I Have Two Pieces Of Big News. One Good And One I'm Having A Mild Crisis Over.

So I asked what you wanted me to do to celebrate a Tumblr milestone

You people got to be kidding me. @vladimirsangel , my vampire friend, do you think it counts if I fistbump you?

ANYWAY, we're doing the 2nd most voted one. Send prompts and meme templates to my askbox! Like these:

Of course, if you have better ideas, go crazy!

Every My Chemical Romance song featuring vampires, drawn as vampires.

Can you guess which one is which? Answer under the dumb doodle I did on the bus

1: L-R: Sharpest Lives, Vampire Money, 2: Vampires Will Never Hurt You.

(Shoutout to @nalesnik-z-morela I'm sorry when you first told me about MCR my whole review was "there was a lot of screaming" I'm now obsessed, so you see, I got my comeuppance.)

Art exchange with @frommarshtheycome

Who would win, the Skeleton Man or his own stage/screen adaptation?

Original comic with Christine here and Void Face Erik here.

Thank you, Marsh, for your wonderful art of Sarah!

Little fluffy Nosferatu, Ankle-Biter Krysa Veinessa Thumb Whateley-Dickenson, is hankering down to watch the new Nosferatu film. Sadly, this photoshoot was before I knew of the existence of the sarcophagus popcorn bucket, so our traditional one will have to do!

I'm not sure if she can eat the popcorn, but she does like holding them.

(Thank you to @greenfinchwriter @takeiteasyonmeimstilllearning @thatbluevampire and @vladimirsangel for giving her her lovely names!)

Day 1 on my advent calendar, I got Krampus!

Krampuses (Krampi?) feature heavily in Victorian Christmas cards. They stuff bad children into baskets and take them to Hell, and give those who survive the purge presents.

Here's one of the lovely beasties. The legs sticking out of the basket is the icing on this cursed Christmas cake.

Tell me what you got for today in my ask box, or tag me on a post!

You can get the printable advent calendar with the Krampus and more Christmas critters here:

Ko-fi

Printable Cat Advent Calendar - Purrlock Holmes Books 's Ko-fi Shop

'Tis the season for cat shenanigans! 24 watercolour illustrations of cats up to festive cheer. Includes: -2 A4 pages to make 24 cut-out ca

Blog post: The Freedom to be Grotesque and Gothic Authoresses

Purrlock Holmes Books

The Freedom to be Grotesque: Gothic Authoresses

Reclaim authorship over “grotesque” writing. Writers have long been forced to deny the impact of their writing for fear of frightening reade

"I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked me—How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?"

- Mary Shelley, Introduction to Frankenstein

In the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley explained how she, as a 19-year-old young woman, wrote a work that shook contemporary intellectuals.

“I didn’t mean anything by it; it’s only flight of fancy,” the writers who defined gothic literature said to a world that was not prepared to accept that women with no formal education were capable of the intellectual prowess woven into these tales of dark, profound, terrifying worlds.

We have long lived in a society that is quick to denounce, demonise and deny the voices that speak in a different tone. Even if you never show it to a single soul, write. Write, because to write dark, terrible things is to accept that they exist inside you without shame.

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Unedited post - with a short piece I published years ago - linked above!

Idea by @blackforrestpunk art by @vladimirsangel and angry floof by me.

(L-R Aiden's OC Punk Erik, Vlad's Aurik and my Pierce.)

Sorry to hear the germs got you, I hope you get them back. Have a Chickula.

I made him before I made Innocent. Believe it or not, he was harder to make. He keeps judging my life choices so I didn't finish him, but well, I hope that was entertaining. How entertained do you want to be? Because, like the entertainment industry in general, I am absolutely capable of becoming a menace.

-An imaginary human living in your phone

IS THERE NO END TO YOUR TALENTS??

Count Chickula: Vere is my tail, @purrlockswatson? My majestic vampire feathery tail?

tsk these judgy undead poultry

@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.

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)

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?