Messages like this make it all worth it *u* I’m always honored that people want my opinion, and I do really try to support it with canon or fanon.
Of course, #your headcanon may vary, and #ship and let ship. I know some ppl are very defensive of their headcanons, so always take my opinions as that – MY opinions. If you want to accept some headcanons, cool, if not, also cool ;]
Dear anon, this is an impossible question to answer a simple “Books 1-4″ or “Books 1-3, and then 5″ or such and so forth…
… as some ppl refuse to read Prince Lestat, or a bunch of the other books, won’t even give them a chance not that they all deserve a wholehearted chance necessarily…
Most of the fandom, in my experience, have had different gateway drugs to the series. I love collecting stories of how people first got into it (#I love these kind of stories tag). They first saw movie!IWTV or movie!QOTD and then read the corresponding book, or a friend gave them a random one from the series, or someone donated the whole series to them, etc. From there, some people read in order, some people skipped around.
PERSONALLY, I first started with IWTV and at that time (1994) the movie was out but being rated R, I was too young to see it, so I read the books that were available at the time (1-4), in order. I also snuck over to a friend’s house to see movie!IWTV when it came out on VHS (I’M OLD), which we watched repeatedly, and it attained this *~forbidden-fruit~* sort of connotation for me which has never dissipated.
Then I continued and just read the books as they came out. Hard to imagine, but there was a time when we waited, not knowing when the next book would come out, or if there would be another at all. AR originally intended to end the series at Memnoch the Devil, which is probably why it ends like this:
“Let me pass now from fiction into legend.
THE END
9:43 February 28, 1994
Adieu, mon amour.”
THAT SAID, if you want to make VC fanworks (including fic, meta discussion, fanart, etc.) or do VC RP, it seems to help if you’ve read at least IWTV, TVL, and TVA (TVA might spoil previous events in canon but it’s really THE authority on Armand)(and read some fanfic!).
I think those VC contain the crux of the fan fave characters (Lestat, Louis, ((Nicki)), Gabrielle, Armand, Daniel, Marius) and scenes that have had alot of impact in developing the main characters. Your fanworks/RP will be richer if you know the background of the characters, because you’ll be able to refer to the events, or quotes, or take them as a jumping-off point in your work.
However, in the later books, you get new info, new characters, and new perspectives on previous events (example: Claudia’s diary entry in QOTD is heartwrenching).
Yessss, I received those! I’m still thinking about them!
^this could be a text from either one of them tbh…
I’m sorry, normally I CAN and do reply within a few days, as part of my Being the Active and Responsive VC Blogger I Want to See in the World. I actually have a backlog of a number of asks… It’s very unusual that I don’t reply within a few days. I’ll try to get my inbox cleared this week, promis juré! (”pinky swear!” learned this from takemetocoffin-or-losemeforever <3)
I could say the reason I didn’t reply is that “I’m busy,” but that’s also often used as a blanket excuse answer, so I’ll prove it:
I’ve had a flurry of fanwork inspiration in the past 2 weeks; some recent RPing, I was working on a ficlet for a fandom friend’s birthday that I posted recently, and another 2 ficlets that I haven’t posted yet (1 is ready and the other is not), and before that I made two VC parody videos [1, my first original post to break 10K notes!! zomg!] and [2 which features a snippet of Britney Spears music aww yisss]…
ALSO I have a personal rule that I try not to post more than 10x a day, I don’t want to spam y’all and I think I’m over my limit today. Even though fanworks are happy spam (ノ°∀°)ノ’.:*・°☆
SPECIFICALLY THOSE ASKS THOUGH:
I guess it’s hard because in terms of music, that’s a big answer, and I’m trying to think of ways to answer it without it being a Wall of Text™ because noone wants to read that much…
Aaaand the Louis question is also hard because that’s another potential Wall of Text™ because there are so many things I think he’d love! And there’s the question of does he get to decide where he is when it happens? Maybe he’d want to go somewhere outside NOLA for a daylight experience.
So I’m still percolating on those and all my asks, please be patient, it’s always worth the wait from Mater Fabuloso, oui?
I “met” Lestat for the first time during my third year of high school and there was the twilight-hype everywhere so all my classmates where like: “read twilight read twilight!) xD I had never thought of reading something vampires-related because I’ve never been an horror fan (better, I can’t read horror because I am afraid of almost everything…especially clowns, but this is another story~) and I had always associated vampires with this genre. Buut I was veeery curious to find out more about these fantasy creatures (I love fantasy! ♡), but Twilight was not at all my cup of tea! so I started browsing in my usual bookshoop and then I found…it: “interview with the vampire”! I remember that I thought: “this title is cool!”, although I expected something like an essay about vampires in literature in the form of an interview (I expected to receive answers on vampires mythology by Louis…now it seems a bit hilarious since he’s always whining about not having a clue xD), but I was not disappointed at all by the actual book *-* and then…it was a marathon of the whole series in a summer and I also saw the movie (and I also made my friends watch it, but not all of them appreciated it …ppst: the Italian dubbing is very good for this one!).
My favourite character at first was Louis (aah the charm of the good and tormented guy!), but then I fell in love with Lestat when I read “the vampire lestat” (“Scelti dalle tenebre”/“Chosen by darkness” in Italian)…very traditional story I guess xD! I love his endless love for life :3 (and I ship him hard with nicki and louis of course u.u). Moreover, I felt really near him in because of some similar thoughts I had in that period of my life, and the part of human-lestat always moves me ;__;
I also like Louis, Gabrielle and David Talbot 🙂 but in general I like them all (well…except Dora *hem hem*).
I’ve also read the mummy and angel time (here only “angel”) but not all anne rice books are published here or some of them are not easy to find (cry to heaven for example) so I think I’ll read them in English! 🙂
I hope my answer was entertaining and my English not too awkward XD
Height: 5′3′’ I have wedged shoes, I get to be about 5′6′’-7′′ with those suckers on ;]
Time and Date: 11:24 pm, 6/16/15
Average amount of sleep:6-8 hrs
Lucky number: 08345, 916, and 392.
Last thing I googled: Google translate
Favorite fictional character(s): Lestaaaaaaaat (insert other VC characters here), Clarice Starling (original Hannibal), Frank TJ Mackey (from Magnolia), Jack Donaghy (30 Rock), Gob and Michael Bluth (Arrested Development), ALL the characters by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia), Will Ferrell’s G. W. Bush and Darryl Hammond’s Bill Clinton (SNL), I should at least one more woman in here… Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill), I should have some animated characters in here… Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (Chuck Jones era of Looney Tunes), Ren & Stimpy, NOONE IS GONNA READ ALL THIS SO I’ll stop now.
Favorite Books: Vampire Chronicles, I like some Stephen King (the Shining, etc.), Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Congo, etc.), Long Hard Road Out of Hell (Marilyn Manson autobiography), biographies in general, I like paperbacks that are falling apart.
Favorite musicians/bands: Billy Joel, Nine Inch Nails, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, the 90s, Tracy Chapman, Aimee Mann, Sting, the Police, the Civil Wars, Motown, the 80s.
Last movie I saw in the Cinema: What We Do in the Shadows
Dream Holiday: Time machine ride back to when IWTV was filmed and spend the entire time on the set omg I have issues.
Dream Job:Time traveler (not just for ^that. I’d use it for the good of humanity, too!)
Imma tag some more lovely ppl who have been in my activity feed:
“And when the night was empty and still, I heard the voices of Interview with the Vampire singing to me, as if they sang from the grave. I read the book over and over. And then in a moment of contemptible anger, I shredded it to bits.”
“… As for the lies he told, the mistakes he made, well, I forgive him his excess of imagination, his bitterness, and his vanity, which was, after all, never very great… But little things like this don’t really matter. He told the tale as he believed it… And why should I bother to tell of the times he came to me in wretched anxiety, begging me never to leave him…”
“Read between the lines.”
OOC; omg crying from he laughter, best picture ever made.
~Lestat Reading Shit~
^I WISH I could take credit for it, but I didn’t invent that meme. Idk who did… but I first saw it, liiiiiike, 6 yrs ago? And then found here on tumblr recently and reblogged so fast bc I had to preserve its magnificence and really it’s better than mine still…
And then I did this one which, I think I made in 2013 and never posted wtf self?
I-want-my-IWTV 