has all the stuff I like best: cream filling, crumbly dark chocolate, vanilla, various textures.
Best pie I ever had was apple pie in the middle of nowhere in Arizona. With a big scoop of melty vanilla bean ice-cream. The apples inside still had a little bite to them, and they floated in the yummy congealed filling. Flaky toasted crust. It was pretty awesome. But then again we were starving, so it might have been the old “Hunger is the best sauce” effect 😉
Plus, there is a fic floating around out there that mentions this specific type of NOLA pastry, called the “King Cake,” and henceforth Lestat has the nickname “Babycakes.”
@krist0pher: Yep, that’s what I was going for at the time that I made that BG! But now that this thing has evolved, the look should, too ^_____^
@eibhlis97: Well it’s good to know it comes across like that!
Color changing omg… Silver! Gray! Blue! Violet! his eyes absorb the colors around him that would be like dazzling iridescent, impossible to capture with our human technology.
Anon: Yes, good idea… I’ve seen some RPers use that style. Very VC 😉
I wanna revamp (pun intended ^,…,^) this blog. It’s been long enough. I’m open to suggestions. What do you want to see here? For one thing, the blood-spattered wall BG is GOING. I am finally sick of the sight of it.
Questions:
Thank you to the Anon who suggested a different kind of BG, yes, I will look into that style!
Should my banner image change regularly? I was thinking of putting featured fanart (with permission from the artist, of course) up there. Change it once a month maybe.
Gonna have a VC New News link. It will have all the posts I post/reblog for VC News like when they tease us about new adaptations and such.
I want to have a VC Old News link with articles about IWTV when it came out. Vintage stuff! I want you guys to inform me of those when you come across them. I have an article from Vanity Fair (I think) from around that time in which Tom lets the interviewer talk to him ic as Lestat. Gotta share that. Kinda wanted to transcribe it first bc it is low-res and REALLY hard to read.
I am rambling at this point…
Should I have a link for VC merch made by us, for us? Like the VC-inspired teas, that kind of thing.
I wanna revamp (pun intended ^,…,^) this blog. It’s been long enough. I’m open to suggestions. What do you want to see here? For one thing, the blood-spattered wall BG is GOING. I am finally sick of the sight of it.
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