A random Mess of my Fandoms and good will - Enjoy

A painting entitled "Victim of Text" by Ralph Haymans.

The boy who swallowed a star

Different Stories Resonate with Different People

I will always reblog this.

I once spent three hours scouring the internet to find this comic again, I will not let that be repeated.

@signoraviolettavalery I meant to ask last night if you’d ever seen this comic before.

This is one of the few things I always reblog when it comes round, because everyone should get to see it. 

looks at you like this

Hatchling plague doctor

inspired by this post by @fruitblush

want this design? get it here

I made cute literary postcards for owlcrate you can buy here!!

Going to solve the rat murder

You pickin’ up what I’m puttin’ down partner?

Thinking about the ghosts Eugene sees following the drawtectives. Ghosts of dogs following at Grendan’s feet, waiting for a leash that’ll never come. Ghosts of Northern Tribe orcs cheering York on as he bests someone in arm wrestling. Ghosts of mysterious faces— some proud, some scornful— looming around Rosé. Ghosts of poor souls looming around Jancy, a few brave enough to ask Eugene to pass along their thanks for her solving their murders.

When South Africa dismantled apartheid, it did not end with the expulsion of all white South Africans. They became part of the new South Africa, just without the criminal discriminatory oligarchic powers the apartheid goverment had. When Bolivia recognized its indigenous heritage and became a plurinational state, it did not mean that people of European descent were expelled in masse. It meant the recognition of the previously discriminated indigenous and mestizo people of Bolivia and the beginning of a path of integration and revalidation.

What I mean is that it's ridiculous to think that decolonization inherently means mass suffering and relocation, that's what colonization does. Decolonization is recognizing the crimes of colonization, but more importantly, material, political and social steps to give power and self-determination to the exploited native people who were victims of colonialism and imperialism.

In multicultural societies, you don't go like in that Peter Griffin meme with a skin tone chart and saying 'well, you go back to Europe, you go back to Africa, you stay here'. You build a new society on the paradigm of dignity for exploited people and equality under the law. People are acting like this is some sort of fantastic utopia instead of real initiatives that were done in living memory, with successes and failures, as all such initiatives have. One must ask why are some so insistent that multicultural societies can't thrive, especially when for most of history, societies were indeed like that. Consider why you think like that.

Writing high fantasy is harder for me than it used to be because I'll write "The door swung open" and I'll imagine some tumblr user with three different grad degrees in medieval history dunking on me with a 2,000-word post about how door hinges weren't invented until 1956 and before that they'd just smash them open with axes and rebuild them each time.

Meanwhile I'm here trying to wedge more perceived anachronisms in there to make their heads explode.

My fantasy world has street cars and radio in the bronze age.

The nature of fantasy writing is that somebody will inevitably recreate Tolkien vs. C. S. Lewis

My cover for "Monsters of Fife: Sea Dragons" by Jane Yolen, out from Charlesbridge Publishing in June 2025. I also illustrated the interior. Thanks so much ADs Jon and Ellie!

officially decided that anyone who tries to divide the lgbt community is a fed. i dont care if you're not actually a fed, if you're causing infighting in a minority community then you're a fed who just isnt getting paid to be one. either apply for a job at the CIA or shut the fuck up

some people understood this post. some people revealed themselves to be feds

The only thing more pathetic than a paid fed is a chump doing a fed's job for free