“I have barely complained at all,” said Lestat, meeting his gaze with pitiful eyes. He reached up and tucked a stray curl behind Louis’ ear, and lay back like a puppy showing his best submissive pose. “You’d find fault with a fat goose,” Louis teased. “I would, truly. There’s wingspan, feather quality, overall health of the animal,” he began enumerating on his fingers theatrically.

Louis reached out and grabbed Lestat’s fingers to still him. “Stop being so literal.” “I would, though,” said Lestat, with the self-approving confidence of a child.                   -ᴇxᴄᴇʀᴘᴛ ғʀᴏᴍ  ᴀ ᴄʜʀɪsᴛᴍᴀs ǫᴜᴀʀʀᴇʟ, ʙʏ ᴡɪᴄᴋᴇᴅ-ғᴇʟɪɴᴀ/ʀᴇʙɴᴇss                                             ——————————-

Having a Christmas related piece in early February might seem a bit gauche, but I have been wanting to make fanart of @wicked-felina​ ‘s fic, “A Christmas Quarrel,” since the day I read it. The characterizations were so wonderful, and I loved Lestat and Louis’ domestic banter - it captures their strictly oppositional natures while also belying something so genuinely sweet, it’s everything that I imagine their life on the Rue Royale to be like.

Even though they can’t read each other’s mind Armand knows Marius well enough to recognize what he wants for Christmas.

🎄 Merry Christmas and special thanks to @wicked-felina & @i-want-my-iwtv​ for organizing the annual VC Secret Gift Exchange! I’m still getting acquainted with the fandom and as a first-timer I’m delighted to see the richness of the gifts people have shared for each other so I’m more than happy for participating in this lovely tradition. Thank you and warm wishes for the New Year 2022! ✨

(So many things can be conveyed by the one little emoji, but yes, I think you’re right! 😂)

Thank you so much for participating, I’d say this was a lovely way to introduce yourself to the fandom. Merci beaucoup for giving us this extra gift! 🎀 Happy holidays to you, too, and WE HOPE TO SEE YOU JOIN AGAIN NEXT YEAR (or sooner for a summer exchange, perhaps? hmmmm….)

This year was a tidal wave of wonderful gifts, and I think I speak for us all when I say that we the mods AND the fandom needed it now more than ever 🌊💖

Merry Christmas, all 🎄⛄🎅🎁

I hope this Christmas morning surprised you with all kinds of gifts and happy moments ☺️

One of things I have been looking forward to the most this Christmas was the @vcsecretgifts ! It’s my first time participating or even seeing anything like it in a fandom and I think it’s super thoughtful and amazing ❤️

I would like to thank the fabulous @wicked-felina and @i-want-my-iwtv for putting it all together. You rock! As a token of appreciation, I have made you a silly little gift (please disregard the silliness of it lol), with a few edits using @0junemeatcleaver0 ’s face claims.

So, @wicked-felina and @i-want-my-iwtv , you have cordially been invited to the event of the millennia -

Lestat and Louis’ wedding 💍❤️

The event will be held at the Chateau De Lioncourt in Auvergne, France. Lestat has been informed that you cannot fly on your own so he has arranged a private jet to come pick you up. Louis had plates set up for you, but they forgot that actual food needs to go in them lol No worries though! Armand has a chef on call, cuz he read that that was a status symbol.

The models are: Matthew Clavane as Armand, Ton Huekels as Lestat, Gerhard Freidl as Marius, Gabriel Marques as Louis and Niclas Gills as Daniel. Credit to @0junemeatcleaver0 for finding these models, credit to Faceapp for making this possible.

The actual wedding photos are from promos I found on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/bridalmusings/

THIS IS SO SWEET I’m so flattered we were invited to this wedding! ❤️❤️❤️ And I will not disregard the silliness, it would be a ridiculous event, I’m sure there would be a (heated) blood fountain AND a chocolate fountain (for the mortal guests), for one thing…

Chapter 26, p 248.

“What are you doing?” he asked.

“Dancing with you”

Just as I said, here's a gift for @i-want-my-iwtv & @good-evening-kiss hope you like it 💞!

I love itttttt😭💖 Thank you Mischa!

Oh my heart! Merci, I love it, so sweet of you, Mischa! 💕✨

From: @annabellioncourt

To: the Vampire Chronicles fandom

I AM THE VAMPRIE LESTAT.

  I am immortal, more or less. I am immortal. I am.

  I…

  I am the sum of my existence. I am the monument to each life I have devoured. Some have deserved it; judge, jury, executioner, I have always wanted to believe my own myth. I have forgotten the taste of communion. I have tasted God on the dying breaths of murderers and the holy offer bargains to hell. I have wept over the skull of Adam and I will, should none stop me, witness the death of the human race.

  I am.

  I am driving over cobble streets almost too slowly, the balance of the motorcycle disrupted by the terrain and the rain and I am stepping into a bar that used to be a smoky bar, but the mortals do not smoke indoors anymore. I used to sing my songs. I am singing my songs tonight—they do no know that I cover my songs—

  The rock star Lestat, yet another singer vanished from the face of the earth in the demonic nineteen-eighties. Does it mean anything? Does someone still keep my records pristine and my books all tidy on a shelf? I don’t care. I am in the pages of every cheap airport paperback novel I have ever written, I am, we are, the coven of the articulate under a collective pen name more proud of the books we see with age, the proof that for all the centuries worth of history and confession we have grieved onto paper that even the days since doing so are numerous.

  There are mortals who have lived their entire lives after we have committed our own to the page, and who have died many years since.

  I will lower my teeth to the throat of a young man in a dress, hear him mutter we are the dead, and in less time than it takes for me to see if I have influenced his path, he is an old man, another artist dead on the evening news that we watch with such morbid fixation.

  The walls of the bar are a different color. I remember this place in candlelight. I am going to live forever in a city that will be underwater before those living in it have reached the end of their own lives.

  I am immortal….

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AO3 Submissions - change the date!

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AO3 allows you to account for this:

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Please note that we cannot edit the date for you, and also please don't be a proper Lestat about it and continually edit your work so it shows at the top of the tag for the next century. 👑