In The Attic Is Where I’ll Hide

|they/them|20s|18+|Marimand truther| I still like goth shit and vampires but I’m afraid Shane Hollander has taken residence in my brain at the moment

[a-millennium-of-nights]

We stood in our crypt with the two ornate sarcophagi before us. I lay my hand on the lid of the one which was mine, and quite suddenly there came over me another presentiment, that all I loved would endure for a very brief time.

Marius must have seen this hesitation. He passed his right hand through the very fire of the torch, and touched his warmed fingers to my cheek. Then he kissed me where this warmth hovered, and his kiss was warm.

The Vampire Armand

[vampire-scripture]

Art and details in TVC: Armand described as Art

A Botticelli angel, which has become my tag line among the Undead. - The Vampire Armand

A Cupid out of Caravaggio, seductive yet ethereal, with auburn hair and dark brown eyes. - The Vampire Lestat

And I saw his face in Notre Dame, boyish and almost sweet, like the face of an old da Vinci saint. - The Vampire Lestat

I felt fetching and even beautiful. Come on, somebody, tell me I make you think of Mercury chasing away the clouds in Botticelli's Primavera - The Vampire Armand

Ah, he is Verrocchio's David, the very model for the bronze statue. Don't try to tell me he is not. And immortal, ah, yes, I can see it, immortal. He shall never die – The Vampire Armand

This is a non-exhaustive list. If you have any other quotes you find interesting and are willing to share, I'd be eternally grateful ^^

[filmgifs]

It doesn't matter! Can't you see? We should never have married. We're already dead!

NOSFERATU 2024, dir. Robert Eggers

[daughtervampire]

Okay I'll complain about this...

Book Claudia is my favorite character. she's the deuteragonist of IWTV and a complex person who has a hundred pages dedicated to her relationships and motives and internal conflicts that are fascinating. she's not some minor background extra without any lines or a plot device tragedy for loustat... so I'm increasingly annoyed when time and time again the only thing anyone in this fandom says about her is "that's Anne Rice's daughter stand-in" and its like. Okay. Its true that the majority of authors draw inspiration from real life people for their characters but it doesnt literally mean those characters are just those people. And in THIS specific case the similarity was a subconsious accident by Anne's own insistence and we're starting to forget that fact in this long game of fandom telephone

I get it, its a heartwrenching and sad backstory for how IWTV came to be written but idk acting like it wasn't still a thought out constructed piece of creative work and fiction and the characters are just the projections of Real People from the author's life...feels :/ And I understand that Anne herself contributed to this perception but still... You're allowed to treat Claudia as a character in her own right as Anne says herself. Male authors get to create characters who are taken seriously without the constant need to psychoanalyze how the author's personal tragedy affected their work... not that you CAN'T do that, there is value in examining the author's biases and intentions too... fans would ideally do both. But I've never seen anyone treat Claudia as her own character and it bums me out as a Claudia stan maybe Im not looking in the right places but yeah

And yes I have ulterior motives for thinking all this but still

[vampire-scripture]

Rice on Adaptation

What movie do you not want to see?

[sorrowsofasoul]

[bbrothertedd]

[onwolves]

you do start to appreciate why anne rice just shot everybody

[v50wed]

armand post blood communion:

[wolfkller]

this is the armand they want u to believe isn't capable of understanding or expressing his feelings about marius except through permanent petrified/submissive Traumabrain lmfao

[gouged-doll]

kaoru mori, ghost marriage | my scans

[v50wed]

let's be honest, Armand would release sextape of him and Marius

"dedicated to sybelle and benji, my children, and love of my life"

[proffbon]

Okay, but now I understand why Marius said to Lestat he didn't want to see The Temptation of Amadeo again in QotD. I too would be reluctant to see my vent art I did choking on my repressed yearning and jealousy while crashing the fuck out in front of my students.

[proffbon]

If I see one more "TVA is just like Lolita" take, I swear I'm gonna do it

[nobrashfestivity]

Sekine Untei

Museum Sketch of a Bat. 1840-1877

Tokyo National Museum

[sizeofyoursoul]

Anne on Baby Jenks. I was a little amazed when some readers told me they didn't see the point of the Baby Jenks chapter of "Queen of the Damned." I thought the chapter showed what was going on in the wide vampire world after the rising of Queen Akasha. It brought readers up to speed on many matters far and wide. And Baby Jenks was a type of vampire, an inevitable biker blood hunter that would surely come to exist in a world where the dark Blood circulated freely amongst all manner of men and women. Baby Jenks arouse spontaneously in the imagination of the author, the best kind of character, whole and complete, to carry the author forward in the tale. But what do I know? Readers hate some characters, love others, and don't get everything the author hopes they will get. I accept.

Anne Rice on Facebook

[urtopia]