Mon dieu, more melancholy nonsense.

Slumber party in the Loustat Room 🧸⚰️

[covenofthearticulate]

❝ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 — A modern slang term popular among the Undead for the vampires whose stories appear in the Vampire Chronicles. ❞

If you’re looking for all things Vampire Chronicles (books, NOT the show), you’re in the right place! This is a SIDEBLOG to @theballadofmrslovett​ so if you see that url in your notes, that’s me babeyyy. I'm NOT AFFILIATED with the podcast of the same name, this is simply a fandom account. I 🖤 Louis de Pointe du Lac, vampire meta, and dressing up in silly costumes!

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Organizational Tags: #fan art, #book quotes, #vampire meta, #fellas is it gay to lie down with the devil? (amc iwtv tag for blocking), #loustat, #louis has two hands (louis/lestat/armand tag)

Original Content Tags: #fic seeds, coven.txt, #headcanons, #my writing, #my edit (graphics tag)

[daughtervampire]

"Now we slipped in the courtyard doors of the hotel and went up to the lavish parlor of our suite. Champagne glistened in a frosted bucket. Two glasses stood on the silver tray. I knew Lestat would fill one glass and sit there staring at the pale yellow color. And I, a man in a trance, lay on the settee staring at him as if nothing he could do mattered. I have to leave him or die, I thought. It would be sweet to die, I thought. Yes, die. I wanted to die before. Now I wish to die. I saw it with such sweet clarity, such dead calm."

Louis, Interview with the Vampire (1976)

[covenofthearticulate]

I really like how you use smut to add to the characters your writing. Like, it's porn but it's very thoughtful and it says a lot about about Louis and Lestat (the only fics I've read from u are about them lmao.) I've always thought that smut can really give the audience information about the characters and the way they work internally, because how you act in some of your most intimate moments is revealing, and I really appreciate how you do that.

(Also, for maybe, potentially hypothetical reasons, I wanted to bind one of two of your fics into a small a6 sized book to hold close to my heart, are you chill with that👉👈)

ANON!!!!!!!!!

this made my whole day. and yes I totally agree; smut has always been more of a vehicle for character study than anything else for me. it’s really satisfying when I can push the characters just a bit outside of their comfort zone but still keep them true to canon— that, to me, is the biggest challenge and biggest reward.

anyway! you may absolutely bind some of my fics but ONLY IF you show me a photo of the finished binding 🥺

[covenofthearticulate]

the most “subversive” thing the show could do would be to stop being racist 🫢

So, book!Louis x show!Louis in season 4 it is. (Bengali WOC fan here)

Matt Bomer and Jacob Anderson will look like the second most mismatched couple with no chemistry after Arun and Rollin’s-mouthpiece-to-say-racist-stuff Molloy.

anon, why are you coming in here just to piss me off 😭

[covenofthearticulate]

Years back Louis x Nicki used to be such an inconceivable idea because people unanimously believed they were "toxic" for each other even by VC standards lol. They were mostly pitted against each other for Lestat.

Now we have 95% of the present fandom making gif sets of Louis getting beaten up to death or decapitated by his boyfriends lmao.

At this rate, bringing Nicki back from the dead and making him and Louis endgame is the only "subversive" thing the show can do.

the most “subversive” thing the show could do would be to stop being racist 🫢

[covenofthearticulate]

You were missed during Louis' beheading. 😆

[vampires-the-musical]

when the show had first come out, there had been SO MANY posts abt how it was better than the books bc it was not racist and how book fans were racist for liking the books more (even though plenty of the ppl who like the books are critical of their racism and european supremacy). and now. the show is inventing racisms that the books didn't even have.

[covenofthearticulate]

truly a terrible time for me to be taking a lil social media hiatus but goddamn if the schadenfreude from the tvl show bombing isn’t fucking delicious!!

#RolinJonesEatShitAndDie

[thescumartistry]

Listened to Touch Tank, blacked out, drew this.

"coz he's so pretty when he goes down on me/ gold skinned eager baby/ blue shirt out the laundry/ he tells me he's gentle when he wants to be/ so I think he wants to be/ gentle with me"

[reactionimagesdaily]

[cwhapd]

[beggars-opera]

#I’m unirionically Marge in this situation #HOW CAN YOU BE BORED WHEN THERES LOOMS

[idrils]

[hjartasalt]

The experience of reading classic literature really is just. Pages upon pages of deeply moving texts that make you reflect on life and the nature of humanity which is then quickly followed by the author listing every racial slur they know in alphabetical order

[sandmandaddy69]

[sahonithereadwolf]

I want to see the vampire who lives in this. I bet his name is Chad or Hunter.

[marlynnofmany]

And he's ready to crack open a boy with the cold ones.

[covenofthearticulate]

I love the iwtv tv show, but the vampire Lestat season has disappointed me so much I'm giving the books a try lol.

join uuuuuuusssssss

[covenofthearticulate]

I don’t know if you know who this is, but I imagine Louis to be a strange mix of 1994 Louis and Illumi Zoldyck from HxH. I have no clue why lmao.

I did have to look that guy up lmao but honestly that seems in line with how a lot of artists portray Louis!!!

I personally like to imagine his hair more textured and slightly shorter but I’m also biased because I have a big fat crush on Miles McMillan so I always imagine him in my head when I think of Louis 😌

[mementomauri]

I do have a fondness for how gothic and erotic lit had a certain barrier to entry. Like I do love more ppl getting into the vampire chronicles and I'll always be happy to have more Loustat fans but those books are weird and melancholic and erotic and philosophical and constantly testing boundaries and asking questions. And it feels like ppl are expecting or wanting "the vampire diaries but gay". The books have uncomfortable moments and the characters will do and say and believe things that make you double take but so much of the books are just "how moral can I be when nothing matters and I'm immortal?"

This isn't just a tale of gay vampires. It's a haunting philosophical treatise about life, mortality, morality, death, depression, incest, rape, love, regret, and the Pain Of Time. It can be fun and it can be gross and it can be wonderful but it's not for the timid.

[covenofthearticulate]

(I'm the previous anon) I'm waiting for the books to ship so until then I'm listening to the audiobooks, and Louis is so funny in the book lol. In the show he's all like 'He had a way about him, he seduced me, I longed for him' and in the book so far Louis is straight up 'I immensely disliked him.' (While also describing him as immensely beautiful) lmao.

asfdghzhbfjsdnk sorry for the late reply here but YES NO EXACTLY i genuinely think book louis is so FUNNY!!!! he is such a walking contradiction and THAT is what makes him so interesting to me lmfao like one second he's calling Lestat a sow's ear and the next he's literally calling him Jesus

It's also just so hysterical listening to him describe his interactions with various Humans like his mortal sister or the coffinmaker for Claudia like this guy is fucking WEIRD and UNCANNY. sure, the other vampires go on to wax poetic on how beautiful he is, but it's always hilarious to me that really the first impression we get of Louis is through Daniel's eyes, and my guy is fucking Creeped Out!!