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Stuck on the idea of vampires as a kind of reverse fae, or like someone's twisted, perverse attempt at moulding humans into fae.

They're repelled by liminal spaces.

A vampire could never enter fairyland, not just because they'd never be welcomed, but because most of the usual entry-ways are naturally barred to them.

They can't cross running water. They can't be seen in mirrors. They will wait forever at a crossroads, unable to pick a direction to go in. They can't even step over a thresh-hold unless there is absolutely no ambiguity about whether they are welcome inside.

They crave human blood, iron and salt, but are repelled by herbs and plants. They are supernaturally prevented from harming you unless the rules of hospitality have been invoked.

A fairy may replace your newborn child with something unnatural and ever-hungry. A vampire will do the same, but with your grandmother's corpse.

The fae are typically associated, even in stories where they're the bad guys, with flourishing and purity. Vampires, even in stories where they're the good guys, are typically associated with decay and corruption.

The fae turn ancient human burial mounds into fancy halls for their courts. Vampires take ancient human castles and let them grow mildewed and cobwebbed, exchanging the beds for coffins, turning them into burial places.

Fae don't tend to live among humans, but can generally pass for them with relative ease if they so choose. Vampires nearly always live among humans, but tend to find not revealing themselves a huge struggle.

I can't think of many stories I've read where fae and vampires even exist in the same universe, let alone ones where they actively interact. I feel like their enmity is almost more inevitable than that between vampires and werewolves, however.

The rivalry between vampires and werewolves is, essentially, the rivalry between two apex predator species who share a territory. (Even in stories where the werewolves aren't actually hunting humans.)

The vampires hate the werewolves because the werewolves interfere with their access to prey. The werewolves hate the vampires either because they consider themselves aligned with humans (the prey species), or because they are also predators and the vampires are competing with them.

By comparison, I think there's some story potential in the fae finding something genuinely creepy and uncanny valley about vampires.

They're immortal, like them, but also dead. They can be beautiful, like them, but that beauty is something they actively require humans to sustain. They like to inhabit beautiful and ancient ex-human dwellings, like them, but they actively work to make those places dark, damp and empty.

Fairies who are unflappable in the face of all sorts of Otherworldly monsters, can look an eldritch horror in the eye(s) without blinking, and have never been phased yet by any human, but will recoil from even the weakest vampire.

Vampires who hate fairies just as much, but in a more envious way. The way that the creature for whom immortality is a curse is bound to hate the creatures for whom immortality is an eternity of sunlight and laughter.

Maybe their touches burn each other. Maybe vampires can't stand physical contact with anything so alive and vital. Maybe immortal fairies become ill from too much exposure to the undead.

Maybe they fight over the human population when their territories overlap. The fairy need for servants and people to make deals with, competing with the vampire need for thralls and blood to drink.

Just… fairies and vampires. We need more stories about them interacting.

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NEW PROJECT ALERT! For the past year I've been working on this in the background and I'm so happy to finally share it with you all! The Travelogue is a new place to learn about comics near and far. Come along with us as we explore the vast expanse of stories the community has to offer!

The big highlight of the Travelogue is the tag system we built to help you find new comics! We've been able to work with a number of groups to help give a broad variety of stories to explore!

For more curated selection we already started making Collections. If you liked the early days of the Webcomic Library when masterposts were more common this will be an excellent tool for you!

Thanks to a number of lovely volunteers we have reviews and articles waiting for you that will help you learn more about the stories we host and more about what resources the webcomic community has to offer!

How do I support this project?

The biggest thing right now is letting folks know about it! Reblog this post, share it with your friends, use the site to find new comics! We do have ads enabled so just by looking around you're financially supporting this project. If you want to chuck a bit of money directly our way to help keep the site up and running and support the team running it, you can donate via Ko-Fi. We have a submission section for creators who want to contribute to the collection we have so far. You can also submit reviews by reaching out to us at team@webcomictravelogue.com.

A big thank you to all the folks to have come together to help make this possible, including Krispy ( @feathernotes) and Luckbat! This really is a group effort that really shows what can be accomplished when folks work together. I'm delighted to have an new opportunity to collaborate with others and tell yall about new stories!

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A little piece inspired by this post by @magical-girl-coral!! 🥰🥰

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R.L. Stine: Goosebumps I-XXI (1992-1994)

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A creepypasta project I'm working on :]

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Just a heads up --

I'll most likely make a pinned post for my secondary blogs.

I wanna start making Bleach fanart without clogging up my comic work. Once I get that figured out, I'll post it!

Keep your eyes peeled!

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So the 1990’s version of Jeff/Gutter Boy is a vengeful ghost, right? I’m curious as to what happened to him. Was he murdered?

Thank you for the ask!

The 1990s version explores what could've happened if Randy and his gang actually killed Jeff.

During the early 1970s, Jeff was killed by the gang of hooliums and came back wrong. He was haunting the shit outta Randy, Keith, and Troye, but he couldn't physically hurt them. So he possessed his brother Liu to get the job done.

Liu took on Jeff's scars, even wore a similar jacket, and left a bloodied rampage against the three men. It ended with Keith, Troye, and Liu dead and Randy in prison for Jeff's murder.

But Jeff wasn't finished. Randy was still the last killer alive, and for 20 years, he roamed the community, looking for someone to possess and continue his revenge.

He found Nina the very week Randy was released on probation.

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Watched Candyman recently and had to make fanart. Realized I gave Daniel a turtleneck rather than his necktie, but eh – still looks fire. I hope to make more for this beautiful man QoQ

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“ I am the writing on the wall, the whisper in the classroom. Without these things, I am nothing. So now, I must shed innocent blood. ”

Tony Todd (12.4.54–11.6.24) as Daniel Robitaille “Candyman”

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What if Lyra played a bigger role in Toby's spiral into a killer? What if his visions had been real and she came back WRONG? What if something came after them both in the woods and changed the trajectory of their lives?

"Then wouldn't that be a completely different story?"

Shhh -- listen. Gaze upon my vision.

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Got more creepypasta content for you!

These are all of my versions of "Ticci" Toby from different comic concepts. The first two are strictly slashers with no ties to Slenderman. In these stories, I explore his relationship with his family.

The last one is the proxy version and mostly follows the OG story. Still deviates from it as I explore what happens if Slenderman was capable of dying.

Might end up posting a lot of stuff for Toby this weekend, so be on the lookout!!

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I've returned with more creepypasta concepts!!

Did a lot of drawing these past few weeks, and I really stretched the envelope for these stories.

Came up with 4 different versions of Jeff the Killer for the 70s, 80s, and the 90s!

Nina's also there in the mix!

Hope you enjoy!!

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What if Lyra played a bigger role in Toby's spiral into a killer? What if his visions had been real and she came back WRONG? What if something came after them both in the woods and changed the trajectory of their lives?

"Then wouldn't that be a completely different story?"

Shhh -- listen. Gaze upon my vision.

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For black history month, I think we should begin popularizing monsters from the African continent the same way European monsters are overpopularized. To that end, here's a list of some of the most famous folkloric figures from Africa!

Mmoatia

Origin: Ghana (Akan)

Creature it is not: Dwarf

(Singular: Aboatia) Mmoatia are a subclass of abosom (spirits in between Man and Creator) that live in the forests of Ghana. They are short, have curved noses, backwards feet, and a unique language made up of only whistling sounds. Whistling in the forest is a sure way to get their attention. According to legend, they are phenomenal herbalists that will sometimes share their knowledge with humans. When a person gets lost in the woods, they are said to have been taken by Mmoatia. Humans who come back after being taken will become incredible medicine men. In Ghana, Dust Devils are called "Mmoatia Mframa" (Wind of Mmoatia) because they are belived to be a portal to their world similar to how fairyrings are treated in Ireland.

Mmoatia are divided into three tribes: Black, White, and Red. Black Mmoatia are supposedly harmless, while White and Red ones are always up to some kind of mischief.

Adze

Origin: Ghana (Ewe)

Creature it is not: Vampire

In Ewe culture, the Adze is a type of demonic spirit associated with witchcraft. They take the form of a fire fly that, during the night, crawls inside human beings in order to posses them. People possesd by the Adze are said to be witches, who use the spirit to slowly drain the life force of people that they envy (Old witches target the young, Poor witches target the wealthy, enslaved witches target their masters as they should).

When targeting a person, the Adze will leave it's host human during the night and crawl into the house of the victim. When it's close, it will drain blood from the victim like a mosquito.

Werehyena

Origin: Pan-African

Creature it is not: Werewolf

Just like how there are Werewolf stories all over Europe, there are Werehyena stories all over Africa. Compared to werewolves, which are said to be men cursed to be monsters, Werehyenas are actually monsters that disguise themselves as humans only to eat it's friends during the night. The people most likely to be werehyenas are village outsiders and blacksmiths, who are associated with magic.

In Angola, there is a similar (but not the same) creature to the werehyena called the Kishi. It is literally a two-faced demon that has a handsome man's body and face in the front, and a hyena's face in the back. This creature lures unsuspecting women into relationships so that it may eat them. If the Kishi has any male children with it's prey, it teaches them the art of femicide.

Mami Wata

Origin: Pan-African

Creature it is not: Mermaid (ok, it kinda is a mermaid but I need to keep the joke running)

Even more wide-spread than the Werehyena, Mami Wata is a figure so popular that it is common for water spirits in Africa to be retroactively labeld as Mami Wata and take on her iconography.

The most famous picture of Mami Wata is actually a french painting of a black Caribbean snake charmer, who west africans later identified as Her. Mami Wata is worshipped as a powerful, female river spirit that controls the flow of the river, the rate at which fish can be caught, the money that men can make, and several other things important to humanity. She is also said to be a seductress, who sleeps with unsuspecting men only to later kill them for cheating on their wives. Indeed, Mami Wata is a defender of women and a slayer of sinful and abusive men.

In many places, it is common to believe that women who drown or go missing in bodies of water were taken by Mami Wata to be taught magic. The women who return become pristessess to her, while the women who never come back become new Mami Watas.

Impundulu

Origin: South Africa (Zulu)

Creature it is not: Thunderbird (no hate, Thunderbird gets constantly thrown into things where it shouldn't be by people who don't understand it. And those people tend to be not native)

Impundulu, or Lightning Bird (NOT THUNDER BIRD), is a person sized Hamerkop bird that has the power to control the weather and summon lightning. It is also creature of evil magic, allied with witches and it has a never ending hunger for blood. It is said to sometimes take the form of a handsom young men in order to seduce women (why dose that keep happening).

Impundulu are immortal, and the ones that serve as witch familiars are passed down in the family as the old master dies and the child becomes grown. The bird is immune to gunshots, stabbing, drowning, and poison. It's only weakness is fire.

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I've returned with more creepypasta concepts!!

Did a lot of drawing these past few weeks, and I really stretched the envelope for these stories.

Came up with 4 different versions of Jeff the Killer for the 70s, 80s, and the 90s!

Nina's also there in the mix!

Hope you enjoy!!

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This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune