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3 months ago
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interview with the vampire
paul de pointe du lac
i know it’s all jokes and games but it’s so bittersweet that the first 200 years of vampirism for louis are about mourning
mourning his ENTIRE family
and doing so in various abusive relationships
but he gets to go through that process and come out the other side with an appreciation for life
for living
for his vampiric existence
when you’re grieving it feels like it’ll never stop but he’s still there still living
louis de pointe du lac
ldpdl
9 years ago
(The spices were cardamom and cinnamon, you silly fool, and the children in your hometown are hungrier. The songbird was a woodlark, and the only exotic thing there was you.)
This. I love this. I need to remember this. No, I want to remember this. Otherwise all I know and see is all that I’ve known and seen, even when I’m a thousand miles away from anything I’ve ever seen before. And how bland would life be if everything you ate was the same meal you just had.
It occurs to me that failure to properly worldbuild an SFFnal story is - sometimes, though not always - less reflective of a writer’s creative ability than it is a consequence of their real-world privilege. The concept of culture as something with multiple...
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