Happy birthday, I hope you have a great one <3

Thank u! 

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…Omg your blog’s caption… applies to me and several others of us, I’m sure, also… “I’ve spent my life obsessed with The Vampire Chronicles and in love with Percy Shelley and I’m not about to stop now. Occasionally other things.”

^Except for the Percy Shelley part. I wish I loved poetry in general more. Maybe that’ll be another thing I work on this year, embracing poetry and finding the pleasure in it that poetry lovers do! I’ll have to start with him. Do you recommend any of his specific works for a poetry beginner?

I’m a fan of Interview with the Vampire and I had a thought about the movie. I know you don’t know all the answers about IWTV but it’s nice to hear your opinions. So what if one of the reasons why Louis loved Claudia so much was because Claudia somewhat resembled Louis’ wife? In the movie we know Louis’ wife died in childbirth and that’s all we really know about her and we never saw what she looked like. Maybe she had blue eyes and soft curly blonde hair like Claudia?

Welcome! Yes, what you see here on my blog are only opinions, which are based on my own reading of the books, my experience of movie!IWTV, and conversations I’ve had with other fans for all these years. I’m glad people have their own ideas, their own interpretations, I’ve learned a lot!

So what if one of the reasons why Louis loved Claudia so much was because Claudia somewhat resembled Louis’ wife?

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It’s quite possible! Since Louis doesn’t have a wife in the books, only in the movie, we can only speculate about her. But I like to think Louis’ wife resembled the statue over her grave. I would think that Louis would have commissioned it, or been the one to choose it, but then again, it might have been in his family cemetery already.

If we look at the script, (you can do the google and you’ll find it), we get Louis’ wife’s name, Dianne de Pointe du Lac:

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^BTW, I think the wife’s name is “Dianne” bc HELLO “Anne” Rice. “Die, Anne”? Maybe?

In the movie we know Louis’ wife died in childbirth and that’s all we really know about her and we never saw what she looked like. Maybe she had blue eyes and soft curly blonde hair like Claudia?

That’s definitely possible! There is a fic out there that suggests that Lestat would introduce himself as Claudia’s mother’s brother, hence their strong resemblance, and that Louis was in fact Claudia’s biological father. And that Claudia’s mother had died, and that her loving uncle was helping to raise her ❤

~♥♥♥ VC Fandom Love ♥♥♥~

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Can we get our collective fandom blood moving in a friendly way? ❤ 

This is a shout out post, feel free to comment/reblog this and tag your friends, or mention fave moments in canon, or fanfic recs, or whatever, please only positive stuff! 

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You can also send me shout outs anonymously and I might post them or add them here ;D

I saw someone asking about if vampires could have their picture taken and IIRC in Merrick Louis had a photograph of Claudia so it seems like vampires can have their picture taken right?

Yes, that’s in Merrick. It seems like Ricean vampires can be captured with photography, film, and video.

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[^X not quite the right Claudia, but this is an evocative photo titled Livia by Frederick Sommer.]

Louis tells David about it:

“But the photographs, the daguerreotypes, that’s what she wanted, the real image of herself on glass…. But then years later, when we reached Paris, in those lovely nights before we ever happened upon the Théâtre  des Vampires and the monsters who would destroy her, she found that the magic pictures could be taken at night, with artificial light!“ 

He seemed to be reliving the experience painfully, I remained quiet. 

“You can’t imagine her excitement. She had seen an exhibit by the famous photographer Nadar of pictures from the Paris catacombs. Pictures of cartloads of human bones. Nadar was quite the man, as I’m sure you know. She was thrilled by the pictures. She went to his studio, by special appointment, in the evening, and there this picture was made." 

He came towards me. 

"It’s a dim picture. It took an age for all the mirrors and the artificial lamps to do their work. And Claudia stood still for so long, well, only a vampire child might have worked such a trick. But she was very pleased with it. She kept it on her dressing table in the Hotel Saint-Gabriel, the last place that we ever called our home. We had such lovely rooms there. It was near to the Opera. I don’t think she ever unpacked the painted portraits. It was this that mattered to her. I’d actually thought she would come to be happy in Paris. Maybe she would have been … But there wasn’t time. This little picture, she felt it was only the beginning, and planned to return to Nadar with an even lovelier dress.”

i was just wondering if we could tag you in stuff? ^3^

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Please do! I liked getting tagged and I see it in my activity feed *u*

…But also, please don’t feel bad if I don’t reblog/respond to smtg you tag me in, I don’t see everything I’m tagged in. I’m also very picky about what I reblog and what askmemes I respond to, trying not to spam ppl’s dash, y’know?

It’s still so flattering that you like me in addition to my blog content, I’m so touched when you want to tag me in Ask memes! But I also feel like I myself am not VC enough, so I can’t really justify answering a lot of those *laughcries*

Also as a reminder, my Lestat muse (and Louis muse) cannot have real threads with any muses, I’m sorry to say. They are for Asks only. There isn’t enough time to RP with everyone who asks, and I would feel bad that I would have to choose which to do, and make some people feel left out. 

awww ok :( thanks for answering anyway. and there’s no ebay for my country and international country’s ebays have shipping that can be up to $100, even if a friend shipped they would pay similar costs because my country does not like things going in and out. New Zealand and England? haha I wish i lived somewhere as nice and safe lol

I’m sorry that it’s hard for you to get the VC books 😦

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But again, and I don’t know about your internet connection, but here in the US it’s pretty easy to find VC online by googling for the pdfs. 

What about libraries in your country? Sometimes you can ask your library to bring in books.

I get that shipping is expensive. I actually did a giveaway post where I offered to ship a few VC out as prizes, which I bought at a library book sale for like $1-$2 each, and I still intend to ship them out. Message me off-anon and let’s see if we can work something out. 

BTW, if anyone is interested in shipping their unwanted VC book(s) out to someone in a foreign country who really wants to read them, as a show of VC fandom solidarity, message me!