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I feel like VC is now an anime after this strange turn of events with Atlantis and if she ever wrote space vampires even more so.
Idk what VC is becoming. *sigh* bUT I WILL READ THE NEW STUFF REGARDLESS.
All I can say is, if there is a moment in the new book where Lestat *actually jumps over a shark,* Anne us officially trolling us.
You know that he will at least punch a shark, if not drink its blood, if not jump over it. Probably all three, in that order.
All because the shark stole his hat or smtg first. *sigh*
I don’t even know how to feel about the new book lmao. I’m excited that its a new book, but the premise feels…. out there? XDDDD I dunno, man, I dunno. I’ll buy it. Read it. Of course. But what a strange twist. XDDDD There’s gonna be a lot of funny fanart floating around lol
You know what’s even more hilarious to me about all this than just ATLANTIS is that the more ppl question it, the stronger I get in my belief in it as an AU fanfic, and the more I support it as such, totally against my better judgment *crying and laughing*
Hey we finally got mermaids in our fandom so I am totally fine with it as an AU!
[mermaid!Lestat by @kotilae]
So I have a question that maybe you could answer? Why are people not excited for the new book? I definitely understand that the new title and storyline sounds a bit iffy but I just thought people would be excited that Anne Rice is writing new books and continuing the series. I know I’m a bit younger than most in this fandom, IWTV came out wayy before I was even born so maybe that’s why I don’t understand haha. Thanks!
Some ppl definitely ARE excited for the new book! There was alot of excitement and cautious optimism for Prince Lestat.
I feel like I have a good perspective on this bc I have been in this fandom for 20+ years even tho book!IWTV came out before I was born, too. I’d have to ask a more veteran fandom person what it was like when they got the sequel(s) to IWTV! I got into the fandom right before the movie came out in ‘94, when we only had the first 4 books, so I looked forward to every new book with some level of excitement and that’s hard to shake even now *u*
New titles and storylines have often sounded more than a bit iffy and there has often been resistance to each new VC book. Alot of ppl didn’t think they would like TOBT or MtD, and some read those and still refuse to accept either as canon.
[X] Ppl have their own ideas of the characters in their minds. As AR continues delve into their perspectives on previous events and give them new stories in each new book, some ppl choose to “get off the bus” along the way, bc they don’t necessarily trust her vision and they don’t want to see their fave character(s) in characterization they feel is off, or forced into plots that make no sense, etc. And we can’t blame AR for this but the trainwreck that was movie!QOTD, so much was off that it was offensive, and yet, surprisingly, some ppl find that movie nostalgic! ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Some ppl actually trust the fanfic writers and/or fanartists more than the author at this point, bc many of our awesome fanfic writers and fanartists learned the voices and attitudes of the characters and try to keep them in the style that drew us to them in the first place ❤
Hello! I’m a little new, may I ask why the Prince Lestat series isn’t canon? I haven’t read up to it yet
So I don’t know how new you are, and what you’ve seen and/or read, but unlike many other fandoms: We do not all accept all of the books (and the 2 movies) in our series as CANON.
[^Louis doesn’t really approve of the series as a whole.]
All of us are into VC for our own reasons, and there are some ppl who are into it specifically for certain characters, time periods, cosplay ideas, etc. Ppl whose interests are similar tend to find eachother and make closer friendships within the larger fandom. Anything that you do not accept as canon can be considered AU or written off as being told by an unreliable narrator, bc all of our characters are unreliable narrators! They all know someone in the coven will read their account of things and they may *~embellish~* the truth if they want to do so ;] Scenes are often retread from different characters’ POVs. You can choose which version you want to trust. Maybe there are elements of both that you find acceptable.
Even AR doesn’t accept all of the books as canon: she said that
Prince Lestat does not follow the VC/Mayfair hybrid books (Blood Canticle was intended to be the last VC). She wrote PL almost as a stand alone book and lots of ppl seem to be coming into the fandom from that book without reading IWTV which is fine, and more power to them! You don’t need to read the books that lead up to it but you’ll get a deeper appreciation of some of the main characters if you at least read the first 3 books in the series before you read PL.
Hit the jump for more, cut for length.
Re: differing headcanons: We still have disagreements about what Louis’ hair really looks like, bc some ppl were influenced by movie!IWTV, the official graphic novels, and the fanart which interprets it in different ways. We still disagree over whether Lestat was 20 or 21 when he was turned, and AR herself doesn’t always answer these canon questions explicitly herself (maybe bc she left it ambiguous on purpose, or she forgot, or whatever other reasons).
Re: PL: There are parts of PL I can accept, just not the whole thing. There are alot of new characters introduced who I personally did not find as engaging as the old set, and the old set did not always behave in ways that seemed true to their own previously established characterizations throughout the book. Other ppl have different opinions. We have RPers who chose the new characters to RP, so they probably accept these new characters as canon.
I probably won’t accept Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis as anything more than AU either, bc it follows PL.
Reasons why fandom won’t accept PLROA as canon:
The main reason would be that AR herself has told us to disregard the Mayfair crossover books. In terms of her own headcanon, she didn’t want to tie these in with the events that follow in PL. So her own books diverge from her own timeline.
A secondary reason would be the earlier books in the series are generally accepted as the stronger stories with the characters best written.
So… What are you thougts on the next book ( and its title ) ?
… with a large amount of adult beverage within reach ❤
Hi there, sorry to rise from the void of silence like this, I don’t mean to be a bother, but I just read something I’m sure was an hallucination… Mermaid book? Am I high? What is going on?
If nothing else, you better believe it’s gonna be the best fish story you ever heard!
Lestat: “Louis, the truth is, the ghost that made the first vampire, well, it was an Atalantayan* and we are all in fact Atalantayans so practice your backstroke bc we’re going on a field trip to the bottom of the seeeea!”
We really don’t know much of the story, just that it involves Lestat and Atlantis, so we’ve been making alot of mermaid jokes but we have no idea whether there will be any. Check my #PLROA tag, that’s where I put stuff about it as more info comes in.
*This is the actual word in canon, allegedly. AR must be getting a bonus for extra vowels these days.
jfc I look away from the fandom for two minutes – I usually make a habit of checking this blog every other day or so to soak in the VC love, but I was away all week without internet, and I come back to VAMPIRE MERMAIDS. The world has clearly gone insane and Anne Rice appears to have been pretending a little too intensely that EVERYTHING is wine (but God help me I’m actually super excited to see her take on Atlantis XP). I wonder if Lestat is revelling in our manic excitement/panic/craziness?
^@sheepskeleton has spoiled us w/ two vampire mermaids so far, and I put them in the same pic pretty badly but oh well… [X][X] They look like sirens on the hunt for sailors to feeeeeed on….
Ordinarily YES this is the place for VC fandom love! Much of the mermaid (merpire? vampmaid? *sigh*) excitement has died down by now, but yeah, until we get PLROA we won’t know definitively if there will be mermaids but we can still have fun w/ it as an AU *u*
Our manic excitement/panic/craziness thrills Lestat “Bad attention is better than No attention” de Lioncourt.
I-want-my-IWTV 