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You’re laughing? The official IWTV writers room page just retweeted this and you’re laughing???

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Hello🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 how are you doing these past days?

Hi! Ah, not that bad: work is interesting and the ATLWETD update will be posted any day now. I'm making constant editing progress, even if it's slow because of the circumstances.

Here's a brief sample of how my every night passes. I sit in the hallway during the bombings, but my brother risked approaching the window tonight to make a few videos.

That's just drones, not missiles, and it's a relatively quiet video. Sometimes it's much worse. Hearing these sounds means facing the risk of losing our home and dying every second. And it never stops these days. We are being attacked night after night after night.

At least the daytime is mostly safe for now. And having interesting things to do is a great distraction in most cases! So, I'm writing, working, and starting to realize some plans for the upcoming New Year. It helps take my mind off the ugliest things.

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Hey, saw that you haven't posted in a while. How's your heart health, are you doing any better? Wishing you the best and a full recovery ❤️.

@internalanguish: Are you doing ok? I’m a little worried

@themoonfoundmyfantasy: Hey, how are you? x

Anonymous ask 1: Just sending some love ❤️❤️❤️

Anonymous ask 2: How are you Katrin??? Did the russians gave you and u people some little peace at least for a day ? I am really worried about you 🥺

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Hey! Thank you all for checking in <3 Logging in and seeing such level of support never fails to make me feel so incredibly good and warm. I really, really appreciate it!

Starting with the fic-related news: the new chapter of ATLWETD is finished! Now the editing stage begins.

Second anon, ah, Russians didn't leave us alone last week, but this week was better, at least for my city! Unfortunately, it seems like they finally started producing the Iranian drones at their own plants, so the amount they use to attack us daily is insane now. It was never this bad before. In the 12 days of October, Russia already used 563 drones to bomb our cities. Before, it could use this number throughout the whole month.

These sick monsters aside, this week turned out to be rather exciting for me! At first in the bad way: I got very sick on Tuesday. It was some stomach bug, I think, because I kept vomiting and absolutely nothing helped. The last time I felt so bad - or ever - was when I first got COVID. The fever started later, in the evening, but starting with next day, I felt absolutely fine. Weak, but that's it. So I'm not sure what this was.

And then I got a very interesting temporary writing job offer from a government official. I'm a little nervous because it's not something I ever worked on before, and the pressure is intense, but I hope to get it done! Who knows, it might open some great opportunities for me in the future.

Thank you all again for your care and patience <3

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i hope you're doing ok. it may be a bit silly but whenever it goes quiet for several days, i can't help but worry that something has happened, with everything happening in ukraine and now your medical problems. hope you're doing well

Hi! Thank you so much, you're so sweet <3 I really appreciate you caring so much. I'm doing better. My heart issues almost normalized, and then there was a bombing and it got worse again - on the one hand, it sucks, but on the other, it confirmed that my state directly depends on the amount of stress and worry I'm experiencing. I'm doing some lifestyle changes, and I already made some arrangements with two groups of my relatives from Poland and France - if things here get bad enough that I can no longer take it, I'll go to visit them for a couple of months. Just to recover and do some healing. So all in all, I'm trying to be optimistic, and I did lots of writing this weekend, which is such a relief on a personal level!

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One year ago today, September 29, I awoke to discover that AMC had released Episode 1 of Interview With The Vampire. I hurried to my office, locked myself in the bathroom, and immediately watched the episode, completely entranced and literally sobbing at just how right they got it. I was enthralled by Jacob as Louis, enraptured by Sam as Lestat, and enchanted by how gloriously the show had elevated and updated the beloved source material. I used to dream of times like this. An active fandom, updates, new fans discovering the books, meeting old fans and instantly bonding with them over this world, an influx of captivating Loustat fanfiction from supremely talented writers. I thought, perhaps, I’d move on to another hyper-fixation, but I should’ve known better since the movie and books played such a pivotal part in the last ten years of my life. Now, the Vampire Chronicles are doing the same thing they’ve always done — provided me with a warm, comforting safe haven filled with characters (particularly Lestat and Louis) to make my heart feel as if it’s beating in-sync right along with Loustat. This show has become the cornerstone of my love for these characters, because I’ve thought of it every single day since seeing Episode 1. There’s the person I was before this show, and there’s the person I am after. I’m just so grateful for this show, for Jacob and Sam, and for all the wonderful people I’ve met over the last year. I had no idea what a joyful ride it was going to be, and I can’t imagine life without it now. Here’s to Season 2 and (hopefully) Season 3! “The end….the beginning.” ♥️✨🥂⚜️

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Hey! Can we have an update on you please? Are you well? It’s been a few days since we last heard from you. x

Hi! Thank you for worrying <3 The Holter showed that I have 14K extrasystoles per day. It's basically the sensation of a heart skipping a beat. My heart itself is healthy, so my doctor thinks that the most likely reasons for extrasystoles include the severe stress I've been facing due to the constant bombings and a low level of iron in my blood. I'm taking iron as pills right now. As for anti-anxiety meds, I don't know. I'm wary of taking chemical stuff, but I understand I might not have a choice. My situation cannot get better unless I move away, and I won't do it without my family, and we all can move only a year from now.

I decided to take up a more active lifestyle because I basically spend most of my days in bed working or reading or writing. This is unhealthy, and this could also be the reason for my current problems.

So, in short, nothing seems to be life-threatening, but any heart issues are really worrying, and coupled with the bombings, it seems to be a pit that I'm not sure how to climb out from. I'm going to try, though. I just wish panic attacks stopped messing with my mind.

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They are doing the books so get used to it.

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Hi! Just checking in, are you doing alright? All the bombing news from Ukraine really makes me worry...

Hi! Thank you for worrying - these were some terrible weeks indeed, with people dying in many cities and regions, but fortunately, I am safe for now. I even resumed writing, so hopefully, the update will come soon.

Another unpleasant thing happened yesterday, though. I felt like my heart was behaving strangely, freaked out, and went to a doctor. Apparently, I have a mild case of arrhythmia plus some other things. They put a Holter monitor on me to track how my heart is behaving during the day. (And naturally, I ended up having a panic attack at night because there was bombing + anything related to heart disfunction frightens me a lot. Ugh. I can imagine what that monitor is going to show.)

That's why I want to thank everyone supporting me on Patreon. You have no idea how much your support helps me and how it keeps me going. I would have never been able to afford my current unexpected treatment without getting heavily into debt if I didn't have you. Thank you so, so much, and I really hope to give back at least a little bit with my writing.

I have some positive plans for my life for the nearest future. My father is turning 60 next year, which means that he'll be allowed to travel. We will probably be moving to a safer place in Ukraine when it happens. I'm already looking into apartment options, and they seem affordable enough. It's so soothing to have some specific plans where things might finally improve. Just need to stay healthy for that!

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I in no way mean to be disrespectful, I hope you and your family are doing well and I’m so sorry for the recent attacks. I’m just ignorant and want to know what would happen if Ukraine surrendered to Russia?

I hope you are safe from bombing and air raids 🙏🙏

Hi! Thank you <3 And don't worry, that's a good question.

What I'm 100% sure would happen in case of Ukraine's surrender, even under the most optimistic scenario:

We'd have to give up the entire country, not just a part of it. Russia always comes back for more. It's been following the same pattern with different countries forever. With Ukraine, it got a pretty decent chunk back in 2014. That land continued to belong to Ukraine on paper only - in reality, it was fully under Russian control, and no one really fought for it any longer. Was Russia satisfied with it? No. It kept preparing and then attacked to overtake even more land. It will never have enough, so to give up now means to acknowledge that the entire Ukraine will cease to exist as a country, whether right away or after Russia starts another war against us.

Ukrainian language, culture, and heritage would be destroyed completely in the coming years. Our history - and the history of the world children are taught - will be re-written. There is a reason why the majority of countries that were a part of USSR speak primarily Russian. Russia keeps carefully erasing other languages and culture, it's been doing it for ages. It's doing it right now on the occupied territories.

Pro-Ukrainian activists and people of note would be persecuted, kidnapped, tortured, and killed. This is also a pattern, it happens everywhere Russia invades. I know many examples personally.

We'd be gradually cut off of the outside world. Like, Russia has banned major fanfiction sites; it's trying to block YouTube and other platforms. The transformation into a semblance of North Korea would be inevitable.

Ukrainians would be treated as third-rate non-humans on their own territory. Again, it's been happening everywhere Russia barges into.

Ukraine would be used as a military base to attack other countries, and Ukrainians would be forced to become Russian soldiers.

As for the rest, it could go in several ways. Maybe Russia would want to show how 'amazing' it is, so it'd turn Kyiv into a second Moscow, creating different well-paid positions and opportunities to suck up to Kyiv residents and to prove its hypocritical benevolence.

On the other hand, it could just as well turn the entire country into a concentration and extermination camp. Russia has been torturing, raping, degrading, and murdering our people everywhere. Stealing their homes, kidnapping children, etc. and etc. I have a huge number of friends, people I know, or their friends who shared their stories, and each of them has been absolutely horrific.

My Mom's colleague, for example, used to live near Bachmut. When Russians came in, they immediately began to hunt down anyone related to the police and the military and killing them or actually demanding ransom for them. They kidnapped this colleague's friends, a married couple, kept them in a dog's kennel, pissed on them, beat them up, and raped the wife repeatedly. At that point, the colleague managed to flee the area, and she has no idea as to what happened to them afterward.

This could very well be the fate of our country in case of our surrender since the world obviously doesn't care and wouldn't bat an eye at the millions suffering and dying, kind of like it's happening now.

So surrendering is dangerous because we might cease to exist, but perhaps we are just prolonging the inevitable. A tiny country with a pathetic level of support cannot win against a giant that has a ton of everything and whose allies keep sending it even more weapons of destruction. Oh, and let's not forget how Russia keeps producing more and more weapons because the US and EU keep selling it the parts it needs for missiles and other stuff, and how Ukraine, after seemingly getting help from these US and EU, is forbidden to use it to strike Russia back.

It's all a joke to everyone but us, so I honestly don't envision a positive outcome at all. In the end, as long as our heroes are determined to defend Ukraine, we'll keep trying to hold on. The future will show what it'll lead us to.

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Under a terrible bombing. Russian scum are trying to break the dam and flood my city to its death.

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Hi, I hope you and your family and everyone else where u are now are doing okay. Sending prayers<3

Hi! Thank you so much - and my deepest thanks to everyone else who sent me so many wonderful words of support!

We have the power again - it's limited, so it's basically around 6 hours in total per day, split into 2-hour periods, but it's much better than what I expected.

Unfortunately, the intense bombings continue, and they are largely concentrated on my city. My schedule is ruined entirely and nights are scary. Just this night, there were over 50 drones, with the attack on us lasting from night until eight in the morning. But there were times when we had it worse, and our air defense is seriously the best, so we are holding on.

My father had his surgery and I rescued two additional pigeons! When the situation with power is more stable, I'll share a couple of photos of these lovely babies. Hopefully, they'll both make full recovery.

I'll try to answer some other asks tomorrow. Just wanted to let you all know that I'm still here and very grateful for your support.

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Hi! Tonight was a massive bombing, and it's still happening now, at 11 am. There is no electricity or connection and no knowledge of when they'll be restored, so I don't know when I'll be online again. Currently using the last bits of Wi-Fi, but it'll disappear soon, too.

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Hi are you okay? I hope you're safe <3

Another ask: Are you alright?

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Hi! Eh, last night, there was one of the largest drone attacks on my city of all time. Russian scum sent 2 missiles and 89 drones, most of which targeted Kyiv. The night was very stressful and the attack lasted since the evening up until 8 am, so obviously, I didn't get any sleep.

But fortunately, our air defense wizards managed to intercept and destroy everything, so while tens of residential buildings suffered from the impact, no one was hurt, and our infrastructure remained intact. We've been getting a lot of electricity lately - in these circumstances, it's such a blessing.

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The Vampire Lestat: Long Face” lyric video

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SCREAMING.

SOBBING.

SHAKING.

JUMPING UP AND DOWN.

CANNOT BREATHE.

I HAVE WAITED ALMOST 12 YEARS FOR THIS MOMENT.

HE’S HERE!

ROCKSTAR LESTAT.

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT.

AND SAM IS SINGING.

OMG.

I LOVE HIM YOUR HONOR. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

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Not to be a pain or anything, but can we please have an update? How are you, your family? How are your pets? Quite frankly, every time I read the news about what’s going on over there I can’t help but wonder if you are okay! x

Hi! Thank you so much for caring <3 Unfortunately, I don't have much good news. Russia has started to attack my city more frequently - there is another night of bombing ahead right now. Two nights ago, the explosion happened in the vicinity of my home. It was so loud that I can't describe it. One of my pigeons isn't doing well. I could deal with the latter better if it wasn't for the former. As it is, I feel very upset and frightened and helpless.

As long as my family and I stay physically alive, this hopeless feeling will pass eventually. It always does. But today, this moment, I'm disheartened.

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Sixty years here, the unholy family. Sixty years Louis, Claudia, Lestat.

And would you look at that. Lestat fully formed and front-facing. No more lurking in the shadows or peeking around corners. Louis still front-and-center at Lestat’s side. Claudia still with them at their sides. Their daughter always in their hearts. The unholy family. As it should be. ♥️♥️♥️

Credit to Sarabeth on Twitter! 🙏🏽