Living in the darkest timeline continues to a horrorshow, so, to fannish things ( Read more... )

Darth Real Life continues to breathe down my neck, but I managed to marathon the second sason of AMC's Interview with the Vampire, aka the tv version of the second half (or, well, last third) of the titular novel. (I reviewed season 1 here.) It continues to be a fascinating take on and argument with Rice's story, andn while as with the first season ( Read more... )

This is one of the shows that when you describe it shouldn't work, especially as an adaption, and yet it does, and the result is fascinating and eminently watchable. When I first heard about it, including some of the major, major changes made to the book - Louis now gets made a vampire in 1906, not in the late 18th century, Louis thus isn't a white ( Read more... )

Rewatched: Interview with the Vampire, which holds up amazingly well. I remember back in the day fretting endlessly before its release, since I had loved the first three of Anne Rice's Vampire novels, and defiinitely hadn't imagined either Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise as Louis and Lestat, respectively. Like many another fan (and Anne Rice herself), I ( Read more... )

Yuletide assignment: more generic than most I got - basically it amounts to "more of what canon does so well" (which I sympathize with, since I have fandoms where I want just that, too). I can work with that, since I love the canon in question (obviously) and it leaves me ample manvoeuvring room. But because there's no specific prompt, I'm ( Read more... )