THIS!

If a pole dancing vampire isn't what you wanted to see today, you know better now, yes?

My vampire Pierce knows how to pole dance. I'm not sure what to do with that information, but it's there. He did ballet, that's actually plot relevant, but this... Well, he's having fun.

(I have a lot of less unhinged WIPs on the way, but I'm low on vivacity right now, I need to drink blood)

Love Never Dies, we have beef!

This was... painful. But I think I can ramble without roasting. As always, if you're a fan, don't read, because I'm still serving beef!

I first watched it, I was so bored I had to play it on 1.25× speed. Nothing seemed to be happening even as every new thing wrecked my faith in the creators' intelligence a little more.

"The Beauty Underneath" had unbelievable visuals. People in fish tanks horrify me. In a good way. But when the Phantom decided to yeet his mask like that, I wanted to reach through the screen and shake him. Mate, the kid doesn't hate you. He just got randomly jumpscared. Of course he ran away.

I loved Ramin's sassy Phantom in "Devil Takes the Hindmost," but the premise of the song is so bad it deserves a whole roast post.

All this could be a problem of my personal taste in music and storytelling. But I can't forgive how thoroughly they destroyed Phantom's character. In Ramin's version, Mme Giry was roasting him to his face, and he didn't pull out the lasso? Met Raoul drunk in an empty bar and didn't drop him off a pier and make it look like an accident?

Look, we all love "poor unhappy Erik," but Phantom does not have a heart of gold. No, he's not a monster, but he's not a hero either.

Call me doomy and gloomy, but I don't believe that Phantom would give a hoot if Meg died. He definitely wouldn't show the compassion and repentance he did in that final scene.

The worst thing a PoTO story can do is to make it all about his appearance, which I feel LND did. The greatest reasons Phantom is doomed by the narrative is:

1. Society alienates him for his appearance.

2. How he acts because of his self-hatred, fueled by his alienation from society.

When the narrative puts too much weight on one or the other, it loses direction.

More POTO adaptation rambles here!

Quick sketch of my newest vampire. Unlike Pierce, October is a classic toxic heartthrob vampire with broody antihero problems, a long, bad history with damsels, and he rides a motorbike. In black leather clothes. Oh, geez.

He and Pierce are blood-feuding rivals.

Well, to be clear, October is out to get Pierce, but Pierce has a bit of a weak spot for people who hate him, as it were, so it's a one-sided relationship. On both sides.

*Pulls my vampire out of the blender* He's up for it!

Compassion: 10/10

Bitterness: 1/10

Happiness: 8/10

Politeness: 7/10 (points off for being a saucy coquette)

Chivalry: 9/10

Pride: 2/10 (vanity 10/10)

Honesty: 5/10 (Heart-on-sleeve oversharer, but lies to himself unconsciously so don't believe him)

Bravery: 9/10 (because dumb)

Recklessness: 10/10 (because dumb)

Ambition: 1/10

Loyalty: 7/10 (dead loyal in friendship, not so in romance)

Love: 10/10

Sense of Family: 6/10 (he has a History)

Attractiveness: 10/10

Agility: 10/10 (pole-dancing, wall-climbing ballerina)

Sex Drive: 10/10

And Aurik is 10/10 adorable, I won't take anything other rating.

Rate Your Traits (OC) - Aurik Gespenst

Beautiful Aurik art by @ohheyitsgray

Compassion: 9/10

Bitterness: 7/10

Happiness: 3/10

Politeness: 8/10

Chivalry: 7/10

Pride: 1/10

Honesty: 8/10

Bravery: 2/10

Recklessness: 5/10

Ambition: 2/10

Loyalty: 9/10

Love: 9/10

Sense of Family: 9/10

Attractiveness: 1/10

Agility: 5/10

Sex Drive: 4/10

Tagging: anyone who hasn't done this yet but wants to!

*Catatonic in the floor because I'm on art break and can't make more of these*

Coffin pillow talk

That scene when Lestat talked from inside his coffin is inexplicably hilarious to me. ⚰️

I seem to be unable to stop myself from hitting vampires in the face in these drawings. I swear it's not a thing. See Armeownd get hit in the face by a laptop here! Also Rockstar Lestat meets Taylor Swift here!

(The number of silly comics I've made about Interview with the Vampire has become slightly concerning to me. I'm doing it to stave off the misery -- I'm yet to recover from season 2, episode 1.)

Send this to all your favourite moots and pass the pumpkin round! KEEP THE PUMPKIN TRAIN GOING 🎃🖤🎃🖤🎃

Oh my, oh my, I got two pumpkins!

Mr Pierce took them and made a train for his rats.

I've been hyperfixating on a crafting project for three days now, and my brain is bent out of shape, I hope I can get back to normal tomorrow, we shall see if the fixation gremlins let me out of the dungeon

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.

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!

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.