OMG thank u so very much! Every year older I dig myself deeper into this madness and I’m TAKING U ALL DOWN WITH ME!
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It’s not my fave VC, but not my least fave VC, either. It’s growing on me.
As I answered in a recent Ask re: Merrick, idk, I would always advocate reading the books, as cracky as some of them can be, bc there are always moments that are really great! Single lines worth digging up, some phrasing that hits you #Right in the Feels. Don’t you want to know what happens? You don’t have to agree with it but the ride is always at the very least stimulating… you can always just skim it for plot points if reading it is too much of an investment.
As to whether it’s “just plain awful”? I wouldn’t agree w/ that, bc there are some gems in it that you can’t get anywhere else. At the risk of being redundant, my short answer: I think AR can still capture that old quality we all fell in love with, albeit in slivers. Which is why I can’t disregard any of the books entirely. It’s still hard for me to accept Prince Lestat as canon, I might never, but there are moments and lines of dialogue in it that are SO VERY GOOD. Moments where I’ve had to pause and smile, because it was as if the old Lestat, from IWTV or TVL, actually graced us with his presence, if only for a moment.
… Also I admit I very much dig Lestat’s new accessory ;D
It also has some worthwhile development re: the spirit that basically created vampires in the first place.
[Fanart of some of the main chars in PL by @remarried/@nightislandofficial]
For specifics/headcanons about Viktor, go to @viktor-de-lioncourt (Viktor RPer
who uses Jordan Sörbom as a FC), @antoineandthepiano, and @roselioncourt, all of whom RP new characters from PL (technically Antoine was in IWTV but he has a larger presence in PL so I count him as new) and care way more about them than I am capable of currently.
I didn’t find many of the new characters very engaging, I would bet we’ll get more depth on them in later books, and/or they were created for what I like to call “canon-fodder” so that AR has a bunch of chars to kill in the next book(s), since she can’t kill the core group we all love so much! She tried to kill a few of them and had to bring them back ;]
Spoilers and probably unpopular opinions re: Viktor under the cut. And really I prefer not to make unpopular opinions but sometimes I gotta.
I find Viktor to be a kind of watered-down Twilight knockoff. He seemed to be an answer for all the POTP who had pestered AR for years to give Lestat a biological son… and the romance between him and Rose came off as pretty forced to me, again, a YA couple like in Twilight for fanservice. Not that YA can’t be well done, just that I didn’t really buy AR’s stab at it. Other ppl may have and they are welcome to ship their hearts out!
Yes, in fact they did!
Faceclaims:
David: Sendhil Ramamurthy
Louis: Miles McMillan
Armand: Kirill Nikolini
Marius: fanart by @sheepskeleton
Lestat: Martin Rolinski
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Aw thank u so much dearie! We need a nicer internet for sure, especially now with all the crap 2016 is putting us through ffs
OMG you’ve been following me for Y E A R S ?! That is a seriously high compliment, sounds like you’re hopelessly stuck w/ me and I should pity your soul.
Thank you for confessing this to me, hopefully I will continue to deliver the quality VC drugs you’ve come to expect AND MOAR *,….,*
Thank u so much!
I am so terrible for not replying sooner, but u know how these things are, the longer they go unreplied to the harder it is to DO IT
Here’s smtg fresh I found, posting it now in your honor, concept art from IWTV….
Interview with the Vampire – final scene artwork – copy used on set – (28 x 16) INT. INN SUPPER ROOM. By Dante Ferretti. Will post it separately, too.
♛ Is “Nicole” your family name? So bold to name a child “Princess”! Alright, alright… I’m kidding, love.
What is it you find the most fascinating about me? My physical beauty? My fashion sense? My refusal to surrender in the face of adversity? My knack for creating adversity?
And let’s not forget the fangs *grins widely* I bet it’s the fangs. People who know what I am almost always want to see and touch the fangs, as if they’re the definitive proof of my supernaturalness. Anyone with the time and the money can get fangs made by a fangsmith. It’s not that special.
The proof is when I scoop you up and we shoot up into the sky to see the citylights from above. Few mortals can actually handle such physicality and I’ve had more than one passenger “toss their cookies,” as they say.
*u*
Ooooh #Vampire physiology (sending the vampire bat signal out to fellow Ricean vampire authority vampchronfic and for the non-Ricean vampires, askavampirologist).
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In short, they can handle much colder temps than mortals can. Their default temperature is cold, and it seems like they prefer to be warm, since they’re only really hot right after a fresh feeding >;}
Louis has mentioned in canon that he dislikes the cold but he insists on wearing threadbare sweaters, it seems to be a form of self-punishment (and murder-husband-punishment since he knows Lestat doesn’t approve of the constant 90’s grunge/Derelicte look).
It’s not discussed in canon in huge detail, and I’m sure it varies vampire-to-vampire, so I’ll just give you Louis and Lestat answers.
In IWTV Louis would wander around, “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.” This was probably warm rain, being NOLA. He might have been so transfixed with his new senses that he didn’t mind what might be uncomfortable for us/other vampires. Lestat certainly didn’t approve bc like “i buy you such beautiful outfits and you put them on WIRE HANGERS *ahem* no, actually, you go ruining them in the RAAAAAINNN.” *sulk*
When Lestat flies, he doesn’t mention needing to get extra bundled-up to deal with the colder air altho i like the idea of him looking for the BIGGEST WARMEST FUR-LINED PARKAS so that when he takes to the air w/ Louis, he can cocoon them together bc awwwww…-
They seemed to enjoy the humidity and heat of NOLA. I imagine that they’re like big cats or lizards, always looking for warm spots to lounge around in to deal with their default coldness. Lestat’s always been a big fan of lighting all the candles in a room for the light, which might also be for the warmth; even one candle adds a surprising amount of heat.
Of course Louis, the pyromaniac, is really in an OTP with Fire, that should tell you smtg about the kinda temperature he prefers! ❤
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