jocelyn allen (revising and editing!)

Preliminary designs for Lionheart, a character from By Blood and Salt. He is shown wearing armour, both silver and black, along with a ‘modern’ look and the padded clothing he wears under his armour.

Preliminary designs for Naomi from By Blood and Salt. She is pictured in an orange dress with a purple scarf, a paint-stained oversized t-shirt tucked into denim shorts, a puffy pink sundress and a short jacket and a rainbow mesh top over a cropped pink top with a layered purple skirt.

Scrapped painting of Naomi and Lionheart. Lionheart’s armour is an earlier design, no longer accurate. Lionheart lifts Naomi’s chin to look solemnly into her eyes. Naomi smiles at him knowingly.

Naomi and Lionheart share a pair of earbuds to listen to music together. Lionheart wears a plain black shirt. Naomi wears a blue cardigan embroidered with strawberries over a yellow dress.

Lately I’ve been doing some (…only semi-solicited, it’s in a weird space between ‘official’ and ‘fanwork’) visual stuff for my wife’s novel. She’s pitching today as part of bluepit, so please take a look! @wordsbyjocelyn.bsky.social

(Reposting because I think the link was getting this post hidden)

four images of a horned man with claws. in two of them he is wearing armor in silver and armor in black, respectively. in the other two he is wearing old-fashioned clothing and modern streetwear, respectively. the artwork is signed by chescadraws.

four images of a Black woman with pink hair, in various colorful outfits, evincing an eclectic sense of style. the artwork is signed by chescadraws.

a line drawing in red of an anatomical heart, surrounded by the text "we are bound by blood & salt"

BY BLOOD & SALT

magic vanished 700 years ago, democracy, roughly 17. there are no fae, no witches, no miracles. nonetheless, the artist naomi is doing her best to survive... and then she accidentally awakens a statue of a knight-paladin. together, they fight capitalism.

#BluePit📖 #A #F #LGBT #WIP

ur bitch remembered her login credentials again. fuck yeah, just in time for bluepit

the thing is that she’s not WRONG

a meme of daisy and princess peach, wherein daisy asks if the viewer/princess peach wishes to descend into a fearsome hell.

today’s revision mood #amwriting

tfw ur suspicions of ur own revision conclusions that a chapter is strong and doesn’t need much work. anxiety and the protestant work ethic are a toxic combination…

we had to come to an agreement about how to refer to him

she originally called him “unproblematic griffith from berserk”

do u see this

today i have some chapters to reread and make notes on !

COPENHAGEN: From green and golden treetops, a pillar emerges -- a bronzey brown pillar with deep patina everywhere else, and at its peak is a turquoise-patina angel with wings aloft. From Wikipedia: "The Ivar Huitfeldt Column is a monument at Langelinie in Copenhagen, Denmark, built to commemorate the death of Admiral Ivar Huitfeldt and his men from HDMS Dannebroge, which exploded and sank in the Battle of Køge Bat during the Great Northern War. The monument was constructed in 1886 to a design by Vilhelm Dahlerup. Ferdinand Edvard Ring was responsible for the statue of the Roman goddess of victory, Victoria, and for the reliefs, while Carl Brummer undertook the monument's architectural design." Which admittedly -- sorry, Danes -- contains a lot of words I do not understand because I am a dipshit American. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

MYRDAL, FLAM, NORWAY: Churning base of a heavily-flowing waterfall. In the foreground are black, almost volcanic rocks. It's the Kjosfossen Waterfall, I think, and the thing that's weird about it is they send out this person -- a woman? -- dressed in all red and she's supposed to be a huldra, a mystical trollish siren spirit, and she goes out there and does this wispy dance before impishly leaping away into some apparent void. It's weird and kind of amazing. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

FANTOFT, NORWAY. This is the Fantoft stave church (stavkirke?) outside Bergen. It is clearly a DEATH METAL CHURCH which is why it's kind of bizarre that, reportedly, the original was burned down by... a BLACK METAL BAND? Or something? I dunno. Google it. The black and white photo is of the church from below -- it is a church in real life that is largely black and covered in various crosses and dragons and sharp-looking tiles. It's honestly pretty bad-ass. And the sky above is a tortoiseshell of dramatic clouds, only heightening the bad-assery. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN -- HERE IS A PHOTO OF A BIOMECHANICAL CENTIPEDE okay not really it's just a roller coaster, shot from a distance, but also from behind, so you can barely see that there are people in it -- it mostly just looks like pods or pedipalps or something clustered together rushing along a gray metal track as it curves sharply. It's a weird abstract photo and I am pleased by it. Your mileage may vary. The roller coaster is, I believe, MONSTERS, at Grona Lund in Stockholm. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

Everything is bad and stupid and eye-bleedingly infuriating, so here are some photos I like from when I was in countries other than the US:

(all photos by me)

i had a wonderful time and only walked out of the gift shop with one new book! a new record!

what in god’s name

and now looking forward to a lovely day at the british library!

Humanity - Through the Looking Glass of Fantasy - Covent Garden Waterstones • London

it’s almost tiiiiime :3

Many of these are debut authors. Please check out their books also.

correct.

yup!! i chose to read some “canonical” works because i decided as a writer i wanted to understand where the field was and how it got here.

but 1. i had already been reading in the field for years by that point and 2. my interest is artistic/professional and 3. the operative word there was “chose.”

shop window of Sleepy Cat Books, f with a sleepy cat sitting there front and center

respect truth in advertising

man

i wish american idiot wasn’t aging so well

Abbot is now threatening to illegally remove the 30 lawmakers, who broke quorum, from office.

This is absolute chaos.

Remember that NASA was only able to *start* because the rich were being taxed at 90+% marginal rates.

Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire.

You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.

From trope to socia jusuce: the nappy ending. Not an fally lates en happily: Andersen's mermaid, though on her way to gaining a soul, is in tears. And while we expect fairy tales to end with the protagonist's achievement of love and social elevation, 'they lived happily ever after' is hardly the fairy tale closing. Perrault's morals are tongue-in-cheek; 'happiness and good cheer' are in store for the Grimms' Rapunzel, but only 'for many, many years'; Sicilian tales caution, 'they all remained happy and content, / while we sit here without a cent'; and one closing formula in the living oral tradition of Newfoundland goes, 'They had coffee for tea when I came away / and if they don't live happy, I hope we may!' More than absolute happiness, fairy tales deliver what Tolkien called a 'joyous turn' because their logic is predicated on the favourable outcome of desire. Whose desire? For what? And who has access to fairy tale happiness? Today's creators-audiences-adapters are particularly keen on asking these questions, with the proliferation of prequels, sequels and remakes signalling both a dissatisfaction with classic fairy tale endings and the lasting appeal of a genre in which abuse and injustice are presented in order to be undone, because in fairy

note to self: explore more of cristina bacchilega’s work

happy birthday!!

Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail.

Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.

Britain’s MPs charge VPNs to expenses as minister urges caution Technology Secretary Peter Kyle appeared to suggest that VPN use could put children at risk.

Oh LMAO Brit MPs after voting through identity restrictions on adult sites are using VPNs to avoid it

And billing this in expenses..

www.politico.eu/article/brit...

a coffee shop tables spread with our purchases from all things analogue: a pen and pencil, a notebook and sticker, and a mystery bag!

having a lovely #StationeryStoreDay with my partner at all things analogue in eastbourne!!

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling (RNS) — ‘We think that it’s not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, the Supreme Court will overrule Obergefell,’ said Mathew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel.

And so it begins...

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]

not a horror movie but a horror game, i find eternal darkness: sanity’s requiem very good bgm for drafting fucked-up shit

my reread is going slow but my sense of what i need to fix and how to do it is going fast #amwriting