How to Be a Keeper

Writing all the things, but mainly comics. www.erinkeepers.com

[ekcomics]

In honor of the third issue releasing tomorrow, I present to you the first half of the first issue of: NOBODY’S PRINCESS

As a young lady of noble birth, Lady Theodosia Averelle (Theo to her friends) has always known what was expected of her: behave appropriately, learn to manage a household, and marry well.

But when confronted with the reality of an arranged marriage to a prince she’d never met and a future ruling a foreign kingdom, Theo realizes one very important piece of information about herself...

She doesn’t want to be a princess.

With that in mind, Theo does what any reasonable young lady would do in her position—she fakes her own kidnapping and demands her dowry as the ransom so that she can run away and live a life of adventure. Too bad her fairy tale prince isn’t going to give up on "rescuing" her that easily. Good thing Theo makes a good outlaw.

Words: Erin Keepers Art: Catriona Laird

Published by Odyssey Comics CHECK OUT THE KICKSTARTER FOR ISSUE #3

[dycefic]

The Seven Daughters Of The Cailleach Foraoise

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a great forest with trees so tall that they shut out the sky, and it was always dark in that place. A single road passed through it, one side to the other, and no wise traveler ever ventured off that road.

In the forest to the east of the road there was a great hill, with a tower on it, and in that tower there lived a wizard. He was solitary and ill-tempered, but if someone in trouble came to him humbly and begged his aid, he did not usually refuse.

In the forest to the west of the road - or so it was said, for it was not visible as the hill and tower were - there was a great dark hollow with a house at the bottom of it, where the forest witch, the Cailleach Foraoise, lived with her seven daughters. She was ill-natured and dangerous, but still, she had been known to give aid to those willing to pay her price.

It happened that the king of the land had grown cruel and dangerous, and he taxed his people to starvation, he poisoned their land and slew any who displeased him. He slew even his own sons, when they defied him, and all went in terror of him. This king had three nephews, the sons of his sister, and they saw that soon they would be in danger from him as well, so they fled his castle by night, and took the road through the dark forest.

When they reached the river that ran through the heart of the forest, they stopped and took counsel of each other. They must do all that they could to save the kingdom and its people, that they agreed, but they debated what that was until the youngest spoke.

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[monwinvo]

Bedtime Story.

Short story by Jeffery Whitmore! Wanted to make this into a comic for a while :] just in a girl boss sorta mood hehe

[ekcomics]

Nobody's Princess ⚔️👑

Theo is bold, adventurous, reckless, impulsive, and a little too clever for her own good, but when she finds herself engaged to a prince, she's gonna need to be all of that and more to get out of it.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/odysseycomics/nobodys-princess-1-and-2

[verylostpenguin]

New books will continue to come out after I die and I’m really frustrated that I probably won’t be able to read them

[androgynous-collector-dream-blog]

Probably?

[verylostpenguin]

I remain optimistic

I will not let a little thing like death get in the way of books

[ekcomics]

This is why ghosts haunt libraries.

[gncfag-moved]

no offense but bucky not remembering what he does as the winter soldier makes his & sam’s rivalry so much funnier

[gncfag-moved]

sam: you know im STILL not over the time when you ripped out my car’s steering wheel!

bucky: the time i WHAT

[gncfag-moved]

sam increasingly realizes he can just say whatever tf he wants & bucky’ll be like

[hepalien]

Sam: I can’t believe you stabbed Caesar

Bucky:

[absolutepie]

“I can’t believe you shot 2Pac”

[ghostshapedbox]

This just keeps getting better and better

[bucky-is-my-precious]

Sam: “Let me guess you were the second shooter on the grassy knoll.”

[ekcomics]

Bucky (messing with Sam right back) "you know, I actually think I was"

And then they're both pretty horrified when they find out that one wasn't a joke.

[elithien]

M u l t i v e r s e. If mcu does this to me, then I sure as hell will believe 616 can bleed into mcu 

[kylostantrums]

I hate this “no spoilers” culture that we live in right now. Producers and writers are so terrified of fans predicting the ending to their works to the point that they’re making nonsensical endings to their narratives. They’re messy, out-of-character, and outlandish, but, hey! at least they’re unpredictable!

Rian Johnson, The Last Jedi — completely ignored & disregarded the 3-film narrative arc J.J. Abrams has planned out for the sequel trilogy, and instead developed his own messy narrative full of subversions for the sake of subversion, and completely disrespected the legacy of Luke Skywalker’s character (Mark Hamill himself has reported several times that he doesn’t recognize the character).

Russos, MCU — give out fake scripts, actors play against green screens and are cut & pasted together in post, show fake/edited scenes in trailers, throw away previous character development (Thor, Ragnarok vs Infinity War and especially Endgame).

D&D, Game of Thrones — throw away a decade of foreshadowing and character development for shock value, not to mention they missed a whole ass Starbucks cup in a shot in 8x03 (either on set or in post, somebody should’ve noticed this).

I’m sick and tired of this. It’s not good writing, and it’s no longer entertaining to fans when the characters they know and love become complete strangers. There’s good shock value — “No, I am your father,” for example — and then there’s ignoring years of character development and turning a kind and caring character into a murderous maniac. There’s a difference, and I think writers still know what that difference is, but they’re pressured to create an ending that fans can’t predict because of this mass panic over “no spoilers”.

This needs to stop. Give me a happy ending. Who the fuck cares if we guess what comes next? That means the writers have done their fucking jobs. If we can guess what comes next that means the writers have successfully developed their characters and foreshadowed future events as you’re supposed to do in a well-written narrative.

No spoilers? Sure. I like to experience narratives without being spoiled. But don’t make the narrative unrecognizable by the ending. It’s just not good writing.

[aceofstars16]

Oh this is some good tea ☕️

[nohriantomatoes]

‘No spoilers’ is supposed to be a warning to the fan base about ‘hey don’t ruin my movie experience by telling me what actually happened’ not ‘hey writers here is permission to fuck up everything because you read two fan theories that correctly predicted your ending’

[pr-ay-the-gay-away]

[writhenwud-deactivated20160930]

‘childhood is when you idolize Batman adulthood is when you realize that the Joker makes more sense’ - this is the most Reddit thing I’ve read all day.

[w3rewolf-th3rewolf]

#I thought adulthood was feeling bad for all the stupid bullshit commissioner gordon had to put up with  (geologicadept)

[nuttyrabbit]

Childhood is idolizing Batman, adolescence is thinking the Joker is right, adulthood is realizing that Gordon absolutely doesn’t get paid enough for this shit

[caffeinbitch]

Womanhood is realizing that you need to run away from any man who idolizes the joker

[fluffymcmuffins]

why limit yourself between choosing between a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? if persephone can be the goddess of spring & queen of the underworld at the same time so can you

[divine-rights-of-kings]

This is both against the gender roles that God put forth and in favor of the worship of pagan God’s. This is blatant satanic blasphemy

[soul-hammered]

frollo has logged tf on

[deathtokillian]

Reblog if you too are against the gender roles that God put forth and in favor of the worship of pagan Gods.

[obstinatecondolement]

I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off. 

[keeveet-talks-deactivated201612]

Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?

[schumie]

When men decided they liked them.

[startrektrashface]

this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces - early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions - but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek

[changelinglili]

I propose we call this “mentrification”

[shiralipkin]

YES

[pyro-lover]

When you attend school you are technically in story mode but once you graduate your life turns into an open world game with just side quests here and there.

[crazyshitisay]

[dcmultiverse]

DC reveals covers for first wave of DC Ink original graphic novels (x)

[ekcomics]

Now this I actually want. Wtf DC you finally getting your shit together?? After all these years I never thought I'd see

[meangirlnurse]

my family is so. fucking weird and resistant to talking about anything. when i was a small child i asked my mother why she had a lot of gifts and things where people called her by another name and she like. didn’t give me a straight answer? it was her Hebrew name. like that’s literally it. that’s all u had to say 

[meangirlnurse]

great-great-grandma cohen refused to tell her younger children that they were related to her two eldest children

[meangirlnurse]

my family didn’t tell me about part of my actual name until i sent away for my social security info to get my driver’s permit in my junior year of high school. i have an entire middle name that no one ever felt the need to mention to me

[meangirlnurse]

i had to google my own brother to find out why we don’t talk about him anymore

[meangirlnurse]

one morning in seventh grade my mother was driving me to school and asked me if she was too overprotective. i told her “yeah, sometimes.” then she casually, calmly went, “maybe it’s because you were almost kidnapped as a baby”

she didn’t even elaborate until i asked her to explain

(my father later confirmed that i was, in fact, briefly stolen as an infant)

my mom just dropped this information on me for the first time and was then like “bye honey have a good day at school”

[meangirlnurse]

no one knows great-grandma ruth’s real last name 

[ziraseal]

this is some Lemony Snicket shit right here

[ekcomics]

My dad has a half-sister that no one talks about. I didn't find out until I was in college, and even still I only know her first initial.

[mmeiccaa-blog]

Ot3 fight club posters, finished these on 2017!! 

ps: so i kinda edited the post to add hulk and black widow because wifi sucks

edit 16/1/2017: 

Soooo i was thinking to print these into shirts, notebooks, and prints. Plus!! I really want to draw Thor and Loki. If anyone interested and thought this was a good idea, maybe let me know via reply or DM!!<3

[ekcomics]

the human brain is designed to be more interested in new information than old.

which is why when people look in the mirror, many think that everyone else is more attractive than they are, and why they might play with different makeup styles and hair color to provide variety.

so remember, you’re not unattractive, your brain just already knows what you look like and tricks you into dismissing that information.

don’t let it.