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quite into vampires at the moment

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links are broken again. here is the next chapter of so dawn goes down to day. please may i draw your attention to the implied/referenced incest tag, and also the sexual assault tag. both are always present.

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the bardot mention is really a reference to Lindsey Lohan’s tattoo btw. obvs the French blonde is a fascist but genuinely this quote is a fall-to-your-knees blow for me!!

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links are broken again. here is the next chapter of so dawn goes down to day. please may i draw your attention to the implied/referenced incest tag, and also the sexual assault tag. both are always present.

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hey, so i was rereading your disneyland fic (for some sweet relief after the last chapter of azalea) and there’s this part where lestat and claudia discuss a new number similar to the mardi gras float action in the show. and since all of lestat‘s drag numbers in azalea have been great so far, i wanted to ask if you had a song in mind for the marie antoinette baby eating number? :)

you know what! I have no idea, the way I think of Lestat’s routines is pretty chicken-and-egg where I kind of have an idea of either what song or what act she’s gonna do, and then build the rest around it — but this was done before I really plotted out azalea, so idk what the music would be! Feel free to provide your own interpretation; I would love to know.

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also. know I have been absent for a while but am thrilled to receive questions/comments/asks so the box is always open!

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ok hi so i love literally everything about live at the azalea & so dawn goes down to day, but one thing i especially love about dawn goes down is how you exposit with memory and thought instead of flashbacks, it makes the characters feel so lived-in but also keeps the drama interesting with the occasional reveals of what has/hasn't happened. all that is to say, it may have been mentioned in a passage i forgot but i was wondering, does claudia know about antoinette? like obvi she knows about the cheating (arguably too much about it) but is she aware it wasn't a typical hoe era and moreso one specific mistress whom she could potentially recognize at the ballet? also on antoinette, i find it really interesting that she (a blonde french woman with a history with lestat) was cast as both a bride and renfield, a male character who's psychosexually obsessed with lestat's character. is that a bit of armanipulation based in knowledge of gabrielle, or was belinda just working a crazy job before getting pregnant?

separately, how did claudia learn of the lesmand lore, since she had that line about how lestat could get principal even if he sucked ass. like it's very clearly true but how does *she* know?

feel free to not answer any of this if they're spoilers, i just really love the sorta webby view of the past in dawn goes down and how past events/relationships are revealed and was curious if stuff like this was to be kept in your mind or in a future custody-weekend brunch lol

This is such a fun ask from, like several months ago (sorry!!!!) firstly thanks for the compliment, secondly —

I think Antoinette was like a legit mistress/affair partner — he defo slept with other people Claudia does not know about, but she was the one Lestat went and lived with and made part of their lives. It’s been spoken a bit about it in the last and also the forthcoming chapters so there will maybe be a bit more revelation there!!

and yes. Very interesting casting!!! I think renfield is so easy to see as psychosexually enthralled with Dracula, as are the brides, and so when I was sorting the casting I was kind of like, why not do both?? a blonde French woman. Who would guess? Who would know?? cough cough Armand would know. Armand would guess.

I think Claudia learnt of the lesmand lore once Armand and Louis hooked up tbh, her parents are historically not good at boundaries so either Louis or Armand mentioned it OR Lestat brought it up as a savage “going over my leftovers” vibe to Louis and she overheard.

the webby view of the past and present is very important to me. I am glad it’s landing for you!!!

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in dawn, what did the loustat wedding look like?

sort of depressing tbh. I will freely admit that I don’t know how foster/adoption works in the US but Claudia came to Louis via kinship care after being in the care system for a while, and he thought (correctly or not) that it would be better to have a husband than a gay live-in partner when it came to actually adopting her, and so they were married in a rush job with two random witnesses around the corner from the church where he always thought he’d get married. but just because it’s a rush job doesn’t mean they don’t mean it, and they definitely both view it as a lasting commitment .

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Thank you so much for sharing your work with us!! Your AUs are so inspiring and SO well-crafted 💙 wishing you the best in your life and I hope you overcome the hardships that come your way. Take care <33

this is so kind!!! thank you!! Tbh the hardships are mostly inconveniences, it’s mainly that I work a mentally demanding job so coming home and expending mental energy is sometimes tricky but always very rewarding.

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Do you ever feel weird or awkward about being a fanfic author/reader?

Hmm!!! this is an interesting question that you asked a while ago. the answer is no, but also no one in my real life knows about it — in an old fandom I got into an irl relationship with a fellow writer, and it was nice to have a partner know the whole of me so to speak, but I also don’t feel strange about keeping it private from my close friends/partner irl now. I hope this answers your question!

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Have you seen the interview clip of Sam chewing/mouthing at his hair? Wasn’t that a bad habit of ‘so Dawn’ lestat???? Youre clairvoyant!

I have not!! Share!! this is lols to me bc I gave Lestat all my bad habits in regards to chewing of nails and hair and skin so I would love to see this.

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accidentally deleted an ask about when the next chap of so dawn is coming out — it will be over the weekend!! I have one scene I wanna refine but otherwise it's done. thanks everyone for your patience while I Process and also deal with my real life.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

been gone a while! enjoy!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

happy pride! enjoy the new chapter, in which everything goes wrong for everyone.

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man i was so sure that claudia would find out everything from Daniel this chapter. Daniel had to hire her on purpose, right?

Lestat is so extremely crazy this chapter that I was yelling at him to shut up inside my head. Great update as always!

everyone has different theories about Daniel’s motivations and I love it!!!

“Lestat is so extremely crazy this chapter” — evergreen comment. unfortunately things are terrible for him right now and the only way he knows how to deal with it is to act terribly. it’s not the best coping mechanism! and it doesn’t even work. get a stress ball, Lestat.

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What’s your opinion on gen ai?

despise it! it destroys the planet and is bad for our brains and I think there’s something soulless and deeply evil about it. very insidious, I’m sure there are examples that are so good that I’m not spotting them, but I would rather look at the worst drawing ever drawn by a human artist than the best picture gen ai has ever produced.

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The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice

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fun fact this is where the name of the drag!stat series came from. find this whole paragraph very inspirational tbh!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

last chapter, louis did a runner the morning after. lestat is dealing with things with grace and decorum. claudia is just trying to survive.