#dandelionsunlight

[tenowls]

Ahhhh I'm so happy that your art exists! You draw Murderbot and friends the closest to the way they are in my head, but more beautiful :) Your art is so rich with character and expression, thank you so much for sharing it here!

ohhh this is so sweet i’m :’)))) thank u so much!!! <333

[figofswords]

Your Gideon and Harrow comics are AMAZING! I can't stop giggling over their expressions. Also am envious of Gideon's muscles and clothing. My current D&D character is based on Gideon, she's a centaur fighter, may I use your art (with credit) as her icon?

Thank you I’m glad you like them!! And yes with credit go ahead!

[dreamslessordinary]

dandelionsunlight replied to your photo “My wife and I are moving to a new apartment at the end of the month...”

Those planters are adorable! Where did you get them?

hlahlahlahlahly replied to your photo “My wife and I are moving to a new apartment at the end of the month...”

They're so cute! Are they big?

They’re from Target! (link) They’re relatively small. According to the product details “The Brachiosaurus planter measures 8’’x2.5’’x7’’ and the T-Rex planter measures 7.5’’x2.5’’x5’’ “

[ladiesoftheknight]

@dandelionsunlight replied to your photoset “ladiesoftheknight: Meet Corsa. I finally took the time to design an...”

Corsa looks like she absolutely Would bite somebody if she wanted to. (And that it would take very little for her to want to :)

[idiopathicsmile]

dandelionsunlight replied to your post: hey friends congrats on getting through another...

Planning my new D&D character for the campaign that starts Sunday. My group is full of wonderful people. Being deliberate about setting time to see friends (skype or half an hour chat after class) and to keep in touch with my parents.

happy D&Ding! having a solid group is so key. (as in life, i guess.)

[ekjohnston]

I have a question which I hope isn't too spoilery. At the end of Queen's Shadow (which I loved): Sabe doesn't seem to know about Padme's children, certainly not Luke. Bail is contacting her - of course she'll join the rebellion, and she'll do brilliantly - but I was wondering: in Return of the Jedi, Leia says she has vague memories of her mother, which Revenge of the Sith I think makes impossible. Is it Sabe whom Leia remembers? (Also thank you for Ahsoka, she made me want to be a Jedi again!)

This is 100% fan!Kate talking, I cannot stress that enough, but:

I have always believed that baby!Leia, daughter of a genius and space wizard, looked into her mother’s face as a newborn, and remembered.

Because that’s how it works when it’s fake and in space.

[gostaks]

Song recs for studying: on 8tracks: "A Sprinkle of Magic" playlist by qilderness queen; "Sundown" by tolkienne (I'll send you a song list if you can't access them). You Tube: Joe Hisaishi's piano music; St. Basil's Hymn and Whispers in the Trees (Ted Yoder); skyrim music & ambiance mixes; In the Court of the Mermaid (Friedemann Whitecka); Chaconne by Robert de Visee played by Xavier Diaz-Latorre. Toronto Consort cds - Navidad and Praetorius Christmas. All instrumental except the cds.

This is a lot of stuff so I’m gonna take my time getting through this, but it all sounds awesome :D

[ladiesoftheknight]

Hey! I used to study historical swordplay (and taught for 3ish years) and it makes me SO HAPPY that you are studying different kinds of swords (there are a lot of swords, even within the confines of the western european medieval era) for the sake of accuracy. It just. I'm so happy to see lady knights and girl squires and ladies being awesome whether or not they wield swords. Anyway your art is awesome and you are awesome and I look forward to all your art!

That’s so cool! I’m glad you’re enjoying my work! I endeavour to only break history in the “that’s cool!” way not the “that’s moronic they’d totally just get themselves killed” way! (Except Nobility I have this fun idea they strap weird bits of armour on themselves, like a single pauldron, to look tough and cool and the real fighters are sniggering. Same way high end fashion works now only a bit more metal bits…)

I’m a bit of a history nut myself (as if you couldn’t tell) but I’ve always been more focussed on the clothing aspect, starting with what women wore, and more lately men’s clothing and armours. 

I like to know what I can break I guess.

I’ve never actually looked into the fighting style or the weaponry (beyond like… this is a sword, this is an axe etc) and it wasn’t until I started drawing a scene in which Serafina has a sword fighting bout that I went “huh.. I know jack all about how actual sword fights work outside a context of TV. Film and Video Games”

Since I’ve started with history with the armours and costumes why screw it up with the fight styles? I mean I can’t be 100% accurate, it’s not my life’s study, and this world is a psuedo historical one where I have plans to mess about with the reality of history, but better to start with a solid base of knowledge as opposed to my previous knowledge base. which was “A sword is a cross shape and you swing it about a bit!”

The whole project isn’t meant to be all about complete polished comics (though hopefully there will be some) but also a place for me to explore this kind of research and share the work I make.

But certainly it’ll be about the Lady Knights! Swinging their hopefully more accurate swords!

If there’s any resources you can reccomend (esp visual ones, reading doesn’t help much lol) please do message them to me!!