#interviewing myself

[lizardkingeliot]

—Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

[the-one-who-lambs]

First drafts aren't the final product and they're allowed to be messy. Except mine. Mine has to be perfect immediately

[chloesimaginationthings]

Scott Cawthon’s version of FNAF Burntrap..

[yellenabelova]

#Do you think Lestat thinks often about this conversation or are you fine

[fascinationstreetmp3]

Do you want to hear my story?

[venduri]

this was the coven master, surely, this quiet and forceful one, the one who would survive, no matter how the orphan in him wept

[nocontextlestat]

[userarmand]

daniel + text posts

[chancontrarian]

Musings [for lack of a better title] On — My Unique Voice

I mean, you want Judy Garland, you go to Judy Garland. But if you don't want Judy Garland — maybe I can fit the bill?

They [successful creatives] talk about writing the music or stories that you want to hear or read, and it would be impossible to write for teen girls as a whole, as a singular demographic, so I write for girls like me — like I was. I was a weird kid, just like a lot of kids in a lot of different ways, but you can mad libs the details and come up with a lot of universal emotions, like rejection and loneliness and disillusionment and disenfranchisement. The powerlessness of youth still crushes me; they places the hopes of the future on your shoulders before you can even drive a car. So, maybe there's not a weird kid out there reading Sherlock Holmes and listening to Petrushka. Maybe there's a weird kid out there reading and listening to me. It's not impossible, and while I can use my voice I feel obligated to do so.

I never had a single vision or message that I felt like I needed to share. I'm the projector lightbulb; I illuminate. I don't necessarily think of myself as a vessel for the muse but I also know that my message is intrinsically a part of who I am; my experiences and my stories shape the stories that I tell, and I have been touched by too many various artists and authors and musicians to think that there isn't room for one more authentic voice. That's the other part about writing for youth — about writing for your own inner child. You can't lie to them, and you can't disappoint them. It's like — you can't change the universal truth, you can't paint a picture of false hope. But I think of myself as a translator of the truth, painting a picture in different colors so it becomes clearer. There's a sortof running joke about neurodivergent people taking someone's sad story and making it about ourselves, because that is how we relate to someone, we say "I had similar feelings when—" but surely that is what makes us such excellent creative artists, because we see the patterns in the kaleidoscope of the universe and connect the threads and fit the jigsaw pieces together.

You know, and the pieces are all different and the pipes go in all different directions. My sortof Bing Crosby to Leonard Bernstein to Fiona Apple pipeline is not likely to be replicated, and each piece serves a different purpose. I guess part of the trick of finding your message is finding what role you want that message to play. Am I making someone feel heard in their hurt, or am I making them feel hopeful? Am I with them when they cry, or when they drive with the windows down? I think the role the most important music played for me, and what I try to replicate, is emotional education. I didn't understand Stormy Weather until my own heart was broken, but Judy made me feel it. It's almost like a vaccination, a brush with heartache to immunize you against the real thing. You know, when you're young there's a lot of information being thrown at your brain very fast. The maturation process of the human brain is fascinating, not to mention all of the variables socialization can throw at you. I found explanations and definitions for things I didn't even know I was questioning in my favorite books and songs. That's the illumination. There's more than what you see on the surface. Go deeper into life.

[sandushengshou]

Interview with the Vampire | 1.07 “The Thing Lay Still”

[lizardkingeliot]

"let the flesh instruct the mind" while grabbing louis' ass and pulling him close while they're making hard eye contact was insane actually

they really did have another honeymoon phase in that month or so louis gave lestat all his heart and they lost themselves in each other completely. look at them. they want each other so bad it's SICKENING.........

[deanlenzart]

everyone has that one blond twink who haunts the narrative ig purple version

[ftyeonjun]

„ evil is a point of view. — interview with the vampire (1994)

[leah-sz]

every week i face the consequences of letting this fucking tale seduce me

[sophsun1]

Interview With The Vampire – 1.04 | 2.06

[nocontextlestat]

the funniest thing about rockstar lestat is that he never had a tour. he recorded a ton of songs and shot mvs yes but he literally had one (1) show with his group. then right after that akasha started whacking vampires left and right and lestat immediately had to flee the scene