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have i drawn enough of them yet? no. never. hex of One Thousand Tender Embraces

bonus

#art #doodles #varney the vampire #varney posting #these were mostly an excuse to mess around with charles' new extra fluffy hairstyle

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Does Flora end up with very visible scars or are they like pinpricks like Lucy's?

hers are described as pinpricks (chillingworth tries to convince her they're bug bites at one point. gaslight gatekeep go fuck yourself buddy) so i don't think she'd have visible scars no

per the elaborate palace of headcanons and canon revisions i have constructed (the fic is coming someday, i swear) charles does have a big visible scar and this is because varney bit him hard enough to break the skin with his other teeth

#not art #ask #varney posting

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clarimonde: so since you're dating a priest now-- varney, nursing an enormous post-volcano hangover: we are not. dating. he showed up yesterday and wouldn't go away even after i bit him clarimonde: --so since you're dating a priest now, i thought i'd give you some tips, and also talk to him and make sure he vows to love you more than God Himself varney: WE JUST MET clarimonde: yes. that's how relationships work. you ask them to defy god for you and if they say yes, first date varney: i can't believe i ever thought you were the put-together one out of the two of us

#art #doodles #varney the vampire #varney posting #clarimonde #mr. bevan in the background: 🧍

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overdue for some blood feasting

#art #doodles #varney the vampire #varney posting #cw eye contact #pov you have arrived by the pollard oak at midnight to fight a duel

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playing with designs. everyone gets more fluff

#art #doodles #varney the vampire #varney posting #the fur-lined cape is canon it comes up in at least 2 places

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normal again. time for more varney

#art #doodles #varney the vampire #varney posting

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alright i can't deal with this anymore. when this hits 50k i am also turning reblogs off, so if any more of you clowns want to tell me the palette reminds you of shrek, bitch about colors you personally think are ugly, tell the censored op to kill themselves for their color opinions, or literally insult the artwork to my face, go ahead and get that shit in now so i can block your asses before i finally free myself from this hell

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

#reblog #i hate this post so much i don't respect any of you #i despise these shades of green by association now #and just because no one here seems to have any reading comprehension or sense of tone: #i am explicitly telling you to NOT fucking do any of the above things. i am a human being and i have reached my fucking limit #keep your dumbass comments to yourself

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I love your Crew of Light designs.

thank you! for more of them you can check out @lxgentlefolkcomic, the webcomic i draw where they have Thrilling Adventures along with a whole heap of other classic lit characters

#not art #ask

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came for the funny green post stayed for the rest idk haven't checked yet

i hope you like vampires

#not art #ask #the funny green post is an outlier i mostly draw classic lit characters #and do not necessarily have good taste

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if you commission me, sure

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

#reblog

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in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

#art #artists on tumblr #bitches will say ''in what context are these colors pretty'' #and then post the delicate hues of sunlight filtering through the leaves of a forest in late springtime #edit: censored the other op bc some of yall are starting to scare me and i don't want them getting harassed #and as long as im here. stop telling me it's the shrek colors i know it's the shrek colors #everybody and their mother has already mentioned it's the shrek colors

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i am. OBSESSED. with ur jonathan harker. particularly his hair. it's so lovely. also i binged the league of extraordinary gentlefolk yesterday and the scene with the knife!!!! with dr. kemp! lives rent-free in my head.

anyway. do u have a favorite jonathan moment? from dracula or lxgf, either one

aw thank you! jonathan's hair has undergone extensive evolution over the time i've been drawing him but i've always enjoyed drawing the curly bang

my favorite jonathan moment in lxgf is probably [redacted] in episode 2 or maybe [redacted] in episode 8

#not art #ask #lxgf #jonathan harker #(this is a cop-out answer but the thing is: #a. i'm very indecisive #b. whenever anyone asks me an open-ended question i lose all my memories of everything i know #c. i like being a saucy little tease about future lxgf stuff #to that end: see-arcane is the writer for episode 8 #;)

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Strange Practice has Varney but it seems his backstory is only the Bannerworth saga

I think the author may have only read the Project Gutenberg version, which only has a hundred some chapters - it cuts off before the Bannerworths are even entirely gone from the story. Which is a shame, because IMO the latter half of the story is better. Still bad, mind you, but the author actually remembers to make Varney do vampire things. He gets character development, including roughly 4 different contradictory tragic backstories. He gets to do more Scooby-Doo villain shit. At one point, every other character turns out to also be doing Scooby-Doo villain shit in one massive pile of schemes and silly disguises. It's great.

#not art #varney posting

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Sooo I wrote a…weird little thing, a certain comic by @mayhemchicken-artblog got my creative juices percolating and under the press of staying up far too late for several days this came to fruition, enjoy!

The Eye of the Beholder

#reblog #not my art #tpodg #this is such a fascinating idea #poor basil...just can't catch a break huh

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Commission for @fruitviking based on their Sherlock Holmes fic These Hands of Mine, which you can read here. Check it out!

#art #artists on tumblr #commission #sherlock holmes #john watson

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you believe me like a god // i'll betray you like a man

credits:

Song lyrics taken from I'm Your Man by Mitski

Artworks referenced:

The Annunciation - Workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi

Last Judgment in an Initial C - Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

Boy with a Greyhound - Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Venus and Adonis - Peter Paul Rubens

#art #artists on tumblr #the picture of dorian gray #tpodg #tpodg spoilers #basil hallward #dorian gray #cw blood #cw violence

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Is this rewrite going to follow the initial "Varney is a Bannerworth ancestor" or the confessional final backstory of divine justice making him a vampire? Also end the way the penny dreadful ended?

It's, ah, not precisely a rewrite of the original--I mean, I am rewriting a bunch of stuff, but that wasn't the point of the exercise. My magnum opus [citation needed] is a queerplatonic Varney/Charles Holland shipfic. There's like six different biting scenes. It ends with time travel. Clarimonde is mentioned.

Varney's precise origins are left purposefully mysterious but I've made him a lot older than either backstory you mentioned, using his "was alive during the time of Edward III" story from the vampire council chapter as an excuse to make him older than the Black Death.

#not art #ask #varney posting #im leaning hard into the tragedy and also the sopping wetness of varney #dates back to the 1300s? awesome time to make him a plague survivor with massive survivor's guilt #wildly inconsistent backstory? it's because he has memory issues #death by volcano? actually what if he survived that and then had to live another 50 years with the guilt of what he'd done #how touch starved can i make him? Yes. #how regular starved can i make him? Also Yes.