Ghost Of Oakhurst Au

Part 3 - Beacon

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Wake up, little dreamer…

Champion of Morpheus? More like lady of my dreams am I right, chat? Haha. Anyways, this is probably the longest I’ve spent on and most extensive piece I’ve ever worked on to date and I’m very proud of it! Almost lost my damn mind making this lmao

behold! the champion of pan! 🍳

i love the new cleo design so much its insane everyone say THANK YOU HOFFEN!!!!

i wanted to talk about this on stream first since doing just another post felt really impersonal. you can find more details in the stream VOD, but the music royalties have caught up and started to take a dip now as a result of what happened back in June. we also are coming up on exhausting all of the donations that were made. while we are actively working on more sustainable methods of income (like our Patreon and our own music), the past month has been a bit of a dry period.

to level for a second, what happened has affected my mental health a lot more than i expected, which is saying something as i expected it to be a lot. it's been hard to get on stream a lot of days if i'm not doing it with friends. i haven't been able to pick up my guitar more than two or three times in the past 2 months, and my motivation to make music is a mess because of how much i miss the process i had for the past two years. i severely sidelined my own work because i loved what we were doing with those albums so much. now, i feel like i'm trying to figure out how to do everything alone again.

it's why i knew August was gonna be especially rough, because i knew it was the month i had nothing happening. it's almost funny looking at it stand between July and September where i have almost too much going on. and that's the silver lining, is that i know September is gonna reinvigorate me, and hopefully the attention towards our own music in the past two months will catch us up financially by then too. for now though - and i really fucking hate saying this again - we could use a little bit of help getting there.

like i said, i already talked about this on stream, and in just that stream we already made it to nearly 70% of the donation goal to get rent paid. i have other work lined up for necessities and utilities, so i will be fine there. i really would not be asking again if i didn't need to. i don't care to live beyond my means, i just want to survive and get back into the groove of making cool stuff. so if you like the stuff we make and want to see us keep making it, please consider helping us out. it would genuinely mean the world.

MAN do I love Cleo’s character. I’m so invested in this Satyr you have no idea

So you know that fanon [1] thing where vampires can only sleep or rest if they're getting treated like the dead, be it in a coffin or tomb, or simply under a burial shroud?

Consider: Because intentional turning is something positive for vampires, and one that functions more as a rebirth and a welcoming into an inner circle or a community, it's common to make richly decorated coffins or richly embroidered burial shrouds for the new vampire to use in their turning sleep and thereafter when they need to rest.

It's celebratory, and a symbol of belonging and investment in the new fledgling. Something like a bridal gift, something like a baby blanket.

Louis embroiders Owen's with little vignettes of important points in their relationship: their meeting over the mill, the first time Owen came back (ostensibly to discuss it further), the first time Owen came back without the mill as an excuse. Meetings in the woods, particular trees under moonlight.

And finally, the day Louis asked Owen if he wanted to turn.

new louis design cuz i am #thinking about him

you'd think she'd get it after the first one

their whole interaction had me giggling i love them so much

The vampires cast is in my fucking brain and won't get out so welcome to me figuring out how to draw them part one featuring Scott Goldsmith my favorite evil bastard man