i’ve just pulled out 44 sapphic books from my bookshelves so i can make a petty point that the whole “there just aren’t any well written sapphic books!” argument is bollocks. i’m making a video of them all, but in the meantime:
sapphic book recs:
- rosewater, liv little
- tipping the velvet, sarah waters
- milk fed, melissa broder
- she who became the sun, shelley parker-chan
- briefly a delicious life, nell stevens
- gentlest of wild things, sarah underwood
- the naked light, bridget collins
- the safe keep, yael van der wouden
- the original, nell stevens
- the tarot reader of versailles, anya bergman
- sargassa,, sophie burnham
- a line you have traced, roisin dunnett
- the lighthouse at the edge of the world, j r dawson
- sunburn, chloe michelle howarth
- ordinary saints, niamh ni mhaoileoin
- lessons in magic and disaster, charlie jane anders
- when devils sing, xan kaur
- accidental darlings, crystal jeans
- heap earth upon it, chloe michelle howarth
- hijab butch blues, lamya h
- that green eyed girl, julie owen moylan
- the devil she knows, alexandria bellefleur
- sweet bitter song, rosie hewlett
- nevada, imogen binnie
- delilah green doesn’t care, ashley herron blake
- iris kelly doesn’t doesn’t date, ashley herron blake
As you may have heard, Gallaplacidia will be taking down her work from AO3 and the Gallapod. However, she said in her announcement email that saving and sharing her work is fine with her, so I've archived it all here.
Here you'll find:
Epub downloads of all her fics from AO3
MP3s of the entire Gallapod, organized by fic and edited to include all the relevant metadata
If you love her work, I'd highly encourage you to download all of it for yourself. Please let me know if you find any errors in my labeling. Otherwise, enjoy!
Cam across some artwork so I trust you 100%! Do you have a Drarry Fic recommendations???
Don't mind me replying to this late!! I've had a bit of Drarry reading lull but have been pulled back in thanks to regency Drarry, The Devoted Gentleman by Fluffy_Underneath, the classic Dwelling by aideomai, and a fun reread of Higher and Higher (Temptation) by birdsofshore!
I rarely get through 200k fics but I'm also about halfway through The Brightest Constellations of Our Souls by thecouchsofa and I'm obsessed!!
Hi! My friend is a big fan of your art, and they asked me to ask you for tips on how you draw hair. I'm no artist, so I probably shouldn't be the one to ask these questions, but would you mind sharing a few suggestions? Any pointers about your character designs or your art style would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much, and hope you're having a good day! <3
Hiya!! I tried to breakdown my approach to drawing hair here, but these are by no means hard and fast rules! Hope this helps :)
1: The Hairline
I usually start with the hairline. I like to break it down into 4 main sections, that I can play around with:
I like to try to line up the temple section with the ridge of the side plane of the head
Try to have the hairline follow the natural flow and planes of the head
There's a gap between the hairline and the ear (often it gets covered up by longer strands of hair, but if you're drawing a short cut or pulled back hair, you'll probably see it)
2: The Silhouette
I like to draw out the silhouette next. Sometimes I'll use the lasso and fill tool, so I don't get wrapped up in extraneous details.
Try focusing on finding an appealing shape for the hair, and how it will frame the face
Consider how thick you want the hair to be and it's texture
(I find this is also a good time to flip the canvas to make sure the weight feels balanced)
Try to avoid having tangents with facial features, if you're drawing bangs or face framing pieces
Keep in mind how outside factors may affect the hair (like if there's a breeze, or if the character is lying down, or if they've tucked a piece behind their ear, ect.)
Try to keep shape variation in mind. A small shape next to a big shape is often more appealing than 2 medium shapes side by side
I also like to play with a lot of straight/curved line variations to make the shapes look interesting
3: Flow & Volumes
(I usually just visualize this step, rather than drawing it out like this)
Basically try breaking down your silhouette into big volumes, and know where the hair pieces coming from and where they're going.
^For example, the hair on top, is brushed froward, with no defined part, so the chunks that we can see start at a cowlick at the back of the head and spiral out from there. The hair on the bottom however starts at the part, shwoops up, and then cascade down in 2 layers.
^Another note: more layers usually means more volume wherever the layers are placed, longer hair pieces will weigh the hair down, meaning less volume.
4: Details
Once I have an idea of what the hair is doing, I draw out the chunks of hair, following the volumes and flow I've mapped out. Sometimes I'll do a little bit of hatching to indicate volume or texture.
I often like to choose 1 or 2 shapes for my clumps, based on the hair texture, and then repeat those shapes throughout:
Vairy the size of your clumps
Beware of overworking it at this stage, sometimes less is more yk? And too much detail near the face can be distracting
Make lines on the silhouette and lines closer to the front thicker (especially if it's overlapping another line)
You don't have to draw every strand. Sometimes I'll break up big clumps with a thinner inner line, but I try not to go overboard with this. You can also indicate strands by adding little cutouts to the silhouette, like this:
5: Rendering
My process for rendering hair is pretty much the same as it is for anything else. Base colour layer>shadow layer>highlight layer.
I like to use the lasso/fill tool here again for shadows, and then soften them up a bit by going over some of the harsh lines with a pencil brush
For shadows, I usually just do a multiply layer with a lowered opacity, clipped to the base colour layer and then use a bright red or purple colour
Highlights and shadows can also be used to indicate more hair clumps that you haven't drawn in
Try to think of the shadows as big graphic shapes, that fall where the light won't hit, and wrap around the forms of the hair
I personally don't like to go crazy on the highlights, but when I do, it's usually for dark hair, since shadows don't show up as well on darker hair
Shiny glossy hair, usually has brighter highlights with harsher edges
Also black hair isn't usually pure black unless it's a stylization thing or the lighting is reeeally dark
Sometimes once I fill in the hair, I'll look at it and go "ew why's it look dumb now?" Sometimes the warp or liquify tool can help with refining the proportions to rectify this and sometimes you just have to cut your loses and redraw stuff :P
Then as a final touch a may add a few stray strands of hair that break off from the main shape
Ok that's all! Hope your friend has fun drawing hair! Have a great day <33
My boy Ivan kisses tf out of Till, looks deep into his eyes and then does something very silly. Till was left high and dry and with a dead body....he couldn't even ask "wait,what are we now?"😭😭😭
