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toriangeli · 2 days

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One of my favorite things about how Anne Rice writes historical fiction: she doesn't sugar-coat her characters.

As in, there was never going to be any way all these vampires going back 6000 years were going to align with modern sensibilities. They're not savory. They suck.

First off, any male of status from before the Great Depression probably did, in fact, look at an underage girl and think, "she LOOKS like she could grow up cute and interesting, but do I want to wait to ask her dad and risk someone else calling dibs in the meantime?"

Lestat: Killed majestic, beautiful animals that were only trying to feed themselves. To save the lives of people who were counting on him, yeah, but still.

Marius: Literally from ancient Rome, lots of ideals from that time, pederastic relationship with Armand, see above disclaimer about males from prior to the Great Depression.

Armand, Santino, most of the de Landens: I do feel like the Children of Darkness/Satan wouldn't have been founded in our time, as evidenced by Lestat so easily disbanding them with basic Enlightenment talking points, so I think it counts.

Louis: LITERALLY OWNED SLAVES. And not in a bullshit "but I treat them so nice and they'd just be owned by someone mean if not for me!" way, he legit believed this was what black people were for. Until he became a vampire and all humans looked equal(ly foodlike) to him.

Gabrielle: Let other people raise her kids while she became a library hermit.

Maharet and Mekare: Cannibals. Oh, sorry. Respectful cannibals.

Khayman: Nnnot even gonna be sarcastic about this one. He was as much a victim of it as Maharet and Mekare, hence them not blaming him in the slightest. But people today would be put on trial for following an order like that one, so I figure it belongs here.

Daniel: idk probably unprotected gay sex. It was the 70's.

Claudia: Gets a pass. She was five. All the bad shit she does is unrelated to her time.

Mael: Helped keep a vampire captive for years, then proceeded to kidnap someone and force them to become a vampire, all because "idk we're kooky druids and it's our religion."

Everard: Laughs at Benedict for being kidnapped and having his blood stolen. Victim-blaming at its finest.

Akasha and Enkil: I mean, we know what they did, but everyone hated them in their own time, too, so.

Eudoxia: Jesus Christ.

Davis: HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG EVER IN HIS LIFE. /protects him forever #theonlyinnocentvampireprobably

And you know what? I'd take the worst of these over Bill Compton, Damon Salvatore, or Whassisface Cullen fighting for the Confederacy because "the greater good." Like bro. At least the dickheads above are being honest about it and we can judge those parts of them appropriately. You're trying to make us think you were doing something honorable by being vague. We know what you were really fighting for, and so do you.

Moral of the story: If you're gonna be evil, trying to be sneaky about it only makes it worse.

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swedenis-h · 3 months

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Queens of the Damned and Jesse!

#annual ‘I miss them’ post #Mekare marry me- WHO SAID THAT-#hashtag heterochromia #hashtag a very grOoVy mutation #art #fanart #digital art #fan art #my art #iwtv #tvc #tvc fanart #tqotd #the queen of the damned #jesse reeves #maharet #Mekare

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rhan-hastur · 11 months

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Ask and you shall receive!

Bonus: even more vampire ladies no one asked for:

#sketches #the vampire chronicles #iwtv #the vampire armand #pandora #marius de romanus #akasha #maharet #mekare #asks #armand looks way too young here sorry that's what i get for taking inspiration from literal cherubs

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thecactifindahome · 2 months

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Queen of the Damned: last pages and sequel ideas

- The Witching Hour

- Untitled Talamasca novel

- God Damn It Lestat, You've Fucked Us Again

#lestat #marius de romanus #gabrielle de lioncourt #armand #talamasca #queen of the damned #vampire chronicles #maharet #mekare #khayman #louis de pointe du lac #vc #tulane university #marius: read my lips - no new vampires!

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kaelio · 3 months

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The collection at Tulane University only seemed (as far as we could tell?) to have partial bits of the Queen of the Damned draft. Here's a link to everything we found. There are some definite changes, though it'll also be very familiar!

(This is all of the Queen of the Damned book material we have in its entirety. There may be more, but we were forced to triage and made and effort to digitize certain materials we thought would be most helpful.)

Download Link

#tvc #the vampire chronicles #queen of the damned #anne rice #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pont du lac #maharet #mekare #armand #armand the vampire #pandora #pandora the vampire #marius de romanus #eric #santino #tulane university

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lgbtiwtv · 1 year

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queen of the damned (1988)

#😭😭😭#rip to akasha but she’s different #iwtv #interview with the vampire #the vampire chronicles #queen of the damned #akasha #mekare #I’m so sorry if someone has made this before but I couldn’t get it out of my head until I made it #m watches iwtv

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vamp4rebatscave · 2 years

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Last year fanarts!

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bubblegum-blackwood · 6 months

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VC ladies! (some of them, at least)

We got Sybelle, Rose, Eudoxia, Zenobia, Bianca, Mona, Petronia, Rowan, Jesse, Gabrielle, Sevraine, Baby Jenks, Allesandra, Akasha, Merrick, Pandora, Maharet, Mekare, Aunt Queen, and Claudia

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simostara · 7 months

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Maharet & Mekare

Anne Rice : The Vampire Chronicles

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soitamulle · 1 year

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watch out there are vampires in these jungles 🦜

🩸this is mekare🩸after a midnight snack

close-up here 🔻

actually i wanted to try drawing some plants, like, trees (!) but got impatient once more. next time!

edit. OH YEAH i also wanted to include my favorite flower but yupp no patience for that, besides i forgot 💀 anyway it was there in this sketch can you guess what flower it is (spoiler: there is absolutely no way to know based on this image)

🙃🙃🙃

#mekare #the queen of the damned #the vampire chronicles #anne rice #vampire chronicles fanart #iwtv fanart #rip the twins you're missed

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swedenis-h · 1 month

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Heart and Mind (X)

Just in case the link doesn’t work:

#thank you to my bestie adam for sending me that link #slayed!#I had to draw the queens of the damned IMMEDIATELY!!1!#art #fanart #digital art #fan art #my art #iwtv #tvc #tqotd #maharet #Mekare

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sanctaignorantia · 3 months

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Playing with the fancast thing again!

I woke up with the idea in mind that Tom Ellis should be on IWTV somehow, because I'm an idiot and I like to fancast, but unfortunately as I don't watch many movies and series, my list of actors is limited to a very small circle!

But let's play a little...

Erin Kellyman and Amelia Kellyman as Maharet and Mekare and I don't think I need to tell you why... (The one in the middle is Milly Kellyman and she's an athlete.)

(left) Erin - October 17, 1998 - 1,68m (British)

(right) Amelia - June 6, 1993 - not sure (British)

Tom Ellis - November 17, 1978 - 1,91m (British)... I have no idea who he could play, but like Ben Daniels (Santiago), he's the kind of actor who has the charisma to make you feel sympathy for the devil (if you know what I mean), so he could be something like Santino haha.

May El Calamawy - October 28, 1986 - 1,69m (Egyptian/Palestinian)... I've loved her since I saw her in 'Moon Knight' and thank you Marvel for that, she's a great actress and I'm just in love with her, it's that thing, I just want her in every possible production. I can't say she'd be a good Akasha because I don't think she'd fit that role, so she could be some gender-swapped character or maybe Chrysanthe.

Jameela Jamil - February 25, 1986 - 1,79m (Indian/Pakistani born in UK)... Make her Lydia (Pandora) and make her kick some ass, make Arjun her little dog and in the end she can be with Bianca (I don't think she should be with Marius because he deserves to end up alone).

Eva Green - July 6, 1980 - 1,70m (French/Jewish descent on his mother's side)... How can you live without wanting this woman on your screen? I have no idea who she could be, but make her one of the old ones, a powerful one who puts fear into you, make her kick a lot of ass too.

Charles Dance as Magnus - October 10, 1946 - 1,91m (British)... It's so sad because I can only see Magnus as him, but if Christos Lawton is Magnus in S2 I'll be satisfied too.

Paul Bullion as Thornevald - June 4, 1988 - 1,91m (British)... Come on, he looks so much like Thorne, it's like he's going to start crying at any moment! And I wish the series would not only put Thorne and Cyril together, but make them a couple, because I would love that so much, them being the best clumsy duo at protecting and following Lestat around while being a complete mess, they need to stick together, I love them.

Gillian Anderson or Kristin Bauer van Straten as Gabrielle. To be honest, from the first time I saw Kristin I saw Gabrielle in her.

Gillian Anderson - August 9, 1968 - 1,60m (American/British)

Kristin Bauer van Straten - November 26, 1966 - 1,75 m (American)

Oded Fehr as Nebamun (Gregory) - November 23, 1970 - 1,87m (Israeli)... That crush from 'The Mummy' that you never forget. Gregory being the biggest dad!

I had some funny fancasts for Marius from the moment I read him in 'The Vampire Lestat', but the only two that never left my head were Fawad and Pedro, sorry! Two completely impossible actors, but something in me screamed that Marius should be Latino (crazy) and I unfortunately won't change my mind about that.

Fawad Khan - November 29, 1981- 1,78 m (Pakistani)

Pedro Pascal - April 2, 1975 - 1,80m (Chilean/American)... Every time I read Marius and the image of Pedro pops into my mind, I start to giggle (I love you Pedro!).

Sometimes I see Marius in Adam Cowie too, but unfortunately he's not an actor… June 3, 1988 - 1,88m (British/Model and Dante's face in DMC V).

That's all for now, there are a few other characters that I wish I could fancast, but unfortunately I don't have any references and they are:

Seth. I keep wondering who would be the ideal actor to be the best couple ever with Fareed! (Sorry, I love them too).

Sevraine. Another great woman I wanted kicking ass!

Avicus and Mael. Along with Fareed and Seth, the two of them are the couple I look at and shout "old married couple energy!"

Cyril. Because I want him kissing Thorne on the mouth!!!

Rhoshamandes. Poor dear Rhosh, poorly used in the books, I wish he had the same energy as Ben Daniels as Santiago, an actor who would make you love the great villain and that in the series he is that great villain and not just someone who gradually becomes mediocre.

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Mahesh Jadu as Cyril, Khayman or Seth - October 26, 1982 - 1,83m (Australian)... My goodness he's beautiful, isn't he???? >///<

Please reblog with more fancasts!

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thecactifindahome · 12 days

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Tulane notes on Rhoshamandes, Khayman, and Maharet's death

Rhoshamandes really does seem to have been kind of a fall guy at first. And it's interesting that Benedict doesn't even seem to exist yet.

#Rhoshamandes #maharet #mekare #khayman #vc #vampire chronicles #prince lestat #tulane university #amel #Rhoshamandes walks into the compound like troy walking in with the pizza

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kaelio · 3 months

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And here's the rest of the David Talbot novel, Parts 3, 4, and 5! This includes a lot of info on Maharet and Mekare, as well as mentions of a lot of the cast and what they were up to at this time. AND it's got... lions!

Part 3: Download Link

Part 4: Download Link

Part 5: Download Link

#anne rice #tvc #the vampire chronicles #tulane university #mahahret #mekare #david talbot #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #pandora #armand the vampire

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mademoisellebianx · 8 months

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The Ancients of the Coven of the Articulate!

#feat. eric v02.#vampire chronicles #khayman #maharet #mekare #mael #eric #pandora #marius de romanus #mademoiselle's art

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suikamelon6 · 10 months

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One of my two submissions to Sam Reid's Fan Book, organised by the ever resourceful @nocontextlestat

As a book fan, I hope you like it Sam.

This is Mekare's last scene (reworked to book description).

Mekare in black wool robe trimmed with silver, hair has been brushed and lustrous, skin fiercely white and her pale blue eyes. One of which she gauged out. This scene made such an impression in my head when I first read it.

#sam reid #samreidfanbook #mekare #interview with the vampire fanart #iwtv fanart #amc iwtv #lestat #Prince Lestat

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