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Those pants are so tight, he needs Louis to take them off for him before they go to coffins. But that's all Louis does, guys. Nothing else.

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Never noticed that they did the iridescent eyes 👀 that Anne likes to describe in the books here. How can anyone look at these eyes and his ethereal beauty and think yeah nah that's a normal person.

Louis + his New Orleans Saints hat

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sometimes paparazzi starts shit and louis gets a little overprotective (lestat thinks it's hot)

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I'm collecting the silliest of my IWTV , The Newsreader Multiverse into one post for @m-au3-blog

Dale Jennings is sick, so Lestat 'I-look-just-like-him' de Lioncourt volunteers to read the evening news with Helen.

Helen Norville opening the door for her Dream Date Dale Jennings, and found this instead.

Lestat and Louis giving DATING ADVICE to Helen and Dale

One of these jokes are not the same as others!

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Hi! 🤭

I hope it’s okay that I’m spam-reblogging your posts, I just joined this year and hadn’t had the pleasure of seeing these before! Soo funny btw.

No problem!! I'm glad you find fun in it! But I always try to be respectful and (somewhat) tasteful X In some posts the 'humor' doesn't hit LOL.

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the way some of you are media illiterate is infuriating. every day I read dumb s...t like this in this fandom! Constantly calling Anne racist for simply writing bad sides of human history and past accurately from all perspectives. Anne Rice wasn't writing about slave owner in 18th century or slaves from HER OWN perspective.. she was writing it from perspective of a man who would exist in that time period and live in that role... and how he would think! Louis was a man who was born into societal class where it was a custom to have slaves and his greatest crime was that just cuz he didn't get those slaves himself, his family just had them, he actually was deluded and thought himself "good" because he didn't actively acquire them himself or have personal slaves of own his own, or didn't hurt them personally.. And so he thought he has no fault in any of that. He took no accountability. but he was also passive and did nothing to change it or help them or release them or change his society and community in any way.. he just excepted it. and he didn't even register his own racism and prejudice! and so he actually supported the practice. and there in lies the evil of passivity and "going along" with inhuman practice while thinking you're "above it" or outside of it... and as such it's actually a strong critique ny the author (Anne) of that period and mentality and of him! and this attitude follows him into vampirism as well and has many mirrors in his later arc. Ironically it is after he becomes a vampire he becomes more aware of these things. which playas into discussion of what is human and what is a monster, when humans are capable of monstrosity without awareness. Anne wasn't writing her thoughts.. she was writing thoughts of LOUIS of that time, and every man like him that existed in these times and was casually racist. but I guess all of these themes are too much for your little brains to understand. unless someone tells you "slavery bad" right in that chapter you're so dumb to understand the messaging you think the author is supporting it. because it showcases it clearly how it was back than. it's not supporting it... its just.. showing it. of course it's bad! it is implied the reader will understand it through their own ethics and logic but I guess today ppl are too slow to understand!! learn the damn difference and learn to read!!

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Don't Worship That Grave

Don't Burn Alone

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@squirrellypoo as always thank you so much for amazing work vectoring these fonts for fandom artists <3 x

Sometimes the brain worms eat me. 😵‍💫 (Yup, I vectorised the tour bus!)

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Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid really have been giving two of the best performances I think I've ever seen on TV. IWTV is honestly the most Succession-quality show I can remember from the last few years, though to be fair I haven't seen Shogun yet (I'm very behind).

EXACTLY!

I did watch Shōgun, and that show actually is absolutely deserving of all of its accolades. Granted, it doesn't scratch that itch in my hippocampus like IWTV does, but that show is phenomenal. Definitely Succession, Thrones, The Crown level imo.

This next part isn't for you nonnie, but it is highly relevant, so I'm gonna tack it on!

I am in no way suggesting that The White Lotus and Severance are bad shows. I've only seen bits of Lotus, so I truly can't give a great opinion on it. I have seen a good bit of Severance though, and I do thing that what they have created there is a very interesting story and definitely deserves recognition.

That being said, I wholeheartedly believe that if anybody watched both Severance and IWTV and had to pick which show was better, they would pick IWTV. I believe that is true, even for people who do not fuck with "genre shows." I mean, Severance is a dystopian, so the whole genre show thing is kinda moot.

The performances that Jacob and Sam deliver as the leads of this show are peak acting performances. Hands down. Even the supporting cast give performances that outshine some of these nominees.

Which is why I do think that their lack of representation in the acting categories is the most frustrating. Because if you are just gonna dismiss a show because it's about vampires and you prefer a more traditional drama okay. That pisses me off, but okay.

But what I WILL NOT tolerate is the idea that the people who are bringing Louis, Armand, Claudia, Daniel, and LESTAT to life ffs are not among the best actors on TV right now. I refuse to accept that.

Thank you for letting me continue my bullshit! Somebody has to stand up for these guys, so I volunteer as tribute!

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In TDV-zine Vol 2: My art features The Vampire Lestat SF car-chase scene where Gabrielle appears in black Porsche to save Lestat and Louis from rogue vampires trying to kill them. Will we see in in the show?

@tdvzine

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absolutely fascinating. thank you for your hard work!!!!

The Vampire Chronicles Fandom Unofficial Survey: Results Masterpost

Thank you once again to everyone who took the survey!!

The results of the survey have been broken up into six parts for Tumblr to allow them to be posted and shared more easily.

A PDF version of the full results is available for download HERE.

A second PDF version of the full results, optimized for accessibility and screen readers (no graphics, information in tables), is available for download HERE.

The results are here on Tumblr in the following posts:

PART 1: WHO ARE THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES FANS?

PART 2: READERSHIP, SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS, AND ADAPTATIONS

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If you have a question that springs to mind from the findings that isn't answered in the results summary, please send me an ask! If it's something I can see in the data and doesn't identify a specific respondent, I am happy to answer any niche questions. As you can see, the results were on the long side already!

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So breathtakingly beautiful. Unreal.

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Stunning

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While researching for my fic "Come Back to Me" a kind fan (shout out to Poet-to-None) told me abt Occitan, a dialect that was closer to Spanish and Latin than French. This language was almost extinct bc French goverment tried restrict the usage of minority languages. Occitan is nothing like French so Lestat must have sounded like 'country bumpkin' and incomprehensible to Parisians then.

Here's another fic called "Our Conversation or three Shared Languages" by SincereMercy. It's 2/3 ch but the stuff about Auvergnat was fascinating to me. Perhaps one day it'll get finished ^^

Also reading this book on the French Revolution at the moment, and feel like I can finally weigh in on Sam / Lestat’s French accent being unintelligible to many, because apparently the Auvergne dialect (so I’m guessing accent as well) was just Like That, haha: