Running off klah and rage

40's, queer, drowning. Art by Steve Weston

[spindelsart]

Dutch evolution through the years

its been a few years, but I tried to put them in order from the oldest to the newest. its mostly for myself, I think its fun to see the style change by learning more, yet some details remain

[theghostofmamahex]

I'm still kind of appalled that after everything Menolly went through, from escaping her awful life and surviving holdless, being bullied and belittled, to finally being recognised and having her talents nurtured and shared, that she wasn't named Masterharper of Pern after Robinton stepped down.

I get that women didn't traditionally have a good time of it on Pern, but the whole story of Menolly was that yes, women CAN be harpers, and walk the tables, even if it was a new and shocking concept to most people. So why, WHYYYY wasn't that carried on, and she could have been the first woman master harper to have been THE masterharper. That should have been the conclusion to her story and the beginnings of things being changed on Pern, just before AIVAS really did change things.

But no, she was simply the wife of the guy who became masterharper. It was dissapointing, to say the least.

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I always find it strange how every fantasy/sci-fi world call space ships ships. Why are they universally known as ships? I get the reference to ocean ships, as in, ships that travel in space or sky rather than ships that travel in the sea, but...why? Most of the time, they don't resemble ships at all. So a civilisation suddenly uncovering the vessels their ancestors came to the planet on, who have no records of their ancient past and have never even thought about flying ships (I'm re-reading the dragons of pern books), discovering these things in orbit and buried underground, all know them to be ships.

In fact, I can't think of a single book or film where spaceships are called anything other than ships.

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I found the full cover art for Nerilka's story on reddit. My favourite cover and my favourite colour dragon. By Steve Weston.

[dailydragons]

Swedish book cover of Eragon by Martin Bergström (website)

[coffeedragonart]

Sometimes, when a wishing well has taken many, many offerings, all that gold starts to attract wildlife…

[helenedraws]

what's he sniffing for under that mushroom?

[mayaohmu]

On the wings of evening ~