feministlestat:

i think it’s important to acknowledge a basic difference regarding the standars of beauty in the vampire chronicles

i have read lots of reviews criticizing the lack of “ugly people” and “differences of body types” in the novels, while i believe it’s partly true (im the first one to tell the basic misogynistic and racist undertone of the characters); i beg to differ when it comes to “being beautiful” at the eyes of a vampire 

it comes clear that humans are animals; sacks of blood that only work to keep it fresh, for a vampire. we are like little puppies, and little puppies are always beautiful. vampires don’t think everything is beautiful in a human way, they think we are beautiful in an objective, cold hearted, inherent way.

every human is beautiful at the eyes of a vampire in the same way a landscape is always beautiful to us.

EDIT: (i forgot to add something sorry)

the body, is the only reminder of their humanity, is what makes the seem human, therefore it will always be beautiful

#vc #the vampire chronicles #vampires #anne rice #im sorry i probably spam too much those tags #this is open for discussion #you are allowed to differ seriously i want to read opinion #i have always had an andy warhol fixation over beauty #seriously andy warhol #im sorry again #im sorry if this is badly written #but i hope you get the idea #im feminist lestat im here to make social judgement over queer vampires #yaaas #im sorry i had to add the thing cuz it acts as a conclusion #like combining the vampires beauty 

every human is beautiful at the eyes of a vampire in the same way a landscape is always beautiful to us.

*Nodding vigourously*

Don’t apologize for this. It’s accurate. Actually part of teen!me reading these books was very touched, like, my heart swelled, when I read those parts when the vampires do go into detail about how every mortal is beautiful because they are alive. It not only widened my view as to beauty in general (making me much less superficial towards other people), but also that, going through the awkward “ugly duckling” stage, I could feel beauty in my own metamorphosis. 

Lestat POV: “Beautiful, that’s what any human being is to us, if we stop to consider it, even the old and the diseased, the downtrodden that one doesn’t really “see” in the street. They are all like that, like flowers ever in the process of opening, butterflies ever unfolding out of the cocoon.”  – The Vampire Lestat [more here]

Louis POV: "I was watching the scene through the open door, enthralled with the colors of the counterpane and the positive riot of color in the old man’s face. His blue veins pulsed beneath his pink and grayish flesh. I found even the yellow of his teeth appealing to me; and I became almost hypnotized by the quivering of his lip.” – Interview with the Vampire [more here]