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The Protector and the Annihilation - first 7 chapters' excerpt.

Approximately 140 pages. EPub.

ON BOOKFUNNEL.

Can be added on Goodreads here.

The Protector's memory of them under the sunlight. - Chapter 1 partial excerpt.

Approximately 40 pages. Both EPub and PDF.

ON BOOKFUNNEL.

ON ITCHIO.

Can be added on Goodreads here.

Available for Kickstarter and general readership.

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This Picrew set is finally fully historical to 2023...! I'm gonna do Current Live contrasts via art later, too.

I was really fond of looking at this set and it's definitely a note on how far Blue Horizon has come.

lj timez: nanowrimo updates + random cuteness + Picrews

trying to do nanowrimo for another sky verse epic fantasy book 2 draft 1. last november i managed 40k for book 1 draft 2 despite treating it as a casual go! this year i'm unsure; i'm even less intensive than last year, but trying. am at 14k right now. last year just felt so intense when it came to my weaving the first book together… i wonder how book 2 draft 1 will feel to look back on? it's actually less frustrating so far than writing book 1 felt.

i wrote the light novel's first draft in 10 days back in august too--30k--but have been dilly-dallying expanding it. still happy though.

the beginning is always rough but i'm getting more of a sense of the plot! when i get excited it feels more worthwhile, and i'm very 👁️👁️ over the ancients' nasir and shakir's potential plotline for book 2, to the point i kinda want to work on it before their current incarnations antonio and alejandro even though it's probably best to write the latter first!

we'll see how the rest goes.

here's the windswept picrew comparisons for nasir (first left) <- -> antonio (second) + shakir (third left) <- -> and alejandro (fourth)!

compared my own art to a cute art from mid-20th century from an article called "Understanding divine 'blueness' in South Asia." i didn't color pick but i love how i managed a similar vibrancy with antonio chandrani:

last [new] another sky character picrew under cut (it's armando):

similar to nasir and shakir, until i draw older armando on my own, i'm a bit obsessed with this version via doshi oc maker (with a version of younger armando beside him for tumblr bc i sat down and fiddled):

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tbh i want to complete that sketch better and mainly felt bad i've been putting it off when i've been wanting to show their general skintone ranges OUTSIDE picrews a long time prior to 6 months ago.

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i want to draw leila and nasir together with karim later, too.

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feel bad but i've only drawn layla + alia + antonio + alejandro as a proper quartet ( + raj) in the official novella cover.

i'll work on sketching the quartet + main 6 in general together in the next months!

The Protector and the Annihilation - first 7 chapters' excerpt.

Approximately 140 pages. EPub.

ON BOOKFUNNEL.

Can be added on Goodreads here.

The Protector's memory of them under the sunlight. - Chapter 1 partial excerpt.

Approximately 40 pages. Both EPub and PDF.

ON BOOKFUNNEL.

ON ITCHIO.

Can be added on Goodreads here.

Available for Kickstarter and general readership.

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Here's Nasir, Leila, Shakir and Luna with skintone and Spectral Eyes for reference…! (Antonio Chandrani-Rivera, Layla Chandrani, Alejandro Altaha and Alia Atif-Akinyemi Ancient selves 10k years' past upon their planet Imion.)

Nasir wears a schenti. Luna has an ankh.

Nasir and Leila are Blasian, while Shakir and Luna are black. Will finish this sketch up ONE DAYYYY…

I need to add Obi and Naveen in! (I've learned a lot of people don't know, but Naveen is a South Asian name, haha.)

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running theme of a focus on armando's bobs was on accident tbh (lungi trend is not an accident just so british people know Again it's #cultural)

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note that i only very occasionally draw proper panjabi (kurta). kinda give a fantastical-esque vibe at points and/or am lazy. in the tarot card ranvir's wearing an actual one.

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Can we find a sun god or diety from every timezone and make a map of them all?

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I hate when people ask me how long it took me to crochet something I’ve made. Frankly, that’s none of my business. I put the yarn on the hook and worked on it whenever the spirit happened to take me to and then one day it was done. How long that process took is between the yarn and god; I want no part of it.

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i don't want to rush alia and khaleel's cards so i will be Strictly keeping sanity together via updating street team till we reach The End !!!

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also tbh one are just tengu.

a tiny bit different just because of how a certain species works (leo card).

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OOPS FOUR… i forgot some of my baes.

since a bunch of people have already read the first chapters of the protector and the annihilation AND honestly the original "first lines" of it were a staple way back when i was pursuing tradpub--

i promise i shall go into The Wing Lore of Blue Horizon one day (via canon).

i know it's becoming obvious via the tarot cards too... there's a lot of Wing Lore BUT we shall not go into it for some time.

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turns out i have a habit of obsessing over wing lore to the point i created three different winged species in blue horizon and ONE may not be able to be canon (for a long time or at all).

i will try figuring out how to intro the third because they are Trans Goals but have to figure out why tf they are not on imion… crying.

since a bunch of people have already read the first chapters of the protector and the annihilation AND honestly the original "first lines" of it were a staple way back when i was pursuing tradpub--

i promise i shall go into The Wing Lore of Blue Horizon one day (via canon).

i know it's becoming obvious via the tarot cards too... there's a lot of Wing Lore BUT we shall not go into it for some time.

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since a bunch of people have already read the first chapters of the protector and the annihilation AND honestly the original "first lines" of it were a staple way back when i was pursuing tradpub--

i promise i shall go into The Wing Lore of Blue Horizon one day (via canon).

i know it's becoming obvious via the tarot cards too... there's a lot of Wing Lore BUT we shall not go into it for some time.

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tbh, in terms of trailer animation, i'm gonna make an executive decision to keep it as it is for now and show off all the goodies instead (during the kickstarter). just too tired AND WANT TO LAUNCH ASAP.

(again, as i said below, will likely take a week or week and a half, at least.)

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WE'LL SEE HOW LONG IT TAKES ME TO FINISH THE ATIF-AKINYEMI SIBLINGS' CARDS.