#marimand

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

via @reloha

𝕬𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉 & 𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖑 INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.02: ...AFTER THE PHANTOMS OF YOUR FORMER SELF.

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

drives me glass-eating batshit how Claudia and Amadeo were both teenagers rescued (or "rescued") from violently traumatic situations and taken in by paternal gentlemen vampires who taught them about the world and kept them safe and spoiled them rotten and loved them so so so much in profoundly unhealthy and dehumanizing ways. Claudia and Arun both entering the vampiric world as blank slates (like Claudia remembers her pre-turning past but we only get the barest details, it's hardly ever mentioned) and a wash of divinity, angel imagery and merciful gods. then as Claudia and Amadeo grew they started to pick up on the things that were off in their world and display aggressive behavior (Claudia's killing spree and Amadeo's The Shining moment, etc.) only to be physically punished for it. and then they experience the brutalities of life outside their maker's protection (Claudia under the floorboards and Armand under Rome) except she's able to come back home hardened and confront the realities of what's been done to her while Armand never gets that chance, he's stuck with the Children of Darkness, he's stuck deifying Marius, he's stuck clinging to ritual and tradition and all the things Claudia defies like breathing.

and then they finally cross paths and they're inverted mirrors of each other, Claudia the grown woman desperate to escape her teenager's body and Armand the grown man who wants to be loved and precocious and fascinating like he was as a teenager. Claudia being able to effortlessly pull off the veneer of innocence that Armand has to work so hard to maintain and she's not even grateful for it. she's got the youth he wants, she's got Louis's love, she's more free than Armand has ever been, she fought back against her Maker and got away with it, it's not Fair, it isn't right. so Armand punishes her with it, subjects her to the same cycle of objectification and dehumanization and violence that Amadeo went through (because it could be Worse right, he could be Donating her right). and when that's not enough to make up for everything he's missing he fucking kills her in an elaborate show just like she killed Lestat with the elaborate show that was Mardi Gras, only his writings recording the process damn him just like her writings damn her, their need to leave some mark of themselves above all else consuming everything.

and after killing her Armand spends years dragging around with a Louis who hates him just like Louis dragged around with a Claudia who hated him. he's the good nurse for Louis the way Claudia was and he competes with Lestat's ghost the way she did and he watches a fragile life with flowers growing from dead things all come crashing down in ash and dust like she did, all because of what he did to her. and at the end of the day they're both fucked-up kids whose most commonly used last names stem from the fathers who fucked them up and they could have lived each other's lives and in some ways they almost did.

[arduennadubaidivorce]

Reading the Armand bits of blood and gold today

Marius being jealous Armand loves his father more than he loves Marius✨

Armand loving his father so much because his father refused to abandon him to starve and rot in the Monastery of Caves ✨

Marius leaving Armand to stay brainwashed and rotting with the Children of Darkness ✨

They're so fucked up, Your Honour. I can't wait to see them on TV.

[vampire-dove]

How I imagine the "Marius is alive" reveal will go

[cardamomboy]

anne rice’s interview with the vampire, season 2 episode 4

“your father sunbathing” from ovid at fifteen by christopher bursk

the vampire armand, by anne rice

[ihaventcomeupwthanameforaheroyet]

I just love this moment in BC btw:

The first known drawing made by Armand in 500 years. Made after Marius was taken away from him (again). His artistic talent was blocked due to a trauma half of a millennia ago, blocked after he was taken away from his home and from his father. It took a trauma of comparable size - the trauma of being separated from Marius (again) - to unblock his artistic superpowers back.

And I just love how we are never told whose portrait was this. Like, wasn't it obvious? No need to say it.

[zombyvamp]

indulgences

[half-as-big-as-life]

Values or whatever

[vamptember]

Welcome to MerMay - Vampire Chronicles edition! Vampire lovers, please join us in celebrating another category of mythological creatures and monsters: mermaids, sirens, rusalkas, selkies, and so on, combined with the VC characters we know and love all month long! 🫧🐠

Create fic, art, playlists, moodboards, photo manipulations, and anything else you can think of that relates to the theme of bodies of water and their inhabitants! 💙

Base it on the characters of the books, the movie, the show, the musical, or even that other movie! Genderswapped and trans versions welcome! Whatever ships, pairings, genres, tropes, and ratings you feel like doing! 🐙

𝕽𝖚𝖑𝖊𝖘 & 𝕲𝖚𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘

1. MerMay VC will run for 4.5 weeks with each week featuring FOUR THEME PROMPTS and a bonus FREE SPACE prompt where anything in the spirit of MerMay goes! Prompts can be interpreted as SFW or NSFW — go nuts! Pick one or combine them or rearrange them, it's up to you!

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3. As of 4/24/24, our ao3 collection is now live!

4. Follow @vamptember to see everyone's incredible creations and keep up with our latest fandom events! Our sister blog @priapus-at-the-gate will also be a hosting an exclusively NSFW MerMay event, so feel free to give us a follow there as well for more fun stuff coming soon! And as always, let us know if you have any questions about anything, we're here for you!

𝕿𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖋𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖘𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖉! 𝖂𝖊𝖊𝖐𝖑𝖞 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖙𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖚𝖙! 🪼

WEEK 1 (May 1 - 7)

fishing net / stuck on land / gore / pearl / FREE SPACE

WEEK 2 (May 8 - 14)

lighthouse / curse / knots / thalassophobia / FREE SPACE

WEEK 3 (May 15 - 21)

sea cave / pirates / specimen / myth / FREE SPACE

WEEK 4 (May 22 - 28)

rescued / song / bioluminescent / depth / FREE SPACE

WEEK 4.5 (May 29 - 31)

tentacles / under the moon / eggs / shipwreck / FREE SPACE

[vampiromantique]

trying to explain that "the vampire armand" is one of the most romantic book in goth fiction I've ever read to someone who only see Amadeo as a eternal victim without agency is pointless, they will never get or understand real Armand.

[boy-pantiesss]

Armand : Y'know - Marius' nipples are white. Disturbingly so. Like, if you saw them, you'd be like, "Hot damn, that's one white ass nipple."

David : Ummmmm

Armand : Write that down. Also, they were disturbingly soft. Soft and white. Like little marshmallows.

David : Maybe we should stick to details that will propel your narrative forward. Like big life events and -

Armand : Write. That. Down.

David :

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

the marriage/bridal imagery here is like. immaculate. he's really just a little sonwife.

[chicalepidoptera]

Between Armand beheading Marius and Armand & Marius sharing a bathtub, guess which one is canon 🤭

[fanbynature]

This snip from TVA makes me lose my mind

[rebel-revenant]

Thank you to @desertfangs for tagging me to share the last line I wrote! Which is some Marius/Amadeo goodness:

If Amadeo incentivized his wrath enough – oh and he oft did, for Marius was in possession of a terrible temper, ungoverned at the very worst of times – in a moment of mindlessness, of carelessness, he ran the risk of crushing his boy swathed azure, cerulean, ultramarine; and would that not be as consequential to Marius now as losing the sea, oh, the very sky?

I think I'm a bit late to the party, so if you haven't been tagged yet please take this as an invitation!

[ihaventcomeupwthanameforaheroyet]

OK I did something stupid again:

No, technically, this head-body ratio is correct, except realistic head-body ratio doesn't work well with chibis and the overall result looks weird. But that'll do for now, and then maybe at some point in the future I'll be able to remake my 1:6 marimand dolls properly. (Still sad because I can't do Marius any justice with my doll representation. And still trying to make it better but argh. I can't do anything right.)

P.S. A very necessary "holds them gently" photo:

(For lesvid, I had a "squish them together" photo because cuteness aggression but marimand can't be treated this way and also all I feel towards them is tenderness. Then I say there are different types of love this also applies to pairings... I love my ships very differently.)