The VC Fandom on FB: OH MY GOD ALIENS, ATLANTIS & VAMPIRES, IT’S THE BEST COMBO EVER, THIS BOOK IS GOING TO BE THE BEST IN THE SERIES. ANNE YOU DESERVE A NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE!! YOU’RE THE BEST WRITER EVER!!!
The VC Fandom on Tumblr: What the actual fuck Anne? Have you ever heard of an editor? We love you, but you’re scaring us here… look at us, we’re desperately clinging to the idea of mermaid vampires to cope.
♛I’ve picked up stray hybrids and vampires like you before and tried to adopt them, Louis never lets me keep them, so I refuse to get attached to you! *huffs*
(Yep, I’m rereading TVA and at about 80 pages in, WOW, so much I had forgotten! There is a lot of action packed into this one book.)
“Might as well ask heaven what it sees, no human can know….”
How many times have I seen the movie/read the books? Y’know, I have lost count… re: the movie, definitely has to be more times than Neil Jordan has seen it. Maybe more times than it’s editor has seen it. The fact that I have a copy of it to pull gifs and screencaps from makes it so I can watch it frame-by-frame in excruciating detail and even re-edit parts of it to suit my needs…
BTW: This is a good official book I only read 1x and should reread, even if some info might conflict with canon info: The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice’s “The Vampire Chronicles” This book was published in ‘93, before AR got as responsive over social media as she is now, and she is asked things to this day that she has explained in this book already, so I take this book as being more true to canon than her current answers, which may differ.
I will add that one weekend, around Halloween one year, movie!IWTV was on TV alot, and I ended up watching it 4 times in one weekend and THAT IS TOO MUCH. Even for me.
My favorite viewings are with other ppl though, where we say the lines out loud and make fun of all the stuff that can be made fun of.
As for the books, lost count on that, too 😛
Cut for length, not spoilers.
At some point I’ve gone back to all of the books to look for info, except Vittorio, which is not VC and I didn’t care much for him or his story. Some of them, I’ll admit I only read them start to finish 1x each (like BF, BC, Pandora, PL). It was never important to me to keep track of how many times I had read any of them, just that each time was a different point in my life and with that different perspective I was reading the same stories but I related to different characters and/or was focused on different things.*
I have this weird mixed feeling of being equally ashamed that I’ve read these so many times and being ashamed that I haven’t read them enough times to really qualify as An Authority. Does that make any sense? Pfffft…. I never claimed I was An Authority. I’m just doing my own thing with this addiction and trying to infect others with it and I’m happy to have you along for the ride ;]
*Just for one example, and being very simplistic about it: I related to Claudia when I was 11, and empathized with her frustrations at not being taken seriously as an adult, and later, when I had had child-care related jobs (babysitting, camp counselor, swim teacher, etc.) and was old enough to be a parent myself, I could empathize more with Lestat and Louis’s struggle to “parent” Claudia, who had a very real set of limitations and a lot of pain due largely to those limitations, and they were not at all equipped to handle any of that.
I am so jealous!! Having a Louis-like friend is not quiiiite enough to be Lestat. Do you pester him, belittle him for his introverted qualities? Are you the manic pixie nightmare creature trying to pull him into a more colorful and exciting life? Do you have a gorgeous head of pampered yellow hair?
Louis and Lestat are not friends. They’re hopelessly in love with eachother and live to “stick pins” in eachother. Or fangs. Whichever.
Out of curiosity, which version of Louis is your new friend? There are many, but the two main ones are: Freshly-Dragged-from-the-Gutter!Louis:
Or BAMF!Louis:
^The ego is the same but the outward display of confidence is hugely different. And the smell. BAMF!Louis smells like almonds, black tea and honey. Gutter!Louis, not so much. More like wet cat D:
WHATfdhjsghs I was wondering were that “merman lestat” came from, oh my god, I actually laughed aloud
mpreg fanatics, this is your chance
Who could be the mother of vampire sea horse Louis’ children!? How will Lestat the sea-horse-vampire-merman react to the reveal? Don’t miss the next week’s exciting new episode of Dragon Ball Z
mpreg fanatics, this is your chance!
#PLROA is the gift that keeps on giving
Lestat: “DONT MOPE I DONT WANT OUR BABIES TO BE MOPEY
For sure! He did come across as a lot less intelligent than he had proven himself in ALL of the prior VC up to that point, but there are legitimate reasons. Which I’m gonna lay out for you, under the cut, bc SPOILER ALERTS.
When you consider the larger picture: of the ocean of crap he’s waded through up until that point, we can’t just write him off as “crazy” or “dumb.“ He’s actually wounded in many ways, so his mind can’t be firing on all cylinders.
Not the least of which was the devastating betrayal of Louis and Marius, in their refusal to help him in his hour of need.
In IWTV he was an enigmatic tyrant, in TVL he partially corrected that by revealing his backstory and the vampire origin story and showed that he is a BAMF which means he CAN BE tyrannical sometimes,…
So if he comes across as such a disgusting moron, why share this story with us? Could be for the same reason he shared TVL: to correct the record, and to try to make some sense of it, get some closure, and maybe learn something from the experience as a whole. He’s sharing it with us so that maybe we can benefit, too, and as bizarre and as big a turn-off as it is, the very least you can take from it is the tried-and-true: “BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR – YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT”which seems to be a recurring theme for him, and in VC in general.
[Spoilers ahead…]
It’s in QOTD when we see him attempt to find himself a role in the modern era, that’s also when he appears to lose some of that quick wit we loved him for, as his new SJW GF wears him down, intending to destroy the fabric of society in the name of Extreme Social Justice. He can’t dissuade her from her plans, so he eventually just stops trying. He’s practically praying for Marius internally. She is manipulating him vigorously throughout their time together, keeping him sleep-deprived and physically addicted to her, arguing her philosophy irrationally, he’s constantly reminding the reader that he’s slipping, losing himself in her, he’s actually terrified into submission to her to the point where he doesn’t know where his loyalty lies when it finally comes down to choosingsides. He was not the one to save the day in that story. He watches passively as someone else does.
Akasha’s damage was done, a part of him has been crushed… it was a major blow to his sanity and his ability to be rational about things before leaping into action. In the beginning of TOBT he’s suffering already, haunted by his past. He is not healed emotionally, not in a position to make the kind of deal that he makes with RJ, and after that, he’s even less equipped, emotionally AND physically, to try to remedy the situation that HE CREATED.
The most devastating blow is probably when Louis and Marius both refuse to help him. At that point, he’s broken mentally from that betrayal, more physically weakened, and just grasping at straws to try to get things back to normal.
So is all that an excuse for the awful, terrible things he does in that story? Absolutely NOT. But you can see that he’s crippled in many ways, so his mind can’t be firing on all cylinders.
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