“For reddish locks such as these,” he said, caressing my hair, “for eyes of the deepest and most sympathetic brown. For skin like the fresh cream of milk in the morning; for lips indistinguishable from the petals of a rose.”
He took a ring from his finger and put it on mine, his fingertips stroking my finger gently as he made sure of the fit. Diamonds are the white light of God, he said. Diamonds are pure.
guys check ao3 for interview with the vampire fics bc apparently there’s 65 pgs worth of it now, being dated back to 1995.
I’m just hoping her estate doesn’t follow in her wishes. Maybe I’m just negative but I wouldn’t trust it until we find out what her heirs have planned.
There’s nothing they can do, if the fics are posted to AO3 and aren’t being posted for any kind of monetary gain (which they shouldn’t be because AO3 doesn’t allow that for exactly this reason).
Because here’s the first thing: fanfiction falls under fair use, for reasons, which is why so much of it exists and you don’t hear many stories about people being sued for it or creators coming after fans anymore. You’ve technically been able to post fanfic of Anne Rice stuff, but here’s the second thing: although plenty of people did post anyway, people often didn’t out of either respect for her wishes (because she was expressly against fanfic authors writing about her characters, a stance I’m given understand she reversed in her later years) or the fandom genetic-memory fear that she would personally try to come for them.
But here’s the third thing: the estate can’t come for you directly unless you list direct contact info on AO3. Because what are they going to do? Leave a comment with a takedown notice, with no way to know if you have notifications turned on? No! AO3 has no native way to directly contact any of the authors archiving their work there. If they want to get to you, they have to go through AO3, and as long as you’re following AO3’s rules (which again are literally in place to protect you against exactly this kind of thing and specifically protect you from this actual person/estate, as her history is part of the reason AO3 exists) AO3 is going to tell them they have no ability to make you take it down. You actually won’t hear from the estate for posting on AO3, because AO3 would be the ones dealing with it for you.
So like. Take a moment and appreciate the folks who are posting freshly because they feel safer with her gone, sure. But also take a moment to appreciate that AO3 exists and protects us, and has been protecting us from their first day.
& then maybe go drop them a couple bucks to help keep the lights on so they can keep doing so.
People demanding that complete strangers have this performative mourning period for Anne Rice is actually hilarious. I’m not her family or her friend. I’m not even a fan. I’m a fanfiction author. And my parasocial connection with her is how she played an instrumental role in attacking, censoring, and eventually destroying popular fanfiction websites back in the pre-Ao3 days. That’s how I’ll remember her. And that’s the context in which I’m going to react to news of her death.
Anne Rice stalked, harassed, and threatened her underaged fans with cease and desist letters over unmonetized fanfiction. Fanfiction.net was forced to completely purge parts of its site that were related to her works after she sent her lawyers after them. It directly led to the structural demolition of collective transformative works beyond just the stuff based on her books.
Celebrate her life and her books if you’re a fan. But I’m decidedly not a fan of hers. And I’m not going to suddenly pretend like she wasn’t a catastrophic force against fanfic and fandom in general now that she’s dead.
Ao3 has a dedicated, robust legal team in direct response to C&D types like Anne Rice. It’s the reason why you can post Disney-related fics on their site without having the mouse kick down your door. Teens and young adults being able to share fanworks online without fear of legal retaliation from millionaires and corporations hasn’t always been such a sure thing. And people are quickly forgetting just how close the concept of collective transformative works was to being stamped out for good.
As I said below, I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.
And this time I choose “Interview with the Vampire”
I chose the first volume of “The Vampire Chronicles“, my favorite book of this series together with “The Queen of the Damned” (book that I still don’t have). What can I say about it? Well… It’s impossible doesn’t fall in love with Lestat de Lioncourt when you read this serie…
In recognition of the death of prolific author Anne Rice over the past weekend, here is an 18th century tract analyzing some contemporary vampire-like phenomena.
