#maridan

[tulinokkaelain]

:3

[mlmgaze]

daniel molloy in the mid-2000s

[monstersinthecosmos]

old man yaoi 🫶

[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 or #maridaniweek25.

[AO3 collection]

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

Guidelines

- If applicable please use the appropriate tags for your work e.g. for heavy or triggering topics.

- Any gender expressions are welcome for this event.

- Not safe for work entries are encouraged.

- The use of generative AI to create fanwork is not allowed.

- Day prompts are meant for inspiration and are optional; the main thing is to have fun and to celebrate the ship.

- This event focuses on the book characters from the Vampire Chronicles. Please be respectful of Anne Rice and her work.

- Please be courteous to each other.

- If unable to actively participate, you are welcome to comment on and share the fanworks posted!

[greenfinchwriter]

Daniel reluctantly learned some ballroom dances so he could make Armand,and Marius happy by being able to dance with them at Court events.

That was one thing.

But in hindsight he should have known Louis would take this precedent,and 1 dumb joke about "enjoying riding other things *wink wink nudge nudge*" and run with it.

Really agreeing to hang out at the stables with Louis for book club instead of in either of their rooms should've been a giant neon Broadway sign sized warning.

Unfortunately Daniel is a dumbass (affectionate) who makes bad life choices,and has no survival instincts. I mean it's not the first time he went to a secondary location with Louis against all red flags imaginable. What's one more for old time's sake?

You can't make me, you can't make me, you can't make me...

Except Louis can,and does. Or rather he let's Lestat do it. Lestat is happy to be of service. Sorry,Danny,but this is really funny,and it was probably in their wedding vows somewhere,you understand. Aren't Americans supposed to be cowboys? Giddy up reporter boy!😆🤠

Clémentine the Horse is bemused. She's the equivalent of a sweet old granny,she'll take good care of Daniel, don't worry.

Yes,Louis did procur a helmet and back protector for Daniel (much to Lestat's amusement). Are these necessary? Obviously not really but kidnapping is one thing, but being a a negligent teacher is unacceptable.

Anyways, Louis, is terribly pleased,and in his element. And Daniel can't deny that that isn't annoyingly endearing. Or that he's now playing along because this whole ordeal really seems to make Louis happy. Okay, fuck it, fine, he'll sit on that horse and let Louis play instructor, if it keeps Louis smiling like that for a while.

Pray for Daniel.

But more importantly pray for Clémentine the Horse.

Mojo does😅😬

[vcmicroficmay]

Microfic May Prompts 2025

Microfic May is back, babycakes!

This is a yearly fandom event to inspire short works of fiction in the month of May! The goal is to use these prompts to create short works aiming to be between 100 to 1000 words. (Though no one is going to be mad if you go a little over.)

You can post your work on Tumblr, AO3, anywhere you post fic. There will be a collection on AO3 as well if you wish to add your work there. Please tag @vcmicroficmay and use the hashtag #vcmicroficmay to help us find your work so we can share it, and feel free to message us if you think we missed your entry!

We also have a collection on AO3 you can add your work to!

This even opens May 1 (though technically Week 1 starts on May 4, we're not picky!) See our other post for event rules. Late entries allowed! And special thanks to @rebelrevenant for coming up with many of these delicious prompts!

Happy Writing!

Prompts In Text Below the Cut

Week 1 (week of May 4)

Reverie Blood Tears Forgotten Filthy Parallel

Week 2 (May 11)

Unrelenting Fixated Refusal Bite Mark Epitaph

Week 3 (May 18)

Storm Abandoned Cabin Fever Rotten Afterglow

Week 4 (May 25)

Symmetry Instrument Obsession Sour Memento

Bonus Prompts (Any Week)

Internet Attention Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

[desertfangs]

Reunion - 448 words - Marius/Daniel

This was written for the @valenfangs VamPride event but it's like 2 weeks late (life has been lifeing and also I had to go out of town last weekend to celebrate Pride at the closest event to me, hazards of living in a small mountain town.) Anyhow sorry for the belated entry, it's just a little ficlet featuring Marius and Daniel during the events of Prince Lestat.

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Marius packs Daniel’s suitcase. Daniel is perfectly capable of packing it himself—though admittedly he’d probably take more t-shirts than Marius seems to deem necessary—but Marius is moving at a frenetic pace. He’s worried. About the new round of burnings, about what might happen this time all the immortals convene, about this new threat they’re facing.

Old threat. 

Round and round. Same old dance.

Daniel laughs and Marius tenses, hand hovering over the suitcase, long pale fingers squeezing the pair of folded socks in his hand. He glances at Daniel, worried. Laughing at nothing is something madmen do. Daniel is better now, and has been for long enough that a single laugh should not even raise concern, but Daniel sees the fear in his eyes. Not just for Daniel. For Armand, for Lestat, for Pandora, for all of them. For what might happen this time.

We’ve survived worse, Daniel thinks, remembering Akasha, a terrifying goddess, glaring at them as she ranted and raved about her new world, admonishing all of them. Except Daniel.

She’d barely noticed Daniel or Jesse, just two new vampires loosely connected to the ones Lestat knew and loved. But for a moment her cold eyes had landed on him and he’d been entranced by her, the way her ancient limbs moved with impossible grace. The way she glowed with inhuman light so radiant it was far beyond anything that surrounded Armand or even Marius.  

Marius drops the socks into the suitcase. “We don’t know what’s in store,” he says, but gently. He doesn’t want to scare Daniel, but he wants him to take this seriously. 

But Daniel always has. He laughed the first time because he was giddy with the blood newly coursing in his veins, finally the creature of the night he’d longed to be, with Armand at his side. He laughs now because he’s giddy with the prospect of seeing Armand and the others again, of all of them gathering together once more. It’s hard to be afraid when you’re surrounded by powerful immortals who’ve seen the world turn over hundreds of times, who’ve faced down worse and survived. 

Marius closes the sock drawer with force, shaking the dresser. A pile of rocks that had been perched on the edge fall to the ground. Marius stares at them, faintly surprised. Daniel bends to pick them up.

“Do you know the meteor that killed the dinosaurs left a line of iridium buried in the earth’s crust all across the planet?” he asks.  “Did it?” Marius asked, watching Daniel rearrange the rocks on his dresser. 

“Big events leave their mark,” Daniel says.  

Marius sighs. He sits on the bed next to the suitcase and examines the contents, as if worried he’s forgotten something. 

Daniel leans against the dresser and smiles at him, hoping he looks reassuring instead of like an unhinged mad man gleefully facing down another apocalypse. 

Marius, finally, relaxes his shoulders and smiles back. 

[angrybubbles]

Shit on marius all you want but have fun watching daniel fall in love with marius in the show and love him more than armand cause I can see that happening more than devil’s minion

I really appreciate your explicit permission to continue talking about a character I enjoy talking about, AND for wishing I get to watch Maridan fall in love, too! I was even talking about this with my friends last night!

I know that I do not treat Marius in the same way that I treat Daniel, Louis, or Armand (arguably I treat him better than Lestat, who I tend to hate about 5 days of the week. Right now I'm feeling rather fond of him, though). The biggest reason I don't treat him the same is because he tends to operate on Stoic Philosophy, and I hate Stoic Philosophy. It literally pisses me off. Like I literally just hate his logic, which tends to be a pretty fucking huge hurdle to get over when you're learning to like a character. But I'm not reading B&G and occasionally making jokes with Marius as the funny one because I hate him or think he's not allowed to have relationships, or even hate Maridan.

Maridan is not in my top Daniel ships, no. I of course love Devil's Minion. I love Danlou immensely. And I honestly have made such a complicated AU with my non-Tumblr friend for Claudaniel that I don't go at least a day without thinking about it. When I get wishy-washy over show!Maridan, it's usually because Old Daniel--at the moment--is pretty heavily critical of like everything book!Marius spews, so unless Daniel is going through a madness arc, or is more angry at Armand than he is wary of Marius's bullshit, I just don't see it happening in the same way. But, it's not like I don't find the dynamic fascinating.

Also, I know I tend to come off as intellectual on my tumblr, but I really am the kind of weirdo who literally runs a dead-dove discord server themed around Marimand. I've literally spent HOURS of my irl life editing photos of Christopher Heyerdahl into pictures with Assad, giving him vampire eyes, or dressing him in red. I pair up gifs of Assad and Chris to stare at until the show airs. I don't even post everything I make!

So, uh, sorry that my critical engagement with a character whose book I'm reading and currently typing up annotations for isn't to your taste. I'll keep your hate mail for safe-keeping anyway.