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Women besting men in any way in TVC - non-exhaustive book quote compilation

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Does Lestat take notes on actors playing him in adaptation and inspired works to experiment with others in real life? For example, Tom's artful kicking of the coffin box, Somerhalder's (Damon Salvatore) artful neck-breaking, and Pattinson's MTV award-winning fighting style.

This is a tough one! I waited a long time and I still don't have an elegant answer.

I think, overall, Yes, Lestat enjoys vampire media and is inspired to try certain things he sees fictional vampires doing. I'm a picky eater about my vampire media, so I don't have enough of a database to get specific*. I really enjoyed 30 Days of Night (Josh Hartnett's character infecting himself with vampirism to gain the powers to defend his human companions?? And then choosing to die in the sunrise in the arms of his ex?? Yes??) and I'm sure Lestat would think of the 30DoN vampires as more like sharks than vampires, not creatures he would want to emulate, but I think he'd love the authenticity of Only Lovers Left Alive, and Let the Right One In. I could see him holding back tears watching those two films, relating too much, thinking about Claudia and Nicki 😭

[^X by @horroredits] I bet Lestat thoroughly enjoys vampires that share some of his qualities like Colin Farrell as Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night (2011). Even if they get killed in the movie 😅

When it comes to vampires playing Lestat specifically, I'd think he feeds on the attention as it makes him feel relevant he's deeply flattered by having anyone portray him at all - all the way down to the cosplayers at the NOLA ball and online! There was definitely fic about Lestat being drawn to actors who have played him. But on the surface, he critiques all of them as inadequate because ultimately, there's only One True Vampire Lestat 😎

*Tagging in @gothiccharmschool, @wicked-felina, @hekateinhell, @covenofthearticulate, @monstersinthecosmos, @desertfangs, @nightislandnoveltymug, @annabellioncourt, @vampire-scripture, @cloudsinvenice, and @somevagrantchild for their more specific thoughts!

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Bonus:

Anne Rice had posted her thoughts on this from time to time, here's one I found quickly, about Lestat's feelings about vampires in media who feed messily:

[X I don't have the date of her post, probably June, 2014]

Fanart by @devmin-art 💓

And here's a fic by the legendary @gairid/ @vampchronfic that explore Lestat's etiguette guide ideas!

Lestatiquette

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On Canvas As He Dips the Brush

To: @vampire-scripture From: @manynarrators/Poetiicdissonance (ao3)

Summary:

Armand and Nicki discuss art (and art theft), before Nicki paints Armand for the first time in centuries.

Notes:

Written for the VC secret gift exchange! I got vampire-scripture on tumblr, and their prompt “Armand and Nicki and art”. This was such a fun fic to write, thank you so much for the excuse to write more of these two!

The title is taken from the poem Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy.

The fic itself is set some time nebulously 4-5ish years into their decade running the theatre, and for anyone who wants the playlist that accompanies this fic, then that’s on youtube and spotify.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice Relationship: Armand/Nicolas de Lenfent Characters: Armand (Vampire Chronicles), Nicolas de Lenfent Additional Tags: Painting, Paris Era (Vampire Chronicles), brief discussions of art theft Language: English Words: 3,198 Chapters: 1/1

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Nicki/Armand Playlist (for vampire-scripture, gift part 1/2)

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To: @vampire-scripture

From: @manynarrators

Bloodlust - aeseaes if I have one Nickimand song and no others, it’s this one! It’s this one in a way that’s almost unsettlingly perfect. From the first verse’s appeal to the painted figure at the foot of the stage (because A: literal stage, and B: Lestat looms so large over both of them), to the final line being “cut off my hands and watch me try to undress”. How many ships can say there’s literal hand cutting off? I wouldn’t call it a happy song, but I would call it very them. All the Rowboats - Regina Spector This one, I feel like, is the fascinating combination of art and the violin references, which are a repeated motif, perhaps unsurprisingly given Nicki’s character, but also of the half-mortality. There’s the “living dead” line, the “forever, forever and a day”. That whole verse where it talks about museums feels like it works exceptionally well for the theatre, because in a lot of ways, they theatre is what became of the children of darkness, taken from a graveyard. It’s no less a tomb. Art and a subpar immortality: it sounds familiar. Valentine - Fiona Apple This one might, in truth, be making them a little too soft, but once again, I think it captures the sense of stagnation that characterizes a lot of the vampires. They’re talented, they’re beautiful, but they’re not alive anymore. And for these two in specific, the “fugitive too dull to flee” feels… fitting. Neither Armand or Nicki leave the theatre, even if they could. And it’s even canon that they did learn to care for each other, in some way,

Agony (acoustic) - Paloma Faith I do love the sense of the singer knowing it’s a tragedy, that this can’t end well really—and amusingly, the “no time to waste”, despite being a contrast from my focus on the eternal nature of vampirism, works with these two because all things considered, a decade isn’t… long. “Take me home and use me” isn’t exactly giving winning romance either, let’s be real, and neither are these two. Home - AliceBanD My logic for this one is several fold! From the very start you can see the ideas about Nicki and the theatre; Nicki dies in a pyre, and so too, does the theatre go down in flames much later on (“everything you made will end up broken”). The rest of the song, with it’s increasing tempo feels like it reflects a lot of their dynamic. By the end of the decade, surely they must know of each other, but at the same time, it’s created a sort of rising tension that eventually crests. They’ve spent too long working alongside each other, with all the… complicated aspects that includes. The “cheap thoughts and cheap addresses” just feels like a fun tie in to the fact that the theatre isn’t in a… well-to and well respected part of the city, and the plays aren’t exactly high art, so much as a farce to feed. It all comes to a heard where neither of them will do what the other wants (“I will lay the table but I will not sing”), essentially Nicki won’t capitulate to Armand’s… everything in the wake of the children of darkness. Cairo - San Fermin  Okay, so this one is a bit of a cheat song, in part because it is, quite potentially, just one of my favourite song for Armand his his various complicated relationships. One again, we have to acknowledge the Lestat shaped absence that defines a lot of them–but he’s not the one there. It didn’t “turn out right”, but it’s Armand and Nicki who are living together, who are trapped in this, overall, short lived period, the “28 days of delirium” or ten years, but it’s close enough! The verse about leaching blood is fitting, given part of Nicki’s problem was the inconspicuous consumption, the fact that he was drawing attention to them. Center of the Sun - Conjure One, Rhys Fulber The violins come back! Referentially at least. Generally, I do not find Nicki’s death the most interesting part  of he and Armand’s relationship (a. Irony given we know next to nothing about the bulk of it in the middle, but I digress). But I think this one works—it’s both the escape from the hurt—on the pyre, nothing can hurt Nicki anymore, and it might not be a sun, but it is a bright ball of purifying fire that kills a vampire.    Between the bars - Elliott Smith We have to get at least some more of the concerning elements of their relationship in here! I think the song’s opening on the unfulfilled potential works for both Nicki and Armand, but especially for Nicki who doesn’t even get the benefit of centuries. And a bit further, that sense of Nicki being kept “separate from the rest” has some truth to it, in part because Nicki, unless like the others, was never a member of the children of Darkness under Armand. He is only introduced at the very end of that era. Youth - Daughter I admit, the “destroy the middle it’s a waste of time” very well might be the thing that really cinched this song on the playlist for me, because, at least in the canon, we know the start and end of their relationship, and very little, all things considered, of the middle. The second half of the song, and the first verse where it mentions the “lovers that went wrong”, as is so often the case with these two, can be a lampshade of Lestat. “And one will die before he gets there” seems a little bit obvious. In The Woods Somewhere - Hozier A bit of an expected entry to the list, but one I really like! This one, as opposed to some that re more early Armand and Nicki’s relationship closer to the end, this one us the exact opposite, and is their relationship right at the start surrounding Nicki’s turning. The theatre becomes the something in the woods.  Narcissistic Cannibal - EarlyRise More sort of angsty things set nearer to the end of Nicki’s life. The cannibal reference is both a fun reference to the fact that they’re vampires ( along with “got to bring myself back from the dead”) but also the way that their relationship, at least the pieces we see are… messy. “Nothing’s good about the hell you put me through” could be true! And, I suspect, is more so than not. Would any good moments be able to blot out the overwhelming issues that are the start and end of their relationship? And a few bonus songs that didn’t make the cut onto the playlist itself, but still work in some ways or another: Lay of the Ashes - SYR Vampyre Erotica - Inkubus Sukkubus Curses - The Crane Wives

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