Burnt Offerings

[Crossposting my mod post at vc_media for my new subscribers! Comment over there or stay here, but other members won't see your comments if you comment here]

The big news this week is obvs the flagpocalypse going on at tungle dot com, possibly sinking the whole thing.



It's not the town square that tungle is/was, but you may like that DW is a place that's more like a quiet corner pub, with regulars, fandom veterans sitting back and reminiscing about the old days, war stories about when our biggest drama was the author of our fandom attacking us for daring to write fanfic, reveling in fanworks, and encouraging new works. More than all that, of course! Mod cloudsinvenice made a sticky post new ppl might find informative: New to Dreamwidth/VC Media? Here's some essential info"

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Some things that are happening that we can be happy about on this, the first Friday in Dec. (in no particular order, and feel free to add!):

• Our very own monstersinthecosmos posted fresh fanfic, Pinion is that a NIN reference??!, comments are welcome here and/or on AO3.
• <--- The discussion posts of previous TVC canon is to your left, still good stuff in there, and I'm sure we'll do another reread at some point and I'll actually participate this time *laughcries*
• The VC Kinkmeme vckinkmeme, modded by infuriate and vckinkmod, has prompts and thirsty ppl! 
• The VC Secret Gifts DW home vcsecretgifts is under construction, will be built by cloudsinvenice  and thedeadorchestra.
• My first flagged post on tungle dot com:

As always, this is your thread to go off the rails and talk about anything you like! Happy Friday!

I did a thing:


“Black Star” - Radiohead, video by FIORIOUS & Interview with the Vampire mashup.

I just feel like this guy reacted better to this situation than Louis did. Don't you agree? It is kind of painful to watch Lestat bleed out like this, so I actually cut quite a bit of that out.

Parody video made under Fair Use. Gonna nerd out for a min re: copyright, so you can skip this para if you're not interested: It looks like youtube automatically checks for copyrighted material, bc as soon as I uploaded, it already knew I had IWTV content, and allowed me to use it, but that material is monetized already so there are ads that pop up, including an ad to buy/rent IWTV. Which is great news, bc it shows that they are aware that ppl will make vids like this, why not allow them to exist as free advertising back to the original property? I was annoyed at the ads but pleased that the content can coexist w/out any lawsuits ;)
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Along the same lines, my creative juices seem to be revitalizing, the motivation to Do the Thing is increasing. Giving into it feels so good!

I did a thing, a thing I'd been meaning to do for awhile. Reposting here for the non-tumblrland ppl but also for longer comments on it, should you feel moved to do so.


And I think it works on that other level that these mashup vids need, which is that what they're saying actually works for L/L, too. During this time, Louis really couldn't handle the truth. It probably would have driven him bonkers.

Assigning myself Bonus points for Tom being shouted at with his own voice, lol.

I had had this idea ages ago and it wallowed in my folder incomplete; deciding to submit it for VC secret gifts finally lit the fire under me sufficiently to get it done!

Technically, in the original painting, the figures are meant to be brother and sister, but L/L share blood so it still works. I did consider making the pitchfork a scythe instead, but then it would have had to be Louis in the overalls, and Lestat in the dress, and the height difference wouldn't have been acceptable and ARGH!! I just had to make it simple for myself, lest it remain incomplete.

There's a little extra bit that I revised in there other than adding the title and inserting the faces of Lestat/Louis, can you spot it? Refer to American Gothic by Grant Wood for comparison!

So some of you probably saw my tumblr post on this, but this entry is for non-tumblr people, and also to add a little more description since I have more room here *stretches in the blank space* to further flesh out the experience. No pressure to comment here but I thought you might be happy to live vicariously through me at the very least!

I met Santiago Stephen Rea last night after his performance in A Particle of Dread, and brought him two headshots, intending for him to choose which one he preferred to sign. High res of the below shots here.

He signed both. 

I was very pleased. Hell I was near-squeeeeing with delight. Next stop, frame store, going to frame them both up and hang one at home, and one in the office! Been at this job for a few months now, it's time to start decorating my office. Tastefully, of course.

Briefly, A Particle of Dread is a play in which Monsieur Rea plays Oedipus, in variations. It's very intense, and very murderous (and, side-topic: the man who plays his father was drop-dead gorgeous). We had 2nd row seats and let me tell you, Rea's characters were dynamic and went through a spectrum of emotions... such feels to experience that just a few feet away.

( I'm putting this behind a cut to keep the post a manageable height )

I have a visitor all weekend so will probably not be able to do any fandom stuff, so I'm getting it all out of my system tonight. I'll be in the reread momentarily. Looking back over this post, it's kind of long, but I wanted to collect some vampire thoughts. 

To start the weekend off right...  I saw this on tumblr and had to share here (for fic inspiration only, of course). Can one even describe with the written word the art that is this gyrating man? *u*

 Darlings...

So I had to post an entry because I have multiple items... So much to do! I actually seem to thrive spinning amidst this flurry of activity, otherwise, why would I keep stirring it up? 

I have some bullet points because everything is easier to read in bullet points:

( Bullets from the Wasteland... )

So that's all the news that's fit to print! Gonna wrangle it under a cut to make it easier on people's feeds, but really, I don't expect any comments, I just had to exhale a whole bunch of stuff into the void, and I love you, whoever is reading this. It was a peek into an atypical week of excitement in my VC addiction.

[Author's Note: 1166 words. I wanted to try to write a non-despicable Mary-Sue, what's the POV from one of those Little Drinks?  Hmmm. Also, ♥ to gairid who gave me permission to mention Brian, and even made a good suggestion for the revision of a line, which I have used, and ♥ to floatingleaf, for beta-reading]

Summary: An email message, from the POV of someone Lestat seduces for a Little Drink, to her bandmates. Not to worry, Kelly (this OC) stops here. Unless, of course, you ask for more...

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( Note to Band )

Gah, I feel the need to apologize again. I've been absent from VCM but creating up a storm of VC gifs on tumblr, the very place that nearly killed VCM :P

Let me explain u a thing, and I mean that in the gentlest way: sometimes I get these graphic creative urges and I barrage tumblr with the output of this. To barrage VCM with it (even though MEDIA is a obviously a goal of this place!) seems rude. Like a kid constantly drawing and shoving those drawings in your face. I don't want to be that kid. I'm very happy that people like what I do, I guess it's just easier on tumblr bc alot of them are strangers, and I don't have to worry too much about offending anyone. 

Hosting these images on tumblr is actually a necessary step to sharing images in VCM anyway, bc they have to be hosted somewhere so that there's a link for DW to source the image from. It's just that I am usually to busy to then bring them into this personal journal area... which I think I still want to use as more of a place for text things that don't fit into VCM, like excessive walls of text or drabbles that outgrow their wordcount limit, rather than as an actual journal.

Anyway my point is that satisfying those creative urges is somewhat time & energy consuming in itself, and then I'm left sort of drained, too, and can't brain further in the discussion threads here... especially bc my need for thoroughness dictates that my commentary is usually Walls of Text. 

I am trying to be more minimal in commentary though, and I think that's really helping :D

As an example of this creative output:thedeadorchestra shared a gif on her tumblr and I was inspired, wanted to learn how to manipulate it by adding faces on it, frame-by-frame, and the result is pretty priceless, as well as being slightly quite offensive to one of our beloved OTPs. I added a few more gifs around it to enhance the crackiness...

Under the cut so that it doesn't interfere with my apologetic mood...

( Brace yourself... )