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I WRITE AND I DRAW AND I LURK A LOT *** New art blog at sckryart ***

[riversname]

Annie Louisa Swynnerton - 26 February 1844 – 24 Octobre 1933, England - “The Glow Worm”  

[gettothedancing]

This painting is frequently mis-attributed to Annie, but it seems to be a case of sources pointing backwards to nowhere. The artist could be an unknown artist from the Pre Raphaelite (1848-1890) or Arts and Crafts period (1880-1920). One person guesses it may have been by Edward Robert Hughes, some of whose paintings were only recently uncovered and exhibited.

[copperplatebeech]

I can't tell anyone what to like or not like, but as far as the season 3 "finale" being something Sir Terry would have written or endorsed -- a position I've actually seen expressed more than once -- I offer the last paragraphs of Good Omens, The Book.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot... no, imagine a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human... Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield. ...for ever.

I submit humbly that that ending is not the voice of a writer (the interview in the illustrated tie-in edition specifies that "the kids mostly originated with Terry") who would ultimately be down with annihilation as the Only Solution To The Problems Of The World.

Bonus reminder: I'm betting this passage is Terry's ("vanload of hippies on a blotterful of Owsley's Old Original" has that ring to it). I ask you, does it describe a character who would only a few years later in story time -- after sixty centuries of ups and downs -- (1) wallow indefinitely in a drunken sulk, and then (2) tell God to finish erasing the world, including himself and his best friend, and start over?

Because, underneath it all, Crowley was an optimist. If there was one rock-hard certainty that had sustained him through the bad times -- he thought briefly of the fourteenth century -- then it was utter surety that he would come out on top; that the universe would look after him. Okay, so Hell was down on him. So the world was ending. So the Cold War was over and the Great War was starting for real. So the odds against him were higher than a vanload of hippies on a blotterful of Owsley's Old Original. There was still a chance.

That is all.

[sapierror]

also, I really don't know how to phrase this but to me the finale misses the joke, you know?

it forgets that the christian cosmology was the setting, told through corporate satire, not the villain. even God wasn’t an active tyrant; she was an absent CEO, leaving individual contributors like Aziraphale and Crowley to realize their job descriptions were irrelevant to the company's bottom line anyway, so they coasted by on minimum effort

that corporate satire was what allowed this to be a comedy, a space to tell a beautiful story about choices, humanity, and love. the finale for some reason treats that background seriously, it turns that setting into an omnipotent, dystopian threat, which completely suffocates both the romance and the humor by replacing a petty system you can outwit, outsmart, outmanouver with a bleak, unearned nightmare where "the company controls your every breath, and you can never clock out"

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story about two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[onetobeamupart]

Daine the Wild Mage of the Immortals quartet, the original blorbo.

[bethfuller]

ੈ✧̣̇˳·˖✶ ✦ delete world? ੈ✧̣̇˳·˖✶ ✦

˚　　　　✦　　　.　　. 　 ˚　.　　　　　 . ✦　　　 　˚　　　　 . ★⋆. 　

[bowelfly]

couple little art trade doodles for @iguanodont

[iguanodont]

YIPPEE

And here’s what I drew for @bowelfly !

[stonedrunkwizard]

Another week's worth of bird people.

[keibay]

Piece by Piece ....

[commissions]

[rayleearts]

Knight of Cups 💚

[talesofarkuode]

Welcome to my worldbuilding project!

I’ve been working on a personal worldbuilding project for a while, that takes heavy influence from Gnostic and other esoteric traditions. The focus will be varying aspects of religion, society, cosmology and magic of the fictional continent of Arkuode. 

Please enjoy my first post, a look into the Powers known a Luminaries and their place in the world!

[night-the-starfish]

Hunter and prey, markers on paper.

[meaniezucchini]

the contrast between how gandalf and saruman spend the beginning to fellowship is so funny

[sanctus-ingenium]

more perfect than i was

[hollow-head]

A missing scene. Thanks for all the fanart and fic throughout the years, you guys

[miroimirage]

Reminiscing.... I felt so incredibly strongly about these two when ACOFAF released that I could not even bring myself to draw them, so this is for past me! They are still very dear to me <3

[alwaysbeyondhope]

OMG I’m in love!! I just finished the campaign and they are so dear to me and this is definitely my favorite campaign and this fan art is exactly what I’ve been looking for!!

[morphmaker]

are there palm tree Ents