#the reason devil's minion is so full of stuff is because you can't even get all of the chaos onto the page

[desertfangs]

GET TO KNOW YOUR MUTUALS

Tagged by: the super cool @sam-reid (thank you!)

What’s the origin of your username?: I wanted a new one (I can't even remember my old one now???) and it just came to me, I don't know. Deserts are full of snakes, snakes have fangs... vampires have fangs.

OTP(s) + ship name: My OTP of all time is Armand/Daniel (Devil's Minion) and they have been for like... years and years. I've also fallen in love with Marius/Daniel (Maridan) in the last few years. But I ship a lot of the VC ships. My (primary) OT3s are Armand/Daniel/Lestat and Marius/Armand/Daniel. I don't think they have names. BroTP w/ benies? Lestat/Daniel all the way.

Favorite color: Purple. I don't wear a lot of it (I mostly wear black... lifetime goth) but if I'm buying something other than clothes and it comes in purple, that's the color I'm getting.

Song stuck in your head: The Giver by Chappell Roan.

Weirdest habit/trait: I talk to myself more than I should.

Hobbies: Writing, Reading, Baking, Video Games

If you work, what’s your profession?: I work at a real estate tech company doing back end support stuff. It's not glamorous but it pays the bills.

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be?: Lottery winner so I can spend my free time traveling, writing vampire nonsense, and generally enjoying life, ha! But if I could make a living at it, I'd love to write books.

Something you’re good at: I'm great at making little cheesecakes in my instant pot. Also I think I'm pretty okay at writing.

Something you hate: The state of my crumbling country and the disgusting bigotry and racism that's helping destroy it Mushrooms

Something you collect: Vampire Chronicles books with different covers, Octopus Plushies. I used to collect shot glasses from everywhere I traveled but I don't drink anymore and I gave most of the collection to a housemate when I moved - I kept the cool masquerade masks one I got in NOLA though. I've started collecting magnets when I travel instead.

Something you forget: That Rose and Viktor exist LMAO sorry That not everyone's brain works like mine and sometimes that means how I think I'm coming off is not at all how people see me

What’s your love language?: Acts of Service. I tend to do things for people to show I care or try or offer to do things. It makes me feel good to feel helpful and useful.

Favorite movie/show: Definitely into Yellowjackets right now, that show is constantly throwing me through a loop. I also recently really loved Agatha All Along - nice to see an asshole protagonist who's a woman tbh. Some of my favorite shows of all time are Community, The Walking Dead, Pushing Daisies, and The Last of Us.

Favorite movies include Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Ghostbusters, and Lilo and Stitch.

Favorite food: Probably pizza because it's so versatile but I also love sushi a lot.

Favorite animal: Octopuses. Cats. Whales.

What were you like as a child?: Aggressively undiagnosed autistic and weird. I didn't have a lot of friends but everyone would come to me to bitch about their friends when they were annoyed, lol (I guess I'm a good person to rant to.) I got better at making friends in high school, though I still struggle with it. I spent a lot of time playing with Legos and reading books.

Favorite subject at school: French.

Least favorite subject: Math. I am so bad at it it's embarrassing and the reason I didn't go into science tbh. I'd have made a kick ass geologist.

What’s your best character trait?: I'm reliable AF. If I say I'm going to do something, I will absolutely do it unless forces conspire against me.

What’s your worst character trait?: I'm stubborn and tend to self-isolate and then feel lonely and rejected even when it's my own fault. Basically I'm way more like Marius than I should probably admit

If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet: Maybe Leonard Nimoy. He seems like he was a cool dude. I did see him once at a Star Trek convention but did not get to speak with him, alas.

Tagging: @leslutdepointedulac, @inexplicablepeas, @fofoqueirah, @this-writer-needs-coffee, @rebelrevenant and @tulinokkaelain (tried to avoid tagging anyone I'd already seen tagged) - and anyone else who wants to do this.

[desertfangs]

I just want to appreciate the sheer, unbridled chaos that living with Armand must have been for Daniel those first few years.

They move to New York City, where presumably Daniel has never lived, and Armand fills their nights with an endless series of concerts, art galas, museum exhibits, movies, parties, symphonies, boxing matches, plays, art house shows, and anything else he can find.

They take night classes and study any number of subjects. Armand obsesses over gadgets and modern technology, buying countless stuff off the television or from store windows, trying to learn how it all works and what it means to be a modern man. The detritus of his obsessions fills empty apartments because he tries on hobbies like he tries on clothes.

And through it all, Armand has Daniel moving apartments every few weeks, sometimes twice a week, because he wants to experiment with types of lifestyles. Different neighborhoods, floor plans, styles of apartments: a 5th floor walk-up, a townhouse, a luxury tower apartment, a studio, a sprawling penthouse, a basement unit with windows that open into an alley.

Imagine Daniel stumbling home drunk from some after-show party Armand dragged him to just after sunrise and not remembering where he lives because he just moved again for the 12th time in three months.

Just absolute pandemonium. No wonder he was exhausted and exasperated a lot of the time.