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Penname: Laviniaspeaks [Contact]
Real name: Caroline
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Collaborative theatre artist who's had a love of VC (Lestat and Louis, especially, with occasional steps into Gabrielle and Daniel) since about age 13 or 14 and the ancient days of Moonscrolls (Rotoli della Luna).




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Title: Late November by Imogen
Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 2]
Summary: A crossover with the Mayfair Witches.
Category: Contemporary, Crossover
Characters: David, Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Tale of the Body Thief
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 12 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 15884 | Read count: 1025

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Published: January 20, 2008 | Updated: January 20, 2008


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstarstar
Date: March 31, 2014 Title: Chapter 12: Part 10 - B

This is one of the more beautiful, aching, and touching specs I've read in a long time. I don't know how this one escaped my notice, but I'm almost glad it did, as it meant I could find it tonight. Lovely.



Title: The Secret History by Cesare
Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 17]
Summary: Read between the lines. The untold story of 65 years.
Category: Adult, Angst, Historical
Characters: Claudia (Books), Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 25 | Completed: No | Word count: 98287 | Read count: 13848

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Published: February 07, 2008 | Updated: February 19, 2019


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstarstar
Date: February 20, 2019 Title: Chapter 25: Chapter 24

OMG So excited to have a new chapter! It's so wonderful, beautifully written. Thank you for giving us what we've hungered for since AR wrote IWTV.

Author's Response: Thanks!



Title: Tell Me What You Want by Gairid
Rated: starstarstarstar [Reviews - 1]
Summary:

A look at Santino and his affair with a mortlal. The story includeds a little bit of a look into what sort of creature Santino might be.

AU, since canon and I part ways after MtD and TVA.  Merrick who?


Category: Drama, Adult, Contemporary
Characters: Santino
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 5083 | Read count: 133

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Published: November 10, 2009 | Updated: November 10, 2009


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstar
Date: June 22, 2011 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

Nicely done. I like your crafting of the character of Santino--very careful, I feel like each line of him is like a razor's edge. So nice to see a "minor" character like him get some attention!



Title: En Garde by Gairid
Rated: starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 2]
Summary:

Lestat and Louis converse as they dodge, parry and thrust.


Category: Contemporary, Adult
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 455 | Read count: 375

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Published: November 11, 2009 | Updated: November 11, 2009


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstar
Date: February 07, 2011 Title: Chapter 1: En Garde

This has always been one of my favourite little stories of yours. Filled with excellent movement, the text seems to parry and thrust with the characters. Wonderfully done.



Title: Incomplete by Gairid
Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 5]
Summary:

Lestat must go to Paris to speak with Maharet about his transgression—Louis stays behind in New Orleans with Brian.


Category: Angst, Contemporary, Drama, Romance
Characters: None
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: Odyssey
Chapters: 11 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 41569 | Read count: 3081

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Published: November 15, 2009 | Updated: December 02, 2009


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstarstar
Date: February 13, 2014 Title: Chapter 11: Chapter 11 - Pointe du Lac and Royal Street

Just re-reading this. I forgot how much I love it, the tension in it and the aching.

I of course love everything you write, but the little hints about the time they spent in Paris, reconciling, this is something of yours I've always loved so much that it has become a kind of headcanon.

I highly support seeing more drabbles/specs that look into that time. ;-)



Title: The Justice of the Sun by saffronlie
Rated: starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 4]
Summary: Louis and Lestat deal with the events of Merrick.
Category: Contemporary, Drama
Characters: David, Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch the Devil, Merrick
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 3456 | Read count: 266

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Published: January 21, 2010 | Updated: January 21, 2010


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstarstar
Date: February 08, 2014 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

Damnit, this is just such. a good. spec. Seriously, I have to come back and re-read it every once in awhile because it's just so beautiful, and so painful, and does everything to the end of that awful P.O.S. book that I needed.

Superb.



Title: Flame Under Flame by Sanguinity
Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 3]
Summary: A too-brief moment of wakefulness on the floor of St. Elizabeth's Orphanage in New Orleans.
Category: Angst
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Memnoch the Devil
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 743 | Read count: 192

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Published: February 04, 2010 | Updated: February 04, 2010


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstarstar
Date: June 09, 2011 Title: Chapter 1: Flame Under Flame

Yes, yes, and yes again. This is beautiful and touching and awful. Thank you--this was a scene that needed to be written.



Title: A Full Disgrace by Sanguinity
Rated: starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 2]
Summary: This trio of drabbles expands upon the teenage Lestat's experience in being taken away from the troupe of actors with whom he'd fled his home.
Category: Angst, Drama, Ficlets, Historical
Characters: Gabrielle, Lestat (Books)
Spoilers: The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 3 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 300 | Read count: 354

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Published: March 29, 2010 | Updated: March 29, 2010


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed
Date: January 22, 2014 Title: Chapter 3: Chapter 3: One Question

These are just so beautifully done!



Title: A Place Closed in Secrecy by Danielle
Rated: starstarstarstar [Reviews - 2]
Summary: Sequel to "Dream Crime". Wanting more than Louis is willing to give freely, Lestat begins threatening the one he holds most dear.
Category: Historical, Angst, Drama
Characters: Claudia (Books), Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire
Challenge: None
Series: The Farthest Limits of Love
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1634 | Read count: 592

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Published: April 01, 2010 | Updated: April 01, 2010


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstar
Date: June 09, 2011 Title: Chapter 1: A Place Closed in Secrecy

Love this line:

Everything I would have to fight for to earn even the tiniest bit of it, she got without asking.

Fantastic. Very dark. Thanks for writing.



Title: Children of the Fatherland by Becky Durden
Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 3]
Summary: Lestat and Louis talk revolution during Bastille Day celebrations in New Orleans.
Category: Drama, Humor
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Tale of the Body Thief
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1789 | Read count: 182

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Published: July 13, 2010 | Updated: July 13, 2010


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstarstar
Date: January 21, 2014 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter One

Just re-read. Love it, woman! So wonderful--the hustle, bustle of the crowd and the two of them among them, arguing and flirty and generally living. =)



Title: The Pirate by Stella Machiavelli
Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 50]
Summary: AU. Lestat is a cruel and domineering pirate who leaves a trail of victims and destruction behind him. One night, he attacks a young black-haired teenager...
Category: Adult
Characters: Daniel (Books), David, Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Tale of the Body Thief
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 52 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 41157 | Read count: 23354

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Published: July 24, 2010 | Updated: May 29, 2011


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarhalf-star
Date: May 23, 2011 Title: Chapter 45: Chapter 45: Regret

This story is so much fun! I never, and I mean NEVER like AU stories like this, and I had a wonderful time reading this! It is engaging and bodice-ripping fun! Please tell me you'll be finishing it!!

Author's Response: Thank you so much! I am a huge fan of your stories at the LJ community so it means a lot that you like it. It's very cheesy but fun to write. =)



Title: Hot Miami Nights by AgeOfLight
Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 6]
Summary: A few weeks after the fall of Akasha, Daniel ventures into Miami to hunt with Lestat and finds more than one craving satisfied.
Category: Adult, Angst, Drama, Romance
Characters: Armand (Books), Daniel (Books), Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Marius
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned, The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 6 | Completed: No | Word count: 12393 | Read count: 2088

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Published: October 20, 2010 | Updated: November 03, 2010


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstar
Date: March 23, 2011 Title: Chapter 6: Chapter 6: Love Is A Battlefield.

Fantastic piece! Would love to see a sequel!



Title: My True Love Gave to Me by ukashi goshi
Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 4]
Summary: light and dark gifts from Lestat, not long after QOTD
Category: Romance
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1191 | Read count: 251

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Published: December 12, 2010 | Updated: December 12, 2010


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed
Date: January 25, 2014 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

So beautifully wrought, my dear! I especially enjoyed all the marginalia, the images of Lestat's garish handwriting, and the aesthetic feel of the entire piece.



Title: DDR2010: The Game by Sanguinity
Rated: starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 4]
Summary: This story is set several years after canon ends, in the wake of Blood Canticle, Merrick's death, and all the rest. Lestat and Louis have become silent enemies of sorts, and this short story tackles one of their last attempts at resolution.
Category: Angst, Contemporary, Drama
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Merrick
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 2619 | Read count: 212

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Published: January 06, 2011 | Updated: January 06, 2011


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstarhalf-star
Date: April 11, 2011 Title: Chapter 1: DDR2010: The Game

Fantastic! So glad to read a post-Merrick fic that does so very, very well with all that spins out in that book. Thank you!

Author's Response: And thank you for taking the time to comment! For as much as I hate-hate-HATED Merrick and the later books, I really find it an enjoyable challenge to try and work that portion of canon out, via fanfic, so that it comes back in line with my own views/assumptions/desires regarding my best-loved characters. :)



Title: Promises In The Dark: Drabble Dimanche Redux 2010 by AgeOfLight
Rated: starstarstarstar [Reviews - 3]
Summary: Summer of 1987 to Spring of 1992: Lestat and Daniel carry out an affair as secret lovers for two years, then all hell breaks loose.
Category: Adult, Angst, Contemporary, Drama, Romance
Characters: Armand (Books), Daniel (Books), David, Eric, Jesse, Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Mael, Maharet, Marius
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, The Vampire Lestat
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 12 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 11589 | Read count: 2330

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Published: January 09, 2011 | Updated: January 11, 2011


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstarhalf-star
Date: March 24, 2011 Title: Chapter 12: Epilogue: The Auvergne, Summer 1988

Heartbreaking and beautifully written. One of the first specs that has filled me with rancor towards Lestat, which indicates a job well done (as I never dislike Lestat, no matter how bad he is!). Thank you!



Title: drabble dimanche by ukashi goshi
Rated: starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 21]
Summary: Various drabbles written for drabble dimanche at vc_media. Word counts were all 100 per prompt in Pages or Word.

(Also, frankly I am too lazy to rate each one, but M is about as far as any of them go, so I chose that.)
Category: Angst, Drama, Ficlets, Humor, Meditations, Parody, Romance
Characters: Armand (Books), Claudia (Books), Daniel (Books), Eleni, Gabrielle, Jesse, Khayman, Lestat (Books), Louis (Books), Maharet, Marius, Mojo, Nicolas
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 43 | Completed: No | Word count: 8664 | Read count: 6909

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Published: January 19, 2011 | Updated: June 12, 2011


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstar
Date: March 24, 2011 Title: Chapter 28: Chapter 28

Wonderful fun! Love all the bits with Louis and Nicholas--would love to see you write a fic with the two of them. Thanks so much for sharing!

Author's Response: Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it. :) At the moment I feel like writing Nicolas basically until the end of time, so there will be more (though maybe piecemeal).



Title: Din by Gairid
Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 1]
Summary:

Written for the weekly Drabble Dimanche challenge in the Live Journal community vc_media.
The title is also the prompt.


Category: Ficlets, Drama
Characters: Lestat (Books), Louis (Books)
Spoilers: Interview with the Vampire
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 100 | Read count: 119

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Published: April 10, 2011 | Updated: April 10, 2011


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstarhalf-star
Date: April 10, 2011 Title: Chapter 1: Din (Drabble)

I know you do not normally write for any part of the VC canon beyond MtD, but this echoed greatly for me of the moment in Merrick where Louis is roused by Lestat. But, instead of being startling and terrible, you've given it a troubling beauty. Thank you!



Title: Contrapunctus XII a 4 by ukashi goshi
Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 3]
Summary: Louis and Nicolas. The past isn't dead, it isn't even past.

Continued in "If."
Category: Angst, Drama, Romance
Characters: Louis (Books), Nicolas
Spoilers: None
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 1528 | Read count: 277

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Published: April 11, 2011 | Updated: April 11, 2011


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed starstarstarstarhalf-star
Date: April 11, 2011 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

I truly love this exploration of Louis and Nicolas together. I'd never have thought of it--thank you for writing on it! This was wonderfully dark and scattered in a "House of Leaves" kind of way, with perfectly strong images. I would always love to see more!

Author's Response: Mmm, I LOVE House of Leaves! Thank you for your kind words. I'm planning to continue the Louis/Nicolas story until it's done, though probably still in bits and pieces, and it may take a while since there's another long project I'm getting started on... But yes, there will definitely be more of these guys.



Title: Fracture by vampmuffin
Rated: [Reviews - 1]
Summary: Somewhat goofy flash-ficlet in which Danny breaks his arm. Based on the word prompts "bedroom" and "ostosis".
Category: Ficlets, Humor
Characters: Armand (Books), Daniel (Books)
Spoilers: Queen of the Damned
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 525 | Read count: 140

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Published: June 06, 2011 | Updated: June 06, 2011


Reviewer: Laviniaspeaks Signed
Date: June 08, 2011 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

love those last two lines!