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Éowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan ⚔️

Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894)

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Death and life embrace

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Lord of the Rings fanart! I watched for the first time recently and loved it

[EDIT: Thanks for the love on this! Prints of this are also available on my shop for those interested!]

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It's fun to see that every now and then some of my old art get seen and liked/reblogged by people. Always a pleasant feeling plus I'm starting to get the urge to draw some more beauyasha again

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Things are bad right now.

As many of you know, way back in 2020 we weren’t sure if our business was gonna make it. Our factory was already on break for Lunar New Year–a month-long holiday for many businesses in the area–and with the announcement of COVID19, everything shut down indefinitely. We knew immediately we were in for a bad time. Despite our fears, our sales grew so far beyond anything we ever expected, to the point where we had to hire two employees just to keep up with demand! 

Unfortunately, even after our factory reopened, our problems were not over. Their quality drastically declined almost immediately, to the point that a significant amount of our  fabric would literally fall apart in transit between the factory and our office. Because of this, we discovered that our sales rep had no idea what she was doing and knew nothing about the factory she was representing, so when we told her the fabric was garbage her response was “👍 factory said it’s good!” At the beginning, only roughly 10% of our new product was defective and we were able to sell the affected items with a reasonable discount. By the end of our relationship with that factory, 40% of our midi skirts and 70% of our miniskirts were defective, some affected so severely that they practically fell apart when touched. And still, our rep said everything was fine and there were no problems and the fabric composition had not changed.

So in 2022 we changed factories. We hired Ash to handle this since I was way too busy managing fulfillment to do the amount of research and communication necessary to find us a factory that met our criteria. Finding clothing factories that can make clothing over a size 2-3X is significantly more difficult than one that can’t because it often requires larger and more expensive machinery. But Ash did it: she got us set up with a new factory that has excellent certifications for both their labor practices and their methods for textile production, that delivers consistent, high quality sewing on well made fabric that can be printed without suffering loss in detail–and she was armored with the knowledge for what makes a quality garment so she could check them if they tried to screw us on quality. Their minimum orders were way higher than our previous factory’s, so we decided to focus on ordering more units of fewer designs. We ordered way too much our first round–some of those designs were in stock until the 2024 blowout sale! But it worked out, and slowly we had a warehouse full of stuff to sell.

Fast forward to 2024, business is slowing down between the economy being bad and what seemed to be a general skirt fatigue amongst our customers. We tried expanding into shirts, which would’ve been successful if our minimums were lower. In the late spring we realized we were in trouble if we didn’t make drastic changes and we ultimately decided to end in-house fulfillment and transfer to a third party fulfillment center that would support domestic shipping in Canada and eventually the UK, EU, and Australia. In order to make that transition affordable we drastically discounted everything and that sale was super successful! We were able to begin shipping from the fulfillment center with an almost clean slate, even if it did mean having to close the store for almost two months and thereby missing out on two very important months of sales.

Unfortunately, we were stupid. We continued to order new designs on an every other month schedule instead of switching to an every month schedule, forgetting that having a backstock in a variety of designs is what previously helped us float between orders and now we quite literally didn’t have enough inventory to match the sales we made for last year’s holiday sale.

That brings us to now.

We’re a little stuck. We have a round of skirts in production (yay!) but they won’t get here until February (boo!). To get back on that monthly cycle we would need to order the next round of skirts right now, but we can’t pay for production until that next round of skirts gets here; if the current sale goes well, it’s paying payroll, not production. We are currently in the very difficult, horrible situation of not having enough money for next month’s payroll unless we are somehow able to make significant sales with our very sparse inventory.

We’re scrappy and we do our best to adapt to disasters and I’m sure we’ll find a way to adapt to this one as well, it’ll just take us some time to get there. Basically we’re going to be okay eventually–hopefully later this year–but in the meantime if we seem frantic, now you know why. 

If you’re been considering trying out our viscose shirts but haven’t been able to justify paying full price, they’re on clearance PLUS half off right now! That’s $9-$15 for the viscose tops, and other tops on clearance are $20-$45. Some of the shirts we’re having a LOT of trouble selling are now priced below cost to help us recoup some of the money we spent making them.

Any amount of support helps right now. Sharing posts, telling your friends, buying a $9 shirt–all of it helps. If our clothing isn’t your thing, we also have a Patreon you can support for as little as $1 a month. https://www.patreon.com/mayakern

Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you have a great rest of your day and that 2025 is a brighter, kinder year for us all.

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Some real old art made by me from around 2016-2017. All of this is from a web-based show called D20babes that I watched during that period. These are all kind of in a random order since I don't remember which drawing I made for which episode. So hopefully I don't accidentally spoil you on anything x,) Sorry if I do! @keyleth-clay This is post Nr. 2 , I'll look around a bit more to see if I got anything else laying around, but there's a chance that I might have posted some stuff on my instagram as well so I'll also look there.

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Some real old art made by me from around 2016-2017. All of this is from a web-based show called D20babes that I watched during that period. These are all kind of in a random order since I don't remember which drawing I made for which episode. So hopefully I don't accidentally spoil you on anything x,) Sorry if I do! @keyleth-clay This is post Nr. 1 since I had little over 30 images worth of stuff saved (at least from what I could find.)

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I've very recently started watching D20Babes, and I stumbled across your fanart for the series on twitter. Would you consider cross-posting any of it to tumblr? I'd love to be able to reblog it on a site that I actually use lol.

oh boi, you found some real old art huh? xD But yeah I can do that. Just going to check first if I haven't uploaded it already and if I haven't I'll just make a single post with all of it if I am able ^^

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It's him again

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Been watching Ring of Power with a friend of mines :)

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Have some sketches yall because this bitch over here is finally able to draw without discomfort after almost 3 years \o/

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GLOBAL STRIKE FOR GAZA BEGINS TODAY!!!

To participate:

During the 21st - 28th of January...

Do not shop/online shop

Skip school/work if you are able to

Be present & active on social media and uplift Palestinian voices

Draw, write, sing, create art for Palestine

Repost & boost Palestine related content on social media

Educate yourself about the issue

We have been asked to strike during these days by the lovely & hardworking journalist Bisan from Gaza. Let's all try our best for a people being tested with the harshest conditions imaginable. The occupation must be held accountable.

We're in this together!!

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Its the mandatory au that's so divorced from canon i might as well used ocs but woe I'm in my Lycan era (all the time it never goes away)

so these are entirely self indulgent with very personal hcs so yknow im holding a very big sign over my head that says "UP FOR INTERPRETATION"

i forgot to add this originally but this Au is super slow burn and i need useless lesbians to fumble around each other at least a few years before they kiss each other on the mouth.

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There’s a city beneath the ice

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I am very late BUT I've been busy studying for exams and so on. (so it's all sketchy and quickly made) So have a late Day 3: Pride

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Day 2: "Where you go I go"

Another quick one! Wanted to draw them in their most recent official art so here we are!