Giving up the tape recorder for this "weblog" ask-box

Baby Boomer, Reporter, Novelist, World Traveller... Vampire. (He/him) Just ask

[this-boy-reporter]

PSA

I can already see the inevitable questions as to "which Daniel Molloy" I proport myself to be on this website.

I, too, have come across a several variations of my own story.

In one, I meet Armand after traveling to New Orleans and the place of one of Lestat's many homes. There is a cat and mouse game, a dubious living situation, far too much alcohol, Night Island, before I am finally brought into the Blood. Thereafter, we come up against Akasha after which I end up in Marius' care, only coming to Trinity Gate and Armand's new home after the next big threat to vampire-kind arises. Somewhere in the middle of this, and elsewhere in the world, an older gentleman named David has an experience with a body thief.

In another, I live a long life, wives, ex-wives, kids. A couple of Pulitzer Prizes, which are obviously very well deserved if I do say so myself. I'm minding my own business in a less than satisfying retirement when a letter arrives at my home from a Louis de Point du Lac summoning me to a penthouse in Dubai with the ominous warning of a Great Convergence. In this version of events, there is no David. I am the older gentleman, almost certain to come across my own body thief and a reconciliation with Armand.

A third seemed eager to offer the fresh idea that Lestat and I met immediately after my interview with Louis, rather than Armand and I.

But, in almost all these versions, the important facts stay the same:

My interview with Louis occurs in 1973

2022 is indeed 49 years after that date

After some time Armand and I do, yes, fall in love

However we are doomed to separate thereafter

And then are brought together at the dawn of yet another vampire threat

Since all of the important points of my—and our—story seem agreed upon, I'll leave it with you to decide which to believe.

[saint-louisdulac]

What do you think about people who blame you for Lestat's actions?

I think those people may need the helping guide of a certain Pulitzer Prize winning journalist…

~LDPDL

[this-boy-reporter]

'Certain Pulitzer Prize winning journalist' present and checking in for duty. 🫡

Who do I need to whip into shape this time?

[this-boy-reporter]

What is the situation with your mortal family, if that isn't too personal of a question? Have you kept an eye on any of them to see how their lives play out? What do they think happened to you?

Look it's, uh, a hugely personal question. But I don't mind answering it. It's probably good for me to talk about it every now and again. It's just... the answer isn't all that interesting, I don't think.

What I like to think is there was a place kept at the table for me, and it wasn't too painful for the ones I left behind. Something like what's written in this fanfic: Radio Silence.

But, to be honest with you anonymous? I don't honestly know.

I never told any of them what happened to me, of course. And I've already outlined just how easy it was for me to fall off the face of the (human) earth the way I was living back in the 70s & 80s. Can you imagine them actually meeting Armand? No, I don't mean Armand the blood drinker, and sociopath. Not the guy who didn't allow any humans to live who knew his name.

I mean, Armand the male person I was dating, when being gay was both a criminal offence and a psychological illness. I know what I was doing in bars in the 70s wouldn't have filled my family with joy, even before the whole vampire part of it. I think anything they could guess happened to me would be better than what they'd think of the truth.

There was a short period, after my writing and my name got out there, when my mother did find and get back into contact with me. But it was also a period I was so mired in shame, so filled with imposter syndrome, that I couldn’t forge more than a superficial kind of connection with anyone. Let alone the woman who gave birth to me.

What I do know is: Armand's made sure my family have remained very comfortable since... around Pompeii? Knowing that has been good, knowing my parents lived out their twilight years in comfort. That's all I needed to know. It wasn't always easy for them to put food on the table for me and my siblings.

Maybe Armand even puts my names on the cheques. I don't know. Again, I haven't asked and don't want to.

[ask-armand]

🐰 I'm not scared of you

You should be.

[this-boy-reporter]

Yeah that’s hot, boss. 😇

[this-boy-reporter]

🐱

Oh hey, I got “moderately intimidating” from one of ya’ll! Must be doing something right after all!

[lestatslestits]

Armand after finding Daniel starving to death on some park bench and bringing him back to the Night Island for the thirty-seventh time:

[this-boy-reporter]

*cough*

@ask-armand To be honest though, I’m not fairing any better this evening. 😅

[hateandashbury]

no and I mean sorry but "you're mine now, beautiful boy" is never gonna be a sentence that makes me feel normal. ever

[hateandashbury]

half of armand's dialogue to daniel is like that is so fucked up why would you say this. the other half is Just fucking shoot me at this point

[hateandashbury]

the overlap

[this-boy-reporter]

@ask-armand I think they’re calling you out, boss.

[this-boy-reporter]

Really great time away from NYC with @ask-armand over at France with both @saint-louisdulac and @the-brat-prince-1760. Reckon we stayed inside those immense four walls almost exclusively. Lestat had, hah, “snacks” prepared so we didn’t even have to go outside to hunt.

You know what sucked in Auvergne, though?

Me. Me acting like a big fucking drama queen after finally catching up with my other lover of 40 years ago. Only realising right then I'm still as just hung up about those two vampire lovers having old fucking conversations over my head like I was a child, just because I was still a stupid mortal back then.

Really thought I was over it. Nearly ruined the whole fucking event because of it.

[phantasmalatelier]

How Intimidating Am I?

Send 🐹 for “You? Intimidating? Hell no.”

Send 🐰 for barely intimidating

Send 🐭 for slightly intimidating

Send 🐱 for moderately intimidating

Send 🦊 for fairly intimidating

Send 🐯 for very intimidating

Send 🐻 for “MOTHER OF GOD PLEASE DON’T EAT ME–”

[this-boy-reporter]

Are you going to tell @the-brat-prince-1760 that signing his posts makes him sound endearing but elderly, or should I?

Alright so I’d just crawled out of the coffin (so to speak) and I read that as “singing”, which is admittedly something Lestat would just as easily decide to do.

Without so much as querying or blinking an eye, I then went through all of his recent posts, because I didn’t recall the details of this “singing” he had proposed (Lestat just promised no more public concerts!!) only to come back here, confused, and find the word as it was written as “signing”.

…

Needless to say, anonymous, that this mistake was entirely mine.

And in answer to the actual question you asked, it's not so very different to Louis signing all his posts, is it? (If I'd have been asked about Louis' sign off tendencies, I probably would have read this ask correctly in the first place.)

So yes, in conclusion; Thank you for following me on this very roundabout journey. And, of course, Lestat’s signing all his posts is very endearing.

[auburnandamberangel]

[this-boy-reporter]

@ask-armand

[this-boy-reporter]

How do you respond to Lestat’s recent claim that you are one of his possible loves alongside Louis and Nicki, not that you’ll ever hear it from him?

🎤

I… never…

I mean, yes I did see the post you’re talking about, yeah. I just didn’t take it seriously.

You may’ve noticed Lestat’s also said here, of me, “I think I may have had fleeting feelings for him once upon a time, but I'm not too sure if there is anything still there.”

Unreliable narrators have always been a bit of a running joke within the Chronicles, I would say. The comment you refer to was more than likely a little joke Lestat added at the end, don’t you think? 😉

[the-brat-prince-1760-deactivate]

Lestat here.

Unreliable narrators are certainly a trend when it comes to the Chronicles, but I do think that my humor is relatively easy to detect, and I mostly comment on things that I believe need my attention brought to them, Daniel.

Even still, I know deep down that I can be seen as frivolous to many people and vampire alike; this can also extend beyond myself and into my comments or thoughts on certain people and places. I did not know that I was seen as being that humorous towards you!

I am dejected to say that I feel I have become the misplaced "joke" in this scenario, and also as though I have been taken for granted; brushed away like an insignificant cobweb or swatted like the spider that created it!

I feel fleeting and small, and I do believe I may take some time to recover from this. Not that you heard any of this from me, anyway.

Lestat out. xoxo

[this-boy-reporter]

Hey man, I don’t reckon I meant to make you feel fleeting or small much less like a spider and it’s web.

I feel like I’ve well and truly gone and stood in it here. Even one of our regular readers saw fit to reach out and correct my quick dismissal:

While I’m not going to compound matters by suggesting you have any such clown facade, I do wanna say sorry. And maybe we can have a chat about it later to clear the air.

[saint-louisdulac]

Based on how Lestat acts because of you…your hole must be tighter than a crab knuckle.

I….

I won’t confirm or deny your assumption about my…….yeah..

But I will say that I’m very much aware of how I make Lestat act when he’s around me. There’s a reason why he thinks I’m the best he’s ever had.

~LDPDL

[this-boy-reporter]

😳 … "Make" Lestat act?

That’s… not how I would've thought the dynamic between you guys went. Didn't think you had it in you, Louis, damn. Good for both of you!

[this-boy-reporter]

What's one thing you miss most from the 70s/80s?

Ahh my anonymous friend, if I had to pick just one thing?

The world seemed so much larger then. There was a definite sense that one person would never quite be able to take all of it in. God, I certainly tried, didn’t I?

It seemed like such a great big thing to just get in a plane and fly to another country, somewhere that you’d never before spoken to a person who lived there.

Without yet the invention of email, or the internet, everything had to move so much more slowly. We could talk to anyone on the phone of course (even if you were in the US and the other was in, say… Paris), but if you wanted correspondence from someone, you had to wait for the post. If you moved houses, it was incredibly important to update your address with everyone, or you might never hear from them again because the world was just that large.

I, who was dashing about in a frenzy for much of the 70s, know this better than most. I lost almost everyone in my human life long before I ever came close to becoming a vampire.

The world seems small today by comparison. So many of its wonders just… all figured out or explained away. Maybe that’s part of being an immortal. But I… don’t really think so.

[saint-louisdulac]

Also dear Saint what are your favourite physical attributes for Lestat (feel free to take your time, the brat deserves it).

His eyes were the first thing that caught my breath on the night we first met so I’d say that’s my favorite physical attribute of his.

His abs and his soft lips come in a close second.

Im not sure if this is weird to say but..his hands are also one of my favorite parts about him. They’re so strong, yet delicate. Maybe it’s because he refuses to keep them off of body so I’m constantly feeling them in one way or another…but I really find them attractive as well.

~LDPDL

[this-boy-reporter]

Ok I’m sorry but see now it has to be asked: What’s with you, and Armand, and hands?

[ask-armand]

What's your favourite part of Daniel's body?

It's difficult to pick a favorite part of Daniel. I do love his hands. Even when he was mortal, they were both soft and nimble from a life spent writing. He used to always have ink stains on his fingers from his ballpoint pens. (Apparently these pens are prone to exploding). He also had a terrible habit of biting his nails. I was forever having to file down the jagged edges to make him presentable.

[this-boy-reporter]

Hey boss, while we're at it, what's your least favorite body part that you absolutely should have done something about while you could? 😇

I'm gonna regret asking this one aren't I?

[this-boy-reporter]

How do you respond to Lestat’s recent claim that you are one of his possible loves alongside Louis and Nicki, not that you’ll ever hear it from him?

🎤

I… never…

I mean, yes I did see the post you’re talking about, yeah. I just didn’t take it seriously.

You may’ve noticed Lestat’s also said here, of me, “I think I may have had fleeting feelings for him once upon a time, but I'm not too sure if there is anything still there.”

Unreliable narrators have always been a bit of a running joke within the Chronicles, I would say. The comment you refer to was more than likely a little joke Lestat added at the end, don’t you think? 😉