#(she spoils the shit out of her coven ok? ok)

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I'm torn between more fluff fics and putting Agatha through the blender for once

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So... Abby responds to her family's intervention by obediently telling them she'll stop (ie. lying to them). She then immediately tries to find ways to keep the blog in secret, hiding behind various usernames, lurking on her coven's blogs, more time deleting posts from both blogs we know about. Meaning, instead of getting help, she spends even MORE time online engaging in more batshit crazy crap to cover her ass. Yeah, sure, that doesn't signal dire need for mental health intervention AT ALL.

It looks like that is what is happening.  We will have to see what the future holds. What does Abby do? 

So far the fandom is flailing. Cassie got a couple of anons- one that reads like those anons Abby used to send herself as it covers all the issues they are most upset about so perfectly well (My comments in parenthesis and italicized:: 

Anonymous asked: Even if I am unsure about CC itself, I don't buy M*arr*n. I just don't. And the other side is using doxing and the fact that you and others say things they don't like about M as an excuse to do so and as a way to detract from the fact that their couple goals have some pretty big, glaring plot holes in their love story. I've not seen anyone on this side of the fandom out or dox anyone publicly as a way of humiliation. M gave up her privacy by dating D, but Abby didn't and they were wrong. Period. 

cassie1022 answered: Nonnie, I swear every time they diagnose us as mentally ill or say we’re bitter hags, an LGBTQ angel gets his or her wings. We all know my beliefs, but there are MANY people that are like you and don’t know for sure about CC but sure as hell know Miarren isn’t a normal, healthy relationship. (Funny thing, I don’t remember anyone diagnosing Cassie as mentally ill. Cassie is alwasy the wallflower that nobody wants to dance with and she tries so hard to be part of the fun people. Last week she was sad because I hadn’t sent her a “hate” message (See comment in last post below) 

Even if I remove D from the situation, I would still think M is a lazy, spoiled toddler with no discernable work ethic coupled with a superiority complex that rivals the Cheeto in Command of the US.

You are absolutely correct. Our fandom just wants to be left alone. We don’t send hateful asks to the other side. We don’t have to. They feel they have the right to dox CCers because they don’t like what we say about M, a woman that would light a cigarette from the flames engulfing them and not call 911 to help them. I mean, honestly, it doesn’t get much lower than mocking someone’s death. Plus, as you correctly said, M put herself in the spotlight “dating” D. If she didn’t want that attention, she would have stayed in the background. There are plenty of celebrities married to non famous people and we don’t see them at every event like we do M. (It is BAFFLING to me that they can’t comprhend something as simple and obvious as the reasaon they “see Mia everywhere” is because they fucking stalk her and they hyperanalzye every photo Darren is in looking for her. If they started stalking Ben Feldman they would see his wife just as much as they see Mia).    

Bottom line is what they did to Abby was deplorable, but, just like their kween, they feel justified in doing whatever they want. This isn’t the first time they’ve crossed a line with regards to my friend, but it was the worst.

notes-from-nowhere Anon, they love to throw the guilt of their actions on our shoulders, it’s how they justify what they do to themselves. They need us to be the bad guys otherwise what is the only option left? (I never know what the hell Notes is trying to say- throw the guilt of our actions on their shoulders? I’d love an example of that. I can’t imagine what guilty action I put on their shoulder. As for needing them to be the bad guys or what do we have left? OMFG are you kidding me? We critcize the cc fandom for being misogynistic, homophobic, bullies who attack  Mia, Darren, Ricky and their own Nonnies. They have viscioulsy attacked people in their own fandom who dared to question them. But the biggest reason we push back is because THEY LIE. All the damn time. So what do we have left? Being on the right side, being correct, not lying, not needing to lie, and the joy of watching Darren live his best life)   

Leka got a couple of asks but her answers were weak, confusing and pointless. It’s clear she isn’t ready to take over as their leader. She repeated Abby’s main talking points, tried to use big words to sound smarter and basically ended up not making a lot of sense:

Anonymous asked: I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I think the character on the HW poster holding the girl is D's character, it would fit if you look at the other guys on the poster, maybe this is already the first hint to show D's character is not gay and so technically not breaking the no more queer roles rule his team set for him. It won't make it any better because it's still a career on the bag of LGBTQ+ people with it's teams but it's technically not a broken rule. I just really need for things to change, I want them to so bad, it kills me seeing someone so kind in a situation like that, and I truly believe D is one of the kindest people in that horrible town. He deserves better than M, I wouldn’t even mind if he goes onto another beard but she and RR just need to go. I really think it’s crazy people still think everything HW is real and PR relationships don’t exist, I wished that place was just better and had a moral compass, people deserve more it kind of shows just how jaded this situation has made me, I can’t even enjoy amazing promo material without directly twisting it into something negative, I don’t want to be this way and if I feel like this I can’t even imagine how D must feel. He is stronger than I’ll ever be living through hell every day, even if he’s not ok he’s still here and holding on, I don’t know if I could in his position. Sorry for the long message and the unneeded negativity, I guess I just had to vent a little

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Leka answered: So let’s look at the way HW is described:

“Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems and biases across race, gender and sexuality that continue to this day. Provocative and incisive, HOLLYWOOD exposes and examines decades-old power dynamics, and what the entertainment landscape might look like if they had been dismantled.”

I do consider this the very intriguing thing about the news. (And it just goes to show that believing everything you’re sold is being utterly and completely ignorant.) Let’s say you’re right because ofc it’s possible. How does R/aymond fit in here? Given the excessive way team shit has pushed that article, a technicality won’t be good enough. There has to be a better plan. This doesn’t match what’s been said in his name.

What I think is this doesn’t necessarily have to mean much. You know very well what you see doesn’t have to be the (full) truth. That doesn’t just apply to the real HW. Especially considering the time period of this show. And let’s not forget the pap pics we got at a gas station. This doesn’t rule out SB as an inspiration. I would advise anyone to read up on him. We don’t know at this point. As we keep saying, the best thing to do is to wait and see. I’m certainly interested in finding out more.

As time goes on, the danger of this situation keeps becoming even clearer to me. D deserves much, much better. He’s incredibly strong, but the most toxic person in his life needs to go and she’s more than welcome to take the jumping jackass with her. That’s definitely the most important thing right now. (I’m curious what the danger of Hollywood is?)

awesome-fanfictionada: @leka-1998I’m just wondering - it must have been D who got himself this job on HW, right? Couldn’t this have been done on purpose to counter that ridiculous statement - which wasn’t even accurate, if the source was that interview where he stated that he wouldn’t want to be a casting director? Could in this case RM be a friend?

leka-1998:  @awesome-fanfictionada Yes, he did that himself. Again. And he said the show’s been sold late in 2018. According to an article that came out later, it happened in February 2019. Not true.

HW has been a thing before that statement was made, which is indeed very different from the answer D himself gave during the interview. That’s what makes the article seem like sabotage by team shit. And standing in RM’s way is never a good idea. So while I will obviously never like him, I’m reserving judgment on his current role until we know more.

Anonymous asked: The underlying issue in general is really that social media has made it so people think they get an accurate glimpse into the lives of celebrities, when in reality social media, like everything else that is publicly released about them, is used as a marketing tool. People are actually more inauthentic than they've ever been because they feel pressure to maintain a certain image for social media at all times. So anyone who decides D is living honestly, it's because they want to believe he is.

Leka: True, nonnie. Just look at the text lines that are becoming more popular again. Not nearly as genuine as people want to believe. In D’s case, what has to be brought up? M. Oh Halloween and her amazing shopping skills praised on SM. The work fam honeymoon pic promoting the place they stayed at. Coa/chella for the H&M ad. Mardi Gras posted shortly after the mockery to promote the designer. I could obviously go on. Most of what we see on SM shows the person the 10 year crew wants him to be. And what looks like a split personality if you compare certain posts. Which brings me back to ‘they want to believe’, as what you’re saying clearly isn’t a secret. Anyone can choose to ignore it but at this point, if that’s the case even though you’re more or less paying attention, it’s really a conscious decision.

Oh btw, there’s a HW IG account now and it already has a D follow. Imagine that. R/oyalties co-stars, anyone?

Flowers didn’t get any asks. Amazing since she has more followers than I do and she bragged about getting more “notes” than me.  She did answer azscc who posted an odd rant that baffles me.  Who the fuck is azscc and who is posting anything about her? I realize I am not the only person in this fandom posting about ccers But I just checked all the blogs that I know of and nobody is talking about her; 

azsc  its so weird how chillarrens call me a bully while i only say something rude towards them if they write bullshit towards me. and its just ironic how chillarrens go around calling people bullies while they are the reason why tons of cc accounts use their accounts private or don’t post their opinions and etc. the real threat to the fandom are people like you. so instead of going around throwing shit on people and calling them “mental, delusional...” get a life. no cc believer goes around hunting for chillarren pics and insult the account owner so why don’t you all grow up and realize no one has to agree with your opinions. every crisscolfer blog/twitter page/insta acc basically stan accs never asked for your opinions on their pages so why don’t you just let it go? no one cares about what you all say or do so why are you forcing it this much?

call me a bully i am pretty much okay with that. its obvious that people are unable to understand basic sarcasm and irony and i am not judging because to actually understand what people say you have to at least have an average IQ level. and if you don’t have it, it’s okay but that doesn’t mean you can twist people’s words and post them all over the internet. but its lowkey really funny that i only had my instagram acc for something like 4/5 months and i received over 300 hate/insult/blackmail/death wish messages and etc. and who are you people to call us bullies? (Nobody is a Chillarren. Darren and Mia are married and Chris and Will are in a long-term relationsihp,  Nobody has to “ship” them in order to believe they are together. In America, we accept that when someone introduces their wife or their boyfriend they are telling the truth. It is customary to address that person as their wife or boyfriend respectively. The crisscolfers on the other hand, must use a fandom ship name because they are shipping two people who are not in a relationship and never were. All evidence indicates Chris and Darren are no long friends; they are nothing more than former co-workers-friendly and polite when they see one another but no longer involved in one another’s lives. Chris and Darren both have denied (more than once) that the were ever in a relationship).  .   

flowersintheattic254 I have never in my whole time here posted an anon to a Miarren account. I have no desire to. I’m confident in my beliefs.

The interesting thing for me is that I’ve been here for about four years now and in that time I’ve seen the head of the fandom disappear, other people disappear because their families have been doxed, established long-term cc blogs with a wealth of history deleted without warning. I myself have had my daughters threatened.  This sort of stuff doesn’t happen anywhere in the fandom but here here. If we are a bunch of delusional crazy middle-aged women then this shouldn’t happen. (Who was doxed? Who dissappered? It’s all “liar liar” with everything ccers say. In the last 4 years Abby has been the only leader of the cc fandom. Michelle left between 4 and 5 years ago because her outrageious cc comments threatened her ability to raise money for her little Klaine-fanfic rip-off movie. I vaguely remember someone asking flowers how her daugther’s would feel if they read what she writes- hardly a threat. If there was something more she never posted any proof. As for blogs being deleted- so was D-Criss News.  It happens. The only cc blog that I know of that disappeared was DisneyPrincessModelWorld’s original blog which had was a hot mess of lies and catfishing. She visciously bullied Mia. Hardly someone to mourn their blog being deleted). 

It’s shocking that an actor may lgbt causes such drama. (HUH?)

Flower’s comment is so disingenuous. While it is technically true -she hasn’t sent me anons, she HAS instead publically ridiculed me and frankly, I can’t see how that is any different? I’d say it’s worse because they wanted their followers to see what they wrote and the only way to ensure that is to post it on their blogs. Flowers and Abby posted many public “Michy” posts.  Here is her most recent: 

flowersintheattic254Oh and I guess Michy sent us all some hate today.

I guess I have way more followers than you and only about 4 that send hate. You haven’t for ages.

I think I have over 70,000 hits currently to my blog. I must be saying something interesting.

He’s been married allegedly for a year and people still doubt. That’s gotta hurt you. Anyway......

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ajw720 Michy told me today today that the outing couldn’t possibly be promo, because JS was only cast in September!  What a moron who clearly doesn’t know how HW works.  Sweetheart, it was ANNOUNCED in September;)

I was waiting for a few more months, but in 4 years, since i have been tracking, i have almost a million! (976,695 to be precise).

It is amazing that so many people care about what us bat shit crazy, irrelevant, psychologically unstable, threatening, hateful tin hats have to say!  And that does not include people reading on their dash or that hit you on the app!  So yep, Michy, clearly what we are saying is being monitored by someone.  And clearing making people think!! But you keep wasting your time writing for your audience of 4:)

cassie102 I feel left out, Michy didn't come at me today. Must hurt like hell knowing you're a joke that perpetuates a bigger joke.

leka-1998 Birds of a fake feather flock together. When the right person says tomorrow’s Christmas, tomorrow’s Christmas. Get ready, everyone.

If I narrow it down to the last six months, about 10,000 btw. Hm strange.

flowersintheattic254 @ajw720 the number of hits you have give me oxygen. If Michy thinks they are haters then she is delusional. People know when they are being sold something fake and they look for answers.

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CAOS 2 thoughts/reactions/spoilers I guess?

That was at least 50% stressful nonsense, so much so I attempted to spoil myself for the end after about 2 eps because I could not continue watching if Blackwood was going to get even slightly away with it. Which he sort of did but I’m ok with him being on the run for drama in season 3 as long as it means Zelda is well and truly done with his ass. I can’t take a third season of Zelda being weirdly dickmatized by this dude. (I did like how she explicitly was like “I’m not in love with him, I just want power and maybe an occasional dicking and whipping,” which is valid, but c’mon, Zelda, you didn’t seriously believe he really would ever share power with you, did you? That was somewhat unbelievable as a character move and made her seem pretty dumb/naive.)

Other shit I wasn’t wild about

The compulsory heterosexuality that underlies so much of the witchcraft in this world that’s sort of being dismantled but not quickly or explicitly enough for me, really. There will be great moments like Lilith’s speeches or Zelda and Prudence teaming up against Blackwood but then also a continued overall focus on heterosexual romance. How often do these women have to learn that the straight men around them are 150% garbage and not worthy of them until they get their male asses in order?

Relatedly, the continued absence of any f/f romance and the fact that Ambrose lost his male lover and got a female one instead (pansexuality is all well and good but, weird optics when he’s still the only really openly, detailed-ly LGB character in any sense beyond “yeah sure I’ll do an orgy with the same sex”) and the fact that the extremely gay Dorian Gray turned out to be rather evil (or at least a dark shade of traitorous gay, which is always side-eye-worthy if it doesn’t get developed further in future eps)

Shit I liked:

Nick/Sabrina, overall. He’s a messy dumbass but he’s mostly just there to look hot and prop her story and agency up so I’m okay with it for what it is.

The handling of Harvey/Roz and the Harvey/Roz/Sabrina triangle. I always like seeing teen romance being handled with a modicum of emotional maturity and a lack of jealousy, and this was good on those fronts. I’d prefer Harvey and Sabrina to stay broken up for good but I won’t be surprised if they end up back together anyway eventually.

Most of Prudence’s overall story. Frustrating as hell to watch her be continually desperate for Blackwood’s love but they finally acknowledged it wasn’t worth it at the end and I like the idea of her and Ambrose teaming up to get his ass and save the twins.

Hilda getting a bit more development, killing people for Zelda, and a getting a surprisingly nice offbeat but sweet midlife romance with what’s his face the incubus

God!Sabrina was visually very cool to me with the explicitly Jesus-esque and saintly imagery in the church, the Weird Sisters’ emotional reaction to her in that role, etc. Not wild about her just magically curing Roz’s eyesight but eh, it sort of came back to bite her in the ass? 

I love a good “fuck it, let’s kill God” storyline, so I completely dug the HDM-esque storyline there for the last ep. I’d really like a more explicit exploration of what Jesus and the Abrahamic God are in this world, though, since they appear to really exist--is Jesus just another witch/magic user? Is the Abrahamic God just another fallen angel setting himself up as a deity a la HDM? If so, can we please kill him too?

Lilith, like Zelda, had a messy road to “actually, fuck men”-ville. Sort of reminded me of an abusive relationship and finally being able to escape Lucifer by the end? I’d like this independence and antimale attitude to stick around and not just be a passing fad on her way back to some sort of “proper” heterosexuality again. Michelle killed it, though, as always, and her crowning herself (and crying watching the play of her life, and using her rib to make Adam) made me actually quite emotional.

I’m not trans, but I thought Theo’s story was handled about as well as you’d dare expect from a melodramatic teen drama. I liked mandrake!Sabrina’s patronization of him being called out for what it was and also how his midseason prophetic vision shit was all about dysphoria but in a thematically appropriate way? Idk.

What I want in the next season:

Seeing what Lilith is up to in hell, preferably still in Michelle Gomez’s body. (Can we get both Mary Wardwell on Earth and Lilith using the body of Mary in hell for maximum Michelle content?) Seeing her interact with other women somehow (ideally Zelda as her new high priestess).

Zelda and Hilda working to reestablish a coven and church (FOR LILITH???!) and hopefully reform the shit out of it. I’d absolutely love to see witchcraft move away from explicit monotheistic-ish religion/worship and into a more free will type thing, or at least go way more polytheism. You have fucking magic, babes, you don’t need to worship various demons playing dress-up as gods, especially with Lucifer currently imprisoned. (What are the other covens going to do, like....do they even know Lucifer is currently out of service? Could be interesting.) I also want to see what Dorcas and Agatha are like without Prudence and just in general what the remnants of the coven do and how they work with Zelda. 

No more Blackwood/Zelda unless it’s her literally killing him. Just. Enough. Give Zelda someone truly worthy of her thirst. (Preferably a woman, ideally Lilith, but u kno.)

Blackwood fucking dying in some appropriately painful and ignominious way. Yeah, sure, Richard is hot, but he’s a fascist fuck who’s had his run of it. We need catharsis.

Sabrina and co doing cool shit in hell I guess en route to finding Nick. Ideally, them killing Lucifer for good, but I’m assuming he’ll somehow get out of Nick’s body and continue to be an antagonist, especially since IIRC there’s also gonna be a season 4.

Some sort of f/f romance. Sabrina exploring it would be cool, and of course my holy grail is Zelda doing gay-ass shit, but at this point I’ll take just about anyone.

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tw: absolute madwoman ( gore, death etc. )

MAEVE YANG ; ahn heeyeon - twenty-three / california / she/her / air / fifth.

okay so basically she is from a pretty big coven from california, which has a bunch of branches who specialise in each element. there are so many of them in the coven bc hundreds of years ago their leader thought the power is in numbers or wtvr so he was like hehe lets just gather literally everyone we possibly can

so the branch maeve comes from focuses on using the air element and thats cool bc they are supposed to be very smart but at the same time they are super sneaky as well. so her dad is this v v ambitious guy and he wanted to become the leader of the entire coven, not just the branch, around the time his wife was about to deliver their kids ( she was expecting twins, which is kinda common in their coven )

but big surprise, when maeve and her sister ( malia ) were born, turned out that maeve kind of got all her sister’s powers as well ? which is…. a very bad thing, like its supposed to be this cursed thing that brings bad luck to the entire coven. oh and also when this happens, the baby who is born with doubled powers isnt supposed to survive, bc their tiny body is not supposed to be able to handle it

but it was ok bc somehow maeve didnt die as an infant and no terrible thing happened to their coven either ( except her dad lost his chance to become a leader bc the more superstitious witches of the coven were freaked out about what happened w the twins ) but her parents were still super wary around her thinking she could combust literally any second

so they spoiled her rotten like,,,,  she just got whatever she wanted and her sister was pretty much neglected bc the coven was like…. ok she worthless ? we dont care about her ?

and maeve herself felt the same way, like she convinced herself that her getting both their powers wasnt an abnormality, more like a blessing and she got them bc she was strong and her destiny is to be the strongest of her coven or wtvr…    so she kind of ? experimented on her sister ? nothing very serious at first but just basically taunting her but later, the more she learned about magic, the things she did were more serious like doing little spells that made her not being able to breathe for a few seconds or making her bleed and stuff

so when they were around 13 malia has HAD IT and tried to kill maeve like, maeve woke up in the middle of the night to her sister standing over her with a massive butchers knife, ready to stab her to death

but since maeve had powers and naturally she was terrified in that moment, the knife basically ended up just flying out of malia’s hand and ending up slicing her open instead

the next morning her parents found them in their shared bedroom, maeve sitting on the floor and drawing little pentagrams and other witchy symbols on the walls w her sister’s blood

see, the coven really thought that maeve lost her mind and just decided to murder her sister and yk maybe she did kinda bc she developed this strange fascination around blood magic and started researching how to draw powers from things that werent all natural at all. also she felt about zero regret about her sister’s death like she didnt even consider malia an actual person even when she was alive so it didnt really matter to her ?

but after that her family got a bit more cautious around her, still spoiling her rotter but keeping an eye on her bc they didnt want another accident like that to happen. also keeping it secret from the other branches of the coven bc “reputation” and also werent sure what they would do to maeve, so they just came up w some lame lie about how malia died

she met her wolf a little before she signed her name in the black book, when she was already at the academy. she was literally just walking around the forest and saw this wounded animal who was probably attacked by the rest of his pack and she was like huh cool, hes so big and is probably in sm pain but doesnt make a sound ? sounds just like me !

she is not allowed to use too much of her own powers bc everyone is telling her that shes just gonna explode bc her body is too weak to handle it ? she tried it a few times but it is v v physically painful for her, like it legit feels like her organs are being torn out of her body so she’s like ? and yet she is super obsessed w the idea of being mega-powerful, she thinks she just needs to learn more about  how it works like she genuinely refuses to understand that ITS NOT GONNA HAPPEN

she is… weird af personality wise, she is straight up malicious in every way you can imagine but you could never tell unless u know her very well bc… she is all smiley and cheerful 90% of the time

she is a literal SNAKE she’s not gonna do anything bad if it means she’s gonna get in trouble herself but she LOOOVES pitting ppl against each other and just stirring shit basically

she thinks she is the hottest shit around in every way but she’s gonna act all bashful and modest if she’s trying to impress people, like she wants them to think she is this baby angel who couldnt hurt a fly / she acts the same way when she wants to cover up that shes a whore  

[reflection-s-of-stars]

Ok you guys really seemed to like this post so here’s some BATTs headcanons I’ve had rolling around in my head! @hootrageous I think you’d like these

Derwin

-Derwin was a gifted witch from a young age, and started out pretty young on the healing track at Hexside. He never really knew much about bard magic before he met Raine.

-He probably would’ve been top of his class, but he dropped out of school because of family problems. He doesn’t like to talk about it, but he eventually does tell Katya everything.

-By the time he met Raine, Derwin was fifteen, and not doing very well. He was pretty desperate for both a job and a coven at this point, which Raine could thankfully provide.

-He spent so much time learning bard magic from Raine that he really sees them as a mentor. He was also the first to join the BATTs, so he’s seen sides of them the others haven’t.

-Derwin has a mind for wordplay and was definitely the one to come up with Bards Against the Throne!

-He’s also had a biiiiiiiig crush on Katya from the moment he met her. He knows she doesn’t see him like that, but he’s sure things will work out for them in the end :)

Katya

-Katya grew up in a well-to-do family. She’s an only child, so she can be a little spoiled, but she really does mean well.

-She went to St. Epiderm, and she quickly showed a talent for bard magic. But it wasn’t considered “respectable,” so she was put on the Oracle track instead.

-She ran away from her coven initiation when she was fifteen, and from then on, Katya was pretty much on her own. She had a few run-ins with the law, but she wasn’t captured for a while.

-In the conformatorium, Katya said she’d been imprisoned for her love of fanfiction because she didn’t think Luz would help her if she knew she was a wild witch :(

-Soon after she left the conformatorium, Katya found Raine and Derwin. They’d just been captured by EC guards, and things looked pretty bleak. But Katya wound up saving them, and later joined their group.

-It was originally mostly for practical reasons, since she figured she’d be safer with the BATTs than in prison. But soon Katya began to form bonds with her teammates. Derwin in particular became her good friend, since they’re about the same age.

Amber

-Amber is half-demon actually! Her father was a witch, and her mother was a demon. She was abandoned at a young age, and spent most of her life on the streets.

-Nobody was quite sure what to make of Amber: she’s part witch, so she should be in a coven, but she’s not a full witch, so she’s not quite allowed to be in one. So some people were confused/scared of her, especially the coven system supporters.

-She spent a lot of time running from the Emperor’s Coven and fending for herself. By the time she was ten, she’d seen a lot of shit, and was pretty skilled in all kinds of magic.

-Amber’s first run-in with Raine and the BATTs was when she was thirteen. Raine caught her picking their pocket, and she was expecting them to be pissed. But instead, they asked her if she was ok, which she’d never really been asked before.

-Before long, she started hanging around Raine and the BATTs pretty much constantly, but it was a while before she became an official member, mainly because they were all a little uneasy with having such a young kid in their group.

-She’s loath to admit it, but Amber totally sees Raine as the parent figure she never had. The others think of them more as a mentor (Derwin) or a leader (Katya), but Amber’s very attached to them :)

I love these guys so much <3 And as always, feel free to send me asks about them!

I don’t think we talk enough about the found family potential of the BATTs

[i-want-my-iwtv]

I've been trying to read the whole vc series, but school and work just keep preventing me from getting really far! Is it ok to ask you to write a little summary for each book so I can catch up with the fandom until I have the time to read them all thoroughly?

Yeah, I understand, time is limited :P 

I don’t know that summarizing VC will allow you to “catch up” with the fandom, you really only need to read the first 3 books and the Vampire Armand to get most of the jokes on tumblr, bc most of the jokes seem to center around:

Louis being a pyromaniac,

Lestat being an obnoxious but somehow lovable glittery murder machine,

Lestat and Louis being awesome and shitty murder dads,

Claudia being an ungrateful spoiled brat,

Armand being a little brat, or a slut, or an evul coven master, or all of the above,

Daniel Molloy just wanting to vampire plz!!!11!,

Marius being a pedo, or too bossy, or both,

Gabrielle is a bad mom and an ice queen,

Nicolas is spelled NICOLAS and he is NOT DEAD!,

Secondary characters not getting enough love from anyone!!

There are often spoilers in summaries tho, do you really want to be spoiled? I LOVE being spoiled.

We have these unreliable narrators, there is a lot of disagreement as to what canon really is, and some fans choose to ignore parts of (or entire books) in the series. We bring our own experiences to the reading, and we choose what to connect with, so I think we can agree on some things about each book, but you will probably get a different summary from any given reader. Even AR has told us to disregard the hybrid Mayfair/VC books (Blood Canticle, possibly Merrick and Blackwood Farm) when moving onto the more recent VC additions (PL and PLROA). So, for example, I have a friend who has only read the first 3 books. She doesn’t even know what happens after that bc she prefers to think it ended after QOTD. So any new vampires made after QOTD do not exist to her. #Your headcanon may vary.

Anyway, you want summaries.

http://vampirechronicles.wikia.com has a pretty good write-up for each of the books (they don’t have PL and PLROA currently, maybe they will eventually). It contains spoilers.

@vraik​ has thorough VC analysis in their series called The Consulting Analyst over on vraikaiser.com. Spoilers there, too.

@hyperbeeb‘s capsule reviews are pretty gr9 [X]:

Lestat’s Adventures with a Progressive Family

Lestat’s Bisexual Adventures in 18th Century France

Lestat’s Adventures with the Queen of the Vampires

Lestat’s Adventures as a Human

Lestat’s Adventures with Satan

Lestat’s Adventures in a Coma

Lestat’s Adventures with Polyamory 

Lestat’s Adventures in the Deep South

Lestat’s Adventures with Not Being There At All

Lestat’s Adventures with Witches and Other Weird Shit

Lestat’s adventures with Being the Vampire Head of State

Lestat’s Adventures with Literal Fucking Aliens

(Note, Pandora and Vittorio are technically stand-alone “New Tales of the Vampires” books, but Pandora would be No. 6 of the 13 book series).

You can check my #VC Synopsis tag, which has more capsule humorous summaries.

Gonna try to do a little summary for each VC under the cut as a personal challenge. 

Spoilers ahead! I’ll try to do this with as few spoilers as possible, as factually as possible.

1. Interview with the Vampire - Louis tells the story of his life and unlife to Daniel Molloy. Louis starts at the point in his mortal life just before he meets Lestat, and how his life up until that meeting influenced the unlife that followed after he became a vampire. Lestat’s reasons for choosing Louis are unclear to Louis, but he wants Louis to choose to be a vampire. Louis is under so much duress (failing health, still in emotional distress over his guilt re: a close family member’s death) that the choice is not 100% legit, Lestat can’t wait for a more opportune time and proceeds to turn Louis anyway. 

The whole story could be seen as Anne Rice’s exploration of the role of religion and the reasons why terrible things happen to innocent people, the concept of punishment. 

For me, it was also eye-opening bc I was 11 when I read it and it introduced the possibility of love between a same-sex couple, even if that was in more of a read-between-the-lines way. 

It also has a child vampire and I hadn’t seen any media even attempt to tell a story with a child vampire before. Few media that attempt it seem to have captured the beauty and tragedy of such a creature as in this story, and she reappears in a few of the other VC. Unreliable Narrator thing that continues throughout the series.

^ok that was too long, I’m going for shorter.

2. The Vampire Lestat - Lestat seeks to ��correct the record” that Louis laid out in IWTV by giving us his own backstory, starting at his mortal youth and how that influenced the unlife that followed when he became a vampire, against his will (hence the “I’m going to give you the choice I never had,” line from movie!IWTV). There is more exploration in the role of religion and reasons why bad things happen to basically innocent people, and whether you really can make the best of a shitty situation or just give up. More about punishment. A very unique take on the origin of the vampires as a species is revealed. And the reasons why Lestat behaved the way he did (basically all secretive) in IWTV. Unreliable Narrator thing that continues throughout the series, who are we to believe? Lestat or Louis? And the author’s retconning which is perceived as “making excuses later in canon for behavior that’s already happened.” Some readers really despise this. Personally, I like having the options and trusting one version of events, or none of them.

3. The Queen of the Damned - Lestat’s modern-era rock career wakes the Queen of the Vampires and she has this awesome Radical Feminist idea for world peace. She’s already gotten started on it! She upgrades Lestat physically so that he can help her accomplish her goals, but he’s not really on board. They meet with the vampires she has allowed to survive her purge and it doesn’t go very well. Also in this book, we have different narrators, more about the vampire origin story, and the Armand/Daniel ship is sailing at its best here.

4. The Tale of the Body Thief - Having suffered so much through the past 3 books, Lestat is a suicidal hamburger-brained moron and makes some very bad choices. Despite everyone advising him NOT to, Lestat makes a terrible trade with a body thief and learns quickly that he had idealized being human. He does some horrendous stuff, and wants off the Being Human ride. He has one friend who helps him set things back to the way they should be, and then he betrays that friend in a spectacularly cruel way. More importantly, Lestat also gets a wonderful cuddly doggo. 

5. Memnoch the Devil - Lestat Goes to Heaven and Hell, meets Jesus Christ, meets God, meets Satan (who prefers to go by “Memnoch”) it’s all a huge interview process to decide if Lestat might work for God or Satan and it’s basically fanfic of the Bible. Some people hated it for those reasons. I found it really intriguing, bc it presents a reason why God created the earth, and why there’s suffering, why God allows suffering to go on, and where religion comes from. Like Lestat, Memnoch says he’s not the antagonist, but really the good guy in all this. When Dorothy gets back to Kansas Lestat returns to earth, there is disagreement about whether he went on a real trip or he was just fooled by a really talented spirit. Lestat is so confused that he throws a huge tantrum and then gets solitary confinement, then slips into a coma.

6. The Vampire Armand - Armand gets his spotlight and gets to really tell his story, do we believe everything he tells us? Lots of good Italy times stuff. Armand visits Lestat in his coma-state, and talks about that, too. 

7. Merrick - Merrick is a Mayfair witch in NOLA who bewitches Louis in pursuit of his request for closure with Claudia, and hilarity ensues. Louis gets the most screentime he’s had since IWTV, but the whole book is told from a 3rd wheel’s POV, it would have been so much better from Louis’ or Merrick’s POV. Major fatal thing happens but fortunately Lestat wakes up from his coma in time to save the day.

8. Blood and Gold - Marius tells his story, as does the vampire Thorne tell his own story. Marius talks about his artistic influences and his experience with the early Talamasca and Santino and the Children of Satan. We see Daniel (now living with Marius) under a kind of spell, which Marius says is temporary. 

9. Blackwood Farm - Lestat goes to the Deep South and hears the story of vampire Quinn (his story defies summary) and, with Merrick’s help, saves the day.

10. Blood Canticle - More vampire and Mayfair mixing. And Taltos. It’s a very big WTF book. But it has some very funny scenes and lines in it. It ends with Lestat promising the Dark Gift to someone. 

11. Prince Lestat - Vampire scientists. A clone. Someone gets kidnapped. Ultimate Vampire Coven Gathering. Lestat is cranky, saves the day anyway. Ghosts apparently can linger on earth after death and make bodies for themselves. Characters from past books reappear. New characters are introduced. Louis writes a chapter about how OK fine, he does love Lestat. FINE.

12. Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis - I haven’t finished this but basically… the REAL vampire origin story, and it involves bird-like aliens, who were sent to earth bc the aliens feed on the suffering of mortals. The bird-like aliens didnt want to create Atlantis. in fact they were pissed because this one creature of theirs, Amel, made Atlantis with the Luracastria (i dunno i think thats how it’s spelled) and their viewing tech couldn’t see through the material. Amel made Atlantis to spite the bird-like aliens omg i cant believe im typing this. Louis and Lestat finally have some legit canon cuddletimes.

- Pandora - the story of the vampire Pandora, and why Marius is bad at relationships. Lots of good Roman times stuff.

- Vittorio - is not a VC vampire, and wants nothing to do with that dysfunctional pile of fanged crazies. @monstersinthecosmos and @vittoriathevampire could give you a better summary of that one, since I didn’t absorb it too well :P

[scribbleboxfox]

So, without being to spoilery for The Long Road Home, how much would you like to say on your lovely blue gal Fox?

Weeeeeeell... I do have some facts I can give you about her currently. 

Gonna put em all under the cut because I feel like this might get long.

For starters, here’s what she looked like back when she was still an Okami OC:

Because I’m big on designing weapons and figuring out their mechanics bc I’m a HUGE robotics nerd, I decided to implement that into Fox’s design.The shield obvs isn’t going to look the same, and it’s going to fit reasonably within the boundaries of a typical Halo weapon. 

She also has a way to get any information on ANYONE. I can’t tell you how yet though, because that’s kind of a huge spoiler.

She was a figure skater in high school and was really really good, but she stopped when she went to college. A lot of the movements that she did back then are implemented into her fighting style, however, so it’s actually pretty fun to watch her throw down. Just as long as you aren’t on the receiving end. 

She hates guns. She’ll use them if she has to, but she won’t enjoy it. 

She also hates golf, but she kept her father’s old golf club set (likely for sentimental purposes.)

She earned a doctorate’s in biomechanical engineering and also has a massive amount of medical training that she got from working in the field during the Great War.

Speaking of the Great War, she was a corpsman in a troop sent to aid New Mombasa, but they were forced to retreat when the Covenant began glassing the city. She’s also one of only four survivors. One of the other survivors, James Ludwell, later joined her on the mission to Nalome. 

She has been known to shoot cockroaches bc she’s so scared of them that she doesn’t want to get anywhere near them. 

She’s pansexual.

She loves dad jokes and bad puns but also has a pretty dark, sarcastic sense of humor. She tends to make lots of jokes about death or dying, mostly as a coping method, since she’s been through so much SHIT.

She’s half Japanese and half Irish. Her father was a big name businessman and her mom was a chef. They quite literally ran into each other while her mom was visiting family in city (she was jogging, he was on his phone and not paying attention, it was love at first sight.) She offered to cook him dinner to make up for it, and he was just curious enough to oblige. 

Fox is a manipulative little SHIT. Though she tries not to be around people she considers her friends. Her enemies on the other hand...well.....

She’s also a very good liar, but again, she tries not to do this too often, mostly because she considers it a waste of memory.

She was a camp counselor during the summer while she was in college, and as a result, knows a lot of really helpful survival skills. Unfortunately, being able to build a raft out of sticks won’t get one off of a moon in space. 

She will eat just about anything you put in front of her. 

She loves to sing and dance and often does so when she’s working on something. 

Despite being a biomechanical engineer, she also has a lot of knowledge about just building things in general, and fair amount of the smaller tech on Nalome was either built or altered by her. 

CORA and her used to be buddies.

She loves giving people nicknames and using terms of endearment. So far the only two that she’s used are “Stripes” for Wash and “Sunshine” for Locus. There will be more to come, however.

She has a slight Boston accent, having grown up there. 

She talks really fast, but somehow manages to only rarely fumble her speech. I don’t know how she does it.

She has ADHD and fidgets a LOT. She also likes to rock and sometimes, when she’s really happy, will do little flappy hand movements. 

She’s only 5′2″, but that won’t stop her from fucking your shit up. 

She has a tendency to blame herself for bad things that happen to other people, which is an easy thing to exploit, if you’re an asshole.

She’s a firm believer in the saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” 

She tells people she doesn’t get attached to others easily but that is a LIE.

She loves most animals.

She was a sorority sister.

Her alcohol tolerance is RIDICULOUS.

She’s fully aware of what Locus has done and what he’s capable of but also doesn’t care because a) he’s useful and b) she could beat the shit out of him.

Could crush a watermelon between her thighs tbh.

Could also probably bench me.

Doesn’t like yelling at people, and will only do so if she has no other way of getting her point across. 

Doesn’t startle easily, but if you do manage to catch her off guard, you should probably run.

She’s a notorious sweater stealer. If you’re bigger than her and you’ve got a sweater she likes, she’s gonna take it. Don’t worry though, you’ll get it back. Eventually.

Is salty as fuck.

Drives way too fast.

Once ate 14 hot dogs in a row. 

Likes to make references to old movies.

Doesn’t like crying in front of people. 

Talks almost entirely with one-liners during a fight. It’s terrible and she knows it. Which is why she does it. 

Has no problems calling people out when they do terrible/stupid shit.

Wants to fuck up Hargrove’s life.

Wow ok I wrote more than I was expecting to. Welp. It’s a lot, but I somehow managed to not spoil too much. Yay me!

Anyways this is what I have on her so far that I can share with you!