Skoodles I Did For A Possible Vampurr Self-help Book. Working Title Is "Vampurr's Guide To Unlife." I

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.

Vampire and his partner run into vampire hunters. Cleopatra was a literature student. She knows vampire literary symbolism well.

Crew of Light live reaction:

From my novel in progress, which is basically fanfiction of all my favourite gothic literature Frankensteined into one story.

Oh look who caught me on camera

Ignore Von McFangs in the corner, this isn't about him (who am I kidding, everything with him in it is about him)

Want to see his charming visage in colour? Look here

A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge is dead (Pt 2, 3 & footnotes)

@blackforrestpunk Gruel is served! (Pt. 1 here)

@blackforrestpunk asked @vladimirsangel for a Dracula pinup. Who am I if not a provider of cursed things?

Don't let Aurik see this, please, I have no intention of horrifying him. Unless he wants it for his collection.

Monster pinups are a thing now. Oh yes, I still owe Vlad a Gossamer pinup. (Why is this my life now?) Grinch pinup here.

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!

Thank you, @greenfinchwriter , for tagging me in this tag game! I know we're supposed to reblog, but I can't hide long posts when they're shown on the "my posts" tab and that sometimes gets my goat, so I hope it's all right if I make a separate post!

Last TV show: Arcane

Last movie: Hammer's Dracula... I think? I've completely lost all sense of time.

Last book: A vampire romance in which the vampire, I kid you not, conjures cheesecakes.

Last thing I searched: Just checked. It's "bub meaning." I wish I could say it's "Sherlock Harpoon," but that was this morning.

Sweet/savoury/spicy: You are asking the gremlin who puts sugar in soup. Sweet.

Relationship status: extremely occupied with matchmaking my original characters.

Favourite drink: Cocoa, tea, soup, blood

Songs playing 24/7: "Judas" by Lady Gaga, "Love me normally" by Will Wood

Current favourite character: Van Helsing and Mina Harker (specifically from the Dracula book)

Fun activities I wish to get into: I want to try animating softwares, but it'll have to wait until I have a computer again. My antique PC is sadly ignoring me.

Last video game: Good grief, this ancient Undead hasn't played one in ages. Probably the Halloween game on Google Doodles?

Anyway, I drew Sherlock with a harpoon ages ago.

Oh, yes, I forgot to tag! @frommarshtheycome @windforkthewriter @t4z-0n-p4wz @whyisthereacentaur

A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge is dead.

Requested and inspired by @blackforrestpunk in this post. Something concerning the cat Ayesha and Chistine has also been requested, but I haven't got around to that yet.

I used to hate Dickens, and now I find him tolerable at best, but his style gives me allowance to ramble in archaic language, so I'm not complaining. This is honestly not that far from my usual writing style, so I've already clunked out part 2 and 3, if the readers are interested.

Thank you, @windforkthewriter ! Here goes:

I don't know what the heck to write after that. It wasn't supposed to be a funny scene, but well. If you'd asked a few minutes earlier would have gotten a messy monologue about vampire breakups. @blackforrestpunk @vladimirsangel @whyisthereacentaur No worries if you don't want to, you're the first writer friends to pop into my head!

Last Line Tag Game

Tagged by @thesongistheriver - who is also being very kind and beta-reading my current WIP. My first ever long-form Merlin fanfiction. I had posted an earlier version of the first chapter on AO3 a while back, but took it down when I realised I wanted to expand it more and write a decent chunk before uploading :-)

This line is taken from a scene where Merlin encounters the Triple Goddess during a quest through the spirit world. The forms disappear, the mother last... and the line is:

She slowly faded into thin air, though her touch, an indelible warmth, lingered: a tender imprint etched deep into his very soul.

I tag @bebravedearheart @samwinjester @windforkthewriter

There goes the vampurr with her coffin full of necessities ⚰️

I'm going on a trip! I'll probably be logged off for four days, but there's shenanigans queued up, so you'll still technically hear from me.

Feel free to clog up my inbox, I will be very happy to wade through them when I get back.

Catch you later!