@amandastarks
Fantasy writer, poet, and hopefully soon-to-be novelist who wants to create safe spaces to talk about mental health. ✨ BIG nerd who loves storytelling in all its forms. ✨ Former Librarian. 📚 Author of RE:SURGENCE. https://vocal.media/authors/amanda-starks
When you think your worldbuilding is done but then you find out about the Descent of Innana, an ancient Mesopotamian myth about a life goddess descending into the realm of death. 📖💭
God, I love mythology. ♥️❤️ #amwriting #worldbuilding
IT'S HAPPENING!!!! LEGENDS!
This is insanely cool!! Can't wait to share what I've written for the event. ♥️✨️
We’re happy to announce that we’re participating in this year’s edition of Val-Con! The online event is for fans, by fans, to celebrate the #Valheim community! 🍻
My second favorite thing to draw 🌳
Super cute chubby white cat curled up on the couch sleeping!
I suppose I should keep being social on social media. Here internet, have a pallet cleanser from my cat, Diamond. 🐱♥️
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
“Don’t be discouraged when you find that the process of self-discovery takes a long, long time,” she said. “Don’t even be surprised if at 50 you are still wondering what you are going to be when you grow up.” 🗃️
RIP Barbara Aronstein Black
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
A digital painting of an ice cube, followed by several hands closed over each other with water pouring from them. Bold text on the art reads: "ICE MELTS".
so don't get too comfortable.
#art
Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges.
✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨
🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
🏰 second pov
🔖 universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-knight-s...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
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Welcome to our new followers. Bad Hand Books is an independent publisher of horror, crime and dark fantasy fiction. Owned and operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winning editor Doug Murano. Thanks for your interest and support. And fuck ICE.
Illustration of a concept for a shark mob called Ocelot Shark. Inspired by the zebra shark, nurse shark, and bamboo shark, it is yellow with round red spots reminiscent of a jaguar. This shark lays external eggs hanging from corals, which are inspired by the pouch-shaped and spiral design of shark eggs. They would be peaceful and would flee upon showing aggression; sometimes they can be heard making a barking-like noise on the surface of the water when they surface to gulp air.
Illustration of a concept for a shark mob called Galleon Shark. Inspired by the tiger shark, it is bluish in color with dark stripes and yellow details, with a reddish snout tip and protuberances resembling small horns on its head. This shark would tend to hunt other sharks around it, being more active at night. They would be peaceful but could become aggressive when threatened. They are quite curious and do not hesitate to approach.
More on the Galleon shark concept. The illustration shows that they can be attracted to food in the player's bag, approach while you have your back turned, and steal the food, quickly swimming away. But it is shown that if you tap its snout as it approaches, it will swim away.
Illustration of a concept for a mob called “Wanderer Shark,” inspired by the whale shark and the colors of sea slugs. It would be large and slow, yellow in color with vibrant cyan and blue accents and details on its fins reminiscent of butterfly wings. They would be accompanied by small “fairy fish,” inspired by the behavior of remoras that accompany sharks. They are blue, pink, and yellow in color, and their small fins resemble fairy wings. They would be gentle giants that just wander the open sea in search of magical plankton. They say that their presence is announced when the plankton glows with bioluminescence.
Now that Hytale is here, I'm reminiscing about these shark-inspired mob design ideas I sketched out five years ago.
An attempt to diversify our idea of sharks in games, moving beyond the old stereotypes of aggressive mobs without depth! 🦈✨
#Hytale #Shark
Havent done any frame by frame animation in a while and im currently in a hytale hyperfixation 😂🥳
#Hytale #hytaleissaved #hytalefanart
Thank you so much for everything 💙 @thomasfrick.bsky.social #hytale #hytalefanart #art
My wife of 29 years, bookbinder and book artist Jana Pullman, passed away in February after a long illness. She’s gotten some great memorials, including a posthumous award and a binding in a new exhibit at MN History Center. Here’s her take on that work: aboutthebinding.blogspot.com/2012/08/open...
Working hard on something for a year and releasing it into the world is scary. I put my heart and soul into The Rattle of Bones and seeing people buy it feels like people are going to see part of me laid bare. Tabitha is not a self insert, but she and Miguel have a piece of me in them. #writing
Friendly reminder that when folks say that you "have" to follow specific writing advice, you do not, in fact, have to.
What they are sharing is what works for them, and while it might be useful, there is no one way to get your writing out into the world. Do what works for you.
#WritingCommunity
Someone has declared my afternoon writing sprint to be concluded. 😂
Thank God I surpassed my word count goal already. She is an insistent cat. #WriteSky #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity
Hi.
Books are incredibly important.
Please let them be.
A polka-dot nudibranch.This is a type of sea-slug, not a #fish.Nudibranchs are soft-bodied marine mollusks known for their incredible colors and patterns
give me your typos. your messy drawings. your silly memes. your cringey joys. your little doodles. your rewrites. your second attempts. your better attempts. your years-in-the-making stunning beauties that make you sigh with contentment at having perfected them at last.
just give me works by humans
I wrote a thing!! A semi-big thing?? I just published the first act. Is anyone up for a fantasy post-apocalypse inspired by the ancient greek god of chaos and quantum mechanics?? 👀 💫 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #VocalMedia #Fantasy
vocal.media/chapters/an-...
Greek style painting. Above it says Things that make a writer nervous Writing Not writing Someone asking about writing
Write to escape.
Write to release.
Write to bring joy.
Write to figure things out.
Write to say, ‘What if?’
Just keep writing.
💙📚🪐 #WritingCommunity #author
It's so strange, the more stressed out I am, the easier words and new ideas come to me. If I'm in a zen state? Head is empty.
Which I guess partially makes sense? 🤔😅
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Congratulations, you scrolled so far you found the pikachu of luck. It does nothing, it's just chonky and cute. Here you go! (Picture of Pikachu)
Good morning ☕️
This feels so relevant right now.
You got this! ❤️ I hope the events go well!
a meme top panel of the image is Obi-Wan Kenobi looking confident while he says "I'm a writer. Writing is my specialty." the bottom panel is Obi-Wan sitting in front of a computer with a blank word document, while he stares in great distress, and is labelled "when it's finally time to write"
it's fine... it's all according to plan... I'm just warming up
I've been very bad at posting here, so here is my favorite piece from last year. 😀 Hope you like it!
🔴 #criticalrolefanart #Criticalrole
