Nicky - Paul and vampire love pushing others into the dark
I'm listening to TVL audiobook as a warm-up, and I remembered writing about how out of character the last interactions between Nicki and Lestat felt when I first read the book.I just noticed that Nicki starts acting oddly, aggressive and pushy against Lestat, the moment Lestat realizes he is being watched. In fact, during the first major fight where Nicki suddenly becomes mean in the middle of a discussion, Lestat interrupts him because he has seen Magnus's face in the window.And this reminded me of how Paul became more erratic the moment Lestat appeared and started to prey on/seduce Louis.
Yes, we get confirmation over and over again that, canonically, Lestat didn't kill Paul. But what if it wasn't intentional? What if, when a vampire starts preying on someone who is important and close to you, something happens to you? What if the worst and most unstable parts of yourself come out?Not because vampires do it on purpose, but in the same way people can feel this inexplicable attraction to vampires, the loneliness they carry, the seduction of death, what if they can also feel the vampire's jealousy and resentment when they are not the object of love, and you are?
What if Nicky suffered this from both Magnus, and Armand maybe even Gabrielle.
Hi! In regard to armandstat, how are you feeling about the portrayal and dynamics of their relationship? Do you think the show did justice to the book and their amazing, fucked up dynamic? I’d Armand a gremlin? Even in the present, is it still the armandstat we love to hate and hate to love?
I can't go into it without spoilers but my friend said soemthing about Lestat and Armand's dynamic and their simiarities with their traumas (not just magnus) and how that shapes their entire dynamic.
There's a scene of the two of them. Pay attention to what Lestat is wearing. Big boss is what I'll say as a hint.
One of my biggest wishes for TVL is an adaptation of this
Iwtv has attempted to be political in their first seasons, pointing explicitly and implicitly to how race, history, and queerness also affect the vampires.
I would love if they used this bit and show how in fact it's not like that. How the governments of the world treat the immigrants, how there is this trend of trad wife in newer generations, how people are struggling having to chose between gas, health or food. How we have to pay thousands of €/$ for rooms of 10 m², or share houses with 8 roomies.
I also want my DM, and I want Nicky to be something tragic and beautiful and heartbreaking, I want all of the interactions that Gabrielle has with Lestat, and I want Claudia to come back and break her daddies heart but I also want this 🥺.
AMC avoiding showing assad zaman in promotion and excluding his name on a cast list, only fixing it months after backlash, and now having sam reid as lestat promote the juice of a company that donated millions to israel and IDF soldiers is really disgusting
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There was a big push for submitting these forms last year when the issues of Assad being sidelined arose, and I fully believe AMC wouldn’t have done a thing about it otherwise. Brands know that once they lose you as a customer, they’re likely to lose you forever. Let them know what they have to do to keep you!!
Fanmade TVC Book Covers: Inspired by The Vampire Armand
When I was making my other set of Vampire Chronicles ebook covers, I had another idea for a set inspired by my favorite of the original hardback covers: The Vampire Armand. The Vampire Armand cover isn't just well designed, it's also a specific painting referenced within the book, so I wanted to see if I could make covers with a similar design that also met that criteria for the other books!
As before, my disclaimer is that I am not a graphic designer, I am a nerd with a hobby! I don't own the rights to any of these books, images, or paintings (and I believe they are all out of copyright). I hope you like them!
See below for what each painting is, and a few notes about why I chose it and where it appears in the book:
Interview with the Vampire
Painting: Witches Sabbath by Francisco de Goya
Source: Directly Described, Artist Name Provided in The Vampire Lestat
Quote: "I kept looking at Claudia, the way she lay against the books, the way she sat amongst the objects of the desk, the polished white skull, the candle-holder, the open parchment book whose hand-painted script gleamed in the light; and then above her there emerged into focus the lacquered and shimmering painting of a medieval devil, horned and hoofed, his bestial figure looming over a coven of worshipping witches."
Notes: In The Vampire Lestat, Lestat specifically references that Armand's cell contains copies of paintings by de Goya. There are two different de Goya paintings of a horned devil, I believe this one is the one described here.
The Vampire Lestat
Painting: Amor Vincit Omnia by Caravaggio.
Source: Subject Referenced with Artist Name
Quote: "He moved into the glow of the candles on the side altar. His clothes were black velvet, once beautiful, and now eaten away by time, and crusted with dirt. But his face was shining white, and perfect, the countenance of a god it seemed, a Cupid out of Caravaggio, seductive yet ethereal, with auburn hair and dark brown eyes."
Notes: Armand is repeatedly compared to Cupid as painted by Caravaggio in The Vampire Lestat, and this painting is of that figure. Lestat also references Gabrielle having copies of Caravaggio paintings in her rooms at his childhood home. This painting actually has scattered sheet music and a violin lying in the corner, which was another section I considered using to represent this book.
The Queen of the Damned
Painting: The Dionysian Friezes of The Villa of the Mysteries
Source: Directly Described
Quote: "Then the realization had come to Daniel as they stood together in the ruined dining room with its famous murals of ritual flagellation barely visible in the dark: He isn’t going to kill me after all. He isn’t going to do it. Of course he won’t make me what he is, but he isn’t going to kill me. The dance will not end like that."
The Tale of the Body Thief
Painting: Syndics of the Drapers' Guild by Rembrandt
Source: Directly Described, Including Artist Name, Discussed by Characters
Quote: "Finally, a week after my arrival, I found David in the empty Rijksmuseum, just after sunset, sitting on the bench before the great Rembrandt portrait of the Members of the Drapers' Guild"
Memnoch the Devil
Painting: Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch
Source: Directly Discussed by Characters by Name
Quote: "Exactly, like Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, that kind of luscious sensuous paradise! Of course, I hadn't seen Bosch's painting yet in the Prado. But it was here in miniature in these books. Little figures frolicking beneath the abundant trees. Old Captain said, 'Garden of Eden imagery,' that it was very common. But two books full of it? No. This was different. I had to crack these books, get an absolutely clear translation of every word."
Pandora
Statue: Roman Depiction of Isis, Hadrian’s Villa, 117-138 AD Est
Source: Described
Quote: "My Isis had been Greco-Roman. Even her statue in the Roman Sanctuary had been clothed in a gorgeously draped Greek dress and her hair had been done softly in the old Greek style, with waves around her face. She had held her sistrum and an urn. She had been a Romanized goddess.
The Vampire Armand
Painting: Primavera by Botticelli
Source: Directly Referenced by Name
Quote: "Come on, somebody, tell me I make you think of Mercury chasing away the clouds in Botticelli's Primavera"
Note: This is, of course, the original hardback cover of The Vampire Armand, and the inspiration for the rest of this set. This is a remake to match the aspect ratio of the other images.
Vittorio, the Vampire
Painting: Annunciation with Two Kneeling Donors by Filippo Lippi
Source: Directly Named
Quote: "My father took me to see two more of his works, which were both paintings of the Annunciation… I had particularly enjoyed paintings of the Annunciation. Well, this last one I saw before I left Florence, done by Filippo sometime in the 1440s, was beyond anything I had beheld before. The angel was truly unearthly yet physically perfect. Its wings were made of peacock feathers."
Merrick
Painting: Madame Monet Embroidering (Camille au Metier) 1875 by Claude Monet
Source: Described, Artist Named
Quote: "I looked at a painting by Monet—one I'd come to neglect of late due to familiarity—a painting full of sunshine and greenery, of a woman at work on her needlepoint by a window under the limbs of delicate indoor trees. Like so many Impressionist paintings it was both highly intellectual, with its obvious brush strokes, and flagrantly domestic."
Note: This is a painting in the house on Rue Royale, which is one of Louis's Monet's, as he's referenced owning one or more of them frequently throughout the series.
Blood and Gold
Painting: Events of the life of Moses by Botticelli
Source: Directly Described, Artist Named.
Quote: "It didn't matter finally what these paintings meant. They filled me utterly. And in one, there were two maidens rendered so sensitively and yet so sensuously that I was amazed."
Note: Marius describes all three pieces by Botticelli in the Sistine Chapel over several pages, but the specific reference he makes that is quoted above is this painting, which is he compares to Pandora. Later he frequently compares Bianca to Botticelli's work, and I like the interpretation of this cover representing Bianca and Pandora.
Blackwood Farm
Painting: Salvador Mundi by Dürer
Source: Directly Discussed by Characters by Name
Quote: "'I'd save Dürer,' he said. 'Salvador Mundi--you know, the face of Christ with the hair parted in the middle.’"
Note: Many paintings get referenced throughout Blackwood Farm, though many of the artists are ones discussed in other books. Quinn's answer to the question he and Tommy are discussing (which one painting would you save) is a Madonna by either Fra Filippo Lippi or Botticelli, artists represented elsewhere in this set.
Blood Canticle
Painting: One of the "Unpainted pictures" by Emil Nolde
Source: Artist Referenced
Quote: "What the hallway needed was Emile Nolde. How could I get my hands on the German Expressionists?"
Note: Later in the book the other characters reference recently purchased paintings, and paintings with sailboats in them, though this specific painting is not mentioned. Other paintings in Rue Royale are described as "impressionist paintings" showing the sky, which are implied to be Louis's, and Lestat mentions them not being his personal preference.
Prince Lestat
Painting: Still Life with flowers by Rachel Ruysch
Source: Painting Described, See Notes
Quote: "What a pretty room, painted a cobalt blue and with bright white enameled moldings, and on the wall a brilliant painting of roses, wild, exploding roses against a backdrop of a darker blue."
Notes: This is a painting from Rose's bedroom, and Rose is described as having fond memories of visiting the Rijksmuseum. This specific painting is not referenced but matches the subject matter and description and is by a Dutch artist, contemporary of Rembrandt, who has similar works in the Rijksmuseum.
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
Painting: Marie-Thérèse Durand-Ruel Sewing by Pierre Auguste Renoir
Source: Painting Described, See Notes
Quote: "A Chinese vase filled with fragrant leafy eucalyptus, and a small undoubtedly genuine French Impressionist painting on the wall of a woman in profile, a woman with long russet hair."
Notes: The description given of the painting above is not very specific, but Renoir frequently painted women with red hair, several of them in profile, and this painting is one of them.
Blood Communion:
Painting: Sunset (1872) by Camille Pissarro
Source: Painting Referenced, See Notes
Quote: "Well, Louis and I have been reunited a number of times, and this time around, at the Court in France, our reunion is enduring. He left that Impressionist painting behind at my request in our old flat in the Rue Royale, and now these miserable miscreants had senselessly destroyed it."
Notes: All I had to work with here was that it was an impressionist painting that was special to Louis, so I wanted to find something that fit the tone of Blood Communion and was of a sunrise or a sunset, which feels in character for Louis. This painting is also currently in a private collection.
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