professionally depressed

A blog for things I like... Orochimaru, Sasuke, Marius & Armand 💙 Pro-ship. 20+. Puritanical bullies who do not understand that fiction & reality are different, shoo. 🇵🇸❤️

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Who wants some OroSasu fics? 😈

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I have SOOOOO many amazing Renaissance Marius, Amadeo, and Riccardo photos I want to post from the Anne Rice ball! One day... One day.

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Albinus, Amadeo and Riccardo 🌙 Commission for phiramni (on X/Twitter)

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To New Orleans I go!

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marimand week, day 5

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talking shit at the soirée…

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Another week, another Marimand monday 🥰🥰

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We know that you like armand, but do you like marius too?

Oh anon… oh sweet anon. I have a whole draft about this I haven’t had time to answer.

I LOVE Marius. His book is my second favorite in the series. He’s one of my favorite characters. I’ve fallen so deeply in love with him like the rest of the people he’s corralled, used and tossed aside like an unfinished painting. I would tie his shoes and comb his hair.

Is Marius redeemable? Is he without sin? Is he good or evil?

Unfortunately a wave of poor reading comprehension and general lack of literary tenacity has fallen upon my country of origin and new readers tend to read VC in extremes. Again I have a dissertation in my drafts about how VC has NEVER faced this type of issue before and like even ten years ago there was an understanding you can like characters while they do deplorable things. It’s a really really cool thing about being literate that you can have an immediate understanding of characterization and what the writer intended for their written work.

I’m not trying to be the XYZ label someone may FLY into my anons with, pitchforks raised. I am also not implying you are one of these people. You can HATE Marius. You can also apologize for him as much as you want for your own reasons. But I’m saying the polarizing effect of VC is brand fucking new. At least to this degree and as someone who has loved literature since I was a child I’m really really worried about the state of reading comprehension in America. Or worse, they’ve only heard about the character and became keyboard warriors because of what Marius did to Amadeo and Marius existing as a fictional character is somehow an attack of their own lived experiences.

Sorry to rant. Marius is a beautifully written, flawed, disgusting, mesmerizing and enchanting vampire. He is everything a vampire is in the traditional sense.

He is everything a vampire should be in its beautifully glorious bestial ways and kudos to Anne for creating something so perfect.

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How i sleep thinking about Amadeo and Riccardo cuddled up like little kittens

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Marius and Armand in their jammies, all cozy by the fireside. For the de Romanus coven's Saturnalia event (Day 2 "Fireside")

You'll have to imagine the fireplace. It's there, I promise!

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Young Amadeo and Marius

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marimand

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From Gustave Courtois' "Dante et Virgile aux Enfers"

Originally posted on January 2025

This was my first bookmand art, that's why he doesn't look like Mick Jagger yet and has bright ginger hair 😂 also, i recently remembered the typical Vergil - Blue and Dante - Red color scheme wasn't always the case, especially in old manuscripts:

☝️☝️ There it is! That's literally Marius & Amadeo. Hahaha!

I have so so many thoughts about the setting of TVA. It's the most prominent and interesting theme in the book to me. I was heavily fixated & obsessed with turn-of-the-century Italian Renaissance history for a while, so starting to read TVA and slowly realizing this book is set in exactly those years, how Armand's conflict corresponds exactly with the history & theology of that brief period was... an Experience. LOL.

Amadeo's rebirth into his new life being set in a time where Christian faith & culture is being reborn. The Siege of Constantinople and Andrei's kidnapping. Savonarola's Bonfire of Vanities and the Children of Darkness ambush. The constant comparison with Christ's rebirth ... It is so deeply imbued with the conflicting values of the Italian Renaissance. Even Marius, too, represents that - an ancient roman teacher to offset & challenge Armand's very Christian, very spiritual devotion. The book, to me, is Armand's Divine Comedy!

I debated on which painting to imitate for this idea, and ended up choosing the one depicting Canto 32 - Dante & Virgil witness Ugolino della Gherardesca, eternally gnawing on his betrayer's head in hell. Kind of as a little nod to how Armand cannibalizes Riccardo later on.

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what if i told you they’ve been married for 3 years at this point

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happy fathers day to my idiot blorbos and to my idiot blorbos alone

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To celebrate the @deromanuscoven Marimand week, here's our little day one fic - we hope you enjoy!

Unus

by @herbeloved82 and I