Anne Rice: The Srsly Wat round-up
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rebnessA 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.
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.
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Date: 2011-06-02 01:02 pm (UTC)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...