[wisesnail]

From time to time, I take a break and ‘do what I want’, no matter how self-indulgent. 

For some reason, in the last few days I’ve started thinking a lot about Vampire Chronicles and how much I loved some of those characters as a teenager. And I thought that it would be catarthic to finally paint them from imagination (and the odd reference from Pinterest XD).

So I present you the speed-painted version of Armand and Daniel Molloy.

Because I’m trash 💙

[vcsecretgifts]

To: @we-called-it-our-conversation From: @headfrst4halos Comments: Happy holidays, I hope you enjoy your gift. 

In the first few nights after Daniel decided to stop running, he felt reborn. His new life was endless; the future was now a real, tangible thing. He would not be abandoned to live his old life, prisoner to the knowledge he had gained on Divisadero Street many years ago. No one will believe you, Armand had said. In truth, Daniel barely believed himself. Yet at dawn he crawled into the plush hotel bed, the blackout curtains blocking the early morning light. As he drifted off, he wondered if he would develop a vitamin D deficiency doing this, hiding from the sun…

Keep reading

[we-called-it-our-conversation]

asdfghjmljknhbgfdsdcfvgb, so FLUFFY! I love it so much, thank you thank you thank you!  ❤ ❤ ❤ It’s perfect, I love them together like this, I wish there was a book consisting solely of scenes of this nature :’))) They should love each other forever, ever and ever. I love vulnerable Armand who is as dependent on Daniel as vice-versa with all my heart and soul.

I have never participated in a Secret Santa of any kind and I’ve been so excited to get my gift, and I am still so excited now that I got it ❤ Thank you so so so much again for gifting me with something so wonderful ❤ 

I hope you have amazing holidays and receive many gifts that are at least as awesome as the one you gave me ^__^

Merry Christmas, @headfrst4halos! I am sending lots of love!  ❤ ❤ ❤

[vcsecretgifts]

Merry Christmas, rip1009! ❤

Hello!

I have been matched with @rip1009 for Secret Santa :) *wave*

Your tastes are just as insane as all the vampires I wrote about but I feel the pain of unusual shipping, so rock on! ❤

I have never done this, so let it be known to you that I did my best. :D

Pairings:

Nicolas/Armand future Nicolas/Santino

Warnings:

NSFW, Blood, Sex, Gore, Angst, Happy Ending (?)

Here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17129558

[rip1009]

@we-called-it-our-conversation 😍😍😍omg 😍😍😍 thank you so much 🤗🤗🤗 it’s a delicious, wicked, perfect fic and I love it to pieces!

Thank you so much!

[we-called-it-our-conversation]

I am so very glad you are happy with it ❤

Merry Christmas! ^-^ 

[dont-justdont]

The things I need for the VC TV show

- Lestat with a french accent

- Marius with a roman (italian?) accent

- Daniel with an american accent like hell

- More accents

- Also Armand being young and having auburn hair because…hum…first he was black-haired and then he was blonder than Lestat so yeah there’s that

And that’s it. No big deal (also add what you want for vctv down here⤵)

[we-called-it-our-conversation]

Armand flashbacks.

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

*walks into a museum* *picks up ancient Greek urn with a person with a dick out drawn on it* *smashes it on the floor* a better, more positive museum

[inu-fiction]

PSA: Stuff You Maybe Didn’t Realize You Can Back Up To AO3, And How To Tag it

Tumblr seems to be in potential death throes or at least, incredibly volatile and unreliable lately, but we’ve done some pretty good and informative work on canon analysis and reference guides so I was looking for ways to back it up without losing it…and the solution became obvious to me: Archive of Our Own, aka AO3.  “What?” you might ask if you are less familiar with their TOS. “Isn’t that just a fanfic archive??” No! It’s a fanWORK archive. It is an archive for fanworks in general! “Fanwork” is a broad term that encompasses a lot of things, but it doesn’t just include fanfic and fanart, vids etc; it also includes “fannish” essays and articles that fall under what’s often called “meta” (from the word for “beyond” or “above”, referencing that it goes beyond the original exact text)! The defining factor of whether Archive of Our Own is the appropriate place to post it is not whether or not it’s a fictional expansion of canon (fanfic), though that is definitely included - no, it’s literally just “is this a work by a ‘fan’ intended for other ‘fannish’ folks/of ‘fannish’ interest?”  The articles we’ve written as a handy reference to the period-appropriate Japanese clothing worn by Inuyasha characters?  The analyses of characters? The delineations of concrete canon (the original work) vs common “fanon” (common misconceptions within the fandom)? Even the discussion of broader cultural, historical, and geographic context that applies to the series and many potential fanworks?  All of those are fannish nonfiction! Which means they absolutely can (and will) have a home on AO3, and I encourage anybody who is wanting to back up similar works of “fannish interest” - ranging from research they’ve done for a fic, to character analyses and headcanons - to use AO3 for it, because it’s a stable, smooth-running platform that is ad-free and unlike tumblr, is run by a nonprofit (The OTW) that itself is run by and for the benefit of, fellow fans.  Of course, that begs the question of how to tag your work if you do cross-post it, eh? So on that note, here’s a quick run-down of tags we’re finding useful and applicable, which I’ve figured out through a combination of trial and error and actually asking a tag wrangler (shoutout to @wrangletangle for their invaluable help!): First, the Very Broad: - “ Nonfiction ”. This helps separate it from fanfic on the archive, so people who aren’t looking for anything but fanfic are less likely to have to skim past it, whereas people looking for exactly that content are more likely to find it. - while “Meta” and “Essay” and even “Information” are all sometimes used for the kinds of nonfiction and analytical works we post, I’ve been told “ Meta Essay ” is the advisable specific tag for such works. This would apply to character analyses, reference guides to canon, and even reference guides to real-world things that are reflected in the canon (such as our articles on Japanese clothing as worn by the characters).  The other three tags are usable, and I’ve been using them as well to cover my bases, but they’ll also tend to bring up content such as “essay format” fanfic or fanfic with titles with those words in them - something that does not happen with “Meta Essay”.

- I’ve also found by poking around in suggested tags, that “ Fanwork Research & Reference Guides ” is consistently used (even by casual users) for: nonfiction fannish works relating to analyses of canon materials; analyses of and meta on fandom-specific or fanwork-specific tropes; information on or guides to writing real-world stuff that applies to or is reflected in specific fandoms’ media (e.g. articles on period-appropriate culture-specific costuming and how to describe it); and expanded background materials for specific fans’ fanworks (such as how a given AU’s worldbuilding is supposed to be set up) that didn’t fit within the narrative proper and is separated out as a reference for interested readers. Basically, if it’s an original fan-made reference for something specific to one or more fanworks, or a research aid for writing certain things applicable to fanworks or fannish interests in general, then it can fall under that latter tag. 

- You should also mark it with any appropriate fandom(s) in the “Fandom” field. Just like you would for a fanfic, because of course, the work is specifically relevant to fans of X canon, right? If it discusses sensitive topics, or particular characters, etc., you should probably tag for those. E.g. “death” or “mental illness”, “Kagome Higurashi”, etc. 

Additionally, if you are backing it up from a Tumblr you may wish to add: - “ Archived From Tumblr “ and/or “ Cross-Posted From Tumblr ” to reference the original place of publication, for works originally posted to tumblr. (I advise this if only because someday, there might not be “tumblr” as we know it, and someone might be specifically looking for content that was originally on it, you never know) - “ Archived From [blog name] Blog ”; this marks it as an archived work from a specific blog. And yes, I recommend adding the word “blog” in there for clarity- Wrangletangle was actually delighted that I bothered to tag our first archived work with “Archived From Inu-Fiction Blog” because being EXTREMLY specific about things like that is super helpful to the tag wranglers on AO3, who have to decide how to categorize/”syn” (synonym) various new tags from alphabetized lists without context of the original posting right in front of them.  In other words, including the name AND the word “blog” in it, helps them categorize the tag on the back end without having to spend extra time googling what the heck “[Insert Name Here]” was originally. 

Overall, you should be as specific and clear as possible, but those tags/tag formats should prove useful in tagging it correctly should you choose to put fannish essays and articles up on AO3 :) Oh, and protip sidebar for those posting, especially works that are more than plain text: you can make archiving things quicker and easier for yourself, but remember to plan ahead for tumblr’s potential demise/disabling/service interruptions. The good news: You can literally copy and paste the ENTIRE text of a tumblr post from say, an “edit” window, on tumblr, straight into AO3′s Rich Text Format editor, and it will preserve pretty much all or almost all of the formatting - such as bold, italics, embedded links, etc! But the bad news: keep in mind that while AO3 allows for embedded images and it WILL transfer those embedded images with a quick copy-paste like that, AO3 itself doesn’t host the images for embedding; those are still external images. This means that whether or not they continue to load/display for users, depends entirely on whether the file is still on the original external server! As I quickly discovered, in the case of posts copied from the Edit window of a tumblr post, the images will still point to the copies of the images ON tumblr’s servers. What this means is that you should back up (save copies elsewhere of) any embedded images that you consider vital to such posts, in case you need to upload them elsewhere and fiddle with where the external image is being pulled from, later.  Personally, I’m doing that AND adding image descriptions underneath them, just to be on the safe side (and in fairness, this makes it more accessible to people who cannot view the images anyway, such as sight-impaired people who use screen readers or people who have images set to not automatically display on their browser, so it’s win-win)

[destinationtoast]

Thanks for this helpful guide! I haven’t used some of these tags so far for the fandom stats work I’ve cross-posted to AO3, but that’s because I didn’t know about them. Great ideas! :)

I keep meaning to mass archive my Toastystats work to AO3, but I am always stymied by image hosting when trying to overcome inertia and do so. It takes time to repost all the images to external hosting (like imgur). So thus far I’ve only done it for a few major analyses, and even in some of those cases, the images are hosted on Tumblr. But I should finally get around to it. At least I’ve exported my Toastystats side blog recently, so most of my stuff should be preserved if anything should happen. But maybe this holiday break I’ll finally make more progress.

[olderthannetfic]

I second all of this!

I’ve also found that AO3 is the best way for me to distribute my vids. I do have to host them elsewhere, but AO3 gives me a consistent URL and a way to have useful headers with fandom/ship/etc. even if I switch hosting a hundred times.

[we-called-it-our-conversation]

I can’t help but cry about all this. Has anyone thought how many communities the stupid ban would break apart?

These books quite literally saved my life, and the fandom gave me the most wonderful things to motivate me to go on. It has been such a lovely pleasure meeting all of you who I’ve had conversations with and befriended, whose art I could watch and whose writing I could read.

I don’t really know what else to say.

But I’m not going to get it.

[i-want-my-iwtv]

Well, it seems we’ve come to the end of the road. 

I can’t say enough to thank the whole VC fandom here for all the good times we had, I can never fully repay what a great experience it’s been for me! I’m not deleting this blog, and the @vcsecretgifts​ exchange is still up and running, we’ll try to keep it on this crumbling hellsite as long as we can. We’re setting up a Dreamwidth comm vcsecretgifts where we’ll be crossposting the works. We’ll also try to move the archive of older gifts there.

(^Anyone is welcome to use this gif, btw.) 

Was I a pillar of the fandom? All I wanted for this blog was to be a collection of fanwork when it was so hard to find, and then encourage the creation of more of it. Now, when the the fandom is exploding with new fanart, writing, RP, meta, and other fanworks, that’s when the ship has started sinking. It’s upsetting, but fandom will go on, we’ll migrate somewhere.

Find me on:

>AO3: burnadette_dpdl

>Dreamwidth: vcsecretgifts, burnadette-dpdl, iwantmy-iwtv, and iwantmyiwtv.

>Wordpress: http://iwantmyiwtv.home.blog.

I’m not planning on archiving this tumblr blog anywhere that anyone will be able to view it. I might try to get it on wordpress, but at nearly 15,000 posts from July 2013 to now, it’s a lot of material to try to move. So take what you can from it. 

>Twitter: i_want_my_iwtv and iwantmyiwtv. (I’m not really a twitter person, but it’ll serve as a way to stay in touch with me.)

>Instagram: iwantmyiwtv

Seeing as we may all be purged soon, I’m going to try to clear out my queue soonish (so there may be blasts of a lot of posts), and try to get responses back to some older messages and asks. I’ll probably save most of them for response somewhere else, though. I’m sorry that it took me so long, I thought we had more time… Some of these asks are years old! *facepalm*

You have my permission to save/download anything from my blog, it would be nice if you kept my username, with or without dashes, if you repost. 

One final request - as we migrate away to new platforms, we’ll be looking for our old friends, by their old names, and it would be cruel to take these names and impersonate others. I had parked several variations of this blog name here, but I can’t park them all on all platforms. If anyone parks my name, please send it to me w/ the login credentials.

If anyone claims to be me, come find me at Twitter, and I’ll clarify whether it’s me or not. 

You made these last 5+ years so much fun, and I hope we find each other on new platform(s)!

Anyone, VC fandom or otherwise, is welcome to comment/reblog this and add their other platforms.

[sheepskeleton-art]

~*~ 2000 followers giveaway! ~*~ 

Since I made this art blog in April, I’ve managed to get 2000+ followers and I’m incredibly happy! thank you guys!

To celebrate, here is another art giveaway! :D

Do you want to get a free commission of a single character, in the style of the above?

Here are the rules:

1. Follow this art blog (after all, this is a thank you for my followers)

2. Reblog this post

3. Multiple reblogs count, but don’t go overboard ;) Likes don’t count but you can always leave some ;)

4. Reblog it before September 15th (midnight CET)

I will pick one random winner and announce them on September 16th

Go! :D

Main | Patreon | Redbubble 

[sheepskeleton-art]

A look

[lestats]

claudia: [dies] lestat: this is so sad alexa play despacito

[sheepskeleton]

Came for: The wonderful VC fanarts. Stayed for: The wonderful you. For your lovely personality. For your art as a whole. For your stories. For your travels. For your achievements. For your joy and for your pain. For your rants about the things you love and the things that frustrate you. For you reading my mind, and for me reading yours. For everything that bonds us together. You don't have to doodle anything, just be happy. :) I love you and am super proud of you. Congratulations on 4000 <3

look at the sheep, she tries to smile despite being a skull

*hugs you* thank you darling <3

[we-called-it-our-conversation]

I have never seen a skeleton sheep smiling more beautifully! She’s very adorable. *pats her lightly*

*and hugs you back* Please. I thank you. <3

[bibliophelia]

I firmly believe that there’s a “right” time to read a certain book. It’s okay if you’re interested in a book and it sits on your shelf for years. Maybe it didn’t call out to you when you wanted something to read because it was waiting for the right time to mean the most to you. Not saying this is always the case, but this has happened enough to recognize the magic.

[redversaillesrose]

So guys... U know back in QOTD when Daniel said Armand would cut his hair in a lot of different styles?

Here’s the thing.

Armand dying his hair.

Please discuss, I need this.

[monstersinthecosmos]

Cutting Armand’s hair every night isn’t something new. He does it on his own sometimes, and he accommodates Daniel’s giddy, childish curiosity about it on those nights, too. It starts just with scissors, and then Daniel teaches him about electric clippers, and then it turns into crewcuts and flattops and elaborate patterns carved in. Daniel sometimes touches the tufts of hair that land in the sink and on the floor, and he rolls the strands between his fingers in rapt fascination.

“It doesn’t… feel like real hair,” he says one night. Mohawk tonight, and Armand runs a hand down his shorn scalp, just above the sideburn left behind, and even on a vampire it feels soft like peach fuzz. Daniel pulls a long lock from the sink and wraps it tight around his knuckle until his fingertip turns white.

“What do you mean, Daniel?”

“I don’t know, it feels…” unnatural. “Different.”

He shrugs and drops it, then touches the shaved side of Armand’s head, as well. He scratches behind Armand’s ear and it elicits a head tilt and a smile and soft purr.

“Hey, Armand?”

His eyes are closed and his head is still tilted towards Daniel’s hand, nuzzling the warmth in his palm. “Mmm?”

“Can we try to dye it? Do you think it would take?”

They start with a strip test. Daniel runs out and buys the bleach during the day so that they can try immediately when Armand wakes up. At first it’s just a streak that comes up from his forehead and curls around his face. It takes longer than it should on regular hair, but they’re not worried about the damage it might cause, and Armand doesn’t seem to feel it burning where it’s too low against his scalp. Hours later and it’s done and they can’t stop touching it. Daniel can’t stop combing his fingers through it and marveling at the way it twists in with the other curls.  Armand keeps it for three nights before he cuts it off and starts again.

Then it’s his whole head one night, and it takes hours for the auburn to burn down to a pale yellow, almost white. Daniel inspects it every night, curious to know if the Dark Gift will restore the stripped cells and pleased to learn that it does not. The hair still feels unnatural but doesn’t feel damaged the way human hair would. Several times, he catches Armand frozen in place, staring at himself in the mirror with his knuckles against his mouth, and it’s an expression he doesn’t know how to read.

“Can I straighten it?” he asks one night, and It takes hours and way too much hair spray because the curls keep creeping back into place, and eventually Daniel settles for snapping a quick Polaroid before they all pop back in, so that he can have this one memento of the ten minutes Armand had straight blonde hair. They try it again a few nights later with Aqua Net in an aerosol can and wind up with some approximation of Siousxie hair, and even though Daniel thinks it looks cute, Armand mumbles something about being too flammable and washes it out as soon as he can.

And finally there’s the trip to Manic Panic on St. Marks, and the cat hisses at them when they come in, and Armand stares at it coldly as his skin gleams in the ugly fluorescent light, and the girls behind the counter delight in advising them on all the best colors, and they’re nervous, they can feel something is off but can’t figure out what, but they’re still drawn to the danger, as seduced by it as Daniel is. He and Armand leave with one of every color.

Daniel tries a purple on himself, and his hair is light enough that it takes without bleach, and he’s stained the tops of his ears and the corner of his forehead. Armand goes with a dark green. The excess never permeates his skin, because nothing really ever does, and afterward Daniel can’t stop staring at the way it lights up the amber color of his eyes.

But Daniel’s fades after a few washes, and he stares at the way the color tints the shampoo bubbles, and the way it rinses and drips through his fingers. Stark and vivid against the white porcelain tub. And he sees the way it dissolves, night after night, from something lively and exciting to something dull, while Armand’s stays as bright and vital as ever.

And when he’s tired of it, Armand shaves his hair off so that it’ll grow back normal. And Daniel’s remains a fucking mess.

[faceofabotticelliangel]

“Forget me now, Father,” I said. “Forget me, as if the monks had sent me away. But remember this, on account of you, I shall never be buried in the muddy graves of the Monastery. No, other things may befall me. But that, I won’t suffer. Because of you, that you wouldn’t have it, that you came that day and demanded I ride out with you, that I be your son.”

I turned to go. He shot forward, clasping the bottle by the neck in his left hand and clamping his powerful right hand over my wrist. He pulled me down to him, as if I were a mere mortal, with his old strength and he pressed his lips against my bowed head.

                                                         ….

                       "Andrei, my angel child, my gifted and golden son!“

- The Vampire Armand Cosplays c @chrissydeath @v-e-r-r-e-t-t

[sheepskeleton]

all I could think of when Anne posted it on fb

[danyanddany]

Our Lestat fanart from “The Queen Of The Damned” book. The pose and the mood is inspired by a picture of Tom Cruise in “Rock of Ages” movie. ;)