Erik Live Reaction:

Im made you a mini fanart (sorta) :3

0.5 seconds later:

Thank you so much for your amazing art!! Erik looks so confused about his small cat fiend friend! "Daroga, what should I do with it? Can I put it in the Torture Chamber? Can it live on the Iron Tree to menace the guests?"

Aaahh, such a lovely, lovely surprise, thank you, Ange!

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!)

2,500 "Yikes!" from me because I have no idea what just happened.

This started out as a replacement for my old account because it was glitching. When that was fixed, this one became my nonsense blog. Then SOMEHOW, SOME PEOPLE (who shall not be named but I'm sure you're all laughing now) pulled it along until it turned into a Phanart gallery.

Now, there are around 130 people here. Weeeell. I hope those who are here for Phantoms won't be bothered by the occasional shenanigans!

(This post has been in my drafts for ages - I haven't drawn anything new right now, so may as well drag this old codger out!)

*gestures vaguely* And here are my horrors.

Link to my writing here.

If you end up reading it, let me know what you think, I wish for your feedback!

If you want to share your writing, send me the link, and I'll give you a follow, kudos, crumpets, whatever it is you people do there (lordy lord, I feel like a relic)

I think my profile picture deserves a spotlight:

(Yes, Vlad, Aurik got the hairstyle he deserves. No pigtails in sight)

This is so accurate it's horrifying. Can confirm, in people situations I'd be quiet you'd forget I'm there, then out of the blue say the most outlandish things. Aiden, are you in my walls?

Good to be the spokesperson screamsperson!

I cannot hear you!

@vladimirsangel @purrlockswatson

I've read very few romance books because it's bad for my health. I swear it makes that one happy braincell in my brain start wheezing and sputtering for dear life.

One thing that gets my goat is those female leads who are trying to hard to be weird. The author wants them to be 'just a girl' but also 'not like other girls.' The love interest from It Ends With Us used that exact words 'You're not like the other girls' many times.

Author, that is a painfully normal - I won't say boring but oh look I just did - human being.

The message these romances are trying to send is: 'You can be weird and still get noticed by a tall, dark and handsome man with a high income (that last point is just coincidence because we don't care about money)!' But the message I'm receiving is: 'You can be weird in a conventionally understandable and acceptable way and still get noticed by...'

Because all of the 'weird' leads are exactly like the people around me who I never fit in with. So if THEY'RE weird, what does that make me? Frankenstein's Monster?

(This is not me comparing myself to the expectations set by the romance genre. This is me saying its portrayal of people is skewered.)

I challenge romance authors to be locked in a Gothic castle cellar with me. They won't use the phrase 'not like other girls' lightly after that.

Time to return to vampires and gloomy fog, I need a pick-me-up. Dracula, my friend, is it Zoo Theft today or Stupid Sunhat Day?

He's right over my desk, and I feel him judging me. Very annoying. He'll be happy there.

As for the gingerbread vampire, I didn't get instructions about how to feed you, Innocent, and I'm pretty sure it hurt him more than it hurt you.

This is the situation. Please advise.

He stole my gingerbread man, and I found he's made a sort of den in my bookshelf.

...I should just leave him there, shouldn't I?

Ahhh yeah. About that. Both my main OCs are a bit obsessive about nesting. Innocent favours inconvenient places, so anywhere he'll be most in the way or most annoying to have to walk past all the time. He also loves puzzles so sitting right atop Cain's Jawbone will make him feel right at home.

He has some feedback on the baking, by the way.

I just started a new journal for the first time in years. Of course, I'm addressing my entries to Count Dracula.

I quote: 'let this Undead creature address her woes to a dead Undead who wouldn't care less if she was putrefying from coffin-rot (bed-rot).'

I had to find some way to amuse myself while trying to be my own therapist.

You know what? I'm so busy it's boring me to death, let me actually write a novel in the hashtags.

Y’all realize that I read every reblog with content, right? I read your added hashtags like a novel

why is daroga so fat

Because of magnificent fur:

But I don't generally assign body shapes to my goober cats unless it's explicitly in the design of their human counterparts. So he can be anything you like.

Small cats are not always small characters (case in point: Kitty Cherik). I draw whatever best showcases my perception of the character.

(Drawing is from this comic. All Phantom of the Opera art here)