Immortal Sarcasm

A sarcastic cryptid lurking in the Pacific Northwest. Gay. Trans. Biracial. Disabled. He/Him/His. Almost assuredly older than most of you - I’m in my 40s. I love my boyfriend, my dog, coffee, tea, books, and Vampire Chronicles - I’ve been a VC fan for 30 years. Almost all VC content here is about the books by Anne Rice, not the AMC show. If I mention AMC, it’s gonna be salty because frankly I’m not a fan of what they’ve done with the series. My VC OTP is Marius de Romanus and Daniel Molloy and no, I will not waste my time debating this with you.

[immortalsarcasm]

A sarcastic cryptid lurking in the Pacific Northwest. Gay. Trans. Biracial. Disabled. He/Him/His. Almost assuredly older than most of you - I’m in my 40s. I love my boyfriend, my dog, coffee, tea, books, and Vampire Chronicles - I’ve been a VC fan for 30 years.

Almost all VC content here is about the books by Anne Rice, not the AMC show. If I mention AMC, it’s gonna be salty because frankly I’m not a fan of what they’ve done with the series. My VC OTP is Marius de Romanus and Daniel Molloy and no, I will not waste my time debating this with you.

[twerklina]

I’ve been waiting since March to post this...

[homoidiotic]

The First San Francisco Trans March 2004 (source: Flickr) (Pic 1: Stephan Thorne & James Green!)

[immortalsarcasm]

I saw these facial expressions and then my brain did the rest.

[my-dailydreams]

[viralfrog]

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Queer Book Character Tournament Round 1

Daniel Molloy- The Vampire Chronicles

Varazda- Sword Dance

Delilah Green- Delilah Green Doesn't Care

Patricia Merton- Proper English

Voting ended onSep 28, 2025

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Daniel Molloy- The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

Varazda- Sword Dance by A. J. Demas

Delilah Green- Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Patricia Merton- Proper English by K.J. Charles

[seleneelune-deactivated20251014]

[ckret2]

[this-is-transandrophobia]

I once saw a post that said the term transandrophobia was made by "white crackers"

The term Transandrophobia was made by a native american trans man, it shows you how little fucking research these people do

That post still pisses me the fuck off....

This is transandrophobia and racism.

[evilfaggotbillcipher]

it's because they wanna pretend all trans men are white really badly. god forbid they acknowledge how racist their rhetoric has quickly gotten.

[immortalsarcasm]

The Venn diagram of transphobes and racists is a goddamn circle.

[apollosfallen]

Thing is. As someone who was socialized for the first two decades of my life with the universal woman experience of: don't dress too slutty but don't be a prude, don’t wear makeup because it's catfishing but also not wearing it is lazy, also don't be too fat or too skinny, or too this or too that... I recognize the double standards for trans men as the same damn thing.

Don't be too feminine or you're a fake, don't be too masculine or you're a dangerous predator. Don't be too boring, don't be too loud, don't be too this or too that.

I've been there, done that, got the t-shirt, and I'm all outta tolerance for it.

[immortalsarcasm]

Exactly this. All of this.

Also our experiences with something like - don’t advocate for your own needs but center the needs of others.

when you’re perceived as a cis woman the expectation is you will be centering family - i.e. the husband you will be expected to be subservient to and to the children you’ll be expected to bear and raise. Your own needs become secondary or are not acknowledged at all. If you don’t you’re a ‘bad’ and ‘wrong’ woman.

When you’re a trans man the expectation becomes we need to center women over our own needs. If you don’t then you’re a ‘bad’ and ‘wrong’ man.

Which is just perpetuating more of the patriarchy (i.e. men need to defend the poor defenseless women!!!) that trans men are constantly being told we benefit from when in reality we’re getting bludgeoned with it by people that claim they want to dismantle it.

[maridaniweek]

Marius/Daniel Week 2025 (10—16 November)

Welcome to our fan event celebrating again this year the romantic relationship between Marius de Romanus and Daniel Molloy, from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles novels. Those who enjoy this book-only couple are welcome to join in creating any type of fanwork, or share and comment on them. Please use the appropriate tags for your creations and also tag with #maridaniweek2025.

Prompts are listed below the cut:

Day 1: columns / enchanted

Day 2: tailored-fit / in your footsteps

Day 3: new canvas / leather-bound

Day 4: on the floor / blooming

Day 5: thermae / making waves

Day 6: charcoal / blood & sweat

Day 7: free day

[greenfinchwriter]

As an autistic person with a personality type very close if not identical to that of Marius there is something that has always made me sad. Because it's been my entire life too.

That particularly insidious way in which pretty much all of the characters complain about him bottling up his emotions,and not communicating but then turning around and having a negative/dismissive/judgemental reaction whenever he actually does try to do so. Accusing him of being petty, childish, self-centered, overly emotional, manipulative etc. No matter if he tries to articulate them calmly or explodes, his feelings,needs and perspectives are always bad-wrong, and ranked far below that of others. He's expected to be reasonable at all times but also somehow supposed to be emotionally vulnerable in a pretty,palatable way.

Like yeah, I'd keep my mouth shut about my emotions and emotional/psychological needs too. No one *actually* wants to hear them, or get pissed at me for expressing them/having any/them not being completely centered on the other person's needs, so why bother?

People really don't quite grasp how isolating it is to think one's worth only tied to being the useful, reasonable workhorse who then gets maligned and misunderstood for it. It's like being cursed with being the Designated Driver for the rest of eternity. There comes a point where one's own sense of self gets muddled up with the only thing others ever really seemed to value/praise/reward/not hate about you, and of course you will cling to it, take pride in it - but here comes the messed up part - both external and internal feedback loops will eventually demand superhuman perfection from you, and you will fail because you are still human,and it will royally screw up your mental health, and relationships with the people around you who were so used to you being this...almost robotic support system. Personally speaking I'm my own worst, most vicious critic.

Anyways, what I'm trying to say is...being the reasonable, parental perfectionist, even if they outwardly use it as a shield, something they are proud of, most likely isn't that great for that person in question. Sometimes there is a lot more to what people usually write off as "arrogance".

[immortalsarcasm]

So normal about these two still.

[remanence-of-love]

[immortalsarcasm]

Y’know, the AMC fans are partially right about the VC fandom having a racism issue, just not in the way they go on about (i.e. ‘if you don’t like the show it’s because you’re a racist!’).

The fandom has had a racism issue since before the show, and even then not just specifically with the characters. It’s been in the subtle and less that subtle ways that non-white fans have been treated - in the 10 years I’ve been on Tumblr, some great POC have come and gone from the fandom because of the racism. There’s also the long-standing expectation that you have to have a certain level of/and access to higher education to appreciate the series in a ‘correct’ or ‘academic’ way and any other views are ‘ignorant’ or ‘lesser’ - which lets be real, definitely some white ass bias driving that proverbial boat.

There are several layers of white privilege behind the classism and other issues that have been normalized in this fandom for decades that really should be given a hard look, but given that the many of the long time fans who consider themselves ‘mains’ of the fandom are white or like to play the ‘but I have friends that are POC so I can’t be a racist!’ I don’t see the problem ever seriously getting addressed or truly acknowledged in a sincere and honest way.

[immortalsarcasm]

Reblogging to add; my take on this is as a biracial person. I’m white passing but half Native American. As somebody white passing, I’ve had experience seeing and hearing the microaggressions and outright racism in fandom because there’s this nasty habit white folks have of assuming if you look ‘like them’ you must or should have the same opinions as them.

This has ranged from POC being called ‘race fakers’ for calling out racism when it’s happened, to fandom Discords being made invite only to filter out the ‘undesirables’.

Unironically, these behaviors also go hand in hand with the issues of homophobia, transphobia, and ableism within fandom. Again - I don’t see these issues changing because that would require folks either incapable of unwilling to admit any gatekeeping or accountability. That said - burying heads in sand doesn’t mean issues aren’t real.

[learn-how-to-love]

I think something people need to remember is that for some people, Testosterone is literally life saving medicine. As in, for a portion of the population access to Testosterone is the difference between life and death. Calling it a “poison” outright should be seen as deeply disrespectful, even if it personally is for you. Would you say the same thing about someone’s insulin? Their SSRI’s? Because I can think of a group that would, and I assure you they’re not friendly towards trans people.