I really enjoyed it but haven’t felt the need to really discuss it in depth. Aesthetically great. Acting was great. The story was… I’m really at a loss for how to describe it but just thinking about it gives me chills! Good scary movie chills 😉 I have some thoughts scattered in my #crimson peak tag, along with fanart for it.
I fully agree with what @annabellioncourt had said about it to me before I saw it:
YOU’RE GONNA LOVE CRIMSON PEAK ITS RIDICULOUS AND DARING, AND ITS FUCKED UP ENOUGH FOR ANNE RICE TO HAVE WRITTEN IT.
Aaaaand if that’s not endorsement enough, I felt like taking notes when I watched it so I could make: Lestat watches “Crimson Peak”here’s a snippet *SPOILERS*:
My lover’s sister tried to kill me, too. Hurts, doesn’t it????!!!
The dog is dying! Now I’m actually upset.
“You’re monsters, both of you!” Where have I heard that before? Now this is hitting too close to home. I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING KEEP TAKING NOTES.
You stabbed him iN THE FACE. IN THE FACE!! Rude. What about the groundrules? Rule number 1: No touching of the hair or face… AND THAT’S IT!
♛Ah, the creative blocks! They happen to us all. When I lose musical inspiration, I turn to listening to – or doing my own – variations on existing works.
I might try a song and sing it in another singer’s style. Have you ever heard of Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine? Lounge applied to any other song, preferably one in a very different genre, is almost a guarantee of comic relief, and that can be the first crack in breaking through my creative block.
Collaboration with others can help, too. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been creatively stifled, I’ll call my mortal band to meet at a karaoke place and we’ll just go through our favorites, works very well.
But there are going to be times in your life where the muse won’t speak to you for no apparent reason, and other times when you can’t shut her up, ebbs and flows are normal. I hope your muse returns to you, post-haste *winks*
You might want to send a similar message to Anne Rice herself over on FB, not that she would answer it necessarily, but I do think she appreciates it every time when she gets messages like these, and I think she would be supportive of your love for her books ❤
While I’m always grateful to receive messages like these (notes like these keep this blog alive!), I’ve held it for a week bc I wanted to collect myself, and be very careful in answering it.
I didn’t set out with the intention of providing a place where VC fans can share their thoughts and feelings, that was a happy accident, and I engage with those thoughts and feelings as selectively as I do in any conversation online or in real life. I’m not an official/paid VC spokesperson, not an authority, and never claimed to be, I’m just one fan who enjoys VC and wants to do that in my own specific way. It’s been wonderful to find others who also enjoy VC, the discussions here can be informative, and sharing headcanons/fanart/fanfic/etc. has been the gift that keeps on giving ❤ I’ve made some of the best friends of my life here.
TL;DR: I hope you make friends here, Anon, and can see that you can love these books with others. Don’t let your mom trample on you for what you enjoy. Don’t argue with her, just don’t take those comments to heart.
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“Lately my mother has been ridiculing me for having read the VC, she will say things like: “You and your stupid vampire books.” Which is not something I like to hear.”
^I find that kind of dismissive language/attitude really insulting, too. She must not see what you and I do. You’re not alone. This is a small fandom but a growing one, where fanartists are inspired to draw the characters, writers inspired to write fic about them, cosplayers to dress up like them! People use these stories and characters as an outlet for their own self-expression, their own beliefs about life.
I agree w/ you, VC has taught me a lot about life, too. We all come to VC with our own experiences/imagination and we take from it what works for us… but the common thread I’ve seen throughout all these years is that the impact VC has had on many of the fans seems to come directly from the work Anne Rice put into it in those first few books. In those books, she was working through the kind of pain few people can really understand or survive, working through her demons she was working straw into gold, and we found it relatable. We watched Louis struggle through his issues with religion and having to kill people to survive. We watched Claudia suffer with the realities of her existence and try to deal with it as best she could. We got Lestat’s life story and how miserable his beginnings were and how he managed to keep a kind heart and aim for goodness despite all the failures and obstacles in his way. There’s a lot of pain in these first few books, but there’s also love and triumph, too. Not always a clear distinction between good/bad, there are difficult choices, and not always the best results, but the general direction always felt like the characters were trying. That’s my own interpretation and what I’ve gotten out of it.
Straw into gold, that’s what I think we have in VC, and those who fail to see that? Well, maybe they’ve found something more relatable somewhere else, or they didn’t need it, but for people like your mom to trample on others for finding relatable value in a fictional work?I can’t support that, personally. I admit that I do poke fun at the Twilight fans occasionally, as they probably poke fun at VC fans, but deep in my heart, I respect them and I would hope that they respect us. They are no less “worthy” of liking what they like – and finding something in it that gives them life – than anyone else.
“I appreciate that I can just go onto your blog and see that other people love these books too.”
We do love these books! I hope you come off anon and make some friends here. Friends are the family you choose for yourself. Don’t let your mom trample on you for enjoying what you enjoy.
true story, my roommate works for Warner Brothers and when they put these out at Halloween she texted me a pic of Tom Cruise’s buttons with the caption STOP LOOKING AT MY BUTTONS and it was the greatest.
she also said that Louis’s outfit was EXCESSIVELY SHINY irl.
@merrycai asked if I could post the pic of the buttons BUT I DON’T HAVE IT IN MY PHONE ANYMORE but I do have this screencap from when she wouldn’t stop texting me details on the costumes cause it was instagram worthy at the time lmao.
♫ But the cat came back the very next day, The cat came back, we thought he was a goner But the cat came back; it just couldn’t stay away. Away, away, yea, yea, yea ♫
Awww, you are very welcome to all of that! What a lovely message to send me. Notes like these keep this blog alive… and you made my night, I’m cry! ^______^ Come off anon!
I’m honored that ppl ask for my opinions on VC, it gives me the opportunity to dig around and find the information/resources, I have a nearly photographic memory for some of this stuff *laughs*… many asks make me sit back to reflect and remember what it is about this series that keeps me here… I can only speak to my own reasons, but I draw a lot of inspiration from these characters and their stories.
Am I a genuinely sweet and friendly person? I try to be the blogger and the person I want to see in the world, whether online or in the real world. Which means I still make mistakes, but I learn, and try to improve.
My tags! They used to be a lot sillier and I’ve toned them down, but I keep them as organized as I can so that I can find previous answers! It was just for my own organization originally but I’m so glad you appreciate the tags! I plan to have a legit ~Navigation~ page so that major tags are all lined up and easily accessible, so you can go right to, for example, the #VC News tag and see what the latest news is. I don’t reblog everything from the Official VC FB page since so much of it is teasing and fluff, so if I reblogged/posted smtg here, it’s bc I felt like it was ACTUALLY newsworthy, or there was smtg we could talk about specifically.
P.S. And thanks for reminding me, I have to catch up on my tagging, during the last two months I’ve been off-and-on-line, when you see #Tag later it’s bc I was on mobile cruising the dash ;D
Thanks again, Anon. Very sweet of you to say that *hugs*
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