On Tuesday renowned genre writer Anne Rice took to her Facebook page to address what she calls "the new era of censorship," joining the well-established ranks of public figures who legitimately feel that political correctness—AKA being sensitive to how your actions affect marginalized groups—is a societal ill.

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A report claims the newly in demand director of The Fault in Our Stars may be tackling vampires in his next outing. But which Anne Rice book will it be?

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It looks like Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have sympathy for the devil: They—along with Brian Grazer—have secured the rights to Anne Rice's entire series of Vampire Chronicles novels. Although, the only way they'll ever have time to make movies out of all those books is if they're undead immortals.

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"I want to cosplay Totoro at Sakura-Con!" "No, I want to cosplay Totoro!" Why not both? (photo by David Ngo, via Fashionably Geek)

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I apologize for what you've just seen. 

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Have you missed Lestat de Lioncourt? No? Well too bad. Anne Rice is writing another book about him. 

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2013 has given us some good, some bad, and some ugly, same as every year. Also the same as every year: Some of the stories we’ve posted have struck a chord with our community of readers and gotten you talking to the tune of thousands of comments in the last 12 months. We love you guys, have we said? With the year drawing to a close, we present to you the stories that most got your metaphorical tongues metaphorically wagging.

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If there's one valuable lesson a creator can learn, it's not to engage with reviewers. With very few exceptions, railing against a negative review reflects most poorly on the reviewed, who are likely to come off as petulant, not the reviewer. Unless a creator can prove definitively and objectively that a reviewer has misrepresented their work in some way (as has occasionally happened in video game reviews where publicly available play statistics and screenshots reveal reviewers who played merely the first few hours of the game, for example), it's better to simply ignore the review, and it should seem obvious that this maxim applies even more stringently when the source of the review is a lone fan rather than a professional. So when Kayleigh Herbertson picked up a used, abused dime store copy of Anne Rice's Pandora in order to use its pages in a craft project and wound up reading it for a lark, and then reviewing it, she should not have expected to be called out by an internationally famous author who tacitly invited her fandom to harass Herbertson in the comment section of her post.

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By artist aninhat-t who has some other delightful Doctor Who related creations in their RedBubble shop. (via Doctor Who tumblr) 

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This piece and others by artist Nathan Stapley are being sold through Gallery 1988. Because in this age of digital photography, what your wall is missing is definitely a family portrait. (via Popped Culture)

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Vampire Chronicles author Anne Rice has started another catfight...a vampfight...a batfight...whatever, you get the idea, with Twilight author Stephanie Meyer. Interesting timing considering Twilight: Breaking Dawn is about to make another bajillion dollars at the box office. 

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That crying man you see is Azriel, the title character in Anne Rice's new horror comic for IDW, Servant of the Bones, which is an adaptation of her novel of the same name. He is sad because a girl was murdered, but also because he finds out about an even bigger plot setting up the end of the world. ("Valentine's Day. Bummer.") A few pics from the preview after the jump.

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Anne Rice news is making the entertainment blogs this weekend for an interview with Vulture Magazine in which she hypothetically casts a hypothetical modern adaptation of Interview With a Vampire, mentioning, among other people, Robert Downey, Jr. for the role of Lestat.

Now Lestat, there are a lot of people who could play Lestat... Jamie Bamber, he’s terrific, I was just watching him last night in England’s Law & Order. I’d seen him on Battlestar Galactica, but I’d never seen him unleash that beautiful diction. So I think there are many, many actors...

Robert Downey Jr.? That would be wonderful. He is a great actor. He would bring the gravitas and the wit and humor and all of that to the part, and I don’t think he’s too old. I think if he had a blond wig and makeup, he would be a wonderful Lestat. Lestat has to have the gravitas of a 200-year-old man and Robert Downey Jr. can do it.

But we were actually much more interested in her comments on Twilight.

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