nightislandnoveltymug

[nightislandnoveltymug]

everything in this life is temporary. except that fandom hyperfixation from when you were 14. that thang will be with you forever there's no escaping.

[nightislandnoveltymug]

Mael the druid, from Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles.

Acrylic paint on canvas.

Keep reading

[nightislandnoveltymug]

I hope i will end my art block soon but in meantime i made this while i was bored

Sybelle and Benji under the cut

[nightislandnoveltymug]

Io Saturnalia!🪔🌲🏺

From Dec 17-23, Romans celebrated the god Saturn by feasting, exchanging gifts, lighting lamps, and switching up the normal societal class structures 🪔🌲🥧

These illustrations are from my series of Saturnalia in Hadrians Wall country 🏛️🌲

[nightislandnoveltymug]

[image description: 'io saturnalia' in red glitter text]

[nightislandnoveltymug]

I’m blanking on the lesmand passage in merrick, which one is that?

However, with vicious and sordid blood drinkers breaking down the very doors of St. Elizabeth's and coming up the iron stairs of our very own town house in the Rue Royale, it was Armand who was able to rouse Lestat and goad him into taking the situation in hand.

Lestat, having already waked to listen to the piano music of a fledgling vampire, blamed himself for the tawdry invasion. It was he who had created the "Coven of the Articulate," as we had come to be called. And so, he declared to us in a hushed voice, with little or no enthusiasm for the battle, that he would put things right. Armand—given in the past to leading covens, and to destroying them—assisted Lestat in a massacre of the unwelcome rogue vampires before the social fabric was fatally breached.

Having the gift of fire, as the others called it—that is, the means to kindle a blaze telekinetically—Lestat destroyed with flames the brash invaders of his own lair, and all those who had violated the privacy of the more retiring Marius and Pandora, Santino, and Louis and myself. Armand dismembered and obliterated those who died at his hand. Those few preternatural beings who weren't killed fled the city, and indeed many were overtaken by Armand, who showed no mercy whatsoever to the misbegotten, the heartlessly careless, and the deliberately cruel. ~ David, Merrick

Armand manages to wake up Lestat after he falls back into his comatose state post-TVA and they go on a little murder spree together before Lestat resumes his beauty sleep. 🥹

[nightislandnoveltymug]

Home Alone scenario where Daniel is left to house-sit Trinity Gate alone over the holidays, which becomes a target for nefarious vampire thieves who think the place is empty and want to steal some artifacts Armand has stored in the vault.

Daniel doesn't want to call for help and disturb Armand, Marius, and Lestat etc. at Court because Marius has told him they're hashing out Very Important Business, so he decides to handle it himself by building an escalating series of Rube Goldberg machines and vampire traps to scare the intruders off.

[nightislandnoveltymug]

Tumblr is just a nice little place where you can take off your ‘real person’ face and roll around in piles of garbage tailored to your unhinged hyperfocus five minutes before you stand up and go back to your zoom meeting

[nightislandnoveltymug]

that one line in TVL abt nicki helping lestat to prepare for his roles

[nightislandnoveltymug]

in my mind palace marius calls akasha "mother" when nobody else is around and refuses to talk about it forever

[nightislandnoveltymug]

thinking about my girl bianca solderini. the part in b&g where she overhears marius begging pandora to stay with him (even if it meant leaving bianca) is just?? the NERVE

[nightislandnoveltymug]

MARIUS/THORNE CUTE!!!!!!!!

okay yay🧡

[nightislandnoveltymug]

adding this to my arsenal for whenever someone puts rome in general on a pedestal.

[nightislandnoveltymug]

LOUIS.

[nightislandnoveltymug]

characters that claim they have no heart but actually possess the greatest capacity to love but just never had the chance to give or receive it make me feral

[nightislandnoveltymug]

I just love this moment in BC btw:

The first known drawing made by Armand in 500 years. Made after Marius was taken away from him (again). His artistic talent was blocked due to a trauma half of a millennia ago, blocked after he was taken away from his home and from his father. It took a trauma of comparable size - the trauma of being separated from Marius (again) - to unblock his artistic superpowers back.

And I just love how we are never told whose portrait was this. Like, wasn't it obvious? No need to say it.

[nightislandnoveltymug]

marius is such a fake hater like i saw you help mael when he needed you...