Eng/fin | 30s | Queer π³οΈβπ | Going insane about The Vampire Chronicles, so mostly vampires here! Fledgling artist hoping to improve by drawing a lot.
Hi! This blog is mostly dedicated to The Vampire Chronicles books. I like many ships, and all ships are welcome here! Iβm finally at a point in my life where Iβve enough energy to feel the need to try creative hobbies, so I'm learning to draw. β¨οΈ
#my art = things drawn by me
#vc fanart = all Vampire Chronicles art
#vc fanfic = I'm not writing myself (at least now) but other's fics here
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The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.
I was delighted by this Anne Rice interview where she talks about the The Body Thief before it was published, and whether sheβd write more vampire books, so Iβm sharing. π (The Vampire Companion, Volume 1, Number 3, 1992 issue.)
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COMPANION: Whatβs your next project?
ANNE: I've finished the fourth book in "The Vampire Chronicles," which will be published in October of 1992. It's entitled Once Out of Nature -- the Tale of the Body Thief. But it may be simplified to The Body Thief when it is finally published. It's about the same length as The Queen of the Damned.
COMPANION: Tell us about The Body Thief.
ANNE: To me, The Body Thief was an intimate novel. I was able to get inside Lestat again, to become him, and travel the distance with him -- an experience I missed in writing The Queen of the Damned. I loved the mix of characters in Queen, the shifts of points of view and the shifts of texture, but I didn't spend enough time with Lestat himself. I felt unsatisfied when it was over. I wanted my hero back with me again. Also, I had more to say about the entire theme of the Chronicles, about the seductiveness of evil, and the way Lestat in particular had made it seem seductive when he knew evil was evil. Lestat had to admit some things.
COMPANION: How do you think your readers will relate to the book?
ANNE: I honestly don't know. I write the book I want to read and hope they will want to read it. That's all I can do. If they liked the "cast of thousands" in Queen, if they liked its worldscope plot, they might find The Body Thief too quiet and too linear a book for their tastes. The Body Thief is more a fast-paced tale of jeopardy and self-discovery and intense love. But many readers may want to be with Lestat again, as I do. I loved writing Queen but it got quite far away from the original intent and emotional tone of the Chronicles.
And frankly, though I hate to insult my earlier work, I think The Body Thief is attempting something a little more difficult, a little finer perhaps -- a truthful statement about honesty and art in the entire Chronicles which needed to be said. The Body Thief tries to come to terms with the lies in the Chronicles. Evil is, after all, evil. It is not beautiful, really.
In sum, I feel the new book is more like Interview with the Vampire -- a deep dark debate on salvation and damnation, on truth and personal ruthlessness -- how far each of us is willing to go to be happy, to achieve excitement, to feel alive. And surely it is a window into a character's dark and tormented and very human soul. Lestat and Louis argue bitterly in the novel. Lestat continues to be my hero, of course, my dark alter ego -- the demon with a conscience, who refuses to be bad at being bad. There's more I could say, but the novel must say it. If Lestat can't say it for me, I've failed. Oh, I miss him already.
COMPANION: Will there be another vampire novel?
ANNE: Had you asked me that question two months ago, I would have said, "Perhaps not." Now, I'm not so sure. I can't live long without Lestat. I am already thinking about a fifth novel -- starting to see it. You might say the fifth novel is like a spectral figure gathering density and strength in the haunted corridors of my mind. And, of course, he has blond hair. I do know I wasn't content ending the Chronicles with Queen. There was something very wrong with that. Ending them with this fourth novel, The Body Thief feels infinitely better. It carries the whole philosophical inquiry fathoms deeper than Queen. Lestat really examines his conscience in The Body Thief and, of course, Lestat has always had a conscience -- even though he always manages to have a lot of fun doing whatever he's doing, no matter how devilish it may be..." But I'm not saying there won't be fifth novel -- only that, if there isn't, the quartet has a feeling of resolution and substance now which gives me a little peace.
COMPANION: When did you get the idea for The Body Thief?
ANNE: Actually, it came to me the week after I finished Queen. I took my first notes which captures the entire shape of the thing. The story never stopped growing in my mind, but I had to put it on hold.
COMPANION: Why did it take so long?
ANNE: Two reasons. One, there must be time between episodes of the vampires, time for me to perceive a full spectrum of implications of each book, before I proceed to the next. But mostly it was that I had to do The Witching Hour. I'd been brooding over that book for years, and I knew if I postponed it again, it might die. Books do that. If you don't get to them in time, they'll die away. Right now I have a book dying on me. It's called Ruby. It's very dark and sinister -- like all my work, I guess. But I just can't get to Ruby and I feel Ruby slipping away.
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This is the whole thing. It does include other amazing lines such as: βMy job is to write books. I love being 3,000 miles from Hollywood.β
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If I'm a cat, paint me with black cat ears. π€ Lol the quote from Prince Lestat goes:
"Ah, but I couldnβt blame Louis for shunning Paris. Heβd lost his beloved Claudiaβour beloved Claudiaβin Paris. How could he be expected ever to forget that? And heβd known Armand was a jungle wildcat among revenants, hadnβt he?"
Dedicated to the anon who asked if I'd draw loumand. π
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Lestat here. This question is from Federica DarkMoon: "Lestat, would you be give the Dark Gift to someone is ugly, but with a powerful attitude and a brilliant brain, and who loves the same kind of music, look and art you love?" Absolutely, I would, Federica. In theory and in principle and in fact, I would. But it is a fact of the Undead world -- to be respected -- that vampires give the Dark Gift to those whom they feel are physically as well as mentally and spiritual attractive. But could such a person be physically ugly? Yes. Could the person be old? Yes. Could the person be plain? Yes. Could the person be disfigured? Yes. What matters more than anything is the spirit infusing the person, and for me that would and should involve the person's curiosity, intensity, love and respect for all life and desire for knowledge. What matters to me more than anything in selecting candidates for the Dark Gift is whether or not I love them, or think that I will grow to love them, whether or not I desperately want them to share eternity with me, and whether or not they engage me sufficiently that I can count on myself to spend the requisite time with them needed to prepare them for immortality. Of course l'm a creature of wild impulse. I made my beloved child, Claudia, into a vampire just to see what would happen, and hoping that she would help prevent my companion, Louis, from leaving me. And to be quite candid about that, had no idea Claudia would be so exquisite once transformed or so interesting. She was after all a tiny, malnourished creature, covered in dirt and rags, and on the brink of death, Does this cover it? I hope so.
Lestat (via Anne Rice) on his standards for who should receive the Dark Gift, from Facebook
