But what about vampire history teachers. Vampires who read something from a text book then proceed to light the book on fire and throw it out the window because “No. that’s not even close to what really happened. Listen up nerds I’m about to teach you what really happened in France during the revolution”
I need this as a series
Vampires sharing the recipe for Greek fire.
Vampires speaking in dead languages.
Vampires being able to translate untranslatable scripts.
Vampires who react to straightwashing historical figures like “Are you kidding me everyone knew that man was queer!”
Vampires from cultures who were once antagonistic towards each other stubbornly maintaining a friendship that’s lasted longer than their civilizations.
Vampires who honour forgotten deities you won’t find in mythology books.
Also, vampires who secretly saved stuff from the Library of Alexandra.
Guys, this is the Vampire Chronicles.
The increasingly desperate struggle of the VC fandom to tell Tumblr that THE THING YOU ARE DESCRIBING HAS EXISTED FOR FORTY YEARS
A-fucking-men.
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romanticize happiness a little more. i dont get why people are always proud to be sad. feeling empty and dettached is not as cool as it sounds. in fact, its terrible, i dont know why anyone would want that. its like people are embarassed to be happy sometimes. they always try to act so distant..
I’ve been on the internet for 19 years, since I was 15 years old. I find it HILARIOUS that the teenagers think they discovered the net and it’s only for them and that it’s weird that adults use it too. I mean, when i first got on the net there were grown ass men and women in the fandom. People with kids and mortgages and jobs. I never thought it was odd. There were one or two creeps, but generally they were super nice people who I became an extended child to. They were people I could ask awkward questions that I couldn’t ask my parents. They were the older siblings I needed. The ones that said, “Don’t date that guy, he sounds like he’s abusive” and “don’t kill yourself, I know you’re really feeling alone right now but it’ll get better” and “don’t change yourself for that guy, he’s not worth it. He’s a moron” and “I think maybe it’s time to ask your parents to take you to a counselor”
But hey, if you think it’s creepy that I exist, don’t follow me. I’m a 34 year old woman and I’m only getting older. But if you need someone to ask weird and embarrassing things, like what it’s like how to brown meat or how to look for an apartment or short cuts to getting unsightly dirt rings off your bathtub or you need someone to look over your art portfolio or what it’s like to have an IUD or get a breast reduction I’m your adult. I’ll be your big sister. Because God knows *I* needed someone to be mine when I was your age.
#I think the hard thing is that when many of us were the young ones in intergenerational spaces we looked up to older people#and now when we see the ‘ew grow ups on the internet go away!!’ thing it’s like#shit#how did we miss our window?#but the truth is fandom grow ups built shit like ao3 and dreamwidth#and fandom grow ups were so helpful to me when I was a flaily teenager and college student and young adult#and it’s hard to see people talking like nobody over 21 belongs in fandom or even exists#which is crazy when most of the best writers I know are definitely at least that age or older#writing skills usually get better with time!#anyhow this all ties into fandom having lost touch with its own history#from the adults who started cons#to the adults who converted this new internet technology into a place for fandom#so if you aren’t aware that fandom has always been intergenerational and until the last decade mostly composed of adults#that’s a sad failure of our community
I see you hiding your thoughtful meta in your tags, sophia-helix, and I drag them out into the light.
ooc; vcpositivity is literally my favorite blog on this site. Everyone should go send in a submission about someone who’s been great to them, or some nice experience they had, something cool.
There’s enough anon hate on Tumblr.
Excellent point. I avoid drama but even if what I do hear about is all that’s going on, then it’s already too much. Vampires may live forever but we do not; life is too short for that crap when we could be focusing on the people and things that make this fandom great.
ooc; Yeah, exactly.
^Preach.
i honestly think rose added to the otherwise very male-dominated story by having her own pov chapters, and i thought her story was kind of a nice side thing?? maybe thats just me lmao
ooc; Ehhh, she just felt very out of place, we got literally no explanation as to of who she was and why Lestat was there (which I guess we might get that in Blood Paradise), and her story read very much like Mary Sue fanfiction I would have read when I was twelve years old on fanfiction.net. But, of course, as I’ve stated before, Lestat himself is a Mary Sue, so I guess I can’t put a whole lot of judgement there.
I think my issue with Rose is just that I don’t see what she actually gave to the story. She seemingly had a major part, yet I feel like if she was subtracted from it all, the story would remain the same. Anne’s guilty of doing this thing where she introduces a bunch of new characters, yet never actually fleshes out any of her previous characters. We got all of this stuff about Rose, and yet we had chapters where Armand, Bianca, and Daniel were all within the same house and didn’t even acknowledge each other’s existence. Hell, Armand was practically not there throughout most of the book. And I would have honestly taken chapters of Bianca explaining what she’s been up to over Rose’s seemingly random story.
But that’s also just my opinion.
Same. I have a problem with throwing in a pointless female character just to have more ladies. Especially when you’re literally adding 6 or 7 people to the cast (or bringing them back from the dead). A lot of the stories were redundant or totally pointless (Killer… Cyril?) but Rose not only felt exactly like a low-rent Mona or weird new Jesse, she never serves any purpose or does anything interesting (this is also true of several of the men, especially Killer.. why Killer? We don’t care. We liked Baby Jenks, not this dick.) We’re supposed to care about her because we’re told Lestat and Louis do, but that’s it. It’s just not enough. If I were her editor, I’d have begged her to cut the Rose stuff for the sake of pacing. There’s no immediate need to pair Vikki up with anyone.
And yes, if she wanted to add more ladies, Gabrielle was a bad ass – give her a chapter. Lestat is her son. We would care way more about her. Or Bianca! She’s seeing Armand for the first time in forever, seeing his fledgling for the first time, etc. etc. So many better options with established characters we already care about.
That said, I get why people might like Rose. If she was a side-story, if she were part of a different book, she has some potential. Like Jesse, a girl raised unknowningly by vampires in some fashion is a cool concept. I just feel like it didn’t fit at all in this book. It needed more explanation and characterization than it got.
I agree with you. Looking back, I liked Rose/her story well enough (though I felt she had too little personality) until she was treated as being irreparably!broken! by the knowledge of vampires – I’m sorry, she lived through all that horrible abuse at the school, but semi-sleeping through Lestat cutting off Rhosh’s hand and arm is the thing that breaks her? As someone once said, puh-leeze, babycakes!
Also, Lestat of all people ought to know after what happened to Nicki that turning someone who’s having a mental breakdown involving vampires is not an automatic solution!
^PREACH
friendlyneighbourhoodpizzaman:
Reading fanfiction is the worst because you start out with “I’ll just read this cute one shot” then suddenly it’s four am and you have 12 tabs open and you’re crying again because THEY DESERVE TO BE HAPPY WHY CANT THEY JUST BE HAPPY
This is nothing…in our fandom you have to wade through mountains of crap only to be once again let down. That’s why we write it ourselves—-at least sooner or later the myriad ‘ships unite on some level.
^PREACH.
Sometimes I think it takes
more courage and stubbornness, than talent, to be a writer.
You have to stick to your guns. But it is so worth it.
Anne Rice (via lelia-valois)
EUREKA: Why PL is Driving Me Nuts
ooc: I think I’ve figured out why Prince Lestat bothered me so much:
Good. Because it is obvious you aren’t wanted. Look at who you play with. Do any other Cannon chars even interact with your vapid armand? no, Because they know that you are a ridiculous excuse for this character. Stop[ trying to make him sweet and sympathetic and go rp my little pony or something because you have no place in a dandom like VC. And considering no other canon rpers play with you, you should have left a long time ago. Good riddance.
Wow.
Um.
Thanks.
Like I needed that.
Fuck this site. Seriously.
I’m going to fucking rip this gray face apart with my teeth. No, I’m just gonna fjskakfjf I’m pissed, i can’t even decided how i want to hurt them first.
This is not okay, to send anyone hate and to lie so ridiculously.The amount of canon that you rp with doesn’t define your quality! There is no definition for quality, but if there was, you would be it.
I love your Armand, and i agree with How you play him. The bratty bit is over done, and frankly no fun. You are wanted. I want you here, you make my day and i would be crushed if you left tumblr. There are drafts i haven’t answered in like a week or so, but yours are at the top of my list even though it’s nit even been a day because i enjoy yours the most. You are a fantastic writer. You have a fantastic grasp on your muse, you are wonderful you are loved and this little bitch took time out of their day to send you hate. They are jealous, in fact, i bet they want to rp with you but somehow can’t and want to make you feel bad because they are a little bitch
Fuck them
Fuck them with a god damn poisonous cactus right in the ass.Sorry for all the bad words, but i don’t take too kindly to people hurting my friends.
And another awesome person I adore to pieces. Thank you!
#PREACH
This is not okay, to send anyone hate. PERIOD.
Life is too short, and we are here to have fun and share fandom love. Do you dislike the portrayal of a character? Fine. Don’t follow that RP blog. Did they ask for your criticism? No? Then keep it to yourself.
If they asked for criticism, be constructive. Treat others how you would want to be treated.
In the words of Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks: “Why can’t we all just – get along?”
We need FCPS (Fictional Character Protective Services)
everlastingporcelain: Mun’s unpopular opinion
everlastingporcelain: Mun’s unpopular opinion
I was in facebook 🙂
And I saw this
and i was like
NOT BIANCA
NOT BIANCA
then I went to the comments
and I saw this
…so,she doesn’t like her own creation? -frown- What?
now this one make me laugh so hard, I was like ” viaticumforthemarquise and I can answer you ”
the resume is
Please, I hope you dislike Bianca too. I wouldn’t want her to end like Pandora, all quiet and lifeless.
viaticumforthemarquise: //-dies laughing- OH YES WE CAN TELL YOU WHAT THEY’VE BEEN UP TO, DON’T WORRY.
//Keep your grubby hands off of Gabrielle, Anne. No one would want you to write about characters you ‘don’t like’ anymore. Or, even worse, kill them off.
i-want-my-iwtv: PREACH, RPers! We need FCPS (Fictional Character Protective Services).
I-want-my-IWTV 