jess・33 ・unrepentant armand apologist

Asker Portrait Anonymous asked

The vibes in your latest Lestat/Armand fic were immaculate! The gritty, grungy club setting was perfect and fits them so well (in canon-compliant or AU scenarios, that's my preferred vibe for them, with them being eternal teenagers and all yk) and that has to be one of the hottest kisses I've ever read 🥵I love how you incorporated Armand's synesthesia (it's such a rich topic full of endless potential and it's so rare to see it explored or even brought up). It's truly such a blessing to have someone in the fandom who is not only a characterization guru who nails every character they write but also a kink enthusiast and fearless watersports pioneer (never not on my mind). ALSO, the @birdblacksocialclub piece that inspired was absolute perfection as usual and I love that both the birdypoptoses AND the kacypoptoses multiverses are real and alive and thirving xoxo DA ❤️ ps can't wait for the big wip!

ahhhh thank you!!! Honestly I tossed that together so fast, birdy’s art had been on my brain for days and it just kinda all fell together perfectly. Like Lestat being a god on stage but Armand’s acolyte in private is my favorite thing ever so how could I *not* have them torment each other a little in a dirty backstage dressing room?

Oh man the synesthesia!! I’m trying so hard to include a lot of that in future fics, it’s such a cool detail about him and fun to play with, you can make things very trippy in his POV and it’s just fun.

God I’m glad you’re down for the watersports because this big wip goes to a place beyond that and I’m like- how many kinks can I con people into reading? How far can I go before people get squeamish and give up on me? lmao I’m so nervous!!

Anyways, a preview, just for you! ♥

In the end he doesn’t have to choose because Daniel’s fingers slip down lower. Armand’s eyes fall shut.

Daniel can feel his heartbeat here. He knows this for a fact, he’d felt it so many times teasing at mortal Daniel’s hole like this. Little, light strokes that have him out of his mind with the promise of what will come next. What pleasures his body has almost forgotten.

The fabric of the pillowcase strains from how hard Armand grips it. He tilts his hips down towards Daniel’s finger, makes his silent demand.

Daniel pulls his hand away.

“What’s the meaning of this?” Armand asks. His voice is close to a whine. “Touching me and then stopping?”

“How mortal of an experience do you want this to be?” Daniel asks.

Armand runs his tongue over his teeth absently. The taste of his own blood seeps into his mouth, serves to clear his head somewhat.

How mortal of an experience did he want? Daniel had asked that last night as well, out on the street as they lingered near a pharmacy. Armand had shrugged and cast his eyes at the ground. As mortal as you can make it, he’d said, foolishly.

And then Daniel had stolen away into the store, returning with nothing but a tightly shut paper bag. Refusing to reveal the contents, he’d hidden it away under the sink in the bathroom. It had taken everything in Armand not to peek.

Would that he still had the ability to read Daniel’s mind, to get the jump on whatever it is he has planned. The anticipation is excruciating.

“What is it that you bought last night?” Armand counters.

Daniel laughs. He digs his finger hard into Armand’s perineum, makes him hiss at the jolt of pleasure and pain.

“That’s for me to know and you to find out, depending on your answer. Do you still want it to be realistic? Do you want to know the things I went through, when I was on the other side of this?” Daniel asks.

Asker Portrait Anonymous asked

Don't know if this question will even make sense, but when Armand talks about Daniel's beauty, and suggests that Louis was drawn to Daniel for the same reason, do you think that begins and ends at typical human hotness? I.e the sort of things that would make other mortals drawn to Daniel. Or do you think with all their extra, high tuned senses there could be something about certain mortals that the vampires might find pleasing and alluring that wouldn't be noticeable or visible to mortals?

I do in my heart of hearts believe Daniel is just generally beautiful, to vampires and mortals alike. But there is also something slightly amusing about the thought of him just being Some Guy to most humans, but a quirk of his circulatory system or whatever making him catnip for vampires

oh this totally makes sense anon!

Like I think he’s physically good looking, obviously. But I don’t know if you’ve ever had the experience of looking someone in the eye and not knowing much about them, but immediately connecting and realizing oh this person is my kind of weirdo. I think that’s it.

Like Daniel is willing to buy into the fact that this vampire world exists, he’s curious about it and not at all put off. He’s the right flavor of freak and so the vibe just makes him catnip for these guys. Armand himself described Daniel as a morbid romantic and I think that’s alluring. That’s someone a vampire can hang with, someone who will be down for literally anything, who will be open to being used as their personal capri sun pouch, and when you find your perfect weirdo it doesn’t matter what they look like. They’re impossibly hot for it.

But also it was the 70s and 80s and people did coke left and right, chances are he partook if he was meeting his interview subjects at weird places. So you just know Daniel’s heart was fuckin off to the races at all times, his pulse was pounding, he was a walking advertisement of ‘young, dumb, and full of cum blood’. And that certainly wouldn’t have hurt lol

So I think it’s a mix of things tbh!! Good looking, freaky as all get out, and the occasionally chemically altered heart rate combined for the ideal vampire boyfriend.

monstersinthecosmos:

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“I enjoyed what those men were saying to me,” he says, voice cracking. The words muffle against his knees. “I could imagine it. I wanted them to.”

Marius presses his knuckles to his lips. Patient, but hard to watch him struggle like this. He listens for Amadeo’s thoughts again, wondering what he might say to help.

The images are mixed together. The dream, but the faces of the men from the banquet. Fucked just the same, but moaning in pleasure. He imagines his body now, grown, broader in the shoulders. Imagines that he can be on top for some of it, the table scraping his bare knees as he rides. 

And Marius there. Watching. Marius in the corner, observing, flashing reassuring smiles that show off his predator’s teeth. 

Shame doesn’t occur to this version of him, the present one who wanted this. It’s pleasure, and power. He likes that he can seduce them, likes that they argue over who gets to go first. He likes how they drop rings onto the table to bargain. 

It’s typical of human thoughts though, like always. Marius listens carefully, tries to untwist them, like listening for each chord. The dream adds an ugly framework to it; Amadeo thinks of the handsome men last night, but remembers how afraid he was in that little room. 

When he looks up at Marius and their eyes meet, the thought strikes Marius in the chest. Vivid and sharp and truthful. Marius, drinking from them, his skin ruddy with their blood, his eyes alight. 

He thinks Amadeo was correct in feeling uneasy by his own portrait. Seeing himself through someone else’s eyes. Marius hasn’t told him that if he comes into the Blood, he’ll have this opportunity more often, not just at the will of the occasional portrait painter.

Marius takes a slow breath. Finds his patience, his courage. He lowers himself down from the scaffold and comes closer. He doesn’t intend to lower himself all the way to the floor, but once he’s standing over Amadeo he’s just too small, too pathetic from here. Maybe it’s a kindness that he does it, to be at his eye level, to make him feel stronger. He crosses his legs and places a hand on Amadeo’s knee.

“Is it very terrible, that you wanted it?” he asks. 

Amadeo chews on his thumbnail. He looks up at the painting again. After a moment, he lazily points at it with his other hand.

“I think it’s terrible to him.”


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monstersinthecosmos:

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September 6, 1973

Daniel wakes up thinking about the midnight sun thing. 

Half his face is smushed into his pillow, and the sun is in his eyes. In the bleary sleep-fog he reaches towards the window, like he can close the curtains from here, but his hand just meets the empty air. He pulls the blanket up over his head, instead.

It’s nice, sleeping in. It’s been a while since he’s had to wake up in the morning. No boring job. Done with school. But it fills him with uneasiness sometimes. Like he’s missing out on something.

He peeks his head out, arches his neck to see his alarm clock. It’s almost eleven. Oops.

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fofoqueirah:

and yet he loved this thing….

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Just a little something for Devil’s Minion theme week, that is happening right now! <3 You can check the blog right here: @villaofthemysteries

I’ve made this to go with my fic “The chain”! In the future, I will likely just keep adding my Devil’s Minions written scenes to that one, I think.

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Asker Portrait Anonymous asked

I go back to fics all the time. I every fandom, I have my special little fics. Sometimes I do a comb through page by page from the very first page that a fandom ever got. I think fanfics are one of the only place where things are yet to be treated like content ❤ and your fics are loved. They are cherished ❤❤

Oh thank you!! I’m so glad to know people still do that, because with the rise of Content Culture fandom moves so fucking fast, and I’ve seen newbies to fandom be like ‘why would you still like that show/book/movie if there’s not gonna be sequels or new seasons put out?’. Or not understand that ao3 doesn’t have an algorithm, there is no game to play to be at the 'top’ of results.

So it’s nice to hear that people out there are still going through the archives and enjoying older works. Creativity doesn’t have an expiration date after all ♥

Asker Portrait Anonymous asked

Jumping on the Come Pull My Strings love bandwagon - I literally have them downloaded to my kindle and frequently reread my favorite bits 💖 they're literally my favorite fics

Oh thank you anon!! I love that I’m on your kindle of all things, that’s practically like being a real author with real books!! I’m so happy you enjoy them that much ♥

Asker Portrait Anonymous asked

In episode 6 of your work, I can see a Daniel that I had seen in one of @/apoptoses work. In their Blood Sanation, Daniel said that things help when he had a routine and Marius, in their universe, made sure that Daniel followed it so that it would ground him. And I feel such a connection between that Daniel and yours! Like puzzle pieces! Idk if this was a weird ask. Sorry if I bothered you.

monstersinthecosmos:

oh my god can I tell you something!!! (First of all thank you this is such an honor and no you did not bother me!)

So I didn’t read Blood Sanation yet because my attention span is garbage and I have a hard time reading fic lately BUT IT’S BEEN OPEN IN A TAB FOR MONTHS THIS IS A GRAVE SIN I AM SO SORRY but I have had so many private conversations with @apoptoses about Daniel, and about Marius!, and about routine & structure, and about 24/7 dom dynamics that involve routine & structure! !! I even spent a week at @apoptoses’s house last month and we had SO MANY TALKS ABOUT VAMPIRES WELL INTO THE NIGHT!!! I think she is fucking brilliant and I can’t wait to read this fic.

It’s such an honor that you’d see similarities in our Daniels!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is so exciting to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s a coincidence but I think because we’ve shared a lot of ideas about Daniel and share a lot of opinions about him. I’m so excited to read her fic now!!!!

Oh man yeah anon me and @monstersinthecosmos have like kamehameha’d/vulcan mind melded/SOMETHING because we just have a lot of the same feelings on vampires and kink meta and places to go in fic!!

And at the time when I was writing BS I was bouncing ideas off a lot of people and trying to work out the age old question of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Marius™, so my discussions with @monstersinthecosmos about 24/7 dom dynamics and routine (and being adhd warriors who struggle with routine and fixation) absolutely influenced the places I took Daniel in that fic. And like, every fic thereafter.

Also this is just such a great reminder to talk to your fellow creative folks because you never know who’s gonna end up being one of your greatest friends!! Her series The Usher is what made me love Armand/Daniel in the first place and made me wanna write and look at us now!!

AND speaking of fic and meta, anon, you should go read her new work Gallows Bird. Because she was working on that (and I was working on my current big wip) when we were hanging out and the themes in are just so fucking incredible, the dialogue is top tier, and this fic has forever influenced my perceptions of Amadeo.

(and if my current big wip has similar themes about facing your past well lol you can’t get two writers together talking about the same topic constantly and not have them explore different aspects of a theme)

But yeah!! If we have overlap it’s because we never stop talking and share the same interests and pretty much the same perception of certain characters lol and I’m so honored to be put in the same pool as my favorite armand/daniel writer ever!! ♥

Asker Portrait Anonymous asked

hi i saw you say you didn’t think anyone was still reading come pull my strings so i needed to come tell you that when ao3 was down for a good bit awhile back the first thing i did when it came back up was download come pull my strings so i can always read it whenever i want. the valentine’s day card daniel gives armand made me bawl the first time i read it. it’s THEE required devils minion reading to me

oh thank you anon!!!

this is so nice because i know for a long while me and other writers have talked about how it feels like works are treated like ‘content’ anymore, like they have an expiration date and people don’t care about your back catalog, they just want something new to interact with.

so this makes me so happy!! those are such important fics for me and really started the foundation of how i write them (and i wanna write more in the future once i get out of my post-canon obsession/venice addiction).

i originally wasn’t going to put in the card. but something kept nagging at me, this feeling that armand would have held onto it, and like i didn’t want to show the contents in the main story itself? i thought it would make it trite or too sappy, and would throw off the vibe before the smut itself. so it only worked as its own scene, with armand sitting along and reflecting.

thank you for letting me know, message me ANY time about my work ♥

monstersinthecosmos:

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September 4, 1973

Daniel buzzes Jeff’s doorbell right as it’s getting dark out, and stuffs his hands in his jacket pockets as he waits.

“Who’s there?” Jeff crackles through the intercom.

“Molloy.”

“Gimmie a minute.”

Daniel fusses with a matchbook in his pocket. Shifts his weight beneath his backpack of tapes.

No interview today, but he brought his stuff just in case. In all honesty, he wants a night off. But now and then he runs into someone at Jeff’s, and you never know. All sorts of weirdos come in and out of here.

The buzzer goes off a few minutes later, and the pot smell wafts off the man he passes on the way in. Jeff’s previous customer, he’s sure, eyes already bloodshot as he heads out. Daniel’s lungs hurt by the time he makes it up to the third floor, and he sees the smoke clouding around the open door from down the hall. 

“Christ, man,” he says, and pulls the door shut behind him. “You’re baking out the whole floor.”

Jeff coughs at him from the couch, shrugging. “They don’t mind.”

“I’m sure.”

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