@dragonsandsapphics
Stardust Melody Art Collective, housing the works of Vaela (She/They) and Micah (They/Them); creators of—mostly sapphic—stories about Hope, Love and Monsters. @dragonprose.bsky.social @queeriocheerios.bsky.social vaeladenarr.carrd.co
🪻 HEY, LESBIANS! I'm slowly gearing up to put Lessons in Bitter Annihilation, a TTRPG about lesbians and comphet, into print.
If you are a lesbian and do:
🎨 Illustration
🖱️ Graphic design
🖥️ TTRPG layout design
Please share your portfolio in the replies! Trans lesbians especially encouraged 🧡🩷💜
Hey, did you know we have a page on our website for all the art we've commissioned and even fanart?
you should look at them all, they are very pretty.
vaeladenarr.carrd.co#art
If you like the work I do, consider nominating me for a Diana Jones Award! I published my first game in 2024 and am an eligible candidate.
To see the games I've designed, check out this comprehensive thread:
bsky.app/profile/lili...
Just added button at the bottom to my own art of the characters so far.
Hey, did you know we have a page on our website for all the art we've commissioned and even fanart?
you should look at them all, they are very pretty.
vaeladenarr.carrd.co#art
A tale of a viciously beautiful sentient blade, their other halves, an insatiable dragon, and a bunch of broken people out on the open sky!!
vaeladenarr.carrd.co#blade-of-sha...
Artwork of Kye and Jude from Name Her Holy, framed by a gothic arched window and gilded flowers with two Vald’lysa over the top of the arch looking down. One Vald has a spear, one has a burning censure, both are winged with braids. Kye is holding Jude who is standing but slumped, with her sword hand limp. We can’t see Jude’s face but her long auburn hair is loose and flowing around Kye, she has pale skin, is wearing gleaming golden armor with floral etched decoration and one seven pointed star in the center of her back breast plate. Flowers spring up around her. Kye is mournful, her head tucked on Jude’s shoulder as she holds her. Kye has dark short wavy hair, dark brown eyes, tan skin covered in light scars. In the window behind them is a low pale moon and several bleeding stars on a night sky.
Working through the book two feelings 🫠✨
Lunar New Year artwork of happy little horses and the symbol for good luck.
🧧🌸🐎Happy Lunar New Year!🐎🌸🧧
Some happy little horses~ The bigger artwork I'll have to save for another day😊
❤️Love you guys, drink some good tea today~ ☕❤️
Image is a screenshot of a poem that reads: The ghost of you sings / of fire and blood inhabits my body / with veins full of mud You choke on your riches / you eat what you haunt break open my ribs / with hands, pale and gaunt The life that you crave / was never quite mine each breath that I take / drawn by your design To now take your hand / I toil without rest to plant deep your heart / in the soil of my chest But time is a poison / that festers the wound eternally broken / your kindness consumed My love, it is violence / my will, desperation my body, a sin / your hands, my salvation I crave and I want / I hunger each night for what you can’t give / for what I can’t fight The blade that you hold / was always my bone your body, its sheath / my ruin, your home From "they enter the ruin of me like it is home" by Vaela Denarr
The blade that you hold / was always my bone
your body, its sheath / my ruin, your home
Blade of Shattered Bone is now finally available wide (some retailers pending)! Go grab this tale of a viciously beautiful sentient blade, an insatiable dragon, and the deliciously broken people they love! 🫀🔥
The ghost of you sings / of fire and blood
inhabits my body / with veins full of mud
I love little ominous poems! "Time is a poison that festers the wound, eternally broken, your kindness consumed?" Don't worry about what that means! It's fiiine! I promise!
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Photo of a box label that says THIS IS A SET DO NOT SEPARATE
Image is a two-person waist up illustration of Nomi(left) and Calia(right). Nomi is a trans woman with albinism, red eyes and white hair, wearing a brown poncho. She looks up at Calia with a soft, flustered look, her cheeks shining with a golden sunset blush. Blood covers her jaw and lips. Calia is a brown skinned butch half dragon woman with crystalline blue horns and blue scales. Sparkling star freckles covering her cheeks and arms. She cradles Nomi's head with clawed hands and brushes blood across her lips, looking down at her with golden eyes, long, black hair spills as a thick mane across her arms, showing off the artist's beautiful and flowing linework. Blood Runs from Calia's lips, pulling into a faint smile, and drips down her chin. The background is an abstract mix of white, blue, brown and red shapes, with the artist's signature, Shio, inscribed on them.
Image shows two dark-skinned half dragon women fighting,one pinning the other down.the one below has four arms, stars in her wings long black hair and is licking her lips, the one abover is an equally muscular Black woman with golden markings, having her wife captured by the chin while her tentacles restrain one of her four arms and wrap around her waist to keep her pinned. Both of them are marked with scratches of golden blood looking at one another as if they want to devour the other.
This is a set! Do not separate them!
Meet Nomi and [REDACTED], who definitely aren't competing for Calia's love, because it's not a competition! Even if both of them want it to be one. It's fine, they can get their energy out in other ways
Anyway, dragons, girls, blood, yummy!
Been 2 months since this saw a donation, boost if you can to help a trans woman of color get FFS. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ar...
To celebrate, Name Her Holy will be FREE for the next ✨24 hours✨ on itch! So if you’ve been eyeing it, now’s your chance 👁️✨👁️✨👁️✨
aubreyennis.itch.io/name-her-holy
did you know, you can also get our books on Bookshop.org now thanks to D2D?
We have that and more now on our website!
vaeladenarr.carrd.co
check out most of books pages by clicking learn more under the book images!
This post is brought to you by me adding another she/they butch to things. Never enough!
She/they lesbians, my beloveds
She/her fathers, my beloveds
They/them daughters, my beloveds
They/she/he women, my beloveds
SHE/THEY LESBIANS, MY BELOVEDS
SHE/THEY LESBIANS
THEY/SHE LESBIANS
THEY LESBIANS WITH SHE, ADOREDS, BELOVEDS
THEL EYSBIANSHES!! LOVE!!
Two illustrated characters stand against a colorful pink background, positioned so that their heads are tilted toward each other. On the left is a smirking Lucy from The Chaos Protocol, a person with dark purple-red skin and shoulder-length wavy black hair. Two horns protrude from her forehead and are decorated with golden jewelry. Ta wears a three-piece black and gold suit with a white collared shirt. They have black scleras and crimson irises. On the right is Artemis from The Chaos Protocol, a butch Greek person with tanned skin, a shaved head with a dark brown laurel tattoo above their ear, and a serious expression. They have bright golden eyes and wear a brass gorget, sleeveless leather shirt, and a brass bracer over their left arm as well as a translucent shawl tossed over their left shoulder to form a half-cape. Various hearts, heart-eyed emojis, and lovey-dovey emotes are positioned around Lucy and Artemis. White text reads, in Comic Sans and Papyrus, "Valentine's Day Community Stream. sat 2/14 8pm @ twitch & youtube. connie is running and producing the stream for the first time in ages so you have to come and be NICE. graphic design is my passion"
GM's first promo graphic in three years. I am struggling without Sea. Flailing. Please come to our lovely Valentine's Day community stream on Saturday. We will discuss gay things, and also TTRPGs
Only the best for our best! (sobbing)
It IS therapy, is the thing, but being character growth has never taken away from the pain part of those growing pains
Yes but also my poor head hurts from all the sad?
You shut your mouth!!😭
did you know, you can also get our books on Bookshop.org now thanks to D2D?
We have that and more now on our website!
vaeladenarr.carrd.co
check out most of books pages by clicking learn more under the book images!
Pro tip: Don't get too invested in your characters. Hard to inflict further horrors upon them through the tears.
The art > the book
(art & cover art by me)
I regret to inform the courts that—for reasons of being a cat, not actually human—Nomi also side-steps the cannibalism accusations. That one time she rips off a guy's head is inadmissible because
1) he was a human cursed to be a cat
2) it may not have ever happened and
3) come onnn, he deserved it!
I am starting to realize actually 80% of the important characters in it are Black women. Even Nomi is mixed
Skill issue, we've removed them entirely!
I jest, of course. About it being a skill issue, that is, I'm sure if there was a white person in GO their whiteness would would be very intentional, or something.
But yeah, why would the dragons in Starbinder want to look like white people?
@itch.io you do realize that if creators can't reliably expect to have their payments within a month to do things like, IDK, pay bills, you can't exactly expect them to stay on the platform, right
I know itch is kinda the storefront-de-jour among amazon alternatives but situations like this are why you shouldn't judge anyone for not wanting to do business with them
say what you will about amazon but they pay you, on time, reliably, this kind of uncertainty isn't an option for everyone