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dark-immortal-kiss · 6 months

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Old book fans really hating on the show, huh? As if we’re ever getting a Lestat more book accurate than Sam Thyne Reid??? I’ve been reading these books since I was 9 and I couldn’t love the show more!!!! You know I don’t know what it is anymore that they’re even complaining about if not the inclusion of bipoc stories? Is it really the pastiche aesthetic that y’all are gnawing bones over? It wasn’t even accurate in the movie!!!! If y’all have any fucking patience we’re getting timeline accurate flashbacks as soon as season 2!!! Lestat is book accurate, and I’m gonna fucking say it, so are Louis and Armand!!! Maybe y’all just haven’t read the books in a while, but whatever nostalgia y’all are salivating for is just that, it doesn’t really have anything to do with Anne’s writing. I’m rereading TVL and PL and nothing in my brain has had to shift from the show to the book, I’m seeing and hearing Sam Reid and Assad Zaman. Y’all really wanted a redhead minor as Armand? Nobody cares! Assad embodies everything that makes Armand’s character. Honestly some of you sound like the same assholes who told me I couldn’t be goth because I was black. Either that or you just don’t understand what adaptation actually means. Either it’s racism or frankly racist leaning and salivating for an ✨aesthetic✨. And y’all better not come crawling when season 3 comes around just because it’s suddenly more palatable and accurate to you. Disgusting!

#I’m so tired #if the changes are just too much for you then fine #but don’t pretend the show is wrong or bad somehow #it just doesn’t fit your narrow view of vc #a series that was always oscillating and evolving in tone and aesthetic #show louis IS book louis #just with added complexity that book louis sorely needed #sam reid was born to play lestat #we’ll never get another that is this passionate about the source material or who loves Lestat more #iwtv #interview with the vampire #the vampire chronicles #amc iwtv #vc #anne rice

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cbrownjc · 2 months

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The first part of my next fanfic in The Forgotten Years series, which I am writing with @faerywhimsy, is now done. Please check it out over on AO3.

Title: Half-Forgotten Dreams

Pairings: Armand/Daniel, Daniel/Louis (past), Armand/Louis (past), Armand/Daniel/Louis (past), Lestat/Louis (past)

Summary: Though his interview with Louis is now at its end, Daniel continues to regain memories of his past that reveal things he’s not prepared to face.

End of Season Two — Show Canon with Book Canon Elements — Daniel’s POV

ACT I (of II) — 14,443 words — Mature

Warning: This story might contain possible spoilers for the end of Season Two (as it references later books in the series). If that is something you may want to avoid, please wait to read this story later.

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Excerpt:

Al Shafar Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 30, 2022, 1:08 a.m.

“And so now? The only thing before me now is to go on, night after night. Detached. Unchangeable. Empty.”

Once again, Daniel listened to the recording of the final words spoken by Louis just a few hours before.

After all the drama, twists and turns, and painful remembrances and revelations, Daniel Molloy’s interview with the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac was now over. Finished.

Once he had spoken those final words, Louis had quietly risen from his chair in the sitting room and disappeared down a hallway, without so much as another word to Daniel.

The Vampire Armand, too, had only paused for a few moments after Louis had departed before taking his leave as well, also without a word to Daniel.

It was late, and Daniel was already way past when he should have already gone to bed. He was feeling drowsy and his Parkinson’s tremors were always worse at night when he was tired and still awake at such an hour.

However, the fact that the interview was now, officially over, didn’t feel like a relief. Or even some great unfinished accomplishment that he’d finally finished, and could cross off a bucket list.

No. What Daniel mostly felt about it all, at the moment, was a strange sort of . . . sorrow.

He didn’t feel celebratory about having uncovered all the hidden truths and obfuscation that had been thrown his way since the moment he walked through the door of the Dubai Penthouse. Usually when catching an interview subject trying to do such things, Daniel took an almost sadistic delight in upending the person in question, trapping them into at least facing the truth — a truth Daniel always made sure he knew as well, with facts on hand to back it up, before he did so — even if they remained loathed to admit that truth to him or themselves.

However, after all the truths that were finally revealed during Louis de Pointe du Lac’s interview, all Daniel felt about it now, was melancholy.

Daniel Molloy wouldn’t have believed it of himself just two weeks ago but after this interview, with Louis’ final words, Daniel felt himself almost wishing he’d just let Louis hold onto the illusions he’d built around himself about everything that had happened.

Especially regarding Claudia, his never-sister and forever-daughter. Claudia, who had broken Louis’ heart, (maybe even more than Lestat had), and who was now gone forever.

It was strange how, after everything, Daniel now felt a kind of kinship toward Louis. Even a real sense of trust now. He couldn’t say how or when it had come about, but it was there.

Louis had never lied to him about things in the beginning with any malicious intent behind it. Once his true memories began to reveal themselves, Louis didn’t try to hide from them anymore. He faced them, despite the utter pain it caused him to do so.

And Daniel couldn’t help but admire, and have his heart go out to Louis for that.

Which was very much not the same feelings Daniel held toward Louis’ erstwhile vampire companion Armand.

When the full truth about Armand’s role in Claudia’s fate had been revealed — specifically what acts he’d committed in the lead into her final fate — had been revealed, Daniel had listened to it all with the same cold and quiet dispassion Armand had displayed in his telling of it.

However, underneath that, Daniel had also continued to be confused by the five-centuries-old immortal, just as he had been after both he and Louis had revealed Armand’s true identity to him after the Rashid subterfuge.

Even before now, Daniel had wondered what Rashid’s true goal and endgame were regarding Louis — regarding all of this.

And now, after the interview was concluded, Daniel still didn’t know.

And not knowing, not having figured it out when he was now at the end of it all, continued to pick at his mind. None of it was helped by the fact that Armand had been playing a major role in all the lost memories Daniel had never known, until now, that he’d even forgotten. Events from after the failed first interview with Louis back in 1973.

Every time Daniel closed his eyes, it wasn’t only his forever-reoccurring dream he saw behind them now. The reoccurring dream — or more accurately, nightmare — he’d been having off and on since 2005.

No. Now, along with that, it would also be some forgotten memory flooding back to him, returning to him, as well.

And he knew they were memories. They always felt more real, more tangible, than his dreams did.

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bambinification · 3 months

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I've finally drawn a connection between my two main "genres" being naturalist animal xenofiction and gothic horror.

Idk I hesitate to even say I like gothic horror, because people usually think of William Faulkner or something, but my motto is basically "if it doesn't have animals or incest, I won't read it."

But like, upon thinking about it for more than two seconds, isn't NAX as a genre steeped in gore, death, tragedy, and possible interbreeding? Like think about it--put the disney movies out of your mind. Bambi written by Felix Salten was never meant to be a kids book. Black Beauty is notoriously tragic. You can't even mention Watership Down without its bleak tonality and graphic nature being the punchline or point. Even YA titles published today toe the line in terms of graphic content from time to time (thinking specifically of Warrior Cats rn).

I guess it's just that nature is brutal, and most written fiction from the eyes of animals reflect that brutality, which give the two genres more common ground than one may think. I mean, there's a reason I'm rereading Bambi but haven't picked up a Gabi Adam book more than once.

#gabi adam did the diablo my dream horse books series btw #not technically nax bc it's about the humans. but it exemplifies the difference between xenofiction and 'horse girl books' i think #naturalist animal xenofiction #xenofiction #gothic horror #vc andrews #kristopher triana

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peppermint-candy · 1 year

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*My stack of unread books getting bigger*

I should read Flowers in the Attic again for the 3rd time!!!!!

#flowers in the attic #vc andrews #dollanganger series #🍬talks #reading #books #cathy dollanganger #christopher dollanganger

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rainbowcarousels · 1 year

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The Armand Bed Pile (aka ramblings about the ot4 and why they work for me as a ship)

I’m going to kick off my feeling somewhat like a human being again with talking about what has become something of an OT4*.

I want to preface it by saying this is just my personal take but I want to talk about where I’m coming from when I say what has been generally described as the Armand Bed Pile because he’s kind of the person who links Lestat, Louis and Daniel together. (I forget who named it someone jump in, it was probably someone on Armandblr) I think there’s something really obvious about why the canon romances work but I’ll include them because I never pass up the opportunity to gush.

I’m going to go for Armand first because he is the name of the bedpile for good reason.

So Armand/Lestat are at once a new and old relationship, they’re just working out what they want out of it and their love for each other even though they’ve loved each other a long time. They are lightning, summer thunderstorms where they both end up drenched and hurt and happy and it’s confusing. They are both intense people who tend to masquerade as calm (Armand) or blase (Lestat) who crave family and acceptance after feeling as if he never fit in anywhere (Lestat) or was defined by what he can do for others (Armand) and striking the balance between those are tricky. It’s a mix of control and learning when to hang on and when to let go.

Armand/Louis on the other hand is an old married couple. Their relationship is redemption. They are attracted to one another but it’s not the raging intensity that Lestat brings to the table. It’s a love that meanders slowly along, it’s warm and soft and opens slowly but Armand can show extraordinary patience with Louis in a way that I don’t think we often see from him and Louis will allow Armand a lot more liberties than most.

They understand each other and accept each other with the major issue between them is that Louis is by his nature always a little in conflict with what he is, he is often subject to guilt and depression from that and mixed with an old fashioned gentility and politisse, it means it’s easy to have miscommunications with them. Armand is at a stage where he’s refinding himself, his humanity under his trauma, so it’s easy to see where Louis’ issues can interact badly with that and he can take that as rejection.

For them, it’s learning to communicate their boundaries and feelings without what they feel they should feel getting in the way or dragging the other person down.

Then we have Armand/Daniel. I think if I were to put the great loves of Armand’s life into seasons, Daniel is Autumn: a season of change, of ripe harvest, a slight chill but warm enough to still explore and the old dying into the new. They’re new love and changeable love – both he and Daniel suffered in the aftermath of his change after having a period of young love in Devil’s Minion, but they’re both coming through it and they once again choose each other.

For better or worse, Armand is the love of Daniel’s life and Daniel is the only person Armand has ever truly known he couldn’t live without. In modern times, I think they’re finding their footings as a childhood sweetheart turned adult relationship. They cross lines without meaning to, Armand cannot read Daniel as he once did to know when it’s just his sense of humour talking, Daniel has a lot more power and independence than he used to and none of this is bad, but it is different. For them, it’s just learning how best to love the person they are now as well as who they were and weathering the difficulties and sharing the joys together.

Then we have what must be seen as the flagship couple in Louis/Lestat. I’m not going to go too hard on this, we all know they’re in love, we all know that these two are terrible at communicating on the same level as each other but ultimately, love wins out with them. What I love about the modern era is that it seems to be far more on Louis’ terms, he is the one setting his own very self aware boundaries and reminding Lestat of what his needs are. Lestat has some bad habits of running away from love when given freely (coughArmandcough) probably because he’s afraid of what might happen or if people will leave (something he shares with Armand too, triggering another issue for those two) so the version I’m working with for a modern them is trying to find a balance.

Louis needs to have his feelings understood and his needs met and Lestat also needs room to breathe, he needs ways to work through what he’s feeling and he needs to be told he’s a voracious slut at least three times a week. Like Armand/Daniel, love is never in question – it’s the working out of the relationship that takes time, space and commitment to one another.

Now we come onto the two that are the most speculative. For me, Armand is it for Daniel, that’s the big love of his life, blood runs through his veins, etc. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t love other people and not even that he doesn’t grow or experience other romantic loves.

So we’ll go into the one that surprised me which is Louis/Daniel, likely in the context of Louis/Armand/Daniel but I want to talk about how they work functionally within the relationship. Louis’ issue tends to be one of communication and propriety. He gets stuck in his own loops and what he should or shouldn’t do, experiences his own monstrosity then feels crap about it. This is something I think Daniel relates too because I think some of the corpse issue is that he has more trouble than he lets on early on differentiating ‘food’ from ‘people’ and what comes along with that, so he gets where Louis is coming from but he’s also mostly worked through it so he has a different perspective.

He also does not really give a shit about propriety – he doesn’t play into it (like Armand seems to with Louis) or mock it (as Lestat does) but cuts through the bullshit with words and actions that are heartfelt, perceptive and will call out anything he feels like he should.

It’s also worth noting Louis was Daniel’s original conduit into this world, the first vampire to ever bite him, so I think there’s attraction there as well as love. It’s not the same kind of love, but that doesn’t make it less valid.

Then the one that gave me the most trouble: Lestat/Daniel. It was actually @desertfangs that made me realise what it was about them that worked as a relationship (I’ve always thought they’d work to fuck, they would both be so down) and it’s that Lestat’s human self in Paris during that period where he’s doing well at Renaud’s and he’s deleriously happy right as he starts to see Magnus gives off some serious Daniel vibes. Lestat even maintains this as a young vampire – he loves it! He’s joyous. He does see both despair and ecstasy in the world, he does romanticise it all and want to do everything and that is something that he sadly loses a lot of it from the repeated traumas of Nicolas, of losing his little family, of Akasha and then Memnoch and then almost losing Louis too. He’s struggled a lot and lost sight of what he loves about his immortality.

Daniel, having gone through something not dissimilar to the first trauma that knocked Lestat for a loop as a vampire in Nicolas’ delirium, is still discovering what he loves about being a young vampire. He sees so much good in the world, so much love and joy and most importantly, he knows and loves to play. I think for them, this is what sparks in their relationship. Daniel is experiencing and in some ways re-experiencing what it means to love being part of the world, love his immortality and I love the idea Lestat can rediscover these parts of himself through that.

Daniel for his part in these two relationships I think brings something to the table that I don’t think anyone else in the coven does: he sees both person and monstrosity as equally worthy of love and he’s always going to love the original big three because they were his rebirth long before his actual rebirth. I think it can make him naive and that he can stick his nose in when he shouldn’t, but it does always come from a place of affection so I think it works for them.

So this is kind of my point: they balance each other out as a relationship. Daniel and Louis both get overwhelmed more easily and need more breaks than Armand and Lestat, Lestat and Daniel are both terrible enablers of each other while Armand and Louis tend to be more practical people, Lestat and Louis are more prone to melancholy than Daniel and Armand are and in each of these, you get someone who helps either make sure someone gets their needs met or gets challenged when they need it.

Daniel has no problem explaining Armand’s needs when he can’t, Louis has no problems telling Armand when Daniel looks like he needs a break, Lestat has no issue telling Louis that he’s been wrapped up in doing stuff so long that it’s time to come and do stuff now and Louis can and will take Lestat’s hand and lead him home when he starts to question where home is.

For me, the balance is slowly Armand letting go of some of his ‘host’ identity and responsibilities because that’s kind of what Lestat does usually, he wanders off and does what he wants (except duirng his Prince era but tbh I think he needs rescuing from that) and Daniel still loves new experiences so he learns how to be playful and put his own needs out there a little more.

For Louis, I think it’s learning how to break his own spirals because it’s pretty hard to contend with multiple people who will still love you no matter what you struggle with and when propriety has a place. I also like the idea he has had very limited experience with kink and living with Armand (and later Daniel) has really been an eye opening experience** and Lestat is in for a shock when he realises it.

For Lestat, I think it’s learning he doesn’t always have to run away from how he feels, that putting his heart in something doesn’t guarantee to break it and that he doesn’t have to give up having adventures or new experiences just to have a relationship work. He can have both, and he can reconnect with himself a little.

Finally, for Daniel, I think it’s coming home. It’s simple, but it’s not easy. He has to find his own ways and routines not to get overwhelmed but he’s naturally curious and still learning what he can do, he’s learning to trust himself and connect with himself more. They can and do break each others patterns in a way that feels safe, provide new experiences or how to interact with old ones and

There is so much passion there that I’m not really touching on that but I think reconnecting physically human things also helps, especially learning to vampirically spin it. Again, feels like Daniel and Armand could write a whole book on this and for the people who struggle to communicate (aka all of them at some point or another), the physical acts and how they interact with kink** is part of what helps them stay feeling loved, connected and wanted. It is the origin of the bed pile too because it’s not just about sexual things but the reassurance of waking up feeling like you’re safely ensconced that feels like it’s really up Armand’s alley specifically but also appeals to all of them in some way. It creates a sense of a safe home that isn’t too boring, too much or not enough.

So the tl;dr of this is that I think Armand/Louis/Daniel/Lestat can work in any combination for love, sex and everything else but that my favourite is when they are all involved in some way or another. Maybe not always all at once, it can be months and perhaps even years between seeing one another, but the love never fades and perhaps never will.

*The reason I don’t generally call it OT4 is because in an OT4, for me, you have to be able to see each individual relationship working one on one as well as a polycule and I started to think that actually, maybe I was being unfair because I do think these are people who either do canonically love each other or would work in a relationship setting. It’s just that in this case, I think the best balance of the relationship comes in all four.

** At some point I will ramble about how kink can be an exploration of internal issues and howmuch I think that’s something Louis would end up finding appealing. The understanding of drawing pain out in the physical in a safe way to feel it, acknowledge it and process it is something I think both he and Armand would benefit from but the former would probably not think of it if he wasn’t currently living with two people who practice it on the regular. It’s just too complicated to go into in one post.

#long post #vc #armand bed pile #armand/daniel/lestat/louis #armand/daniel #armand/lestat #armand/louis #lestat/louis #lestat/daniel #this is basically me rambling about how i think they work in the stars series universe #but i think the verse is anchored in canon up till PL so I think it's still valid #what i wouldn't have given for a book of this lot after PL sorting out their shit #fic meta #armandblr #also this was originally much longer with about 5 paragraphs per ship section but i cut it down because omg rainbow shush

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imsylwanin · 5 months

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Hannah Dodd as Corrine Foxworth in Flowers in the attic: The Origin (2022).

Please, reblog + like if you use it or give me credits on twitter @IMSYLWANIN .

#twitter layouts #matching icons #matching layouts #matching headers #roleplay #aesthetic #books & libraries #quotes #flowers in the attic #dollanganger series #the dollanganger saga #vc andrews #hannah dodd #the bridgertons

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mademoisellebianx · 1 year

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Vampire Chronicles Side Characters: Antoine( ̷t̷t̷e̷ ̷B̷r̷o̷w̷n̷)

#interview with the vampire #vampire chronicles #antoinette brown #antoine #maura grace athari #vc book spoilers #vcsides #mademoiselle's edits #iwtv (tv series)#immortal universe

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cbrownjc · 5 days

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My new fanfic, and the penultimate story in The Forgotten Years series, which I am writing with @faerywhimsy, is complete. Please check it out over on AO3.

Title: Where the Truth Lies

Pairings: Armand/Daniel, Daniel/Louis (past), Armand/Louis (past), Armand/Daniel/Louis (past)

Summary: Daniel returns home to Brooklyn, still reeling from the events of Dubai and the monumental change his life has now undergone.

Show Canon with Book Canon Elements — Daniel’s POV

Completed — 7,570 words — Mature

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Excerpt:

Brooklyn Heights, New York, late-October 2022

It was sunset by the time Daniel arrived back at his place in New York City after leaving Dubai.

Before allowing him to leave, Armand had presented Daniel with a manila envelope containing everything he’d need to get by in the modern world: from a new passport and driver’s license to a United States Birth Certificate, and a new Social Security card. He’d even given Daniel a prepaid credit card (with a very large credit line) for any expenses he needed on his trip back home and afterward, as he got settled.

Every one of those new documents and cards Armand had given Daniel had also listed his name on them as “Daniel Malloy” — his last name spelled with an “a” instead of the two o’s he’d had for all of his life up until now. Very much done on purpose.

And all done to accommodate for the fact that Daniel could never again use those same documents and credit cards that he already had, the ones that had his last name spelled with two o’s, ever again, thanks to Armand’s plan.

A plan that appeared to have worked exactly as Armand had wanted it to.

And one that Daniel had never asked for — let alone had wanted.

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toomuchhorrorfiction · 2 years

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Flowers in the Attic (1979), the famous book by V.C. Andrews, first edition Pocket Books paperback. Art by Gillian Hills.

#books #reading #vintage paperbacks #horror #paperback books #gothic fiction #vc andrews #flowers in the attic #the dollanganger series #horror novels #gothic novel #1979 #1970s #book cover art #paperbacks #scary books #book covers #paperbacks from hell #gillian hills

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izartn · 11 months

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Hey, was Noé from Auvergne? Bc that's where Lestat is from. Mochizuki Jun, señora, I know you watched the IWTV film but did you read the books too? Are you watching the new TV series? Is Louis de Sade name an homage?!?! Just a min.

OK, so yes it's Auveroigne in Altus, which the vampire counterpart to the historical province. In the wiki, in Noé page says:

Averoigne is a fictional counterpart of a historical province in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer Clark Ashton Smith.[1] The province is considered "the most witch-ridden in the entire country. The location is frequently used in Smith's stories as well as his close friends'.

One of the main themes tackled in the stories of Averoigne is vampires. The forests of Averoigne are said to be infested with vampires as well as werewolves.

Which means that Mochijun, who has done her research very well for Case Study of Vanitas, would likely have come across this (which seems to be the kind of stories that also got Anne Rice to choose Auvergne for Lestat???) but given that Mochijun has also said (the translation of that interview is somewhere in my vnc tag) that she watched IWTV and all the multiple references to other vampires and Gothic stories and fairy tales scattered in Vanitas I wouldn't put it pass her to put Auveroigne as a wink.

Also here you have the Wikipedia for Averoigne.

I am obssesed by this btw. The stories and worldbuilding couldn't be more different but Vanitas does occur in France, mainly Paris and has vampires so the association was a bit unavoidable in my mind.

If you have read/watched both case study of vanitas and interview with the vampire I want some crazy talk here.

#meta #the case study of vanitas #vanitas no carte #vampire chronicles #iwtv #lestat the vampire #bc the info is given there #noé archiviste #lestat de lioncourt #omg those two names side by side is a trip #the vampires in the chronicles are so evil they'd eat the cast of vanitas for breakfast #evil and more powerful lol like I said the lore is super different in the two stories #but noé abilities being the power to see memories in the blood like the vc vamps????#mochijun I'm begging you have you read the books???? or watched the series? if you say no I'll believe you but please #vnc meta #noé does have a thing for depressed suicidal brunettes too doesn't he #that's a popular archetype so I guess it could be coincidence #sunny loving life chara VS pessimist realist learning again thanks to sunny chara #but its a bit funny with all this in mind

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