Anne Rice: The Srsly Wat round-up

[rebness]

A few weeks ago, I posted some absurd ranting from everyone's favourite Diminishing Returns author wherein she wondered how to 'stop manga'. I promised some hapless flist person (I forgot whom) that I'd post some of her greatest hits. Except I realised something as I picked out some great examples of the craziness on that wall... the fans on there are often way worse than her.

Here, have some of my favourite posts. Plus the Dreaded Nicki One.




Gagging right now. This was my favourite childhood poem. You've tainted it, you brown-noser.





*Wordless hand gestures*




To be fair, he was asking for it.

 



Man. I really hope people come to my Facebook page to tell me all about smiths.






This guy is the most annoying person on Facebook. He's trying to promote some failtastic vampire novel but does it by having three troll accounts who constantly reply to his posts with 'omg Lucian/Den I'm running out to buy your new book right now.' Today, he really, really wants to know what the biggest scandal of the church is.





Do not get me wrong. Louis is ~totes~ my favourite character in the entire VC but this does not diminish Nicki! I regard Nicki as hugely important to the whole Louis/Lestat tempest and believe that what happened with him haunts Lestat deeply. Why is he reduced to some dim 'adolescent'? I guess Our Conversation was about My Chemical Romance and smoking weed. >:|

 


Anne kept calling Tea Party members Tea Baggers. One of them objected because they didn't like the name. She Googled it. :D





Reads like a list of works plagiarised for the later books.

Comments

[ashling-c.livejournal.com]

bahaha I do love that Harry Potter one

[rebness.livejournal.com]

It's priceless, isn't it? XD

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

Actually,(and in full knowledge of the term)I use 'tea bagger' as a name for a follower of the Tea Party, and a lot of people do.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I know. But Anne didn't. :p

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

She is nearly 70. (and I can't believe I said something nice about the old bat)

[ashling-c.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I'm showing my ignorance here but - Tea Party?

I do know what a tea bagger is. I found that out when I asked some people in my class if they remember Tea-bag for the TV show. And they were like 'no but we remember what tea bagging is from Sex and the City'

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Heehee.

I'm just going to copy and paste because I'm lazy and not good at explaining:

The Tea Party movement (TPM) is an American populist political movement which is generally recognized as conservative and libertarian, and has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since 2009. It endorses reduced government spending, opposition to taxation in varying degrees, reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit, and adherence to an originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution.

The name "Tea Party" is a reference to the Boston Tea Party, a protest by colonists who objected to a British tax on tea in 1773 and demonstrated by dumping British tea taken from docked ships into the harbour. Some commentators have referred to the Tea in "Tea Party" as the bacronym "Taxed Enough Already".

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry. Here in the US, the Tea Party is a right-wing subgroup of the Republican party. One of their loudest leaders is Sarah Palin, the once governor of the State of Alaska. The term Tea Party comes from the Boston Tea Party, when radical colonist dressed up like Native Americans, boarded ships and tossed tea crates into Boston Harbor to protest taxes. It was a colossal waste of tea and pissed off Loopy King George lll.

So now you know.

[iskra667.livejournal.com]

lol, fun!

Louis has stopped being A Bastard and is now Lovable. She should have told AFP, I'd have missed this important news without you :(

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Apparently so! But he'll be The Worst again next week, I guess.

Poor Nicki! Why couldn't she hate one of the useless characters?

[timeofnoreply.livejournal.com]

I had the most hilarious image of Tina Fey watching IWTV and going, "Louis, you are THE WORST" while working on her night cheese.

[iskra667.livejournal.com]

In all honesty, I quite agree with her about Nicki. I don't think there is anything wrong with him per se, but just consider the emotional maturity of the average 20 year old boy... Especially a rich 20 year old who's never really had to worry about anything, spend all his youth in a backwood then go to Paris to party study as a an undergraduate... :D Lestat would have been a little more mature because of all his family shit, but probably not by tons still... Plus Lestat is such a drag-queen he'd have a teeny weeny bit of female maturity

Vampiric shit apart, Lestat is 31 when he meets Louis, has had 2 bad breakups, experienced some elaborate social drama with Armand and travelled the world.

Louis is 25 when he meets Lestat and spend his first 5 years with him behaving like an emo teen...

Am I the only one to see a pattern here?...

Men under 30...

LOL!

[timeofnoreply.livejournal.com]

WTF SHE DIDN'T EVEN SPELL NICOLAS'S NAME CORRECTLY AND SHE CREATED THE CHARACTER.

ANNE, NICOLAS COULDN'T CONTROL HIMSELF AS A MORTAL BECAUSE YOU WROTE HIM THAT WAY TO DISPLAY TO THE READERS WHY LESTAT BEHAVES THE WAY HE DOES TOWARDS LOUIS IN IWTV AND BEYOND.

NICOLAS = FIRST RELATIONSHIP THAT EVERYONE COCKS UP.

LOUIS = THE REBOUND.

GET IT FUCKING RIGHT ALREADY, MATER.

BRB SMASHING OFFICE SUPPLIES IN RAGE.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I know! I KNOW! I'm not even the biggest Nicki stan but I was all, YOU DIDN'T! [/caps rage across Facebook, tbh].

Again, I love Louis (forgive me, bb! I can't help it!) but to diminish Nicki in such a way is fucking ridiculous.

Mater is aggravating.

[lovingyouin1963.livejournal.com]

*THUMBS UP*

I concur, with everything said, dear. If she starts talking about Daniel, I'm going to lose it.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

Jezabel Nightroad is so not her real name. Same with Cain Borgias. They had to invent edgy gothic-esque names so as not to lose face with Anne. IDEK. You know how I feel about the fans on her page! So weird.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Such stupid ~edgy names!

They freak me out, bb. Hold me. D:

[gairid.livejournal.com]

Wow...kiss much ass there, Jezebel? Yeesh. At my fangirliest I don't think I could spout such drivel. And way to ruin Blake, for real.

I thought the teabagger thing was funny and to be fair, a lot of people (most notable the Teabaggers themselves) were not aware of it. I'll never call them anything else.

Not putting my toe in the Nicki fray, friends and neighbors!

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I know, rite! I don't think I would ever say this to any author I admire. Anyone! It's creepy and weird and I think even Anne may have been embarrassed.

Possibly.

Heehee, glad you agree on the teabagger thing. I was beginning to think I was the only one who saw the humour in that. I love that Anne was unapologetic and instead of being freaked out about what it means, wanted to discuss it. It filled me with rare affection for the woman.

Still adore my Louis, tbh!

[pointedulac.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's... yeah...

Anne, you be so crazy, it's whack.

She thinks "Christ the Lord" is her best novel? But I love how she has to toss IwtV in there too. Like it's her street cred or something.

[gairid.livejournal.com]

I think CtL is her Heaven Cred at this point.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. YES! So that when people were all, 'what! That Kazantzakis rip-off is your best work?' she could hold IWTV in the air and be all, 'it's better than this undisputed classic, bitches!'

Haha, no.

[lovingyouin1963.livejournal.com]

- Laughing hysterically -

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. :D

[pandorasblog]

Oh lord; that Jezebel person is the one who kicked off the whole "stop manga" cluster-you-know-what.

Nicki... sigh. Nicki was so obviously depressed and unstable, had brief happiness in Paris before the love of his life went off without him into some amazing new secret life, was snatched by cruel monsters AND THEN had to deal with being a vampire. I think any moral judgment is objectively unfair, especially one relying on a comparison with Louis, who suffered great distress but was a whole lot more together and autonomous to begin with.

As for "Louis survived" and "Louis learned"... Louis survived very much due to fear of killing himself, which is not a failing but hardly a moral victory either. Idk... I remember a time when AR was very down on Louis; if he's a paragon now then perhaps eventually she'll come round regarding Nicolas. Me, I'm just looking forward to meeting him again in the re-read...