Latest Posts by purrlockswatson - Page 5

Germs got me. The whole inside of my head, throat and chest feels inflamed. Like a vampurr who snorted garlic powder or something - I've lost my singular braincell, can't really be poetic.

Oh well, guilt-free bedrot and "Salem's Lot" audiobook. I'm not a fan of Stephen King, but vampire fiction is vampire fiction.

I'm not going to be up to much these days. I do have some weird drafts stored up, and if my brain comtinues to be so swollen, I might just post them.

Maddy, please love your lil shites, or they'll riot! Look at them!

I feel awful when I see artists say their art is not important, but I'd also be the first to roast my own art. I know what it's like to look at all the art out there and think, "Welp, time to move to a flooded cellar."

It's hard to convince ourselves that we matter. But hey, a lot of things are hard to believe, and it doesn't make them less true!

Yesterday (or better today at night) while drawing my stupid shitpost I was thinking: “Wow… In the phandom there are so many artists who draw beautiful and meaningful illustrations inspired by this fantastic story and this is my contribution… A stupid shitpost…”

Not to say that I’ve not enjoyed doing those, but isn’t this a bit sad?

Making a Nosferatu bag. Paused and went, "Oh no, it's Bitsy!"

Do you see it? Yes?

Yes.

Vampire Bitsy:

How it feels to be writing right now.

Please, please, please stop talking so much, guys, we're too far over the word count already. Well. Serves me right for handing out POVs to everyone like cheap chocolates.

Is any of you good at deleting things? Or is it the universal plight of writers? Me, I'm not getting out of this without help or divine interference.

Prepare to be menaced by writing memes, I'm back at my nonsense writing these days.

Nurseferatu.

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

I need to put him in a safe place, he's so small 😭

Ah, good, ask box still open. Don't close it, or small Erik won't be able to visit you -

(Serious Questions coming later, but enjoy some fluffy Erik first)

Yeah, it is still open :-D

And OMFG AHHHHH look at him how cute he issssss ahhhhhhh can i buy himmmm??? Ahhhh

Red death.

I was recently informed by @blackghostm2o that we never got to see Cherik at a masquerade. This is my humble attempt to rectify that, since we all know that Cherik is the best dressed Phantom. The fashion historian Bernadette Banner has made a Red Death gown with the boning exposed to give it a skeletal look, so I borrowed the idea and incorporated a boned corset.

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!

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...

I was making my characters miserable in my writing, and now I'm miserable (because of unrelated life things), so now I'm going to go back and wallow in said character's misery some more.

I'm sorry, Pierce, dear, I promise it will get better for us both.

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 now need to know if we'll ever get a cat Raoul 👀

Why stop at one? How about 3?

Or maybe 6?

I drew these before I had fully recovered from waking up, so they are possibly a little, shall we say, sarcastic?

I did draw two Raoul (Moewl?)s previously, here in a silly doodle and here in an "All I Ask of You" scene, but they didn't look much like Raoul.

Always delightful when my friends throw me under the bus for inspiring unhinged ideas.

Look at him, he's Goth and cool and Eldritch, unlike my silly goober

@purrlockswatson made me do it

Coloured pencils and white ink on tinted cardstock.

I really like your poto cat drawings! They are very very cute! I hope you do not mind me drawing them!

GREMLIN! FLOOF! Come and look at this!

Mind?! You don't understand, I was giggling and physically, actually kicking my feet when I saw this!

Ooohhhh, it's so soft and sweet! Erik has his tiny forehead hairs and his tuxedo, and the Persian is big and fluffy and Putting Up with Shenanigans!

More Pharoga cats here, I NEED to draw more of the Daroga, it's unacceptable that I've neglected him, here's him having an interview with Leroux.

Random question: What fictional character do I remind you of?

It's been on my mind since someone recently told me I looked like Mavis Dracula from "Hotel Transylvania" (by a happy coincidence, I have her hairstyle). Would love to collect more of my fictional doppelgängers/matching weirdos.

I just want to say how much I adore and love the way you draw your cats. And how much I adore YOUR phantom cats.

And Cherik. I love your Cherik! AAAAAAAAAA

May I perchance hold your Cherik please?🥺🙏

Here you go! Please take Kitty Cherik out sparingly, he likes peace and quiet. Picnics in woods are very welcome, though.

Would you people like to hold Cherik? If you send an ask with a photo, I can give you a Cherik to hold like I did above (you can see why I complain about short sleeves now, haha)

Thank you so much for this lovely ask!

Holy crisps.

Storyboard done. Got out the calculator, and found out I have to do around 100 panels of Cat Phantom drawings. (It's an animatic based on the song "Love me Normally")

Please regularly come to yell at me about this project because I really want to finish it, but I don't know it I have the strength to do so.

Break time. I hope you've all been secretly wanting to see Cherik in a corset because, eh, that's what's happening now.

Have some more silly comics of Leroux Erik roasting his descendants while I storyboard a Phantom music video animatic.

@jennyfair7 your reblog of my WIP is on point, that's basically what happened 😹

All PotO cat comics here

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

I don’t know if you’ve seen Nosferatu (2024) yet, but I am (im-)patiently waiting for a Cat Orlock! Your cat drawings are the best thing on tumblr for me rn and seeing them is just incredible!!! 🤍

Here's some Cat Orlok silliness that's been sitting in my sketchbook! He walked into the 2004 Phantom of the Opera film and haunted the wrong maiden by accident - who can blame him, it's gothic and has a fancy window for him to silhouette himself ominously in. (PoTO cats here)

Thank you so much, I'm very happy to hear that the Goober Cats are loved! 🥹🖤

WIPs. I sure hope we never see any Phantoms other than a cat Phantom wearing duck swimming trunks because, oh boy, is that cursed!

None-cursed (or at least less cursed) cat phantoms here!

If you're having an existential crisis, it's good to have a vampire friend who will lend you his coffin to hide from the world in.

Well. Sort of good.

Hope you feel better soon!

Look, I'd I'd sleep with fourty-six 2024 Count Orloks in my face without a PEEP if it means i get a coffinmate!! Thank you, Aurik (and Vlad!!) I don't know what I've ever done to deserve all this kindness!

I can't get over how fluffy I am and my jumper and aaaaaaahhhh

Massive thank-you and love to everyone who left me a kind word (and drawings! And cats!!!), I'm scrunched up in a small happy ball right now with aaahhhhh running through my brain on loop. I never expected any of this, thank you!

Here are some stupid pics of my gremlin cat :3

(Maybe they can be a bit of help) <3

I HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY THE GREMLIN cat!

Every one of these photos is precious, but there's a special place in my heart for blurry cat pictures. Here's my stuffy gremlin as a tiny token of gratitude🥹 Thank you so much, Ghost!

(I was shooting him with a Lego gun. As an Experiment.)

(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

Oh hey, if it isn't my old friend, existential crisis. Two days into the holidays, and it's already caught up to me.

Sometime during my existence, I developed the habit of kicking myself when I'm feeling down. This doodle is me trying to stop doing that, one faceplanting vampurr at a time.

Yes, this actually happened. Weeeell, first part did. But Kerik was hardly going to admit he got kicked out of bed by Ayesha, so my point still stands.

The most hinged unhinged thing to happen in the last section of Kay's Phantom. I rambled about Kay's Phantom here, but I had beef with it so fans, skip it and have a gander at Phantom cat comics instead.

Thanks @t4z-0n-p4wz for tagging me in an ask game!

1.Favourite band of all time: Goodness, I don't know any. Maybe "Concrete Blonde" or "Will Wood and the Tapeworms."

2.Scent I really like: A tiny bottle of Miss Dior someone gave me from Christmas. Or the sea. Or frying bacon. (Not all at the same time.)

3.If I were a crystal, what do I want to be? Honestly, I'd rather be a stone so deep in the earth's crust that nobody will dig me up. But Amethyst, because a family member gifted some to me at a stressful time for luck.

4.Team vampires or team werewolf:

VAMPIRES.

Thank you for specifying not Twilight. If that were the case, I'm team pest control.

5.Favourite animal print: Leopard. I have so much leopard print I can become a weirdly shaped leopard if need arises.

6.Strangest item of clothing I own: I don't have it yet, but I'm making a Nosferatu bag.

7.Baggy clothes or fitting: Style-wise, fitting.

8.Socks or no socks: socks, if I remember

9.Favourite Sanrio character? I'll say Cinnamon Roll, but with Kuromi's colour palette.

10.Favourite horror game: I don't know any! Recommendations?

At social events, check bushes for Cheriks in the wild.

My computer makes concerning noises when I try to turn it on, so I can't use my scanner or Photoshop. We'll have to live with my mistakes and Erik-esque writing for the time being. Click pictures for better quality, it looks lousy from here.

More Phantom stuff here and on my other blog

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