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rebness ([personal profile] rebness) wrote2011-06-01 07:59 pm

Anne Rice: The Srsly Wat round-up

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.



[identity profile] iskra667.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] timeofnoreply.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, but I feel the need to question an author's opinion of her own character when she can't even spell his name correctly.

I won't repeat myself here, because it would take quite a long time and I'd probably just wind up copying and pasting my own words, but you should check out the discussion that [livejournal.com profile] rebness and I are having on my journal. It might make you think about things differently. :-)

[identity profile] iskra667.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Chill out, I was trolling ! :D <3

[identity profile] timeofnoreply.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh SNAP. You got me, yo.

I'mma blame it on the fact that it's so hot here I'm sure that the gray matter in my skull is melting out from my ears. Hahaha.

[identity profile] iskra667.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I mean, I'm not trolling in that I really believe most (not all) 20 year old guys have this terrible mix of 'no life experience' and 'very arrogant certitude that they know everything about life'. And I think Nicki is quite typical, and poor guy never got to grow up in canon while Louis and Lestat did. I don't think young Louis was smarter than Nicki, he may even have been worse, but he got to grow up. And by grow up I don't mean 'settle down and have a family, yada yada yada' but I mean 'test one's theoretical beliefs against real life situations'.

But I'm trolling in that I don't really take Lestat's love life seriously, and people should ship whomever makes them happy or hot! :)

[identity profile] rebness.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Man, is this why Lestat goes lusting after David in TotBT? As a way to get all those sexy young troubled men out of his head?

TOO FAR THE OTHER WAY, LESTAT

TOO FAR THE OTHER WAY!

[identity profile] iskra667.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That's why Lestat lusts after rough!Mael who's done shit, seen shit and gone places whenever Louis and Jesse geek out at book festivals... :D

[identity profile] ukashi-goshi.livejournal.com 2011-06-02 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
YES! WTF happened with that anyway?

[identity profile] rebness.livejournal.com 2011-06-02 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
We have the laziest community on earth, it would appear.

That includes me myself. :p
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[personal profile] pandorasblog 2011-06-02 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT. I MUST GO AND CHECK IT OUT....

*MESMERISED BY THE THOUGHT OF LESTAT/MAEL*