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Very important message for everyone with imposter syndrome.

"It's just a bad period." A personal piece about Endometriosis.

Thread. I'm also seeing this in the corp world where new creatives aren't given proper mentorship. The first time they get asked to make substantial revisions, they think they're shit writers/designers and it's a huge blow. I've had to gently explain that "this is the actual creative process."

S2 of Deadloch started and we watched the first episode last night. This is a dark, funny show with probably the worst language I've ever heard on TV. It's also interesting and refreshing to watch a series that features basically no conventionally attractive people in it. youtu.be/y7sN9tQSn-Y?...

This is the face of a cat who has a very hard life. So much to do, wallpaper to claw, many dishes of expensive food to spurn. She cannot wait for her holiday and says she really deserves this one.

Happy #WorldBearDay. We live somewhat near a town called Congelton in Cheshire which has a story about having to sell the town's bible in the 1600s in order to buy a dancing bear.

What's the perfect GIF for your BlueSky persona?

Perfect

He looks like a historical cdrama or kdrama lead, perhaps the sexy villain with a heart of gold. (My character from Where Winds Meet.)

I'm putting together a post of indie and self-published SFF by trans and non-binary authors if anyone would like to be added! (If I miss you for the post, I can also add you to my LGBTQIA+ collection!)

I just stumbled across videos of this on my fyp on Tiktok. This is absolutely stunning.

Grammarly should get fucked

See that's the thing: creative work has almost never been very profitable. But creatives have always paid the bills by using the same skills on some more boring task like ad copy or art commissions or something. Giving that "boring" work to AI starves creatives.

The Hexi expansion in Where Winds Meet is both gorgeous and it's made me actually cry several times. I'm also reading about ancient Chinese history because it's so firmly based in actual history and lore. I mean, sure there's fart jokes but there's also a love of history, stories of love and loss.

#OnceUponATime, @ravven.bsky.social made a book cover just for the fun of it, and a writer saw it. And that writer knew INSTANTLY that it wanted to be the cover to a retelling of Snow White, Rose Red. But that writer had like 17 premade covers already, & told herself "No! No, Writer, no!" 🥺

pls preorder my book, it's a retold fairy tale, snow white & rose red, and i have killed myself writing it 😵 #booksky #preorder #romance #fantasy #PerhapsEven #romantasy #paranormalromance #KindOfAnyway #magic #elves #fairytales #sisters #AllTheGoodStuff www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW... 🥹

Urban fantasy author Charles de Lint just published a new "novelet" and released it for free, his stories of myth and magic and community and found family are full of so much love and hope and we could all use some of that right now www.charlesdelint.com/IceOut.html

Fantasy cover artist looking for work! :) Email: [email protected]

The wizard sleeps calmly. The little cat appears to be reading a grimoire in the library.

I am so tired of fragile little men starting wars. I am so tired of fragile little men making policy decisions that harm us all. I am so tired of fragile little men doing horrendous harm to children and expecting us all to forget about it. I am so tired of fragile little men with their tantrums.

BONE & BLOOD, my latest retold fairy tale, will be available in just a few weeks! Preorder at www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW... The alt text for the teaser text image is spread across both images bc it was too long for just one. Sorry about that! <3 #booksky #preorders #fantasy #romance #FairyTales

I can't pretend that the (temp) title for this one didn't come first and I then worked out the illustration concept to go with it! But if you're looking for a retro vampire cover then this premade might be just right. Available from BookCoversByJon.com

I have predesigned covers here: www.ravven.com/book-cover-a...

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI: I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

Warmup from this morning: Morrigan. In other news, I woke up this morning with an inability to focus on my computer monitor or my drawing tablet, which is worrisome. Hopefully it just has something to do with eyestrain caused by reading Alix Harrow's The Everlasting under the covers last night.

Nightingale is currently 80% off on Steam. It's a lovely game with interesting lore, can be played first or third person, and the building and companion system is really nicely done. Play solo or with friends. I love this game (older trailer, but give you an idea). youtu.be/5hEcME-Thlg?...

This is so sad. My mom died of ALS, and it's a terrible disease that takes so much from you before you go.

Hollywood is COOKED I made this $50,000,000 movie for free using AI

Wow.

I have to admit that my British husband is right and it's easier to just weigh ingredients. I mean, when I lived in the States each stick of butter had convenient measures printed on the wrapper, you cut off what you needed on the line. But trying to chisel out 4 tablespoons of cold butter? Ugh.

I live in fear of anything going wrong with my PC: memory, hard drives, anything. We won't be able to afford to build/repair it.

Year of the Fire Horse

If you're in the UK (and you're still shopping on Amazon, ofc) You've Reached Sam is on sale. This was a lovely book. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09W2QQ9JC

Happy New Year's eve! I just happen to have a fire horse from a few years back.

I had this thumbnail drawing of my d&d character leftover from a project earlier last year and decided to paint it to get more practice in. 👍

Still addicted to Where Winds Meet. My guy is definitely the Visual of his group. :D

Valentine's day always make me want to create more victorian puzzle purse for spells and prayers 🖤

Our Valentines night: we have steaks and cava, presents for each other, and then we're going to watch Predator: Badlands. :D

Also, if you want more Gothic shenanigans with a cozy queer vibe, here are some books about murder husbands trying to solve murders without incurring more murders www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography... (one of my current WIP is book 3 in that series)

Applying to a lot of Illustration reps/agencies. Not terribly optimistic as I'm probably too genre-strange-romantic(in the old sense) for most of them. Would be brilliant to have someone else set things up and chase the money though. Anyone heard of any Illo reps that are genre friendly?

For every 5 REPOSTS or 10 LIKES this gets, I'll tell you 1 cool fact about SAMURAI that you may not know.

Book 5 out now! Star-crossed lovers, found family, warring gods, and one very good dog. Sister series to my Ordinary Magic books. books2read.com/u/3nl5p9

Reposting for illustrators, and also because this is one of the best creative briefs I've ever seen from an author.

you also need to unmute this for the perfect song / visual combo

My daughter never asked me about gay, she's always had gay people in her life. She did, however, once ask me "Do bugs have souls, and is it wrong to step on them?" I was walking her to daycare, holding her hand because she was so small. I just looked at her in shock like "wtf, are you Buddha!?!"

These days I'm in a constant state of internal screaming panic due to changes in the area where I've freelanced pretty successfully for the past decade: book cover art. We can't live on a single paycheck and I need to find something else right now.

We do Bones 💀 Gideon the Ninth mockup dust cover, front.

Age verification? I remember when at least one phone in the house (usually in the hall or the kitchen) had a really long phone cord so the teenagers in the house could take the receiver into a room with a bit more privacy (in my case, a bathroom where I could sit on the floor with the door closed).

🔶 his territory