I Drew This With A Pen On Its Last Gasp:

I have two pieces of big news. One good and one I'm having a mild crisis over.

The good, I'm watching Nosferatu at a cinema tomorrow. At last, it's available where I am!

The crisis: my mum wants to watch it with me.

Serves me right for yapping at her about how ✨️artistic✨️ and ✨️unconventional ✨️ the film is. Weeeeeeelp.

Little fluffy Nosferatu, Ankle-Biter Krysa Veinessa Thumb Whateley-Dickenson, is hankering down to watch the new Nosferatu film. Sadly, this photoshoot was before I knew of the existence of the sarcophagus popcorn bucket, so our traditional one will have to do!

I'm not sure if she can eat the popcorn, but she does like holding them.

(Thank you to @greenfinchwriter @takeiteasyonmeimstilllearning @thatbluevampire and @vladimirsangel for giving her her lovely names!)

I have one word for this.

NO. hell, NO.

I can't deal with this shite, am I cursed? Is this a cosmic joke? A book I love with my soul mashed with a book I hate with a burning passion?

I damn well hope that's just a marketing scheme and not what they're actually doing. But I dont have high hopes.

I'm so sorry Erik, you deserved better than Edward fudging Cullen okay I'm losing my capacity to treat this tastefully goodbye

(Article here)

The contents of a parcel has just been yeeted onto my desk, and half-finished Fluffy Erik was caught in the midst. He looks rightfully Unamused.

He's still missing a few buttons, boots and his trousers, but otherwise, I'm very proud of the little chap. I've made him three masks, and he'll model them for you soon.

THIS!

It's hilarious! It has the Daroga! And it has the best characterisation of Christine I've see so far! Ramble tomorrow, my brain is on strike today.

Three people - um - friends - um - menaces to the general public (yep, that'll do) getting together to solve a murder over coffee. One of them is only holding theirs. Come on, guys, feed the vampire.

Saw a drawing template by the brilliant @albanenechi and thought, "It's my goobers!" and decided to try it on my dubious people-drawing skills. More to come.

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Drawing bases / pose reference #20

selfie poses to draw your ocs 💜💜

i had a dream last night that i was being serenaded by count orlok as a small fluffy cat and i woke up both confused and really amused

then i realized why i had such a dream: YOU (/positive)

In dreams they came!!

Aahh that's adorable, thank you for telling me this, it made me smile!!

All Phantom of the Opera cats here and Nosferatu stuff here!!

Two very different vampires

Very nice, Pierce, but maybe don't flash your, ah, ankles. Dear Aurik is by @vladimirsangel

Originally, I only planned a doodle of smol Pierce next to Aurik because a midnight conversation turned from the division of chores in the Dracula household to vampire height difference. But it's been a weird week, and I kept adding to the sketches to unwind. I hope my 'stress art' makes some people happy, too.

On vamp fashion: Pierce's dressing gown is based on Klimt's The Kiss, reference to the Klimt-inspired robe in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Aurik is NOT a brat; he probably borrowed the t-shirt from Vlad. His outfit is a combination of this Goth one and his Ugg boots.

Susan Kay's Phantom // L'Opéra des Vampires by me. (Full except and context below cut)

I haven't yet uploaded this part of Gothic Tales because this "tale" is undergoing severe redrafting, but this scene stands thus:

(Anyway, chapter one of Gothic Tales is up on AO3!)

My Erik is very talkative. I also had to take care to make him more gremlin, since he's often too wise and sad.

I think a lot about how Madeline swore to change when it's too late. Maybe it wouldn't have been different anyway. Maybe it would have been too late even if Erik didn't leave that night.

Pierce, pre-vampire turning, had many vices. Repressed memories, drowned in naïvety and substance abuse, is the darker side to his story.

However, in this latest short and silly (by my standards, at least) chapter, he's all chaos kitten, enjoy it while you can!

Part 5 of Last Night at Vena Cava:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63019435/chapters/163719073

(As always, please give me feedback - comment, DM, send asks - I'd love to hear whatever you have to say or ask!)