Amanda. Artist. Writer. Victorian vampire. Here lies my shenanigans.
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Latest Posts by purrlockswatson - Page 3
Apparently, 15 years (and two, three days) ago, Love Never Dies had its first run.
Have some snarky Ramin Phantom from Devil Take the Hindmost
And why not have the Ben Lewis version, too?
I honestly didn't have to add much chaos at all, it's... what happened
More POTO cats here, a rant about LND here and more LND cats here.
Fanart as penance. More to come đ
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Le FantĂŽme de l'OpĂ©ra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms, Phantom of the Opera - Lloyd Webber, Phantom of the Opera (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (TV 1990), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Phantom - Susan Kay Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Erik | Phantom of the Opera, Nadir Khan, The Persian (Phantom of the Opera) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Multiple Eriks, Humor, Hobby Store AU, Thereâs nothing that annoys Erik like another Erik, Fights Summary:
Months go by and still nobody has given you an explanation for the higher-than-average number of customers seemingly dressed for the cabaret. Itâs almost becoming a hobby in itself for you, watching the comings and goings of the five masked men.
@purrlockswatson is to blame for this
@blackforrestpunk youâre not blameless either
I never got round to posting photos of my Nosferatu bag, did I? Meet Stephie.
She might be small and look like a sock monkey, but she has a fur collar and a silver heart locket (and mouse minions) just like Count Orlok. Perfect size for keeping my phone safe, and perfect emotional support for ventures outdoors because I can hold her hand when I walk.
(Someone who saw me making Stephie came around the other day and asked me, "Where's the rat?" I didn't bother correcting them. As long as nobody calls her dead baby Yoda, we're fine.)
Blog post: The Freedom to be Grotesque and Gothic Authoresses
"I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked meâHow 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.
âI didnât mean anything by it; itâs only flight of fancy,â 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!
Okay, yarn. Yarn is cool right? Also, who out there likes milk. Milk is cool.
Milk, Yarn, ugh! Milk yarn.
I know I sound crazy but it's real. It's so Real! I feel crazy! It's a chemical process and it's fascinating, it's like, someone looked at a glass of milk and went, "huh, I want to wear that."
Apparantly it's pretty durable. I don't know. I kind of lost my mind a couple hours ago when I first found out, I just climbed out of wonderland btw. People! Don't follow that rabbit!
(what, your ask button said "unhinged messages." This is just happy coincidence.)
I think the invention was ghost-written (ghost-made?) by a cat. (Thanks for the unhingedness! Enjoy a photo of my chucky Lucifer wearing morningstar earrings.)
I love you in every universe? No such luck for Joseph Buquet.
Moment of appreciation for the chibis.
Who is the silliest chibi? Most voted chibi gets a Treat.
More POTO cats here!
Guess whoâs back
Back again
Rayz/Skitt is back
Tell your friends
I'm not sure if you want my friends to know you
They live in my walls. They have possibly been Undead for years. They are very strange and make me stranger. I'm going to have to phrase this news very carefully so they don't take it as a dinner gong.
*Coughs weird humour out of my system like an exorcism*
Can't help it, my mum doesn't call me Wednesday Addams for no reason. Welcome back, Rayz!!
Some time ago, I said to a friend (you know who you are) that Cherik had a big sword, and I remember this meme by @1loveonelifetime
Of course, I had to make a Kitty Cherik version.
More POTO cats drawings 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.
As @ablatheringblatherskite eloquently put it in their lovely tags for this post:
Now, go read it, people.
Erik - Top of the Sky Update
another sad chapter. man, this drama will take some time. AO3 Fanfiktion Song of this chapter:
Oscar Wilde WOULD be a social media fiend. He'd be right at home there. Anyhow, I don't have a head for business, so um, this is my marketing plan.
The Importance of Being Promotional
Apparently, we at Purrlock Holmes Books are not good at marketing, mostly because I put Oscat Wilde in charge. He IS an early influencer and social phenomenon, but he's completely forgotten to do our advertising.
Anyway, the "221B" discount code expires this week, send me your comms this weekend (before March 3rd) to get 25% off your order:
I LOVE the poto cats, theyâre all adorable and whimsical and unhinged
Thank you! I remember your Lucipurr Meowingstar request, here he is!
I saw the image of him sitting in a burning chair and my mind leapt to the "dog in a situation meme," as I call it in my head.
@meilas When I get around to seeing the show, I will be sure to use all the other lovely cat puns you came up with for the Lucipurr cats!
And apologies to anyone who sent me asks, I WILL answer! It's just that my doodles get lost in my sketchbook mayhem, and my memory is unreliable. I'm always happy to get them!
âšïžArt requests and Ko-fi commissions open!âšïž
I have returned from the dead cinema. For those who missed the news, I went to see Nosferatu with my mum. Which is discouraged unless your mum is a funny one.
Without further ado, I present the popularly requested What my mum said about Nosferatu:
"There isn't enough of Nosferatu. The director must have run out of money."
"I don't like the crunchy noise he makes when he bites people. It isn't elegant, and he's supposed to be a nobleman." (Cue us joking that it's the sound of Orlok's teeth falling out. Chaotic humour is a family trait, I'm afraid.)
"Does the professor die?" Me: "Noooo, unless Thomas threw him out the window right after the end." Her: "Thomas, lock him in the chapel."
"It's a shame Ellen's friend dies. She has such nice clothes."
*Sailor hammering open Orlok's crate.* "C'mon, he's not at home!"
"Did Thomas get the bag of gold, at least?"
(More Cat Orlok drawings here and here!)
I have two pieces of big news. One good and one I'm having a mild crisis over.
The good, I'm watching Nosferatu at a cinema tomorrow. At last, it's available where I am!
The crisis: my mum wants to watch it with me.
Serves me right for yapping at her about how âšïžartisticâšïž and âšïžunconventional âšïž the film is. Weeeeeeelp.
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.
Too tired to draw, so I'm whipping out this old thing. It's me and the geniuses I share joint custody of a braincell with - @blackforrestpunk and @vladimirsangel . If you feel particularly un-brained today, it's probably my fault, I was forced to pummel the braincell because of a series of circumstances that led me to interview a vet and snail around on public transport for hours. But I had pizza, so that was all right.
(See here for context)
Pt 4. of Last Night at Vena Cava
Have a sketch of Victor. He features heavily in this new chapter:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63019435/chapters/162232942
A loud thud came from the forbidden attic, followed by the ear-splitting clanging of silverware falling to the ground. Someone was singing, a fine contralto voice delivering a musical stream of abuses aimed at bread pudding.
Also in this chapter: the mad wife in the attic.
As usual, please do leave feedback if you have any, I would appreciate it greatly!
Christine takes Erik shopping for his "birthday." (See Erik's Shopping Nose in action!)
I had the urge to write this in French. Désolée if there's any atrocities or if you can't understand it. English transcript in the ALT!
And this is probably the only time you'll ever see Mall Phanton Eric since I'm not the slasher kind of person. Get Erik with a C far away from me.
More PoTO cat comics here!
Last Night at Vena Cava Pt. 3 is up!
Been seeing this meme around, and I had to.
Speaking of my goobers, I uploaded a chapter and completely forgot about it:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63019435/chapters/161853298#workskin
Pierce and Sarah confront an angry client. Also lots of tea about Pierce's affaires du coeur.
Why hello, Emo Cherik.
Inspiration from an absolutely unhinged video.
WARNING: I will NOT take responsibility for your dead braincells. If you watch it and feel the urge to bang your head on things, it has nothing to do with me. I wasn't here.
That said, enjoy suffering 1,990 phases of questioning your sense of humour:
All Cherik art here. Mostly less unhinged. And Kitty Cherik to compensate.
Thank you, Tumblr, for showing me ads I absolutely don't want to see. I mean it in the most unironic way possible.
Maybe I'm a paranoid mediaeval minion, but I get absolutely horrified whenever an Internet platforms shows me ads featuring something I searched for just once, seconds ago, on another platform. It makes me feel stalked.
(Unimpressed cat is Daniel Meowlloy from my Interview with the Vampurr "Disregard!" comic)
What's the tea? (News!)
Good morrow!
Here, I get up to shenanigans with fellow artists, review and ramble, post my writing, crafts and PoTO art because reasons.
My main blogs:
Book/history blog: @purrlockholmesbooksblog
Main art blog: @purrlockholmesbooks
My Gothic literature fanfic Gothic Tales from Melancholia is on AO3
The illustrated t-shirt does exist.
What I welcome in my ask box:
-Art requests are always welcome! I mainly draw, but will also get (hand)crafty if you have good, or unhinged, ideas.
-Asks about drawings, writing, OCs and projects.
-Asks for opinions/reviews of books, films, etc. I love researching and jabbering about my findings.
-Personal questions that won't help any unsavoury individuals to find me in real life (i.e., by all means ask me about my existential crises, but not about my nationality).
Oh look who caught me on camera
Ignore Von McFangs in the corner, this isn't about him (who am I kidding, everything with him in it is about him)
Want to see his charming visage in colour? Look here
C'est le mien !
Doing colouring as a kid, I always ignored instructions and drew snot and tears on all the things with faces. To stop old habits from popping out, I traced this with baking paper against my phone, then traced that with watercolour paper against my desk lamp. It hurt my arms, so I filled in the details freestyle, I hope it worked! Phans with a printer, follow instructions now!
Colour it in your style!
Well, originally this was my valentine's day drawing.... buuuuut i hate christines pose, and then i gave up.
Well, iiiiiiiiif you want, download it, print it out, colour it in your style :-)
Credit me, so i can see what you did đ have fun!
New chapter of Gothic Tales is up
Wanted to draw something but my holidays end tomorrow and I'm as motivated as an undead potato right now.
I've already got around 1,800 things to do in the first week back, it means I have to visit basically every office on campus and it's going to be absolute shite.
What's not shite, at least I hope not, is this fresh upload:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63019435/chapters/161671531
(I donât know why the link looks like that, just my luck, my Internet is messing with me right now)
Anyway, enjoy a Frankenstein Monster having a crush that doubles as an existential crisis while I go and try not to turn into mash.
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.
In my defence, two of these belong to a friend (naming no names). They sent me the meme, and it's not my fault I decided to add to it.
Happy Valentine's Day to all my favourite weirdos (that includes you if you wish it)!
The Persians discuss their valentines plans. 1925 Persian (Ledoux) is taking no nonsense.
More Phantom cat comic 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:
*Slams this lil dude down on the table* Phandom, dinner time!
I found out that the Chinese Phandom calls the Phantom é„æĄ¶, "Rice Bucket," because it sounds like "phantom" (fĂ ntÇng... meh, close enough).
That isn't the best bit.
If someone is a rice bucket, it means they're good for nothing but holding rice inside them (i.e., eating). So it means "useless person."
Now, isn't that perfect for someone who cools his heels in a dank cellar and blackmails his way to massive wages?
More POTO nonsense here!