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What happens when you take strong subtext, immortal beings, and over forty years of writing? It’s not fanfic, but it is a fascinating history of the Vampire Chronicles fandom!

History and Origins:

> The Vampire Chronicles is a series of novels by American writer Anne Rice that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman turned into a vampire in the 18th century. > > — Wikipedia - The Vampire Chronicles

The book series encompasses 16 separate novels (including crossovers) from 1976 to 2018, and has been adapted into films—Interview with the Vampire in 1994, starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, and Kirsten Dunst; and The Queen of the Damned in 2002—and as of July 2018, it was announced that a TV series adaptation of the novels is in development by Hulu.

Search Data:

Interest in The Vampire Chronicles has been on a slow decline since 2004. The series enjoyed a small lift in interest around November 2009 which buoyed interest in the series for several years afterwards until July 2018 where interest spiked again (most likely due to the Hulu’s announcement).

The top ten countries differ slightly depending on whether or not you’re looking at the entire series, or Interview with the Vampire:

• The Vampire Chronicles: Spain, Romania, Hungary, Mexico, Chile, Philippines, Uruguay, United States, Poland, Venezuela (Canada is 13th).
• Interview with the Vampire: Mexico, Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, Chile, China, Latvia (United States is 20th, Canada is 23rd).

Fanac Fast Facts:

• Archive of our own has almost 1000 works related to the Vampire Chronicles
  • Top 3 Categories: M/M (657), Gen (215), F/M (103)
  • Top 3 Characters: Lestat de Lioncourt (566), Louis de Pointe du Lac (485), Armand (Vampire Chronicles) (243)
  • Top 3 Relationships: Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac (429), Armand/Daniel Molloy (119), Armand/Louis de Pointe du Lac (56)

Last Episode’s Famous Last Words

What did we have to say before doing the preparation for this week’s episode?

T: How much is Vampire Chronicles responsible for the vampire trend in movies, tv, etc.?

G: How much actual history is threaded through the Vampire Chronicles?

Z: The fandom seems fairly curative… is there any fanfic? Is fanfic forbidden? What is the attitude?

Krysta: How did the interview go?

Greg: Is Anne Rice a Christian again, or isn’t she?

Main Discussion

Topics covered in this episode: TBD

Spotlight: Organization for Transformative Works

> The OTW believes that fanworks are creative and transformative, core fair uses, and will therefore be proactive in protecting and defending fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. This help will not be limited to those fans or projects directly connected with OTW. > > — Organization for Transformative Works

Of course, that’s just the legal advocacy that they do. They also run Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, run a peer-reviewed academic journal (Transformative Works and Cultures) and do a bunch more! You can help them out by visiting https://transformativeworks.org/donate

Famous Last Words

Our chance (and yours, if you’re watching on twitch.tv/thenickscast) to have some (in)famous last words about next week’s topic before we’ve done any prep work! Next week, we’ll be talking about the fans and fandom of Pinball!

T: Why has there been a revival of pinball in the last decade?

G: Is there another pop culture touchstone apart from Tommy? Was there a Fonz of pinball?

Z: How do these pinball fans feel about digital pinball?

Vrai: How did the connection between pinball places and bars happen?

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What is “Fanthropological”?

Every week, Fanthropological delivers over an hour of fandom-related “fanalysis” covering a different fandom every week and giving you hard data, history, special guests, and, of course, speculation!

We cover topics spanning the gamut of anime, manga, comics, video games, comics, movies, books, television, and, in general, geek culture.

Credits

• Ending: ReMix: Akumajo Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight "Where’s the Wall Chicken At?" by Tetrimino from http://ocremix.org used under ocremix.org content policy
• All other music and sound for this week’s episode were provided by Nick Green!

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Opening Theme (00:00:07)

3. Fandom Facts (00:01:40)

4. Main Discussion (00:05:18)

5. Spotlight (01:06:11)

6. Famous Last Words (01:12:02)

7. Bloopers (01:15:15)