#the fallow year

[what-eats-owls]

Some lovely folks have asked if they can donate to me directly to help with my cat's end-of-life bills, and while I can't really accept that when so many people are struggling, what I can offer is a pay-what-you-want eBook of The Fallow Year on Ko-Fi! I cannot stress enough that this is virtually identical to the version still available on AO3, just in handy epub format.

He may have gone ahead of me down the road, but I'm not above using any and every excuse to show pictures of my old man, so: here he is on what was his final Saturday. However soft he looks, I promise you he was softer. ❤️

[tiaragloryart]

Everyone join her cult NOW!! it's her BIRTHDAY <3

@what-eats-owls will we ever get The Fallow Year 2?? The Unfallow Year, if you will. I need an excuse to open ao3 again

[onyx-plutos-moon]

Work was so fucking boring so I started planning a Vanric animatic to The Subway by Chappell Roan

SPOILERS FOR THE LITTLE THIEVES TRILOGY

Anyway, the most basic sketch for this shit

I need to re-read The Fallow Years (the reason I think this song is so fucking perfect for them) taking place between the end of Painted Devils and Vanjas 'death' in Holy Terrors. You can clearly see where I started with this, and the chorus is gonna start with Emeric becoming a full prefect because VANJA AND HER RED HAIR AND HER GODMOTHER MARKS ARE IN THE FUCKING CROWD OKAYYYYYY

'A few weeks later, somebody wore your perfume. It almost killed me, I had to leave the room' YOU MEAN WHEN EMERIC WAS TRYING TO SOLVE A MURDER AND VANJA WAS THERE AND HE WAS LOSING IT BECAUSE HE KEPT SMELLINH ROSES AND ORANGE?????? YOU MEAN THAT SCENE??? (Thats why this is the perfect song for them, okay?)

Second chorus starts with like, either Vanja getting caught by Emeric in the cathedral and flying for a sec, or her meeting Lilje and seeing the rings. "Well fuck this city, I'm moving to Saskatchewan" will be Vanjas 'forget all my crimes' thing

Vanric antagonizing eachother vanric antagonizing eachother vanric antagonizing eachother

'Till I can break routine during foreplay' I want this to be aftermath of Junior clawing Emerics dick because I want more Lilje content because I love her

The 'shes got away's will be a mix of Vanja leaving Emeric (throwing him off the balcony, jumping off the bridge) and Emerics achievements Vanja is scared she'll ruin OR them slowly getting close again and really struggling with it (its one of them, ans personally I want to try draw Vanja throwing herself off tge bridge with Emeric following without hesitation. Them getting separated again and again would work in this section, okay?????)

The end of the animatic? Vanja getting stabbed in the heart and Emeric being prepared to kill himself to save her

Anyway this is all just a hypothetical, im not really an artist, just bored at work and wanting to try see this concept, yknow????? If someone can make this happen, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[pidge-the-pigeon]

I just finished rereading The Fallow Year by Margaret Owen and oh my gosh I love it so much more upon reading it a second time. And yes, the last two chapters are just as painful to read the second time. The angst is immaculate.

Anyway, now I’m just waiting for my physical copy of Holy Terrors to arrive and then I can reread that!

I could just reread it on my Kindle, which I’m half tempted to do, but I really wanna reread all the books physically and I’m so close to completing that goal 😭

[notshounenprot]

tbh i really wish vanja and emeric were a sapphic couple

[waywardlampcookieturkey]

A boy she's been sleeping with: *is about to break up with her*

Vanja: nuh-uh, I'M breaking up with YOU

Vanja: *escapes out the window*

She's so insane, I love her

[specks-of-time]

[Emeric had] “set records for reading speed in the prefect training academy” WHEEZ did they have comprehension questions at the end or was it Lincoln-Douglas debate style i need to know

[sarcasmiclife]

Anyone here who has read Holy Terrors?? I really need someone to talk to about it