#flannery gilman

[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

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Louis describing what sex felt like to Claudia.

Interview with the Vampire

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

Prince Lestat

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**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

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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.

[nalyra-dreaming]

Wait so Lestat has a biological son? Why was he never mentioned in the show? Unless this happens in a later book/season but can vampires even reproduce since they’re technically dead? Did/will Lestat raise him and does he know Louis too? Will he also become a vampire? I have so many questions istg I learn new book lore every day and it manages to surprise me every time 😭

Oh yes, a biological "almost clone".

And he is never mentioned on the show because he did not exist in Lestat's past... but exists in the future books ("Prince Lestat" and on.).

Viktor is artificially created by Fareed. (Which is also why Fareed's presence in s1 already!!! made me scream and kick my feet, lol.)

Fareed is Seth's (Akasha's mortal son later turned fledgling) fledgling and companion, and both, he and Seth are "healers", scientists and doctors for the vampires. Fareed does a lot of experiments, and one of them was trying to make vampires have sex (by hormonal infusion). Remember, in the books these vampires did not have sex. And, you guessed it, Lestat participated in that little experiment.

The result is Viktor, who grew up with Fareed, Seth and his (later turned) mother, Dr. Flannery Gilman.

Viktor is turned when he is an adult, but he has no fear of the process, nor any apprehension, since he lived with ancient and powerful vampires all his life (Lestat did not know of his existence, Fareed didn't know how to reach him.).

Viktor does know everyone later on, yes.

And... he falls in love with Rose, and they actually get turned after their wedding, not kidding.

Rose is a girl Lestat rescues from a fire by the way, and who he visits and lets grow up. Louis knows of her, because when Lestat is unavailable it is Louis who saves her (from another fire), and brings her to New York (Trinity Gate). And there she meets Viktor.

Louis and Lestat later see them and treat them as family.

I do think that the show is gearing towards their existence in the narrative, since they changed Claudia's backstory to match Rose's (Louis rescuing her), and... well. The change to let them have sex again.... well. Fareed definitely managed that, too. :)))

(I mean, the principal change on the show will not be because of his experiments I guess, but the possibility in canon is definitely there^^)

[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?)

[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

[nateconnolly]

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

[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?

[maxer-blaster]

Fucked up Short Stories

Links:

The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

The Landlady by Roald Dahl

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Guts by Chuck Palahniuk

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

No is Yes by Paul Jennings

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Urusula K. LeGuin

A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger

The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The Strap Box Flyer Paul Jennings

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

To Build a Fire by Jack London

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft

Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin

A Company of Laughing Faces by Nadine Gordimer

The Lamp at Noon by Sinclair Ross

Note: some of these are really fucked up. Others might be fucked up in racist/sexist/homophobic ways due to when it was written/views of the author.

Reader Discretion is Advised.

[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!

[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?

[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!

[helloitsbees]

don't vote without being informed!

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dhal

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling

A Jury Of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

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

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison 

In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

The Jaunt by Stephen King

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

The Landlady by Roald Dahl

The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

The Screwfly Solution by Raccoona Sheldon