1) At odd hours of the day AND night you find yourself blurting out your vamp’s name.
2) In the middle of any conversation you blurt out a phrase in your vamp’s native language. (For the webmistress that would be French. :)
3) Before you go to sleep every night OR as soon as the sun goes down, your run around the house, dropping the entire contents of the school library in each room of the house. Ya know just in case Louis, Marius and David show up. (Actually just more like Louis and Marius.)
4) Your mother makes the tragic mistake of sending you and your insane friend to the optometrist and the two of you return with violet and blue interchanging contacts.
5) Your poor mother makes the other mistake of sending you on a routine check-up to the dentist all by yourself and five hours later, you come back with elongated incisors.
6) You have already decided to name AT LEAST three of your children after your favorite vampires.
7) You go to the cemetery on Halloween AND All Souls Day and you dance about in the pathways, making sure to click your heels on a tombstone. You know, just to make sure that Armand no longer hides out down there. (The Webmistress has absolutely NO COMMENT on this. She remains mum.)
8) You have developed an unearthly habit of opening every single window at night and hanging yourself out it for at least half-an-hour, making sure your neck is protruding. Well at least until your parents scream that you’re trying to kill yourself, drag you back inside and lock you in your room. (Don’t try this at home, kids.)
9) You like writing “You know you’re obsessed with The Vampire Chronicles when” lists.
10) You enjoy reading lists like these and your print them.
11) You highlight all those that pertain to you and your pack of yellow highlighters have been drained. (No pun intended.)
12) You own every single version of The Vampire Chronicles. i.e. all the hardcover and soft cover, also the QOTD movie cover.
13) You screamed at the clerk in the bookstore when you asked her if they had the latest Anne Rice ‘Blood Canticle’ and she said NO! (How dare they tell me no?!)
14) You nearly kissed the guy at the bookstore when he saved you the last copy each of Merrick and Blackwood Farm. The only thing that saved him from you was the fact that you were hugging the books. (Lalalalala….why are you looking at me like that?)
15) After an entire two days of perusing your town for a copy of The Vampire Armand, you finally find it and you jump up and down screaming with joy in the middle of a store.
16) You’re in the middle of a huge end-of-term exam for History and the question has something to do with plantations. Immediately you write down Louisiana and you spend the rest of the exam, circling the ‘Louis’ part of Louisiana.
17) As soon as you turn eighteen you’re legally changing your name to _______ de Lioncourt or de Pointe du Lac.
18) As soon as you hear, 'New Orleans' your head flies up and you immediately search for where it came from.
19) You have your vampire’s name tattooed where the sun don’t shine.
20) You spend lots of valuable time thinking up with one of your friends are a ‘Lestat’, ‘Louis’ or maybe even a ‘Khayman.’
21) As soon as you get enough money, you’re buying a one-way ticket to New Orleans etc.
22) When you arrive in New Orleans, you camp out in the French Quarter and every blond haired man and black haired man that passes by, you pounce on them and scream, “My darling Lestat\Louis!!”
23) You dye your hair blond/black/red etc and have taken a curling/straightening iron to it repeatedly.
24) You refuse to accept the fact that Santino is dead. (GAH! I mean hello, haven’t half of us been thinking up reunions between Armand and Santino in our heads?!)
25) WHEN FANFICTION WAS ALLOWED, your computer was full to the brim with them and you were the author of half of them.
26) You have built a shrine underneath your bed to your favorite character. (Well you don’t want my mother to see it and go ballistic now do you?!)
27) You know complete passages and quotes from The Vampire Chronicles and repeat them as much as possible to whoever is (un)lucky enough to be nearby.
28) You repeat lines from the movie by heart.
29) When some wicked person decides to rain on your parade by saying “It’s just a book”, you begin screaming curses at them in French or Ancient Egyptian. Whichever you prefer.
30) You keep insisting that vampires DO exist and they are out there. They’re just waiting for you to call them.
