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If you're looking for my Interview With the Vampire stories, you can find those here. If you're looking for Crown of Thorns 'Verse and the rest of my Good Omens stories, you can find them here. If you make art based on my writing, podfic my stories, or do anything else you want me to see, feel free to message me. I try to answer most comments and messages I get, although some may slip through the cracks. Autistic, intersex, Jewish, & queer. Pronouns: they/them. Header image is an illustration by fighto-art for this IWTV story.

[irisbleufic]

CALDERA (VOL. 1 & VOL. 2)

Above, below the banner (Villa of the Mysteries griffin fresco, Pompeii), is the collection-level AO3 link to my now-complete, 2-volume Devil's Minion series, Caldera. The following links are to individual stories, plus ratings, word counts, and numbers of chapters:

Caldera: Mise-en-Abîme (Vol. 1)

Not the Good Guys (Rating: E; 20,000 words; 7 chapters; can be read as a stand-alone, but most stories beyond this one begin to serve a much farther-reaching plot)

Maker, Martyr, Mirror (Rating: M; 2,100 words; 1 chapter)

Still Life With Sunken Treasure (Rating: E; 2,400 words; 1 chapter)

It's Not the Louvre, But It'll Do (Rating: E; 2,600 words; 1 chapter)

Time Has Opened Back Up to Us (Rating: E; 3,000 words; 1 chapter)

Gold and Tempera on Panel (Rating: E; 20,000 words; 7 chapters)

Calamity Comes to Your Door (Rating: E; 3,200 words; 1 chapter)

We Need Not Be a Tragedy (Rating: E; 3,900 words; 1 chapter)

Death to Welcome With Open Arms (Rating: E; 11,600 words; 3 chapters)

The Responsible Ones (Rating: E; 11,000 words; 4 chapters)

It’s a Goddamn Trip (Rating: E; 20,000 words; 7 chapters)

The Walls of This Villa Remember (Rating: E; 4,000 words; 2 chapters)

As Only My Hands Can Deliver (Rating: E; 10,000 words; 5 chapters)

Vampire Family, Human Family (Rating: M; 11,000 words; 4 chapters)

Full House, But It Could Be Fun (Rating: E; 9,600 words; 4 chapters)

Just Watch the Stars (Rating: E; 20,000 words; 7 chapters)

It's a Slippery Slope to Stand-Up Comedy (Rating: M; 1,400 words; 1 chapter)

Difficult All the Way Down (Rating: E; 4,000 words; 3 chapters)

Don't Include This in Your Next Backup (Rating: E; 10,000 words; 5 chapters)

From This World into Another (Rating: E; 14,000 words; 6 chapters)

Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)

The Quick Ones (Rating: E; 53,000 words; 22 chapters; can be read as a stand-alone)

Bizarre and Breathless Pause (Rating: E; 20,000 words; 9 chapters)

Avant-Garde and Unsustainable (Rating: M; 2,000 words; 1 chapter)

Cross-Genre Awareness (Rating: M; 2,000 words; 1 chapter)

Fucking Professionals (Rating: E; 20,000 words; 9 chapters)

Fractured and Flickering Gold (Rating: M; 2,000 words; 1 chapter)

Talismans for the Eve of War (Rating: M; 4,300 words; 3 chapters)

Something Still Sleeps Below the Earth (Rating: E; 20,000 words; 10 chapters)

Stealing Gold from a Griffin (Rating: E; 6,000 words; 4 chapters)

Bear It Now That It Burns (Rating: E; 6,900 words; 1 chapter)

[irisbleufic]

IWTV/TVL S3 fic, post-3x07 chapter just posted [now complete]:

The Failures: Field Reports & B-Sides

I’m adding a chapter after each S3 episode; all of them will be Sam Barclay/Real Rashid-centric with Armand/Daniel in the mix. You’ll also get sides of Raglan and others. Rated: E; 26,430 words; 7 out of 7 chapters posted. I made this story the third part of a series I recently started that contains a Paris-era Théâtre des Vampires piece as the first story and a present-day shorter follow-up (set just pre-S1, pre-Dubai) as the second piece, but this can be read as a stand-alone.

CHAPTERS:

Detroit (2026-06-07)

Toledo (2026-06-14)

Toronto (2026-06-21)

The Devil’s Road (2026-06-27)

New York (2026-07-04)

Montréal (2026-07-11)

The Failures (NEW, 2026-07-19)

EXCERPT:

Sam just stands there in the penthouse suite with blood on his face, neck, and hands, his eyes lowered, as Dracula’s Daughter hotel security and Lestat’s shark of a lawyer start clearing out the traumatized band members and groupies. Sam’s ears are still ringing, and he feels exposed. He longs for the reassuring cover of his helmet, but he’d lost track of that in the hall—he’d promptly tripped because of it, and it’s not as if he’s ever been what anyone would call elegant in a brawl. Sam feels someone take him by the shoulders and steer him off to one side.

“Hey, man,” Daniel says. “Thanks for having our backs in a pinch. You okay? You don’t look okay. Can vamps go into shock?”

“I’m not in shock,” Sam protests, but he is a bit. There’d been no guarantee that he’d survive upon being recognized by Lestat.

[irisbleufic]

will you be posting the last chapter of your S3 'failures' fic soon? :3

Oh, it's finished as of today. I just need to edit and post it 💙

[reticent-vampire]

[irisbleufic]

Considering the interaction between Raglan and Daniel in the finale, how are you feeling about the bodyswap theory?

Anon, I don’t think Daniel’s interaction with Raglan in the finale has anything to do with, nor does it validate, any of the body-swap theories people are tossing around so far. There is literally no indication that it does. Daniel has his fangs out and is threatening Raglan; that’s literally where we leave off with those two (with no further information). I’m not even sure what you’re asking given that interactions with Raglan at this point are not 100% guaranteed to mean body-swaps for anyone as of yet. I never even subscribed to any of the Daniel bodyswap theories in the first place, so I feel no different than I felt before.

(Granted, you could maybe make a case for this being the first inkling of a Raglan-Lestat swap down the line. I just don’t see how it implies anything for Daniel bodyswap-wise.)

[medusadyke]

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

[medusadyke]

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

[hylianengineer]

I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.

The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

"The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter."

[zootycoon-archive]

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

[loseremo]

[syzygy-yzygy]

THE ORIGINAL? ON MY DASH

[this-too-too-sullied-flesh]

this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?

[squeeful]

Not a Scorsese film! Directed by Matteo JWHJ0715!

[irisbleufic]

Alas, such rampant misattribution!

[zootycoon-archive]

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

[loseremo]

[syzygy-yzygy]

THE ORIGINAL? ON MY DASH

[this-too-too-sullied-flesh]

this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?

[irisbleufic]

i really dont like what they're doing with dm... It feels like they started resenting us for asking too much about It and decided to shut us up by making their arc off-screen like "here damn they dating"

While I’m not shocked that we didn’t get DM as a major arc this season (as I’ve mentioned before: I went into this season with tempered expectations due to it being, you know, unabashedly the Lestat season), my primary criticism now that I’ve seen every episode is that they could’ve given us at least a couple more scenes of them interacting in that finale, and the rest wouldn’t have suffered. I didn’t have any problem with how limited the DM content was in Episodes 1 - 6 because it was clear they had to highlight Lestat, the band, their interactions with Daniel, and the musical performances. But in order for those smaller DM scenes to have more weight and meaning, more of those two together in the finale would’ve felt logical to me from a storytelling standpoint. They could’ve sacrificed just a bit of Lestat’s afterlife hallucination-time to accomplish that. I’m making this criticism not from a place of being a DM fan (which I am), but as a writer. You need to properly support the character arcs, and even couple arcs, that you’ve been building with intention across a season of television in smaller doses. When it came to the finale, they just didn’t give DM the extra time it needed, even if only a little. I’m grateful for the lines of dialogue and other cues that reinforced the knowledge they’re together, but I imagine that it’s not quite narratively effective for people coming at this show from a non-book background (or even from a casual-book background where maybe they only read QotD once, years ago, and had forgotten that DM is a thing). Armand and Daniel needed at least one more scene together in that finale, but preferably it would have been a couple of them.

[theashesofthefirststar]

Oh Daniel gets big mad when someone talks badly about his Wife/Boss/Companion/ Maker.

[irisbleufic]

(It’s possible I’ll be slow to get through even just a selection of what comes into my inbox today due to Zel having fallen ill a little over 24 hours ago with something that could turn severe at any moment. My vet has had a hard time fitting her in thus far, so I’ve been on and off the phone with them since early yesterday morning and have slept very little due to the kind of monitoring I have to do on her until they can fit her in. TL;DR context: emotional priorities are much more fixed on my cat right now than on this finale episode.)

[irisbleufic]

Lestat says that whoever are there are there either because they are either murdered by him/his fledglings or memorably traumatised. I’m guessing babystat and marius are the former?

In the context of the hallucination-concert-slash-cringe-standup-comedy stretch, since I think that’s the specific part you’re asking about: I’d put his child-self under the category of someone he memorably traumatized, or someone who was memorably traumatized just by the circumstances he lived through. As for Marius being present in that scenario in addition to at the long table, make no mistake: Marius traumatized Lestat more than Lestat traumatized Marius (although Lestat may certainly think of himself as having traumatized Marius). Some of the people at the concert-slash-standup are there not necessarily because Lestat traumatized them, but seemingly because they’re some of the people at the long-table scenario. It’s like…actually, just see my previous post. This season finale is extremely muddled, and I’ve barely had the chance to sufficiently process it.

[irisbleufic]

This may be incredibly premature and I’m aware you have other active projects buuuut lol do you have any plans or ideas for a “fix-it” fic for this season? I adore your Caldera series and would love your take on the third season.

So, yes: I have that WIP where the chapters have all been executed in a during-and-post-episode missing moments kind of structure so far. I’ve kept this story as a moving target due to the unpredictability of what happens onscreen as something airs in real-time. I’m intensely glad now that it’s a project I started and that it has the flexibility it does. I still have to write the one that falls post-Episode 7. I feel like I’ve set that up as a place where I can end that story with a take where I start to do that work; any stories that come after “The Failures: Field Reports & B-Sides” will definitely…address/realign S3 events what I’d hope to see moving forward in the framework as it stands, or to try to answer the questions for myself that just weren’t answered in S3 (in a way that I’d hope to see them answered in S4, but who knows what we’ll get when it finally arrives). Anyone else who wants to join me via reading this new project, great. Anyone else who wants an alternate-S3 lengthy kind of paradigm? Caldera already exists, fully finished as of May. I spent 2 years building that fortress for myself (and anyone else) in case S3 really went off the rails for me right from the start, but what happened for me S3-wise is actually what I discussed in this post I just made via answering another ask. It mostly consists of initial commentary while I’m letting the finale shellshock settle.

[irisbleufic]

Thank fuck you wrote Caldera. That’s my canon now.

🫂

It’s…a baffling, frustrating turn for anyone who’s enjoyed Episodes 1 - 6 a great deal. I’m still processing the experience. I didn’t love all of it, but I didn’t hate all of it, either. The scoring was incredible. There are compelling, necessary things amidst the…frankly too-much-time-spent-in-Lestat’s-head aspect. There are things they needed to expand onscreen that they just didn’t; I’m assuming the cost of deciding to spend so much time in Lestat’s hallucination is that the things they really need to deal with will get pushed into the start of S4. The primary point of frustration for me is how hard they cliffhangered this, the staggering amount of plot-point resolutions that they’re deferring to next season. I would’ve liked more answers even knowing, on some level, that this would end on a cliffhanger because S3 and S4 are a two-parter just like S1 and S2. Armand and Daniel have been companions for a few months? Great, I’ll still take it, but could they not have given us even one scene of them together like they did in several prior episodes? This is the Lestat season, but my God. Assad’s performance was absolutely riveting, regardless of some of the reactions I’m seeing out there. He stole the show.

That’s about where I am at present. I watched it twice, but I don’t think that’s enough to finish letting my opinions settle. And it goes without saying: if you need my stories to be that for you moving forward, then they’re here for exactly that purpose (among others) 💙

[yeyinde]

Collins is gone.

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

wīya ispīh iyiniw-kiskīyihtamowin pasikōpayiki kāwi askiy ta-iyihyīmakan

[irisbleufic]

APPLE TV DID YOU SEE IT

Sure did. And I’m not saying anything till later in the weekend, because what the hell is with all this release-time chaos week by week, my God.

[jen4k2]

Can we talk about how Lestat bought candy for children at Halloween?

Both years it's Halloween. He's got candy. And it looks like the good stuff.

I love it.

[jen4k2]

Imagine Lestat at CVS.

"No, I want the mini Snickers. Reddit says it is the best..."

[kleenexwoman]

@irisbleufic