LadyOdium

MDNI 18+ Blog She/Her - Black Ace

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inspired by a magazine spread by Andy Virgil (original under cut)

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this is available as a print here!

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inspired by an ad by René Gruau and the drinking scene in 1.02 (original under cut)

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inspired by René Gruau's Woman With A Fur (original under cut)

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transparent version

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So we have kittylou and dogstat. I crave for hedgehog Claudia. Hedclou? Hedgedia? Help.

i swear i have a hedgehog claudia sketch that i did when i was drawing this but i spent 15 minutes scouring my files and backup log and it looks like i've accidentally deleted it ToT so i tried to redraw that sketch to the best of my memory

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ghost girl walking

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“I HEARD YOUR HEARTS DANCING!”

He's definitely gonna crash out about this

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Omg Louis is fucking his handsome vampire lawyer!

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Jokes aside, It truly is very important to me that Louis spends time alone to reflect on his life and loves without worrying about what his family/Lestat/the coven/Armand feels about him. The interview is only the first step of his self reflective journey and for the first time in his almost 150 years of life, Louis is on his own. I want to see what that means for him, how hes coping, what he discovers about himself. And I don't want all those relevations to be a straight path back to Lestat. Not out of some petty haterism, but because Louis is a whole character by himself.

We talk so much about how Louis in the books is sidelined and barely relevant outside his role in Anne's more favored characters stories, but often the fandom does the exact same thing to him, but deludes itself into believing it's different. I hope to see Louis have his own personal wins and loses that are detached from whereever his romantic plots go; Find meaning in his existence beyond being someones companion. I don't want Louis to need Lestat or Armand or Daniel or whoever else will become important to him, I want him look at the life he is living and choose those people over and over again, knowing what it will mean.

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IWTV fandom, I hate to make this post, but I feel as though this is very important and an issue that people in the fandom should be aware of. There is a fan fiction titled "Adagio" on AO3, written by Lydia_Eve. They are Lydia_Eve42 on Twitter. It is a modern day Human AU, with Nicolas de Lenfent as the main character. In the last published chapter, Number 15, there is a part where Nicki calls Louis the N-word. While it is given a trigger warning at the beginning of the chapter, I feel that fan fiction is an extremely inappropriate place to use racial slurs, especially that particular word. Having read the chapter of "Adagio" I do not feel that the slur is warranted and treated with the appropriate gravity. It is not treated as the evil word that it is by the writer, but rather as just another insult to hurl.

I don't know what else to do but childishly say that it made my heart hurt. Louis deserves so much better. Racism is a real present problem across all of the IWTV fandom, and I hope that we can figure out a solution and treat the talented actors and beautifully written characters with the dignity and respect that they deserve, and foster a more safe space for the fans of color.

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Oh my…

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I watched Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast last night and it was sooo good!! I cleaned up some sketches I did while watching the movie.

Bonus:

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i usually draw louis as a kitty but i saw these cute stoat pictures that reminded me so much of him that i had to draw it lol

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I love your leslou office au art…Lestat being able to read Lou’s mind and see all his dirty thoughts 🤤

yess i love vampire lestat x human louis it's such a fun dynamic because you know louis was driving lestat insane with his thoughts lol

also speaking of the office au here's something silly

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Can you draw Lestat trying to balance a cup on Lou’s ass?

i'm not gonna draw this but the imagery from this ask just made me laugh for a whole minute thanks anon

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ok i ended up drawing this because i couldn't pass up a chance to be silly and because this also reminded me of the trend of people stacking random things on their cat lol

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My favorite couple in IWTV but high fashion