If I had a coin for every time I read The Left Hand of Darkness, I'd have one coin. And that is because of self-preservation.
Illustrations by David Lupton from the Folio Society edition of The Left Hand of Darkness.
"As if choice, carefully bred into your nature by grief and training and hardship, was any choice at all."
- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
"know the ways"
a collage I made a while back when I had a thing for lichens and Hildegard of Bingen and decided to blend the two in an art piece because frankly, why not??
Rose Aguineau is what I aspire to be , fucking a cryptid guy , living alone in the frozen tundra with weed and music , the way she dresses up for Christmas ( the red dress) and gets out the fine china for only herself...
You're an angel, I'm a dog Or you're a dog and I'm your man You believe me like a god I'll destroy you like I am
For @taimizuweek — Day 10: Devotion
An involutionary history.
I made this a while ago, but thought I'd post it anyway.
It has been hard to create anything at all in the past year, but I feel as though I am slowly learning to claim my creativity back over the busy, wearisome, demanding everyday -- so I guess that's growth.
Old sketch found buried in desk mess.
Aquiline noses of all kinds, you will always be my favourites ❤️🔥
I had a sick moment where I pondered what exactly Mizu’s sleeves look like under her robes, and I was like “well probably like what Ashitaka is wearing when he takes off his robes to help the women in the forge in his iconic Female Gaze Moment™️ from Princess Mononoke” and suddenly whoa I need to sit down
The pose I found my partner in after watching Arcane act 2
Mizu warm ups, yuri warm ups 😔🙏 I love drawing London Mizu sm
ursula k le guin said sci fi/fantasy does not have to be about giant wars or battles of good and evil or galactic disaster; it is best served as a lens through which to examine what is actually intrinsic to the human condition and what, once removed a few layers from our own perceptions & assumptions, begins to fall apart. and she was correct.
writer of the "trying too hard" kind. sometimes I make art. here to indulge in nerdy stuff. Also on Instagram
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