I'm An Ancient Vampire, Confirmed. I Honestly Thought KYS Meant 'keep Yourself Safe'.

When I say I was bouncing off the walls and crawling around the ceiling when I got the comm, I mean it! I'm so happy my love for it translated! And Happy Nosferatu is going to be my new seasonal greeting now

I swear I have never been this excited about an advent calendar and just in case it wasn't clear I am a grown adult but I am bouncing around like a child.

@purrlockswatson made such a beautiful advent calendar already and then this. THIS.

Aurik has a yellow hoodie. His favourite colour. He's going to the movies. One of his favourite things. He's meeting for the first time a vampire who looks a bit more like him (Count Orlok) and that vampire is a movie star and they're watching his new movie and they got the big novelty coffin popcorn bucket and they got to bring the pet rats and and and....

It's so lovely. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate and Happy Nosferatu to everyone in general.

*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!

Aahh, thank you for thinking of him, @greenfinchwriter 😭

When you're a smol vampire but still want to do home reno, do it lizard-fashion on the wall

The Dance of the Rats (circa 1690)

Attributed to Ferdinand van Kessel

Vampire's pearls.

My current coping mechanism is using a pair of big battered pliers to bend metal, so now there's another new item in my vampire hoard.

This is me now:

Be back to cat drawings this weekend. Busy week. And my brain's been weird for a while; it likely shows in my creations. I've got an eyeball ring on my desk right now, for crying out loud.

Yes, this actually happened. Weeeell, first part did. But Kerik was hardly going to admit he got kicked out of bed by Ayesha, so my point still stands.

The most hinged unhinged thing to happen in the last section of Kay's Phantom. I rambled about Kay's Phantom here, but I had beef with it so fans, skip it and have a gander at Phantom cat comics instead.

Thanks for the tag @achildsfirstsorrow @frommarshtheycome and @angel-with-paper-wings , I'm honoured!

Last song: "A Milion Gruesome Ways to Die"

Favourite colour: I grew up among Plantone books and paper samples, there's no way I can choose ONE, my inner amateur graphic designer will curse me.

Last movie: Nosferatu 1922. Made my family watch it, they showed me a puppet from hell that supposedly looks like Orlok, and now I can't unsee it.

Last TV show: It's been a minute, Arcane...?

Sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet>savoury>spicy

Relationship status: On my way to be a crazy cat lady. Sans cats, but I'll fix that.

Last thing I googled: "Do people still say hip?" My inner Victorian is showing, isn't it?

Current obsession: Drawing things that make me anxious into as silly vampurr comics

Looking forward to: Like ACFS, I'm waiting for Del Toro's Frankenstein, finishing my vampurr book, posting my writing (at last), and menacing my friends when they wake up.

I think we've gotten into the PoTO artists' end of Tumblr, so we're probably double-tagging like mad, but I'll do it anyway. @leader-of-grandys @blackghostm2o @wowyzowy3 @lokislynx @windforkthewriter @thedrawingduke @v-jack-v @vladimirsangel @blackforrestpunk (I already know you two but there's always "better")

10 people I want to get to know better

Omg thank you much for tagging me! @dearwormw00d :3

Last song: You're not alone, Allison Russel

Favorite colour: dark green

Last movie: Lord of the rings: The fellowship of the ring

Last tv show: The Gilded Age

Sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet>Savory>Spicy

Relationship status: Single

Last thing i googled: hand holding pencil brush reference

Current obsession: One Piece, Nosferatu, Ethel Cain, my fem erik, Epic, Critical Role, studying the Enneagram again, Castlevania Nocture, The Apothecary Diaries, Witch Hat Atelier

Looking forward to: season 2 of the one piece live action, the oscars ( I want to see my beloved Fernanda Torres win), my necklaces that I've ordered, hadestown live recording, Superman, my next RPG session, Percy Jackson season 2! @insanely-creative-things @lepetitghostcat @fishing-rob @erik-christine @muirin007 @klausscrimshaw (ik it's not 10 but idk who to tag anymore, sorry ;-;)

Holy crisps.

Storyboard done. Got out the calculator, and found out I have to do around 100 panels of Cat Phantom drawings. (It's an animatic based on the song "Love me Normally")

Please regularly come to yell at me about this project because I really want to finish it, but I don't know it I have the strength to do so.

Break time. I hope you've all been secretly wanting to see Cherik in a corset because, eh, that's what's happening now.

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)

I drew this with a pen on its last gasp:

Obsessed with the clean 6-inch gaps between them. @vladimirsangel I love your Pierce, he looks like a Christmas elf beside the others, bless him.

And of course they are talking about chicken.

Dumb sketches because I got obsessed with their height differences. Sorry it's so rough but my brain is like tangled wool tonight

Feel better soon @purrlockswatson!

Have a better day @blackforrestpunk!

(I don't know what they're talking about. Something fun)

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.