Today in weird shit I drew:
Granted, this one is less weird, but still. Patterns! Leaves! Poor life choices! God, I love fairytales. (Also, hidden owl FTW.)
Tomorrow is for twee. Today is for NOPE.
The logic chain as I recall it: Chatting with friends about the children’s opera I’m working on (one guess which one), and how disconcerting rehearsal was because the ‘Boy’ had … Continue reading
The Snow Queen (the other one)
I asked this on Facebook already, but who’s read Joan D. Vinge’s ‘The Snow Queen’? It’s a big juicy sci-fi novel based on the fairytale, and it’s pretty splendid. I … Continue reading
Nipple warning? And I swear a lot, too.
Anyone who thinks the Little Mermaid isn’t a hard-core bitch hasn’t read the original story. First, she doesn’t do it all for some dude, she basically uses the dude to … Continue reading
The Snow Queen! The original one, not the sci-if one. She’ll happen soon enough.
Oh, so many things to say about this fairytale. Genda is fantastic and perseveres gamely through everything to save her childhood friend, even though the last time she saw him, … Continue reading
Trigger warning?
So usually this is where, if you haven’t read the book, I say to do so, but there’s a caveat this time. Robin McKinley’s Deerskin is an amazing and wonderful … Continue reading
Aerin-sol!
I think one of the things I especially love about Aerin is that, when she realizes (spoiler) she’s in love with two different men, she doesn’t agonize over it. She … Continue reading
One more black and white, just because.
I feel more confident that lots of you have read The Hero and the Crown, because I read it in school, and because it’s probably McKinley’s best-known book. Yerigs! Folstza! … Continue reading
Oh, all right. Have some colour! Have ALL the colours!
Again, ‘Spindle’s End’, Robin McKinley. READ IT.
Colour is overrated, right?
You get black & white today, both because this one kind of got away from me and the colouring is INTENSIVE, and because look how pretty! Did that sound conceited? … Continue reading
Neurotic Owl 