JADE

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[thevampirejade]

I will block AMC elitists.

Do not ever interact with my blog.

This is a Vampire Chronicles books only fan blog.

Show fans are allowed, as long as you are also a book fan and are interacting as a book fan.

[nurgetih-deactivated20250930]

From Gustave Courtois' "Dante et Virgile aux Enfers"

Originally posted on January 2025

This was my first bookmand art, that's why he doesn't look like Mick Jagger yet and has bright ginger hair 😂 also, i recently remembered the typical Vergil - Blue and Dante - Red color scheme wasn't always the case, especially in old manuscripts:

☝️☝️ There it is! That's literally Marius & Amadeo. Hahaha!

I have so so many thoughts about the setting of TVA. It's the most prominent and interesting theme in the book to me. I was heavily fixated & obsessed with turn-of-the-century Italian Renaissance history for a while, so starting to read TVA and slowly realizing this book is set in exactly those years, how Armand's conflict corresponds exactly with the history & theology of that brief period was... an Experience. LOL.

Amadeo's rebirth into his new life being set in a time where Christian faith & culture is being reborn. The Siege of Constantinople and Andrei's kidnapping. Savonarola's Bonfire of Vanities and the Children of Darkness ambush. The constant comparison with Christ's rebirth ... It is so deeply imbued with the conflicting values of the Italian Renaissance. Even Marius, too, represents that - an ancient roman teacher to offset & challenge Armand's very Christian, very spiritual devotion. The book, to me, is Armand's Divine Comedy!

I debated on which painting to imitate for this idea, and ended up choosing the one depicting Canto 32 - Dante & Virgil witness Ugolino della Gherardesca, eternally gnawing on his betrayer's head in hell. Kind of as a little nod to how Armand cannibalizes Riccardo later on.

[nasnyys]

Do u think Louis ever actually loved Armand in any way?

as much as louis is capable of gafing about anyone outside of his immediate family yeah

[knightsickness]

the difference between lestat and armands interactions w pop culture is lestat was a guest judge on an ep of rupauls drag race and armand has been a close personal friend of rupauls for the past forty years and is involved in the fracking

[bifauxnenarmand]

marius treats armand like a daughter and lestat like a son in an evil patriarchal manner and lestat and armand are like incestuous rivaling siblings so what do you call the opposite of the wholesome found family trope because whatever they have it’s that

[fakeoldmanfucker]

Save me Santo Domingo Live 1973......

[bell-of-freedom]

phil ochs you were never crazy you were just mentally ill and struggling you were a human too j wish they understood

[vamplire]

“i have a girlfriend” “i have a boyfriend” i have a longing for the most exquisite gothic romance, for centuries of eternal love where decay cannot touch us.

[vamplire]

“i have a girlfriend” “i have a boyfriend” i have a longing for the most exquisite gothic romance, for centuries of eternal love where decay cannot touch us.

[gothredy]

[vamp1rate]

Ad for Phil's "militant, no bullshit record" in Sing Out! from 1965.

[hollowofhaze]

john lennon, yoko ono, phil ochs, phil spector, and pete bennett attend the new york premiere of the film of "concert for bangladesh" on march 23rd, 1972

[hollowofhaze]

clearer version:

[hollowofhaze]

phil ochs pictured circa 1967

[valend]

Relax bro ain’t nobody takin it from you 😭

[hollowofhaze]

phil ochs photographed by jim mccrary for his album pleasures of the harbor, august 1967

[pestilenceboy]

Being around a group of people sometimes feels like i am phil ochs and every single one of them is bob dylan

[terraplanetommy]

Phil ily my petty king