i’ve been thinking a lot about why people don’t get creepy ships and automatically expect you to apologize for liking them
and it’s just that the appeal, to them, is “oh, wow, the phantom kidnapped christine / the villain decided to spare this other character / the vampire snuck into her room, how romantic” and they think that’s super weird and indefensible
but that’s not how people genuinely think about it? at least not me and most people i know who enjoy those kinds of tropes. we’re interested in characters who don’t have a healthy concept of love, who don’t understand it, making the greatest gesture they’re capable of within the timeline of their stories, recognizing that they Feel a Feeling for someone else and struggling to articulate it. most of the time they are Horrifically Bad at this, but it’s fascinating to watch them bump up into the limitations of their emotional capacity, even as their heart is SWELLING OVER with something they can’t name. their morality doesn’t preclude them from finding someone they admire. we like to hope they’ll figure it out in time and understand how to handle their feelings in a good way, and if they don’t, imagining a scenario where they do and things end happily isn’t hurting anyone. people’s knee-jerk response is “you’re romanticizing, you’re excusing” but all that’s happening is people are recognizing that a character is having a deep internal conflict with themselves and rooting for them to make good choices. i don’t think kidnapping is romantic, i think it reveals that a character who has romantic feelings doesn’t have a guideline for how to express them, and that’s automatically fascinating to me.
No one is saying you/we can’t have them, but I think it’s bc VC ships began sailing before ship naming was thing (which I think began gaining traction with Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez being “Bennifer” and Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie being “Brangelina”). Our ships were sailing even before “shipping” as a term was a thing! That said, I seem to recall seeing “Loustat” as a ship name for Louis/Lestat in the past few years, but can’t think of any others.
Go ahead and name your ships if you like, we’ll see if any catch on!
fictional characters from books, movies, comics, your fanfics (doing stuff you always wanted them to do, or looking fabulous in clothes you want them to wear)
real people, including actors and celebrities, you and your friends/family (perfect for gifts)
real people as fictional characters (for example your RP faceclaim in 18th century clothes, you in full cosplay without buying clothes, yay!)
real people in the company of fictional characters (you and Loki flying into the sunset on a dragon… eghem, you get the idea)
I do draw nsfw scenes. And I won’t judge your kink, I promise. You ship something and want to see some smut with them? Don’t be shy, I can do it. If you have any reference photo of the pose, clothes, face or setting send it to me along with the description, it makes my job easier.
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I highly recommend sheepskeleton for commissions! I commissioned a piece for a tattoo and it’s been stunning work at every stage of creation – literally got teary-eyed over the draft sketch, it was so lovely. So run, don’t walk, and give this artist your commissions and money.
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This is the aforementioned commission – the line art for my Lestat/Daniel tattoo. It is amazing and I love it with a passion of a thousand firey suns. My poor husband has had to put up with me flailing and wibbling with the feels about it all day.
Seriously, anyone that needs a commission, sheepskeleton is who to go to. This is the best thing I have spent money on in a looooong time.
friendly reminder that Lestat, Louis, Nicki, Gabrielle, Marius, Pandora, Armand, Santino, Daniel, Bianca, Flavius, Mael, Maharet, Eric, Khayman, Mekare, Thorne, Santiago, Claudia, Madeleine, Akasha, Enkil, David and Jesse [just listed some vampires that come up my mind]
CAN BE ARRANGED INTO 24 CHOOSE 2 COMBINATIONS.
that’s 276 different ways of shipping them. at the same time.
Even post-Prince Lestat, nothing will convince me otherwise that Daniel and Lestat are the OTP that never was and hasn’t been given the chance it should have and we were so cruelly teased with the possibility of in QOTD.
I’m not a cosplayer, this was just quick thing to do, because my friend wanted to know “what happened to her ship” in Prince Lestat. So I decided to tell her. Big, big thanks to violcetta made my eyes freakishly blue because of reasons. ❤ They are green, but Lestat with green eyes would be an abomination.
Just to point out: I actually like all three ships.
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