#Grey imposter

[spookyboris2]

Imposter v4 and Grey by the IMPOSTORM team

[cloverthemonke]

erm.. I don't know if you can tell but I like grey (I have like 5 other drawings in my book of him I'm sorry😟)

[1c3d-choco]

I have low energy but have this. That's what I found during ItsSoraval's recent stream

[catfindr]

[sweepweep]

I truly love how morally grey Hajime is.

Like in the beginning of the game, everyone’s talking and they’re all saying stuff like “we would never kill a friend to get off this island”

Meanwhile Hajime’s off on the side like “damn. I actually really wanna get off this island”

This happens multiple times, too: Imposter was like “I wont stand for anyone killing each other.”

And Hajime’s internal dialogue is just “I could and might do it”

Man considers murder so many times throughout the game and I am living for it

[gladosluver]

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there are many problems with my body and brain right now so if any unhinged things get posted blame The Corner Man wwwwwwwwww

[lauraroselam]

So I wrote this weird book about queer dragons. It came out the same day as the other dragon book everyone talks about. It was a Sunday Times bestseller in the UK, though, which was incredible!

However, I'm not sure how to continue to promote this book--people either seem to really like it, or not quite get it. Or it just wasn't what they expected. Which is fine, no book can please everyone, and I knew I'd made some unusual craft choices that was going to make it more marmite. (Or, as my brain tells me at midnight, I'm just a bad writer). However, there's that librarian saying "every book its reader" and the people who love this book REALLY love it, and that makes me so happy. So I decided to write this post and explain its weirdness and lay out what you can expect if you do pick it up. Maybe you're my kind of odd, too. :-)

Short pitch: 800 years ago, dragons and humans were bonded, then humans were dicks, stole the dragons' magic, and banished them to a dying world. But humans have short memories, forgot, and now worship dragons as gods. The dragon "gods" remember, and they do not forgive.

Thief Arcady steals their grandsire's stone seal (which helps them funnel magic) from their tomb. Their grandsire supposedly released a magical plague that killed a proportion of society, and Arcady is locked out of society as a result. They perform a spell to rewrite the seal to have a new identity as they want to go to university at the Citadel and also clear their family's name. Problem? The spell also accidentally calls through Everen, the last male dragon, trapped in human form. Everen has been foretold to save his kind, and now he has a chance: he just has to convince one little human to trust him mind, body, and soul, and then kill them. Then he'll be able to steal the human's magic back, rip a hole in the Veil, and the dragons can return. Good news for dragons, less good news for humans. As you might expect: this does not go to plan. Because emotions.

Grab it now. (Note: there's still a contractual delay so it's not available in US audiobook yet, annoyingly. Hopefully soon). (If you are like "weird queer dragons?! Sign me up" but aren't interested in hearing why the author has made certain decisions and want to go into the text cold, stop here! Death of the author/birth of the reader, etc. Otherwise, carry on.)

You should pick up Dragonfall if:

You like experimental narrative positions! It's all collected by an unnamed archivist who has access to both first person narratives (Arcady, the genderfluid human thief, Everen the hot dragon) and can scry into the past and draw out third person narratives (Sorin, hot priest assassin. Cassia, Everen's sister, who is also hot. Spoiler: everyone in this book is hot). Then to make it even weirder, Everen's bits are technically in first person direct address, so he's writing it all to Arcady (the first chapter ends with: "For that human was, of course, you. And this is our story, Arcady.") I ended up writing it this way for a few reasons, even though it probably would have been simpler to just stick to straight up third throughout, like most epic fantasy does. The big one is that Arcady is genderfluid and uses any pronouns (I tend to default to they when I talk about them outside of the text), and constantly gendering them in the text felt wrong whether I used he, she, or they. This way bypasses that a lot in the first volume, so it's up to the reader to make up their own mind. I also just really love first person direct address as a narrative position. It can be a little confronting, and it makes Everen the dragon sound a bit more predatory at the start. But it's also quite intimate. Is he writing his sections as an apology, or a love letter? Both? You find out at the end. So if your green flag books are: The Fifth Season, The Raven Tower, or Harrow the Ninth, this might also be your jam.

You love classic 90s fantasy. This is in many ways an homage to all the stuff I read growing up: Robin Hobb and the Realm of the Elderlings (the book is dedicated to Hobb in particular), the Dragonriders of Pern, Tad Williams, Lynn Flewelling, Robert Jordan, Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce, etc. But I wanted to give it a more modern twist. I'm NB and growing up I didn't see a lot of queerness in fantasy, and I clung to the examples I did find (Vanyel, the Fool). Also, not 90s fantasy, but I also freaking loved Seraphina by Rachel Hartman and Priory of the Orange Tree, so those were influences too.

You're not put off by Worldbuilding(TM) and a slower pace. Probably because I grew up on the likes of Tad Williams, I honestly love slow-paced fantasy. I love to luxuriate in a world and take my time getting to know a made up world. In Assassin's Quest it takes over 100 pages for Fitz to leave the forest. Love it. I have a more lyrical writing style, I guess, and I'm pretty descriptive. My stuff always tends to start off slower, set the stage, and then ramps up the pace as we get further along. So yes, my book starts out with some infodumping, depending on your tolerance level of that sort of thing. I worked with a linguist and they made a conlang for the dragon language (hi @seumasofur). There's a map by Deven Rue (cartographer for Critical Role). I got nerdy.

You love queernorm fantasy! This is set in a world where it's considered rude to assume a stranger's gender and so you tend to default to they/them. If you consider someone much higher in status than you, you'd capitalise it to the honorific, such as They/Them. Once you get to know someone, you tend to flash your pronouns to them with a hand signal, since a sign language called Trade is also a lingua franca in the world. 99.95% of all the dragons are also lesbians, BTW. Everen is the last male dragon.

You like frankly silly levels of slow burn. Everen and Arcady can't physically touch without it causing Everen pain while they're half-bonded. They may or may not find creative loopholes. But it's not mega mega spicy, if you're expecting that. I expect the spice levels will gradually go up as the series progresses.

Alright, I think that's more than enough to give you a sense of what you'd find in Dragonfall. If you're open to sharing this post so it reaches more people outside of my little corner of the internet, I'd really appreciate it. Whenever I do any bit of self-promo, I'm always so anxious and worry it'll get like, 2 eyeballs on it anyway or that I'm just annoying people by mentioning that my art even exists. And if you end up liking it, please tell a friend.

I'm loving the recent dragon renaissance! Long live dragons.

[bubblyyeety]

Can you draw him as a lee? :D

pink would def wreck grey for fun

[mawzndrawz]

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[startrekucast]

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Review

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[plantcrazy]

I think about 'An Imposter's Fate' a lot. It's a story that has a lot of potential, but I put down before it got to where things start to get interesting. I want to pick the story up again soon. I haven't touched it in 3 years, and my writing has improved a lot since then, so I know I have the skills to do this great story justice.

This is one of those 'interesting' things I never got to writing, and as one person correctly commented:

"Mysterious Grey is mysterious~ …and probably traumatized."

Speed paint below. This one is... a mess. I thought I finished the piece yesterday, then realised in the morning I'd forgotten to do the lighting for the background, so I went back to do that again, and polished the overall piece some more. I'm very proud of this one. Very stunning illustration :)

Also! My commissions are open, so if you'd like one of your characters drawn, check that out!

[moodboards-probably]

Grey/Gray VS Imposter V4 🩶💜

Requested by anon!

I hope you like it, I wasn't familiar with the character but I tried my best to represent them accurately <3

[cloverthemonke]

*drops this and runs because I have to go to school*

[1c3d-choco]

The bros are just chilling~

(TW: Magenta blood / gore)

[A/N: Yes I gave Blake a leg warmer-]

goofy ahh asexual people

[charliejimagine]

" And we know that it has always been like this,

That we like more the destiny

Who's living according to other rules

And who's doomed to die young.

He doesn't remember the word “yes“ and the word “no“,

He doesn't remember neither the deeds, nor the names.

And able to reach the stars,

Not reckoning that this is a dream ,

And falling, scorched by the star called Sun "

Translation by Mauler on Lyricstranslate, here.

Original song: Звезда по имени Солнце by Кино (Zvezda po imeni Solnts - A Star called Sun by Kino)

[latte-ella]

Imposter V4 doodles (featuring Grey and Pink)

Oh yeah that guy is my character, introducing Gus. Hope y'all like him or whatever lol