“Now, listen to me, beautiful one,” she said. “I love you. You’ve awakened me from my long sleep and to my great purpose; it gives me joy merely to look at you, to see the light in your blue eyes, and to hear the sound of your voice. It would wound me beyond your understanding of pain to see you die. But as the stars are my witness, you will aid me in my mission. Or you will be no more than the instrument for the commencement, as Judas was to Christ. And I shall destroy you as Christ destroyed Judas once your usefulness is past.” – Akasha, Queen of the Damned.
Priapus-at-the-gate is one of the greatest VC references we have and it will never not be funny and solemn vow: I will continue to bring it up at every possible applicable opportunity as one of my most sacred duties.
“Shout out for Queen of the dammed for ending with Louis and Lestat making out in a graveyard and the Lestat saying “let’s go terrorize and old man and then I’ll buy you a coat” which they then do, a sequence of events that never fails to make me laugh and never fails to get s reaction out of non-VC fans when I summarize that ending as such”