#carlyle foster

[gloamses]

a little perhapsthestars!carlyle. I have not drawn in so long.

[irradiate-space]

Carlyle Foster rushed up behind the attackers now, his wrap and long scarf fluttering like silks around a fleeing nymph. His talk with Bryar Kosala the afternoon before had done much to revive his spirits, though he would have risen full of strength that day regardless, for March the twenty-seventh was sacred to Asclepius, Dionysus, Rama, the bodhisattva Tara, the Egyptian powers Neteret Renenutet and Neter Nepri, and to St. Rupert of Salzburg, a day on which men honored their Creator in many ways in ages past, and still do today.

[irradiate-space]

He gave a strong, calm smile, for our Carlyle had risen full of strength that day, March the twenty-fifth, the first day of the medieval new Year, a festival of spring, as well as the Feast of the Annunciation, a day on which men had honored their Creator in many ways in ages past, and still do today.

[gloamses]

more terra ignota doodles bc I just finished twtb. madame, carlyle in her existential despair era, jedd, & dominic in his no skin on his face era

[gloamses]

fuck it, terra ignota favs (as of ss) while Im waiting

I dont have my copies on hand because Im at panera so soz if these arent canon compliant Im going off memory and vibes

[shiroxix]

I know that it’s literally six years old at this point, but you have no idea how deeply your Carlyle art has supplied my blorbo need. <3

Aaaa that's so nice! I need to do more art of them. More art of everyone from Terra Ignota tbh.

[voidmountain]

if Dominic’s hair is supposed to be brown no it isn’t 😌

[shadeslayer]

Two important characters—notably Dominic Seneschal and Carlyle Foster—would consider themselves transgender if they lived today, but the Terra Ignota future hits them with a different set of problems from today’s.  While gendered pronouns aren’t a daily issue, people still demand and enforce unspoken gender conformity in often-unconscious but still emotionally hurtful ways, but since the society denies the existence of gender, Carlyle lacks an apparatus for articulating and processing the pain of being misgendered, and there is no trans label to embrace, nor trans community through which to find solidarity and help; Dominic in contrast grew up in a segregated community that still uses archaic gender expression, so he has the tools to express his gender, but is consequently viewed with confusion and discomfort by the rest of the world. 

Ada Palmer, A Society That (Pretends It) Doesn’t Recognize Gender (2021)