Fanblog for Hannibal, Tolkien, Marvel, JoJo and other anime stuff, whatever takes my fancy tbh. Reblogs with comments, spasms of meta, occasional fic (petronia on AO3). Follows will be under minimoonstar.
Can I talk about this for real though? Because Florida is such a perfect state for a vampire, ESPECIALLY Armand.
He canonically hunts down criminals and morally reprehensible people, and between MAGA and drug cartels, Florida has him covered.
We know how he feels about a silver fox. Florida is America's horny retiree capital.
Tourists! That no one will realize are missing for days or weeks! With very little idea where they are and more often than not drunk!
Manatees! I just think he would like them!
Stand Your Ground laws means if a kill ever goes sideways, he can always put a bullet in the body and claim it was self-defense.
He definitely watched at least the first four seasons of Dexter and knows that corpse disposal is a breeze.
"Daniel, look my beloved: the temperature has dropped below the threshhold necessary for cold-blooded reptiles to thrive. This iguana has fallen from its tree, paralyzed and helpless. It is not so different than we cold-blooded creatures, falling from God's grace..."
You can just buy an island. You can just buy an island.
âHeâs found a state of peace, which heâs never had,â Anderson said. âLouis has never, in any of his existences, has ever felt a sense of peace and calm. I think heâs always like, there is always an alarm going off somewhere in his head. And I think like heâs finally found this place of reconciliation, where heâs like, I am this. You know, I am this thing. I am the Vampire Louis, and if you have a problem with it, come get me. If youâre not going to, fine, but Iâm here. Iâm going to sit on my beautiful couch. Iâm going to look at my beautiful paintings. Iâm going to look at this skyline. Iâm going to think about my brother, who I loved. Iâm going to think about my sister and my daughter, who I loved. Heâs found himself.â
âI think thatâs what that final moment is, is like, heâs finally become what he was always supposed to be,â he continued, âand itâs kind of beautiful. Yeah, Iâm really proud of him for getting there.â
Writing an adaptation of The Vampire Chronicles without Claudia dying is kind of like writing an ASOIAF adaptation without Ned Stark dying. Her death changes everything that comes after it.
Havenât had the time to meta thoughts on IWTV s2 week by week but: structurally, for Armand, itâs trauma reenactment as genre exercise. All the worldâs a play and thereâs only one artistic director. For Armand to be freed from the medieval coven Lestat had to set a fire; for him to be freed from the Paris coven Louis had to make the theatre burn. Venice all the way down baybee! He could not prevent it! Like Jason Voorhees couldnât prevent himself from drowning in Crystal Lake.
And now Danielâs the chosen one, Charmander Mk III. Devilâs Minion has been happening onscreen, in Dubai, in real time. The only remaining question in ep 8 is whether the flames are those of metaphorical publication or if Real Rashid is gonna hafta haul a Parkinson patient down 100 flights of concrete fire stairs when the elevator goes out.
The funniest possible place for Lestat to be at this very moment is under that cherry tree tbh. Someone make the books re this writerâs room *not* having read Tokyo Babylon in the 90s, is what Iâm saying.
I can't wait for the Queen of the Damned storyline because I know when Maharet has all the remaining vampires gathered up together in her lair that Daniel is going to call them something like "the homo Avengers" or "the Real Housewives of Oblivion" or "the '95 Chicago Bulls lineup if Jordan was a cannibal and Scottie Pippen was a pedophile."
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A 16-page IWTV (2022) fancomic about the vampire Armand and journalist Daniel Molloy visiting the Mark Rothko retrospective in 2024 Paris.
Content mentions & warnings:
The comic depicts Danielâs internalized ableism. Rothkoâs suicide is acknowledged but not discussed in detail. Thereâs angst, talk about kink and lots of fluff.
Louis is mentioned as well as Danielâs daughters. Marius is not named but is hinted at. The comic is set up in post-Dubai-interview time and based on my knowledge about s1 of AMCâs IWTV with sprinkles of book canon.
Some notes about the comic below:
As with my last comic, I am not a native English speaker, so I hope you keep that in mind when reading <3 trying my best here meow meow
The Rothko retrospective can be visited until 2nd of April of 2024 in Louis Vuitton Foundation. I visited the place in January, so the comicâs surroundings are a mix of memories and some image searches, but in no way fully accurate. Since visiting Paris next week is probably not an option for most people, the foundation has a very cool free app, where you can listen to an audio guide about Rothko and paintings in the exhibition. I mostly used their app as a source for this comic, so in case you want to learn more, go here: https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/events/mark-rothko
 I listened to a lot of Morton Feldmanâs Rothko Chapel -album while making this. So put it in playing in the background if youâre into that sort of thing. Link to the playlist on youtube
Since I am Finnish and I found out that one of LVFâs first exhibition had some Finnish painterâs work, ofc I had to include them⊠Page 14 has Schjerfbeckâs âDancing Shoesâ  and Gallen-Kallelaâs âKullervo Cursingâ.
Ok finally some headcanon stuff: in my head, while writing this comic, I imagined Daniel having accepted the dark gift from Armand, but both of them wanting him to live as a human as long as possible to enjoy the benefits of a⊠mortal body. :âD Since, you know, vampirism is forever anyway, so why not enjoy the variety of bodily fluids, body heat, aches and weirdness of aging? While having a chronic illness is shitty, his life is not, and while his disability marginalizes him, thereâs a perspective there, a person living and enjoying things, allowed to take space and feel his thoughts develop from these changes (that also affect over 6 million people around the world with Parkinsonâs).
After finishing the comic I am not so sure if Daniel is going to be turned into a vampire after all. So your guesses are as good as mine, would love to hear your suggestions, hehe!
I wish we knew more about Danielâs daughters! I just came up with something here because I wanted to draw them and wanted to see their dynamics as a family.
I have now read the Devilâs Minion part from Queen of the Damned as a separate short story and appreciate the TV showâs changes to Daniel even more. I canât wait for S2âŠ..
My sincerest thanks to @anaid-queen for being a test audience, my informant and such a cheerleader the past week <3<3<3
Hope you enjoy xoxo
SORRY I POSTED THE WRONG IMAGE FILES FIRST WAHHH I had to repost ;_;
hello, just wanted to say that you're such a great writer that i can't help but wonder what sort of literature you're into! do you have some favorite titles or authors?
Thanks for the compliment. :)
I imagine it wonât surprise anyone that I read a lot, and at this point in my life I hardly ever re-read, so itâs hard to call out favorites. I generally prefer concise to sprawling reads in fiction, and formalist approaches to realist. But I also read a ton of non-fiction and essays. Some names Iâve enjoyed in the past (kind of all over the place lol): Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, William Gibson, Samuel R. Delany, Jane Austen, Lois McMaster Bujold, Douglas Adams, Anne Rice, Terry Pratchett, Lawrence Durrell, Anne Carson, Robert McFarlane, Marguerite Yourcenar.
Books I enjoyed this year include âThe Dawn of Everythingâ by David Graeber and David Wengrow; âStay Trueâ by Hua Hsu; âSister Outsiderâ by Audre Lorde; âY/Nâ by Esther Yi; and the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. I am most likely to read âSilver Nitrateâ by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia or âBiography of Xâ by Catherine Lacey next.
known religion hater Lestat de Lioncourt hanging a very suggestive/blasphemous painting titled "Young Man Kneeling before God the Father" (Egon Schiele, 1908) in his and his husband's bedroom. is anyone surprised
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