#kaelio

[blueiight]

claudia still gets infantilized by media surrounding iwtv despite this being core to the tragedy of her condition

i think shes always been infantilized & ppl dont see the merit of her arc bc ppl rly only care about female characters in relation with romance or if they are children [or someone’s child of sorts?] in so far as they relate to the men rearing them. [cue 5001 lestat-claudia webweaves]. claudia is both selectively infantilized & excessively adultified whenever convenient to character/s [somehow both a ‘child interfering’ and both powerful enough to ‘turn louis against lestat’] nd to a certain extent by the fandom too. speaking of the show here too - show!louis now wanting claudia as his child is never disseminated for what it is in relation to louis (how he wanted children, and how hes forcibly exiled from the public sphere & makes do with the quasi-domestic) or claudia (in her want for a companion in immortality & wanting to understand the origins of their existence. in both the book and the show its claudia who initiates the question of ‘who made lestat/vampires as a whole’) but rather ppl render show claudia inert solely as a fictional moral bludgeon to character bash louis or make stuntin like my mommy/daddy posts with lestat. i was thinking too the other day how people often talk about iwtv in the sense of outcasts but never mention claudia… which is insane bc this line in the show alone says so much

But it was 1939, and the only N* allowed in first class was the porter, and the N* passenger rode the rear. The N* vampire made do with what was left, which was fine with her.

neither second-class passenger nor porter directly serving whites: claudia is the black vampire sitting in the stowaway with the dogs and people’s luggage, earlier hiding out in university corners pretending to be the cleaner’s child, engorging herself on blood and taking body parts from her victims to put in storage all if it means she could have something for herself. shes really the ult. outcast of sorts.

#yn. #yn answers #yn do sum maymays. #kaelio #iwtv #claudia #opinion rate #The word is censored bc i dont believe in using it recklessly in mixed company^_^ or at all tbh. #Not in the modern day. #and it also irks when ppl r like ‘claudia needs a woman’s touch’ #but forget how in the book estelle & the other theater chicks groped her n treated her like a doll #or how book!madeleine sees claudia as a proxy for her dead daughter #but bc book lew+ clauds r in this quasi incestuous set up shed take dead daughter over wtf lewis wanted out of her #like ‘women’s touch’ dont do her very much up until the ghost psychic mind link w/ jesse im afraid. lol #its a bizarre form [& actual example] of essentialism applied to claudia. #which makes me excited for s2 claudia bc like #like why is she dressed as a doll on stage!! in the theater #Oh baby esther we rly in it now. #I like romance i just dont like pop fandom’s idea of romance

[deadpanwalking]

your host should also give you $20 and a joint. otherwise you walk

#i don't leave my fucking house for less than $40 and a blunt #kaelio #assbox

[kaelio]

#tvc #the vampire chronicles #kaelio and cactus discuss Rose

[section-69]

Guys I've g

I've got crabs

#thank you kaelio for the crabs #very cool #gonna be playing with the crabs all day now

[ectogeo-rebubbles]

Distraction for the ask meme!

(for the WIP tag game)

Yessss, thanks for the ask, I'm very excited about that one!

It's about Julian and Garak pretending to hornily make out in order to distract the camp 371 prison guards from the fact that the wall panel behind Garak's back isn't quite reattached yet (Julian has to sneakily work on fixing that while he presses Garak back against the wall and gives him hickeys on his neck ridges <3)

Snippet below the cut!

“Stop dallying,” Bonalt chastised from her post by the door.

Julian sprang into action. Garak stepped aside to get out of his way, but he hovered nearby to help. Julian knelt by the opening and Garak began handing him the panels one by one while Julian used the scrap of metal that served as a wrench to tighten the bolts that held them in place on the wall.

When they were working on the final panel, Bonalt said, “Guards on the move. You’ve got one minute.”

A bolt popped out and rolled across the floor.

“Shit.”

Julian scrambled to retrieve it, while Garak caught the panel that had swung back open and realigned it. Garak slotted the rest of the bolts in loosely. Julian returned with the last one and got back to work tightening each one. Garak moved his arms out of Julian’s way while maintaining pressure on the panel so that the whole thing wouldn’t fall loose again.

“Incoming,” Bonalt hissed sharply.

“Garak, quick, stand here, cover for me.”

Suddenly, Julian’s hands were on Garak’s hips and Garak found himself being angled so that his body was blocking the loose panel that he was still holding up, now behind his back. Then Julian stepped close and wrapped his arms around behind him. Garak’s racing pulse had nothing to do with his claustrophobia now.

“What—”

“Distraction,” Julian whispered in his ear. 

And then before Garak had time to ask for further clarification, two things happened at once: the door to the barracks slammed open and Julian’s warm lips pressed against the scales at the junction between his neck and shoulder.

#I think I got the name for the Romulan lady from a kaelio fic. not sure though #my fic #garashir #wip tag game #ask game

[sigmastolen]

at last the prophecy has come to pass

Important Checkmarks Have Become Crab

(i finally have crabs 🥲)

#kaelio i hope you don't mind using your checks for this i'll edit out your name and icon if you want #hellsite (affectionate) #carcinization

[vandrawsing]

asparklethatisblue

Happy new year! I love your Frankie

@asparklethatisblue thank you for a year of fitzier and hopeful for the next ! frowny francis was an idea for a season's greetings card but december chewed me up like a gum and spat me out in 2023 🤭

devcrap

so glad i got to rediscover your art this year, looking forward to what's next for you! happy new year :)

@devcrap your art was one of the highlights and inspirations of 2022 !! wishing us both a happy and fruitful coming year :D

kaelio

#love this artist and more than once they've started drawing for a show i'd recently gotten into#which is like such a great feeling no lie#love that claudia

@kaelio wah ! i still closely associate you with ds9 but i'm happy to see you're a fellow iwtv appreciator as well :D happy new year from the devil's sacrament ^^/

#*vchat #also @kaelio your wall of checkmarks asghj

[killer-laurent]

Thorne and Marius ( Commission for @kaelio )

#art #digital art #fantasy #vampire chronicles #anne rice #vampire #red #marius de romanus #thorne #night #bathtub #commission #dark academia #goth aesthetic

[suikamelon6]

Lestat and King Louis XIV

here is a pdf of 260 pages cleaned up Jpegs (by me) of Anne Rice's "Lestat & King Louis XIV"

https://ufile.io/2lltf5g6

(photos taken by @kaelio and @thecactifindahome) Thank you so much guys! SO GRATEFUL.

An OCR text file for kindle is coming (being proof-read)

#interview with the vampire #anne rice #lestat #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire chronicles #special collection #unpublished notes

[rijinks]

@kaelio requested Thorne, who was high on my to-draw list!

Bonus:

they seem like very good friends

#the vampire chronicles #thorne #thornevald #marius de romanus #thorne/marius #blood and gold #lestat de lioncourt

[blueiight]

ldpdl what color does he look best in

many colors & every color possible as many have named (greens, reds, golds, sexy all black fits in dubai) but i think blue and white as individual+ color combos on him r so underrated <3

#yn. #yn answers #kaelio #iwtv #louis de pointe du lac

[lasciviousl]

Okay, I've just compiled ALL THE POSTS I could find about Anne Rice's material in Tulane, in the tag #tulane anne rice (I hope this damn thing works). Most stuff was posted by @kaelio and @thecactifindahome.

@suikamelon6 is putting the "Lestat and King Louis XIV" novel on AO3 here; and has it as PDFs here.

@nalyra-dreaming compiled ALL THE WORKS into a zip file here.

Some of the other posts are from @monstersinthecosmos, @apoptoses, @hekateinhell, @somevagrantchild, @iwtv-kael, @virginiaisforvampires.

#tulane anne rice #vampire chronicles #the vampire chronicles #vc #anne rice #lestat and king louis xiv #unpublished novel

[deadpanwalking]

whats the grossest thing you've ever shoved in the flaps of a book. pages or other flaps

Trick question. I don't use bookmarks.

#i eat every page as soon as i'm done with it #kaelio #assbox

[thecactifindahome]

Thanks to @kaelio for the early Christmas present! This is so fucking cool, I love it :D

#mission status: sick #vc

[nalyra-dreaming]

@carmillacantarella replied to your post “Okay, I printed that unpublished book, and put it...”:

Where did you find this

​Hey!

Hope you don't mind me pulling this up!

The photos of the unpublished material by Anne Rice at Tulane University were made by @kaelio, @thecactifindahome, mostly, with some by @hekateinhell. @suikamelon6 is putting the book up on Ao3, though this is only ONE of the unpublished book chapters/drafts. Forever grateful they went through all the trouble of taking photos, there is soooooo much in there?!

If you like, I put all the (current?!^^) photos into PDFs (just the images as PDF, and then compressed) into a Zip here (800+MB, so beware^^). The zip also contains the one cleaned up version by Suika.

It contains unpublished/drafted chapters of

Blood and Gold

The tale of the Body Thief

David Talbot

Lestat and king Louis XIV

Merrick

Queen of the Damned

The Vampire Armand

The Vampire Lestat

All of this is available through the tagged sources, and NOT for commercial use.

But... that's where I printed that book from^^

(BTW, this isn't a whole book, none of these are - but it's shock-full of tidbits, lore, and explanations)

#carmillacantarella #the vampire chronicles #vc #vampire chronicles #tulane #tulane university #anne rice #unpublished works

[bubblegum-blackwood]

Summarize Your WIPs Badly

tagged by @mothmage!

absolutely NO PRESSURE tags - probably I won't be able to think of anyone that hasn't already done it/been tagged but uhhh @fofoqueirah @covenofthearticulate @darkangel1791 @kaelio @uncivilcivilservice @rainbowcarousels @monstersinthecosmos and anyone else that wants to do it!

#tag game #polls #vc