#vampaneze

[aubreve-art]

Been a while since I fed my original fandom, how are you guys? :D

Quotes are from “The Little Book of Complete B*llocks” by Alistair Beaton. RV could use some self-help.

#the saga of darren shan #cirque du freak #darren shan saga #my art #fanart #vampaneze #cdf #shandom #darren shan #allies of the night #cdf book 8 #cdf shitposting #cartoon #doodle

[bootscootboogyin]

made more content of my favorite babysitter, mr. harst, with oc makers 💕

#cirque du freak #gannen harst #vampaneze #steve leonard

[natspade]

Made with Werty’s Chime Picrew

Natalie

“I don’t have any reason to prescribe to the attempts at moralizing how we eat. What have humans ever done for me?”

Name: Natalie

Species: Vampire/early Vampaneze

Race: Eastern European

Gender: Cis Woman

Sexuality: Pansexual

Story: Natalie was a child when her mother died during a plague in their village. Before she could succumb to sickness, a man claiming to be her father arrived and took her with him. The man traveled with an older man who she later learned was a vampire. Her father was this vampire’s assistant. Her father was blooded after she traveled a few years with them and she too was blooded by the same vampire several years later. When the clan began to split, she sided with those who would eventually become the vampaneze.

Personality: Natalie was a timid, morbid child. As an adult she became cold and callous though. She is often sarcastic and easily annoyed.

#cdf #cirque du freak #darren shan #saga of darren shan #cdf oc #vampire #vampaneze

[lazyblogposter]

Started thinking about Cirque Du Freak again. The series has always been close to my heart but I just haven't read them since like,, 8th grade? I don't have the attention span anymore but I did have a oc for it. Back then my ocs were just like,, siblings of existing characters and looked exactly like their sibling but I've since grown out of that and I'm retiring my old oc for good. So I'm making a new one. The last oc was a Vampaneze so I wanted to make this guy one too. I feel like he would have a very sly and carefree attitude. But he's kinda a good guy? He gets along with vampires pretty well.

I need to work out more details and stuff but I've got a basic idea for how he looks. Here's a sneak peek at him so far

He kinda looks fucked up right now but I'll clean it up later. I think he looks kinda cute ngl

I have no idea what to name him. Any suggestions??

#my art #cirque du freak oc #cirque du freak #vampaneze #dont mind the gun #i made a picrew to get ideas of how to design him so i was using one of the results as a reference #i cant remember which picrew i used though #but he would be the one to give a shit eating grin while youre pointing a gun at him #*insert smug cat surrounded by knives meme*

[dominiquethevampire]

WE MUST VOTE ON AND FIND THE SUPERIOR CDF BOOK!!

Everyone go vote on the round one match-ups plz♥️

Mer (aka mikaverleth aka festivaloftheundead) organized this and I’ve been dying to know what our little fandom’s favourite book in the series is so go cast ur votes!!🗳

https://twitter.com/m1kaverleth/status/1527104271535194113?s=21&t=1YmInkLnAuaWQlL4hUSTBQ

#cirque du freak #cdf #darren shan #larten crepsley #mika ver leth #kurda smahlt #steve leonard #vancha march #vampaneze #paris skyle #slc #steve leopard #harkat mulds #the saga of larten crepsley

[vexysexy]

Hello y’all, my old account locked me out and tumblr refuses to work with me. Anyways here’s a sketch of my oc Lyra, the hopeless romantic who has a crush on Gannen

#cirque du freak #darren shan #vampaneze #my art #artists on tumblr #Spotify

[alcstart]

Vampaneze

When you gaze into the abyss again, the abyss also gazes at you!

#Vampaneze #ufc

[johndoe-lesbo]

I’m having feelings about vampire books that I read back in my childhood 🥺🥺

#these mfs were the only ones who got me #I loved them so much #I love them to this day #and I have a confession… #I had a crush on Murlough the mad vampaneze #cirque du freak #darren shan #darren o'shaughnessy #chronicles of vladimir tod #z brewer #heather brewer #vampires #childhood #nostalgia #reading #books #book memes #memes #pic #me post #🖤🖤🖤

[vextried]

Don’t you love it when you write a book inspired by Demonata and end up actually finishing a draft and then the next book your writing is based off a Cirque Du Freak Fanfic?

#darren shan #demonata #cirque du freak #the vampaneze are now werewolves

[aubreve-art]

Starting off with one of my favourite characters from the very first fandom I got into, Gannen from the Darren Shan Saga. This poor man lived rent free in my teenage mind longer than I’d like to admit - then I found @thevampatease ‘s blog and their analyses made me love the whole series even more.

Is it weird to dedicate posts on here? Anyway this is for them :)

#darren shan #gannen harst #cirque du freak #darren shan saga #vampaneze #first post #i’m new here #fanart #shandom #the saga of darren shan #my art

[bootscootboogyin]

hey guess what - it’s me again, with more ai creations of a side character from an old ass ya book - GANNEN HARST

some of these are down right scary and im sorry for that 😬 which one is your favorite?

#but some are slay #ai generated #ai art #cirque du freak #gannen harst #vampaneze #darren shan #steve leonard #steve leopard

[natspade]

Thinking of making another vampire woman oc who lives naked and free in the woods with a pack of wolves and ends up dating a human conservationist woman who happened to be observing the wolf pack… why??? Because buff vampire woman hot

#cdf #cirque du freak #darren shan #saga of darren shan #vampire #book #books #vampaneze #vampires

[goatmeatstew]

I have a new Cirque Du Freak oc and theyre kind of an asshole. I got their name from a name generator that said it means gentle deer even if they're anything but gentle lol

They like pretty people, bright clothes, and not giving a shit about what others think of them. If someone judges it for anything they'll ask the person why they should care about their opinion, even if the judgment is valid.

#my art #cirque du freak oc #vampaneze oc

[sewingkits]

master shan, due to your ingenuity in foiling kurda's plot and stopping the vampaneze, we are granting you an extra hour in the ballpit

#cirque du freak #darren shan

[flygonscales]

I’m rereading the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak) and oh my goddddddd

What do you put in your books Darren?? It is not often I read something so addictive. I saw someone describe them as being like crack. And yeah I can see that I don’t even read Animorphs books this voraciously

(Spoilers below)

And yet. Rereading the second half of the series. When you know who the vampaneze lord is and how it’s going to end. Just:

God. (Or should I say, Charna’s guts!) the planning that must have gone into the series. I can see the foreshadowing/just a prophesy that they don’t know how to follow properly because they don’t know how it ends. It’s like how a horror film protag doesn’t check why a cup fell down because they don’t know they’re in a horror film. Darren! You had Steve at your mercy! SEVERAL TIMES!!! Kill him! It’s unbearable!!! He’s lying!!!!!! This is like a fucking Greek tragedy mess of a plot!!!!!!!!

(Just try. Try reading Allies of the Night knowing full well what’s happening)

(The Greek tragedy comparison makes sense though, Darren is literally struggling against Des Tiny, even if he doesn’t know it)

And then, Mr Crepsley is dead, and Darren (post depression) and Harkat go on holiday to the nuclear dragon desert to gather panther teeth, gelatinous toad globes and Grotesque venom so they can go fishing for souls! It’s very reasonable that the war is drawing to a close so we need a break before the final battle but those toad spheres came of left field.

And then we hear the cirque du freak is returning to Darren’s hometown!! Love it when heroes return after most of their journey and discover they’ve changed too much to go back! But especially Darren, who cannot talk to anyone or even look around too much. He died. I LOVE IT I LOVE THESE BOOKS SO MUCH BUT I AM TEARING AND CRAWLING OUT OF MY SKIN THEY HURT SO BAD I JUST WANT MY BOYS TO BE HAPPY AND SAFE AGAIN)

(Boys includes: Darren, Harkat, Mr Crepsley. Vancha, Alice and Debbie. Not Steve Leopard. Fuck Steve Leopard. All my homies hate Steve Leopard)

And another thing: now I know about actual science - ‘vampire atoms are wobbly so they don’t show up on cameras’ - that is some of the most shallow pseudo scientific bullshit I’ve seen outside of JoJo’s. I love it. It’s so silly and makes no sense.

#as you can see #i am totally normal about this #i am totally sane #frothing at the mouth #screaming crying throwing up #crawling out of my skin #why must you hurt me in this way #darren shan #the saga of darren shan #cirque du freak #rant #vent?? #I mean this is a vent but is more a product of hyperfixation #I haven’t felt this bittersweet about the inescapable unfortunate fate a character gets since #fury of Magnus #I use ‘god’ a lot in this #I promise I am not a Christian #It’s just the right word for the expression/thing I’m feeling #and is very versatile #godsdamned sounds a bit off to me #even if it is closer to what I think could be #in terms of religion/soirituality

[dragontamer05]

Man despite technically being a kids/ younger audience aimed series it is wild the stuff Darren Shan got away with especially in the later books with the Vampire's Assistant series.

Now when I say kid I do mean older kid, minimum I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone under 10 maybe even 12 (which works as that is the age our protagonist starts as) because it does touch on more kinda mature themes as the books go.

While not as extreme as the Demonata books Darren Shan still gets decently descriptive about things including the more violent scenes plus there is a lot of death. Which might come off as obvious being a book about Vampires / supernatural stuff but he still manages to surprise cause there's no real line between characters who might die and those that are safe from death. Especially as it gets closer to the end and get the feeling maybe not even our dear protagonist is safe.

Like off the cuff only in the second book and a character winds up dead- and they aren't just some rando either. We get to spend time with them and get to know them and okay sure you might get some vibes that this character may not get to stick around with our protagonist having to say goodbye and go their separate ways by the end but I'd say it's also not perfectly clear cut if that will be the case. (Bonus is that the death itself ends up serving multiple purposes even during a part later on)

I would personally be shocked at anyone who could even guess the ending of the book- in a good way. Cause Darren Shan does a great job of sprinkling bread crumbs and foreshadowing here and there so at no point does anything feel like it was just pulled out of thin air but quite often neither is it something blatantly obvious

And even then on the off chance you do figure something out and no the reveal before it happens personally I still find it well written enough that you could believe the characters not having realized X thing yet as well as just the anticipation of when and how will they know.

This series also has an extensive cast of characters and while some are obviously going to end up more developed then others - especially with a lot of those at the Cirque at the same time none of them feel flat or there just because. Sure okay if you really wanted to name a problem there aren't a lot of female characters but personally (as a woman/girl myself) I was never bothered by it. The ladies we do get in the series are fun and decently well written as it is.

Darren Shan also has some of the more interesting takes and ideas on Vampires that I really like.

I love the concept of being able to make someone only half a vampire and that the easiest way to blood someone is by doing it through cuts on your fingers and pressing them together.

Vampires aren't immortal but do age vert slowly thus living incredibly long lives. And while hardly anything new (especially now) I do love them even bringing up and making fun of the idea that obviously a stake to the heart would kill a vampire because that would kill anyone/thing.

Going out in the sun isn't an immediate death sentence but there are limits for how long they can be out.

Being able to use their saliva to heal over cuts if needed.

Even bringing up how while animal blood is an option and they do drink from them but 1) They can not live and sustain themselves only off animal blood thus the need to occasionally drink a humans but 2) not needing to drain a human dry - which is how they've stayed mostly undetected although it does seem pretty implied there are some people here and there who are in the know

There are also some animals of which they cannot drink and is essentially poison.

Which leads into the 3rd point Vampaneze, a group who choose instead to follow you could almost say the old ways and drain people dry and when they feed. And for as twisted and vile most Vampaneze are even they still have their own codes and rules they follow (as you can guess our antagonist group of the series)

The other thing I love is compared to somethings I've watched/ read where a character just ends up going of somewhere and we don't get much on what's going on back home or even just a characters thoughts about all this we frequently get to hear/see Darren thinking about his friends and family, that while he may not regret his choice he does still miss his home, still thinks about them. (Also the way they handle having him leave is great )

Heck to a degree they even become a motivating factor for him in multiple instances from what I recall.

We get a decent enough time line of events - if there's a time skip they make sure to acknowledge it was X amount of days/weeks/months.. ect

But back on the main point is despite having a slightly younger target age range it gets hella dark sometimes, the writing is just so good as well that even as an adult be it in Novel or Graphic Novel form I still very much enjoy it and find myself rereading it.

The author even wrote a sort of prequel series of 4 books following the mentor character of our protagonist- as well as various other characters that appear within that series also making appearances which is cool and it's so good. My favourite part being the way he ties it in right at the end, ending where the Vampire's Assistant books pick up with his introduction.

It should be noted they are written in first person, basically supposed to be MC's like diary / journal that he wrote into like book sorta thing. I was personally never bothered by it but I know it's not everyones cup of tea for writing styles.

#darren shan #cirque du freak #vampires assistant #I recently tracked down the remaining manga chapters just to skim over still plan on buying the books eventually #and just hnng