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Scribbled Felix and Mildmay because I love them.

Then I figured I'd color this because today (Dec. 29) is the birthday of Felix Harrowgate!

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So I'm starting The Virtu-

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Hehehe thriftbooks had them all

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I think about this conversation from Corambis chapter 7 constantly and was sad that I never finished the more detailed version I had planned, so I repurposed it into a cute little experiment.

Please enjoy this bonus Felix face from the first draft. He is my favorite.

#doctrine of labyrinths #corambis #felix harrowgate #mildmay foxe #sarah monette #this was a fun experiment because I got to try out some effects I wanted to try #and also because i had to hold in my brain the whole time that they are not in the same bed for this conversation #but the composition is funnier to me this way soOOOOO #i have to make this cute so that when i inevitably do the scene where felix is like hey :) mildmay :) ya wanna drown me ?? :) :)#i can break my heart to a million pieces #fanart

OK, so I've had a realization...

...and I kind of hate it. So, I'm rereading the Doctrine of Labyrinths series, and I'm partway through The Virtu, and I've noticed some things that I somehow didn't the first few times I read it.

I've always imagined it as a sort of generic sword-and-sorcery fantasy setting, kind of like Game of Thrones, or whatever. Melusine is very French-influenced (centimes are a unit of money, the days sound like bastardizations of French days of the week, the name of the main river the "Sim" sounds sort of similar to the "Seine" when said aloud, etc.), but in my head all the Lower City inhabitants sound like Dickensian toughs (basically a Cockney accent, or what have you). They mention a country/region called Norvena, which, from the physical description of its inhabitants sounds kind of Scandinavian (lots of tall blonds). All the names in Troia sound very Greek, as do all the city names. The fall of the ancient cities sound like the fall of Rome, or Babylon, or something. The crew of the ship Morskaiakrov are from the Merrows, which is clearly eastern European (names like Piotr, and Ilya, and things like that; "Morskaiakrov" is literally a Russian word that means "sea blood"). All sort of European-sounding things. But throughout the books, they (specifically Mildmay) makes mention of some peculiar things, considering the European-heavy descriptions otherwise. Specifically -

swamps

rattlesnakes & cottonmouths

skunks

"gators"

buffalo

BARBECUE SAUCE

...and I had a horrific thought. Are they...American??!? As in, are they in North America??? Maybe Canada? Are "the Duchies" the States?? And the French-influence of Melusine is, like, Quebecois? Does Mildmay...sound like a redneck? Because all his I-ain't-this and it-don't-mean-nothing-that can, in theory, work with a Cockney accent, but...it can also work with a twang from the Tennessee mountains. Which is where the author grew up, according to the bio in the back of the book. He doesn't go so far as "y'all", thank goodness. EDIT: He even says "y'all" at one point (repeatedly, about 4 times in 2 or 3 pages). But it just makes more sense to me that, when Felix's "old voice" from Simside comes out in times of stress, he goes from sounding plummy to sounding like a Dickensian gutter-rat.

I don't know what to do with this information. And I kind of hate it. I can't get twangy-Mildmay out of my head, and I want to go back to the Cockney cat-burglar I fell for when I was 14. Help.

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THE DOCTRINE OF LABYRINTHS BY SARAH MONETTE/KATHERINE ADDISON IS BACK IN EBOOKS IN FULL!!!!

All four books released same day, July 11, 2023! They're now under the Katherine Addison name and the covers are new! You can order them now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Google, and Kobo!!!

English audiobooks, narrated by Shawn K. Jain, have also been released!

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“I really think if he’d thought he could get me to go along with it, he would’ve challenged me to a duel. But I ain’t a gentleman, and duels are just fancy knife fights and just as fucking stupid.”

-Mildmay, Corambis

#Mildmay is a saint #he should stab Felix for fun #Felix harrowgate #Mildmay foxe #katherine addison #sarah monette #doctrine of labyrinths #corambis

check it out y’all, Hot Topic is selling a Mildmay pin

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