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abnormally large trees please lend me some of your centuries worth of wisdom
Spanish school, 19th century| A Woman Sitting on the Edge of a Bed (detail)
So. I have (unfortunately?) given myself a quest to read all the Vampire Chronicles books, and next is "Merrick"; I'm already skipping Blood and Gold, but I feel like skipping Merrick, despite it being so mean to my beloved Louis, is like.. cheating? Do you have advice on how to power through it or should I also skip it? You're the Louis #1 expert so I thought I'd ask :)
It makes me so happy to be known as the Louis guy, it's all I've ever wanted on this site. And good luck on your quest, you'll need it.....
Idk if it's "cheating", but I would say that if you care about Louis it's pretty integral to his storyline in spite of the horrors. His character doesn't really develop per se because Anne didn't gaf, but it does contain some pretty watershed moments for him, basically the only ones he has outside of IWTV. Nothing that happens REALLY matters in terms of the rest of the series, but that's kind of true of everything between the first and last trilogy. Lestat can somehow be in a coma for like three or four books and it doesn't even affect anything long term so this certainly doesn't either.
You could definitely glean all the information you need just from being online in VC spaces, but if you want a medium option, you can always get a PDF (I have them if you search PDF on my blog!) and ctrl + F your way through with the keyword 'Louis' so you don't have to read the extra David lore and general dicking around. Maybe start reading and give it a try and if you can't take the David of it all (understandable) just do that!
Have you ever visited Rome? Top 10 spots you would visit in Italy.
I have! It's one of my absolute favorite places in the world and
These aren't in any particular order, just places/things I love (so churches and museums)! Most of my time in Italy has been in the Tuscan region because that's where I travelled and studied between high school and college, but there's way more I want to see over there
I just watched the movie Smile 2 and it was so horrific and gory and emotional and psychologically disturbing and then I saw your post about vampirism and parasitism and now OMG what are you doing to me Flora!
A lovely digestif just for you! Unfortunately for everyone I get high, log tf on around 11p, and then everyone has to deal with the consequences
if I were a bee I'd fetishize the idea of a beekeeper clipping my tiny wings so I can't escape (remembers you're not supposed to say shit like that) I mean yesterday I ate two yogurts normally
A couple people made comments about what I said regarding the parallels between vampirism and slavery/how they interplay in the story when I mentioned it in another post so I wanted to talk about it a little here! Adding a disclaimer though for non-followers that I am a fan of the books, so please don't take this to say otherwise!
There's a lot of crazy stuff in the beginning of IWTV, but the ideas of systemic violence and parasitism really permeate all of it. The parallels in how slaveowners like Louis and Lestat live in the human sense is very reminiscent of how vampires literally drain the life from their victims to continue. The implication here is that there's no cost too great to sustain a vampire and that vampires have a certain inherent superiority over humans (this is believed explicitly by a majority vampires in the series). There's even something to be said for the sexualized (usually non-consensual obviously) nature of vampire feeding bearing a striking resemblance to the sexual exploitation of enslaved people on many plantations.
On my beginning-of-IWTV psychosexual Louis and Paul bullshit with a side of Louis/Magnus parallels is anyone picking up what I'm putting down
Still thinking about this !!
Repressed, mentally and physically isolated, increasingly sick-minded Louis swallowing his own tail, fixating on the perfection of his brother until the relationship is so corrupted that resentment, envy, idealization, and lust become indistinguishable from one another ! Louis who didn’t push Paul down the stairs but wanted to so badly in that moment that he breathed it into existence. Who needed to destroy the effigy of what he could never be and could never have before it drove him insane except maybe it was too late.
Lestat who shows up in Louisiana and finds Louis in a state that’s more like Magnus than Nicki with pallid skin and dirty black hair and a brain already full of anger and lust and bloody, blue-eyed blonde boys. A beautiful version of Magnus that he can stomach and punish and even love deeply and violently until he creates a version of the past that he can live with. Someone who will let him because they see their dead men in each other !!
Maybe even someone who will raise a child with him, a blonde-haired, blue eyed child that Louis can search for Paul in and Lestat can search for a dead version of himself in until it destroys all three of them.
Everyone jealous of my custom Anne Rice vinyl from @nasnyys I can’t believe I forgot to post this at Christmas
gagging you with our red string of fate to shut you up for one fucking second
Hi if it's ok to ask, how do you tackle researching? You give teacher vibes (in a wonderful way) so I thought I'd ask, do you get into researching fanfic the same way you research for your job? Do you have a process, do you do all your research online or do you head to the library? When you need to research for a fic do you just google? I'm sorry if this seems very intrusive I'm researching for a VC fic and I'm all over the place I have 20 tabs open lol.
Absolutely okay to ask!! I'm putting together a lecture for the end of April right now actually and the topic is a little out of my wheelhouse, so I'm doing all this stuff right now myself! Including the 20 open tabs....
I would say the process is similar for me in fic vs work, work is just more intense and in-depth and requires more cross-verification. I would love to do more research in a library setting, but the reality is it's just not practical, so it's almost all online for me at this point. I do have a lot of academic reference books that I've bought for my personal use though so I definitely pull those out as needed.
My biggest tip for starting research on anything and how I start most often, especially if I'm not very familiar with the topic in question, is to find the Wikipedia page(s) in question and jump to the bibliography section. That lets you get right into the quality sources without having to hunt from scratch. I'll also just browse the article for a while and then when I see something of interest, I'll check to see what the source was and try to track it down! If it's paywalled, give Sci-Hub or Lib-Gen a try before you pay for anything.
Google itself is fine, but I highly recommend using Google Scholar if you're looking for any real depth on the subject. It works just like a regular search engine, but it ensures that all of your results are academic grade sources. This is usually where I go after I've gleaned all I can from Wikipedia sources.
Usually the final step for me is a dive into JSTOR if I don't have what I need once I've exhausted the Wikipedia and Google Scholar results (usually this is for real, work related research, fic doesn't require this much depth 99% of the time unless you just want the info). I love JSTOR for a lot of reasons, but it's available to anyone and you get like 100 (?) free articles a month even without a .edu email. They also have a great filtering system so it's easy to narrow everything down quickly. Sometimes I'll do the bibliography method here too! Looking at the sources on published academic articles will get you into the real nitty-gritty and I did this a LOT when I was writing my dissertation.
