Only a bit? I’ll have to do better…
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“In all honesty, without all the fans who rp and make fanfiction and fan art about this series I would have lost interest a long time ago. You guys all bring these characters to life and are so passionate about them where Anne fails. Seriously, I have read fanfictions that are leaps and bounds better written and more interesting than her latest books. Keep up the amazing work!”
Sign ups for the 2015 VC Secret Rose Gift Exchange are open! Why Secret Rose? Because the birth flower of the month of June (when gifts are due) is a rose, that’s why. -so witty-
A few things that were added to the rules page since the last exchange:
- We’re not going to demand you do it, but if you would pretty please open your submit box the day we send out assignment (May 9), it would be really, really nice of you. It’s so much easier for us to send them via the submit box, and the submit box is generally more reliable than ask boxes.
- Please confirm you received your assignment. (This will be mentioned again in the assignment message, if you forget.)
- Try to be creative with your prompts! It’ll help the person gifting to you if you throw a few ideas at them. “Louis, Lestat, and Claudia doing some fun things when she was still a kid, maybe involving flowers and spring,” tends to be more helpful than just “something with Louis, Lestat, and Claudia.”
You have until May 8th at 11:59PM CDT to join the exchange. As always, the day after, on May 9th, you will receive your assignment. This is like a Secret Santa, so don’t tell anyone who you’re gifting to, especially not the person you’re making a gift for! You’ll have until June 6th at 11:59PM CDT to submit your gifts to this page, and then they’ll post on June 7th.
Feel free to reblog this around, even if you can’t participate! All of the fanworks that come from these gift exchanges are truly a gift to the whole fandom.
“I met my best friend through The Vampire Chronicles. We RPed VC together for nearly 4 years when she went offline after becoming very down with her life. I thought the worst after a couple of weeks before she popped back up, literally on my doorstep. She moved half-way across the world, on her own with nothing but a bag of clothes and a copy of IWTV. She started her life over here and still tells me how it was our RPs that got her through and inspired her to move away from the toxicity.”
We’ve currently got enough posts in our queue to get us through a few more days. A good amount, but more are always welcome.
I’d like to challenge everyone to either make one submission to this blog a week or directly go to someone and tell them something you like about them or do both. Or make a general statement, saying something you like about many people! It might not seem like much, but even the smallest thing can brighten other peoples’ day.
“So much love to gairid, I know she just had a notecard, but I’m doing one, too. Her blog has lots of great pictures, many of NOLA which she has taken herself, and that helps set a dreamy VC mood. Her writing is rich and her world-building is so advanced that I feel I’m walking down the street, grabbing a beer at on of Brian’s favorite bars, catching a glimpse of a certain couple making out in Pirate’s Alley… Don’t even get me started on her OCs. Brian is sweet and affable, but not a Gary Stu by any means. He’s got guts, and he takes care of his beloved bosses in more ways than they deserve. Her other unique OCs draw shining facets out from our favorite canon characters, which she writes with respect and even (dare I say) improves upon.
Basically she is a gem, an emerald? An opal? And we are very fortunate that she continues to give us more of what we’ve come to love from her!”
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- I think there are smaller puff pastries hello u live down the street from cafe du monde
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- Louis is like Oh plz no oh shit should i get involved have i ever gotten involved-
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- who’s leakingz strawberry filling naow?
me: I’m queen of hell I’m the baddest bitch look at my eyebrows
for eibhlis97 ❤
I love it so much!
*u*
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- I think there are smaller puff pastries hello u live down the street from cafe du monde
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- Louis is like Oh plz no oh shit should i get involved have i ever gotten involved-
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- who’s leakingz strawberry filling naow?
me: I’m queen of hell I’m the baddest bitch look at my eyebrows
for eibhlis97 ❤
OOC: PSA
In the future can we please just agree as a fandom to keep issues that could be easily handled privately private?
There was an issue with this recently that caused someone to leave the community. Calling another writer out in a public display of personal unhappiness doesn’t strengthen this fandom – it weakens it and causes those writers already at their limit to question whether the Tumblr community is even worth continuing with. No one deserves to be made a public spectacle.
If you have issues, take it to that individual in their askbox. That’s what they are there for. Resolving issues on a one on one basis seems a far better solution than throwing anyone else under the bus for everyone else to see. That makes things highly uncomfortable for those of us not involved in the situations.
This has become a disconcerting habit in this fandom lately and I am only speaking up to make an appeal that it please stop. Everyone is free to have a differing opinion, of course. I normally tend to be quiet about these things but this trend is maddening to see and uncomfortable to be exposed to.
Thanks.
^This so very much.
Am I the only one who saw Lestat, Louis, and Claudia in that “One Unfulfilled Idea of Family” in Hannibal, Will, and Abigail? Or am I just one of those helpless cases of VCians who can easily find reference to VC just anywhere and everywhere? 0_o
It’s definitely not just you. I know I’ve talked to adirotynd and wicked-felina about this very phenomenon. There’s a hell of a lot of common ground between the VC and Hannibal: perverse yet more-intense-than-anything-ever intimacy based on mutual experience of (committing) violence; heightened sensuality; a fine line between black comedy and high-flown philosophy… and then of course Hannibal is in itself a fanfic-like remix of the Thomas Harris canon, which is interesting to look at, considering the fanon that has grown up around the VC over the years.
I was surprised-yet-not-surprised when I found out that Bryan Fuller was a huge IWTV fan growing up – there’s a Nerdist podcast in which he describes how, at the age of 13, he phoned Anne Rice because he wanted to work on the IWTV screenplay. The story is a gem and starts about 32 minutes in, but the whole thing is really great:
http://nerdistwriters.libsyn.com/bryan-fuller
Edit: basically what I’m saying is, if you’re a VC fan who can handle looking at gore, there is a very good chance that Hannibal will be right up your street. Meanwhile, if you are a Hannibal fan who enjoys historical settings and can cope with a canon that gets increasingly bizarre as the series progresses, you might find a happy home in VC fandom. Hey, I like to matchmake.
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