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@aradneyart
Thanks for checking out my work. I'm Aaron, a fantasy illustrator specializing in non-Eurocentric storytelling and I love featuring POC and especially Black characters in my work. You can find more of my stuff around the internet.
Website: www.aaronradney.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronradney
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aaron_radney
"My father looked exactly what you'd expect of a former Magechief. Thin of frame with eyes that spoke of a thousand tales carefully memorized.
Offset by gentle, wizened features that said if you asked, he’d gladly teach you all of them." -- Amudan, Magechief of Atlea
Things have been kind of dead around here. But it's a new year and it's time to fix that!
i will never complain about a book seeming like a fanfic with the serial numbers filed off because that means the author had the invaluable ability to tell when their au had diverged enough that these were just straight-up different characters now
even as we speak there is probably someone out there writing a delightful 100k+ word gay romance novel about a genderqueer bisexual single parent who lives in a beach town and fixes classic cars and falls in love with the sexy tentacle monster mermaid that saved their life, and that writer could probably make pretty good money self-publishing it, but they won't because that would mean admitting that they aren't really writing destiel anymore
This is literally how the Temeraire series existed and why it's so obviously slashy. The author, Naomi Novik was a fan-fic writer who started off writing Master and Commander fic and realized somewhere down the line she wasn't writing fanfic anymore.
A couple samples of my faves from week 3 of #mermay! So excited that I've kept up so far. Just a little left in the month now!
If you want to see everything I've done come see it on patreon!
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A couple of my favorites from Mermay week 2. And reminders not to make assumptions about who is safe and who is not when dealing with water spirits. Please join me on patreon to check out all the stuff going on with my work and Ha-Nahn's development.
Official Post from Aaron Radney
A little Rae appreciation post
This is really cool character design.
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The first 5 days of Mermay are live for patrons! Each week I'll post one sample here and if you want to see more as well as what I'm building for patrons drop by and feel free to chip in.
Gearing up to post a bunch of the mermay stuff I've been working on this week for folks over on patreon later today. This year all my mermay drawings are connected with my fantasy setting of Ha-Nahn and inspired by the legends and myths of aquatic spirits and mermaid like beings from across different African mythologies.
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What did you mean when you described the reader's discomfort with the plot of Octavia Butler's Fledgling and some the decisions she made, such as the protagonist looking so young, being a feature and not a bug?
I think this is a great question. I don't remember where you saw me say this and I'm sorry I'm just NOW seeing the ask 2 weeks later.
Be aware, I'm no scholar but I think Octavia Butler did things in that book to purposefully make the reader ask some hard questions about how we see Black children. Black children are often denied their innocence and opportunity to be children. The narrative and some of the characters make it clear that a part of what can make Shori unsettling is her youth coupled with the behaviors of an adult. If it unsettles us in the book I think it's Butler posing the question of "shouldn't this kind of expectation and treatment of adult like behavior force you to question it in the real world too."
There's a lot deeper I could go too but basically if stuff in this book makes you uncomfortable (and I think a lot of it should) I think that was done on purpose to force you to ask why and what to do about it.
One of many things that needs my attention as I work to redo my world of #Ha-Nahn is to decide if this map needs to be redone or not.
Patreon Updates!
Hey there. For the unaware I have a patreon where I work on worldbuilding and fantasy writing and I'd love to share it with you.
Check out this update that'll give you a sense of how we're shifting things and working on building out my fantasy world of Ha-Nahn this year.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/79510438?pr=true
Taking a little time to myself in the first couple weeks of this year. If you're wondering why or want to see all the work that made me go, "let me take a break," check out the patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/76564305
New Year New Updates Coming
Hope folks are surviving well and had a safe holiday season. I'm taking a little time to rest, regroup and replan for some things in the future. New stuff coming soon. Specifically as I gear up to get back to developing my fantasy setting of Ha-Nahn!
wlw fashion sense is exclusively inspired by the members of the breakfast club and I am not wrong
I mean...
All five of them are just different flavors of lesbian
#this is a VERY LOUD CALLOUT #lower your voice
I have an ex this is making me have all kinds of questions about.
If you give this woman money, it will go to transphobic causes. If you give this woman a platform, she will use it to boost transphobic causes. This isn’t a “well nobody’s perfect” or “well x other creator also did something bad once” situation, this is an inordinate amount of influence for a creator to have, and supporting her by word or wallet actively hurts trans people.
EXACTLY it’s fucking disgusting
Yep. I grew up with Harry Potter and it was not at all a question of whether or not to dump it when Rowling revealed what she is. Honestly it should've been clear how much bigotry was just beneath the surface and barely concealed to begin with. Jewish folks were apparently way ahead of the rest of us catching her nonsense.
There are way better things to buy and way better books to read. Hell I wonder if I should make a list of book series that might scratch the same itch.
Twitter blocks linking to other social media sites
Hello all. Just a heads up that Twitter just launched a new policy prohibiting links and promotion to other social media platforms:
"Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post."
Tumblr isn't in the net, but the policy also prohibits mentioning 3rd party link aggregators like linktr.ee. Probably the most draconian policy yet; I know people for a while have already noticed that Twitter serves a warning when you click on a Mastodon link.
Expect another Twitter refugee wave soon. My Tumblr field guide is still up and running; Tumblr vets, do have a look yourself if there's anything you think should be updated.
Being part of the Twitter move away from the bird app feels super weird. Being a digital drifter due to one unhinged rich maniac's behavior is a real pain in the arse.
