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A nice thing this month was receiving the Illumicrate Exclusive editions of The Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan! They look so nice, and I love the author’s paintings. It’s a been a beloved series for me since 2004, and has warm fandom memories. I’m glad to have it in a fancier version. 🥰

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sick :(

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Untitled #2, Hunting Ghosts; 2010.

📷: Marianna Rothen

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Photography by Marianna Rothen

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“Domesticated Women”, by Marianna Rothen.

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Marianna Rothen

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Still Life

Marianna Rothen

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Marianna Rothen

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She, 2016

Eclipse, 2016

Marianna Rothen, Shadows in Paradise series

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Claudia Rothen

African sands

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A while ago, *I know* that there were sketches for TBM by Trudi Canavan herself. Like characters, buildings and so on. And now I can't find them! But I know that they must exist somewhere....

Please send help.

[roalinda]

Looking at my pile of unfinished drafts, I found a certain one with Regulus + prongsfoot. An AU in which prongsfoot are together with no Lily and Harry, Regulus betrays Voldemort when he is older and dies but puts his daughter in uncle Sirius' care before that. It's the first time I have an original character in my works. Here is a very very very small part.

🌷 Uncle Sirius meets his niece 🌷

The silence was heavy. 

Sirius had never experienced such an atmosphere since the last time he was in 12 Grimmauld Place long ago in which he was scolded for being sorted into Gryffindor. The only difference was that at that time he was a helpless child, praying for someone to take him away but this time a child was being placed in his care which was utterly ridiculous by default since he had zero idea how to interact with one. 

Apparently, Regulus didn't agree. He was sitting on the coach, sipping his tea politely, frowning now and then. Sirius didn't blame him. James didn't know how to brew anything unless it was coffee and obviously Regulus, a Black through and through, wasn't enjoying tea served in a mug instead of a porcelain cup, plus the fact that the hot drink was made with a muggle tea bag. Sirius sympathised mentally. No matter how much he hated it, he was a Black as well. Appreciating tea time, fine china and jam muffins ran in the family. 

Back to the topic.

Sirius wasn't sure if his brother was mentally sane or if he had gotten a prophetic vision from some crazy entity above. What he was sure of though, was that Regulus and him were not on good terms or on the same side of this godforsaken war. So, seeing him sitting so casually on his - and James' - coach was a bit of a shock. No, make it a double shock, as there was a small girl sitting beside him as well, holding tight on his green robes.

She had slightly curly hair, black and lush. Her eyes were big and grey, looking around curiously, blinking now and then under heavy eyelashes. She was no more than five but she was all elegance and grace, an absolute doll. 

She was a perfect example of Black beauty. 

Wait…Black beauty? Sirius' eyes went wide but before he could speak, the little girl blinked owlishly at him again before turning to Regulus. "He looks like the boy in the portrait." 

"That is because he is the boy in the portrait. He is your uncle Sirius." 

Sirius gaped. Thankfully James was there to take over. "Is she your daughter?" He asked Regulus, rather flatly before cooing the small girl. "You are so beautiful, little Lady." 

"My name is Suheila Black. Suheila as in a star." She blushed and introduced herself formally, looking challengingly at James as if daring him to make fun of her name. She looked like a ferocious little lion cub and Sirius grinned, quite pleased with what he was seeing. One more Gryffindor in the Black family didn't hurt. 

Blacks and their obsession with stars was ridiculous. Obviously Suheila didn't think so because she looked very proud of her name. 

"What portrait?" He couldn't help but to ask.

Regulus' pale cheeks reddened a bit. "The one mother commissioned before you left for Hogwarts. Suheila loves that." 

Sirius remembered that, mostly because his joints were in agony after sitting motionless for hours. He didn't ask why Regulus had kept it. "I see you are married now." He said, the notion strangely foreign and a bit funny.  

"I was. My wife passed away during childbirth." Answered Regulus curtly and Sirius winced. "I'm sorry." 

"No need. You wouldn't have liked her anyway since you are not fond of purebloods." 

"James is a pureblood." Sirius pointed out. "and I am very fond of him." 

"Potter is a blood traitor." Regulus said, sharp and cutting. "Don't get me wrong. I am not here to berate either of you." He continued as if he had not just snapped at James.

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Claudia Rothen. Arenas africanas.

via: @gacougnol

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Marianna Rothen

Mirror

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Marianna Rothen

Marianna Rothen (1982) is a Canadian artist who is based in New York. After becoming a model as a young teenager, Marianna spent several years traveling, working and documenting the experience through photographs. Influenced by the need to reclaim her own image, Rothen now uses her photography and films to explore and deconstruct conventional conceptions of female beauty and gender politics. Using a mix of traditional photographic processes with digital media she creates images that evoke a sense of mystery and discomfort.

Rothen has made three bodies of work, translated in photo books and films, in which the development of her vision of patriarchy and empowerment are addressed. In the first series, Snow and Rose & other tales (2014), she constructed a richly resonant dream world where empowered women are free to be themselves in an environment entirely without men. Shot in a retro style, the images revel in natural unselfconscious nudity and contagious smiling confidence.

In her second body of work, Shadows in Paradise (2017), Rothen builds up a subtly different mood, where uncertainty and insecurity reenter the psychological terrain and introspection takes hold. While Rothen’s women still inhabit an all-female domain, there is much more implied tension. We voyeuristically watch as the scenarios start to unravel. Scenarios where the realities and perils of life intrude on the idyllic freedoms of the setting we saw in Snow and Rose & other tales.

In Mail Order (2018/2019), Rothen’s third body of work, men are introduced for the first time. They are literally objectified, turned into objects, one semi-fictional woman’s projected idea of masculinity and maleness. As she does in all her series, Rothen features in her own work. Though her character is alive, she is just as fake as the men; her gender is as much a performance as theirs. The crucial difference is they are not human. Rothen, as photographer, and Rothen, as model, wields no actual power over these male dolls, no actual men are exploited for her play. She suggests what it is like to be a woman who is looked at by men and who is powerless; whose identity is puppeteered by the patriarchy. The dolls start to become ridiculous, risible. They have no depth, no story – like so many of the female leads in Hollywood films. As a former fashion model herself, Rothen’s own experience in front of the camera also shapes the way she inhabits and examines this position. By staging these absurd situations, she strongly criticizes the fact that people are still products of patriarchy. This makes her work an important advocate of women’s empowerment. 

Shadows in Paradise

(titles above photographs)

Eclipse, 2016

Donkey Skin, 2015

Shadows in Paradise, 2015

Risky Business, 2015

Still Life, 2015

Betty and Veronica, 2015

Betty and Veronica #2, 2015, diptych

Thinking Ability, 2015

Robbers, 2015

Mirror, Mirror, 2015

Beside Herself, 2015

Persona, 2015

Sister, 2015

Sister #2, 2015

Minor, 2016

Mrs. Dubinbaum, 2015

Pins and Needles, 2015

The Hot Spot, 2016

Whiskey Nose, 2016

She, 2016

20/20, 2016

Fear of Fear, 2016, diptych

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, 2016

Dark Spring, 2016, diptych

Zig-Zag Girl, 2016