#IwtV fandom

[haflacky]

Go watch interview with the vampire on Hbo! It’s incredible show!

[pretty-weird-ideas]

This is so egregious that I can’t let it stand, the large IWTV blog Nalyra-dreaming is liking posts about hating critical race theory and the post she liked states that affirmative action is the only systemically racist system still around while calling fans who are upset that they were called ableist slurs, anti-white and intellectually disabled. When people noticed this last night she attempted to block people who she knew saw the racist posts and remove her likes to hide this. But I saw them several times over, and so did many others.

Also here's proof that Nalyra actively interacts with this user and on THEIR OWN BLOG and has at least allowed cosmicjoke to stand on the idea that anti-whiteness is real on her own blog.

I'm pretty sure Nalyra blocked me because I told CosmicJoke to not call people slurs and a reblog of the “antiwhite” meltdown they had with a bad-quality Walter White image. At least proving that she was looking at the post she liked.

No way on black history month did you think we wouldn’t check to see who liked and defended posts with “Affirmative action is the only current form of systemic racism”.

I saw her do this on several occasions over this week and simply asked others to check on people liking racist posts and reblogging my disdain for OP’s usage of slurs and antiblack dog whistles. I never implied that I was talking about her but these posts scared her enough to block me.

This is about the 3rd time I found them secretly liking genuinely racist treatment of fans she dislikes. This is a political stance, affirmative action, the belief in antiwhiteness, and critical race theory are not IWTV topics, this isn’t a whimsical like and scroll, these posts are all political stances that have nearly nothing to do with IWTV outside of what people were being targeted by the slurs in the first place. And the “what people” seem to be black fans that at some point in time she believes deserved to be attacked.

Targeting fans you don’t like doesn’t mean the speech should be endorsed. Anyone with half a pint of morals wouldn't be endorsing an actively hostile person slinging around altright talking points. And I will question why these posts are liked. Call us names all you like, but the second you start using the words of a reactionary racist who calls people disabled… maybe that should give you pause. Yeah?

A large IWTV blog believes in or at least is rubbing shoulders with an antiAffirmative action, slur slinging, reverse racism reactionary so that she can weaponize them against people she disagrees with.

At best Nalyra is okay with commenting, liking, and comforting racists in asks who she wields as weapons against people she disagrees with. At worst, Nalyra genuinely believes in antiwhiteness, antiAffirmative Action, and actively is okay with calling fans she dislikes slurs.

The racism on display here makes me sick. And it’s really telling how this blog feels comfortable patting these people on the back in comment sections.

Say it with your chest, but don’t mislead people who might disagree into following someone who believes this shit.

As respectfully as possible, you make my skin crawl and I’m tired of not stepping to what I really wanted to say. When I make posts about “check who likes what” never in my entire life did I expect to catch an account this large flagrantly using a racist reactionary in such a sad manner.

This is the last straw for me, you can’t keep liking explicitly racist posts and then answering their asks in private and hope fans you strategically discredit and already dislike don’t say anything.

1+1 is 2, liking and a post saying “I will call people I dislike slurs over fictional characters” can only be read so many ways.

I dislike a lot of people, I still wouldn’t defend and like a random fan’s ability to use SLURS and racist tactics on them. I wouldn’t do the same to you as you do to us.

Also some way to hide your attack dog… by having them flash in your own comment section and saying THIS

Racism is a slur… you guys… and this person is not at all a danger to fandom spaces.

[squirrellypoo]

I love AMC's "Interview with the Vampire" tv show so much that I wanted to show my appreciation by sewing my interpretation of Claudia's New Year's Eve outfit from episode 7. The scene is barely a minute long, with Claudia's costume only partly visible for a few seconds, however, so there wasn't much footage to go on.

Thankfully, though, the costume designer for the show, Carol Cutshall, shares incredible details of the vintage inspirations, costume design, and behind the scenes photos on her Instagram page after the episodes air, and shared details of this outfit along with sketches and behind the scenes photos of the actress, Bailey Bass!

I'd like to stress that this is not cosplay - I'm not trying to BE the actress or the character, but sewing my own interpretation of the garments. I try to avoid sewing "fast fashion" as much as I avoid buying it, and I strive to only have clothing in my wardrobe that I will wear again and again.

Cape: Pattern: self-drafted Fabric: Italian floral silk/polyamide cloqué, ribbon, and metal ball hook all from MacCulloch & Wallis, black satin lining from my stash.

I based the pattern off of a classic circle skirt, modifying it for the narrower fabric and squeezing in a lined hood as well! I also added a hook at the neck to take the strain off the ribbon, and finally, little wrist loops so that I too can look like a little bat with my arms out!⁠

Shirt: Pattern: Named Saraste from “Breaking the Pattern” book Fabric: Black textured silk & red silk satin from my stash

I was lucky enough to have the most perfect textured silk already in my stash. I also found a tiny scrap of red silk satin which I added to the inner collar and yoke to give a hint of red to the neck as a nod to my favourite vampires!⁠

I used low-key black corozo buttons for the front, but added some drama to the cuffs with metal skull buttons, which I gave red eyes using red nail varnish!⁠

Trousers: Pattern: BurdaStyle 06/2023 no108 Fabric: Deadstock Japanese burgundy acetate twill from New Craft House

I'm not normally a fan of wide-legged trousers, or high waists, or side zippers, so I modified the design to be something closer to my own style and preferences.⁠ I used the black satin lining from the cape to line the pockets, added a little Claudia cartoon heat set vinyl inside the waistband to serve as the label, and finished the hem with black lace for an invisible hand sewn finish.

Overall, I'm stupidly happy with how all three pieces turned out and that I will be able to wear them separately as well as together. I poured all my love for this show into sewing these garments (while I was suffering from extreme post-viral fatigue, too), and I'm proud I can put my skills to use in this fandom!

[ca-suffit]

This antiblack campaign the fandom just tried to kick up again (to avoid talking about the real issue with Nalyra) reveals how powerless they're starting to truly feel now.

They don't have many users left to vilify so they're putting people on blocklists who are brand new (I was here 3 days lol) or not even really in the fandom. That looks goofy and desperate but then it keeps going. DMing strangers to say "the truth" isn't about racism and "talk to me if you really want to know about anything." Everyone's reblogging those blocklist posts now and adding large commentary suddenly, when before they often fully sat it out. They're doing this in a group to look like they have larger numbers and are "revealing" there's a "big secret bullying problem"....except nobody believes them. Because there's plenty of accounts who are out here saying this shit straight to their faces and they pretend we all don't exist. All of this group has to manufacture drama solely because they just don't want to talk about harmful shit they actually do.

Neil has to make an antiblack statement she made suddenly be about antisemitism towards her, Nalyra's antiblackness is "actually" fans upset about shipping and "what's REALLY coming" in S2, showmey0urfangs is always happy to show up with her dumb screencaps and villain monologue nobody asked for so she can make her everlasting outrage about popular black fics and "feminized" Louis sound deeper than it is, Virginia suddenly cries about IRL issues and wants to leave the fandom because she wants to distract from the Nalyra receipts, Keybearer accused another black fan of trolling people and getting accounts suspended on twitter in 2023 when a Marius fan eventually confessed to it and his eternal shame for that means now every black fan except him is a bully (despite nobody talking about this ever anymore except him), chicalepidopterare mocks a black fan for blocking her "because I thought we were supposed to talk about racism" and then poorly tries to frame any retaliation against her to look like bullying ("see, they're misogynistic, they're bullying my art, they're mean for disliking these ships!").

To quote Claudia here, "You must think me an idiot." And the big cherry on top is also how none of these losers can stand to hear any mention of race....in the fandom of the show that nonstop talks about race. They're using very basic (and meant in a gentle, loving way) teasing of Jacob as proof that black fans are racist against Jacob too, black fans hate Jacob's white wife. People hate Lestat for being white too (what?). They can write crap meta all day about Lestat letting Louis "rape" him and only white victims (Lestat) being real victims to the evil black and brown "true" manipulators (Claudia, Louis, Armand) but gentle teasing from black fans about Jacob's haircut is the real racism. Okay lol. Care to tell us again why you think Delainey's Claudia looks "less innocent" now then? This 3D chess you think you're playing isn't playing how you think for anyone else.

I also notice that afaik there's not a single black American in this group. Idek if there's many Americans of any kind in the group. It's been a lot of shaming to black Americans specifically though, again from the show that's focused on black Americans....by people who aren't black Americans.

"There's people pretending to be black so it's okay to keep hating this whole group." It's not enough you already nonstop shit on black fans as it is, now you have to try to angle it as if none of this could be authentic in the first place. Vile behavior. For what? Tumblr isn't even a platform that pays you for whatever clout you have, so really what is the point here. In a small ass fandom on top of it. Some of you have pretty grown kids too, this is extra sad. It makes all the jumping through hoops to coddle Lestat's behavior make sense though, if you're the same kind of person yourself. Anyway, maybe you don't actually know everything because race exists in the real world beyond how Anne Rice wrote about it in her useless books! You make books written by a racist white woman your whole personality and guess what your outlook on life is going to be.

It's been really pathetic to especially watch any fans of color move more to this extreme bullying side as time has gone on. It will never pay off to promote white fandom ideals. These accounts you're trying to cuddle up to aren't even that big. The fandom outside of the tags actually has much more popular posts, supporters, and fics...although that's also half of what this all is actually about, fic numbers. Again, these are grown adults obsessing over this. We could have a whole different fandom if this group didn't exist and keep wanting to gatekeep everything and be the only people who get praise about anything.

It's no surprise that people who worship Anne Rice have major ego problems themselves. It's been fucked up to deal with but the good thing now is that big egos have big collapses eventually and that's what we're starting to see happening now. People are sick of you and able to see through your basic ass manipulation techniques. People just want to have a fandom, they're not here to worship fans who want to be dictators. Nobody is here for your fragility, losers.

[niccoguedes]

𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨.

[transvampweek]

TRANS iwtv/vc VAMPIRE WEEK 2024!!!

Rules:

Be niceys but that's about it!

Terfs etc shall be blocked! And laughed at!

Prompts are more suggestions that anything so do whatever you want!

Tag this acc (transvampweek) with anything you make! And/or put it in "#transvampweek 2024"

[cbrownjc]

I’m on the west coast, Pacific Time, so I’m basically staying up till 12 am to see what news drops about the impending SAG strike. Basically, everything is going to have to stop at midnight exactly if it happens. . .

IWTV fans and followers? That means in about . . . 15 minutes or so, if they are shooting today, they’re going to have to stop. 

[lesboship]

what version of sick do you have to be to make a blocklist consisting of (majority black) ppl who are speaking up about the anti-blackness in ur fandom bc you "dont wanna involve urself in fandom drama".

racism is not and never will be "fandom drama". it's a genuine issue that is extremely prevalent in basically all fandom spaces and the idea that some people are denying that this is the case whilst simultaneously blocking people who talk about it is not only paradoxical but just straight up nuts.

[haflacky]

IWTV request time!

I run request time on my patreon and you can suggest me any ofmd ideas you want! Please comment your thoughts and like other people ideas and I will choose the best ones and draw them 💔

[pretty-weird-ideas]

IWTV Twitter and the so-called "Fake Black Fans" Invasion

Something that I've been seeing a lot after it gained traction on Max is white fans condescendingly talking down to Black fans, some of whom have been in this fandom longer than they have, and acting as if they don't know what they are talking about because of their critique including a concept or subtext they wish to ignore. I want to repeat that this doesn't happen in the same amounts to white fans who make analyses or memes, it seems to uniquely be Black fans speaking AAVE or with Black pfps (visibly black bc of this) being bombed in the comments for having valid opinions.

I reached about the fifth tweet of white women going onto posts of Black people (particularly older women on Black Twitter) talking about IWTV and saying "You don't know what you're talking about, read the source material/finish the show" or entirely saying that "You don't understand fandom culture". Prompting those Black people to respond curtly that they, in fact, have read the source material, finished the show long before they have, and have been a fandom elder since before they even rolled into town. I witnessed someone doing BABY talk to a 30-year-old Black woman who was talking about episode 5, with "Well you see, it's not my fault you can't read". And when the woman professed anger back, she was the one blocked.

I witnessed this backhanded shit FIVE TIMES over the course of this week. With different white women doing the job of whitesplaining fandom culture and Anne Rice to random Black fans who already know unprompted with a level of passive aggressiveness and annoyance that only comes with doing it repeatedly. I must assure you (white people who are doing this) nobody asked, you can put down your task and stop pretending like you are doing something Sisyphean. You are not legally required to explain and describe IWTV poorly while getting into screaming matches with far more educated Black fans on Twitter and Tumblr.

People are acting as if there's a rising population of Black fans who are "Fake Fans" and must be stopped, lest they start up the freaky discourse. OOHHH NOOOO! Whatever are we to do then???? And therefore it is completely normal and a civic duty to blast Black fans in the comments of everything that they say about the show or the books.

I've been seeing people unironically football tackle reaction posts of the show with paragraphs worth of text that is inflammatory and backhanded. This is even more apparent when the poster is visibly black or uses AAVE. The association is that Black people who use AAVE or memes obviously are uneducated, lack media literacy, and cannot consume content the way that "White" fans do.

It is an attempt to tone police Black fans away from creating new topics of discussion or creating/expanding the fandom space with the growing watcher-base. It always has to happen in their chosen language, on their time, in the places they can reach us and yell some more. They are very discomforted when Black fans have pockets in fandom where they can't be outnumbered and they do in fact control discourse in a way that isn't productive to respectability. (As much as I am a big fan of big words and rambling, that is somewhat what is expected in this fandom as a Black person to be considered "respectable" and I'm not willing to ignore or shy away from that).

This is also hand in hand with my previous thoughts about fans' dog-whistling about media becoming accessible/mainstream and how "Others" will ruin it and outnumber them. I noticed that in the IWTV fandom, it seems like white fans believe that the "Others" is just Black Twitter in general. Not just "Twitter" but specifically Black people who don't fit into their narrow respectability politics.

I hate to tell you all this, but Black fandom culture is still fandom culture, and Black people do in fact read and write. I should not be seeing a pattern of random white fans going into the comments of Black people who mention IWTV and automatically assuming that they have no clue what they're talking about.

Like clockwork, exactly as when the show came out, racist white book fans started up the discourse of "The Black people are going to ruin fandom with their racism discourse and spit on Anne Rice!" and then when that time passed, the show reaches Max, and here they go barking again.... We really need to get a muzzle.

[suikamelon6]

OMG T_T #SamReid you're the nicest #Lestat ever! What did we do to deserve you? #InterviewWithTheVampire He LOVES fan art and talks about THE fan book! Obviously he loves his fans too!! Well done

@nocontextlestat and everyone who participated. @squirrellypoo

[squirrellypoo]

The many occupations of fic Lestat de Lioncourt

I thought when I posted The many occupations of fic Louis de Pointe du Lac that there really weren't enough non-rockstar ones to do a similar list for Lestat. But I was wrong! It turned out that he has nearly as many diverse talents in the various fic AUs as Louis!

Again, this is just a list off the top of my head of ones I’ve read and enjoyed, though please do tell me in the comments if I’ve missed any.

Ballet dancer in “Meet me at the barre” by @dancermk Porn Star in “Pretty Boy” by @the-blackstag Instrument importer in “you’re the one, designed for me” Mafia boss in “Saveur de La Maison” by @suikamelon6 CEO in “it’s like a suckerpunch straight to my heart” by @thefairylights Actor in “Practical Ethics” by @prouvaireafterdark Antiques dealer/importer in “good to love” by @brightfelon Coven master in “Under the blood moon” by @revolution-starter Model in “Let the Flesh Instruct the Mind” Priest in “It’s a Sin” Actor in “Wishful Desires” Museum curator in “Reformation” Construction worker in in “Analyst Retentive” by @calipsan

Rock star/musician in (deep breath)... “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same (modern loustat series)” by @thefairylights “Cord of Communion” by @brightfelon “Brooklyn Baby” “Music when the sun goes down” by @mythicaltzu “The Saint” by @revolution-starter “see-through” “The Splendour of Us” by @lesfleursrouges ...and a Music producer in “Your mouth and madness” by @brightfelon

Yes, there are tons and tons more featuring Rockstar Lestat which makes sense since it's canon, but I've left out all the incredible book-based fics that recount the SF pre-concert reunion, for example.

Apologies for inevitably missing off any authors here. Tell me if one's yours and I'll edit to add!

[boydollie]

Good morning ... Armand (🟠_🟠)

( Inspired by a post I saw earlier , I saw it and I was like I need to draw that !? )

( the post I'm referring to was made by @lgbtiwtv )

[niccoguedes]

a bond.

cr: ©

[cbrownjc]

The WGA Strike and Interview With The Vampire Season 2

So I’ve decided to put together all my posts and info about the 2023 Writer’s Strike, and how IWTV Season 2 is -- and isn’t -- affected by it. 

First, mainly, you can find the Rules and Guidelines the WGA has laid out about the 2023 strike here: https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike/strike-rules  

Now, 10 important points to know:

1. Please no one worry or panic about Season 3 right now. Not only has Season 3 not officially been green-lit by AMC yet, no announcement about it will happen until the strike is over . . . or at the very least until Season 2 finishes airing, whichever comes first.

2. Even while on strike, the writers can’t write a single word of Season 3, even in their own time. So nobody who writes or works for the show is working on Season 3 in any way, shape, or form at the moment. If you hear any supposed “rumors” or chatter about Season 3 during the strike, all that stuff is BS. There will be no story-breaking, writing, casting, or anything else going on for Season 3 until the strike is over. To do any of that stuff during the strike would be breaking the rules the WGA has set up wrt the strike. 

3. The WGA is NOT negotiating their new contract with each studio individually. IWTV has not made a separate deal with AMC regarding the production of Season 2 either. I think this is something that has people confused when they hear that some productions are still filming, or are about to start filming. NONE of these productions, including IWTV, have done individual studio deals. No production can just go to their individual studio and make a separate agreement with them -- that would be considered crossing the picket line, as it is against the Rules and Guidelines the WGA has laid out about the strike.

4. When it comes to collective bargaining about a new contract with the WGA, the studios are represented by a collective group known as the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers). That is who the WGA is negotiating about all of this with, NOT the individual studios directly.

5. The scripts for IWTV Season 2 were all finished before the deadline of May 1, 2023. Any and all scripts, industry-wide, that were finished being written for any shows or movies headed into production or being filmed right now before the May 1st deadline, can all be used for production, even during the strike. Because those scripts all fall under the old contract(s) the WGA had with the AMPTP.

6. If anyone says that the production of Season 2 is shutting down because of the writer’s strike, they are either just uninformed or they are purposefully lying to sew discord and FUD. To be frank, the WGA does not control if a show or movie can go into production or not. The studios are the ones who green-light those things, not the WGA, even during the strike. What you have to pay attention to is when the script for the show or movie that is going into production was written. Because if it was written after May 1, 2023, then it was clearly either written by an AI generator and/or a scab writer. And those are the movies/shows you want to avoid watching.  

7. AMC saying they aren’t worried or affected by what’s going on simply means that either all the new seasons for their upcoming shows were already finished with production before the strike happened, or all the scripts for their shows were done being written before May 1, 2023. IWTV falls under the second point -- all the scripts for Season 2 were done long before May 1, 2023.

8. When a show is in production during the strike, WGA members can NOT do rewriters to any of the scripts the production is using. Doing any rewriters to any scripts would be considered breaking the strike rules. However, that rule only applies to WGA members. A member of the WGA can’t do rewrites of scripts that are being produced. However, if an actor -- who is NOT a WGA member -- wants to ad-lib something while filming, that would NOT be considered a rewrite that breaks strike rules.

9. WGA members can’t be on the set for any productions during this time unless they are what’s known as a “Hyphenate.” A Hyphenate is someone who is designated, and credited, as a writer-producer, writer-director, writer-actor, etc. These people can only be on set in their Hyphenate role (producer, director, actor, etc.,) but not in their writer roles. Rolin Jones, who is a WGA member, is a writer-producer for IWTV, so he can be on set, if he chooses to be, in his producer role. He just has to be very careful about what he says and does while on set. In fact, he probably can’t talk much at all, going by what went on during the last strike for those who were on set in Hyphenate roles. I’ll go more into this specifically below.*

10. IWTV is not breaking the picket line or any of the WGA strike rules by continuing to film Season 2. Again, because the scripts they are using for Season 2 were finished before the strike deadline, (the word at the moment is that the scrips were all finished -- or being finished up -- around Dec 2022/Jan 2023) the show filming Season 2 is not going against the strike or breaking any rules to do so.

* * * * *

* So because he is what is known as a Hyphenate then yes, Rolin Jones can still be on set if he wants to, but only just in his producer role. This is the same thing that was allowed during the 2007-08 strike.

The guidelines laid out by the WGA for Hyphenates specify that no written or verbal adjustment can be made by them if they are on set during filming, under Rule 12. 

Hyphenates (i.e. members employed in dual capacities such as writer-director, writer-producer, writer-performer, etc.) are prohibited from performing any writing services, including “(a) through (h)” services, for a struck company. The MBA defines (a) through (h) services as follows:

h. Instructions, directions, or suggestions, whether oral or written, made to a writer regarding story or screenplay.

This was a rule that was also in place for Hyphenates during the 2007-08 WGA strike. 

However, if he wishes to, Rolin can approve or disapprove of the actors or even the director wanting to change or tweak a line or something, by nodding or shaking his head.  

Writer Alex Kurtzman talked about having to do things like this -- because of what was allowed and not allowed -- during the 2007-08 writers' strike. They had just started production of the 2009 Star Trek movie when that strike hit, and Kurtzman was allowed to be on set because he was an Executive Producer of the film but, as a co-writer of the film as well, he had to be extremely careful about what he said and did while there. 

The nodding or shaking his head regarding on-set dialogue changes - but not verbally saying yes or no about them - was one of those things he could do.

So, because the 2023 rules did not talk about that as something that would be against the rules this time, that means Rolin Jones can still get away with doing the head nodding and head shaking stuff that went on during the last writer’s strike when it comes to small changes/adjustments if he wants to, but nothing else. 

As noted above, none of the other writers for the show can be on set unless they are there in some other role, such as if they are a co-producer or something like that, and there in that role. (Though, in the words of one of the former Buffy writers, co usually means not when it comes to that credit). 

I, personally, don’t think any of the other ITWV writers will be on set or in the writer’s room for the show -- wherever it is -- in any way. That’s usually what the majority of writers who also got Hyphenate credits like co-producer chose to do, while the most major Hyphenate (usually the showrunner and maybe one other Hyphenates person on the writing staff) did remain on set. 

Also, Rolin probably has cut off talking to any of the other writers in any professional way, in fact, just to make sure nothing that he may talk with them about could be considered crossing the picket line.

* * * * * *

So, IWTV fandom, please try and relax about Season 2 and Season 3 as much as you can. Season 2 still being filmed isn’t breaking any of the strike rules or breaking picket lines. 

And Season 3, if it is ever announced as officially green-lit by AMC, is not going into any form of production until the strike is over and done. Because it actually can’t unless AMC is prepared to really use AI or scab writers to begin production of a Season 3. Because otherwise, there will be zero writing that can be done for a Season 3, let alone casting or anything else, until the strike is over. 

The whole industry knew this strike was a possibility by at least February 2023. Rolin Jones and the writers had weeks to prepare for it happening and likely had a plan in place just in case. The actors likely all knew a strike was possible as well, and worked to figure out anything they needed to before it happened as well.