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Heyyyy hiiii it’s been a bit since I’ve made an art post but I have more OC refs finished and I’d like to introduce you do them <3

In Order:

Edgar Tremaine, he/him

Markus Hearst, he/him

Lonie Beckett, she/her

Ceres Kanakaris, she/they

Roark Renshaw, he/him

They exist in a supernatural age of sail story I play around with for fun (along with @/the-heron my beloved)

My art tag is #crumpled dark, and each oc has their own tag which is #oc: [oc name] where I dump posts and images and art of them!!

(I love talking about them so if you ever have oc questions PLEASE feel free to shoot them my way)

#long time no art post!! look at my old people #also if you saw Markus’ last ref yes I DID fix his skin tone #he was too pale in the last one rip sorry my love #but yeah <3 I hated the first ref I drew of Lonie so she got a redraw #and now Ceres and Roark are properly on my blog #crumpled dark #probably gonna pin this #roark renshaw #lonie beckett #ceres kanakaris #edgar tremaine #markus hearst

wiisagi-maiingan

hi trans indigenous people I love you

wiisagi-maiingan

hi indigenous people who don't identify with the label trans because you exist outside of the Western gender binary I love you

#shoutout two spirit people

peachfromcmbyn

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

#water I think? it’s hot #and I paid $60 for a water bottle accidentally (I am stupid) so now I have to drink water every day for the rest of my life #to make the purchase worthwhile

caspercryptid

The really unfortunate thing about mental health progress is that sometimes you realize you've made it in the form of "wow, I haven't felt this bad in a fucking while"

caspercryptid

On the one hand it's a bit of a pick me up in a dark place to know that this will pass because it has passed before on the other hand sometimes it isn't entirely a pleasant thought to go "wow, I used to feel like this all the time. That was pretty fucking bad. It's pretty bad right now too also."

caspercryptid

Someday your current baseline will be the sort of thing you consider A Really Bad Day. It does get better.

#oh my god literally #sitting there like. this was EVERY DAY????

cuunos

hey can everyone do me a favor and put in the tags why they chose their name? even if you don't go by a chosen name irl, you can put why you chose your online name.

#PREV TEEHEE ILY #my online name is a nickname my friends call me #Ernie <3 #and I guess skel. which is just the first part of my username

kuuura

shittttyproblems

not today...

alexandriaellisart

the heartbook

digital download // sticker set

sepublic

I do think it’s interesting how the novel Dracula is meant to be a modern setting from its perspective. It’s very much that genre of story about an ancient fantasy archetype finding itself in a modern setting, complete with the rules-lawyering that often comes with modern parodies (that isn’t to say the stories of Olde didn’t have fun with loopholes either though).

Except Dracula is a story that plays itself straight. The vampire himself is not stupid. He’s possibly the oldest vampire of all which means he upgraded from animal instinct and mindless echoes of past memories to someone who’s regained his critical thinking skills. The story begins because he’s already adapted to how the modern world works now by hiring a solicitor who understands modern laws.

He knows now that he doesn’t have to march into London with an army like he used to; He can just buy property and the laws of London are forced to respect that. Similarly he’s already experimented in and discovered loopholes to vampire rules and limitations; Vampires are bound by the permission of owners so he simply uses his solicitor to buy and own a bunch of properties. If he needs to be invited in, Dracula hypnotizes someone to let him in.

Vampires need to return to their grave every dusk/dawn (whichever comes sooner), which causes their coffin to act as an anchor that limits how far from it they can travel? Dracula simply rations the earth of his grave into fifty coffins and spreads them across London so his range becomes exponentially larger.

All of these things make the story almost come across as a deconstruction and it might just be! It’s just that Dracula the novel became such a trendsetter that people nowadays see it as playing things fully straight. It almost feels as if the novel is written with the idea that readers have a basic understanding of vampires and their rules, so part of the thrill comes in the revelation of how the titular vampire is working around these rules. Likewise I’ve heard it used to be a trope in English literature for a traveler to visit some foreign land with a monster and escape by going home. But here the foreign aspect of the story is just the first (and final) arc; The monster’s plan hinges on coming to the UK itself!

So yeah. Dracula isn’t stupid and he reflects the idea that people of the past had just as common sense as the rest of us, they just had access to less/inaccurate knowledge and things worked differently back then. Dracula would be like… That bit of someone showing a medieval peasant a meme as they comprehend it perfectly and aren’t even wowed by the Doritos. If Dracula was set in the 21st century he’d probably understand social media well enough to become an influencer if he wanted to, though the issue of being invisible in cameras wouldn’t help.

#I’m listening to a Dracula audiobook right now what a great time for this post to cross my dash #rlly funny that the whole reason he traps Jonathan there for so long is bc he wants to study him #so he can better blend in while living in London #and tells Jonathan straight up ‘correct me if I do anything wrong’

skelelephant

Some days it’s hard being an angel

(Blood/gore alt under the cut)

#hello hi have you seen my angel #‘guardian angel’ except the best defence is a good offence

grouphug33

Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.

He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.

She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.

And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.

It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.

But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.

He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.

Eva and Grace, the platonic male/female friendship of all time.

#they make me. unwell #ough…….#project hail mary