(Loosely) Based On Comic Panels Sent To Me By @blackforrestpunk . Read His Comics Here. Bonus Points

The trouble of having a deadpan face. She's going to be passive-aggressively delighted about this for the rest of her days.

Thank you so much @frommarshtheycome for drawing my Sarah!

@purrlockswatson 's OC Sarah Bernard from 'Gothic Tales from Melancholia.'

I love her design, I had a lot of fun drawing her!

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.

Someone challenged me to write a romance.

Call it my special brand of braincell torture, but I decided to take it further.

I shall try to write something sweet with a happy ending, with no gloomy-doomy self-inserts, no characters with 1,800 personal problems and absolutely no long discussions about the meaning of life, the justification of murder, love, loneliness, alienation, complicity, or suchlike.

Somebody help. I don't know how to write anymore.

I don't dare to say no vampires. Do you want me to be absolutely miserable?

Original drawing

Hellooooo! Send a number in my asks for this drawing challenge I found!

As a treat, you get to say which character you want to see: POTO cats, any of the ones in my MultiPhantomverse, or my OC crew like Pierce.

If you people muddle around like the last time I asked your opinion, I'm joining Raoul in the chair-throwing club 🪑💨

BUT if you've got interesting templates/prompts to send me, don't hesitate, I'll take them!!

Happy new year ! :)

(Might be early, because of the time zones)

(Lil doodle, hope you don’t mind)

Ooooh it's Pierce and his floofy tie! Look at the little coquette. That's him during the New Year's Even reveries. This is him after:

I just woke up and the h in aftermath was lost the the void in my brain.

Happy new year to you too, what a lovely gift this is!

Christmas Advent Calendar

I'm making an advent calendar. It will be available for 1£ (1.2$) on my Ko-Fi.

What else should I draw? Left to my own devices, I will fill it with fluffy krampusses, rats hitting each other with candy canes, and anxious festive turd.

Bad day all round for Scrooges, gooses, and aspiring singers/caterwaulers. (My day 2 card!)

Art by @purrlockswatson aka @purrlockholmesbooks

Show me your's!

Bonus:

All of the above is in accordance (in a manner of speaking) by the original text. Voilà.

More Phantom of the Opera Cats here and here!

I was reading POTO in French and remembered that this existed, and everything seems a little less bleak. Thank goodness for art.

I sometimes wonder if I'm selfish for spending my time and life on something so immaterial as art. I forget that it's what keeps me sane.

It's not escapism; it's a fight to understand. Immaterial is not the same as useless. It's easy to forget these things.

(I intended this reblog to be a joke about how I've forgotten Erik is French - I imagine him having an RP accent after watching the musical - but I got punched in the face by a dose of Doom and Gloom so here we are. Apologies.)

Local Sad French Man

Pharoga kisses, requested by @ruvyn29

Listen, I have something very wholesome and sad planned. I do. But in the meantime -

The first one is called "Where's Erik?" The second one I'd rather not explain.

(Shoutout to the Cheriks, I couldn't bear to crop them out)

Prompt number 10: Kisses from this list - comment or send asks with a number if you want unhinged content like this.

More pharoga cats here! Less specific POTO stuff here.