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YOU WANNA TELL THAT I'M WRONG?!?!

I need Daniel's professional life's hack

The only thing I needed to be successful in my life was Louis de Pointe Du Lac hypnotizing me to believe in myself yk...

I've only been in the fandom for a week and I'm already dangling off the edge of the Cliffs of Insanity.

The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire, these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

What a fascinating ending.

Lestat will never die!

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

I have a crazy idea, how show-Lestat could have spent his additional human years he lived through, and the century he spent before meeting show-Louis. Is this a theory? Is this a fanfiction idea? Idk. It's a really long post. Did I mention the idea is crazy? And some details not completed? Okay, so we know there's a long gap between 20-year old book Lestat leaving for Paris and then getting turned into a vampire shortly after, and show Lestat being 34 when he was turned. In my idea, the first bit is just him taking a few years longer to leave for Paris (including Gabrielle not being as sick at that point), let's say he stayed in the village, managed somehow to avoid getting married. Maybe he got a job as a hunter because of the whole wolf killer thing. But he's unhappy. Really unhappy. Nicki left years ago, *insert reason here*, for Paris, alone.

At 26 (1786), Lestat finally gathers the courage to leave too - but arriving in Paris, and alone, he begins to miss Nicki. And avoids the theatre at first, because it reminds him of Nicki's music. He is a bit depressive, gets another job. revisits the topic of religion - not as, him becoming a believer, but he does ask himself questions about the existence of god. Two years later (1788), he finally gathers the courage to look for a job at the theatre, and gets it, like in the book. And who is there, playing in the orchestra? Nicki! BAAAAM, reunion happens, old lovers to friends to lovers trope. His life is great, for about 6 months. Lestat gets on stage. It's now May of 1789, Lestat is 28 years old. Oh, what's that around the corner? BAM, the French Revolution hits. Nicki convinces Lestat to quit the theatre, to help Lestat's family escape and not get killed. Maybe they go to Italy. 3 years later (1792), they return to France, thinking the worst is over - only to be ambushed, his father and brothers getting killed while he manages to escape with Gabrielle and Nicki. They hide for a year, Lestat is scarred, having witnessed a lot of death around him. The topic of religion comes up again, and he gets weird visions about god and the devil, foreshadowing Memnoch the Devil. In 1793 they move back to paris, Gabrielle now getting sicker, where Lestat, under another name, gets back on stage because hey, let's just forget the past and focus on a great future! His career flourishes, a year goes by and Lestat really works a lot and upps his acting game, partially as a distraction from his mother slowly dying and dealing with the trauma he experienced. In 1794, he gets into a fight defending someone (no idea), similar to the wolf killer thing, and this is not a nice fight. He gets so viscious, and maims his opponents - this is what gets Magnus's attention. Same things like in the book happen then, the abduction from their bedroom, etc. Only, that Lestat doesn't stay away for so long, and returns to Nicki and Gabrielle faster, also acting again despite being a vampire - this would fall in line with Armand's recount of how they met in Paris, if Armand was telling the truth. Lestat turns Gabrielle, the whole Nicki-abducting thing occurs. Gabrielle has already left the city alone, when Lestat steps foot into the coven to get nicki back alone (as portrayed by Armand in the show, again: if he was telling the truth. Maybe Armand was - and the one with the tattoo in the Season 3 teaser wasn't just a "iwtv turns into pop culture with fandom fights"-thing). He turns Nicki to "save him", things turn out badly. Then the Lesmand short lived romance happens because Lestat wants to get more powerful, wanting Armand to teach him. And he doesn't want to be alone, without Gabrielle. Establishing of the vampire theatre occurs. And after that Lestat leaves Paris to go after Gabrielle, leaving Armand behind. More than a century goes by - which he spends travelling with Gabrielle, hybernating for longer, then meeting Marius, after that hibernating again for a bit, before he finally wakes up and decides he wants a break from all those other european vampires. America, watch out, Lestat comes. Okay, so: why did he go to New Orleans, when his father was already dead? In the show he said he wanted to go to St. Louis originally - maybe he heard that St. Louis had been the center point for catholicism in the mid-west in the 18th century. And despite being a vampire and maybe agnostic by then, because in all those years before he had, different from book canon, he had already revisited the idea of religion. He's curious. Wants to know more because why not. Wants to find out if catholicism is still a thing there. Then he stops in New Orleans and gets to know Louis. ... that's it. This isn't what I think will happen in season 3, it's just a thought experiment, from the brain of someone glued to this hyperfixation really hard.

"A Mother's Love" - Lestat's POV. Rating of the work: Mature It's the last chapter (minus the epilogue) in that fic, and it's time for this AU's version of Rockstar Lestat's debut concert (not so much the on-stage part, tbf)! Also, a visitor appears, someone Lestat hasn't seen in a long time. They talk. It's emotional. Also, Lestat's pronouns change throughout the chapter. Excerpt under the cut!

[...] But Lestat also knew that there was more to all this than being pretty.

He certainly had the confidence, he had been a performer in the past and if you count that he was used to constantly putting on an act in interactions of any kind – he’d never stopped performing. Lestat slowly exhaled, eyes fixed on the spot where the air hit the glass, fogging the surface. He was nervous, yes. But it wasn’t stage fright. The thing was, as soon as he’d set foot on that stage, the situation would become real. The emotions he was processing, his past he’d poured into his songs, would come to life. He’d reveal the truth not only about long-kept vampire secrets but also about himself. And that … was kind of the point, wasn’t it? Yes, but that didn’t mean that he wasn’t allowed to have second thoughts about it.

A sudden knock on the door ripped him from his thoughts. “Mr. de Lioncourt! Ten minutes until entry!” The voice of a stage assistant came through, muffled to human ears, perfectly audible to him. “Yeah, all right!” He answered, stepping away from the mirror to walk over to his suitcase. A lot could happen in ten minutes, and although his outfit was mostly finished – he had to get one more item. He forced his hands to be calm as he opened the lid and reached into the pocket, pulling out a book.

It wasn’t just any book. Lestat gently traced his fingers along the blue ribbon that was attached to the worn-out leather cover, half-smiling, half-dreading what he was about to do. He’d written a song about her – no, to be correct, he’d written many, many songs, but this was the only one he was going to share with the world.

Claudia. [...]

Saw a bunch of cool leather-clad Lestats for the @vamptember event and remembered I had a sketch lying around... so here's me joining the rockstar's bandwagon (the first 'proper' drawing I've done of him so far?!)

Unrelated extra:

Flowers of Two Thousand Years (Part 1)

Marius-centric comic. The following 9+ pages are closely based on Prince Lestat and The Vampire Lestat. (CW for violent imagery including a vampire turning)

to be continued

I initially didn't plan to spend THIS much time on this part of Marius' Story in TVL; the concept of this comic is to show some parts of Marius' life with the connecting theme of flowers, in quick succession.

Not sure how many pages the rest of the comic will have since I keep adding stuff.............. will probably take awhile.

[[Part 2]]

Quick sketch of Nicki in his "mute to mania" moment, one of my favorite scenes in The Vampire Lestat! (For the Vamptember prompt "Metamorphosis")

Claudia really said fuck 12😋.

Me every time Dreamstat appeared in IWTV Season 2

You know these "you can hear the picture" memes? That's been me with this one specific gif of Lestat. It's haunting my brain

I can HEAR him going "ah! Madame~" in my head every time I just see this gif or even a picture of that scene. He's so iconic istg

At this point IWTV took over my mind completely, especially Lestat 😭✋🏻

In Honor of the Season 3 Trailer, here is Sam struggling with the chair from the bloopers video:

LESTAT

little practice thing i guess? def not my best work, i stink at drawing characters from this angle but i think it loosk pretty cool

alternative versions/refs under the cut (tw blood)

Guys i haven’t read the books yet But is Lestat actually gay? From everything i’m seeing it seems that Anne Rice portrays vampires as beings that don’t conform to that. Like they’re beyond gender in a sense? I don’t know. I see that but then when i see the fandom they say that it’s a gay relationship but then that’s taking away from the author’s interpretation of vampires. I’m not entirely sure 😭. And i mean the original books not the 2022 series

Why does the queen of the damned movie adaptation get so much hate? I understand it’s not exactly accurate to the books but on its own it’s a good movie. Though nu metal isn’t for everyone I think it has a very good soundtrack and is very aesthetically pleasing. I do wish that they didn’t make him choose jesse at the end because it felt very unnatural but other than that I have no complaints. The style in that movie is great and it’s all very pretty and the music is amazing. I also love the casting. Even if it’s not book accurate, Stuart Townsend looks SO GOOD in queen of the damned. Is all the hatred rooted in it not being accurate to the original book? Or is there something else?

Guess I have a very intense personality

I love when people talk internet slang at Sam Reid and he takes those words in an extremely literal way <3 Also girl, same tbh

AMC Interview With The Vampire 'Vampire'-Olivia Rodrigo

AMC Interview With The Vampire 'Taste'-Sabrina Carpenter

bros got the worst case of mommy issues ive ever seen

this was actually mindblowing ngl