some Louis and Lestat from my Patreon (that I sadly closed last summer, RIP to my Patreon)

Cartoony Armand and Daniel Molloy! I did a few sketches in this style recently and really enjoyed it. Still not 100% on the final look (I want it to look more printed but idk where the sweet spot is.) Anyway, enjoy! Send requests if you so please. I always love off the wall or niche suggestions most. 

yesterday, Oct 4, was seminal pop author and horror icon Anne Rice’s 78th birthday, and if you care about that here are some words about it:

I think the best thing about Lestat’s character over nearly fifty years of canon is that he is a completely evil, unforgivable bastard whose consistent singular redeeming trait which allows him to perform heroic acts is that he unconditionally loves everybody he has ever met. I think this is maybe the funniest and best character concept I can imagine- a totally evil person who loves everyone he has ever met- ESPECIALLY because he is also Rice’s self-insert character. what a conception of yourself to have! if Lestat is handed something good, he doesn’t know how NOT to fuck it up. he is a sadist and a murderer and more than that, he is just an ass; but he takes everybody in good faith, including people who are obviously trying to fuck him over. Rice said that when she wrote Memnoch the Devil, she kept trying to make it work with a mortal protagonist but couldn’t write a human person evil enough for the Devil to appear to him and ask for help- so she realized it HAD to be Lestat. he is that bad. but also, Lestat fucked that one up by taking THE DEVIL in good faith. what a combination of things to exist in one character! the thing about Rice is that when you wind up reading a lot about her, you can’t help but develop a sympathy even though she is somewhat unlikable in basically every traditional way because she and her protagonist share the same fundamental character trait: they keep fucking up, being stupid and venally bad, and keep getting up again. to be so hurt and angry all the time and incapable of not taking it out on people, and to also believe fundamentally that people are basically good, even the ones who hurt you. to leave the Catholic Church, and then re-join the Catholic Church, and then to leave it again! to be an ex-Catholic TWICE! to pledge that you will never write about vampires again because you are trying to be Good For God, and then publicly go back on it because you think there’s worth in writing about vampires! Lestat knows he is unforgivably bad, but he still wants to be good. he is the villain and the hero of his own story, like Anne Rice, like everyone. the crux of Lestat is that he’s a character about, what do you do when you know you are too terrible to be alive, when you are irredeemable, and unforgivable, and just have to keep living? what DO you do, when your very existence hurts other people, but you can’t give it up? you hurt, mostly. other people and also yourself. it took eleven books and forty years for Anne Rice to write some novels where Lestat does some heroic things and DOES NOT fuck it up, and it turns out its because his superpower is that he is empathetic towards every asshole because he, himself, has been every kind of asshole. Lestat sees someone who is an annoying evil pain in the ass and goes: Damn, that guy is probably hurting. this is also how Anne Rice feels about Lestat. if you are bad down to your bones and you know it, the only thing you CAN do is love the people around you and try to make them a little less lonely. Oh, Anne, O Lestat, Patron Saint of the Inimitable Fuckup- you just keep getting it all wrong and getting back up again. your stories say: There IS life after death, life after making the biggest mistake, life after being the Worst. but what DO you do? well, you try again. you fuck it up. you get up, again. and you do it again. and you fuck up again. get up again. you keep singing songs, even if they’re sad ones. otherwise, what’s the point? the sun will never rise, but you gotta keep singing to it. 

night sluts

they’re called vampires

New VC art at my Patreon!

You may have noticed I’ve been more absent than usual – I’ve been busy! Back and forth working on commissions and stuff for …. (drumroll pls)…

MY PATREON!! *stock sounds of kids cheering* I’m really new to this and stupid nervous, but hopefully some enthusiasm will make up for the nerves.

Right now, for the $1 tier you get instant access to 2 WIP drawings (both JJBA), 1 Patron-exclusive early access drawing (Howl & Sophie, from HMC) and a doodle (Arya Stark). With more coming over the course of this month.

For $5, there’s the above tier’s stuff, plus instant access to two pieces of Vampire Chronicles fan art (Lestat and Louis/Lestat) and JJBA (Buccellati/Abbacchio.) With one or two more drawings coming for this month.

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I dreamed last night that Anne Rice wrote a new book where Lestat decided that vampires didn’t need to drink blood anymore to survive and were going to start photosynthesizing instead. Except none of the vampires can go out into the sun and when everyone pointed that out to him, he was like, “Huh.”

That One Scene From Interview With The Vampire

Claudia: (｀・ω・´)🔪

Lestat: _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):

Louis: (・Д・)

Best VC characters ranked

15) You

14) Can’t

13) Just

12) Rank

11) VC characters

10) They’re

9) All

8) Unique

7) And

6) Fascinating

5) In

4) Their

3) Own

2) Way

1) Armand

quick thought before bed but when it comes to wank in a book fandom of all places maybe yall can be a little gentler on people who aren’t native english speakers? i guess if your whole role in a fandom is to be a jerkoff to everyone maybe you don’t take the time to get to know everybody and maybe it doesn’t occur to you that between the language barrier or whatever whacky translation they’re reading maybe they perceived the text differently?????  we don’t all have the same access or experiences.

just an idea. 

be fucking nice! 

I don’t understand why people choose teenagers for Daniel’s FC. He was 32 years old, wtf? He used to look like a Collage student, yes, eternally /young/ face, but do you really think he would still look that gorgeous after his mental issues and his alcoholism and sleeping disorders? 🤷🏻‍♀️

he drank a lot of vampire blood okay!!!!!

it’s good for you skin lol

#also like ngl im 30 and i have an eternally young face LMFAO

I’m 30 as well and if you needed a FC for me you’d absolutely choose someone who was between the ages of 16-19 because that’s the age most people peg me.

ALSO 32 ISN’T OLD AT ALL OP and I know I’m overthinking this spectacularly but listen ....... alcoholism and sleep issues aren’t going to cause the permanent skin damage that would cause a very ‘boyish’ man (Daniel) to ping 30. (the biggest aging factor of skin in your 20s is actually sun exposure, which is something Daniel has legit no danger of LMAO)

a few good weeks of sleep, hydration and sobriety (easier said than done, tho) would probably make him look 20x healthier and -- like Kacy said -- small amounts of vampire blood would definitely help, if not have some similar effect as increased wellness.

I imagine that’d be a short-lived solution, however, so if Daniel is gallivanting somewhere he’d probably look a lot worse than if he’s living at home with Armand and getting that youth juice.

tldr Daniel is that John Mulaney WOW THAT TALL CHILD LOOKS TERRIBLE bit.