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A silly question, but would I be considered any less apart of the fandom if I haven’t read all of the books? I’ve read the main ones but many of them, especially the later ones have pretty bad reputations and I am just unsure whether I should either bother with them? I have read the first 3 A LOT and some others, too.

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Not a silly question! There are 11 VC books now (13 if you include the New Tales’ Pandora and Vittorio) THATS A LOT OF STORY (just imagine this gif 11-13 times bc I don’t wanna actually throw it in 11-13 times not aesthetically pleasing)

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What is being part of a fandom? 

  • Everyone’s idea of this is different. 
  • The short answer is simply: You’ve read enough to be part of the fandom! Welcome! I, Mater Fabuloso, decree you worthy.

As far as the later books having a bad reputation…

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Yes! Some of them are so crazy and wildly cracky! That’s why we also call them the #Vampire Crackicles. It’s a term of endearment. The crazy is a big part of why we enjoy it. Dysfunctional vampires! The first 3-4 books in the series seem to be the more highly regarded, VC-fandom-wide, maybe bc the crazy was better woven in.

If you liked the first 3 – and some others – enough to reread them, you must also enjoy the sense of humor that’s mixed in with the angst, the love, the overall crazy! The bad-reputation VC have some silly/angsty/etc. quotes and scenes that are not to be missed (like that quote about Lestat’s foot size insecurity pfffft).

Short answer is: give it all a chance, skim if you must, and decide for yourself, it’s meant to be fun, it’s not a religion, there are no chants to memorize, you will not be quizzed next Monday ;]

Personally, and I hope this goes for others, I welcome anyone into the fandom who loves any of the characters. Maybe someone’s gateway drug was movie!IWTV. Maybe it was Claudia’s Story (graphic novel). Any combination of VC books/media counts!

I think the more VC you read, the better-informed your “headcanon” (let me explain you a thing about headcanon if you aren’t familiar with the concept) will be, as you choose which parts of (or scenes within) the series feel believable to you. 

I sound like a broken record bc I write this SO OFTEN: my idea of being “part of the fandom” just means engaging in discussions about the series, making fanworks, and making friendships with ppl who share your interests. I don’t know how other fandoms behave, but that’s a summary of my positive experiences in the VC fandom.

hey sorry if u get asked this a lot or have a link on ur blog (I’m on mobile so I can’t see it) but do u have any blog recommendations that post a lot of the vampire chronicles? im super new to the fandom & it’s hard finding blogs that are still active! thanks so much in advance <3

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Hellooooo! Welcome to the Vampire Crackicles our dark little alley of tumblrland.

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No worries, I actually rarely get asked that… every so often a post will come along “REBLOG IF YOU’RE IN THE VC FANDOM” but those aren’t the best resource bc blogs do go inactive.  

Partly bc of the unpredictable nature of blog life partly bc I’m lazy, I don’t have a link to blogs that post alot of VC, but the two that immediately come to mind (bc they inspired me to make this blog) are vampchronfic. and vampire-chronicles-appreciation. Also, there’s jardinsalvaje and annericevcmexico, which have alot of VC fanart, etc., and some content in Spanish. 

VC RP blogs would be a good place to start bc the RPers often post ooc (out of character) about the VC… so you could check these tags on my blog:

RP, for RPers, Bump, headcanon, headcanon accepted, damn you and your perfect headcanon perfection.

When you’re on desktop tumblr, you can check out the blogs I follow (they’re all in my header, in the “following” box) and those might be of interest to you, too. Fair warning that there are a plenty of non-VC fandom blogs there bc of reasons ;]

Hope that helps! 

what’s the official tag for Vampire Chronicles? Since I’m really getting into fandoms I feel like I need to know what tag we use.

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^J/k. It’s not just about him it’s all about him. I don’t know of an official tag but I’ve seen:

  • VC, the vampire chronicles, vampire chronicles, vampire crackickles (we mean this in a loving sorta way), the vampire crackickles, interview with the vampire, iwtv (since alot of ppl dump all VC talk in the movie title tag), 

    interview with a vampire (this is actually incorrect but whatevs).

  • the book being referenced, so QOTD for Queen of the Damned, etc.
  • … and of course any of the character’s names, (I indicate VC characters by adding “the vampire” Armand or “the vampire” Claudia, since they don’t have last names and there are other Armands and Claudias out there I don’t think I’ve been consistent in doing that w/ minor characters like Eleni and Madeleine and such oh well.)

There is the question of whether to include “the” and I don’t when I tag my stuff. I tag stuff with everything that’s in the post plus my stream of consciousness-type comments that don’t need to be in the version that ppl reblog and maybe ppl follow me for that commentary? Plus the fanart collection? I don’t question it, I just enjoy it.

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Prince Lestat- coming October 28, 2014

This picspam doesn’t even kind of represent how bananas this fucking book turned out to be

^TRUTH #vampire crackicles

I’m confused by Lestat’s relationships with the other characters. I’ve been reading the books for a while now, but I’m still a little confused. Could you try and explain his relationships with Louis, Marius, Armand, Daniel, and David. What is Armand’s relationship like with Marius these days? Where are Daniel and David (presently speaking)? Who are they with? What are they like? I’m so overwhelmed with all of the books. Can you help?

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I can’t explain all those relationships! Even the characters involved couldn’t explain them. They’re a big ol pile of dysfunctional hipster vampires and their ships are a hot mess. 

BUT I SHALL TRY. Nobody attack this please, I’m grossly over-simplifying for the sake of this one Anon’s overwhelmtion ;] #your headcanon may vary, #ship and let ship.

At their most basic:

  • Lestat/Louis – Murder husbands, OTP, 5ever
  • Lestat & Marius – not a pairing, but there’s definitely a mutual respect and caring in a paternal sorta way.
  • Lestat & Armand – not a pairing, but there’s definitely a mutual respect and caring in a fraternal sorta way MURDER BROS.
  • Lestat & Daniel – they’ve not had a lot of canon interaction but I’d bet Lestat is forever grateful that Daniel basically started the VC which eventually brought him back together with Louis. There’s fic and RP (see daniel-james-molloy)​ out there that would support a Lestat/Daniel BROTP, possibly an actual ship, I likes it.
  • Lestat/David – Post-TOBT David has had little canon interaction with Lestat in a loving fledgling/maker way. There have been one or two scenes of extreme feistiness between them, which were hot and problematic, but they seem to have reached a kind of amnesty and even care for eachother.
  • Armand & Marius – have a kind of amnesty between them. Marius has done some pretty insane things for Armand, with good intentions, but still.
  • Daniel is with Marius these days.
  • David is sort of a loner but he does visit with Louis, Lestat, and Jesse on occasion. They seem to be his closest friends.

I would say that the relationships change throughout the series, and that some ppl simply do not include certain books in their headcanon, which changes relationship dynamics, too. Including “present day” ship dynamics. For example, if you don’t include Prince Lestat in your VC headcanon, then Marius and Daniel have a different sort of (probably specifically and clearly) platonic relationship than they do if you DO include Prince Lestat.

For more specifics, check out VC Wiki, but there’s gonna be spoilers. Fair warning.

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Hi, I’m fairly new to The Vampire Chronicles fandom, and the books actually (a bit before my time) and I was just wondering about your opinion on Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle as I have heard some negativity around them, I have only read the first two books (twice over) as I wait for QotD to arrive in the post. Do you think I will like the rest of the series?

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Bonsoir, welcome (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

First of all I have to say the entire series is sort of jokingly – and endearingly – called the Vampire Crackicles. The crazy is a big part of why we enjoy it. Dysfunctional vampires! The first 3-4 books in the series seem to be the more highly regarded, VC-fandom-wide, maybe bc the crazy was better woven in. We all have our differences in opinion as to what we consider to be canon after that.

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Do I think you’ll like the rest of the series? I don’t know what you liked specifically about the first 2 books, but if you did like them enough to reread them, you must also enjoy the sense of humor that’s mixed in with the angst, the love, the overall crazy! 

Short answer is give it all a chance, read it in order, and decide for yourself, it’s meant to be fun, it’s not a religion ;]

For more on Blackwood Farm and Blood Canticle, clickez ici:

The books you mentioned have earned a negative reputation partly because they are involved with the crossover of the Mayfair Witches series, and introduced a whole bunch of new characters, when the fandom craved more about the already established characters (like Daniel Molloy!) and that the plots of those stories didn’t seem as engaging as in the first 3-4 books (at least for me, because they were maybe too ambitious or not structured in a more believable way).

Blackwood Farm focuses on a new set of characters (including a few of AR’s Mayfair Witches, it’s one of the 3 books that makes the crossover of the two series) than in IWTV, TVL, or QotD. It’s got some very interesting mythology and you do have Lestat being Lestat, but he’s been through alot at this point in canon and is not the same throw-caution-to-the-wind lovable moron that he was previously. He’s got a gentleness and a snappiness about him. 

Blood Canticle is very cracky bc it’s further down the Mayfair Witches crossover story. Now Lestat has very strange religious grappling. It was meant to be the very last VC and you can see Anne Rice tried to pack in as much excitement and fireworks as possible. Sometimes this ended up making the story jump the shark.

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zevransbutt:

ur fav is problematic: louis de pointe du lac

  • owned slaves
  • tried to eat a kid
  • set his boyfriend on fire
  • set his new boyfriends friends on fire
  • set a lot of things on fire
  • killed some dude with a scythe
  • eats ppl
  • left his bf in the rain after said bf switched bodies with a mortal through mysterious spirit magic only to realize that the mortal wasnt going to give his body back so he was stuck in that human body and wrote an entire page about the sensation of urinating
  • will insult ur taste in books
  • is literally so beautiful the author has to describe his gorgeous face for two pages before getting on with the story which wastes paper and kills the trees

ur fav is problematic: lestat de lioncourt

  • co-owned slaves (by proxy)
  • ate the overseer slave first, to prove a point
  • trapped a kid in a kid body forever
  • drove his bf and kid crazy enough (by gaslighting and withholding info) that they set him on fire
  • drove a lot of his bfs crazy enough to wish him harm
  • eats ppl
  • raped a woman when briefly mortal but shhhh we don’t talk about that
  • didn’t tell his bf that he was suicidal and tried to kill himself w/out any notice to said bf
  • will insult u for reading books
  • is literally so beautiful he has to remind you in every book in the series about his gray/blue/violet eyes
  • has become mesmerized at Wal-Mart
  • daddy issues
  • mommy issues

I started reading the Vampire Chronicles and I’m at The Queen of the Damned but I’m wondering if I should stop there? Or should I read on? I don’t to want get caught up with the ‘crackyness’ later on, you know?

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You started with The Queen of the Damned, or with Interview with the Vampire? Definitely read the first 3 books in the series, those are are good. 

The “crackyness” that we make fun of it for sort of happens at book 4, Tale of the Body Thief, which is still a great story (especially compared to the later books)…

I think you should read it all. Especially if there are certain characters you’re beginning to feel more of an attachment to. If you love Armand, for example, you should read The Vampire Armand. If you love Marius, reading Blood & Gold would be of interest to you. 

I think any VC fan should read them all, read lots of fanfic, and decide on their own what they consider to be “the real story.” Your headcanon may vary from mine, but that doesn’t make you a lesser/greater fan. You can ignore the crackyness.

Loving the characters makes you a fan *u* 

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I’ve seen so much about the book on my dash! I’m so desperate to know; is it as good as the others? I’m so afraid of a “flop” novel. I don’t believe Anne Rice has ever written a “flop”, but it has been eleven years since Blood Canticle. Do you think it’s good so far?

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I will answer this later… I haven’t had much chance to read it other than to read the spoilers I’ve seen around here (and from friends who I asked for spoilage from!) 

From what I know so far, it is one of the crackiest books in the Vampire Crackicles ;A;