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Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme // of things not found within recorded time.  

[magica-pseudoacademica]

“According to Lithuanian etiological tales, blood is older than fire, which itself had been formed from the blood of mythical or biblical personages. It is thought, for example, that hell came to existence from Lucifer’s boiling and burning blood. Another version of the tale says that it was Jesus who shed his blood and made the burning hell. It is primeval fire, since there was at that time no fire either on the earth or in heaven. God sent a swallow (Lith., kregžde) to bring fire from hell and, because it brought that fire, swallows have red marks under their necks and on their tails.”

— Daiva Vaitkevičienė, “The Rose and Blood: Images of Fire in Baltic Mythology” in Cosmos: The Journal of the Traditional Cosmology Society (2003) 19(1):21-42.

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Martin and Isobel, since I realized I apparently never formally posted the Martin one on tumblr? Best magic knights.

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Isobel, inspired by this dress.

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For in one hour is thy judgement come.

Kenna-as-Cuezaltzin, because I feel like all the art I do of Kenna is more soft and stylized. Tried something new with the glow effect here, too.

[surroundedbyselcouth]

Ireland’s darkest, oddest and weirdest secrets uncovered

From banshees, to people who had mermaid lovers, crowdsourced stories reveal a different country

“Half a million pages have been digitised by the National Folklore Collection, of which more than 100,000 pages have now been transcribed by volunteers, revealing the fairy situation in every townland, the types of leprechaun and butter churn common to each area, the names of people who tried to steal gold and what happened to them, or who had relationships with mermaids. There is material on local cures, holy wells, strange animals, travelling folk and spirits.”

[queerasfolkmagic]

Oh. My. God.

Well, that’s reading material for the next decade sorted.

[old-mother-hubbard]

As if I didn’t have enough to catch up on.

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The stars are blazing like rebel diamonds cut out of the sun- Can you read my mind?

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Where there's a will, there's a way, kinda beautiful And every night has its day, so magical And if there's love in this life, there's no obstacle That can't be defeated

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It’s been a While since I tried to animate anything, but here’s a messily colored animation of Kenna...or Cuezaltzin, possibly.

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Isobel Jagodin, for once without her armor on. And she was called the greatest of all the Guardians, Isobel the Sorrow-Sword.

She’s a professional high femme Sword Lesbian and I draw her way too much. It took me a full one and a half listens of the Les Mis soundtrack to finish this illustration.

EDIT: I beg of you open this in a new tab, tumblr killed the quality.

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Day of wrath and doom impending. David's word with Sibyl's blending, Heaven and earth in ashes ending.

I’m done with NaNoWriMo, and that means I can go back to working on the Children of Light books! Anyway, here’s an older Kenna-Cuezaltzin (17-18?) at full power. Fun to draw her without trying to worry about child proportions.

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NaNo Novel Introduction 2018: All Things Bright & Holy

 All Things Bright & Holy is a high fantasy novel set in Dein Emlyn, a small country bordered on three sides by the mountains and the sea. The last border is a great forest, said to hold the land of Faerie somewhere within it. Randale Tarmon is a small-town priest who has the Second Sight and serves as a reluctant monster hunter to keep escapees from Faerie away from his town.

Briet Kherington is an alchemist, and the long-lost heir to the throne of Dein Emlyn. She and her troop of mercenaries are hunting a fae creature called the Kingmaker to solidify her right to rule, and she forces a reluctant Randale to accompany her into the Deep Forest to use his abilities to find the Kingmaker.

Already working for Kherington are two magic-users from Alishema, the desert country across the southern mountains, and Vervain the Witching Man, an irritable young apothecary and part-time monster hunter. 

The cruel queen’s hunters are closing in on the group, and they must flee into the woodlands of faerie and seek out power greater than that of mortal men to stand a chance of victory- or even survival.

[improbabilefashionista]

Tadashi Shoji at New York Fashion Week Fall 2017

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Randale Tarmon, the main character of my 2018 NaNoWriMo novel! He’s a small-town priest of the Goddess and the main protector of his town against the fey, since he has the second sight. 

He might also be a changeling.

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Who lays all the best-laid plans?

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I watched a few episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion today and then I really wanted to draw Kenna and Cuezaltzin,

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The tempest crackles on the leads, And, ringing, springs from brand and mail; But o'er the dark a glory spreads, And gilds the driving hail. 

-From Sir Galahad, by Alfred Tennyson

Some long-overdue redraws of Guardian Isobel Jagodin, Sorrow-Sword, Wrath of the Illuminated, and Guardian Martin Swift!

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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. 

-Robert Frost

Lord Tokala Langborn and Kenna the Fire Bleeder, from my Children of Light project! 

Redraws of the art of them I did last fall- (Tokala, Kenna)