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"When you found me under Les Innocents," Armand said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvet with great embroidered sleeves."

Following up on this post, here's a list of some lovely and talented artists that are interested in taking commissions for the Vampire Chronicles book fandom! Some have their flat rates posted already, others you might have to DM first and describe what you want to get a price. ✨🦇

Without further ado, in alphabetical order:

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My idea is that this will be a living document and I can keep adding more artists over time! Please rb to spread the word and promote them! 🥰

There's so much going on in this bit from TVA; after Armand has just seen Lestat return from his journey with Memnoch, one-eyed and traumatized:

As I [Armand] sank down that morning into my own resting place, secure in clean modern darkness, I cried and cried like a child on account of the sight of him. Oh, why had I come to his aid? Why must I see him brought low like this when it had taken so many painful decades to cement my love for him forever?

Once before, a hundred years ago, he'd come stumbling into the Theatre des Vampires on the trail of his renegade fledglings, sweet gentle Louis and the doomed child, and I hadn't pitied him then, his skin scored with scars from Claudia's foolish and clumsy attempt to kill him.

Loved him then, yes, I had, but this had been a bodily disaster which his evil blood would heal, and I knew from our old lore that in the healing he would gain even greater strength than serene time itself would have given him.

And Armand knew back during the trial era that no matter what he did to Lestat, Lestat would recover and be stronger for it—it just took a while for him to develop a love for Lestat that was also protective and tender instead of merely obsessive and codependent.

I see them [vampires] as transcending matters of gender or age. Lestat loves Louis. Louis loves Claudia. Armand loves Lestat. Lestat loves Gabrielle. There is no distinct difference in the quality of any of these loves. This has also been described as polymorphous sensuality.

"--- Armand is desperately in love with Lestat but it has nothing to do with sex. Armand feels Marius failed him and Marius feels Armand failed him, and that part has nothing to do with sex. Marius and Pandora, that is a love affair, but again sex has nothing to do with it. So they are all capable of loving people of their own gender and the other gender; gender doesn't matter. It's the essence. Lestat loves David Talbot as a lover, a friend, a mentor, a father, etc. --- It goes on like that. The act of dominating and drinking blood can happen between any two characters regardless of gender. They cannot be pinned down. They see all life as potentially beautiful and all forms of love as rewarding."

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I'm verklempt at the fact Anne mentioned Armand and Lestat in the same vein as Armand and Marius and Marius and Pandora, but also I love how much she emphasizes that they can cannot be pinned down and all that forms of love are rewarding!