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A chronological retrospective of the two rings Louis wears. For 200 years. Apparently Lestat could get him to change his wardrobe, kill people, and all kinds of other depraved things etc., but Louis kept his jewelry to a strict minimum.

One appears to be his wedding ring.

  • in the movie version, Louis is a widow. Maybe the ring was his wedding ring.
  • After the Dark Gift, he keeps it on. Maybe it’s earned new significance towards Lestat, now. 
  • After Lestat’s “death,” Louis continues to wear the ring. Maybe it’s significant to both people he’s lost.

The other is a pinky ring.

  • This one may have just been fashionable to begin with.
  • Maybe it symbolized the child who died with his wife in childbirth.
  • Later, maybe it’s earned new significance when Claudia is given the Dark Gift.
  • After Claudia’s death, Louis continues to wear the ring. Maybe it’s significant to both “children” he’s lost.

UPDATE: anaryawe says:

(re: Louis & rings in the film) pinky ring was a gay code, or “no marriage plz”-code at some point. I’ve always thought that Louis’ pinky ring is his dead wifes wedding ring, and so signifies both “all the loves I’ve lost” and “tried heterosexuality once and it was a disaster”…

so what you want is less a lestat action figure, but for matel to make a lestat Barbie?

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annabellioncourt:

i-want-my-iwtv:

I think u is trying to make fun of me/him but it wont work bc I WOULD LOVE A SERIES OF LESTAT/VC BARBIES YES 

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…AND action figures ^u^ bc he is a man of action after all ;]

I’m pretty sure once upon a time there was a Lestat doll; I remember reading stuff on the VC forums about it during my early internet days (re: six years ago when I got internet at my grandparents’ place)

Ah here we are

http://www.vampires.sarawebsite.com/misc/dolls.html

now from the 1997 collection Louis looks alright, so does Claudia. I don’t know what the heck’s going on in the 1996 collection *shudder*

The Paul Crees one are all officials, the rest are custom jobs.

I like the official Louis and Claudia enough, but not enough to fork over $800+ on ebay for them

The official Lestat’s though….well…..he kind of scares me

Yes, I knew about these. Other than the fact that their price was extremely prohibitive, they were never dolls you’d feel comfortable really handling, they were more just to have as glorified dust collectors Works of Art.

I don’t really think any of those Crees ones look that decent… Louis is white but not THAT white, Claudia looks like any other little blonde doll, nothing really gives her that Claudia look… Lestat has these weird bags under his eyes and generally looks like the love child of Michelle Pfeiffer (an oft-picked FC for Gabrielle) and Rutger Hauer (RH being AR’s original headcanon of Lestat).

And let’s not even GO THERE with the outfits… suffice it to say, in using real lace and such, they all look bundled up with so much fabric that they’re well prepared for a harsh Auvergne winter!

I would want dolls with synthetic fabric clothes that would be better tailored to better bodies. Dolls with posable jointed limbs and torsos for photoshoots (!!!!) and with faces that… well… one couldn’t go very wrong modeling them after the movie!IWTV actors (ASIDE from Armand, I am not even GOING THERE with my defending Antonio business!).

dear fandom,

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vampchronfic:

shegavemehermind:

benedict cumberbatch is almost forty. lestat was immortalized just after he turned 20. as much as anne loves benedict and as sweet of a person as he is

it’s not going to happen

hiddles has a better shot at louis, but he’s still ten years louis’ biological senior. again, louis was 24 when he was turned.

also pushing for these actors to be cast is massively unfair to young, emerging actors that would be much better types for the parts. benedict was in virtually every nerdy adaptation that was made in 2013. we need a break from him.

they’re cool headcanons

but stop pushing for them to cast those two because it’s not going to happen. i’m not trying to hurt anyone’s feelings, i’m just being real.

if benedict does get cast in this, it will probably be as marius.

#OH GOD NO#new things to fear#I like him in Sherlock but just no#but yes i agree with this post#I’d rather see less big names and have a franchise with a shot at not pricing itself out of existence with expensive stars#vampire chronicles

^Agreed on all points. I’d take either as secondary characters tho? And maybe they’d be more available in terms of production time if they weren’t main characters? But I do enjoy this fanart by reapersun and derlaine, we could have HiddlesBatch in a graphic novel ❤

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cloudsinvenice:

arollercoasterthatonlygoesup:

if the phantom of the opera has taught me anything it’s that if all else fails you set the place on fire and cry

And if the Vampire Chronicles have taught me anything it’s that if all else fails, you set the place on fire and mope. 

Yeah, pretty much! 

We make fun of Louis for his pyromania so much hell I do it too!, but he was a plantation owner and that means slash & burn may have been part of the regular crop production. Setting fires was a step in standard operating procedure. Wiki says: “The resulting ash fertilizes the soil and the burned field is then planted at the beginning of the next rainy season with crops…”

But then you have this exchange from IWTV:

“ ‘Fire purifies …’ Claudia said. And I said, `No, fire merely destroys…’ ”

So yeah maybe it’s just the pyromania… 

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vampire-chronicles-rp:

theadveturesoflestatandfriends:

vampire-chronicles-rp, I can see what you’re talking about in this gif. He is thinking about eating the birds.

It’s just something I’ve always thought about this scene, but like it would be one little party of humanity he could reclaim by setting them free,

Maybe these birds remind him of his chicken diet earlier… and yes, agreed w/ vampire-chronicles-rp.

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gingerhairedimmortal:

i-want-my-iwtv:

viaticumforthemarquise:

epicureanmarius:

everlastingporcelain hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet “do you think that, after so many books by the Coven of the Articulate,…”

yep

viaticumforthemarquise replied to your post: do you think that, after so many books by the Coven of the Articulate, some Talamasca Members started shipping the vampires? 

//100% yes. This is the beginning of half of their trouble. Just think, if you could meet your OTP, what might happen?

Just imagine 30 pages of elaborate essays on why one pairing is more canon than another with hundreds of references throughout the different books 

//OMG No stop, that’s hilarious. Because I’m pretty sure you are correct. They probably have whole sections of the vampire division dedicated to all of this. Long charts of who has fucked who over the centuries…

SPOILER: all lines just lead to Lestat. 

SPOILER: all lines just lead to Lestat. 

^True facts.

And how psyched was David to get added to that tracking document?! He would never admit to it but you know, deep down, he fangirled over himself/Lestat. At some point. Probably. 

While Armand has his own copy and sits glaring at the fact that the only line that does NOT lead to Lestat is his own.

What does he need to do for the Brat Prince to fuck him as well?

[gingerhairedimmortal has the full comic to that fanart!]

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viaticumforthemarquise:

epicureanmarius:

everlastingporcelain hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet “do you think that, after so many books by the Coven of the Articulate,…”

yep

viaticumforthemarquise replied to your post: do you think that, after so many books by the Coven of the Articulate, some Talamasca Members started shipping the vampires? 

//100% yes. This is the beginning of half of their trouble. Just think, if you could meet your OTP, what might happen?

Just imagine 30 pages of elaborate essays on why one pairing is more canon than another with hundreds of references throughout the different books 

//OMG No stop, that’s hilarious. Because I’m pretty sure you are correct. They probably have whole sections of the vampire division dedicated to all of this. Long charts of who has fucked who over the centuries…

SPOILER: all lines just lead to Lestat. 

SPOILER: all lines just lead to Lestat. 

^True facts.

And how psyched was David to get added to that tracking document?! He would never admit to it but you know, deep down, he fangirled over himself/Lestat. At some point. Probably. 

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MY HOW THE TABLES HAVE TURNED

… but they approach each other very differently in these scenes. There’s the pull of love underneath, but on the surface Lestat has to do the taunting, a defense mechanism against possible rejection. Louis approaches Lestat without a word, just his presence. He’s there for closure, not really to get anything from Lestat beyond that. 

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liquorandptsdvarietyshow:

i-want-my-iwtv:

liquorandptsdvarietyshow:

i-want-my-iwtv:

gorgeous-fiend:  #NO #NO WAY DID MATER JUST SAY LESTAT LISTENS TO JON BON JOVI #NOPE NOPE NOPE

Of course he does! Consider the following: 

1) Lestat has pretty scholcky taste in music, all things considered. Yes he is a musician and a rock star but basically he likes anything you can dance to; 

2) Bon Jovi are tbh pretty cool. I’m not saying rush out and buy all their albums, but Slippery When Wet is a good time with a gross title. 

Hard to disagree w/ liquorandptsdvarietyshow. Headcanon accepted. Although my gut reaction to things AR claims he likes, in general, is to disagree. See: Lestat’s papal desires. 

My fave bit in Blood Canticle is when he has that extended fantasy about explaining to Pope JP that capitalism is actually, in fact, totes great. I just love that. It’s so fucking awful and yet it’s weirdly in character. 

It’s true though that there is this thing AR has where basically all the vampires, indiscriminate of their differences, enjoy all the same art, and that art suspiciously, somehow, is basically just everything AR likes. It’s like those fanfics I wrote when I was younger where all the characters had my exact taste, meaning I got to insert music and books and that that I liked.*

Examples include: the Baz Luhrmann Romeo & Juliet, Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, whichever Baroque violinist AR is listening to at the time… 

*I don’t do that anymore – nowadays character’s preferences are strongly informed by character. E.g., how Lestat thinks W. Bush is charming and bumbly, and likes Judy Blume (whom I do like, but… not like he does). Or in AmCap, even, how Steve likes LOTR (I super don’t). Or Tony is weird about Steve Albini (which is because Albini is aggressively committed to analogue recording technology, at the same time as being a similar model of belligerent middle-aged asshole to Tony. It’s a joke, guys, I’m very funny). 

I have to reread Blood Canticle, forgot about the defense of capitalism mixed with papal awe… there are definitely some good things in BC. Like Mona not taking Lestat’s chauvinism AT ALL. 

“And I know why you’re so fired up over Rowan, she’s the first adult female other than your own mother who’s ever caught your attention for more than five minutes, and Hello! Lestat Discovers The Opposite Sex! Yeah, females do come in grown-up sizes! And I happen to be one of them, and this is not the Garden of Eden, and I am not taking off this dress!”

//Shots fired! I’m not a big fan of Mona Mayfair but WOW who else has the balls to talk to him like that?!

It makes the story so much richer to have the characters have their own interests and not share them with each other. Example: Louis’s distaste but understanding of Lestat’s need of regular installments of retail therapy. Those gas-station sunglasses!

Side note: I think your Lestat is amused at the performance of W. as a character, whether W. intended it consciously or it came naturally. Perhaps Lestat sees it (and politics in general) as a form of modern Commedia dell’arte, watching W. perform, watching newsmen bark at each other about W…. might be a similar kind of show!

How adorable that your Lestat went into such analysis about Judy Blume, how refreshing for him to cite specific reasons why he adores her thinking process, and her advice, how he relates it to different situations, whether he agrees with it or not and even questioning those judgements… rather than canon!Lestat who seemed to drool over the Pope for no more than his proximity to God and the kind of worship he experiences as middle man between the believers and the Creator.

Ahhh tangent… I shouldn’t have continued this, shouldn’t try to bite off more than I can chew with you, liquorandptsdvarietyshow… but we are in agreement, is the bottom line ;]