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Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money
"What’s the point of supporting gay rights but nobody else’s rights. You know? Or - workers’ rights but not Women’s rights - it’s - I don’t know - illogical."
"There’s a lodge banner down in the welfare. We bring it out for special occasions. It’s a hundred years old. I’ll show it to you one day. It’s a symbol like this -
Two hands.
That’s what the labour movement means. Should mean. You support me and I support you. Whoever you are. Wherever you come from. Shoulder to shoulder. Hand to hand."
Bedivere and Kay
I'm open for private commissions again! If you're interested just email me at [email protected] or fill out this google form letting me know what you want and I'll get back to you with a quote. Prices vary depending on the complexity of the work, but generally starting from £90+ for simple character illustrations without backgrounds, and from £250+ for full illustrations.
Please note these are private commissions, so not for commercial use.
Have some extra expenses coming up this and next month so opening up for sketch commissions as well! £40 for a full body black and white character sketch, same email/google form as above.
Just a note that my commissions are still open, but I won't be available until July. Please feel free to contact me in the meantime though, and I can slot you into my schedule after June. <3
a pair of sketch commissions for @centurysong
Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!
adding Borrowbox to the list if you are in the UK - some libraries (ie the one i work for) use that instead of/ alongside libby, it's basically the same, and includes e newspapers in multiple languages and emagazines!
Thanks to everyone for your lovely responses about my wee man. Really appreciate it. Also thank you to everyone who participated in March to Camelot. Sorry I was not really on the ball this year, just coincided with a lot of other things happening.
Beltane: Spring Sketchbook 2026 by Fran on Patreon. Join Fran's community for exclusive content and updates.
I've got a new sketchbook zine up on my patreon! It's free for my patrons and just $3 for everyone else, so if you want to see some stuff I've been doodling in my sketchbooks check it out. <3
28.04.26
buried my sweet old man today
This piece was supposed to be for the March to Camelot 2026 challenge, but I hadn't finished it on time. So I present it now, two weeks after the challenge ended.
Prompt 6: Wild
Gala had a fit
High is the mountain, deep is the sea / Green is the valley where she waits for me / Wild, wild river run to my hand / Seven is the number of a man...
[yvain and the lion, for @mortiscausa’s march to camelot, for the prompt ‘wild.’]
@mortiscausa March to Camelot 2026 Reign:
Arthur yn Pen Teyrned ym Mynyw… Arthur yn Pen Teyrned yg Kelli Wig…
Arthur yn Ben Teyrned ym Penn Ryonyd yn y Gogled
Arthur as Chief of Princes in Mynyw
Arthur as Chief of Princes in Celliwig
Arthur as Chief of Princes in Pen Rhionydd in the North
Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain, ed. and trans. Rachel Bromwich (Caerdydd, 2015)
The Triads are a collective of poetic groups which likely aimed to help poets remember various aspects about mythological and historical figures. The opening triad discusses the three thrones of Britain, each of which was held by Arthur. Here, Arthur’s dominance over the island of Britain is established over all other kings and lords.
Mynyw is linked to the Latin name for Tyddewi (St Davids in English), Menevia, and once was the arch-episcopal seat in Wales. Linking Arthur in the medieval period to such an important saint like Dewi (David) would have been central to reinforcing Welsh people’s British ancestry. Here, you ca see St. Govan’s Chapel in Sir Benfro, a cliff church not far from Tyddewi.
Celliwig and Pen Rhionydd are much more difficult to define. Celliwig is situated somewhere in Cornwall, and there have been some suggestions as to where. The editor of the Trioedd, Rachel Bromwich, had suggested Kelly Rounds in particular. A number of Arthurian stories make reference to Celliwig and is the basis of Arthur’s court at the beginning of Culhwch ac Olwen. Here is the Gallos statue from the beach underneath Tintagel.
Pen Rhionydd is Arthur’s court in a place called Hen Ogledd (Old North). As a place that largely covered modern day northern England and southern Scotland, it boasts as the homeland of a number of central figures in Welsh mythology and history. Notably, the supposed founder of the Gwynedd dynasty, Cunedda Wledig, had come from the area named Manaw Gododdin. The people of Yr Hen Ogledd were also those who fought in the poem Y Gododdin, a lament for fallen soldiers at the Battle of Catraeth. This collection of elegies also contains one of the oldest references to Arthur! The picture here is of Llafn y Cewri in Llanberis. Whilst this isn’t in Yr Hen Ogledd, a huge sword is apt for such an iconic battle from Welsh literature.
The Trioedd is a fantastic collection, and contains references to numerous figures who are familiar to those interested in Arthurian literature - Myrddin, Uthyr, Gwalchmai, Cai, and Drystan (Merlin, Uther, Gawain, Kay, and Tristan in English translation) all feature in their own ways. It reflects the variety of stories surviving from medieval Wales, and perhaps some of our best insight into a number of lost figures.
@mortiscausa’s March to Camelot 2026 – Prompt 5: Enemy
"On my word," said Lancelot, "you'll see just how remarkable it is: he couldn't possibly hate me so much that I'd stop loving him. And I wouldn't have said that so directly, were it not that I'll soon know whether I'll live or die, since I have come to the point of doing battle." That is what Lancelot said about Sir Gawain.
I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind / I knew the call of all the songbirds / They sang all the wrong words / I'm waiting for you, I'm waiting for you...
[guinevere and lancelot for @mortiscausa’s march to camelot, for the prompt ‘burial.’ this one is a little bit different from my usual setting, and is instead drawing off the themes of multiplicity-in-storyline that have become a feature of arthurian retellings over the centuries. with the layering-on of influences from wherever an author's particular present happens to be. while I could make a case for this kind of thing stretching back to the medieval poets, my more direct inspiration comes from paul gadzikowski's arthur king of time and space, which I've been reading lately as both an interesting bit of modern arthuriana and also a historical documentation of the early internet webcomics scene in its own right.
the effect of this endless rephrasing, in my estimation, is a story with a hundred onionskin layers of nearly the same events, slowly slowly changing, rarely if ever ending happily. roman britain, and we'll try again. high medieval france, and we'll try again. somewhere in the midwest, 2004, and we'll try again. another author, another time, and we'll try again, and maybe in this life, we'll escape.
now, as a child of the 2000s, some of my own first experiences with these stories came from a variety of weird barely-cited folklore websites and books of unexplained mysteries, as well as roger lancelyn green's king arthur. this owes much to a snippet of text in lancelyn green, in which the legendary burial at the glastonbury abbey cemetery was not that of guinevere and arthur, but guinevere and lancelot.
all this — including the fact that the glastonbury burial legend is only turning up now in a 2011 capture of the abbey website — also influences some of my motivation to add something of an artist statement to the actual body of the post, as it'll travel and be preserved with the post in a way that my usual tag commentary doesn't. and, additionally, I wasn't particularly confident about the recognizability of my designs here. but. what if we met again with our own skeletons between us? what if we saw each other anew across the consequences of our own past tragedy?
so ends.]
March to Camelot 5: enemy
Morien saw well that his labour was in vain, for would he make the crossing there was no man would abide his coming or receive him into his boat.
(...)
"What doth it profit a man to labour if be know it to be in vain? None will take me over the water since I am a Moor, and of other countenance than the dwellers in this land; this my journey is for naught."
- Morien, translated by Jessie L. Weston
March to Camelot 2026: #2 Heir
I'm continuing with these, but I'm very much behind and none of the pictures I've done are particularly 'finished'. I'm just sketching... Number 4 is currently in the works; I still have to start on 5 and 6. The set palettes are a real struggle - I feel like I don't know how to use them and am just slapping colours on without understanding why.
Anyway: have an Arthur, with his heir Gawain (and his heir's faithful horse Gringolet, of course!).
Another #MarchToCamelot for the prompt "enemy"
Lancelot and Gawain are best friends in a lot of stories. After the fracture of Camelot, Lancelot kills Gawain's brothers and Gawain vows revenge. They fight and Lancelot injures Gawain but refuses to kill his friend.