There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.
Ryan Adams (via psych-facts)
“I can’t tell you what it was like, the burst of the horse under me, the chilling wind, and the high arch of the night sky. My body was melded to animal. I was flying over the snow, laughing aloud and now and then singing. I hit high notes I had never reached before, then plunged into a lustrous baritone. Sometimes I was simply crying out in something like joy. It had to be joy. But how could a monster feel joy?” – The Vampire Lestat.
Indianaaaaa Gabrieeeeeelleeeeee!!!
Come on, I could not be the only person who made this association when I did read this fragment of the book xDDDDI imagine in this moment Louis thinking “It’s not how I imagined to met my mother in law” xDD “
One of the best scenes of that book :3
Gabrielle de Lioncourt © Anne Rice
Part ½: Diplomacywink‘s hilarious VC riff on Hyperbole and a Half’s ‘This is Why I’ll Never be an Adult’ entry.
i think it’s important to acknowledge a basic difference regarding the standars of beauty in the vampire chronicles
i have read lots of reviews criticizing the lack of “ugly people” and “differences of body types” in the novels, while i believe it’s partly true (im the first one to tell the basic misogynistic and racist undertone of the characters); i beg to differ when it comes to “being beautiful” at the eyes of a vampire
it comes clear that humans are animals; sacks of blood that only work to keep it fresh, for a vampire. we are like little puppies, and little puppies are always beautiful. vampires don’t think everything is beautiful in a human way, they think we are beautiful in an objective, cold hearted, inherent way.
every human is beautiful at the eyes of a vampire in the same way a landscape is always beautiful to us.
EDIT: (i forgot to add something sorry)
the body, is the only reminder of their humanity, is what makes the seem human, therefore it will always be beautiful
#vc #the vampire chronicles #vampires #anne rice #im sorry i probably spam too much those tags #this is open for discussion #you are allowed to differ seriously i want to read opinion #i have always had an andy warhol fixation over beauty #seriously andy warhol #im sorry again #im sorry if this is badly written #but i hope you get the idea #im feminist lestat im here to make social judgement over queer vampires #yaaas #im sorry i had to add the thing cuz it acts as a conclusion #like combining the vampires beauty
every human is beautiful at the eyes of a vampire in the same way a landscape is always beautiful to us.
*Nodding vigourously*
Don’t apologize for this. It’s accurate. Actually part of teen!me reading these books was very touched, like, my heart swelled, when I read those parts when the vampires do go into detail about how every mortal is beautiful because they are alive. It not only widened my view as to beauty in general (making me much less superficial towards other people), but also that, going through the awkward “ugly duckling” stage, I could feel beauty in my own metamorphosis.
Lestat POV: “Beautiful, that’s what any human being is to us, if we stop to consider it, even the old and the diseased, the downtrodden that one doesn’t really “see” in the street. They are all like that, like flowers ever in the process of opening, butterflies ever unfolding out of the cocoon.” – The Vampire Lestat [more here]
Louis POV: "I was watching the scene through the open door, enthralled with the colors of the counterpane and the positive riot of color in the old man’s face. His blue veins pulsed beneath his pink and grayish flesh. I found even the yellow of his teeth appealing to me; and I became almost hypnotized by the quivering of his lip.” – Interview with the Vampire [more here]
My heart says yes but Louis and David and Marius and their eyebrows keep telling me No
Lestat de Lioncourt at some point, probably
[inspired by this post (via spicyshimmy)]
— Ｌｅｓｔａｔ—
❝Lestat, not a bad friend to have, and one for whom I would lay down my immortal life, one for whose love and companionship I have ofttimes begged, one whom I find maddening and fascinating and intolerably annoying, one without whom I cannot exist.❞
Perhaps the most notable of us all. Lestat de Lioncourt, once an actor in the French theater and former American rock superstar. He came to me a just orphaned fledgling in the late 1700's, clad in red velvet and rich silks and he strutted over the dank Parisian cemetery Les Innocents that I resided in, wherein I commanded my dying coven of satanic worshipers. He destroyed what I had there with his enlightenment, but he also saved me and brought me back into this world. But Lestat left Paris to see the world, and left me to come into command of the very theater he once played in, one which was recreated as a safe haven of Our Kind: Theatre Des Vampires. Our tale sours further almost a century later when he returned to me and told me of the deception of his two fledgings, Louis and Claudia. I offered a remedy for his pain, a fair trial, but perhaps wounded him more then. The last time I would see him before he slept beneath the earth would be briefly in America in the early 1900's until once again he would awake to raise hell as the one hit wonder of the 1980's and along with him bring the destruction of our very kind by the side of Akasha. Our time together did not stop after that apocalyptic event, whereas I often trailed after him until the defining moment he chose to go to a man called Memnoch, the Devil incarnate who showed him God and the Christ himself. It would be two years before I would see him again, rising out of a coma in a old chapel. I cannot say our paths have crossed in a more positive or more negative way, only that each meeting has been of great importance in our lives. He is perhaps the closest thing to a brother and lover I could ever dare to have, for I hate him and love him all the same and could not live in this modern world if he were not in it. Ultimately, I begrudingly say, he remains dear to me now even when I loathe his very presence. Lestat, my dark brother.
although i DO like the fact that there’s more queer canon couples in vampire chronicles than non-queer canon couples; i do think there’s a lack of non-male characters, like pandora or bianca or mona (who appear only a handful of times), needless to say non-male canon couples
I wholly agree and the few books we get centered around females IE PANDORA and MERRICK are basically boiled down to their lives revolving around the men of the stories. (Even if I think Merrick really shouldn’t have been Merrick’s story but David’s since he was telling it).
The series has so much potential and unfortunately there is a lot of problematic themes and sexism and even racism but ;c )#ALSO I LOVE YOUR URL) #REMINDS ME OF LESTAT IN MERRICK CALLING OUT THE TALAMASCA FOR OBJECTIFYING MERRICK)
EXACTLY! the only reason we got to have those books was because david was seeking out for them, a male again.
i think that the whole series got better when it started to get mixed with the witches, but you’re right about the unspoken racism/sexism; and i mean, with the whole super-queer-androgynous-too-good-for-human-morals thing, it shouldn’t be real hard to make it more open
#thank you im in love with my url #it kinda reminds me of that too 🙂
((I like this discussion and also wanted to reiterate those tags re: Feministlestat))
I think the mixing with the witches was good in some ways, for sure. I liked that whole Mona vs. Lestat thing, of course they would butt heads immediately, being such alpha types…
That dress scene in Blood Canticle! Where they were fighting over her dressing too sexy… Mona actually had a good line there about VC women:
“And I know why you’re so fired up over Rowan, she’s the first adult female other than your own mother who’s ever caught your attention for more than five minutes, and Hello! Lestat Discovers The Opposite Sex! Yeah, females do come in grown-up sizes! And I happen to be one of them, and this is not the Garden of Eden, and I am not taking off this dress!”
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