#flannery gilman

[nalyra-dreaming]

Lestats sperm?! !???

I thought vampires didn’t have that in the books

And stolen?

Wtf

Lestats got a legitimate son named vickor?!?

As a non book reader I thought I heard everything so far, honestly. Anne rice was smokin some good golden chush when she thought of all this lmao

She was fearless that way. Trust me, that's only the tip of the iceberg. There's literal aliens, too :)

But yeah, Lestat consented to do an experiment for Fareed (with Flannery, who was also there voluntarily!), hormonal treatment to produce sperm and have "human" sex. It was a short thing, and quite hilarious/touching in the books:

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The answer came swiftly with a series of injections and indeed an intravenous line that would continue throughout the experiment to deliver a powerful elixir of human hormones into my blood, overriding the vampiric body’s natural tendency to resist senescence long enough for the desire to develop, the sperm to be produced, and then ejaculated. I thought it was hilariously funny. Now I could write an essay of five hundred pages on how this experience unfolded, because I did feel biological erotic desire again, and I fell on the young woman about as mercilessly as any greedy aristocrat of my time ever fell on a milkmaid in his village. But it was precisely as my beloved Louis had said a long time ago, “the pale shadow of killing,” that is, the pale shadow of drinking blood, and it was over almost at once, it seemed, and then the passion was gone, back into the depths of memory once more as if it had never been aroused, the pinnacle, the ejaculation forgotten. I’d felt strangely awkward afterwards. I was sitting on the bed beside this blond-haired fair-skinned human female, my back to a nest of sweet-smelling linen-covered pillows, and I felt I ought to talk to her, ask her how she came to be here, and why she was here.

And then quite suddenly, as I sat there, wondering if this was proper or even wise, she told me. Her name was Flannery Gilman, she said. In a clear fresh West Coast American voice, she explained that she’d been studying “us” since the night I’d appeared on the stage as a rock star outside San Francisco, and so many of our kind had died as the result of my great scheme to be a mortal performer.[...]

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I would love it if Rolin went there, actually, or at least gives us Flannery, there at the rock concerts in s3/s4, drawn to vampires, and finally given the chance, a researcher, a scientist, who later keeps working with Fareed (and Seth), and others.

In fact, I often wonder what "the farm" entails/entailed in s1 (if Fareed is involved, or maybe Gregory?!), hopefully we will get to know in the upcoming seasons!

EDIT: And before any of you come for me with "he fOrcEd her!1111!", let me add her words there, before they part:

“They’ve promised to bring you over, haven’t they?” I asked. “Yes,” she said. “They’re honorable. That’s more than I can say for my colleagues in American medicine.” She turned to me, drawing close enough to kiss me quickly one more time on the cheek. I didn’t stop her. Her fingers went up to my face and she touched my eyelids. “Thank you,” she said. “Thank you for these priceless moments. Oh, I know you didn’t do this for me. You did it for them. But thank you.” I nodded and I smiled. I held her face in my hands as I kissed her now with a fervor that came from the Blood. I could feel her body warming, opening like a flower, but the moment was gone, and I took my leave.

[hekateinhell]

today I said the words ✨lestat's baby mama✨ to someone and I had to pause and process once again that it's canon he knocks up some lady doctor with a 'precious, adorable, curvaceous, hot little body'

god bless whatever anne rice was on in 2013

[thenightflower]

👆 100%

Drinking👏blood👏is👏better👏than👏sex👏to👏them👏.

Marius and Lestat discussing Lestat’s reluctance to admit the tribe of vampires are natural killers who literally lust after blood and he shouldn’t expect them to be domesticated.

Blood Communion

〰️🦀〰️🦀〰️🦀〰️

Louis describing what sex felt like to Claudia.

Interview with the Vampire

〰️🦀〰️🦀〰️🦀〰️

Lestat describing to the reader how brief and unimpressive sex was after having making love to Flannery Gilman as a vampire.

Prince Lestat

〰️🦀〰️🦀〰️🦀〰️

**TW SA**

Lestat’s describing to the reader how his first sexual encounter in a human body was meh and kind of ick. 🫤

Tale of the Body Thief

〰️🦀〰️🦀〰️🦀〰️

Quinn and Merrick discussing how weak an orgasm was compared to drinking blood. “Mild pleasure” by comparison.

Blackwood Farm

people are always like "Oh a vampire wouldn't get horny while drinking someone's blood, that's like getting horny while eating a sandwich" and like man have you never had a really good fucking sandwich?

[queerographies]

[Quello che ho da dire lo dico da sola][Margherita Giacobino]

Quello che ho da dire lo dico da sola di Margherita Giacobino è un libro fatto di percorsi solitari, eccentrici e ribelli, scandalosi e marginali, tanto più interessanti di quelli che obbediscono alle regole del consenso e del mercato.

Quello che ho da dire lo dico da sola è un libro fatto di percorsi solitari, eccentrici e ribelli, scandalosi e marginali, tanto più interessanti di quelli che obbediscono alle regole del consenso e del mercato. Di autrici scomparse che sono più vive e attuali che mai nelle loro pagine. Di scritture passate che sono in anticipo sul tempo presente, e aspettano un futuro che non è ancora arrivato.…

[persephonethewanderer]

give us gothic literature recs!!!!

here you go anon!

FICTION:

wuthering heights, emily brontë

jane eyre, charlotte brontë

the bloody chamber, angela carter

mathilda, mary shelley

we have always lived in the castle, shirley jackson

the yellow wallpaper, charlotte perkins gilman

rebecca, daphne du maurier

carmilla, sheridan le fanu

dracula, bram stoker

frankenstein, mary shelley

the mill on the floss, george eliot

the orphan's tale, catherynne m. valente

the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

my cousin rachel, daphne du maurier

the double, fyodor dostoyevsky

the grey woman, elizabeth gaskell

beloved, toni morrison

the fall of the house of usher, edgar allan poe

wise blood, flannery o'connor

white is for witching, helen oyeyemi

wide sargasso sea, jean rhys

our wives under the sea, julia armfield

valerie and her week of wonders, vítězslav nezval

salome, oscar wilde

deathless, catherynne m. valente

piranesi, susanne clarke

picnic at hanging rock, joan lindsay

NON FICTION:

decadent daughters and monstrous mothers: angela carter and european gothic, rebecca munford

the contested castle: gothic novels and the subversion of domestic ideology, kate ferguson ellis

gothic incest: gender, sexuality and transgression, jenny diplacidi

our vampires, ourselves, nina auerbach

the madwoman in the attic, sandra gilbert and susan gubar

a new companion to the gothic, david punter

daughters of the house: modes of the gothic in victorian fiction, alison milbank

women and the gothic, avril horner and sue zlosnik

fairy tale & gothic horror, laura hubner

female gothic histories, diana wallace

women and domestic space in contemporary gothic narratives, andrew hock soon ng

gothic and gender, donna heiland

perils of the night: a feminist study of 19th century gothic, eugenia c. delamotte

the female gothic: new directions, diana wallace and andrew smith

[kinsey3furry300]

I adore The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas but depending on age range might I also suggest:

The Lottery, by Shirly Jackson.

I have no Mouth and I Must Scream, by Harlan Ellison

The Drowened Giant, by J G Ballard

Interlopers, by Saki

A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'connor

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

and either The Jaunt or the Breathing Method by Stephen King.

[murfpersonalblog]

Delico's Nursery: Kids (TVC Headcanon)

Ok, so the cast from the new anime Delico's Nursey was clearly loosely inspired by Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Chronicles' main characters, Louis, Lestat, Armand, and Marius.

But what about their children?

Until we're told otherwise, here's my current headcanon:

Dali Delico / Louis de Pointe du Lac:

Raphael: Rose Fisher (genderswapped) -- Raph witnessed his mom's murder, and I wonder what PTSD that will give him. Raph's very jealous of how much attention Ul gets, and it made me think of how drastically different Rose & Viktor's upbringing was. Rose/Raph had deeply traumatic childhoods, before Louis/Dali swooped in and saved their life. (Yes, Lestat did that first, but Rose would've died in that boarding school if Louis hadn't rescued her. Les couldn't even get to her until days later, after Dr. Fareed had already hospitalized her.)

Ul: Viktor Gilman de Lioncourt -- I'm literally projecting my wish that we'd seen Viktor grow up. But maybe AR skipped over it cuz he lived in a bubble all his life, secluded & protected by Dr. Flannery & Dr. Fareed. So there's really not much to Viktor, beyond being a son from a vitally important bloodline, who needs protecting--like we'd see when Rhoshamandes kidnapped him. In the timeskipped Trump stageplay, Ul grows up & wants to become an immortal vampire to protect those he loves, just like Viktor. In Grand Guignol stageplay, we learn that Ul's a dhamphir (halfbreed), just like Viktor's a strange genetic clone of the vampire Lestat.

Gerard Fra / Lestat de Lioncourt:

Angelico: Claudia (genderswapped) -- He looks like a spoiled brat, but seems to desperately want his dad's attention/affection, only to get brutally shot down. I hope for Gerard's sake that he eases up on Angie & stops perpetuating cycles of abuse/neglect, b4 Angie grows up to resent/hate him. Cuz we see how that turned out with Lestat & Claudia.... 😬💀 (The one thing giving me Viktor vibes is that Raph & Angie are the same age & are bffs. But Rose's literally Claudia 2.0, so...?)

Henrique Lorca / Armand:

Lucia: Sybelle / Mekare (?) The older & quiet twin.

Elena: Benji (genderswapped) / Maharet (?) The younger twin.

(They seem to be anime-onlies, not appearing in the stageplays?)

Dino Classico / Marius de Romanus:

Theodore: Pandora (genderswapped) Oldest of all the kids/fledglings. (Seems to be an anime-only, not appearing in the stageplays?)

[coweyed]

do you have any gothic lit recs?

oh plenty! since this isn’t specific i’m just gonna list some of my faves!

wuthering heights, emily brontë

jane eyre, charlotte brontë

mathilda, mary shelley

the bloody chamber, angela carter

rebecca, daphne du maurier

we have always lived in the castle, shirley jackson

the yellow wallpaper, charlotte perkins gilman

carmilla, sheridan le fanu

frankenstein, mary shelley

the haunting of hill house, shelley jackson

the mill on the floss, george eliot

the double, fyodor dostoyevsky

my cousin rachel, daphne du maurier

the grey woman, elizabeth gaskell

the fall of the house of usher, edgar allan poe

beloved, toni morrison

valerie and her week of wonders, vítězslav nezval

wise blood, flannery o’connor

wide sargasso sea, jean rhys

dracula, bram stoker

salome, oscar wilde

white is for witching, helen oyeyemi

deathless, catherynne m. valente

piranesi, susanna clarke

picnic at hanging rock, joan lindsay

the orphan’s tales, catherynne m. valente

[rollercoasterwords]

What do you think the other marauders besides Remus/Lily would like to read?

hmm interesting question....honestly lily & remus r the only ones i really imagine as big readers...

assuming this is in a canon-ish/canon-adjacent setting. i think mary would be a big poetry girly she'd fuck w plath & glück & césaire...also think she'd be into romantic fantasies like goldman's princess bride & dianna wynne jones' howl's moving castle...beagle's last unicorn as well perhaps...

don't think marlene would be big into reading but i do think lily would put her onto some sci-fi she'd enjoy--vonnegut, joanna russ, charlotte perkins gilman...i imagine her as a sci-fi fan as well but less into reading more into like. star wars & alien movies. same w james i don't imagine him as a big reader but i do think lily would find some sci-fi he'd enjoy...maybe more of like the philip k. dick lane than the vonnegut/russ lane tho. i think he might like some leguin as well; i imagine he'd be one of those people who really just wants to read a book that feels like a movie, nothing too dense or slow-moving.

i think all of the marauders would get a kick out of lord of the flies lol. & i imagine peter might find greek mythology interesting i could potentially see him reading like the odyssey or something. i think sirius would lowkey fuck w poetry but have a bit of a complex about it--think his faves would be the classic romantics so like shelley, byron, keats, etc. i think he would also fw baldwin & wilde, due to the homosexuality. also wuthering heights, & would have a complex abt that as well lol.

dorcas i imagine favoring a writing style that's a bit more brutal & dry...maybe some flannery o'connor, steinbeck, faulkner, etc...could also see her being big into like agatha christia murder mysteries. maybe some shirley jackson as well. emmeline would be into atwood i think...in my mind she'd also fuck hard w stone butch blues & would be reading lorde & butler (judith, not octavia) in the 90s. pandora would be into the weird gory shit she'd be reading like jack ketchum...probably stephen king & angela carter as well. maybe some more classic horror like poe & stoker's dracula, etc. also think she'd get really into octavia butler.

& regulus wouldn't read shit but if he did it would probably be like. fucking ayn rand. & maybe bukowski

[nalyra-dreaming]

Wait, I'm really confused now. I remember in the books Flannery being called Viktor's biological mother and there was a line about how Lestat impregnated her. So I've always assumed that Viktor was conceived from her egg and Lestat's sperm. But if Viktor was a clone that's not possible. So she was just Viktor's surrogate and was only called a mother because she raised him? Would it actually be possible for a vampire on a hormonal cocktail to impregnate someone the traditional way? I'm assuming no or Fareed wouldn't have to experiment with cloning.

Well, it wasn't as easy as Lestat surmised, and no it was not an actual impregnation.

Flannery carried and bore Viktor, but Fareed took the semen and whatever he took as samples, and cloned the cells into an empty egg (see for example the story of clone sheep Dolly).

This is what Fareed says on it (in "Prince Lestat"):

"But it had not been simple. Indeed the magic connection had been made in a dish, and the son was more a clone than an offspring, birthed through a biological mother."

Now, Lestat thinks he impregnated her when he hears about having a son - but he simply does not know anything about the process at that point (nor does he particularly care I would think).

When they tell him, they use the words

"He was born of a mortal woman in Fareed’s laboratory, a woman named Flannery Gilman who is now in the Blood.[...]"

which he interprets as him having impregnated her.

Flannery behaved and was (like a) the mother to Viktor, but he ultimately was a clone of Lestat. Which does not negate any emotional connection, obviously. Or the fact that he regarded her as his mother.

[nateconnolly]

You can vote even if you're not sure you'll be able to come!

[thewildeclub]

Chapbook in the Works!

I am currently working on a chapbook where I'm talking to dead writers and artists. If you wanna hear a snippet, reply to this post!

I talk to:

Walt Whitman

Anne Sexton

Mary Shelley

Virgina Woolf

Flannery O'Connor

Charlote Perkins Gilman

Sylvia Plath

Etc!

what other writers should I talk to?

[bandedbulbussnarfblat]

my fellow vc/iwtv fans, i need your assistance.

in the books i know Lestat has a biological son, Viktor, with Flannery Gilman. but i honestly don't recall much of the prince lestat books, bc i didn't really care for them overall. so can someone remind me how that whole thing happened? I know Seth and Fareed were involved somehow, for science or something.

Basically how tf did Viktor come into existence?

[bubblegum-blackwood]

Before telling me who I forgot, be sure to check my other female VC character polls and see if she's on one of those instead!

[devilsminion-armandaniel]

Since we're all speculating about Daniel's daughters. Here are my wildest theories so far:

Daniel's daughters are Sybil and Benji and Armand's suicidal storyline has already taken place. Benji is either genderbended or Armand changed the details there. They could be aged up version, but also still be teenagers and it's one of the reasons Daniel hasn't spoken to them in years.

One of Daniel's daughters is actually Flannery Gilman, but now called Flannery Molloy. Viktor's biological mother. Which creates a nice little family unit, with Daniel being the grandfather of Lestat's son.

One of Daniel's wives and the mother of his children is actually related to Louis. Grace de pointe du lac is her grandmother. Making Daniel's children related to Louis. But these children won't reject him as family.

The daughters are actually two dancers Daniel and Armand adopted in the 70s and Armand changed the details when he erased his memory.

[inhersepulchrebythesea]

You seem to like horror. What movies and books do you recommend?

Ooh! I do! It depends on what you like.

Movies:

Skinamarink if you're into vibes

Eraserhead if you're into David Lynch stuff

I also really enjoyed His House, Rosemary's Baby, and Spree.

Books:

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Haddix

The Upstairs House is on my to-read list.

If you're into graphic novels, Uzumaki by Junji Ito is one of the most unsettling things I've read in my life.

And then my specialty, literary short stories:

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (which I've been talking about a lot lately lol)

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor

"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates

And honorary mention: the poem, "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe (which is where I got my URL)

I think I mostly like horror where people are kinda trapped--where their surroundings are changing and it's not a monster or demon threatening them. It's very Romantic. I live nature as an antagonist. But I do like other types of horror as you can see from the list!