Hey, Pierce, @whyisthereacentaur asks: Are there any surprising things that humans just do better than vampires?
Feel free to ask follow-up or new questions below. Pierce will be back next weekend with another interview!
Part one here!
I wear white rubber bands on my braces; they make a 'V' shape that look a bit like fangs.
(Haha, I wish. I just want to find ONE good thing about them: they hurt my teeth and make me sound like the Mad Hatter from Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland.)
(Oh, and I actually have to wear more of them now, so I look like one of those horror monsters with their mouths sewn shut. Which serves me right, I suppose.)
Joke’s on me, I almost had heatstroke yesterday. It’s eternal summer here, I’ll just hide in the pumpkin patch in my heart…
*Pops out of pile of skulls*: Was that an autumnal breeze? Oh, never mind, it's gone now.
*Disappears back into pile of skulls.*
(Well, the one good thing about living in a frustratingly tropical city is that I feel like a vampire all year round: staying out of the sun and hissing whenever someone suggests going outdoors.)
One of the best parts of Nosferatu (1922) is the Count's rubbishy drawing of a house in his letter. Which is utter gibberish.
I wrote about the origins of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror on my blog:
Referring to Sarah calling you a 'deviant vampire' in this except, @windforkthewriter asks you how you are different from other vampires, Pierce.
Oh dear. We'll resume the interview when Sarah is removed from the set.
I'll answer for Pierce: Unlike most vampires, he is not secretive. At all. People stop asking him out to Gothic balls since he cries and spills 150 years' worth of stories when he drinks too much champagne-infused blood. He wears his immortal heart on his sleeve.
So, whatever personal questions you have for him, go right ahead and ask him! We'll be back on weekends with answers.
For reference, this is what they look like in human form:
Referring to Sarah calling you a 'deviant vampire' in this except, @windforkthewriter asks you how you are different from other vampires, Pierce.
Oh dear. We'll resume the interview when Sarah is removed from the set.
I'll answer for Pierce: Unlike most vampires, he is not secretive. At all. People stop asking him out to Gothic balls since he cries and spills 150 years' worth of stories when he drinks too much champagne-infused blood. He wears his immortal heart on his sleeve.
So, whatever personal questions you have for him, go right ahead and ask him! We'll be back on weekends with answers.
Previously, I'd posted excerpts of my main cast, so now I thought I should show a little of what horror lies in store. Gothic Tales from Melancholia swings violently between chaotic comedy, misery and melancholy, and the strange and horrible. I enjoy writing all of it.
Feel free to tell me what you think below! I'm not holding a sword. Or a needle.
Thank you @windforkthewriter for sending a 💀 in my asks for an excerpt!
I love vampires. But sometimes I wonder, what on earth is the allure of these human-shaped mosquitoes? The humble beginnings of the European vampires are the Revenants: corpses who shuffle out of their graves to menace their living relatives and relations. One of them, a Johannes Cuntius, had an impressive criminal record, including making munching noises in a sleeping relative's ear. What a nuisance!
That's quite a far cry from today's sparkly and broody counts and Cullens. The first vampires were more like zombies on a liquid diet than people and they rarely have any agency at all (that we know of, at least. I feel like Mr Cuntius was onto something there).
Keep reading on the blog!
So help me, I've made a vampurr thirst trap... Gothic romance cover designers, I'm open for hire.
Look out, Armeownd, he's behind you!
Who's willing to bet that he actually knows?🤚🏻
More Armeownd art here!
Inktober prompt list by me and @nalesnik-z-morela here!
Lestat and Lescat in spiky boots. Part of the Gothic fiction characters in spiky boots series here! You can see booted Cthulhu here!
It took me awhile to pick this one back up again after I bungled up a leg:
I love seeing artists' mistakes. At one exhibit, I spent much time with my nose to the glass, staring at the places where lines had been covered up with white pen or taped up with scraps of paper. It might well have been annoying the artist, but it's those flawed pieces that I would have hung in my house because I know all too well how the artists felt at that moment. And that recognition makes me feel the effort and work behind the art, and that's what makes it come alive.
More Lestat and Lescat here!
Oy, Mr Pierce!
Friend @windforkthewriter has a question:
Care to do a little interview, Mr Pierce?
I'm probably going to regret giving him that microphone later.
I don’t make character profiles, so let's do an interview! Comment or send asks with your questions for the vampire Pierce (as many as you like, he loves to talk about himself, even unprompted), and he'll be back with answers on weekends. If my brain is functional, I'll draw comics of him answering. Fire away!
💀💀💀 Three for halloween. Though no pressure :) yay!
Scene: L'Ôpéra des Vampires, the Midnight Summer's Masque. (I'm hungover from rereading Phantom of the Opera and had to write this slightly fanfiction-ish section)
Will give you the bits for the other two skulls soon! Opinions and advice welcome, I don't bite and Pierce doesn't either without permission!Send '💀' in my asks, and I'll post a piece of my writing
Why do I call Nosferatu the Knock-off Count? What does nosferatu really mean? It's a strange history of copyright laws, a daring escape to America and a hunt for the origins of the deathbird!
Trick!! 🧛🌹🎃👻
I am a reservoir of cursed vampire facts, here you go:
In the middle ages, one of the given methods of thwarting vampires was sucking on their gums. Which is very questionable indeed.
It's enough to make one wonder if thwarting the vampire is truly the objective here...
Fact source: I heard it on the You're Dead To Me podcast on BBC Radio 4.
Thank you for coming trick or treating! Send me a 'trick or treat' in my ask box to get a trick (cursed fact) or treat (bookish/historical sweet).
It is as I feared.
He's grown cuter.
Images are from: Armeownd's loafers appreciation, 💅🏻Disregard💅🏻, Vampurr Tarot, Armeownd stuffing himself with pineapples, Armeownd's rubbish drawing of Lescat, Armeownd's fatal mistake.
All Armeownd drawings HERE!
I have a video-shooting and -editing job tomorrow. I'm shooting at a conference in the morning and have to get the video fully edited by the afternoon - on top of having classes.
(I have no idea why my employers have faith in me not to fudge it up, especially when I've given them no proof of my capabilities.)
I'm confident I'll manage somehow, but I sure-as-heck won't do it without a massive amount of internal wailing.
Oh, and I just superglued my finger. Am I in a sitcom?
