#gay vampires

Vampire prints and stickers that match the pin collection i made ❤️‍♂️

Vampire art from 2021

A harvest of dubious crops (implied nsfw)

Redraw 2014 - 2021

I think the wildest part is that i put about the same amount of effort into the newer one. They were both fairly quick. It’s nice to think that i have improved in that way!

Misc collection of (sfw) art featuring the ocs I share with my partner

Jules (a sensitive vampire) and August (emo kid turned beefcake) they’re in LOVE.

Guy who works the graveyard shift at the 24 hour gym

More of this guy ❤️

i had a thought, dear, however scary, about that night, the bugs and the dirt

why were you digging? what did you bury, before your hands pulled me from the earth?

so-its-a-writblr:

New York Times obituary.

I was never a fan of Rice’s work, not because of her but because I’m not into vampires or horror.  I was indifferent to her and her books.

Until the whole fanfiction bullshit.

ViaA Deep Dive Into the Anne Rice Fanfiction Debacle:

Anne Rice posted a damning message to her site on April 7th, 2001. (The linked page was the only one I could find the quote on directly on Anne’s page- the original page containing this message has been removed.)

I do not allow fan fiction.

The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters.

It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

Immediately following this, several lawyers were sent out to purge the internet of any fanfiction of her works. Most notably, an email was sent to Fanfiction.net on May 18th, 2001.

The excerpt of the following email from Rice’s lawyers was edited for clarity but the wording remains unchanged:

It has come to our attention that your website fanfiction.net makes available over the Internet numerous stories and other literary material which contain the above-listed characters and other material from the Property. Even when done on a nonprofit and/or amateur basis, such use of such characters and material without Ms. Rice’s permission constitutes copyright infringement. While Ms. Rice greatly appreciates the interest of her fans in her characters and material, it is her and our responsibility to make sure that her rights are not infringed.

Accordingly, we must insist that fanfiction.net immediately refrain from making available over the Internet or otherwise any work based on any element of the Property, including, without limitation, the above-listed characters. It is essential that you confirm immediately by e-mail that fanfiction.net has complied with the foregoing. If we do not receive the foregoing reassurance from you by the close of business on Monday, May 21, 2001, we will have no choice but to advise fanfiction.net’s Internet server of this matter, and to ask such server to take appropriate action. The foregoing is stated without prejudice to the rights and remedies of Ms. Rice and her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., all of which are hereby expressly reserved.

The TDLR is “Remove Anne Rice fanfiction from your site before we proceed with legal action.” Fanfiction.net was still a relatively young site at the time, no doubt lacking the legal power to even attempt to fight against any potential lawsuits in court, so they had no choice to comply

Two days after receiving the email, a single sentence was posted on Fanfiction.net’s news post simply reading: “Anne Rice: Vampire Chronicles, the category, has been removed at Anne Rice’s request.”

What followed after was an immediate shitstorm in the fandom. People were panicking. While I cannot find any solid proof of this, it’s been rumored in fandom circles for years that Anne Rice would (allegedly) send lawyers out against singular fanfiction writers, send fanfiction writers threatening emails and letters relentlessly, and even go as far as to dox some fans.

This post, Do NOT trust Anne Rice, elaborates on the shitstorm that followed.

Years later Rice claimed to have calmed down concerning fanfics of her characters, but she never, ever, told her fans to back off.  While I can empathize with not being happy if people write fanfics which have one’s characters doing things they absolutely would never do, as a consumer and creator of fanfic I know it’s no threat to the original works.  If nothing else, it introduces the works to readers who wouldn’t read them otherwise.

Rice had “issues.”  She threw aside her vampire books, called them “evil,” and wrote Christian-themed novels in an attempt to ride the tide of the popularity of Christian books after 9-11.  When those books were miserable failures, she went back to writing vampires, and was bitter that a lot of her fans didn’t return because they felt they’d been betrayed and insulted.

She wasn’t happy just being a best-selling author of popular genre fiction, something that happens to only 1% of published writers.  She declared she wrote “literature.”

I’m not happy to hear she died.  But I want this side of her to be remembered along with the popular success of her vampire novels.

Wow, it’s been forever since I’ve posted something here. Sorry everyone! Life’s been crazy :/ But I just drew something, and I decided to share it here.

I also edited it a bit on the photos app on my phone, and it now looks like digital art! Wow haha