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An experiment with colorizing one of my illustrations for Crown of Crows. Yes/no?

Catching up on Dimension 20's Crown of Candy. Never thought the death of a chocolate treat could leave us sobbing. Masterful storytelling.

#Dimension20 #ActualPlay

The cozy Arthurian mystery I'm serializing on Patreon just hit a milestone: the first twelve chapters are now collected as an ebook for patrons, over 60,000 words of half-fey detective Agnes Hen navigating murder, magic, and medieval politics. #fiction #Patreon #fantasy 1/2

The chapter titles alone tell a story: "Cold Fey Wrath," "Dream and Dragon," "Iron and Quicksilver."

The Changeling in the Tree chs 1-12 by Jeff Lilly on Patreon. Join Jeff Lilly's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Heading to a talk today about the Seattle Camera Club, an artists' collective founded in 1920 by Japanese men, welcoming everyone regardless of origin or gender. They made lasting contributions to PNW art and culture, until forced to disband by the Depression. #PNWHistory #photography 1/2

Ten years later, during WWII, every Japanese family in Seattle was incarcerated. 2/2

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Reading McWhorter's "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue", and his take on Celtic influence on English. His most interesting parts have been about why that influence has been so systematically ignored. Hoping the field is starting to rectify that.

#linguistics #englishlanguage

New chapter of 'The Changeling in the Tree,' my cozy Arthurian mystery set in 1250 Oxford, is live on Patreon. Agnes Hen, a half-fey changeling detective, is deep in the sleuthing now, with two new locations: an alchemist's chambers and the Priory Pub. #cozymystery #patreon

The Changeling in the Tree - Ch 6 - Fish and Priory by Jeff Lilly on Patreon. Join Jeff Lilly's community for exclusive content and updates.

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My cat attempted to reach out to our AI masters today.

I just launched a permanent page for Crown of Crows, my literary fantasy set in a world with two fully developed languages descended from Irish and creolized Spanish. New map, a free glossary, and enough etymology to see the bones in the broth of the world.

“Crown of Crows” introduces Andowan, a rich fantasy world with real languages and cultures. The story follows Sarah Patrick, a queen exiled from the enchanted land she visited in her yo…

#Fantasy #Conlang

Project Hail Mary coming to streaming, and I'll watch it eventually, but the book angered me in a way I don't often experience with fiction. Three posts about why: one on the linguistics errors, and two on how it breaks the contract hard sci-fi makes with its readers.

Project Hail Mary breaks the contract with the reader by pretending to show rigorous and accurate science in action.

The map I’m making for Crown of Crows came out so awesome you guys. I’m also working on an etymological glossary of words from the book. Both free, and ready in the next day or two. Sample: # Sí Andrigann /ʃiː anˈdriɡan/ 1/2

The Temple of the Dragon, north of the road to Cúrtt Píria Bíal, where Sarah summons Derth. More precisely the temple of the *speaking* Dragon: a mute dragon's temple would be *Sí Driagannss.* From sí, a holy mound, + *an dragan,* the dragon. 2/2

Making a map for Crown of Crows and I am having so much fun. Maps are the best part of worldbuilding (other than languages, of course). Sample below. The full map will be available at my Patreon's free tier.

#fantasy #worldbuilding

New on Patreon: ch 5 of my cozy Camelot murder mystery. Agnes escapes Oxford Castle gaol, gains new abilities, and can now investigate. Who chopped down the sacred tree? And why was she being framed for it? #AmWriting #Fantasy

The Changeling in the Tree - Ch 5 - The Glamour by Jeff Lilly on Patreon. Join Jeff Lilly's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Wrapping up my review of the worldbuilding in Project Hail Mary.

#fiction #science fiction #writing

First of two posts with a deep dive into the worldbuilding behind Project Hail Mary.

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Star Wars is a summation of a mid-century California boy's experience: muscle cars, New Age mysticism, kung fu, WWII films, desert landscapes. Lucas just put them all in space.

#StarWars #film

Rewatching Phantom Menace. The flat dialogue still isn't good, but it's landing differently now: so stripped of naturalism it becomes almost mythic, turning characters into archetypes. Still bad. But it's kind of working.

#StarWars #writing

Merlin teaches Agnes Hen, the half-fey changeling at the heart of my Arthurian mystery serial The Changeling in the Tree, to cast a glamour: to make people see a human girl instead of what she actually is. The spell works. She's not sure how to feel about that. 1/4

...Her reflection stared back: knotted bark-brown skin, pointed ears, tight curls of hair like twigs. She closed her eyes involuntarily and looked away. It wasn’t that she thought she was ugly, exactly, but she didn’t like the reminder of how different she was. 2/4

“Child,” said Merlin, “there is nothing wrong with your appearance. You are as beautiful as any of God’s creatures. But not all in the human world see that beauty. So. Picture yourself as you might be if you were human. Not taller; glamours work best when you stay close to your true form. 3/4

But smooth skin. Rounded ears. Softer features. Can you see it in your mind?” Agnes looked once more at her face in the mirror. Then she closed her eyes. It was hard. She'd been this way her whole life. What would she look like otherwise?...

The Changeling In the Tree (Sample) by Jeff Lilly on Patreon. Join Jeff Lilly's community for exclusive content and updates.

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