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Two stunning winners ✨️

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Stars in full bloom.

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Vampires come in a lot of forms. Some can pass entirely as human, others have completely inhuman features. Some are born vampires, some choose to become them, some are turned by other vampires. Some are weak to sunlight, or fresh water, or silver, others aren't. There isn't one thing that makes someone a vampire, it's a fluid category and a community, but everyone knows what they are and what makes someone a vampire.

You grew up being told you weren't one of them. Vampires were talked about as something other, something different, something dangerous. There were vampires who would attack you on the street and steal your blood, that you were taught to fear and avoid. And there were vampires who "understood they had a serious condition" who you were meant to feel sorry for, and whose families whispered about them in hushed tones, vampires who knew to obey human authorities to keep people safe. Never was it suggested that you could possibly be a vampire.

You weren't a vampire but you were born with yellow eyes and pale skin. But your skin was only pale compared to your family, and they were happy there was someone in their family with lighter skin, so they were happy, and next to your classmates you'd look the opposite of unusually pale. If you were a vampire your family wouldn't have liked that you had lighter skin then them and eyes that weren't brown.

You weren't a vampire but you drink blood. When you were about seven you got terribly sick, and you didn't get better until one day, by instinct,, you drained a local pigeon of its blood after hunting it down like a cat. You kept doing it, hunting small animals, and then when you were older; drinking little sips of blood from willing freinds. You could never get caught. If you were a vampire your family and teachers would have given you blood, but you weren't a vampire, you were a weird kid who drank blood for no reason, if they caught you they'd tell you to stop. But it's better for people to think you're a human who occasionally drinks blood for no reason, then for then to think you're a vampire and have all the adults around you treat you like you're dangerous, and mabye even put you in a "specialized school".

You weren't a vampire but you're really good at magic. Better then everyone around you. When vampires are good at magic its scary and the people around them tend to try to prevent them from being able to do it so that they don't use it to hurt someone. But when a human is good at magic it makes them cool and makes it so everyone wants to be their freind. Even when it's the type of magic vampires tend to be good at.

You weren't a vampire but at age twelve you started getting more vampire like features. You didn't develop secondary sex traits and your primary sex traits just sort of fell off. You grew wings on your back, and your pupils turned to slits, and every one of your teeth became incredibly sharp, like they were perfect for draining blood. Nobody ever told you it meant you were a vampire though, they thought it was some sort of unknowable mutation, mabye from the fae or demonic forces. And since you were just a human with some weird traits everyone was fine when kids made fun of you for them, and everyone was fine when you're school didn't accommodate your new wings, because they only have to accommodate non-human students, and they only have to ban people from making fun of non humans, and you're just a weird human. And when your mother tells you not to smile because it'll show you're sharp teeth it's all ok.

You weren't a vampire but you acted differently then all of the humans at school. Your freinds in highschool were all weirdos who either weren't calling themselves human at the time, or who would tell you later in life that they were never human. And you hung out so you could be weird together, and you all read the same scifi books, and all knew too much about niche subjects. And all the normal human kids wouldn't hang out with you because you just didn't act normally. And the adults around you would scold you, because you didn't act, or talk, or think like a human, and you were supposed to be one.

You weren't a vampire but you were sensitive to sunlight. It's not like you would die in it, just it would hurt you, and since you were human you were expected to still be out during the day because it's weird to not like sunlight. And even though water hurt when you drank it you drank it anyway because it would be weird as a human not to drink water. And when you pass by a lot of small objects you feel the need to count them, but it's not like you need to like you hear that vampires do, you just get uncomfortable when you don't, but it would be weird to so most of the time you don't.

You're not a vampire because that's something horrible that happens to other people, you're a nice polite human.

You eventually go to college in a much larger city, with a lot more nonhumans. And you end up meeting freinds, some of whom are just openly vampires, and they aren't monsters or tragedies, they're happy. And you wish so much that you could be a vampire like then, because then you'd have an excuse for everything, then everything wrong with you would make sense.

And then some ghoul in your freind group who you talked to about a scifi novel your lonely teenage self obsessed over, calls you, "that cute vampire" to a mutual freind casually. And you realize he just thinks of you as a vampire, and you don't bother explaining to him that you're not, and for a momment it feels good, it feels like people like you that way.

And when you tell your parents that summer you're a vampire they dismiss it. Never their perfect lovely child. They tell you there were never signs, and that everyone wants to be a vampire nowadays. You realize that you're not going to be home another summer.

And this cute werewolf girl from your school asks you out, and when she goes home and cuddles you and pets your head, and lets you kiss all six of her nipples, she tells you you're such a cute little vampire, and that you're her little vampire, and suddenly everything feels so very ok. And you feel like there's nothing wrong with you. And you love being a vampire.

And you were always a vampire. And at the same time you wish you had always been a vampire.

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to me the appeal of pathetic vampires is similar to the appeal of stupid cats. you have the teeth and claws to rip through flesh to your heart's content, but here you are. paw stuck to a quilt. staring woefully with eyes the size of saucers to get someone to help. same goes for a vampire failing miserably to use a touchscreen because his fingers are too cold.

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on friends and soulmates and that type of love that feels like it's going to burst right out of your heart

@/zmije / @/leptodiera / @/bichopalo / lyrics from two best friends by bb bean / animatedjames on youtube / @/killingmyselfbutnotdying / unknown / @/sadiekane / friedrich neitzsche / katfish draws / @/elytrians / @/wormbus-art aka @/angel-pond / @/mushysuggestion / the unsent project / mhairi mcfarlane / unknown

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also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

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sketches from a session where Lock had some soft moments with one of his crushes, and later tried to mind control his other crush out of a drunken rage. one of those went well.

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main party in our Breath of the Wild inspired campaign. i play the morally bankrupt tiefling on the left. he got away with secretly being a warlock for an absolutely absurd amount of time.

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my terrible warlock wizard who i would kill and die for. on the cover i made for his spotify playlist. because i can not and will not ever be normal about him. (give it a listen, by the way, come be normal with me)

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flint sucks but he's so fun to draw

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Submissions are OPEN!

The form for submitting to this is OPEN!! If you're looking for direction with you work or just general advice on getting starting in porn comics, I'll be reviewing and talking with people on the 25th!

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2024 vs roughly 2020

the goal is somewhere between these two styles i think but a glow up's a glow up.

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she's been through like 15 tries and i'm still deciding if this is anita's final design.

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got through the lineart of this and then decided i might start workshopping everyone's designs again. we'll see.

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she still thinks she's the main character

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currently reworking the format for this project, but i'm still fond of these pages, they deserve to be archived somewhere.

Ace and Topaz from my original project Unusual Circumstances. these pages were originally drafted to the be opening scene of chapter one.

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can't wait for book 2 to come out so i can break wick down into molecules