I'm Pretty Sure I'm Powerless To Resist Making More Than One (if Not All Of Them) Eventually, So No Need

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.

cara.app

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.

Vampurr necessities

Would YOU pass the vampire certification test?

My name is Amanda, and I listen to Taylor Swift, so I get to make these jokes. Zaida is a real name for a Victorian vampire-witch lady from Aylmer Vance and the Vampire.

As much as I adore gamourous vamp fashion, @vladimirsangel and I were talking about how we would be a danger to the public if we wore anything fancy. I would wreck a white tuxedo with vampiric speed, but at least it won't be a health hazard.

Tried to think of something clever to say, but

Scrolling around in the morning, thought this was the drawing from You've got the Watches (with Raoul, Erik and Christine), then got the biggest jumpscare 🤣

I love this. It'll probably take me a few days to process. I've been in few group photos and this is so much better because it's me and my braincell friends! Will never not think about this.

I'm GOING to post mine, you're too fast, Aiden, ahaha (good luck, Vlad)

It started with this

And it ends with this

I forgot why, but someone told someone, that is us.

Soooo i guess it was @purrlockswatson cause she remembered me, to draw us in my style. She did it aswell, but actually didn't post it. Aaaand because we are sharing one braincell @vladimirsangel has no other choice, to do the same. Have fun Vlad, my frrrrrriend.

Hahahahaha good night.

For someone who claims to be a vampire, I react very badly to getting my blood sample taken. Once, I looked so horrified that the nurse was afraid I'd faint and gave me a juice box.

So when I was editing this story just now, I was squirming in my seat. (This is not the worst scene. The other one is a spoiler, so wait a few weeks - if you actually want to suffer through it, that is, and if I actually stick to my plan). That probably means I've done my job well, but WHY did I do this to myself?

Content warning: blood, needles, mild body horror, strangulation, decapitation, Sarah being Sarah and enjoying the gore a bit too much

Feel free to tell me what you think, I'm not holding a sword. Or a needle.

Thank you @windforkthewriter for sending a 💀 in my asks for an excerpt!

Results are in... of course. How can I forget that this blog is haunted by Phans? Fluffy Erik it is.

I'm pretty sure I'm powerless to resist making more than one (if not all of them) eventually, so no need to break your brain trying to choose just one.

For those who don't know her, this is my nwedle felt Nosferatu, Ankle Biter Krysa Veinessa Whateley-Dickenson, Kryssie for short. More pictures here!

Okay, so, my desk collapsed three times today, and OF COURSE of all the things to fall off and smash, it had to be a bottle of masking glue, and let me tell you that thing stinks.

When that was dealt with, my friend woke up and there was a lot of unawake texting and I started hyperfixating on a joint venture - all of this to say, I don't have the faculty to deal with my writing but you can have a look at the bits that are already there:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63019435/chapters/162232942

I dunno which chapter that is, help yourselves I guess I'm Undead.

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)

Erik feels a bit lonely on Christmas.

(Let me make clear that I only ship Pharoga on condition that they are a fluffy perisan cat and a bald gremlin sphynx cat. But in this particular case, I will do it often and obnoxiously.)

Erik DOES cook chicken. The meal is canon, people. More (very canon) Pharoga cats here!

C'est le 💅🏻Fantôme💅🏻

I’m reading the Le Fantôme de L'Ôpéra. Here are some highlights of my Kindle highlights:

The correct translation is actually something like 'she was reading a book with gold edging,' tranche meaning both 'edge (of a book)' and 'rasher (of bacon.)'

(As a walking, talking dictionary, I am morally obliged to mention that the translation is actually ‘dandies’ not 'gentlemen.')

You can probably guess that the last word means ‘unmask.’ And we all know how well that goes down with Erik.

Poor Persian, though.

This segment was cut out of De Mattos's English translation, so I don't have an explanation for this. (See replies for Vlad's traslation!)

Being a Goth has really improved my French. First I kept writing French captions for my Interview with the Vampurr comics (examples here and here), and now I'm reading a French classic despite only understanding around 1 word in 5.

How's the writing going, you say?

I was typing out my novel on my phone, looked up, and saw this. To clarify, I meant satin-LINED cavity, describing a casket.

Well, I hit my head on a toilet water tank today, so I can't expect myself to act rationally.

The story is about a vampire opera house. I played with the idea of adding Erik into it, but I didn't expect him to pop up out of nowhere to give one of my characters a house tour.

I think he wants to kill the vampires now, and I don't know what to do. How little control I actually have over my writing never fails to surprise me.

(More gremlin sphynx cat Erik here, fancy hat cowboy Phantom here)