Little Fluffy Nosferatu, Ankle-Biter Krysa Veinessa Thumb Whateley-Dickenson, Is Hankering Down To Watch

Every My Chemical Romance song featuring vampires, drawn as vampires.

Can you guess which one is which? Answer under the dumb doodle I did on the bus

1: L-R: Sharpest Lives, Vampire Money, 2: Vampires Will Never Hurt You.

(Shoutout to @nalesnik-z-morela I'm sorry when you first told me about MCR my whole review was "there was a lot of screaming" I'm now obsessed, so you see, I got my comeuppance.)

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Good morrow!

Here, I get up to shenanigans with fellow artists, review and ramble, post my writing, crafts and PoTO art because reasons.

My main blogs:

Book/history blog: @purrlockholmesbooksblog

Main art blog: @purrlockholmesbooks

My Gothic literature fanfic Gothic Tales from Melancholia is on AO3

The illustrated t-shirt does exist.

What I welcome in my ask box:

-Art requests are always welcome! I mainly draw, but will also get (hand)crafty if you have good, or unhinged, ideas.

-Asks about drawings, writing, OCs and projects.

-Asks for opinions/reviews of books, films, etc. I love researching and jabbering about my findings.

-Personal questions that won't help any unsavoury individuals to find me in real life (i.e., by all means ask me about my existential crises, but not about my nationality).

The cats are on Cara!

Me and Instagram have never hit it off, but our relationship got worse after they decided to feed my art to that gluttonous goat, Anthony Ingelthorpe, commonly known as AI.

(I apologise to anyone - or any goats - called Anthony Ingelthorpe. I made that up on the spur of the moment. And I explained the goat in my post on Cara. I swear there's a reason for its presence.)

This is why I now bestow my attentions to the lady Cara. I've always wanted an online art portfolio, and Cara's portfolio/feed separation suits my chaotic gremlin needs perfectly: I can still waffle about things while maintaining a fine reputation for my creations. Brilliant.

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Amanda (@purrlockholmesbooks) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform

Self-taught artist. Inspired by Victorian culture, literature, vampires and cats.

If you have an account there, let me know, and I will give you a follow!

And blast you, Anthony Ingelthorpe.

The Persians discuss their valentines plans. 1925 Persian (Ledoux) is taking no nonsense.

More Phantom cat comic here

So I asked what you wanted me to do to celebrate a Tumblr milestone

You people got to be kidding me. @vladimirsangel , my vampire friend, do you think it counts if I fistbump you?

ANYWAY, we're doing the 2nd most voted one. Send prompts and meme templates to my askbox! Like these:

Of course, if you have better ideas, go crazy!

Aauughh, it'sforthehampsterthatI'mgonnabuy!

That one clip from Life on the Murder Scene keeps looping in my head, so here is My Chemical Hamsters.

I know I'm late to every party and fandom, but I come bearing silly lil guys

Am trying to trim down a monstrosity of a manuscript. In the meantime, enjoy some of my Best Writer Brainrot Moments.

BRIEFLY. I was trying to spell BRIEFLY.

More of my spelling mistakes here.

Just wanted to send some love your way!!! You're all kinds of amazing,and the world is brighter for having you and your art and writing in it!!💖💖💖💖

Thank you so much, that's too kind of you! I am very, very grateful to hear it, thank you! 🥹

Here's a little something from me. Um, it miiiiiight not be very wholesome, but you did say you'd pay to see human Erik in ducky swimming trunks...

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.

Romance authors, we have beef!

I came across this while turning off my brain with Kindle before sleep. I became very awake.

Where to start? Christine Daa? seems a good place. Then there's Musique D'ange. My French education is rolling on the floor in agony.

And which part, please, is this unique? I've seen one too many attractive Phantoms for my sanity lately, so I'm getting out the beef. I won't argue with people's interpretation of fiction, to each their own, but I DO have a problem with people taking away Erik's right to be unattractive.

Dracula is fair fodder. Appeal is part of his monstrosity, although I'm not happy with how attractive they make him as it distracts from the fact that he is supposed to be hated by his victims when they are lucid. (All hail Eggers' Nosferatu.) But Erik? Author, you crossed a line with me using Erik's name. Your rightful portion is Mr Y. Take him and welcome. I take it personally when people fudge around with Erik's reputation. Leave my cellar gremlin alone to be amoral in a way that is actually portrayed as amoral instead of an extension of his dark broody attractiveness.

Honestly, so many "morally grey" characters in fiction are actually "morally dark and handsome and does horrible things in the name of love." Not the same, shouldn't be taken as the same.

Bah, sorry about that. If you didn't hate it, my rambles about other POTO adaptations here