Vampire Chronicles Fandom Positivity

Shout out your favorite artists, writers, creatives, and fellow vc fans! Send your fic recs, your fan art love, and your best fandom stories.

[vcfandompositivity]

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."

Let's put some some goodness on the dash.

How have Anne Rice's books helped you, inspired you, or connected you to others?

Send in your stories, your shout outs, your fic recs and fan art love and everything in between!

The world is already shit. All we have is each other.

[sino-666]

- "I'll stay with you until all this is over." - "All this shit is happening because of you!"

I love Lestat!

[sizeofyoursoul]

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

[vampire-scripture]

I had an idea of Lestat as the man of action, the man that could do things that I never could, the man who could make decisions that I’d never had the nerve to make, and the person who could go through life joyfully in spite of the questions that torment me, the doubts that torment me, the horror of death that torments me. (...) [Lestat] never really absorbs a tragic definition of himself for very long. He always comes back laughing at everything and just rebounding. It may take him a few years, but he always does it. I really wanted to explore a personality different from my own. - Anne Rice (source)

[vcfandompositivity]

I honestly think this fandom has the best fan artists around. Sure other fandoms have great artists too but the VC fandom artists always make me feel things!!!!!

SO TRUE BESTIE

It's amazing to see so many different artistic styles across all different mediums in this fandom as well! I've legit cried to Devil's Minion art before, it's so moving.

[littlesmartart]

Lestat <3s his weird nerd husband

[vcfandompositivity]

How long is your longest VC fandom friendship?

1-3 years

4-6 years

7-9 years

10+ years

Voting ended onApr 15

[vcfandompositivity]

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."

Let's put some some goodness on the dash.

How have Anne Rice's books helped you, inspired you, or connected you to others?

Send in your stories, your shout outs, your fic recs and fan art love and everything in between!

The world is already shit. All we have is each other.

[vcfandompositivity]

It’s been really lovely to hear how this blog has brightened y’all’s days and I just want to say a quick THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in some kind words!

Ask box is still OPEN and this weekend, and I think I want to open with a simple prompt:

What is the most unexpected way that this fandom has impacted your life?

Have you taken spontaneous trips to Nola? Did the books inspire your career path? Send in your stories!

[vcfandompositivity]

I don’t know if I’ll ever feel like I have a place in the fandom, but the books shaped who I am and lead the way to good friendships and amazing art.

I'm sorry you feel that you don't have a place yet but you'll always have company here <3 I think forming friendships and enjoying art is exactly what Anne wanted!

[sizeofyoursoul]

The Vampire Chronicles Fanfic Pre-2009

As a person who has been reading fanfiction much, much, much longer than I've been a fan of Anne Rice, I wanted to post to highlight The Forbidden Archive, which is also on here as @forbiddenvc. The main page has fewer fics, but the full archive is also hosted there.

From their About Me:

The Forbidden Archive began as a 1993 Usenet group called alt.books.anne-rice (ABAR, a.b.a.r., abar). This was an internet newsgroup for Anne Rice fans to gather and talk about the books, movie, characters, plots, etc. Up until 2000, it had an official fan fiction archive called the VC Spec Archive (or The A.B.A-R Spec Archive). Heather Meloche (Ash) was the keeper and Adonia updated the databases. In April of 2000, Anne Rice released the following statement regarding the non-profit fan fiction endeavors of her fans: "I do not allow fan fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes." She then proceeded to send cease and desist notices to a number of fan fiction sites and individual authors via her lawyers. The VC Spec Archive was transferred into the care of Black Rose and hosted on her website, Digital Midnight. Fan fiction was shared on a private, password protected forum. In August of 2002, the VC Spec Archive was given a new name, location and layout. The Forbidden Archive was kept in the careful hands of Mevinan until July of 2007 when she announced that she could no longer maintain it. That is when the hosts of Sublime Requiem offered to take over. The site was maintained with its original layout until November of 2009 when it was updated to a members only eFiction site. Many of the old fan fictions were uploaded to the new site and attempts were made to contact the original authors so they could return and re-claim their stories. This is still in the works today.

As a person who only got into this fandom years after AO3, being able to read some of the earliest fanfic around is both awesome as a fan of the book series, and really cool from a fandom history point of view. As someone who was reading fic in different fandoms in the early 2000's, the layout and culture was also super nostalgic to look through! The history of this fandom is long and obviously complicated, but to me, that makes looking at the older stuff even better.

If you didn't know it was out there, now you do!

[vcfandompositivity]

this is such a cute idea omg!! 🥰

gosh when i think about it, vc fandom really was a lot of my firsts: my very first time being active in a fandom and having a blog!!!! my first time writing fic ever!!!!! my first time going to new orleans which i have always wanted to go to since i was little and i finally got to go with a bunch of vc friends!!!!!!! MY VERY FIRST TIME BEING A PART OF A QUEER & ND COMMUNITY!!!!!!!!!!

and i’m so grateful for anne and her writing, and for all the lovely kind wonderful people here that i’ve had the privilege to know because of her ♥️

Aaaahhh that's AMAZING! That's what I've always loved about long-standing fandoms, that there are so many people stepping into the ecosystem and stepping out of their comfort zone just a little— whether that's starting a new blog and beginning to chat with strangers who then become friends, or beginning to write fic and grow in new creative directions!

I think the VC fandom in particular is a very interesting space where so many new people are welcomed by Fandom Olds

[mademoisellebianx]

Drew Santino and Eric again because I miss them. Shame that we never had any chance to know more about them but, oh, well, at least we have the Vampire Chronicles Alphabeterry, I guess.

here's to hoping i get fed crumbs in the show

[vcfandompositivity]

Thank you for creating this account! This was sorely needed in the climate the fandom currently is despite me not being here for long all.

I started reading the books last summer after my first contact with other VC related media, and while I'm not finished with all of them just yet, I certainly fell in love with the universe after finishing IWTV for the first time, and I'm certainly looking forward to finishing it, but even without finishing it, the books have sparked my interest in writing and made me decide that I might want to pursue journalism/history in the future afterall.

Maybe one day I'll get in the fandom proper, it has a learning curve but there are people like you and others here on Tumblr that make it less frightening than I initially thought.

This is so sweet, we're glad you're here in any capacity! Tumblr fandom in particular can definitely present a bit of a learning curve, but there are so many lovely people here that make it worthwhile imho. It's a unique ecosystem to be sure!

It sucks that the VC fandom in particular has such a crappy reputation that it would offput folks curious about joining, but I hope you enjoy the other books in the series! Feel free to report back here with more thoughts as you go along :)

[joinmeindeathh]

Armand talking on the phone

Enjoy :>

[tulinokkaelain]

Today I can only be made happy by drawing baby Quinn Blackwood. And baby Goblin. Is that ghost pretending to be a frog? Yes, he’s very talented

[vcfandompositivity]

i got into fandom because of the VC!! i discovered the concept of fanfiction through now-defunct VC websites in 8th grade and had my mind BLOWN by the concept of NEW STORIES about blorbo -- so really, every positive interaction, every long-term friendship, that fandom has given me (and there have been many over the years!), i owe to Anne and to VC.

Omg I LOVE this story! There's something so pure and exciting about that very first fanfic discovery when it just clicks that you can actually just play barbies with these characters in your mind.

And hearing about everyone's long-term fandom friendships has been so sweet! Fandom friendships are some of the best bonds ever.

[koresspace]

Rockstar Lestat!!! ☆