licncourt:

@nasnyys is too nice to me always so here’s Louis and Lestat in their silly little Mardi Gras ball costumes from ch 5 of my fic Begin Again!! The ultimate endorsement from the coolest guy in the world 🙏

onlymywishfulthinking:

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE - In Throes of Increasing Wonder

“Their first love scene in the first episode we did talk a lot about the beats, like what are the emotional beats. We wanted to have a moment where you see them smile at each other. That it’s not just this burst of tortured energy turning into something, but it’s also that these two are really attracted to each other and this is an exciting thing and a promising thing for their relationship. All the promise is there at that moment. We wanted to make sure that that’s what that scene was about."  - Jacob Anderson (x)

losingbenni:

JACOB ANDERSON as Louis de Pointe du Lac

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022)
1.03 - Is My Very Nature That of a Devil

this-writer-needs-coffee:

Pray all you want child, it won’t save you from the darkness of the night for a monster has set it’s loving gaze upon you.✨

Had the late night urge to draw Benedict.

spicyvampire:

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.04 “The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood With All A Child’s Demanding”

vamp4rebatscave:

bestiessss

haflacky:

Vampires kissing 💕

Commission for @nalyra-dreaming

Full painting on my patreon

eosphoroz:

Was Daniel dying of AIDS before being turned?

(Thanks to anon for pushing me into this research whirlwind)

As we all know, Anne Rice began writing the Vampire Chronicles in a crucial moment of her life, and ‘Interview with the Vampire’ was published right at the pinnacle of the gay rights movement and before the terrible AIDS epidemic.

(Quote from ‘Prism of the night: A biography of Anne Rice’)

As Anne continued writing the Chronicles the themes morphed and, in her words, she accessed the subconscious to bring to life the characters and storylines we all love.

(Quote from ‘The Vampire Companion’)

It was only after trying different narratives and themes (‘The Sleeping Beauty Quartet’, ‘Cry to Heaven’, ‘Exit to Eden’, ‘Belinda’) that Anne got to a point in her life where loss and grief struck her again, both in her personal and professional life. In less than a year two of her editors and friends died, one of them out of complications of AIDS.

(Quote from ‘Prism of the night: A biography of Anne Rice’)

And it was then, in the midst of her grief, that she once again found the inspiration to write. She began her journey into crafting her most ambitious Vampire Chronicles book: ‘The Queen of the Damned’.

(Quote from ‘Prism of the night: A biography of Anne Rice’)

And even if the themes of this book might seem universal and wide, Anne was conscious that her own personal experiences shaped certain aspects of the narrative.

Anne never really tied the AIDS crisis with Daniel’s character arc in ‘QotD’. She wanted to explore the theme of addiction and obsession through Daniel and Armand, and she linked Daniel’s addiction to drinking blood to his addiction to drinking alcohol. Daniel ultimately wasted away through the bottle (an addiction Anne knew intimately), until Armand turned him into a vampire.

(Quote from ‘The Vampire Companion’)

But one has to wonder what Anne unconsciously worked into Daniel, especially when the grief and loss she had experienced prior to writing ‘Queen of the Damned’ started with the deaths of two of her editors, one of them dying of AIDS.

The violence present in 'QotD’ through Akasha’s male-directed massacres speak loudly of Anne’s own experiences.

(Quote from ‘Prism of the night: A biography of Anne Rice’)

Long story short, Anne never linked Daniel’s casual sexual encounters (through Armand) with his death, nor did she consciously work the AIDS crisis into Daniel’s story.

Funnily enough, the only time Anne linked her experience of AIDS with her work was while talking about ‘The Witching Hour’, which she began writing right after ‘Queen of the Damned’.

(Quote from the article ‘Remembering 'Vampire Chronicles’ author Anne Rice’)

And only this year (2023), Christopher Rice referenced his late mother’s “inspiration” for ‘Violin’, and the autobiographical tones in relation to her experience with AIDS. Anne wrote 'Violin’ almost a decade after writing 'Queen of the Damned’, after losing another friend, John Preston, to AIDS.

(Quote from Anne Rice’s facebook page)

The answer to the question remains in the negative. Consciously, Anne never put Daniel in the path of the AIDS crisis. Whether unconsciously she wove AIDS into Daniel’s obsession and downfall through the Blood will always remain a mystery (or at least, an unverified statement).

mademoisellebianx:

Vampire Chronicles Side Characters:Antoine( ̷t̷t̷e̷ ̷B̷r̷o̷w̷n̷)

usersmunsons:

Lover, murderer, maker.