Jessie Blue

~Queer~ They/Them Artist (traditional/digital) and Writer Born in the 20th Century

[90shorrorpaperback]

Happy Pride to Vanyel Ashkevron, the first openly gay protagonist in a mainstream fantasy book series!

(The Last Herald Mage series by Mercedes Lackey.)

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XVI

The Tower

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[notsobabblespace]

Book #2 of the Mercedes Lackey Library is Go!

The crowdfunding campaign for the Deluxe Heralds of Valdemar omnibus volume has launched on BackerKit!

Pledge price is $125 for the leatherbound trilogy omnibus in the same style as last year's Grandmaster. Scholarship applications will also be available again for those who are unable to cover the cost themselves.

Mercedes Lackey's Deluxe "Heralds of Valdemar"

The complete Arrows trilogy in one deluxe leatherbound omnibus, including silver and blue foil, six ribs, full-color interior art plates, pa

Included art plates include contributions from Nene Thomas, Rob Carlos, Care Halverson, Olivia Hintz, Dasha Park, and Alyssa Trudel. Stretch goals can unlock up to 6 additional paintings from Care Halverson, Emily Pritchett, Jabari Weathers, and Larry Dixon & Ben Dobyns.

[bluewingedcoyote]

There is a new album included in this deal! Brand new recordings and arrangements of the old songs from the books, performed by S.J. Tucker.

And if you missed the Grandmaster crowd-fund (a collection of all of Misty's short stories from the Valdemar Anthologies) there are still some copies in stock that can be added to your pledge! As well as maps and art books available.

[erlie]

Meeting notes.

[solis-aeterna]

See, I knew Sokka was a bender too.

[lezbianz]

observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

[cardentist]

to be Fair, I think The Character is meant to describe a certain level of agony, of being consumed by what loves you. blorbo is an expression of affection, The Character is sinking into the depths

[imsodishy]

[bluewingedcoyote]

[iconuk01]

Banksy has confirmed that a new statue erected in London is his work and I think it might be one of my favourite pieces by him.

Called "Blinded by the Flag" it... actually, you don't need me to explain it, it's art, you'll get it and interpret it yourself.

It's in Waterloo Place, Central London, if you're nearby.

[matrixdragon]

The first photo had me nodding, and then the full shot nearly killed me laughing. Perfection!

[bluewingedcoyote]

[sgt-cookie-2]

Me (A time traveler visiting 20-year old Mozart): OK, so, this is called an electric guitar, basically instead of the body functioning as a resonance chamber, it produces music by harnessing the power of lightning. Do you have any other questions?

Mozart (Currently shredding Violin Concerto No. 1 on the guitar, having figured it out within 30 seconds): What other music can be made from harnessed lightning?

Me (Loading up some heavy dubstep): Oh, we're just getting started.

[bluewingedcoyote]

Just thought I'd leave this here...

[theoldbone]

Forbidden candy- Gobi desert agates

These have been tumbled in the desert creating their round shape and strange texture

[theunfairfolk]

Once again it is Sweet Orb Saturday

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XIV

Temperance

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[rylandsgrace]

#Happy Labor Day to Shrek I guess

[realmarysue]

[pangur-and-grim]

[grimmghosts]

Dearest Son 👦: I Pray 🙏 with all my Heart ❤️ that this finds you Well, and that you were not Hurt 🤕 by that Brutal Boy 😠 🙎‍♂️I Feared😨 that something of this Nature 🍃 would Occur from the Instant your Father 👨 Told me of this Foolish Scheme and have had Dark and Fell🌑 Dreams 😴 from the moment you Departed 🐎. Savil 🧓 is plainly Not 🙅 To Be Relied Upon to keep her Creatures 🐿️ in Order. I pray 🙏 you, do not Provoke ⚔️ 🤬 the Barbarian further; I am endeavoring to Persuade your Father 👨 to fetch you Home 🏠 again, but thus far it is All In Vain.😥

[enderfeather]

this is basically what happened, right

alternatively, is Van was a bit more of an asshole

Close ups

[lilu-the-horse]

when horses do the big doggie stretch and go allll the way down…

Yeag

[chestnut-horse]

can I add to this?

[lilu-the-horse]

absolutely you can

[horsefigureoftheday]

If I may add

And let's not forget about

[bluewingedcoyote]

rollin in the dirt!

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Queer Book Character Tournament Round One

Rhy Maresh- A Darker Shade of Magic

Kodiak Celius- The Darkness Outside Us

Vanyel Ashkevron- The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy

Annabelle Gage- Queen of Faces

Voting ended onApr 15

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Rhy Maresh- A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Kodiak Celius- The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

Vanyel Ashkevron- The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

Annabelle Gage- Queen of Faces by Petra Lord

[harukami]

Vanyel is simply one of the OGs. Magic's Pawn (the first book in the series) was a finalist for the second ever Lambda Literary awards and Magic's Price (third book) won in the third! Basically, when there was a chance to get more lgbt fantasy becoming mainstream, Vanyel appeared.

He's gay, he's a hero, he's tragic. Even after the tragedy takes him out he keeps heroing from beyond the grave. He's part of a soulbond that gets off sync and keeps a fucked up cycle of reincarnation going so they can keep finding each other. He's a musician, he's got psychic powers, he's so OP that he once leveled a building after someone woke him up when he fell asleep in the bath, he's surprisingly sweet and somewhere between naive and over-worldly, he's got a great big sister figure in his magic horse, despite being gay he offered to get friends pregnant as a service so he's got ancestors running around in the modern day, somehow this caused a secret situation where his blood ended up in the royal line.

He's truly done it all AND he's got a new book COMING OUT THIS YEAR. UNBELIEVABLE. Let's give him his flowers!

(there are some elements of the story that are now overused tragedy and horror, but they were common at the time they were written in straight fantasy as well. And none of them end him, which I think is important, given the context.)"

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Museum Asks People To Recreate Paintings At Home, Gets 30 New Impressive Photos

It appears that boredom lies behind the most creative ideas. That's why quarantine has produced some of the most entertaining activities. One of them is the Getty Museum challenge, that so many of you have already seen in our previous article here.

[delphinidin4]

Narcissus taking a selfie is the ACTUAL best.

[simplyclockwork]

These are REALLY cool

[notallfay]

These are art in themselves, in a some of them point out what lockdown was like for us, they’re expressed themselves in a really cool way. But I think these are going to be talked about in the future.

[jasper-rolls]

its past midnight in england which means its 4/13/2016

4/13/2016 is a very special day because

its the 10 year anniversary of neil banging out the tunes

thank you neil for banging out the tunes

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12 years of neil banging out the tunes!

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16 YEARS OF NEIL BANGING OUT THE TUNES!!

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20 YEARS OF NEIL BANGING OUT THE TUNES