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Interview with the Vampire (1994)
#don’t you love the way Claudia snuggles in there #tucks herself in #like she’s actually Louis’ doll?
#she is 80% made of that dress and those curls
#how he places that little kiss on top of her head right before he shuts the lid #Right before theyll be in total darkness #just to reassure her #He is such a good mom
I love you and your blog so much. I wish my friends understood the allure of the VC fandom. Thank you for existing ❤️
ermagehrd thank u so much u sweet thing!
Idk about your friends not understanding the allure of the VC fandom. Some ppl write off all vampire media these days bc we’re so saturated with it. Some ppl write off the movie bc Tom Cruise is in it, or the problematic elements in the books are too problematic for them… there are alot of reasons ppl are resistant to VC and I don’t blame them, the series is not for everyone. Oprah walked out of movie!IWTV (after 15 min I think?)!
Anyway notes like this one mean SO MUCH to me. I’m not planning on inventing anything, proving myself in some kind of athletic competition, winning any awards, or leaving my mark in some other more societally-approved way.
If I can just share the love for this one pile of dysfunctional vampires w/ other like-minded ppl, and encourage the fanworks to keep the fandom alive, I’m perfectly fine with that. THIS IS MY LEGACY.
Free pass for Louis! [X]
So, I have to do it this way because my tumblr hates me and won’t reblog the reblogged post on i-want-my-iwtv‘s tumblr even though I love this pic because:
OMG this is hands down my favorite part of the movie cause they actually act like they like each other for once without Louis being all melancholic and stuff. It’s like he forgot that he’s supposed to tell Daniel how much he hated Lestat and just goes into full-blown mommy/lover mode. Me loves this!
I was scrolling through your posts when I saw a production still of Louis wearing that coat he wears when he and Claudia arrive in Paris and he’s in a cemetery, maybe a cemetery in Paris? Is there any explanation for this production still? I’ve never seen it before.
That is a fabulous coat.
[X] Possibly a teensy ref to Lestat’s fur-lined cloak in TVL? Not fluffy enough to be wolf, but hopefully fake fur for the movie.
This is the image you referred to (it appears that he’s wearing the same coat with jacket underneath as in the screencap above):
I don’t know of any cemeteries that have multiple levels like that, what is that, stadium seating?, definitely not in NOLA (at least one of the cemeteries in NOLA is that crowded tho). There is a scene in one version of the script (thanks @thesaramonster!) that mentions a graveyard in Transylvania of course, when Claudia and Louis are on their own, searching for other vampires:
MONTAGE OF SKETCHES
A TRANSLYVANIAN VILLAGE, A GRAVEYARD.
RUINED CASTLE AFTER CASTLE, LOOKING INTO THE SKIES…
LOUISThe quest for these Old World
vampires filled me with bitterness.
We searched village after village,
ruin after ruin andI was glad when
always we found nothing. For what
could the damned really have to say
to the damned?
^So I don’t think Neil Jordan tried to include the scene in the book where they find and kill a zombpire, but that production still might have been sort of a reference to it.
But it’s especially sad that Louis still has that coat after Claudia’s been killed ;A;
Can you imagine how painful it would have been, returning to the hotel room he shared with Claudia, all her clothes and accessories exactly as they were when she left it last? ;A;
hello! how are you? i absolutely loove your blog! i’m kinda new to the fandom, so if you don’t mind, can you recommend me some vampire chronicles blogs you like?
Merci beaucoup! I’m good. Glad you asked this bc I haven’t done one of these in a year.
Welcome to our little corner of tumblrland, as I always say. Good to have fresh blood, pun intended of course.
[^X digging up an oldie from the archive bc reasons.]
ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE
(ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧
Some ppl post IWTV or QOTD pics/gifsets or aesthetic posts, some ppl will post meta about VC and other fandoms, but I think the only other exclusively VC blogs (or as close as possible, as mine aims to be) are @vampire-chronicles-appreciation and @vampchronfic.
(The lists below are updated a little from a post I made about this a year ago, so some may be inactive now, but their archives might lead you to active ppl.)
Specifically VC blogs (in no special order):
- annericevcmexico
- jardinsalvaje
- myimmortalchronicles
- l–e–s–t–a–t
- loustat-de-pointe-du-lioncourt
- lestat-and-louis
- vcdirectory
- vcpositivity
- vcsecretgifts (not necessarily active but good fanworks there)
- vampchronfic
- vampire-chronicles-appreciation
- the-talamasca
- talamascaaa
- takemetocoffin-or-losemeforever
- vampiredevelopment
- textsfromthevampire
- withinthesavagegarden
- chrissydeath
Other blogs that often mention VC or other vampire or gothic yumminess:
- askavampirologist
- annabellioncourt
- gothiccharmschool
- fyeahgothicromance
- vampiresarechildrenofthenight
- sheepskeleton
- hyperbeeb
- cloudsinvenice
- duendology
You can also try these tags for RPers, headcanons, fanart, ppl looking for other VC Fandom ppl, and such in the VC fandom:
- headcanon
- headcanon accepted
- damn you and your perfect headcanon perfection
- fanart
- VC synopsis
- RP
- For RPers
- Bump
- VC Fandom Hunters
Here are some blogs that reblog a bunch of IWTV stuff. i’m not sure about the others, but the first two make gifsets, sometimes photosets, text posts etc 🙂
based on my blog you’re probably thinking “wtf why are you messaging me?” BUT, i just wanted to know… what’s your opinion on the lestat musical? personally i rather enjoy it, especially when i’m in the mood for uproarious laughter. plus the songs are catchy.
Ya gotta realize that I love getting Asks, no matter who they’re from (well I don’t like trolly asks but that goes w/o sayin’), when it’s from someone who seems like they’re not necessarily in our fandom, that’s fine, too. Not everyone has to be as obsessed with this to the level that I am ;} Any interest is good interest!
^fanart by @garama, who must have seen it live or the video of it, and has drawn fanart based on the musical, so he must have liked it! This is one of my all-time fave fanarts of the little family ❤ i just want to buy a whole graphic novel in this beautiful heartfelt style is that so much to ask *cries*
Re: Lestat the Musical, I am so sorry to say that I didn’t like it and I can’t even enjoy the videos of it *sobs* I vaguely remember one funny joke Gabrielle made about childbirth, something like that was the first of many bellyaches Lestat caused her… ? I don’t remember 😛
Some ppl loved Lestat the Musical, and more power to them! I am jealous of you. IDK if you saw the SF version or NYC version, live or video of it, but I saw the NYC version live and I partially blame the NYC producers for how bad it was for me, bc they apparently stripped out alot of the flair and gay stuff, maybe they were afraid it was pushing the envelope too far? But isn’t that what theatre is supposed to do? *sigh*
You can find ppl who enjoyed it, and other stuff about it, in my #Lestat the Musical tag.
Sadly, I mostly feel second-hand embarrassment for Lestat the Musical bc I made the mistake of inviting my cousin to go w/ me. She was not in the fandom, and she was uncomfortable the whole time *facepalm* Idk I thought she’d be into it, but the NYC version we saw was stripped so bare, and there was little to engage with. I can’t even listen to the soundtrack! It just brings me back to how disappointed I was in the bareness of the production, at the whole audience’s lack of enthusiasm… much cry, very sad.
So I have to be cautiously optimistic about the adaptation in the works and hope that they considered Lestat the Musical and can avoid its pitfalls.
So I’ve been reading The Vampire Chronicles and have been super enjoying it so far. I love the disgusting drama these creatures get up to. While I’ve been busy at work I have had the time to sketch these out and today the studio was on break and I was able to color them all in one swoop.
It’s pencil plus a couple multiply/overlay layers in photoshop.The order is:
Louis, Claudia, Lestat
Armand, Nicki, Gabrielle
Bianca, Marius, Santino.I’m reading QotD next so expect Akasha soon, ohohoho….
Oh god they’re all so beautiful 💜
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