Vampire Pyramid Scheme

J | 35+ | She/He/They | Bisexual | Non-binary & Genderfluid | Black queer illustrator working on a few vampire comics. My spot to post nonsense and art about my OCs and the webcomics taking over my life.

[misstherese]

i think its great that armand gets to murder his ex-boyfriends with his current boyfriend. it's a wonderful idea for a date night. armand is so considerate.

[vampirepyramidscheme]

Didn’t expect to be spoiled for an episode the moment I logged into the app. Yeah I could filter spoiler tags but I haven’t been active enough to even do that yet.

Maybe we don’t post full on chunks of episodes 8 hours after it airs??? Maybe? I usually don’t even care about spoilers - but damn this wasn’t even something easy to ignore. 😑

[iambaronalberto]

if anyone draws me anything ever

im going to stare at it

im going to grin like an idiot

i dont care if you think its bad or not

i love it

i love you

[cloudabserk]

yo uwu japanime eyes armand

this is what lestat sees in his nightmares i guess

[thatlovelywitch]

My mouth fell.

[blanchebees]

Gothic vampire knight

Tip jar

[loopnoid]

i've been told there's a repost of this silly old comic going around so here's the real one

[sweet-shut-eye]

Never been about me

[unbroken-teacup]

it’s always been about her😭😭

[spiribia]

Why is so much adult oriented 2d animation bastard ugly, do they know they don’t have to do that? The characters don’t have to projectile vomit all the time either, but maybe that’s asking too much

[vampirepyramidscheme]

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Sidney and Harry wanted to decorate for Pride this month. A little later than planned - but better late than never. 😌

(Yes, I know pride flags will not be invented until 1979 and is therefore anachronistic but shhhh lemme have this.)

Also a perfect time to catch up on Chapter 1 of The Arrangement if you like 1920s vampire comics with a Black bisexual/demisexual and genderfluid/transfemme MC.

Read it here.

[rebe-draws]

My poor Gangrel and her first frenzy. This cowboy's been going through it.

[nerdmutant]

[autisticdisasterlesbian777]

#whatmisinformation #armandtoldthetruth

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

[nitewrighter]

Commissioning artists really makes you feel like a renaissance noble. Like you’ll get an email that just says “Hey sorry some things came up but I’m working on your piece and here’s a WIP” and suddenly you’re wearing sumptuous velvets and eating grapes on a reclining couch like “Ohoho! Take as long as you need, my Orpheus! My riches and time are a paltry price to pay to bring your beauty to the world! I am a ~Patron of the Arts!~”

[kimreesesdaughter]

I just left a plantation tour in Louisiana. I have a lot to say…

[purplechocolatekisses]

SAY IT!

[kimreesesdaughter]

I honestly thought I knew everything about slavery. Not so.

The owner of this particular plantation had it built by slaves for 3 years. Every brick was handmade. Over 120,000 bricks on 2,000+ acres of land (this place was huge.) The clay used for the bricks came from the Mississippi River. The majority of the slaves are buried under the Levees and water. Some are buried with their Masters. Not allowed to live with them but could be dead with them.

Before you enter the house, there’s a list of slaves who lived here including their age and how much they were purchased for. 124 total. Some slaves were worth as little as $25. As young as 5 years old.

On this particular plantation, the owner was big on punishment…he used noise making neck restraints. Imagine three 4lb balls around your neck with bells inside. Children were restrained by ankle locks that connected between their ankles.

This was a sugar cane plantation, one the worst practices to involve slaves because of its danger. A lot of slaves were decapitated, amputees and killed from the fields and machinery. A lot of kids lost their lives creating sugar. Speaking of children, a child stood in the living room and operated the fan with a string while guests ate dinner. As young as 3 years old.

Here’s what shook me even further: Before the Civil War, a lot of slave owners were going in debt and could not afford their properties and were not producing enough cotton and sugar to maintain their lifestyles. Slaves were used as HUMAN CREDIT CARDS. Slaves were a guaranteed line of credit. You could get HALF of your property’s value depending on how many healthy and able slaves you owned.

My people were human credit cards and lines of credit to BANKS. We were property. We were labeled as equipment and nothing more.

There is no such thing as a good slave owner. They owned my PEOPLE and used them as checks and balances. This cycle continues with prison and brutality. I do not want to hear shit about “Why can only Black people say this or that?” I don’t want to hear shit about “we’re all human.”

And by the way, not one of those slaves are at rest. Those spirits were so alive, you could feel their presence, their pain and someday, their revenge.

[kimreesesdaughter]

The front of the house and yard. This plantation was huge. Just thinking about my ancestors tending to all this land…

SOME of the enslaved names, ages, race and purchase price.

The living room.

Interior.

The dining room. That piece hanging above the table is ORIGINAL to the house. That’s the fan that a slave as young as 3 years old had to operate manually with a string.

The view from the balcony in the main hallway. This is how they looked over the slaves while they worked in the yard.

*sigh* Names of the enslaved that occupied the shacks. Children included. Their names are written inside one of the shacks. I’m not sure if there are other names inside other shacks because I could only handle 2. After I saw the punishment equipment, I left.

Slave Shacks. These are NOT the original shacks. These were built to imitate them.

Slaves for Sale Ads.

The landscape of Slavery throughout the United States in 1860. JUST 1860. Let that sink in.

Note: The last time the home was OWNED by a Louisiana citizen was 1972. This is her original bedroom, her lipstick is STILL on the dresser. This is why the house has been updated since slavery times because it was occupied up until 1972. Regardless, this used to be where house slaves slept.

[yourlocalforeign-deactivated202]

This really fuckin happened, don’t let white people tell you that it’s in the past & to let it go.

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi x Flower Crowns

[vampirepyramidscheme]

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Sidney and Harry wanted to decorate for Pride this month. A little later than planned - but better late than never. 😌

(Yes, I know pride flags will not be invented until 1979 and is therefore anachronistic but shhhh lemme have this.)

Also a perfect time to catch up on Chapter 1 of The Arrangement if you like 1920s vampire comics with a Black bisexual/demisexual and genderfluid/transfemme MC.

Read it here.