#wanda vitkus

[stephaniemccrea]

Some quick sketches from the other night, not super refined or anything, but I've been burning through Spinning Silver by @naominovik . I had to just had to do a sketch of these three ladies; whom I love so much.

One day will hopefully get to some Uprooted sketches, but I devoured that book. I just was so in love with the writing and characters, I went straight onto her other book without pausing to doodle.

[carfuckerlynch]

miryem arriving in the staryk kingdom and irina arriving in koron, both without any other options: hm. i think i will cause problems on purpose

wanda, minding her own damn business, also with no other options: please god can’t i have one normal day

[stromuprisahat]

Stepon and Sergey went to eat right away, but I couldn’t feel hungry. I was hungry, but there was a pain in my stomach when I looked at the food, and I said to Panova Mandelstam, “We are not any good to you here,” and I almost said, We should go, but I couldn’t, because we didn’t have anywhere to go, unless we did turn into birds and fly away.  Panova Mandelstam looked at me surprised. “Wanda!” she said. “After all the help you have been to us? Am I to say, Oh, but what good is she to me now?” She reached out and took my face in her hands and shook me a little back and forth. “You are a good girl with a good heart. So much work you’ve done without a word of complaint. Since you came into my house, I did not have to lift a hand. Before I thought of doing a thing it was done. I was sick, but because you were there helping, I grew well again. And you never ask for a thing. It’s only what we press into your hands that you take. So now you must let me do it.”  “What you press in my hands is more than all I have!” I said, because it hurt to hear her saying those things that were not true, as if I had only come and helped her to be good, and not because I wanted silver, and wanted to be safe.  “Then you don’t have enough, and I have more than I need,” she said.

Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik)

This is such a beautiful description of kindness.

[mercutiotakethewheel]

I know I already made this joke with the spiderman meme but this format is just too hard to resist

[theoppositeofprofound]

[Image description: Ron Swanson “I have a permit” image except Ron has been replaced with a drawing of a blonde girl in european folk clothing. She’s saying “Not to worry, I have a permit.” Second image shows piece of paper that says “Wanda can do what she wants” signed by “Tsar Mirnatius” and “The Queen of the Staryk”.]

[multifru196]

Wanda Vitkus from Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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