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sit on mommy’s lap ok. mommy has to tell you something. you’re pissing me the fuck off you little piece of shit. i hate you

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When Lestat opens his mouth

I love lesmand dynamic like "you annoy me";"you scare me" and "I don't even know why I'm sticking close to you", "but I care about you."

I wanted to try a new technique, byeee

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I am going insane over this Turkish edition of 'The Vampire Armand' 🤣

That "13+" is the cherry on top 😂

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Just saw a post asking how tall people are and now I want to make it a poll. Apologies to people in the fringe height categories, you do not get specifics.

I had to consult a chart for this

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the years have made me weird and strange to talk to. but still i must post

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I can just see Lestat reading that part in B&G when Marius writes in his journal like 'After a day of admiring art and rescuing some more children and giving them education I wrote about how EVIL I am and how I should not forget that I'm EVIL and I bring only EVIL to Venice' and thought yeeeeeah, maybe Marius was not really a good authority on what is evil.

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Evening in Venice 🧡

Follow me on BlueSky 🦋

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Anyone else want to switch over to a timeline where good things happen?? Goddamn.

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Click the Wheel to find your Maker!

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

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I just KNOW that Marius De Romanus would drive a cybertruck.

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I had an idea of Lestat as the man of action, the man that could do things that I never could, the man who could make decisions that I’d never had the nerve to make, and the person who could go through life joyfully in spite of the questions that torment me, the doubts that torment me, the horror of death that torments me. (...) [Lestat] never really absorbs a tragic definition of himself for very long. He always comes back laughing at everything and just rebounding. It may take him a few years, but he always does it. I really wanted to explore a personality different from my own. - Anne Rice (source)

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"Why do I love you?" idk man i couldnt possibly know

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A little Night Island era Santino doodle

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"fruit has sugar" warning post reminds me of my coworker who told me to make sure I don't get "addicted to fruit". yeah i'm also addicted to a nice walk on the beach

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The fact that the Marquis has been completely absent from all adaptations of IWTV is honestly so ridiculous to me. He’s such a fundamental part of Lestat’s characterization, especially if you view IWTV as a standalone story. He gives us one of the only real glimpses into Lestat’s past: his age, his family, and some sense of why he is the way he is.

But more than that, the Marquis serves as a crucial link between the Lestat we meet in IWTV and the one we see in TVL. Every time someone claims the Lestat in TVL feels like a completely different person, I point to the Marquis. We saw Lestat caring for his abusive, bitter father in IWTV, a man who openly admits to mistreating his son. That alone shows us Lestat immense capability for love and forgiveness (even if he’s having a full breakdown at the idea of killing his father later on, which Louis can’t seem to comprehend). That side of him has always been there, it didn’t come out of nowhere in TVL.

Idk, I just have always thought the Marquis is a great character device and one of the best bits from IWTV. I mean, Louis kills Lestat's father, everytime I remember that I have to pause for a moment. A real shame we never got to see that.