CALDERA (VOL. 1 & VOL. 2)
Caldera: Mise-en-Abîme (Vol. 1) was completed on 16 January 2025.
Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2) was completed on 29 May 2026.
(Image Credit: An Arimaspian Stealing Gold from a Griffin Fresco, Villa dei Misteri)
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Armand exhales. He turns his back so that Petronia can fix his hair as Paige had once done.
“Should I stop them if they wake before you return?” Petronia asks. “If they try to follow?”
Hesitantly, Armand shakes his head. “If I don’t return, then they deserve to find out why.”
Petronia gathers strands of Armand’s hair from each side, twists them into place, and secures them with the comb. “You’d have them see…”
“What remains,” Armand whispers, studying his reflection with a restrained nod. “The aftermath of…whatever carnage. Yes, Petronia, I would.”
Petronia squeezes Armand’s shoulders encouragingly, their expression in the mirror strained. Fac quod debes in monte, deinde ad nos revertere.
Nihil tibi promittere possum, nisi me conaturum esse, Armand replies, touching Petronia’s broad hands before extracting himself from their grasp.
[Two years is a long time to follow a series, across two volumes. Thanks to all of you who followed this one 💙]
Series
- Part 10 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Stealing Gold From a Griffin by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
20 May 2026
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Petronia touches down in front of him without preamble. “We don’t have much time till Paola gets here with Ricky and Paige in the boat.”
“You don’t look happy with me,” Armand says, folding his arms across his chest. He turns and starts to walk. “Something you wish to discuss?”
“We need to rethink the one part of this we do have,” Petronia says angrily as they walk down the flagstones toward the house. “I can’t let you—”
“Sam and Rashid are participating in this endeavor of their own free will.”
“No. Your Daniel, being who he is, got a bright idea when he learned what Rashid could do. And then my boys, being who they are, felt obliged.”
Series
- Part 9 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Something Still Sleeps Below the Earth by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
04 Jan 2026
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Rashid reclines in the grass next to Sam, lulled by the tapping of Sam’s thumbnails against the glassy, glowing surface of his iPhone as he writes. Watching Sam perch in the window seat upstairs over the past several nights with his laptop […] had been a lovely diversion during the sheer frustration that had been learning to produce fire.
However, the task that Sam has assigned Rashid tonight as he continues to whittle away at his prose is tougher. Rashid finds that making flames in his hands is one thing, but causing the tinder and logs to catch fire in the earthenware chimenea a few feet away is another.
Sam sets his phone down when Rashid huffs in frustration, rolling onto his side so that he can set one hand in the middle of Rashid’s chest. “Some vampires never make that leap, and it’s fine,” he says reassuringly. “There are gradations of ability to use the Fire Gift. You have it.”
“Armand’s finding-the-vulnerability-within-the-object advice is rubbish,” Rashid replies, tearing his gaze away from his target so he can look at Sam. He covers Sam’s hand with one of his own, tracing the backs of Sam’s fingers. “I refuse to believe I’m worse at this than Louis.”
Series
- Part 8 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Talismans for the Eve of War by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
30 May 2025
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Paola has noticed the fabric-covered diary on the desk. She lifts the corner, peers beneath it, and then glances wide-eyed at Jesse. “Is that…”
“I forgot you’re a superfan of Daniel’s book,” Jesse sighs, tossing the empty blood bag, biting the next. “Yep. That’s one of Claudia’s travelogues.”
Paola lets the corner of the fabric drop, shaken. “Va fa Napoli.”
“Go to Naples?” Jesse repeats in English, startled. “Or, hang on…”
“It’s like…get out of town, that’s wild,” Paola says. “Figurative.”
Jesse shudders. “Do you ever get the sense the universe is trying to tell you something? But you end up feeling like an idiot because you can’t figure out what the message is, like…why these images, why this place? It’s not part of my story, it’s part of someone else’s, why?”
“Kind of?” Paola replies, grinning. “I’ve felt like that since meeting your adoptive parents. I know so much confidential information at this point, Talamasca-sourced and otherwise, that they probably should’ve killed me by now. But Armand’s got guilt around that, huh?”
Series
- Part 7 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)
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Fractured and Flickering Gold by irisbleufic
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
26 Apr 2025
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Hesitantly, Lestat inclines his head and admits, “I want to postpone it.”
Louis frowns at him, squeezing his hand tighter. “Which part, exactly?”
“Every part,” Lestat says, flipping his phone face-down. “The single, the album, the documentary, the tour. I shouldn’t do this when…”
“When what?” Louis asks, his frown deepening in concern. There’s no sign of anger in his expression, which is a relief. Just consternation.
“There’s a shitshow on my doorstep,” Lestat says punchily, pointing toward the open doors leading into a wide, drafty hall that echoes with Gabriella’s and Jesse’s voices. “One that I agreed to, for all my sins,” he continues, “and that you agreed to as well, God knows why.”
“Marius hasn’t been holding up his end of the bargain with the kid, has he,” Louis says under his breath, his eyes darkening as he casts his gaze askance. “Hasn’t done a damned thing in three weeks except work on the mural. Why do you think he’s stalling? Suspicious?”
“Jesse’s going to have to take some renewed initiative, I think,” Lestat replies, put-upon, “or I could march back there and take away his brushes.”
Series
- Part 6 of Caldera: Mise-en-Scène (Vol. 2)