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i would know him blind

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fellow marius lovers, please rise 💕

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The prompts for Marius/Daniel Week 2024! Feel free to use these as inspiration. Many thanks to those who submitted a suggestion!

[General info post]

Marius/Daniel Week (17—23 November, 2024) prompts:

Day 1: changing colors / storm

Day 2: trying your patience / rhythmic

Day 3: dried paint / feeding

Day 4: assembly / possessiveness

Day 5: typewritten notes / deep waters

Day 6: generation gap / heat it up

Day 7: free day

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1- do you think maybe armand looks to old daniel like we would a senior dog?

2-armand reminiscing

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𝓞𝓾𝓻 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷

A rare moment of bliss before all hell broke loose. I wonder what might have happened, had Lestat not been born to Darkness...

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Teetering on the Brink [AO3]

Marius/Daniel - Mature, Hurt/Comfort - 3,740 words

When Daniel has a mild relapse of his condition (caused by his own recklessness), it puts him in a danger and Marius has to come to the rescue.

This was written for @maridaniweek for the prompt "Trying Your Patience."

I really love that line in PL, and it's clear that Marius and Daniel have had a rough road with Daniel's madness and recovery. I spent a lot of time trying to think what would push Daniel to a bad place again and I do think it would take a lot of carelessness on his part, something I think by PL he's (hopefully) learned not to do. This is probably shortly after he's really started to recover and still maybe on the edge.

I also really got obsessed with the Santa Teresa Coven House once I realized it's actually in the city of Rio. The way Marius warns Daniel not to go there in PL makes me think maybe he does occasionally spend time there.

Short Excerpt:

Daniel could feel the hunger gnawing at his insides as he shuffled the cards in his hands. He could see the veins pulsing with fragrant blood under the skin of the other immortals at the table. His veins tightened with need and his heart gave a short skip. He hadn’t fed yet tonight and he’d only had a few little drinks the night before, so this was risky, but he’d been eager to get here.

The Santa Teresa Coven House was his new favorite place. It was warm and inviting, with a stone fireplace in the center of the big parlor, open on two sides, warming the room. The wood-paneled walls felt homey and the decor was basic, understated. 

It felt a hell of a lot like Night Island, with all of the immortals gathering together in the dimly lit rooms to swap stories and bask in the company of those like them. Daniel had been coming here every night for weeks, since Marius first brought him and said it would be good for him to spend time with others of their kind. 

Marius captivated the younger ones, naturally. He was beautiful, a living statue with marble skin, golden hair, and intense blue eyes. He was the oldest vampire in the area by far and had assured that none of those in the Coven House would dare threaten him or Daniel.

Marius enjoyed coming here occasionally, but to Daniel, the place was revelatory. He’d forgotten how good it felt to be around others, even this group which was largely made up of younger immortals turned since Akasha’s decimation of their kind. Sure, sometimes it got overwhelming trying to keep his thoughts cloaked, and the sheer number of others with bright presences could feel oppressive, but Daniel enjoyed talking to them and being surrounded by his immortal brothers and sisters.

Even now, when he needed to go hunt, despite knowing he was pushing his own limits, he couldn’t bring himself to leave. 

Read the Rest on AO3

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I love nicolas de lenfent sm bcus he’s literally the dead wife trope but if the dead wife was a self hating miserable asshole who drained the energy and joy from any room she was in and silently resented the mc and wanted to see him suffer

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Blood and Gold: Botticelli's Paintings

A collection of all the Botticelli paintings mentioned by Marius de Romanus in Blood and Gold.

Punishments of the Sons of Korah

Lamentation Over The Dead Christ

Primavera

The Birth of Venus

Madonna of the Pomegranate

Mars and Venus

The Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist

Illustrations of Dante's Inferno

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I imagined vampire Nicolas at Renaud’s, distorting the melody Lestat composed for him to make it mocking & painful, his own pain turned to musical pain, weaponised against Lestat…

The final one… 2: I tried to make myself ANGRY! And then at the very end I wanted it to turn to sad. (With a final flash of anger.)

I don’t think any of these really worked. Not mocking enough. The frog of my bow is breaking away from the bow too 😭😭😭. Will just superglue fix it I wonder, or no? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

But anyway… I wonder if we’ll see Nicki do something like this, but Daniel Hart can compose the music & an actually good violinist can play it & YEAH - imagine Nicki turning Lestat’s music against him…

I definitely feel I could get this more mocking. I’ll consider it again another time. Obviously just an improvisation, but with thanks to For a Young Violinist!

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Please leave me alone, Noelia Towers (because)

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“ Our Divine Violinist ”

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This book continues to ruin me to this day. I haven’t found a writer like James Baldwin since.

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“Say the word, my love, I’ll do it. We’ll be in hell together after all.” (insp by romeo and juliet 1968)

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saw this today. imagine getting hunted in the streets of 1490s venice by armand wearing this lmfao