#dramatic portrait

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Teddy Piaz ~ Serge Lifar, ca. 1930-36 | src AbeBooks

[miamaimania]

In Anticipation: A Moment of Suspense by Michele Bressan

[nothingbizzare]

Just some kid and his hamsters

[catspawcreates]

It is DONE!

- Children of the Code -

This may be my favorite piece I’ve ever done. The drama is juuuust right. I don’t usually draw multi character pieces but I’m so glad I did. What a family.

In process post can be found here

[exotic-inquiry]

Day Three: Injury/Scar

[raspberry-arev]

a tribute to Tori and her little drinks. it's appy juice

[angelexotica]

see the full photoshoot here

[measlyscrapofseafood]

fanart of @whispering-woodlands’ rinzler design!!!!

[octopus-defence-squad]

something i feel isn’t brought up and explored enough is that we are the watchers. it’s us! every twisted thing you blame on the watchers is true, because we are nothing if not bloodthirsty. we made the canary. we loved the games so much they continued.

it’s a literal thing, in evo. the watchers are a representation of the audience’s desires. and they’re the same now, in secret life. the tasks are audience submitted. the edited perspectives, all chopped up for our viewing pleasure, all with a representation of us looming over it all.

we call them monsters; we’re the same. aren’t we also enjoying watching them all die?

it’s interesting, is all

[pacific-chrome]

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Albert Renger-Patzsch (1879-1966) ~ Harald Kreutzberg. Klage aus dem Tanzzyklus ‘Das Opfer’ | Harald Kreutzberg. Lament from the Dance Cycle ‘The Sacrifice’, 1931. Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1931. | src Kicken Galerie ~ Art Basel 2019

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[werewolfest]

Test print!!!!!! Not finished yet but I’m too excited about it not to post

[greenerteacups]

I’m not sure if you’ve specifically answered this before, but how long did it take you to outline, research, and prepare the foundational meat of Lionheart since it’s such a sprawling saga with threads for so many characters? Did you have it all mapped out before you started writing? What about shorter pieces like The Climb and the latest, delightful The Death Eater Diaries?

The series outline for Lionheart I wrote on one bleary, rabbit-hole of a day in the summer of 2022 when I was definitely supposed to be doing something else, and after that, each book took me between 3 days and 2 weeks to outline completely. The later books have taken longer because of their length and the number of threads — the series has a way of getting wider as well as longer, and for the last two books, I sometimes got a bit grumbly about how many characters pop up in every novel. As for research, most of that will happen before or during the outlining process; I'll have a copy of the book on-hand to check plot details, but for the most part I try to work without flipping back to the text, to avoid copying beats or stylistic choices unless I have a thematic reason to. I also use HP Lexicon and fanwikis while I'm editing for content, though when I'm drafting I make a real effort not to switch out of the tab for any reason, because it breaks flow. I'm sure I have missed some details despite my references, but c'est la vie; JKR had to do continuity edits in subsequent edition releases for several books, so at least I'm not alone.

For The Climb, I wrote the first chapter in the raw, then went through and blocked out the second two in an outline at the bottom of the document. Very very broad strokes there — TC is different from Lionheart because it's a slice-of-life tone piece, so there's not as much plot to be done. It's a novella conceived for the sole purpose of exploring one particular relationship, so the plot came secondary to the things I wanted to highlight about how that dynamic worked. It's a character-forward piece, to borrow culinary terminology, and outlining for character is a lot easier than outlining for plot. (For me.)

The Death Eater Diaries emerged almost fully-formed from a Tumblr post I made joking about the sort of ludicrously awful decade Narcissa experiences. The hardest part of outlining was nailing down canonical dates. Stuff like how old Andromeda was when she got pregnant, when Bellatrix got married, when the members of the previous generation died, all that's unspecified — but it's also all functionally constrained to a narrow window of time, if you take in where the characters are at certain other parts of the story, so you can't just say anything. It was very fun to write, though. Doing so also stressed how hilariously short the timeline on the Black family collapse actually is. Between 1971 and 1981, they go from a two-branch family with an heir, a spare, and three healthy daughters -> completely extinct in the male line, two of its descendants disinherited, two imprisoned, one missing, presumed dead, and Draco Malfoy's mom.

[ephemeralfuture]

Aoba but make it black

[miamaimania]

Captured ~ A Monochrome Moment of Fashion's Silent Conversation with the Lens “¸”¦

[uwmspeccoll]

It's Fine Press Friday!

A Classic Representation

The Greek Portrait is an anthology of English verse translations of eminent Greek poets, from Homer to Meleager, with the corresponding Greek text presented alongside. Numerous translators provided the translations, taking on the arduous task of translating essential works from the Classical Period, including epic, lyric, and dramatic poetry.

This 1934 edition was designed by British fine-press publisher Francis Meynell (1891-1975) and printed in an edition of 425 copies by Dutch book and type designer Jan van Krimpen (1892-1958) at the Press of Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem for Meynell's Nonesuch Press in London. The text was edited by English poet and critic George Rostrevor Hamilton (1888-1967) and printed on Pannekoek paper in Fleischman Greek and van Krimpen's Lutetia types.

The illustrations are by Mariette Lydis (1887-1970), an Austrian-Argentine painter known for her portraits, illustrations, and erotic engravings. She was a self-taught artist who began her career at a young age and had a history of creating what was considered controversial artwork during her lifetime. She gained recognition for creating lithographic depictions that celebrated lesbian and bisexual relationships. However, some critics of her work described the illustrations as "perverse.” We find these prints to be quite lovely, however.

-Melissa, Special Collections Classics Intern

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