Nina Bonina Brown, who’s a current contestant on this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, did a cosplay of our favorite vampire queen, Akasha, back in 2015. Check out those makeup skills!! I love her creativity!
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“ ‘Leave the child!’ said the woman abruptly, with a quick, imperious
gesture.
” `She’s sleeping,’ I said. And, rising, I followed the Englishman to
the door at the foot of the stairs.wondered if I should wait until the 31st to post, but nah. This is what happens when I dive back into IwtV.
Merde
(a drabble written as a gift for @i-want-my-iwtv on their birthday. Takes place at the end of TVL)
“That costume is nothing short of ridiculous.”
Thank u so much @devilsfool! I LOVE IT SO MUCH!
❤❤❤
…Now, to see what this costume looks like, I’m placing a #FANART REQUEST out there…
Going off of someone’s ask about a Lestat AU Drunk History, what are your headcanons for what all the main vc characters are like drunk? What type of drunks are they? Just wondering lol
“If I want to sleep all day and drink all night, I’ll do it, damn you!”
– Lestat de Lioncourt
I’ve had this ask sitting here for far too long, Anon, I’m sorry for the delay on reply. Anyone is welcome to reblog/comment with mortal or vampire headcanons!
Also, @blood-of-the-rose posted the vampires as (alcoholic) drinks, you might want to check that out.
[^X digging up an oldie from the archive…]
Louis de Pointe du Lac
1) I was thinking about something lately. I believe that for many VC readers it is hard to accept how the topics are less and less about vampiric life as they go along. I know for me it was like this. You start with IWTV, TVL and so on – vampiric autobiographies about main questions; “How did I become a vampire? How did I deal with that? How did I develop in my immortal life?”
2) But suddenly there come books as MTD, TOTBT or even the last one, where it’s not about them being a vampire. It could have even happened to a mortal. It is an adventure of its own, right? In a way at least. (I hope you understand what I mean). For me this was hard to accept and sort in. In a way it was not what I read the VC for. I was very confused at the beginning.
3) But now I think about it like that: Anne Rice’s vampires write the books themselves. They don’t think “I am a vampire so I have to act like one and can only write about my vampiric aspects.” No, they simply write about whatever happens to them or whatever fascinates them at the moment. As we are used to it when it comes to books about mortals. When we read those books we don’t think “wait, but why is this not about how they were born and what they eat and when they sleep?”
4) We accept the adventure they tell us. But vampires are supposed to just write about them being vampires. But those not. They talk simply about themselves. So theoretically Lestat could publish one day a book about tigers that he studied in Asia. I don’t know if I would read it, but what I love about the children of darkness is that they are simply themselves. Not vampires in a drawer. They take us beyond the vampiric life.
(Anon’s reading of canon is here, and anyone is welcome to comment/reblog with their ideas about it!)
I’m bipolar and I think it’s part of why I relate to lestat so much tbh, but I’m also really stable and in a place where I can just find comfort/validation in it
Thank you for sharing, Anon!
No pressure, but if you feel comfortable, can you share a little more about it? How did you get to be really stable? Are there specific moments in the series or aspects of the character that are relatable to you that give you comfort/validation? Thanks again for sharing *hugs*
Do you think there could be any possibility that Lestat is undiagnosed type II bipolar? I’ve noticed the same patterns in him that I see in myself, and it makes it hard to read the books recently because he is so chaotic in such an eerily familiar way that it unsettles me.
Yes, it’s quite possible that Lestat is
undiagnosed type II bipolar (is that grammatically correct? Or would you write “Yes, it’s quite possible that Lestat is undiagnosed as having type II bipolar personality disorder”?). You might want to ask some Lestat RPers for their thoughts on this, too.
I don’t know enough about diagnosing bipolar to say for sure what I think, in the past I’ve written that I didn’t think Lestat was bipolar specifically, but that he might have PTSD. Now, I feel like I don’t know enough about either of those to make a definitive statement. I don’t think AR has ever addressed it in any interviews, on FB, or at a booksigning. Anyone is welcome to reblog/comment on this post.
Anon: “I’ve noticed the same patterns in him that I see in myself, and it makes it hard to read the books recently because he is so chaotic in such an eerily familiar way that it unsettles me.”
I’m sorry that this makes it hard for you to read the books recently, Anon. Does anyone else out there have bipolar, or specifically type II bipolar, and have advice for Anon about this?
@mendedpixie7 wrote about Adam from Only Lovers Left Alive; and I feel like the similarity of Adam to Nicolas (and Lestat, I think, too) seems striking, and I hope this quote helps you in some small way, Anon:
The reason I love Only Lovers Left Alive is it shows that a character (Adam) can be severely mentally ill, in this case depressed and suicidal, and still be seen as lovable and capable of being loved and loving in return without being “cured” of their mental illness, and that a mentally ill character can have other attributes aside from being mentally ill while still showing the impact being mentally ill has on his personality.
Adam from OLLA is an extremely important character to me you guys.
Akasha.
I-want-my-IWTV 