#Qotd spoilers

[agendercryptidlev]

This post contains spoilers for the Vampire Chronicles book series.

I keep seeing people talking about characters who are gonna show up in the next season of Interview with the Vampire talk about Akasha being like "omg she's such a diva girlboss slay queen" and like. Folks she's a TERF. And also a colonist. Like she's not some misunderstood Eve figure she literally order two women be raped after killing their entire community because she was angry she didn't have access to their closed religious practices her philosophy is morally bankrupt and hypocritical.

[glitteringpoet1685]

I'm turning 21 soon so my time is swiftly running out to meet a dude who claims to be a vampire and instead of getting the fuck away from this clearly insane man I go home with him and listen to his life story and then he tries to eat me bc I wanna be a vampire too. I live, so I go try to find his crazy ex but accidentally find his other crazy ex and he locks me in a basement for a couple of days and then stalks me across the world for a couple of years but then we fall in love and he feeds me his weird psychedelic blood and we're together now but also I'm addicted to his magical vampire blood. And also he buys me an island.

This is a pivotal experience that every 20 year old should have. I don't want to miss out.

[lexdelioncourt]

Just watched QOTD for the first time and this was my train of thought:

Who is this heterosexual brown haired man?

What the fuck is his accent?

Why are there so many Australians in this?

Thank fuck Sam Reid came to redeem Australia

Omg I'm cringing so hard I nearly sucked my couch up my ass

I can't do this

Fuckass Marius

Learning violin from a random lady on a beach and not your gay lover is a hate crime

Why is he playing for what he believes are statues? Like Marius hasn't told him about those who must be kept

I love how they keep having Marius call him son and making it clear that he's a paternal figure so we don't accidentally think it's gay.. AS IF THAT WOULD STOP AN ANNE RICE VAMPIRE

Devil's Minion is the best part of this book and I know it's not in here

Me yelling at Lestat flying around with Jesse: THAT SHOULD BE LOUIS!

Why does Marius talk like a WWDITS character?

Where is Mekare?

Why is nothing explained?

Aaliyah is the only thing this movie has going for it

FUCKASS ARMAND

Louis come and get your man, he's acting up again

Jesse, why are you here?

Oh they basically just replaced Louis with you

This is the Vampire Chronicles for straight people

I'm gonna rewatch the S3 teaser to cleanse my eyeballs

Ahhh my eyeballs are cleansed and fresh like Maharet's after she steals a new pair

[wizardpink]

Reading qotd totally out of order because I was just looking for a certain passage and excited to see Louis and Lestat making out backstage before Lestat's concert.

Love that Rice is like "people might think I mean on the cheek or the forehead or something, I'd better specify right on the lips, baby."

[chaoticbards]

I don't think we talk enough about this passage of Claudia's diary about her and Lestat

[greedandenby]

Akasha to Lestat:

Claudia, proving her point like a boss:

[slightlydeceased]

queen of the damned left me with so many emotions jfc...louis and lestat's date while they were flying...akasha getting bitch-slapped so hard she dies...mekare and maharet getting the revenge they deserved...lestat's degradation kink almost being a main character in itself...damn

[mossycakes]

happiest moment of my life was when i headcanoned armand would prefer talking via telepathy because he has autism and then i read qotd and was VIIIIINDICATEDDDD

[thursdaymorningchild]

Welcome to another week of 'Why the fuck are you looking at each other like that if you're not gonna fuck?!'

bonus

[cbrownjc]

Devil's Minion flashback hint in Episode 2x04 Preview

Spoilers from the 2x04 preview below:

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So . . . I think this is a shot of young Daniel, wrapped up in plastic and duct tape:

And it was Armand who did it and who young Daniel is looking up at here:

So I already suspected that Armand locking Daniel up in a cage like he did in the book wasn't going to happen in the show, and this would be the equivalent -- Daniel trapped in Armand's apartment instead. But wrapping Daniel up in plastic and duct tape first? Yikes.

My speculation:

Now, in the books, Armand locked Daniel up in a cage for something like 3-4 days before letting him go -- with the threat of killing him at some point -- and officially starting their chase. But because during the shooting of Season 2, there was no indication that Luke and Assad filmed anywhere other than Prague, I don't think we'll see that part of the chase yet. And, instead, Daniel will be "locked up" for a much longer period at first.

I'm also starting to get the feeling that the timeframe of the chase vs when they officially became a couple will be the same in the show as it was in the books. Their cat-and-mouse lasted for 4 years, and then they officially became a couple for 8 years after that before Daniel was turned, (or, in the show's case, let go), going from the age of 20 to the age of 32 by the end -- a span of 12 years of his life in total for it all. I thought at first that the show might condense the timeline of the chase, but I'm starting to think they won't.

So if Daniel is kept in the apartment for longer than 3-4 days, that would be part of the 4-year chase timeline.

[mistercrowbar]

yoinking off a reddit thread, which companion would step up as leader if your tav/durge was kidnapped in Act 3?

[elvhenmage]

actually let’s talk about dream guardians because EA calling them “heart’s desire” or whatever has been on my mind for AGES. what do y’all’s tav’s guardians look like and how do they relate to your tav, if they do at all?

[silverliing]

[samovchena]

[skydaemon]

so lyctors are infertile yes? at least mercy appears to be, and it's strongly implied that the reason is her lyctorhood. all necromancers are known to struggle w fertility (see: harrow's parents) which iirc is bc of their link to death, so i'm guessing actually having an ever-dying/ever-living soul combo meal is not to the benefit of conception.

the reason this matters to me is that anastasia (who, as a post by @ferretsarefurryappendagedsnakes brought up, is NOT listed as a saint to serve the king undying in the htn opening) did have children. she's harrow's direct ancestor, hence alecto king-konging her at the end of nona. she is the only lyctor we know of to have living descendants. now the details on exactly what the lyctoral timeline was post-resurrection are murky, but i do imagine it taking less than their natural lifespans for all the lyctors to ascend and anastasia to fail. that means anastasia's line has been around for 10,000 years, give or take - ~400 generations. For context, the Western Roman Empire fell 60-70 generations ago. For her to still have living descendants (especially with the known fertility rate of necromancers and the fact that necromancy appears to be inherited, at least in part) is absurd. it's ridiculous to think harrow's the only descendant - i mean, even being mega-conservative about birth rates, there could be dozens, if not hundreds. some of the babies from the genocide might well have been the blood of anastasia.

it must be fucking insane for the lyctors to see harrow, to have lived with her for months. she's supposedly the spit of anastasia. 10,000 years, 400 generations, and she's right there.

basically i'm desperate for someone (ideally alecto, bc it's totally in character for her) to have a QoTD Great Family moment and realise exactly how long 10,000 years is for people and how many of anastasia's descendants are alive. maybe some of them even escaped the nine houses? idk, it just makes me emotional and i want it to make THEM emotional

[evergreensandthunderstorms]

“He tasted like vermouth and annihilation” EXCUSE ME KITTEN TO WHOM ARE YOU REFERRING