Concept: an immortal who doesn’t shy away from photos or paintings. Draws self portraits on cave walls. Photobombs everything with a pout and a suave pose. Commissions numerous portraits of themself as a literary Romantic before faking their death. Tries to be at least slightly famous every time they have a new identity. Creates a conspiracy blog linking all their past photos together before mysteriously disappearing in mysterious circumstances. Mysteriously. Usually only disappears for 10 to 20 years after “"dying”“ before making another appearance. Everyone else in the immortal community lowkey hates them. “Ah, fuck. You’ll never guess who’s resurfaced again.” “Fucking… Dave?” “Fucking Dave.”
Mostly the same information as the Looper article with a few added tidbits.
“It is undeniable that Anne Rice has created the paradigm in which all vampire stories are measured against. The rich and vast world she has created with The Vampire Chronicles is unmatched and sophisticated with 90’s Gothic undertones that will be perfectly suited to captivate audiences, … We are thrilled to collaborate with Anne, Christopher, and the team at Anonymous Content on this epic series.” – Amy Powell, President, Paramount TV.
IT’S maybepossiblylike 2 molecules closer to HAPPENING!
“Together with our partners at Paramount Television, we are embarking on a fantastic journey with Anne and Christopher Rice to bring Anne’s unparalleled imagination to television at the moment when the medium is experiencing a global apex in the demand for the most outstanding, exciting, and heightened premium dramatic programming”, says Anonymous Content’s David Kanter. “The Vampire Chronicles, in its entirety, is not only a phenomenally complex universe of storytelling, it is also a world-wide readership whose connections to the books and their author are deep and abiding. It is a tremendous responsibility to help bring the books to television, and we are thrilled to have this opportunity.”
^OK IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS PEOPLE ARE LEGIT VC FANS. That’s a requirement, in my mind. Are they fan enough to help pull off a mostly faithful-to-canon adaptation? As my Dad says, ‘the proof is in the pudding.’
I checked out the Anonymous Content website, and they seem to be able to pull off a wide range of projects. From commercials to music vids to movies like the Revenant, which I still haven’t seen but I’ve heard great things about, I think they have a generally solid mix of glitz & glamour and dirt and grunge and intellectual stimulation and yes, even some comic relief, all things I think we need in VC. Amy Powell is right, VC is “sophisticated with 90’s Gothic undertones”, so where movie!QOTD certainly USED 90′s Gothic aesthetics, I would recommend that Paramount and Anonymous Content should watch that movie and see what parts worked, and what parts didn’t. Along with movie!IWTV and Lestat the Musical.
BTW Anonymous Content did the following which I really enjoy…
Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt video – of the MANY reasons I love this song and video is that it has that beauty and strength in decay/decline… idk it’s gorgeous.
Anne Rice previously noted that the series likely will not touch on the events of “Interview with a Vampire,” but will instead pick up with its sequel “The Vampire Lestat.”
I’ll try to keep making fresh ones, buuuut… I bet I have some old ones you haven’t seen in my #memeything tag, and also! The #vintage meme tag has a few that inspired me to start making my own.
…..aaaaand these ppl make VC memes! Check theirs out, I might have some of their memes mixed into my #by someone else tag (in no special order):
If anyone knows of other blogs that do VC memes/memeythings, reblog/comment plz.
Why do I call them memeythings?? Well, when I started making them, I wasn’t sure if they really counted as “memes” bc “memes” as I understood them, had to be some widely-accepted joke first… text from somewhere else, so I called mine memeythings instead, bc I did some of my own “writing” for them, like this “boop your nose” one, but now it’s normal to make up your own text or grab text from anywhere and it counts as a “meme,” I think. I still like the word, tho, so I’m keeping it.
Rating: Explicit! Words: 2542 Pairing: Armand/Daniel Summary: Jerking Off with the Vampire. Supplemental Material: Was listening to Fall Apart by Death in June for most of this process.
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.
“She was Gabrielle. And all her life came to her defense, the years and years of suffering and loneliness, the waste in those damp, hollow chambers to which she’d been condemned, and the books that were her solace, and the children who devoured her and abandoned her, and the pain and disease, her final enemy, which had, in promising release, pretended to be her friend.. Beyond words and images there came the secret thudding of her passion, her seeming madness, her refusal to despair.”
I-want-my-IWTV 