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I have so many dreams where I'm trying to use my phone to call 911 or get directions because I'm lost and need to go NOW or make an important call and the phone is just impossible to use, the keyboard is liquid and keeps changing, buttons don't work, the touch screen stops touch screening 😭
It's so awful, way worse than not being able to read in your dreams 🙈
everyone agreeing with this tweet is so lucky because cell phones have absolutely been in my dreams, specifically DREAMS ABOUT TUMBLR DISCOURSE. I literally had a dream my mutuals made a callout for me i'm not fucking joking helppp
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i don't see enough ineffable husbands playlists that include this song and that is a shame.
That's all
#GO#good omens#Crowley#crowley x aziraphale#Like this could accompany half the fics I've read about them#Yes that kind of fic#ineffable husbands
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Queen of the Damned Drag Performance!
I love Tucson, Arizoña so much and it's because of shit like this! Excuse the terrible quality/lighting.
Akasha: Na-il Ali Emmert
Lestat: Erik Shunn
They were so kind and patient to take pictures with me!
I asked to be attacked 🙈
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*GUTTERAL SCREAMING " It's perfect 😭😭😭
lestat’s hand, complete with his sharp nails, his red stone ring, and the cup of blood he loves to drink so much.
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They're so silly 🙈
IWTV Season One Recap by Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid
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Wow as if I needed another reason to hate Chat got and AI art
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I live for Lestat's dramatic ass book intros
Lestat and not caring at all, Blood Canticle
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.01 "In Throes Of Increasing Wonder..."
#Reader he was different but not in a good way#peak comedy#interview with the vampire#I want to meet this French White
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Those are some tasty brush strokes OP 💜
A real devil among devils.
The Vampire Lestat, he's one of my absolute faves and I'm foaming at the mouth for IWTV season 2
Done on Corel Painter and Photoshop :)
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hello fellow queers I found a version here
The 19th Century Gay Vampire Love Story
Yep, you read that title correctly. In honor of Halloween may I present an obscure little treasure known as “Manor” by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Written in 1885 as a part of his “Sailor Stories”, it recounts the romance between the teenage boy Har and a teen sailor, the eponymous Manor. Set in the Foroe Islands, Manor rescues Har from drowning at sea, and the boys become inseparable friends and lovers. When Manor dies tragically, Har begs all the gods to do something, and Urda, a Norne from Norse mythology, complies, returning Manor to half-life as a vampire. Back from the grave, Manor and Har rekindle their love. I won’t spoil the ending, but it’s a genuinely romantic story written around the same time as Dracula and Carmilla, yet hasn’t gotten the same recognition. So, I’m shining the spotlight on it, and encouraging you all to seek it out for yourself for some positive queer media from before the 20th century.
A little fun facts about Ulrichs, he used Aphrodite to categorize sexual orientations based on the variations of Aphrodite. He used Uranus’ sexless begetting of Aphrodite as the basis for his terms for gays (Urning), lesbians (Urninden), and bisexuals (Uranodioning), while Aphrodite’s sexual begetting by Zeus and Dionne as his basis for the terms for heterosexuals (Dioning). These terms relate to the two aspects of Aphrodite. Aphrodite Urania, the sexless being of unconditional love as the child of Uranus, and Aphrodite Pandemos, the lustful goddess of fertility and desire as the child of Zeus and Dione. He was also open to the concept of Intersex people, though he addressed them as Third Sex. If we transliterate, I could easily see his terminology resurfacing as Uranic, Uradionic, and Dionic in English. I’m all for reading a steamy Uranic romance novel.
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The sneakers!!
this drawing started off as tv crowley and aziraphale dressed like their book cover counterparts, but then I got carried away and it turned out... not being exactly that anymore 🤷🏻♀️
so... late 80s/early 90s au? (aka. literally the book lol)
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Vampire Chronicles Book Review/Rant #5
Memnoch the Devil
Alright, this is gonna be long, this book is dense and Anne had me reading too many Wikipedia articles for context.
I found a couple of news articles (here and here) discussing Anne’s Christianity, she allegedly became one in 1998 and “quit” in 2010 saying “It's simply impossible for me to 'belong' to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group.” I think it’s safe to say this book was her actively quarreling with her faith and belief system.
(Side note, the last book left us with Louis, Lestat, and David going off to the jungles for adventures, and I was foolish enough to think we’d see that. Why does Anne hate Louis? He was your firstborn Anne! Lestat is the new favorite and David is becoming the second favorite)
So I think Lestat is Anne in this story, going through the journey from non-belief to belief. Lestat like Anne, was never religious, and he didn’t like his family’s fake/superficial faith. His atheism was further confirmed by Marius, who said he’s been around since before Jesus and saw Christianity as one of many cults over time. But now something has happened that forces Anne/Lestat to reconsider.
At first, when Lestat talks to The Ordinary Man he doesn’t believe he’s Satan, but probably some supernatural being like himself. But then he also says doesn’t love God but hates him, like a lot of people do, because he allows atrocities to happen. (This reminded me of God’s Not Dead honestly, where the premise is that Tarzan is not an atheist at all but is actually mad at God).
Ok, let’s go. So, I like the sympathetic view of the devil, emphasizing his falling. He is a victim of God, hates evil, and doesn’t want to be evil. Memnoch is also behind so much of Christian and Hebrew lore, he’s the one who taught humans metallurgy and weaving (Book of Enoch), he’s the reason humans can get into Heaven, and he’s the reason God took the form of a human in Jesus. This story is both fun in a fanfic sort of way and satisfying in hitting these memorable beats in the Bible (like the temptation in the desert).
The book has a clever take on how God created the universe and set evolution into motion. I know some Christians do subscribe to this interpretation, including my own Catholic mother. It brings physics into Creation too, how energy becomes matter (we all know e=mc^2) because God willed it. Memnoch does a quick course on human evolution 101, from organic molecules on warm soupy ponds to fish stepping on land to warm-blooded mammals to humans as we know them now, and according to him, gaining souls, which is treated here as another step in evolution. This last part is something I haven’t heard from Christians before.
We have a crafty reconning of vampire lore and Christian lore, human souls are spirits, they explain ghosts, poltergeists, apparitions, possession, and most importantly, the spirits that witches can control and the spirit that went into Akasha and created vampires. Just when I think Anne is losing the plot, she brings it all together. I enjoyed this take that brings science, faith, and the paranormal together in a clean little explanation.
Now back to Memnoch, his whole reason for falling is that he thinks humans are special, they have souls and that makes us unique and separate from nature, which makes us holy and thus deserving of special treatment. It seems like many religions also see it that way, that humans are special and apart from the natural world, granting us both privileges and responsibilities. I can see that reasoning, and many humans over all of history have tried to prove that more scientifically, only humans use tools (wrong), only humans prepare for the future (also wrong), or only humans love and grieve and plot revenge, that’s what sets us apart! But the more we study animals it seems like that’s also wrong. So why are we so determined to set ourselves apart? Lots to think about there.
Now we get to Jesus, who has decided to die and be resurrected not because that’s what he thinks is cool and good, but because that will fit with the preexisting myths humans have about The Dying God (learn more at Crash Course: World Mythology). That sounds so blasphemous to me, but it’s a pretty juicy take.
When Memnoch is tasked to find souls that are worthy of Heaven, he finds souls who are at peace with God. These souls aren’t mad at God for the pain and suffering in the world but are grateful to have had the chance to live at all. That’s pretty different from what I was taught would get you into heaven, the rules and beliefs that have to be followed. This feels blasphemous to me too, it seems too chill for Catholics to accept!
Anyway, Memnoch gets a small percentage of souls up to Heaven, God accepts, everyone is happy, but NOT Memnoch, he wants every soul in Heaven! Even after Jesus’s sacrifice that allows more souls in, it’s not good enough. That’s when Memnoch is dammed to become Satan and rule Hell, his new job is to work on every soul, “tutor them for the Light” so that they can go to Heaven. That’s the job he’s so tired of. He’s also sick of God letting humans slaughter each other in his name and God not doing anything about it, which yeah, I’ve had that though and I’m sure many others have too.
God is painted as clumsy, and arrogant, doing things sporadically, sometimes even for reasons he doesn’t even know or understand, but Memonch argues that even with these “flaws” he’s still God and should be worshipped and glorified for the very fact of his creation. Lestat doesn’t buy it though, and that’s why he refuses to help Memnoch, that and the dying part. I wonder if that’s a struggle Anne was having.
And in the end, it’s left ambiguous as to whether that was really God and Satan or some other preternatural being that made illusions happen. Armand seemed pretty fucking convinced though. I’m not upset about this ambiguity, it’s more fun that way.
TLRD - The mixing of christian mythos with vampire mythos worked out better than expected and I had a fun time reading this! I never thought these vampire chronicles would lead to meating actual!Jesus and actual!Satan but it was a good romp.
Bonus: Chekhov's period blood. Chekhov’s popped-out eyeball.
Favorites:
Lestat “I’ve been dumped in the swamps myself.” DEAD
Again: Mojo 💗 Kept by a random woman but Lestat visits to play 🥹
The description of heaven, a beautiful chaos of souls, natural elements, and architectural elements all sprouting from one another. It made me think of some of the visuals in Dr. Strange, the mirror dimension, with the city and buildings folding and sprouting from each other.
Lestat drinking Jesus’s blood!!! WILD. But also not wild if you believe in transubstantiation, right? Christians all over the world drink Jesus’s blood and eat this flesh every Sunday.
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OMFG all of Roger’s life story. I get that Lestat is making up games to make hunting more interesting, him seeing a victim’s ghost is novel and compelling. Between that, David’s story of the Paris cafe, and the Stalker, we got a good spooky start! But Roger collecting freaky books, wanting to start a cult, becoming a drug dealer, killing his baby momma, his televangelist daughter. . .it just went on and on. We already got his deal in the last chapter! I get the religious themes, but Anne, not everyone needs a 50-page background story.
I have to put the menstrual blood scene here. Just. . .Anne, I have questions. But also no I don’t. I wish to scrub my brain of it.
Excuse me, Armand just decides to burn himself at dawn?!?
Smutt:
Memnoch having sex with a stone age woman and cumming so hard that God Himself had to come down to Earth to yell at him about it. Absolutely bonkers. I loved it, no notes.
I am NOT counting the menstrual blood scene.
Nonsense Meter:
It’s gotta be a 10/10, but I have a feeling this scale will need to be reevaluated because things somehow get even more bonkers later. A vampire being solicited by Satan himself to help him out in Hell, that’s already a lot, you throw in angel sex, eye-ball mail, and time travel, it’s a lot. *Slaps book,* this baby can fit so much nonsense in it.
Misc:
Lestat (Ch. 9) “I don’t like myself, you know. I love myself, of course, I’m committed to myself till my dying day. But I don’t like myself.” My babygirl 😢
I’ve accepted that Louis is barely going to be around, but when he showed up at the end it was nice. ☺️
I read this book at the same time as I was watching Good Omens S2 and let me tell you these two bible fan fics were getting all scrambled in my brain and sometimes I couldn’t remember what was cannon for either. But also now I can name the choirs of angels, in case of emergency Christian trivia!
#vampire chronicles#memnoch the devil#interview with the vampire#lestat de lioncourt#book review#book rant#a lot of christianity#my credentials are that I went to catholic school
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Literally SICK to my stomach these two are so HORRIBLE (affectionate) together
Louis and Armand in Interview with the Vampire season 2
The Rolin's cut
#loumand#amc iwtv s2#iwtv season 2 trailer#armand x louis#wait no for real I've been screaming so much I literally have a stomach ache
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Babygirl is extra unhinged this season :3
SAM REID AS LESTAT IN INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SEASON 2
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Daniel on the bus, sees Armand on the other bus like
armand: “I’m the quiet you’ve been longing for.”
also armand: “DANIEL, WAKE UP, I NEED TO KNOW IF THIS PHONE CAN REALLY CALL PARIS.”
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Vampire Chronicles Book Review/Rant #4
The Tale of the Body Thief
Things take a turn once again! We got into silly Lestat adventures, met new vampires, the world was a bit changed after Akasha’s murder spree, the vamps who are left have to stick together now so we must get another chapter of this new coven right? WRONG.
Anne said it’s time for The Most Special Boy to have a turn in the spotlight again!
I mean, it was still fun and I liked it overall, don’t get me wrong, but I think this is where The Vampire Chronicles start to get unhinged. It was a bit like watching a slow train crash, you know The Body Thief is lying, everyone warns Lestat not to do it, you know everything is going to go wrong, and you watch Lestat do it anyway.
Overall I liked David and Lestat’s relationship, learning about David’s life and how he was unsatisfied that after devoting his life to studying mysteries he didn’t feel like he gained any more purpose or understanding in life. I didn’t get much out of Lestat’s hallucinations/memories of Claudia however.
It was interesting how every vampire, even Louis, turns on Lestat in the human body, we know Marius lets him get away with everything, Louis will always be loyal despite himself, and the other vampires all love him, but once he’s renounced vampirism he’s dead to them all, even though Lestat could be turned again! Sure, Louis won’t do it, but I thought someone would offer! So it’s very convenient Lestat has made one human friend to save his ass.
Favorites:
Lestat laying naked face down ass up on David’s rug for days 😂
Lestat immediately screws up having a body, he’s getting knocked out, he’s pratfalling, he’s injuring himself, getting himself horribly sick. Hilarious! I did get worried when he almost died at the hospital though.
Lestat and other vampires are always describing Louis as “the most human” at best, and like a sickly, weak piece of shit vampire that can’t begin to keep up with the rest at worst. But when Lestat as a human visits him, he’s immediately like, oh shit why did I ever think that?! Louis is so obviously not a human!
Mojo 💗
Least Favorites:
Anne didn’t let Lestat fuck that old man!! (Link fanfics if you got them 😛)
It’s not an immediate dislike, but disappointment? David, an old white man, takes over the already stolen body of a brown man. The death of this mechanic is not David’s fault, his taking over was the only way to save his own life. However, the old white man becomes a young hot brown man. . . it’s giving Get Out 😣
There is a missed opportunity in not having David experience not being white in the world, giving that old man a moment to reflect on his past privilege and to grow as a person in the few months before he’s turned. Idk, it’s not that big of a deal but I would have liked to see it.
And where’s @noncontextlestat at with the list of his crimes? Pretty sure they got SA on there already.
Smutt:
Lestat gets to fuck a nun, a nun who just happens to be on nun sabbatical where she’s free to sin a little, as a treat. Wowowowow.
Nonsense Meter:
Automatic 9/10 nonsense, I think the reasons are clear.
Gross limp human dick < vampire permaboner. ANNE!!
Misc:
Ok, I must have been reading wrong because it wasn’t until this book that I realized Anne Rice vampires don’t have sex. I thought the sex was implied this whole time 😂
Hear me out, when Daniel and Armand are snuggling in bed and then showering, I’m not supposed to think sex happened at some point? Lestat and Akasha rolling around in bed in some Greek Villa, I’m not supposed to think sex happened?!
When Claudia asks Louis what sex was like before, I thought she meant it like, “before you and my other dad started hating each other” and not “when you were human because you don’t do that as a vampire.” I’m not crazy, right?
Chapter 7 (Lestat talking to Louis): “You described my weeping in your miserable memoir in a scene which we both know did not take place!” WHAT SCENE?!
#vampire chronicles#the tale of the body thief#louis x lestat#lestat de lioncourt#david talbot#book review#book rant#I'm glad amc decided these vampires fuck#because I refuse to believe they don't
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