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[inessencedevided]

Craquelure & Coverups by Inessencedivided

Relationships: Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: None

Words: 27160

Tags: Alternate Universe - Tattoo Parlor, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Reincarnation, Tattoo Artist Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn, Tattooed Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī, Dreams and Nightmares, Past Lives, trauma discussions, Mutual Pining, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Chronic Pain, First Time, Body Worship, Non-Penetrative Sex, Happy Ending

Summary:

It starts with a harmonica, rabbits and a stranger standing in Wei Ying’s tattoo parlour.

He asks for a sun over his heart and a dizi player, blue gentians and calm waters over the scars marring his back.

And Wei Ying? Wei Ying tries his best to pretend he hasn’t seen it all before.

Written for the MDZS Big Bang 2021

The wonderful art you will find embedded in this fic (featuring a shirtless Lan Zhan being drawn on by Wei Ying, just to entice you ;)) was made by @inyourorangeshirt 💙 I honestly couldn't be happier with what she created! head over to her blog and give her some love!

[wisesnail]

Soft looks are my weakness! I hope you like this Lestat portrait 💙 Prints and other stuff on my Redbubble, TeePublic and Threadless

[ajgiel]

The Vampire Armand

[platoapproved]

I think he carried me home that night. And the next morning I was standing in the crooked stone street in front of his father’s shop, tossing pebbles up at his window. When he stuck his head out, I said: “Do you want to come down and go on with our conversation?”

[resplendentgoldenwings]

Claudia was a serial killer taking trophies and she applauded humans getting killed and tortured on stage before a live audience. Louis was a whole gay plague in San Francisco. Armand paid people so he could hunt them before killing them. Daniel has thrown himself in full force. And I don't think I need to list the fuck shit Lestat has done.

They literally live as parasites on humanity and none of them have actually chosen the honorable thing which is self-immolation, because they're monsters.

They're going to keep doing monstrous shit to the humans they encounter, their fellow vampires and themselves. Because they're monsters.

None of them are good. None of them are morally superior to the others. This show is not concerned with whose a goody-goody gum drops. It's concerned with who is being the worst today and why? And each is going to get their turn. That's it and you'll get so much more out of it if you stop trying to be on a moral high horse and get down here in the muck with the rest of us.

P.S. Claudia was a villain before Delainey Hayles and Bailey Bass were a glimmer in their mothers' eyes. If you're looking for morally pure black representation find a different show.

[framblebee]

I locked myself out of my flat today and had to pay the locksmith 185 euros to let me back in. I live off disability benefits and money has been tight anyway, so any help and reblogs are much appreciated!

I will fill gif requests for amc iwtv, amc tvl, the newsreader, lambs of god OR writing prompts for loustat (iwtvl) in exchange for a tip! (my ao3 for reference)

TIP ME ON KOFI WITH A REQUEST

[reputayswift]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT + nail biting

[cannibalspicnic]

I get the feeling most the people upset about Gabriella's gender presentation (again based solely on a few glimpses) have not actually read all the books because she's NOT canonically transmasc. That's an interpretation or headcanon that people have, and that's absolutely valid!

But it has never been text. Her relationship with her gender is COMPLICATED for reasons that seem both internal and external, but it IS canon that she sometimes presents more feminine when she's with Lestat.

But this idea that she starts solely presenting as masc after becoming a vampire isn't true. She's still wearing gowns in the coven in Auvergne in modern day!

So far, the GLIMPSES we've seen of her aren't conflicting with her character in the books.

Gabrielle de Lioncourt is someone with a complicated relationship to gender written by someone with a complicated relationship to gender, which also guides a lot of interpretations. Anne Rice, herself, was pretty feminine presenting, but she often spoke about feelings of gender non-conformity. This is also a valid interpretation. And yes, I do think gnc people who don't fit neatly into one box or another also deserve representation.

It's one thing to be disappointed that Gabriella doesn't fit your interpretation or headcanon (I get it!), but it's another to act like this is somehow sanitizing the queerness of the character because it's not catering to your preferences.

[cannibalspicnic]

I keep seeing the accusation that the show does not explore Gabriella's gender nonconformity in any way.

So, out of curiosity, if I, a nonbinary AFAB person, said, "I'm not a woman."

Would y'all believe me? Would I have to bind my breasts for you to believe me? Would I have to cut my hair shorter? Would I have to wear men's clothing exclusively? Go on T? What exactly would I have to do after flat out telling you that I'm not a woman to be considered even gender nonconforming, much less nonbinary?

What counts as gender nonconforming in the 18th century? What counts for a monster?

This is a hugely important scene for Gabriella that puts a lot of her decisions and actions into context in a way that's uncomfortable to explore because for her specifically, her gender nonconformity is tied to her abuse of her son.

And then she leaves Lestat and cuts all her hair off, and leaves her dress and jewels behind.

Remember how canonically Gabrielle de Lioncourt would feminize herself for Lestat's benefit in the books?

Which is what we've seen gradually happen since the first episode. I think a lot of people missed that part because they thought a pantsuit and a bob was hyperfemme, but she is dressing more and more femininely as she manipulates Lestat further.

You might not like that in this adaptation Gabriella is explored as abusive of Lestat, but pretending that they're not paying attention to book canon at all in regards to her is disingenuous. The gender nonconformity is there, and there's room for interpretation for more. A lot of ripple effects are happening because of other changes, and some changes are decisively being made to her character, but she's definitely inspired by the books.

And people's rigid concepts of gender nonconformity are really regressive.

[roycohn]

there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.

[letika]

They live long and happy lives away from these mentally ill men believe me

[quellstak]

Does anyone ever ask Lazarus if he wanted to be woken?

[desublimitate]

Evening primrose / brutal love

Ig: desublimitate

Credit if you use♥️

[lambf4rm]

don’t go where I can’t follow

[natasha-lightwood]

i like the idea i've been seeing circulating that the reason claudia's “stuck” in a “spidery-ass nowhere” and can't find madeline is because she's in purgatory (the fixation with telling louis to burn her diaries and her dress makes a lot of sense with her wanting to sever any remaining connection) and i love the hopeful twist of believing that being finally able to express her rage at louis and lestat is what will finally get her out of there and i want to add that it's so perfect that we're never going to be able to know for sure. if claudia's free it means she's free from the story. it means she's free from all of them, but also from all of us.

[midnightchapter]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | THE VAMPIRE LESTAT — 1.07 “The Thing Lay Still” — 3.07 “The Failures”

[discojams]

learning that AMC cancelled the akasha final concert scene mid-production explains a lot about the tvl finale

[discojams]

[thunder-puss]

Damn, they really said SIKE. But it is kind of funny in a way, the decision to show Montreal in that state almost as extortion. Like “oh you want a s4 out of us? Then stop playing around and give us the bag and a rational number of episodes, cause now we gotta explain all this.”

[plasticfiends]

shut up this is so cute