#Madeline is my favorite vamp for this reason

[pacipinka]

*taps mic* is this thing on? Yeah okay so every vampire in the vampire chronicles is turned at critical a moment in their lives and beyond just the body they are in when they are turned, their mentality stays at that standstill for their entire immortality, Lestat was turned against his will, he was clinging onto Magnus begging him to be freed, so he’s constantly seeking freedom and only finding loneliness and thus turning back to people again and again, however he can’t STAND being told what to do, since he desires agency in his life so desperately, Armand was turned after years and years of abuse and lack of control but such a desire for genuine love, by a man he ‘loved’ so wholly who he felt was barring his love from him, he needs control in his life, he needs a ‘master’ but he does not desire it, it does not fulfill him, he is trapped in a room but the door is unlocked! Louis was mourning his brother, he felt like an utter failure and so he’s always seeking family, seeking people he can care for, he can coddle, he can prove he is good too, but he loves people who either cannot stand coddeling and need a sense of looseness to live (Lestat) or people who grow out of coddling who prove to Louis he will always fail the people he loves (Claudia), Claudias turning, in many MANY ways mirrors lestats in that it was against her will, she was stolen from her home, and in her immortality she desires freedom but unlike Lestat does not have the agency/ form to get it, she will always be small, she will always be looked down on, even by Lestat who cannot deny how much she is just like him *taps mic* ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!! NONE OF THEM CAN BREAK THE CYCLE!!! TO BREAK IT WOULD BE TO UNDO THE VERY FIBER OF THEIR IMMORTAL SELVES!! THE CYCLE IS THE BLOOD THEY DRINK IT IS THE HEART IN THEIR CHEST AND IT ROLLS AND ROLLS DOWN THE MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS OF THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER AND IT CAN NEVER BE STOPPED BECAUSE THEY WILL NEVER STOP LOVING EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[anarchxst]

How did From Ashes come about and how you made it a llong fictionpress series? I'm considering writing a DCEU long fic myself.

My first ever watch through of Teen Wolf (I was about 2 and a half seasons behind when I first started).

As I’ve made it very clear throughout my time on tumblr, I am a Buffy fan. Avidly. Thankfully. In more recent years, sometimes regrettably. If you guys check my ff.net profile, in which I’ve never taken down even the most horrible parts of my writing history, there’s a string of Buffy crossovers, post series finale. Most are ridiculous because they just don’t fit at all. (FFX, guys. FINAL FANTASY TEN. What was I thinking?)

Anyway, I was working at Target, doing early morning shifts for a year in which all I did was listen to music and put shit away. I was on season 2 of Teen Wolf when I started to get ideas. Also, Stiles reminded me way too much of my fiance when I first met him when I was 18. At this point, he’d caught a few episodes of TW season 1 and most of season 2. This is maybe a year and a half after he finally binged all of Buffy and Angel with me (because I get everyone to do that eventually). 

We were watching the first episode of 3A, when he asked me a question. “So…you think there’s vampires in this universe?”

And I said no. It was too tropey, even if I wanted it to go that way eventually. Just full on vamps v. wolves in epic fashion.

I thought about it through the whole episode and then at work that morning. What else was I going to think about at 4 am, right?

I thought of my previous story idea, which was a manga. I had talked to artists but I was becoming iffy on the idea - but I LOVED the main character.

Katsumi, a girl who died and made a deal with a demon for a new life where she was prettier, stronger, and, more than all of that, noticed. Ultimately, she was cursed to use these things to fight parasitic demons that took similar deals but became corrupted. In doing that, she rejected her best friend who became her worst enemy and someone she had to sacrifice. She didn’t have friends or family, but fans. When she did find friends, she was forced to see them die around her. All this and she couldn’t even admire herself. She would look in the mirror and see the girl she was, the one that she hated. 

Okay so all of that took place in a comic con setting. It was called ConSlayer. It was odd and only a few panels ever actually happened. 

I took Katsumi and dropped the con part. I thought of a vampire slayer in 2013, what she would be and what it would mean to be a slayer now. I wrote the prologue but didn’t have a name. I searched baby name sites for a name for days. I settled on Madeline Hayes. Madeline: meaning tower, something strong and solid that keeps others safe but kept distance high above everyone. Hayes: Irish (like me), which translated into Gaelic, meant fire.

I always had an odd connection to fire. That’s another weird story for another time. 

Suddenly, a week later, I had a title and the first place anyone could see it was a spotify playlist (which is now 200+ songs). From Ashes. Simple. To the point. A little cryptic.

That’s the thing though, I didn’t quite understand how much that title would mean later on. I called it that for another reason: This story was not just a crossover, but a love letter, finally, to my favorite show. Buffy ended in epic fashion with a message to echo on for years and years. From it’s ashes, came an girl like me that needed to know what it meant to follow a dream and a girl like Maddie that wanted to know what it meant to be a hero. 

I didn’t expect it to be this long but as I actually outlined it about a year after winging it, I realized the story I was telling needed at least this many chapters to do everything I wanted to do and really develop the characters that cropped up as the story went on.

Here we are, 4 years and 48 chapters later.

There I go, getting sentimental again.

[bazarcito-decorazones222]

La forma en la que todos los personajes en Entrevista con el Vampiro están básicamente malditos por la narrativa, sus relaciones, sus entornos y sus traumas, ME DESTROZA VIVO.

Anne Rice es una GRAN escritora por crear algo así de destrozado, maldito y fascinante 😭😭😭😭😭

*taps mic* is this thing on? Yeah okay so every vampire in the vampire chronicles is turned at critical a moment in their lives and beyond just the body they are in when they are turned, their mentality stays at that standstill for their entire immortality, Lestat was turned against his will, he was clinging onto Magnus begging him to be freed, so he’s constantly seeking freedom and only finding loneliness and thus turning back to people again and again, however he can’t STAND being told what to do, since he desires agency in his life so desperately, Armand was turned after years and years of abuse and lack of control but such a desire for genuine love, by a man he ‘loved’ so wholly who he felt was barring his love from him, he needs control in his life, he needs a ‘master’ but he does not desire it, it does not fulfill him, he is trapped in a room but the door is unlocked! Louis was mourning his brother, he felt like an utter failure and so he’s always seeking family, seeking people he can care for, he can coddle, he can prove he is good too, but he loves people who either cannot stand coddeling and need a sense of looseness to live (Lestat) or people who grow out of coddling who prove to Louis he will always fail the people he loves (Claudia), Claudias turning, in many MANY ways mirrors lestats in that it was against her will, she was stolen from her home, and in her immortality she desires freedom but unlike Lestat does not have the agency/ form to get it, she will always be small, she will always be looked down on, even by Lestat who cannot deny how much she is just like him *taps mic* ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!! NONE OF THEM CAN BREAK THE CYCLE!!! TO BREAK IT WOULD BE TO UNDO THE VERY FIBER OF THEIR IMMORTAL SELVES!! THE CYCLE IS THE BLOOD THEY DRINK IT IS THE HEART IN THEIR CHEST AND IT ROLLS AND ROLLS DOWN THE MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS OF THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER AND IT CAN NEVER BE STOPPED BECAUSE THEY WILL NEVER STOP LOVING EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[me-and-the-devils-minion]

I wonder what this will say for Daniel.

*taps mic* is this thing on? Yeah okay so every vampire in the vampire chronicles is turned at critical a moment in their lives and beyond just the body they are in when they are turned, their mentality stays at that standstill for their entire immortality, Lestat was turned against his will, he was clinging onto Magnus begging him to be freed, so he’s constantly seeking freedom and only finding loneliness and thus turning back to people again and again, however he can’t STAND being told what to do, since he desires agency in his life so desperately, Armand was turned after years and years of abuse and lack of control but such a desire for genuine love, by a man he ‘loved’ so wholly who he felt was barring his love from him, he needs control in his life, he needs a ‘master’ but he does not desire it, it does not fulfill him, he is trapped in a room but the door is unlocked! Louis was mourning his brother, he felt like an utter failure and so he’s always seeking family, seeking people he can care for, he can coddle, he can prove he is good too, but he loves people who either cannot stand coddeling and need a sense of looseness to live (Lestat) or people who grow out of coddling who prove to Louis he will always fail the people he loves (Claudia), Claudias turning, in many MANY ways mirrors lestats in that it was against her will, she was stolen from her home, and in her immortality she desires freedom but unlike Lestat does not have the agency/ form to get it, she will always be small, she will always be looked down on, even by Lestat who cannot deny how much she is just like him *taps mic* ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!! NONE OF THEM CAN BREAK THE CYCLE!!! TO BREAK IT WOULD BE TO UNDO THE VERY FIBER OF THEIR IMMORTAL SELVES!! THE CYCLE IS THE BLOOD THEY DRINK IT IS THE HEART IN THEIR CHEST AND IT ROLLS AND ROLLS DOWN THE MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS OF THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER AND IT CAN NEVER BE STOPPED BECAUSE THEY WILL NEVER STOP LOVING EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!