ViolinSolos

19th Century stuff, occasionally using my doctorate to validate transformative works and fandom nonsense, mostly here for obscure historical art & fashion posts. Happy to answer questions about the 19th C. so I can split academia open like an egg and spill its knowledge to the people. Terror AMC, Nancy Drew, Black Sails, historical dramas.

[cosmicyeehaws]

my close personal friends john fogg and charles chambers from the new year's day podcast by @atypicalartists @thelaurenshippen

[shaderunnerscomic]

Hi everyone! Swinging by here during our hiatus for an exciting development: my first traditionally published novel has been announced and will be out November 2026. It's a book about holographically-resurrected ghosts with a lot of similar themes to Shaderunners and lots of romance and mystery, something I've been pitching as Murderbot meets Beetlejuice in a Queer blender. Please spread the word if you know anyone who would be interested! Thanks so much!

--Lin

Pre-Order Info Here for ebooks!

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Or order through your local retailer! Preordering especially really helps out new authors, so if you're interested, I'd appreciate it! No pressure, of course.

Plot Summary

Hildy Doval is dead—and still unemployed.

Humanity wasn't quite ready for immortality, even in 3025. Ever since the Flicker/Helix company "cured" death with technologically advanced holographic hardware, flicker ghosts have been secondary citizens, lacking purpose and agency.

Spending her afterlife in a boarding house in Hypatia City, Hildy is the least-requested flicker-ghost at Carlotta Sun's Purgatory House for Spectral Services. At Carlotta Sun's, Hildy competes daily for ghost gigs against her more marketable housemates: the flighty musician Eyvind, desperate to compose the masterpiece he never got to in life, and Anjali, an imperious silent-film extra whose single surviving motion picture shot her to post-mortem stardom despite it being based on a lie.

Meanwhile, a shadowy, headless ghost called the Graverobber has been spotted emerging from holographic billboards, snatching the resurrected from their so-called lives and sowing chaos throughout the city. When one of their fellow boarders goes missing, Hildy and her friends find themselves at the center of a highly publicized mystery. With only two months to go before a crucial election that'll decide the future of all specters, they must determine who the Graverobber is―and, more importantly, where they belong in this dead new world.

[alexassan]

ever since you posted those ezra and easton doodles all the way back from 2018 in the shaderunners comment section and they've been living in my mind for 1 MILLION years, i was wondering if there are more posts like this on your blog or anywhere else? And if you could share them? I miss scruffy easton so bad you have no idea. you have no idea. god. WOW.

(Also cause I've been scrolling for like 10 minutes and I'm only slightly worried that I'm searching for, like, the One Piece or something LOL)

I'm guessing you mean this one?

There is more Shaderunners art on @shaderunnerscomic, tagged as 'Alex's art' and with whatever character is in the pic. Here are a couple more Ezra/Easton sketches that I don't think I've ever posted there, though:

Enjoy!

[abstractfrog]

Death By Dying - Season 1

[winterwrens]

[abstractfrog]

Happy pride from Crestfall :)

[c-leadraw]

New Year's Day by @atypicalartists @thelaurenshippen

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A Reichenbach Falls embroidery inspired by the brilliant @contact-guy Watson's Sketchbook. Make me feel things and I must stab things artistically.

[virgothozul]

😭 They’ve been keeping up with each other for so long ??

[pmamtraveller]

Claude Monet by Thomas Bossard

[abstractfrog]

a one-timing… something.

+ bonus sunglasses

[oneheadtoanother]

[violinsolos]

Reading this made me wonder what Canadian sci-fi would be.

(As I am Canadian and as I have a scifi book about Queer holographic ghosts coming out in November, I think my biased answer would be "the future is still funny and hopeful even when bad things happen and at least we all have therapists in our toasters now" but I think the general trend might be more "society will inevitably do to itself what society has done to nature").

[books0977]

Woman reading (c.1912). Karl Alexander Wilke (1879 Leipzig - 1954 Wien). 

Wilke was a German-Austrian painter, illustrator and stage designer. From 1905 to 1918 he was a staff member of the Austrian humour/men’s magazine, Die Musketethe.

[youremysputnik]

the thought of them going mr. the weeknd sir we need the rights to blinding lights so rizzo the rat can sing it…

[cartoonyhappyface]

[razzlebathrobe]

Basil Rathbone as Lord Arthur Dilling & Norma Shearer as Fay Cheyney in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)

[victusinveritas]