Buffy Summers Wannabe

[vkelleyart]

I am slowly making my way through the cast of T.J. Klune’s wonderful story, The House in the Cerulean Sea. 🥰 Meet Sal, the sensitive, sweet, and tender-hearted poet of the orphans on Marsyas. I have plans for another image when he is in his were-state, but for now, enjoy him in his element: hanging out with Theodore and cuddling Linus’s cat Calliope!

[lacnunga]

The baby so far 🐉 still got a few bits to add but Im quite happy with it so far

[flowercrown-bard]

Inspired by @lacnunga 's adorable dragon embroidery

[awlwren]

[id: embroidery hoop with an embroidered red dragon sitting on a hoard of real buttons]/end id.

[vkelleyart]

Theodore (the wyvern from T.J. Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea) demands coins for his hoard. But in the event coins are not available, he will very happily accept a shiny brass button. 😂 Drawing this adorable iridescent little dude has been the highlight of my week.

Y’all, I’m in love with this novel. If you haven’t read it yet, please move it to the top of your list. It’s compassionate and healing and kind and romantic (and queer), and by God, more art from this book is coming. ❤️

[kamreadsandrecs]

““Paladins?” Beartongue’s eyebrows shot up. “Why—forgive me, but if you were planning a covert spy mission, I don’t think our paladins would be my first choice.” She considered this. “Or my second choice. Possibly not even my third.”

from Paladin's Faith (Saint of Steel #4) by T. Kingfisher

[whisperofthewaves]

THIS FUCKING BOOK

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Ok, so, it's chapter 24 of Paladin's Strength, and Istvhan has spent the entire book so far going, "stop being horny over the Domina" to himself. And then he just tosses ALL of that out the window because he is SO DAMN TIRED of everyone referring to sex as "canoodling" and goes OFF on Clara in the most objectively horny way possible:

"Canoodle?" he sat up so fast he nearly cracked his skull on an axle and ducked down, swearing. "Canoodle!?" I have never canoodled in my life." "You don't expect me to believe that." "You had better. When I do it, it is not canoodling." "Same thing." "Madam," said Istvhan, his voice dropping nearly an octave, "I have made love. I have had sex. I have bedded, rutted, fucked, and on one occasion, with enthusiastic consent and a great deal of oil, I have sodomized, but have never, not once, canoodled."

In his defense, she started it by throwing him at a girl young enough to be his daughter--if he had been somewhat precocious--and he did not appreciate that. But at the same time...ISTVHAN, my love, you might want to take a good hard look at your feelings and get them squared before your tongue runs away with you again.

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Chapter 15 of Paladin's Strength, and Brindle is the BEST GNOLE:

A gnole deserves a big ass hug, a treat, and the best ox.

[starsinmypocketpussy]

I played T. Kingisher's Paladin's Strength audiobook for a long drive and by the halfway point my partner, who has probably not ever read a romance of any kind, was yelling at Istvahn that, come the fuck on, he fuckin KNOWS Clara is not a fuckin NUN

we were about 2/3 through when we got home where he furiously and immediately downloaded the audiobook with threats of somehow doing a literature-murder against this man too stupid for love

[theskeletoninthegarden]

Istvhan stirred. “You are not a failure, you know,” he said, “simply because you can’t endure something unendurable.” His words had the air of something well-worn, a thought he had turned over in his head and repeated until he believed it was true. She wondered what Istvhan had endured, to make such words necessary.

(T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength)

[tovetar]

“A paladin? A holy warrior?!” Clara put her hands on her hips. “And you’ve been giving me crap about being a nun when I’m only a lay sister? “Is this really the time?” asked Istvhan. “Yes, it’s the time!” “It’s only that men who would like to put you in a zoo are probably going to come back soon.” “Then they can wait! I am not done yelling!” “Yes’m,” said Istvhan, and stared contritely at his toes. “You’re a paladin!” “More or less. Less these days.” “But a paladin!” “I feel very bad about it.” Kingfisher, T. Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel Book 2)

[goodgrammaritan]

"Canoodle!? I have never canoodled in my life."

"You don't expect me to believe that."

"You had better. When I do it, it is not canoodling."

"Same thing."

"Madam," said Istvhan, his voice dropping nearly an octave, "I have made love. I have had sex. I have bedded, rutted, fucked, and on one occasion, with enthusiastic consent and a great deal of oil, I have sodomized, but I have never, not once, canoodled."

Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

[aizel-kon]

I will make a proper post for The Saint of Steel illustrations later, but for now here are some sketches and close-ups <3 After reading books, I convinced my editors to change their armor to how it described in books, so paladins on covers have chainmails and tabards! Just on the covers for Paladin's Strength and Paladin's Faith the armor is different because of the plot. Also, I spent too many hours painting Stephen because he deserves it, yeah.

[tinabongorno]

Clara, Galen, and Grace from the Saint of Steel series. 

I BLASTED through these books a few months ago, and needed some characters for portrait practice soo here we are!

[palabarian]

What dya mean this ain’t the plot of paladins hope????

[animezinglife]

Istvhan: I have to be more careful. I'm such an idiot. I'm a huge guy and I never want a woman to feel intimidated by that or like she doesn't have power in this situation. Or any situation. Why am I even thinking about that situation?! Clara: [bludgeons bandits over the head and manhandles him into a wall] Istvhan:

[myth-myth-yeth]

I’m only two books into T. Kingfisher’s Saint of Steel series and I think the Temple of the White Rat might be my favorite fictional religious order ever.

Their mandate seems to be just “do good,” lowercase g.

Feed the hungry. Tend the sick. House the homeless.

Temple lawyers to help with civil and criminal problems.