I just wanted to stop by to ask if I was the only one utterly crushed by the loss of Alan Rickman. I just finished reading tale of the body thief and the entire novel he was the only gave that seemed to do David justice and now I will never know! Rest in peace Alan. We will love you always.
Thanks, @fallenwerewolf. I don’t really have a good, clear picture of David in my mind… I never considered Rickman for that role. I think he would have done a great job, and he was the right age, had the right kind of charm for it, and when I picture him as David, I see him with that little gentlemanly smile he had:
That scene where he’s actually Raglan, I bet Rickman would have done an amazing job with that.
If we get a graphic novel adaptation of that book, we can still use Alan Rickman as inspiration! Also for fanart, very few ppl draw mortal!David Talbot…
#vc casting #cries forever #RIP #lestat #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire lestat #honestly there are tons of pics of him that look very Lestat to me #the fact that u chose a more introspective shot and not a stage shot or glamour shot #is so much more touching #bc u realize that Lestat is not just his beautiful shell #there is tenderness and vulnerability to him too #submission
So…. in 1996 I was in middle school and had a friend over and my dad “caught” us watching IWTV in my room – of course it was the version that was (heavily) edited for TV but that didn’t occur to him so he actually took the TV out of my room so that we couldn’t watch anything else. Well I wanted to know how the damn movie ended so I convinced my mother to let me rent (on VHS, btw) the original movie (which was way more graphic than the version we had been watching).
Then, at the middle school I was attended, they let you read any book you wanted for the reading requirement as long as you read a certain number of pages per day. So I’m in the library that was attached to the school and – whoa – IWTV! So I picked that book to read for my middle school reading requirement. And when I was done with that I asked my mom to buy for me TVL… My mom was *thrilled* because I had been homeschooled for a few years and even though I whizzed through math text books, I *hated* reading and always did the bare minimum. My father was less thrilled and threw my copy of TVL in the trash several times.
So, my mother, bless her heart, calls up a local book store and asks them to put one of every Anne Rice book on hold for her – because she thinks Anne Rice ONLY wrote The Vampire Chronicles. Apparently without really looking at what she was buying, she has the book store put all the books on hold into a bag and ring them up….. and THAT is how my mother accidentally bought me smut when I was in middle school.
I’d finished all the vampire chronicles that were out in time for TVA which came out one week before my 14th birthday in 1998 (I was gifted three copies – I probably should have thought to ask for more than just that book…).
Seeing phrases like “I was sucked into the VC obsession hellhole when I was 14” and “Once I finished TotBT on January 22, 2012” in the same sentence make me feel positively ancient! Buuuut I couldn’t be happier, of course, that there are so many new and young fans. We can always use the fresh blood. 😉
^Yeah, it makes me feel a bit old, too, similarly, I’d read #1-4 by 1994. #5 (Memnoch the Devil) was my first fresh one. But hey, I’ve aged like a fine wine!
^LOUIS OMG RUDE I know it gets cold so quickly but show a little respect!
Well, as you know #I love these kind of stories. We may be old, but I think we got to experience the VC in a unique way. Like you, I was at the age when I could yearn for a new VC book and then get excited asking for it as a birthday present or going to the bookstore to pick it up. I didn’t like the feel of new hardcovers, though. Preferred the paperbacks, as they had a more friendly handfeel and pleasant scent.
I was sucked into the VC obsession hellhole when I was 14. I had read Dracula and proclaimed it as one of my favourite books before I had even finished it. When I told my dad this, he recommended the strange and mystical books I had seen my parents reading as I grew up, “The Vampire Chronicles.” I could barely put IWTV down once I started it. I finished it in a week, which was the fastest I had ever read a book of that size before. My parents had the first four books as a boxset, and I thought those were the only ones in the series. Once I finished TotBT on January 22, 2012, I was really sad, and on the 24 I heard of TVA. I quickly found out there were actually 10 books. I’m still a little mad that my parents neglected to tell me because they knew there were more than four books, and didn’t tell me.
My (bio) cousin makes video games for a living, plays and makes guitars, and is a massive video game and roleplaying nerd. So little me went all spiral-eyed whenever he did anything for me.
He bought me two very important books for my 12th birthday. The Vampire: the Requiem rulebook (the red book), and IWTV. Naturally, I devoured both.
I read IWTV and everything was wonderful pretty much instantly. There wasn’t a single part of that book I didn’t adore. It was through my rapid and all-consuming obsession with vampirism that I actually started to bloom; creatively, socially, mentally, everything just started to resolve and I started to become a person I like. Yes, I read Twilight during this initial discovery stage. Yes, I was in the fandom briefly. But it was so hollow compared to what I had already read that I was perplexed that others seemed to not want to branch out into real, monstrous vampirism.
Essentially IWTV is what sparked me going from awkward pubescent to actually pretty great 20-something. I now LARP with the MES (VtR, of course) and write urban fantasy and am generally completely in love with vampires.
But now a confession: I’ve only ever read IWTV. I haven’t read all of the VC, despite owning literally all of it (sometimes multiple covers per book!) So which should I finally read next?!
#I love stories like these, how we got into this mess series.
It’s heartwarming to see how the Ricean vampires have had such a positive effect on ppl in their formative years. They are dysfunctional hipster vampires, all kinds of flaws and existential crises, they try to resolve them, they try to find the answers to questions big and small, and in general promote a trust in one’s self, an inner confidence and an ability to draw pleasure from even simple things. These are good things for anyone, of any age, to absorb.
YOU SHOULD READ THE VAMPIRE LESTAT NEXT you’re going to love it!
I hear birthday greetings are in order. I have no skill as an artist or singer so here is a gif of Armand singing. I’m pretty sure it is Happy Birthday. I can’t imagine it would be anything else.
Awwww I love being serenaded by a lovely ginger-haired immortal!
Ahhhh I love your blogggggg! I’ve been in stitches going through your memey-things tag. XD I’ve only recently read up through Tale of the Body Thief, but I’ve been a big fan of Interview With the Vampire in particular for years. It’s kind of an older one, but I thought I’d share a piece of my art with you. Hope you enjoy it!
AsdFGhulds!!1 I love it when this happens. I’VE SEEN YOUR FANART BEFORE, you should know that YOU, yes you, are partially responsible for inspiring this tumblr.
Ok well FIRST OF ALL – I had seen that fanart before – at least 1 year ago – on DA before I even started this tumblr and I still think it’s hilarious, and I had already posted it here (not knowing you had a tumblr)!! It also inspired one of my early memeythings ❤
That one and a few other VC Rage Comics are here, tagged #vc rage. I made a few of ‘em too ;]
Secondly, you love my blog & my memeythings awwww: that’s the reaction I go for! Much appreciate, much flattered.
Clearly I am also a fan of IWTV.
TL;DR: Please make more fanart/vc rage/etc., if you are so inspired bc I am a fan of YOU.
I-want-my-IWTV 