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love bambleby to death, but I also adore the gentle satire of academia where men can get by being charming and confident while emily needs rigorous hard data to be taken seriously. and he gets his grad students to do everything for him (lmao) meanwhile emily is literally trudging up to the rocky mountain spring every day

bambleby is lovable in spite of this because of course he is actually a faerie prince who is not beholden to the laws of academic integrity. like, that's the joke.!! but if he wasn't, emily would eat him alive.

anyway just obsessed with a book that has such a sweet whimsical tone but is also a dead-on-the-nose satire of academia, it makes the whole thing feel so much more real, and emily's victories are so satisfying

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Emily Wilde:

Doesn’t hate her colleague, but does find his attitude, work ethic, and face annoying. His hair is very pretty though, and she’d like to run her fingers through it, but she doesn’t know where that idea came from, which is also annoying.

Has no problem with wandering off to isolated locations without telling anyone, will not hesitate to trick the Fae, and calmly considers chopping off her own hand to save her life.

Also has no idea what to do when a person starts crying. This includes herself.

“Visiting naturalist manages to offend entire village with a single failed social encounter. One dead, thirty-seven injured.”

Decides she should probably have sex first to see if she even likes it before committing to this whole “marriage” thing.

Admits to herself that her primary motivation for rescuing the villagers kidnapped by the Fae is research, and immediately remembers she should feel bad about this.

Prof. E. Wilde, page 1: This journal is for documentation and research purposes only, and will not be filled with personal drivel.

Prof. E. Wilde, 200 pages later: Reader, I had to kiss him. For… scientific observation.

So used to self-reliance that she can’t imagine people coming to her rescue because they care about her.

Gives off the vibe of Tragic Victorian Orphan. Her parents are still alive.

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The Emily Wilde series by @heather_fawcett is such a charming series!

I loved it so much! I specially liked Emily's love for shadow, her dog😭❤️❤️

Wendell's wedding present had me shedding real tears!!

Anyways, I wanted to do art for them before I go back into my crate :)

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Dropping this artwork of Emily and Wendell from Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by @heather_fawcett !(the cool mechanical pencil is BACK!) I had such a pleasant time reading the wrap-up to this trilogy in Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales. I love the transition of Emily dipping her toe into Faerie from the real world in Book #1, having a foot in both worlds in Book #2, and keeping a toe in the real world while in Faerie in Book #3. It created new backdrops and stakes through her journaling journey, with Book #3 being the stakiest stakes of the three! Absolutely love these two DOLTS (Wendell's words, not mine), the best grumpy-sunshine couple since Howl and Sophie. So sad to see them go, but this trilogy seems so easy to pick up and reread again! I want to thank @delreybooks for providing me both an arc and a hard copy of Compendium; I hope to do another papercraft standee featuring the whole trilogy set soon!

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Professor Emily Wilde and that other guy

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Emily and Wendell once again :)

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Latest Sketch-a-Wish voted on by my lovely Patreon members for August! Inspired by Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde #2) by Heather Fawcett, featuring Emily and Wendell in some morning afterglow. I love how Emily is being indecisive about doing the traditional romantic things before Wendell wakes, but then he cuddles up with her anyway, deciding for her. Too cute. I kept his bedhead just for you, Em.

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Moments before she tells him his chin is crooked

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no more brooding, stoic assholes as love interests. from now on i will only accept pathetic, fussy, pretty boys who genuinely collapse if they are not surrounded by enough soft blankets and sweets and are completely smitten with their wife

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After shopping

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Rainy day

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Vending machine

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my fav "roommates" :)

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October 2025!!

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