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Sideblog of @purrlockholmesbooks. Artist. Writer. Victorian vampire. Here lies my shenanigans.

[purrlockswatson]

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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).

[oberonsson]

Dame Archer kicks McDougal’s Scots ass there in the rain at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 - Photo by Douglas Herring

[anarcho-wormism-deactivated2019]

😮

[garrettauthor]

Oh NO.

[treacleaergia]

me, a sheltered noblewoman: Pray who is that brave knight? Dame Archer:*turns around* me: gasp! *instantly in love*

[dirtyriver]

Alicia Archer

[ex-sang-uination]

my bi heart………

[ohmightysmiter]

I’VE NEVER SEEN THE ADDED PICS

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

[nyx-belial]

*dies*

[garrettauthor]

Oh shit.

[notlostonanadventure]

GAY KNIGHTS

[unicornofdarknessstuff-deactiva]

Fellas I’m real gay

[thecarrott]

@0hheytherebigbadwolf HELP!!

[0hheytherebigbadwolf]

Every June this inevitably winds up back on my dash. And I appreciate that. And I will reblog it. Every time.

[rockitcat]

Hey, it’s @archerinventive, and the Pride Knights!

[fruitgravies]

HAPPY PRIDE! MORE TRANS ROCKSTARS PLEASE 😨✨🏳️‍⚧️!! here's a comm i recently finished for an irl of his baby boy ken. i had so much fun with his hair uuuuuurhhhhhh!!!!!

insta • twt • bsky

[memegetter]

happy pride month.

in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.

it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.

it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.

this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.

cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.

LINK

[nzm-yapping]

Words of my own

[chewupmyheart]

[pmamtraveller]

"Sweeping Off the Male Gaze" by Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu.

[stlamb]

tomatomat

[purrlockswatson]

"Get to know my OCs" tag game: write according to how the character would if they were here and had access to Tumblr

I'm answering for the vampire Pierce

Currently reading: Salomé by Oscar Wilde

Current obsession: Straw hats with big ribbons. It's summer, so he's collecting them.

Currently wearing: Yellow kimono-style dressing gown and stockings.

Currently watching: Devil May Cry Season 2. He's a bit like Dante in some ways.

Comfort movie: The Twilight saga. It's like a sitcom to him.

Last thing he texted his partner: "whee did my straw hat go? ive borrowwdyours" (He has long nails and types badly.)

Last song: Good Luck Babe by Chappel Roan. He has it on vinyl.

Last Google search: "why does my boyfriend laugh at me for ordering matcha because i have painted nails?"

Favourite plant: I'm not sure he knows much about plants.

Thanks for the tag, @vladimirsangel ! Tagging: @leader-of-grandys @blackforrestpunk @rhan-hastur @thedrawingduke + anyone with OCs I've missed!

[importantpics]

[purrlockswatson]

🎶HE'S HEEEERE, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERAAAAA🎶

(My less unserious Phantom cat art here if you want them)

[free-my-mindd]

[eyeball-jam]

who knows when i’ll be posting clean rendered drawings again. 1 like = 1 cigarette for gerry

[purrlockswatson]

Taking my new CD player on a trip with me, it is a bit chunky, but I'm mad at Spotify and spite is a great motivator. I made a special little carrier bag shaped like a bass guitar out of a pant leg that I cut off of a pair of jeans.

I am building a fortress out of physical media where I can languish in my evilry in peace.

[nibeul]

out of curiosity, does everyone have a certain type of character they get attached to or are urs random

[purrlockswatson]

☆Loners who don't hate or fear isolation, though they yearn for company.

☆Characters (especially non-antagonistic ones and lady characters) who do morally reprehensible things without excuses such as "they only kill people who deserve it," "they were forced to do it by Circumstances," or "they were driven mad by misery."

☆Vampires.

☆Alternative characters.

☆Immortals/geniuses (better if evil) who are also silly lil guys.

☆Characters with a soul-deep connection to something/someplace/someone.

☆Male-presenting characters with feminine characteristics - and vice versa.

☆That one unflappable character (both the calm ones and the Completely Unhinged ones)

[lowkeloki]

Claes Oldenburg with Giant Toothpaste Tube (1964) in London, during the touring exhibition Claes Oldenburg, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 25 - November 23, 1969.

Photo: Hans Hammarskiöld.

[conan-doyles-carnations]

Love being brutally called out by the British Library

[endearingsalt]

Oh my gosh I went here a few days ago do you guys want to see the whole sign

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I’m covered with “Librarians from Everywhere” but as a former museums professional “Tourists who think we’re the British Museum” really speaks to me on a personal level.

[fandomsandfeminism]

I’m “all ten people who think they’ve got the most niche interest in the whole building”

[arthoesunshine]

i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

[makomoriz]

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal