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Triptych (Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion) by sleepdeprivedsurgeon
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
11 Jul 2024
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Three paintings side-by-side; three nameless figures. One hunched-over and long-haired, draped in bloodstained bedsheets. One on a pedestal, teeth rotting from a plague. One screaming and starving, blind on a blood-orange background. Armand feels like he’s going to vomit every single thing inside of him out onto the showroom floor. His stomach drops the same way it did the first time he saw the de Romanus exhibit in the National Gallery, with the knowledge that every eye in the room is on him.
[Why they bought the Bacon triptych, and why Armand sold it.]
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- Part 1 of half-blank, half-apocalyptic
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masterpieces serving maximum sentences by sleepdeprivedsurgeon
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
30 Jun 2024
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A thought hangs in the air, along with the smell of sweat and nitrocellulose: Armand stretched out across the bed, on display. Objects arranged for a still life. A possessive, glassy stare; the bright-white flash of a camera lens.
No one has painted me in four hundred years.
It takes all his strength to pry Louis off of him, to catch his breath and say it. “I want you to photograph me.”
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- Part 2 of half-blank, half-apocalyptic
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say you're sorry, say you love it, say you're evil underneath by sleepdeprivedsurgeon
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
14 Jun 2024
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You’re a gift, Marius had told him once, back when he was still a head taller than his Amadeo, wiping tears away with a less-than-gentle thumb. Get in there and start giving.
He stares at himself. The bruises Louis’ teeth left on his throat are gone, if they were ever there at all. Aside from a little red around the eyes, a little tremor in the hands, he’s beautiful. He’s always beautiful. Often he asks himself what it might have been like if his maker had allowed him to be anything else, anything but.
It’s been six hundred years and he still can’t come up with an answer.
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- Part 3 of half-blank, half-apocalyptic
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lurched like a stray to the arms that were open by sleepdeprivedsurgeon
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
04 Jun 2024
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Decades passed. The Theatre des Vampires grit its teeth and weathered the wars. Armand was grateful that the other vampires were afraid to touch him. He did his best to maintain that fear. Each day he wrapped it carefully around himself, above the skin but below the tailored suits. It fit him well; it kept his corpse-cold body warm. He shrouded himself in tradition, in bloodlust, in spidery notes in the margins of every script in their repertoire.
Then Louis du Lac arrived in Paris, and he could feel himself unravel all over again.
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- Part 4 of half-blank, half-apocalyptic
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too young to notice (that some types of love could be bad) by sleepdeprivedsurgeon
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
12 Sep 2024
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In Delhi it was haram to paint the face of God. In Venice to be holy you first had to be beautiful. In this way Marius was a god in his own right; and Amadeo, the little Christ hanging on his arm.
Neither God nor beauty are allowed in the catacombs. It’s the first lesson Santino teaches him.
[Armand and youth and looking pretty]
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- Part 5 of half-blank, half-apocalyptic