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tamora pierce always was trans positive though because she innately understood the concept of gender and how it actually applied to people and to the world. her understanding is not surface level like many writers who’ve been revealed to be less than ideal, morally and/or craftwise.

we now have what didn’t exist then, which is popular scholarship on real trans men who were historical “women in disguise” and it turns out there IS a largely distinction we can draw between those who wanted to be identified as men and those for whom dressing as a man was a means to an end. and i didn’t get it at the time and i’m sure tamora pierce didn’t either but like the longing alana feels to wear dresses is so trans coded because her life would be so much easier if she actually were a trans man, if she could just hide that she is a woman forever and just galavant about as a knight as she wishes. in her writing, gender is something innate but also distinct from sex, and that is apparent 25 years before she ever featured a trans character in her worlds. tamora pierce is the author who wrote a story about a cis character where god herself had to come down and tell the mc that she cant hide her gender forever because she will make herself miserable, and it’s simply not who she is. and alanna discovering women warriors is an incredible parallel of the trans experience of discovering your real gender by learning about the trans community.

70s-80s feminist fantasy writers really knew what they were doing and i will never not love them for it. jk rowling could never

erysium

my endpaper illustrations for the Illumicrate editions of Song of the Lioness ✨

one of my favourite childhood series, it was such a dream to work on these!!

emilybeemartin

Indulgent warm-up sketch I've been noodling with over the past few days as I work on my ~*book cover*~ for Nell O'Dell

emilybeemartin

Help!

It's almost time for Inktober, but there's a problem... I don't like this year's official prompt list! Normally I get really excited when the prompts are released, but this year they gave them all a single theme, and I find it restricting and repetitive. So I need your help to build a new list! Comment with a single word---noun, adjective, verb, whatever. I'll take 31 of them from here and Instagram, plug them into a randomizer, and create a new list to follow for 2024!

emilybeemartin

Dang, okay! Between you and Instagram, you populated a prompt list in under an hour flat--- and I know it's better than the official prompts because I'm already scribbling away with subject ideas. So I'm calling this the Inspired Artist's Inktober Prompts!

Feel free to use them yourself if you'd like--- tag me so I can see what you come up with!

Thank you to everyone who offered such fantastic suggestions! You've saved my Inktober!

#inktober

eternal-vambraces

Do you think you'll ever write a one-shot or whatever of that scene with boromir and aragorn?

This two-bit fantasy hack author/illustrator posted this on her main blog, idk

Got some new soup for you. CW! PTSD, panic attack, crowds, physical violence, blood, smoking It's, uh, less cute soup than some of the oth

emilybeemartin

y'all, I'm really sorry for this one, I did not mean for it to be this thirsty, I swear

No see, listen--shut up, listen--I was thinking about Troy and then of course the Odyssey we all missed out on, which naturally led to thinking about the various iconic scenes we could've had, and OBVIOUSLY the siren scene is at the top of that list, and I was playing with how to depict the effect of their song, and I've used this look before with Eugenides with pretty good results, but then I was reflecting on how aside from VFX this scene would take a lot of body acting, and how Sean's so good at conveying pain and that would translate naturally into the seduction of the spell, and huh when I write it out like that I absolutely did intend for it to be this thirsty.

Man I hope one of my manuscripts gets picked up soon; being off-deadline is not healthy for me.

berenshand

thinking about is there a correlation between 'it will be so. it will be so. it will be so. i say it three times.' and 'so, so, so'. who would like to articulate this for me i don't have the energy to write the post.

may12324

this is your reminder to give Shadowheart all the pretty armor

#i absolutely adore your lines and shading

berenshand

thinking about is there a correlation between 'it will be so. it will be so. it will be so. i say it three times.' and 'so, so, so'. who would like to articulate this for me i don't have the energy to write the post.

mostlysignssomeportents

Random mansion generator

The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html

something-from-elsewhere

Oooooh! Saving this

lady-feral

That’s fun

vesperlionheart

Hey, but don’t fall asleep on this Medieval Fantasy City Generator

breelandwalker

There’s also a very helpful Village Generator.

laurentarzan

War, then.

script-a-world

Elaina Tuttle spent her life trying to understand the bizarre chromosome evolution of a common bird — until tragedy struck.

emilybeemartin

I just sent a new manuscript to my agent! It's always such a good feeling to boot a manuscript out the door and into the submission process. After my two epic fantasy series and middle-grade picture book, this is my first middle-grade novel, and I had tons of fun writing it. It dove right back down to my roots--- magical quests, mysterious artifacts, dragons, goblins, trolls, undead cats. Okay, just the one undead cat.

emilybeemartin

On today's episode of LotR AU: Boromir Lives, it's after the battle of Pelennor Fields! There are so many great possibilities to explore when Boromir finally, finally returns to Minas Tirith--- making the agonizing decision to follow Aragorn through the Paths of the Dead instead of going straight to the city with Theoden, fighting like a demon outside the gates, learning about his father's death, and then choosing to leave again to accompany Aragorn to the Black Gate, but right now it's WHUMP TIME.

Obviously, first up is Faramir. If Boromir is with Aragorn, he won't enter the city until after the battle, and so he wouldn't know anything about Faramir's flight from Osgiliath or the pyre in the tombs.

In the few days between the battle and leaving for the Black Gate, I envision Boromir operating on undiluted adrenaline as the wounded and dead are tended. Who needs food? Who needs sleep? Not Boromir. He's returned to his city at its lowest possible moment and he's going to DO EVERYTHING TO FIX EVERYONE ALL AT ONCE.

The scene where Pippin finds Merry wounded and dazed and wandering the streets, has always been a favorite of mine and was one of the first LotR illustrations I ever did ~20 years ago. In the book, Gandalf is the one who comes to carry Merry up to the Houses of Healing. In this AU, you know it's Boromir.