Last Night At Vena Cava Pt. 3 Is Up!

Goodness, what is going on?

(All Phantom of the Opera Cats)

The Phantoms meet Love Never Dies Phantom. They are Unamused. I refuse to accept that this Phiasco Phantom is the same entity as the Phantom from the original musical.

I said I'll be pretending LND doesn't exist for the rest of my life. I lied. I watched it yesterday. Lying is bad.

All my Phantom cats here!

Guess who got their first unauthorised reposter!

I've blocked this user, and I damn well hope they haven't taken any more of my art.

Block this user. They have an empty account with just my poor Pierce and another post by another artist. I can't report them because it needs a lot of personal information to file a copyright infringement form, and that info will be passed on to that user, which... sucks, to put it mildly.

This sort of shite happens all the time, I know, and I always expected it to happen, but I'll never feel safe posting art on the internet again.

WAIT, this deserves a drawing reblog:

Pierce, mon cher, that's nice, but your philosophy of 'You have problems? That's all right, me too!' is the reason you have so many relationship problems. And you're lucky Aurik is an angel who puts up with your shenanigans. (Your hair looks magnificent in any style, Aurik.)

Vlad, this is better than anything I could have imagined when I first started posting doodles of my disaster kitten Pierce, thank you 😹

Well, Aurik, you did say he could do your hair.

@purrlockswatson

I've read very few romance books because it's bad for my health. I swear it makes that one happy braincell in my brain start wheezing and sputtering for dear life.

One thing that gets my goat is those female leads who are trying to hard to be weird. The author wants them to be 'just a girl' but also 'not like other girls.' The love interest from It Ends With Us used that exact words 'You're not like the other girls' many times.

Author, that is a painfully normal - I won't say boring but oh look I just did - human being.

The message these romances are trying to send is: 'You can be weird and still get noticed by a tall, dark and handsome man with a high income (that last point is just coincidence because we don't care about money)!' But the message I'm receiving is: 'You can be weird in a conventionally understandable and acceptable way and still get noticed by...'

Because all of the 'weird' leads are exactly like the people around me who I never fit in with. So if THEY'RE weird, what does that make me? Frankenstein's Monster?

(This is not me comparing myself to the expectations set by the romance genre. This is me saying its portrayal of people is skewered.)

I challenge romance authors to be locked in a Gothic castle cellar with me. They won't use the phrase 'not like other girls' lightly after that.

Time to return to vampires and gloomy fog, I need a pick-me-up. Dracula, my friend, is it Zoo Theft today or Stupid Sunhat Day?

I just started a new journal for the first time in years. Of course, I'm addressing my entries to Count Dracula.

I quote: 'let this Undead creature address her woes to a dead Undead who wouldn't care less if she was putrefying from coffin-rot (bed-rot).'

I had to find some way to amuse myself while trying to be my own therapist.

Phantoms of the Opera + Laplace's Angel

@sonntagskind Voilà, request received. To everyone else should did not ask for Phantom pain, je suis désolée.

Phantoms in order of appearence: ALW Phantom, Leroux Erik, Kay Erik, 1925 Erik, 1990 Erik, 2004 Phantom, Kay Erik, ALW Phantom, 1990 Erik, Kay Erik, Leroux Erik (and the Daroga)

More Phantom: The Persian (cat), POTO adaptation review/rambles, Send me an Angel (of music)

@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.

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.

*gestures vaguely* And here are my horrors.

Link to my writing here.

If you end up reading it, let me know what you think, I wish for your feedback!

If you want to share your writing, send me the link, and I'll give you a follow, kudos, crumpets, whatever it is you people do there (lordy lord, I feel like a relic)

I think my profile picture deserves a spotlight: