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A full-body commission I recently completed for djnrrd on Bluesky. Thank you so much for the request <3

COMMISSIONS ARE CURRENTLY OPEN! Check my pinned post for more information.

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“I asked ChatGPT” yeah, well I asked the ten-year-old version of you who wanted to be a writer, and they are SO disappointed in you.

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Still relevant 🔥 except now the Season is out! Listen to The Holmwood Foundation wherever you get your podcasts!

Yeah poor Arthur keeps getting made into either an arse or a bad guy (and the excuse is always "he was boring in the original so I am fixing him")

He's an arse to everyone in Dracula 2016

He's horrible in Hammer Dracula

He's the one who throws away the garlic in Bram Stoker's Van Helsing out of jealousy

He's a power hungry fascist in The Adventures of the Athena Club (everyone in the crew of light is evil there, minus Mina and Dracula who eloped together)

He's a villain in Anno Dracula (Jack is too) and the author admitted it was just because he hates him

He's a greedy murderous opportunist in Lucy Undying (though still not as evil as Mina)

What's boring at this point is completely changing his personality. Make him interesting with the building blocks you have than by making him an OC. He Would Not Fucking Say That.

RIGHT!? And the thing is he’s not boring in the novel? He wins Lucy’s heart, still trusts in his friends despite them being suitors to help him with his ailing fiancée. Not to mention his dad dying and taking on a title around the same time his fiancée dies and takes it mostly in his stride. (That man deserves to cry dammit.)

He’s incredibly resourceful (see dogs and the money for lock picking/travel) and he alone had to do something that no one else in the novel had to do, stake a vampire that was previously their loved one.

Jonny even said he can’t do that.

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Obligatory AI hate post bc I intend to be even more annoying about this

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Hey, I saw your poll about when people listen to podcasts, and personally, I’m waiting to crack open The Holmwood Foundation until Dracula Daily season is over.

Hello! Thanks for the anon!

This also makes sense to me as much as waiting for the full season to come out!

We’re hoping to have Season 2’s kickstarter up and running around then, so might be a good time to listen through too!

I hope you enjoy it when you do get to listen!

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*Drăculești's your Holmwood*

Some snippets from episode one, redrawn in the style of @draculestigame 's Drăculești, a Dracula-based dating sim/horror visual novel that has just been released on Kickstarter!

We have no affiliation with the creators or game, we're just so excited to see it develop! Go check out the Kickstarter below, and play the demo!

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Recommend me audio dramas were the main character is a woman

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Drăculești is NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER ❣️

Play as Renfield, survive the terror of Castle Dracula, and find love in the darkest night in romantic horror game Drăculești.

Starring Ray Chase (Date Everything, Genshin Impact, Final Fantasy XV) as Dracula. Voice/Casting Direction by Jenny Yokobori.

🍷 BACK THE CAMPAIGN

♟️ PLAY OUR DEMO (PC/MAC)

🖤 SUCCUMB TO DRACULA

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Everyone was so nice about my Tom drawing I’d found, I drew Jeremy and Maddie from @theholmwoodfoundation today :)

Maybe I’ll return to these and colour it!

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A Holmwood Foundation Animatic

Song: The Wolf by Siames, covered by CamiCat, CG5 & Family Jules

@theholmwoodfoundation I hope you enjoy! I hope I did everyone justice.

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I was talking in the @theholmwoodfoundation discord and remembered that I drew Tom years ago (the signature is 2023 but I've been talking about Tom for years before that too :D) whilst we were still developing the story, and I found this picture and I'm actually quite proud of it. If you didn't know, Tom is a trans man and one of the supporting leads in the story - one of the descendants of Abraham Van Helsing who along with his father disengaged from taking part in the Holmwood Foundation and their quest to instead make horror films.

PSA: As previously mentioned, all designs of characters that Georgia and I create are our own headcanon, and not 'official designs' because it's audio and you can think whatever you like :)

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BEING AN ASSHOLE AS A BRAND

lots of authors have been posting great pieces of advice for up and coming buckaroos and i agree with so much of it. GREAT RESOURCES right now so i thought i would add my own. usually i use words like scoundrel but for meanings sake i will just be direct: dont make being an asshole your brand

let me preface this by saying it should be taken with HUGE grain of salt, you can do whatever you want buckaroo its YOUR art and your personal expression. to be honest i often refrain from ‘advice’ because id rather simply tell what works for me, but i feel like this one is pretty universal.

i am in incredibly rare position to have come up in TWO MAJOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES and reached ‘traditionally published’ or ‘major film studio contract’ level completely separate from each other, without connections between, and this is ABSOLUTELY a massive factor in the buckaroos who trot long term

there is always a sort of incoming class of buds who rise up, and inevitably a few of them will seem to WANT to make enemies with everyone around them the second they have even the smallest voice. i UNDERSTAND in the sense that we have these legendary jerk artists in our culture. HOWEVER

1 those artists generally let their asshole flag fly AFTER they reached the top and 2 if not, it was a different time, there is simply not enough money in the creative fields for major creative entities to tolerate talented up and coming assholes. it is FINANCIALLY a different timeline now

EVEN SO you can point to a few old big timers who are notorious assholes but i would say its important to consider JUST HOW BIG WOULD THEY BE IF THEY WERE ALSO KIND. what if they were that talented AND watched out for their buds? heres what happened to the 'jerk brands' i trotted up with personally

every single one of them got intoxicated by the identity of being mean or ‘just tellin it like it is’ and then fell directly onto their face. the only ones who escaped were those who started that way on the trot up and IMMEDIATELY pulled it together and stopped and changed course

i know it might seem obvious to many reading this but you would be SHOCKED how many buds thinks it is a COOL IDENTITY to cultivate. some will probably subtweet this haha but listen bud, the directors you trash SEE IT. publishers DONT NEED TO TOLERATE TALENTED ASSHOLES ANYMORE THERES NOT ENOUGH MONEY

important reminder that i am talkin on artists who are PUBLICLY assholes, who trash talk their classmates or their fans. the ones who EMBRACE THIS IDENTITY as a sort of flag to wave because it gets them attention. theres plenty of SECRET assholes who find success, unfortunately. that is other topic

it is also important to say that FIGHTING THE POWERS THAT BE or protesting the scoundrels of the world is not being an asshole. KINDNESS CAN BE STRONG AND DIRECT AND POWERFUL. we need kind, strong buckaroos these days. it is not a weakness to love, and you should speak up for those who need it

so what can be done? what happens if you are reading this post and thinking ‘oh heck i can feel myself falling into asshole trap?’ well as a first reminder you can do anything you want bud, HAVE AT IT because i am not telling you this for MY sake, but if you want some actual advice id say this:

just being kind is MUCH easier than it seems, it only takes a little effort to reach out to your buds, to help, to encourage, to assistant, to talk about how much you liked someones film or song or book. jealousy or frustration are NATURAL feelings, but you dont have to let them run the show.

you MAY have to mourn the times an author couldve reached out for a book event that never happened because you turned them into an enemy. or a record executive read the stuff you said in some interview and pulled the soundtrack slot that was waiting for you on their desk. but IT IS NEVER TOO LATE

YOU can turn those feelings into fuel instead of venom, and GUESS WHAT it will genuinely be great for your art. LOVE is such an incredible driver, even when its manifested from anger or darkness. it takes some work, but i believe its worth it for your heart AND your prospects as an artist. LETS TROT

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My gorgeous new Doctor Who book is out today. Target novelisation = achievement unlocked. Thank you, Uncle Terrance.

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whenever i rewatch or see mentions of the mummy i also imagine a beautiful world in which jonathan and mina harker are allowed to be devoted and loving on film and being central

society if major film adaptations portrayed Jonathan and Mina as deeply in love and ready to go through hell for each other as they are in the book

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We've officially hit over 1000 followers! Thank you all so much for your continued support!

As promised, here are some of the initial sketches for my (Georgia's) Holmwood Foundation playing card designs, hopefully one of our Kickstarter rewards for Season Two!

Featuring the Diamond suite, with Jeremy, Maddie and Tom.

Who else in the deck would you like to see?