When was the first time you saw Interview with the Vampire? For me I watched it at age 10 or 11 I think, I do remember I was very young. I remember my older sister watching it and I guess I decided to watch it along with her. I remember watching it with her when we visited our dad and he wasn’t home. We weren’t allowed to watch such movies like that but we didn’t care. My dad’s from Liberia and they’re very superstitious (well at least my dad is) and movies like IWTV frighten them.

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Well first of all, #I love these kind of stories, where ppl talk about how they got sucked into this fandom, whether it’s when they first saw movie!IWTV (or movie!QOTD) or starting reading one of the books…

Movie!IWTV is frightening, there are brutally scary parts. It touches on a lot of taboo subjects. The kind of violence it has is scary partly because there’s the element of betrayal in many instances, definitely when Claudia knifes Lestat, and then when Louis sets him on fire ;A; We laugh about it now bc if we didn’t have a sense of humor about it, it would just be too cruel. But that is really cute that you watched it with your older sister, hopefully she explained things that were confusing or at least provided some support during the scary parts ;]

I was given book!IWTV when I was 11 and saw the movie soon after, sneaking over to my best friend’s house bc it was rated R and I wasn’t allowed to watch it. It was dark comedy to us, and we ended up watching it repeatedly, trying to memorize the lines so we could say them along with the movie. Our favorite line had to be:

“Just remember: Life – without me – would be even more unbearable.” ~~And I can’t really gif that out, the shot is pretty dark, but you remember, it was here:~~

That line was a declaration between us, too. We’re still best friends to this day, 20+ years after bonding over this series!

VC had a huge enough influence on us. For better or worse *shrugs*

I was an ambivert. I was completely obsessed with antagonists, too. The VC encouraged me to develop all those extroverted traits I loved in Lestat, which other characters didn’t always approve of, but he dgaf! He marched to his own drum. He craves the spotlight for validation but his own love for himself outweighs these external rewards. The VC has been a huge source of strength. So much great advice. Here’s an example, that suffering can be embraced as being a valuable part of our experience, too:

“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.” – Lestat, Queen of the Damned

But really, the quote that bound me and my best friend together, that’s what I hope for fandom to accomplish. We do come and go, but I’ve been in this for 20+ years, and it seems to me that VC fandom as a whole will always be here for those who want it.

“Just remember: Life – without me – would be even more unbearable.”

^What I think is also worth mentioning here is that Lestat could have killed Louis or just left Louis in NOLA at any time (before Claudia). But he didn’t. Even at his worst, Lestat was still fascinated with Louis, and life – without him – would have been even more unbearable ❤

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mylittleinferno:

novellaqueen:

_{Interview with the Vampire + The Song of Achilles}

this makes my heart hurt with all the feels

Source: novellaqueen

Questions that I fear, chapter one. The point of the song is that we are fairly well damaged by the legacy of the romantic poets. We think of love as this thing that is accompanied by strings, and it’s a force for good, and if something bad happens, then that’s not love. And the therapeutic tradition I come from, I used to work in therapy, also says it’s not love if it feels bad. I don’t know so much about that. I don’t know that the Greeks weren’t right. I think they were: that love can eat a path through everything. That it can destroy a lot of things on the way to it’s own objective which is just it’s expression of itself. My step-father loved his family. Now, he mistreated us terribly quite often. But he loved us. Well, that, to me, is something worth commenting on in the hopes of undoing what I see as terrible damage in the way that people talk about love as this benign, comfortable force. It’s not that. It’s wild.

John Darnielle on Love Love Love (via fuckyeahthemountaingoats)

THANK YOU.

(via marrinthings)

Source: NPR

✍(handwriting, as Armand): But there came an end to my long centuries of Satan’s service. Clad in red velvet it came, the very covering my old Master had so loved, the dream king, Marius. It came swaggering and camping through the lighted streets of Paris as though God had made it.

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moral-cipher:

✍(handwriting): Tomorrow night, I thought, if that bastard has been lying, I shall split open his chest and tear out his beating heart, and feed it to that big beautiful dog. Whatever happens, I shall keep this dog.

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monstersinthecosmos:

U R OUT OF CONTROL 😀

^Lestat writing in his journal re: the body thief.

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jehanjetaime:

“Armand, you icy bitch.” – David Talbot, The Vampire Armand, pg. 16

Source: jehanjetaime

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i-want-my-iwtv:

garama:

Nicki & Lestat

The Vampire Lestat:

The cold seemed worse in Paris… I was never so glad of the fur-lined cape as I was then. I wrapped it around Nicolas and held him close to me when we went out together, and we walked in a tight embrace through the snow and the rain.

Cold or no cold, I can’t exaggerate the happiness of these days. Life was exactly what I thought it could be.

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luthi69:

thegoombs:

luthi69:

“Sometimes I become spellbound in the middle of Wal-Mart.”
“Sometimes I become spellbound in the middle of Wal-Mart.”

“Sometimes I become spellbound in the middle of Wal-Mart.”

Lestat losing his aesthetic shit in the middle of Wal-Mart. Someone draw this, I will give you my soul for it.

Alright, that’ll be one soul please:

Lestat now confirmed for people of Walmart.

You are a gift to this world ♥ ♥ ♥
Sending my soul through express mail right away~

Hello, sorry to bother you if you’ve seen this before, but I just found Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man for the first time, and his expression reminds me of Armand even more than the angel paintings! Maybe how Armand stares and stares at people lol. Hope you have a nice day!

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My day was very good, thank u! Hope yours was/is, too.

I looked for the painting and I found 3, there are probably even more than that… thanks for pointing these out to me, I hadn’t seen them before, I can definitely see some Armand in each of them.

In all of them I see the “spun amber” hair thing, as David Talbot ~~being a borderline perv including touching him w/o asking first~~ describes Armand in TVA:

“Your hair’s like something spun from amber, as if the amber would melt and could
be drawn from candle flames in long fine airy threads and let to dry that way to make
all these shining tresses. You’re sweet, boylike and pretty as a girl. I wish I had one
glimpse of you in antique velvet the way you were for him, for Marius. I wish I could
see for one moment how it was when you dressed in stockings and wore a belted
doublet sewn with rubies. Look at you, the frosty child. My love doesn’t even touch
you.”

Apply that description to these:

^Portrait of a young man holding a medallion. Altho this one doesn’t resemble Armand to me, it reminded me of his painting the ikons in the caves. “Yeah this took me maybe a half hour… commissions are closed.” Bonus points for the subtle trompe-l’œil effect of his finger sort of out of the frame like that.

^Portrait of a Young Man 3. This is more physically Armand to me, and of the attitude of Armand, who has perfected the very difficult to achieve front-facing side-eye expression. He’s also throwing a gang sign, is that a W for west coast or an E for east coast? Armand is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

^Portrait of a Young Man. This one has awesome hair, all swirled like that. You might call this portrait boring at first glance but if you give it more of a chance, it has a haunting effect. Is he leaning forward a little? It seems like it. This is more of the coven master face to me than the other two. “If there were a leader… I would be the one.”

The vampire who made me was everything that I truly believed evil to be: He was dismal, as literal, as barren, as inevitably eternally disappointing as I believed evil had to be!

Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire (via monstersinthecosmos)

~~Louis if this is you trying to piss your maker off A+ excellent job~~

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“Just remember: Life – without me – would be even more unbearable.”

✍(handwriting, as Armand): But there came an end to my long centuries of Satan’s service. Clad in red velvet it came, the very covering my old Master had so loved, the dream king, Marius. It came swaggering and camping through the lighted streets of Paris as though God had made it.

✍(handwriting): Tomorrow night, I thought, if that bastard has been lying, I shall split open his chest and tear out his beating heart, and feed it to that big beautiful dog. Whatever happens, I shall keep this dog.

“Sometimes I become spellbound in the middle of Wal-Mart.”

Hello, sorry to bother you if you’ve seen this before, but I just found Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man for the first time, and his expression reminds me of Armand even more than the angel paintings! Maybe how Armand stares and stares at people lol. Hope you have a nice day!