Weekly thingy and The Sun/East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Do people mostly know this one? I’m never sure – I’ve drawn a few versions of it over the years in a few media, plus drawings of Lyra riding Bjorn in His Dark Materials, and they were always kind of a hit, but I never know if that’s because everyone just likes girls riding bears. Which, fair, same.
Anyhoo, it’s another enchanted prince variation – the girl rides off with the prince to stay a year and a day in his castle, fucks up by using a candle to see what he looks like at night when he’s human (very Psyche and Eros), and he’s snatched away to a troll castle where she has to follow him and save him.
I LOVE it. Young girl on a quest, check. She’s the heroine and he’s mostly along for the ride, check. She uses various homely skills as part of her strategy to save him, check check. It’s all a delight.
Also, I really really wanted to put the little Robber Girl in Sami dress back when I did the Lovers, but I wasn’t going to tie an indigenous culture to horrible abusive possibly cannibalistic robbers, so I’m delighted to have an uncomplicatedly heroic character who makes sense for it instead.
Places to buy stuff!
- TEEPUBLIC: mostly t-shirts, a few other products. Watch for sales, when shirts drop from $20 to $14!
- REDBUBBLE: Just, I don’t know, a ton of different stuff. T-shirts are more expensive than Teepublic, but there are a lot more options.
- AMAZON: Home of the Geeky Gals Coloring Book! Daydreams and Whimsies! AND NOW, The Neurotic Owl Compendium!
- ETSY: paper dolls, a knitting bag pattern, and a bunch of vintage dolls of various sorts from my collection
Did I miss something? I think that’s everything.
What’s making me happy this week:
- I know this is Norway, not Iceland, but a story with cold weather and trolls just reminds me now that it’s been at least a month or two since I rewatched the hot mess that is ‘Eurovision Song Contest: The story of Fire Saga’ (defintely just googled the actual title) and weirdly for someone who generally hates Will Ferrell I LOVE that movie, The elves went too far!
Neurotic Owl 