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licncourt · 2 years

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not sure if youve answered this before, but have you read all the vc books — & which ones do u think are the best/most worth reading?

The answer is unfortunately yes, though I would say I...experienced Memnoch, Blackwood Farm, and Blood Canticle more than read them. I certainly stared at the pages, but I think my brain prevented me from absorbing it as a defense mechanism.

Truly and from the bottom of my heart, I can only reccomend the first three. Interview with the Vampire is my favorite (modern) novel and one that I go back to over and over. I always find something new to enjoy and it reminds me why I fell in love with the characters and the world they live in. I'm impressed every time I read it.

The Vampire Lestat is also a fantastic book, but as others have said, it's excellent popular fiction, not a modern classic that redefined what an entire genre could be. I do love it though and I absolutely reccomend it wholeheartedly. Lestat at this point in canon is still incredibly charming and it's such a fun contrasting counterpart to Interview with a great emotional payoff. There are small things I'd change but not much. It makes what AR does with Lestat later all the more disappointing.

Queen of the Damned is...good. I personally prefer the very intimate, character-driven storytelling of IWTV and TVL over big stakes or plot-heavy reads, so it's my least favorite of the original trilogy BUT there's a lot of good stuff in there (The Devil's Minion is some of the best character development she ever did). Unfortunately, the cracks in AR's writing start to show in QotD. Bad pacing, the introduction of way too many new characters, David, excessive lore dumping, the total sidelining of characters like Louis and Gabrielle etc.

There is no reason to read anything from Tale of the Body Thief through Blood Canticle. It's honestly irrelevant and nothing good happens plot-wise or in terms of character development. If you like Lestat, you will watch his character be systematically butchered. If you like Louis, he's barely there. If you're a big fan of Armand, The Vampire Armand has good things about it, but it's painfully uncomfortable to read. Blood and Gold is...fine, but nothing exciting. There's not enough new material to justify hearing Marius' backstory a third time.

I have mixed feelings about the Prince Lestat trilogy. Objectively they suck, but if you care about Loustat at all, it's worth at least reading the highlights to get some closure. There's no reason to actually read them through though. If you want Loustat content, glean it through osmosis on Tumblr or download PDFs and ctrl + F "Louis" through the books. If you don't care about Loustat, there's no reason to read these last three. Have someone tell you how it ends and move on with your life.

If you're a fan of Louis, read the PL epilogue for sure because it's as close as we're ever going to get to a finished arc for him. You may be tempted, like I was, to read Merrick for him. Don't do it. Learn from my mistakes. You will regret it. PL epilogue only.

So there you go, that is my brief review of the series! I hope it was at least a little bit helpful!

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aftgficrec · 3 years

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Any pirate aus?? Or band aus?? Thank you guys for all that you do!💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛

Hello! I’ve got some pirate and band AUs that are new to our blog and some previous recs (including space pirates, because why not?) for swashbuckling adventure and song. You may also enjoy the fics in our mermaids tag. - A

More Pirate AUs - fantasy

‘The Gracekeepers’ (now complete) here

‘Between the Sinner and the Sea’ here

‘Fear No Fall’ series here

‘perhaps we’re just humans’ here

‘breathe air into my lungs (a chinese whisper fic)’ here

More Pirate AUs - sci fi (space)

‘Above the Clouds’ here

‘The Real Folk Blues’ (bounty hunters) here

‘Out in the Black’ here

More Band AUs

band aus here

band aus for a fandom novice here

instrument/music band here

Neil’s the singer in a band here

‘You like me (obviously)’ here

‘no other name (falling off my lips)’ and ‘Can I?’ here

‘youngblood’ here

‘Oh, Catastrophe’ here

‘Andreil Smut Anthology’ ch 1 here, ch 3 here

‘and you're shining like the brightest stars (like a transmission on the midnight radio)’ here

Pirates AUs

Disinclined to Acquiesce by redskiesandsailboats [Rated G, 22111 Words, Complete, 2021]

“What can I give you that will make you help me find Neil?”

Kevin frowns, stands up. “You know he’s on the Black Pearl, right?”

Andrew did not know that. “I don’t care,” he says.

“You know,” Kevin says at Nicky’s questioning noise. “The Black Pearl. Black sails, appears only at night. Haunted and crewed by the damned.”

Andrew tries to convey exactly how many shits he gives about the bedtime stories of the Black Pearl through the look he gives Kevin: exactly zero.

(Or, the Pirates of the Caribbean AU that absolutely no one asked for, in which Kevin is morally grey but terribly colorful in every other aspect, Neil gets kidnapped far too many times, and Andrew just wants to live out his life in peace, making swords and kissing Neil.)

tw: violence, tw: blood, tw: gun violence

Let this be a lesson to all of us by talk_less_smilemore [Not Rated (we say T), 13439 Words, Complete, Aftg Big Bang 2020]

"If you cross me," Andrew warns, "If you destroy my city or give my Den up to the Butcher, if you even think ab—"

"You'll kill me, I know." Neil rolls his eyes. "I've heard that one before."

A pirate/assassin AU set in Havana, circa 1700s. Andrew just wants to do his job. Neil won't stop getting in the way. He's hiding more than it originally appears.

tw: gun violence, tw: murder, tw: blood, tw: child trafficking

NB: Art embedded in the fic by @fornavn

Parallel by BelaBellissima [Rated T, Collection, Complete, 2018]

Chapter 6: Pirate - Andreil [2103 Words]

loosely based off of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides bc I love Phillip and Syrena

tw: violence, tw: fire, tw: blood

Zen's Tumblr Prompts by zen_fox [Rated G/T/E, Collection, Updated 2018]

Chapter 6: KANDREW — pirate au [M, 539 Words]

The Foxhole is ship of a different class to the sleek Evermore: smaller, older, and patched up places Kevin didn't know could be patched before he ended up part of her crew. He can no longer remember his life on land, but even the sea sounds different here— closer, somehow, and wilder.

Band AUs

The Musical Stylings of Neil Josten by infernalstars [Rated G (we say T), 9375 Words, Complete, 2020]

Neil Josten is a singing prodigy.

Until his mother dragged him away from that life and his father‘s criminal behavior. When his mother died, he narrowly escaped his father's clutches.

In turn, he winds up at a high school in South Carolina for his senior year and manages to get detention on the first day. It’s here he meets the Monsters looking for a lead singer.

This is his chance to be real. And to be free.

tw: implied/referenced self harm, tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: homophobia, tw: violence, tw: vomit, tw: nightmares

Risk It All by ChloeGreen1998 [Not Rated (we say T), 2998 Words, Complete, 2019]

Band AU where after college, Aaron joins a band and is also dating Kevin Day, who yes, you bet carried on with Exy….Basically, this is the proposal band AU nobody asked for but my brain won't shut up about it xo

i hate u (i love u) by insomniass (Not Rated (we say T), 2531 Words, Incomplete, Updated Oct 2019]

Nathaniel is an up and coming artist in the industry trying to find ways to escape from his mother's harmful tendencies. Andrew is trying to find his way after breaking off from his old band and estranging himself from his only family. They don't end up finding what they're looking for, but they do find each other, so maybe that's the same thing.

tw: homophobia, tw: implied/referenced abuse

Pirate Art and Humour

merman neil and pirate andrew art by @reinventlinda

andreil from ‘Fear No Fall’ art by @still-waiting-for-godot

‘but you have heard of us’ fandom fun post by @palmettios

‘you actually were telling the truth’ fandom fun post by @palmettios

‘I love those moments’ fandom fun post by @thepalmettofoxes

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sanguinesprout · 7 years

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Therapy/Counselling diary #8 (my memory is baaad plus some general frustrations and encouragements)

This past week was kinda hmm... nyeeeeh. I wouldn't say I did anything particularly exciting or new or memorable and I was kinda sickly but it wasn't bad bad and that's all that matters ^^ My memory is bad bad baaaaad in other words, same as usual lol

I’ve decided I’m gonna try to write this weeks (or well, last weeks) stuff using the tumblr app this time, I haven't really used it much, but it's been pretty neat so far aka I cba to clear my desk and use the pc. My typo rate is srsly v. high tho and I wanna shorten the words cuz phone typing and effort but I think I actually type about the same speed with my phone as I do on the PC hah... If only I could read back the text and edit stuff easier as I go along though... oh welp. (Whoa phew, I thought I accidentally posted it by accident lulz the app gives a 'it posted' notification when I save it as a draft what even lol)

This weeks counselling app was... pretty alright, though I'm feeling the pressure and the nerves more now because as predicted I am expected to try even more harder with the communication and skill learning stuff for next time and I really arghhh xwx I only just got over the last wall and the next one seems way more difficult to scale... but I think I can do it... I just need to push away the unhelpful thoughts and persist..! >^<

So that sheet about emotions and thoughts I had to do... I only managed to write two small things but it's something at least, we didn't actually look over it this session because we were still looking at the unhelpful behaviour sheet from last last time which was a slight relief but I still have the sheet now and need to fill it by next week xwx

The behaviour we went over was to do with comparing yourself to others and I really can't remember a lot of the things that was said gdi... maybe I'll just bullet point some of the important stuff and the rest will come back to me easier... and so I don't forget even more lol I'm just feeling extra lazy and unmovtivated hahaha.. ugh @v@"

🍰 Every person has their own views on things/their own way of doing or reacting to things and there is no right or wrong way in essence. Like baking a cake, one person may use so and so ingredients and the other such and such or even something that seems pretty unconventional but they both still result in cakes. Another person may prefer the taste of cake 1 over 2 and another person cake 2 over 1. No one is wrong in their choices, it’s just personal preference.

🥞 All professions work together in harmony and are necessary to make up and keep up a society. There is no need to be ashamed of or think lowly of your profession because it is just as important (eg. trash collector people, some people might think lowly of them but without them there would be a mess of vermin and disease etc etc as juxtaposed with another profession like a doctor which is usually thought highly of).

🍕 The only way to break the cycle is by doing. Doing will provide you with the experience and evidence needed to override your negative presumptions and this in turn will allow you to get past the things holding you back and grow. Your beliefs should run on facts and not irrational thoughts which probably hold no truth at all.

🍔 Like reading a book, you only know as much as you've read (your current and past experiences and beliefs), but there is still so much left to learn and absorb if you push forward and continue. The parts you haven't read yet (future experiences and knowledge etc) may be the positive and powerful parts needed to neutralise and flip back the negative beginning chapters.

🍝 You live in a place where freedom and choice is encouraged and accepted (unlike some other places in the world where people live under strict control), so why would you willingly choose to cage yourself in with all these rules and restrictions..? (T^T Idk why... but I don’t want to no more that’s for sure!)

🍦 Everything you do should be for your own approval and not anyone else’s. It’s your life and your choices, not theirs. Your own opinions matter most and your own wellbeing should be your priority. Do it all for yourself.

🍩 I would really like a doughnut right now, damn. I can’t have any of these foods rn cause of my diet lolol... they’re unhealthy anyways ^^”

These are some really awfully phrased retellings of the stuff the counsellor told me, but that’s basically all I can remember right now but they give very interesting and useful views on things. Normally I would rephrase them even more or not include the examples but w/e I need to stop being so afraid, just get it all down nice and straightforward and truthful! Yeah, I could've just used the actual bullet point formatting but food emoji is much more exciting of course :D I literally can’t think anymore about last week, I’m just so overwhelmed with this week, my head hurts with the mental effort x^x I decided to go back to using the pc, the app is good for brief things only I guess.

In terms of doing something brave or well out of my comfort zone, I walked down a few streets on my own and went to collect some post. It’s something I’ve done before (though not completely on my own) but I still had a hella awkward time at the desk cause the queue was kind of jumbled and idk if the person before me was actually someone that came after, I thought maybe they were an employee and went behind them instead or maybe they skipped in front idk ugh... I really suck at looking and remembering people’s faces sometimes.

If I wanted to go somewhere else on my own my parents would probably not let me go and my dad would lecture me all the safety things even more than usual (seriously, I get the don’t talk to strangers type of line every single time..!). I’m not a child, I shouldn’t have to ask for permission and this time I didn’t ask, I just said where I was going and why and left but if I tried that to go anywhere else then they’d get ruffled. But the main thing is the communication again I guess, as long as they are informed, it’ll lessen the stress and make them more open to me taking my own initiative.

Like I understand they want me to be safe, it’s what parents do and I obviously don’t want to run into any trouble too, but sometimes being too overprotective and overly cautious means I’m just stuck and can’t grow at all. It just goes to make me even more scared of the world, when I should be out there doing things like everyone else, it sucks.

I know in parents eyes, their daughters and sons will always be their kids, their babies, but at some point they will see them as adults too and well, that just isn’t happening for me. I haven’t proven myself worthy of the adult title and I also feel I don’t deserve it yet, it seems a long way off still but it feels so ridiculous, but what is age but just a number anyways, everyone goes at different paces. I shouldn’t dwell on this too much and just try my best to prove to myself, yes myself first and foremost, that I can be an adult, I can be responsible and independent at least a little more. I need a better action plan really... besides the vague, get a job, learn to drive, cook etc. idk what else @^@” I’m getting a little ahead of myself with even this though, gotta not forget, take things slow and gradually, baby steps!! ^^

In my other endeavours with art and posting things online, it’s just come to a stand still or gone backwards actually, I’ve just gotten so scared again, I can’t put a pen to paper or even leave a comment on other people’s stuff anymore and it feels really awful, like why can’t I just do it and forget about feeling foolish or judged or inadequate, I keep overthinking again gdi..!! >^< I keep wanting to plan things and have things all perfect and ready instead of just getting things done as I go like other people... damn, I keep saying like other people, constantly comparing myself to them, that’s another reason I’ve gotten scared to try again with anything.

Gosh, these unhelpful habits are for reals and are the worst, at least I’m more aware of them though, maybe I can fight them back a bit better now that I know how draining and evil they are... Okay! I challenge you unhelpful habits!! Imma throw you in the trash and get my ass moving! You’ve got nothing on me! I can do it!! Ugh... ;^; No no, no sad! Fight fight fight! Go go go! ò^ó

My sis got me a lot of gifts relating to art, she encourages me through this and her kind words and wants me to do well, I want me to do well too and to show my gratitude with action, so imma do well and make a lot of nice arts to be proud of! They don’t have to be perfect! I saw a quote that was something like ‘even the pages on your bad days are better than the ones on the days you did nothing’ (I just totally butchered that lol) or something like that and it was like, damn, that’s true. A little practice even if it’s not serious is better than nothing at all! Okay okay I’m pumped!

The stuff I had to do this week is to help out at the front of the shop, gain some experience and converse with customers..! I already attempted it once for a short time and welp, it was scary but I guess not that bad (also I kinda botched up a phone order maybe) but I keep reading into things too deeply and negatively and it scared me off and now as usual the week is ending and my opportunities to try are limited, need to get my ass in gear, c’mon I can do it! Don’t be afraid, you’re doing well, keep going! ^^”... go go go! ^u^

Maybe I can kill 2 birds with one stone, sit and observe but also draw, space is limited though so idk if it’ll work out but there’s no harm giving it a try I guess. Must not forget to fill in that emotions/thoughts sheet ugh, I should have done it as I actually do stuff but I do things in bad and unconventional ways. Need to break a lot of habits. I downloaded this app that is supposed to help you build new healthy habits, so far all it’s wanted me to do is to drink water when I wake up so I feel more energised lol but I did it and it does help, I wonder if I can build a lot of other good habits too, it certainly makes things feel more fun in a way.

Everyday in my mind I want to look over the days happenings in a more positive light and congratulate myself for all the small things I did that I maybe I wouldn’t have some weeks ago, so I can see how much I actually improved and have put effort in. Even though on the surface it just all seems meh, I want to let myself see how things have actually become a little easier and how the negative thoughts relating to them has begun to affect me less and take up less space in my conscious. Be proud of yourself and all your endeavours, silly!

Hmm, this post is probably shorter than my usual one but oh well, I don’t want to spend too much time rambling or ruminating or being a paralysed perfectionist, I’ve got other bigger fish to fry! And draw and eat omnomnom! Yolo! x3

Okay okay, now I’m going to go do some artsy fartsy stuff or at least have myself set up for it and my conversing/experience gaining challenge hoo! Believe in yourself, you can do it! Let’s go go! :D

Have a lovely evening and keep trying, keep flying! ^^

#therapy #avpd #anxiety #social anxiety #depression #thoughts #feelings #family #self-motivation #trying a little is better than not trying at all #it's okay for things to not be perfect #believe in yourself #do it all for yourself #challenge the negative #keep going #baby steps #you can do it!#let's art and kick ass!

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