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Tolkien OC Week: Freeform (Aug 31st)

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Ok for the Freeform I had to draw that random princess Bilbo marries from this insane version of The Hobbit:

Its a hoot and a half

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I was encouraged by @avoyagetoarcturus to draw this so:

Tauriel from the Hobbit trilogy meeting Princess Mika from the 1966 animated adaptation of the Hobbit! “Redheaded heroines who weren’t in the books” solidarity!

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Tolkien OC Week: Freeform (Aug 31st)

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Ok for the Freeform I had to draw that random princess Bilbo marries from this insane version of The Hobbit:

Its a hoot and a half

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A quick note on my Dracula art zine, all my prints, and the state of shipping

Mid-August, I had to turn off shipping to the US for my shop, and by now, South Korea has stopped all package shipments to the US in general, due to the imposed tariffs.

As a good 80% of my orders come from the US, that's quite the devastating change. While there's a vague hope of things, someday, returning to normal, I'm also doing my best to offer digital options for everyone internationally!

There's the digital version of 'Windows into Dracula' (with bonus behind-the-zine content)

I've also created digital versions of my newest little artzine, a collection of travel sketches from Switzerland.

On top of that, there's the simple postcard & letter tier over on my Patreon, which (fingers crossed!) is still available for everyone.

Thank you so much for your support, and of course, I'll continue painting my little vampires no matter what!

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Tolkien OC Week: Freeform (Aug 31st)

@tolkienocweek

Ok for the Freeform I had to draw that random princess Bilbo marries from this insane version of The Hobbit:

Its a hoot and a half

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A reminder

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Once there was a fantastic concept, to bring together multiple works of Victorian literature into an epic crossover adventure, and it completely fumbled the ball in terms of characterization or really paying any attention to the source material.

And that happened twice.

Once with "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and again with a trilogy of YA books called "The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club"

One first has already been corrected above and beyond by the excellent @lxgentlefolkcomic

The second, well I got three other comics I need to finish plus a book to write, but here is my humble offering of a springboard. A concept bible if you will

The year is 1892. Noted doctor Robert Matheson has suddenly died, and a young woman training to become the rare Victorian female doctor is given the chance to take up one of his more peculiar cases...

Emlyn Sherringford Verner, training to become a doctor at the London School of Medicine for Women, breadwinner for herself and her sister-in-law Clara Verner ever since the death of her husband Fredrick last year, and yes, cousin of Sherlock Holmes.

Not that the relationship helps her much now, as he fell off a waterfall in Switzerland last year.

Last year was a very bad one for Emlyn Verner.

But now she has a chance to prove herself. One of Dr. Matheson's erstwhile patients is a young girl plauged by odd fits of mania, and Emlyn is determined to do what she can to help the child.

That she finds herself having to protect young Lyssa from mysterious kidnappers who may be part of a ancient cult is just an addendum.

I changed her up from having any personal connection to Dr Jekyll like her Athena counterpart did, as having her be Jekyll's daughter 1. Is completely against his character, and 2. Really brought nothing to the story. And by gum if her greater connection is to Holmes its gonna be familial and not at all romantic :p And since Holmes canonically has a relative named Verner who buys out Dr Watson's practice with Holmes's help, that fit perfectly. And yeah I gave her a unique E name to play into the amusing coincidence of the two best known female relatives given to Holmes having unique E names (Enola and Eurus)

The last year has been equally hard on young Clara Verner. Already an orphan, when her beloved brother died she was forced to leave school and move to England with her new sister-in-law.

Still in mourning and struggling to find her place, Clara takes solace in studying what she can about the mechanical advancements being made in this modern age.

A past time that leads her into making a like-minded friend, a Fraulein Coppel, who has also just moved to England from the German Empire.

A new friendship may be just what she needs to distract her from her grief--and the odd looming presence she keeps feeling is watching her from the shadows.

Surely all the bad luck that has plauged her line back to the Frankenstein family must run out at some point...

So, for a while, I thought I would actually keep the" Justine reanimated as the Bride, but she survives" concept from The Athena Club. But the more I thought about it, the more I felt just kinda icky about it. Like, the poor woman has been through enough due to Victor, and she gets to be left in peace. And since Ernest was left alive, it's totally plausible he'd have descendedants who could become rolled up into the family's dark past later on down the line. If I do keep the Creature alive in this he's also not going to he obsessed with making her his Bride, like in the Athena books. He'had 100+ years to feel remorse/ get some growth. So if anything he'll actually be trying to protect the last of the Frankensteins from the true threats out there.

Lyssa is for the most part like any eight and a half year old girl. She likes to read and roughhouse and sometimes play with dolls and sometimes climb trees.

And yes she may be an orphan but she's at least been lucky enough to end up in a kind orphange. Things would be fine overall--if it weren't for her fits, where she feels like something Bigger and Older then she is keeps trying to break out of her.

And if it weren't for the strange, Wrong feeling people who keep trying to take Lyssa with them. She's managed to avoid being adopted by them so far, but now they seemed determined to take her by any means necessary.

Lyssa thinks they might have done something bad to Dr. Matheson, and she hopes that Dr. Verner won't meet the same fate trying to help her...

It makes sense that Hyde could possibly produce an illegitimate daughter, but I didn't like that the Athena counterpart was like, 100% sassy rude gremlin child all the time, and that's what made her Hyde's kid? Like, that's not really how the potion works? So my thought here with Lyssa is that, yeah she's kinda sassy but that just because of her, and she can also be sweet and kind and rude and selfish just like all little kids are. But, whatever Jekyll did to make that potion, how it affects his offspring is that every once and a while she has these intense, literally Manic fits, where its almost a cthonic Pythoness experience, and she's Seeing into something vaster. Really bring some Alchemy themes into Jekyll's Alchemical like work. He ripped himself apart, and its rippling down into trying to make his daughter a Doorway. Also, at the end of this all I want her to get taken in by Utterson as his god-daughter/ward)

Olimpia Coppel has an old soul. And she isn't meant to have one at all.

About 100 years ago, her Papa Spalanzani made her out of gears and wires and Other Things, with the help of the occult doctor Coppelius--who then soon after kidnapped her.

Of course, Olimpia wasn't much more then a doll then, barely able to speak and only able to move as her clockwork directed. But Coppelius worked on her over the years, until she could move and speak as well as any flesh and blood person--and she could think and feel as well.

But she doesn't let Coppelius and his associates know that. She doesn't know what he'd do to her if he ever found out.

So she plays the parts The Society of the Seekers of Enlightenment asks her to, biding her time, looking for a chance to break free. Her current assignment is to act as Handler-er, Companion, to the Society's newest asset.

But surely there can be some moments spared for a new friend, the first she's ever had...

So in the Athena books, Olimpia'a counterpart was Beatrice Rappaccini from "Rappacinni's Daughter"-- a work that takes place two centuries before Frankenstein does. And the mad science done on her doesn't make her immortal (as evidenced by her dying in the story), just immune to posions/poisonous to the touch. All I could think of the whole time reading her parts was "How are you here??" But you know who could last a hundred years and is also a girl linked to a very likely immortal mad scientist? Our oft forgotten and misnamed robot girl Olimpia, that's who. So that's why I replaced her xD

Three years ago, before she knew what years were, she was captured and taken to the Place of Pain. She was cut and broken and had Things done to her head, things the Cruel Man said that he had done no other Being before her.

The Things Done to her Head helped her to escape, and she killed the Cruel Man. She almost died as well. The Beings around her thought she had. But the Things Done to her Head helped her fool them.

She lived far away from the other Beings and the Other Man on the Island. She watched as the Beings returned to what they were Before. She watched as the Other Man left the Island.

She stayed. And the Things Done to her Head did not go away, but continued to Grow.

One year ago, The New Man came to the Island, looking to Hunt the beasts the Other Man had spoken of. He found her instead. He brought her back to the New Island with him, and the Woman with the Soft Hands changed her shape once more. Not back to what it had been, but she soothed the Pain, and she taught her how to form the Things Done to her Head into Speaking, and the Wearing of Clothes and Wigs.

The Woman with Soft Hands gave her a name "Blanche. Like the little cat in the fairytale that became a princess."

She is not sure what they want of her. She is Hunting for them, she knows that. There is no Whip here. No Room of Pain. But still, the more the Things Done to her Head grow, the more she isn't sure that she hasn't traded one Island cage for another...

So, in the Athena books, Blanche's counterpart is a black panther, which is not what a puma is. Also she is POC coded in the Athena books which I get is to try and get more then just white girls and that's good, but I felt weird having the one POC coded character in the story also be an animal? So I just reverted to what color a shaved puma would be. This led to a very 😳😬😳 moment when, having got nothing but the shoes using "Puma," I attempted to Google "shaved cougar"...do not do that. Anyway, I will attempt to get more diversity in here in any further updates. But yeah Madame Sara is a more obscure character who also appeared in The Strand Magazine. She is a "professional beautifier" who may or may not be using arcane arts and is definitely probably poisoning people.

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happy belated halloween, here's a drawing of my son <3

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卓越したボディコントロール　Σ(ﾟДﾟ) ｽｯｹﾞ! Body control of a horse archer

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Did a little comic for Wretched Family, for the tense vibes of the early days after Lilie’s reanimation but before the fiasco with trying to take her back to her father

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It be Frankenstein Day, so thought I'd givetbis a reblog :]

So the uh, redesigned Frankie Stein thing ended up sparking a conversation on Discord and so...

Meet Lilie. The last thing she remembers is falling into a river, only to wake in a strange labratory in Geneva with a giant claiming to be her new father, and a gaunt gentleman trying to keep the giant happy while also keeping the giant from disappearing with Lilie off into the mountains...

Lilie just wants to go home, but that might not possible anymore, after all, she's not the girl she was before...

(Basically an Au where The Creature fails to save the girl in the river, brings home the body and asks Victor to make him a daughter instead of a bride. The Creature is selfish, Victor experiences parental guilt all over again and Lilie is having an existential crisis--Thanks to everyone on the LXGF Discord who helped make this AU and especially @see-arcane for giving this monsterous creation its name "The Wretched Family")

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It occurs to me that I haven't refreshed this thing since its Substack roots, so here! Have a link to my shelved-for-the-moment WIP, now moved to (free) Patreon, Was Frankenstein Not the Monster?

An ominous eldritch alchemic little treat to do with Creatures, creation, and reanimation.

Have some doodles about it below the cut:

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Random silly thought. But like so, John Constantine in the comics is canonically a twin right? And his brother died in the womb, but in an alternate universe it was John Constantine who died and his bro survived, and was also named John Constantine.

Well, what if in Sandman show verse with Joanna they both survived--but were Fraternal Twins:

(I know they're decades apart and pronounce the name differently and one has an American accent but shhhhh, come on it would be so funny xD

And they both have brown hair!

We can say Time Travel shenanigans or something for the time difference, or just willfully ignore it! xD

Oh heck even a Parent Trap thing for why one is British and one American.

This is all very cracky xDDD)

@windsweptinred I feel like you would enjoy this silliness in particular

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It's a dreary night in November when these two Creatures meet and run away. The giant discovered him fresh with twitching life all alone on a laboratory table. He knows so little when he wakes, yet he is certain things have been lost. Precious treasures of memory and barbed nightmares all fallen into the same pit where the man who died to make him was sent into the dark.

But the giant is there. His friend. The giant scoops him up and tells him they must run. They must flee before the scientists come to hurt him for the successful sin of being alive, before sunrise can reveal them to the human world's judging eyes. Come, friend.

So they go. So they are companions. So the giant is glad to have him as such...

...Though the newborn Creature wonders now, as he will wonder many times to come, why the giant will never look him in the eye when he asks who bestowed this strange life on him.

(In which Victor Frankenstein can know no rest, the Creature feels two ways about getting the companion he always wanted, and I try my hand at vaguely pulling off the Bride profile shot (as seen below the cut).)