Headcanon: What you think happened, based on the characters, settings, storylines and all reasonable extrapolations thereof.
Heartcanon: What you feel ought to have happened, quite divorced from rationality or sense.
Soulcanon: What you know happened, deep down in your soul, regardless of what anyone says. Including the creators of canon, themselves.
Crotchcanon: What your gonads wish had happened, or, alternatively, what turns you on.
Oh my goodness.
They forgot fanon which seems to be confused these days with canon…
So, what is “fanon” then?
//Fanon is stuff not in canon but that’s so prevalent in fandom that people have largely forgotten it’s not in the source material, ie, Daniel Molloy wearing glasses (which is Movieverse Canon, but literally never happens in the books). It’s headcanons that are extremely common or permeate the fandom so deeply it’s hard to separate them from canon, even if they never actually appear in the main material. (I think.. maybe someone else can explain it better.)
“The book never said it /didn’t/ happen” i say as I rub my little fangirl hands together.
//I love that graphic. That edition of IwtV, the movie paperback, was the first copy i ever got. 😀 It makes me happy to see. Also good explanation of canon vs headcanon.
Merci! I really love the concept of “headcanon” as separate from “canon,” gives that old “Read between the lines” quote so much flexibility.
That edition was not the first one I read (which was borrowed), but it was the cover for the copy I got for myself:
Can we talk about the star symbol? Check out that star symbol.
I wonder who designed it? And what did it mean? IIRC, there weren’t 5 books in the series at that point. Maybe just “5-pointed star looks cool so here ya go.” Is it significant that the star is upside down? Is it a subliminal witch-related thing?
At any rate, I was pretty obsessed with drawing it on my hand in marker. Just now, I cobbled it together in pshop… I am AWARE that the angles are ALL WRONG but I AM TIRED IT’S ALMOST MIDNIGHT GIVE ME A BREAK AND ANYWAY IT STILL LOOKS COOL:
^I considered getting it as a tattoo, w/ inverted colors. But can’t really justify pulling the trigger bc A) I’d have to clean up the design and I am lazy… and I know what it means to me, but B) I really would want to know who designed it and what exactly it’s meant to be?
I actually don’t know! Purposely. Ignorance is bliss. I’m just grateful we haven’t suffered a crossover of BV/VC.
I’m gonna redirect you to hyperbeeb, who is taking one for the team and reading the first one in the- has read the first one and is now reading the whole series?! Her tag for this journey into madness is #Mary reads the blood vivicanti
The blood Vivicanti is the name given to the vampires that aren’t vampires in the series. The blood Vivicanti are humans who have been infused with the blood of an alien. They possess superhuman senses and speed. A secondary good source for them is human blood which they consume via a proboscis protruding from their tongue which has a stinger at the end. The sting creates an orgasmic effect in its victims. For the blood Vivicanti, drinking of the blood allows them access to the memories and skills of their victims but only for a limited time (except of course in the case of our special snowflake protagonist whose photographic memory lets her retain skills forever).
The word Vivicanti itself was carefully chosen and created by Anne rice. It is a combination of two Latin words to make a new word. From my best guess, it’s a mixture of the word vivi, meaning living or alive and canti which means a song so the literal translation of Vivicanti is living song. So the blood living song. God, it’s blood canticle all over again.
OMG yes! I had a few 1700′s style (or 70′s 1700′s revival…) shirts as a teen, and the tugging motion of pulling those laces from the jacket sleeves is very familiar! Though I didn’t wear leather, I had a ugly burgundy velvet jacket. And I drove a bicycle, not a sports car. (This was mainly David Bowie’s fault, I didn’t read VC until I was 18…) That motion/gif reminds me of listening to glam rock from my walkman and feeling like the most bad ass under-appreciated 14 year old hot mess in town.
Ugly burgundy velvet jacket is also VC. There’s definitely some David Bowie in Lestat (fashion, looks, attitude, musical prowess, etc!). Especially Jareth!Bowie.
Goblin King vs. Brat Prince? I always thought these two moments were worth comparing and now you’ve given me an adequate excuse to do it! They’re both pining for the affections of a brunette… they both use a kid to try to hold onto their brunette… So many comparisons…
Lestat (and Jareth!) is kinda the most bad ass under-appreciated 1421200+ year old hot mess in town.
I can’t remember when, but Lestat specifically mentioned that vampires are adept at figuring tech out, it’s one of their gifts (synapses firing on more cylinders than mere mortals?) + their advantage being students of mankind and tech evolution.
So, on what substantially literary grounds have I been so affectionately snarky about Lestat’s difficult relationship with technology all this time? Oh the harm I caused!
Ahh Blood Canticle and Blackwood Farm, probably. Heh
Those, probably, yes. Snark is always welcome, tho, Lestat would probably agree that #Any attention, even bad, is better than no attention #Lestat de LimelightHog.
I think there is some iPhone-related adoration & frustration mentioned (which I headcanon away as being Lestat frustrated at other things and merely scapegoating onto his phone), and also Lestat’s seeming insistence on using WordStar to write each of his memoirs long after it was outdated? I think?
Ouch but picture going through eternity with a sightly uneven, shorter-than-you-wanted haircut. Imagine this kind of pain! D:
THAT REALLY WOULD BE omg. I’d be like, “Hold up, can you come back when this haircut has grown out? It’s really… not a style that can stand the test of time, lol.”
Or like, for dudes, beard grizzle? Or lack of beard grizzle…. clean-shaven for eternity with no ability to grow one’s own hipster-beard EVER. We should be grateful Lestat was such. I can’t picture him w/ any kind of facial hair, ewwww.
I imagine Louis purposely shaved on his last day (tho he probably didn’t know it wouldn’t grow back; it’s doubtful that Lestat gave him that level of detail), he had the time to prepare, but they don’t always. Alot of Ricean vampires are turned on short notice, no clean-up time available.
//OOC: Yeah, so here’s actual the question I asked on Facebook AND the response, for those interested, since there’s a version going around without the question. Never actually asked about sex just the depth of the relationship, but Anne does usually throw that in during ship questions. (I still apply fanon logic since Ursula banged Vittorio in his book. Discrepancies, love it for fic and RP reasons.)
Yeah.. well, we all read PL, right? In this book EVERYONE loves EVERYONE and EVERYTHING in EVERY moment EVER mentioned! So yeah, of course that Marius loves Daniel. It does not confirm anything.
And sex. Didn’t Lestat say in QOTD that his johnson was like priapus ready for something that could never been performed anymore? Not with pleaure that is. So, well, technically, penetration is possible…but orgasm through that? Nah…
merciful-death said: ooc; Didn’t post the full question because I didn’t want to show disrespect by posting your real name on Tumblr. I apologize.
Yeah, I’d have done the same, Merciful “D”. 😉
//OOC: It was never explicitly stated in PL that Daniel reciprocated feelings for Marius, which is why I asked. With Anne’s response, now we know. Again, the point of this question was the ship, not sex, but the fandom seems incapable of enjoying the happy parts of anything without someone having a fit.
The Vampire Chronicles: If you shipped it, it was or will be canon at some point. The ship whore’s delight.
OOC; So I found this on Anne’s Facebook page. It was so amusing, but I have to agree. I love the wedding description she wrote for her fans [wedding des.]. It was fun and adorable, and keeping within context with the historical ruling in the US. I agree with her on this one and just her general positive attitude towards Lestat. It’s so easy to criticize him. Lestat he doesn’t make it easy. I get that.
AR:“Please, let’s be optimistic. Allow my Brat Prince some hope!” – I have a sneaking suspicion that it was just Lestat posing as AR.
The last comment gets mewhiningforcenturies this was us yesterday….WAS IT NOT? WHERE IS THE LIE THO? Post from last night.
“Anne, please, A girl can only cry so many happy tears in one night.”
^I’m pissing myself laughing because the comment about how you can only cry so many happy tears in one night was me.
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