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Welcome - or welcome back - to the next stage of Gannen and Vancha’s journey into the night!
Having returned to Vampire Mountain to explain his failure to kill the Vampaneze Lord, Vancha finds himself facing the memory of his and Gannen’s first few weeks as half-vampaneze… namely the grim, ugly, necessary work of feeding.
Please heed the content warnings before clicking below for Chapter One - and enjoy!
CW: Violence, blood, death
@thegeminisdaughter THANK YOU for this beautiful commission of my OC, Jack and Gannen Harst!
saga of larten crepsley drawings :p
When your assistants are starting another argument, and you should probably intervene, but you have important things to do tonight like sitting down
Next three chapters out!
You guys are probably tired of hearing about it ha ha, but the next three chapters of my Cirque du Freak fanfic are out.
We're getting into the meat of the story. <3
10 chapters and 32k words in now. Let's goooo!
POV: you interrupted the Princes 😑
no sweetheart they took your favourite old man musician to the studio upstate. hes running around with all the other old man musicians, theyre making music and having gay sex its okay its very beautiful and im sure hes very happy
Suddenly need a fanfic Paris Skyle/Seba Nile runaway AU where all of vampire mountain is panicking about their disappearance but they’re just hanging out high asf in some random small town music shop’s basement with half a dozen other gay old guys just making music and avoiding their responsibilities. The only reason they’re found is because Darren needs a new pipe to play with Madam Octa and stumbles upon them after recognizing their laughter coming from a random door in the music shop he stopped at…both exasperated and furious, Darren calls Mr. Crepsley to deal with their wayward gay grandpas.
GAVNER PURL GOES HEAVY ON THE KOHL CUZ HE’S JUST A DIVA LIKE THAT 💅✨
Chapter 13 is out!
So I've gone ahead and pulled the trigger on posting the first three chapters of my Cirque Du Freak fic. The next chapters may take a bit, as I've got to show them to my wonderful beta reader first, and then I've got to write deeper into it ha ha.
If you'd like to check it out, I've got it on ao3 here.
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS SPECIAL EDITION: CIRQUE DU FREAK BY DARREN SHAN
My sister loves giving me gifts, and recently, she gifted me a book series unlike anything else: Cirque du Freak by Irish author Darren Shan. I haven't read heaps upon heaps of vampire literature, though I did read the original Dracula by Bram Stoker, and I gotta say, Darren Shan's concept of vampires is like nothing that Bram Stoker could ever have conceived of.
DISCLAIMER: This review is based off of the manga adaptation with art from Takahiro Arai, so some things may differ from the original books.
Anyways, here's the story: Darren Shan is a fairly normal kid living a fairly normal life hanging around with his best friend Steve Leonard. Then, one night, a mysterious figure hands him a flyer for a travelling freak show known as the "Cirque du Freak". Steve cajoles Darren into getting tickets, and they have a fun time. However, Darren wants more, and he steals a venomous spider named Madam Octa from the Cirque, training it to obey him. However, one day, a freak accident results in Madam Octa biting Steve and poisoning him, so Darren goes to the owner of the Cirque - a vampire named Larten Crepsley - and Crepsley agrees to save Steve's life, but on one condition: Darren has to let Crepsley turn him into a vampire, and from that point on, life will never be the same for Darren.
One of the first things I really admired about the book is the plot setup. Darren Shan does a really good job of setting up the events that set the plot in motion. Second of all, Shan does an excellent job of worldbuilding, not only differentiating his version of vampires from bloodsuckers of media past, but also by creating a rival faction of vampires known as the Vampaneze, who - in contrast to the main vampires - kill indiscriminately, and he does a great job explaining the history of this world. Also, since I read the manga version, I would like to say that I really love Takahiro Arai's art style, and Darren Shan couldn't have picked a better man to adapt his books. In fact, the art style makes me wish there was an anime adaptation. Granted, I have read that the manga condenses or omits certain events from the regular books, but it was so well-done that I didn't even notice. Getting back to the matter of the books, the subject matter is dark and bloody, but nevertheless so compelling that you'll want to read to the bitter end. Speaking of the end, I won't give it away, but I can tell you that you won't believe it when you read it, plus there are so many interesting plot twists along the way. I don't know how Shan came up with this, but he sure knows how to keep his readers hooked.
Overall, I can find nothing to complain about with Cirque du Freak. It's a tale of mystery, imagination and horror that came from depths that only Edgar Allan Poe could've dreamed of. I will say, however, that despite not seeing the 2009 live-action movie adaptation, I watched the trailer and thought the movie sucked just on that basis, even if it did feature John C. Reilly as Larten Crepsley, who - I might add - I imagined having a formal British accent.
Wip! Gotta expand the canvas a bit, but off to a good start.
Edit: Changed a few things!
Aaaand that’s a wrap! ✨
Thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to read this comic over the past year - I couldn’t have kept going nearly as long as I have without your support, encouragement and kindness. I’m incredibly grateful to you all for sticking with me through each update, and I hope you’ve enjoyed the journey as much as I have!
Part Two is in the making, and I’m really excited to start exploring what it truly means for Gannen and Vancha to have joined the ranks of the vampaneze. I’m currently restructuring the outline before moving on to character designs, then it’ll be back to the good ol’ grind. Though right now I’m just looking forward to having a bit of a rest!
I hope you’ll all join me for the next arc in a couple of months or so! 💜
Disclaimer: All characters depicted in this artwork belong to or are inspired by the works of Darren Shan. This is a piece of fan art created for personal enjoyment only.
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FINAL SKETCHDUMP OF THIS ARC - it’s certainly been a journey for the boys!
as always started my new sketch book with a drawing of Murlough, which I coloured in digitally (disagree with the appearance or not…I fear this appearance is stuck in my head when I imagine him now…)
I had been wanting to doodle before work to ease back into drawing. This is morning warm up #1!
