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I’m glad that so…”
I don’t know. These fuckers have always been in my life I don’t even remember, it’s like that stray cats you find in your trash bin and they decide they’re going to live with you now?
Pretty much yeah that is what happened to me, too. These adorable fanged little trash monsters.
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)
As far as the later books having a bad reputation…
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.
My (bio) cousin makes video games for a living, plays and makes guitars, and is a massive video game and roleplaying nerd. So little me went all spiral-eyed whenever he did anything for me.
He bought me two very important books for my 12th birthday. The Vampire: the Requiem rulebook (the red book), and IWTV. Naturally, I devoured both.
I read IWTV and everything was wonderful pretty much instantly. There wasn’t a single part of that book I didn’t adore. It was through my rapid and all-consuming obsession with vampirism that I actually started to bloom; creatively, socially, mentally, everything just started to resolve and I started to become a person I like. Yes, I read Twilight during this initial discovery stage. Yes, I was in the fandom briefly. But it was so hollow compared to what I had already read that I was perplexed that others seemed to not want to branch out into real, monstrous vampirism.
Essentially IWTV is what sparked me going from awkward pubescent to actually pretty great 20-something. I now LARP with the MES (VtR, of course) and write urban fantasy and am generally completely in love with vampires.
But now a confession: I’ve only ever read IWTV. I haven’t read all of the VC, despite owning literally all of it (sometimes multiple covers per book!) So which should I finally read next?!
#I love stories like these, how we got into this mess series.
It’s heartwarming to see how the Ricean vampires have had such a positive effect on ppl in their formative years. They are dysfunctional hipster vampires, all kinds of flaws and existential crises, they try to resolve them, they try to find the answers to questions big and small, and in general promote a trust in one’s self, an inner confidence and an ability to draw pleasure from even simple things. These are good things for anyone, of any age, to absorb.
YOU SHOULD READ THE VAMPIRE LESTAT NEXT you’re going to love it!
//What if Lestat’s propensity toward writing so many books is not so much just grandiose storytelling but..
1: An attempt at atoning for those first years he kept so much from the ones he loved (Nicki, then Louis, even Antoine) and ended up hurting them, by now oversharing basically everything.
2: His own desperate attempt at self-therapy so he doesn’t completely lose it anymore than he already does.
Yes, I think so. His first book was definitely an answer to IWTV… “Read between the lines.”
Vampire Chronicles as some may know is my absolute favorite best most loved series of all time. I adore Anne Rice so much and have almost all of her books (due to my mom also being a huge fan).
I’ve been wanting to share my love for this series for so long and there’s FINALLY a devoted Fandom to love it with?! I’m so happy u guys! I’ve read every book and can’t wait for “Blood Paradise” to come out!!!!!!!!!
If anybody is in the VC Fandom too and wouldn’t mind another follower, please reblog cuz I’ll join all of u guys without hesitation!!!!
I wouldn’t also mind a follow back too I guess, but my blogs mostly anime trash and random stuff. Thank you very much!
Sorry followers for the random heart throbbing post, I’m just really really excited about this and I can’t seem to find all the blogs for this Fandom. Also want u guys to know that I’m sorry for bombarding u with one topic for a while…thank u too
If TL:DR, hi Vampire Chronicles Fandom
I love u and I’ll follow anyone who rps in the fandom, thanks.merciful-death-archive
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Awww! Welcome to our little corner of tumblrland. Hey VC fandom, reblog this or message this person so they can follow some moar VC action ;]
vcpositivity is still a good place to find RPers (some are inactive now, but some still remain), there was also vcdirectory (again some blogs from there are inactive now)… I have a for RPers and RP tag.
I think some ppl have forgotten how to fandom or never knew, it’s not like there’s a manual of etiquette. That’s the short answer. And hasn’t this all been said in infinite variations?
Unfortunately, thanks to Tumblrland Hyperbole™ – which seems to have escalated exponentially in the past year – there are now:
There’s a daily parade of Real Life ppl who call us “creepy” for loving vampires, robots, thawed-out super soldiers, billionaire playboy philanthropists, aliens, women warriors, etc.
I’ve been called “creepy” at work. I tend to wear alot of black bc I don’t want to spend alot of money on work clothes, and sometimes I let my “macabre” interests slip out, seeking to make a connection; I shared a picture of Halloween makeup (Redditor Specialxk’s zombie walk face-and-throat trompe l’oeil makeup job) with someone at work I thought might be as impressed at the artistic skill as I was, and that person still won’t talk to me, some 3 weeks later.
Specifically, currently, there are ppl in the fandom who seem to thrive on drama, and I considered answering this privately bc I don’t want to encourage it, but I’m going to take this as an opportunity to pay tribute to the one – yet another among MANY over the past several years that I’ve witnessed – who’s been pushed out because of it.
I don’t know what their public participation will be like in the future, I for one hope that the mun will take time off, and the fandom can collectively welcome them back, or the fandom can fracture, and let those who want to fandom with the mun do so, and those don’t should ignore ppl they don’t like, and invest the time and effort spent anonhating in more positive ways.
It seems like we’ve lost another RPer (merciful-death-archive), and what’s especially sad is that this RPer had been active for 3+ yrs, responding #ic and #ooc to all kinds of fandom topics, and these responses were often so well done that the mun was often complimented as sounding like the canon character! For their writing and all the mun did to encourage building friendships and welcome new people into the fandom, bringing ppl together to squee and critique and all the fun stuff we like to do about this series and its characters, this RPer was nominated as the fandom “Mom” figure, and it stuck.
This RPer was popular. Maybe it was the mun’s popularity that drove a group of ppl to try, time and time again, to tear the mun down with anonhate. They have their reasons. Supporters of the mun rallied time and time again to try to solve the issues as they arose, both privately and publicly, with little success, although there were periods when the anonhate tapered off.
This RPer was greatly appreciated by the fans in fandom who want to participate and actually make friends, isn’t that what fandom is about? The mun was someone who tried to promote building relationships in fandom, through fandom positivity. With the positivity blog, they did it anonymously, on their own time, spending tireless unpaid hours on it, so it wasn’t for self-promotion. It was for actual love of the fandom and the ppl in it who make it worth the effort by giving that love back through responses and fanworks.
We’ll miss merciful-death-archive, and I for one will welcome the mun (and all who have been pushed out) back when/if they are ready to return.
I love how in all the books, regardless of whose talking Louis is described as ‘the pretty one’. Vampires in Anne Rice novels are all described as being beautiful in some way, death making them so. But in a supernatural world populated by Beauties, characters need to spend pages gushing about Louis looks. His utter bafflement at this and the other characters gushing make me laugh every time its brought up.
grizzlybrenda
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I’m glad that so many people had such positive experiences with these books. They literally changed my life.
^My thoughts exactly. I collect these stories, of how people got started in VC, bc #i love these kind of stories! Whats yours?
The Vampire Chronicles List : Blood Canticle – #12
“Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw me out of your backpack. Pitch me in the airport trash bin. Leave me on a bench in Central Park!
What do I care?
No. I don’t want you to do all that. Don’t do that.”
OMG. THANK. U!
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