#shadowsong

[spindleclan]

ah shit,, here we go again 🚶

[teawinx]

So do any of you remember "Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders"?

The unholy lovechild of Sailor Moon, Barbie and She Ra from the 90s

Well I do, and I've been brainstorming a potential reboot. Like hypothetically I was approached to direct a reboot, this is what my ideas would be. That kind of deal.

So to start we've got the girls and their magical horse companions that are defo all horses yep yep yep

More to come!

[hazardouscattboy]

Was in the mood to draw my warrior cat ocs from yr6/7

Shadowsong and her windclan mate Blizzardpeak, They have like 8 children.

[aliteraryprincess]

Pink Book Stack

I was tagged eons ago by @therefugeofbooks​. Thank you!

💕 Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

🌺 We Ride Upon Sticks by Quam Barry

🎀 How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford

🩰 The Idiot by Elif Batuman

🧁 Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall

🌸 Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones

🍨 A Struggle for Fame by Charlotte Riddell

I’m not going to tag anyone since I think everyone I know has done this. But if you haven’t, consider yourself tagged!

[sjaejoneswriter]

Hello! I recently finished Shadowsong, and while I liked both the book and Wintersong, I was wondering just why you decided to end Josef's storyline the way you did, especially if it means separating him and Francios.

Even though I just answered a question about François, I thought I might talk a little bit about something that has never interested me all that much: romance. 😅

I'm being flippant, of course, but I've never thought that being in a romantic relationship was the be-all, end-all of a happy ending. For Josef, finally discovering where he comes from and returning to a place he feels like "home" is the happiest ending I could have given him. And while partings are bittersweet, if François had followed him, he would have suffered the fate of all the previous wives of the Goblin King.

There is a reason Liesl walks away at the end of Wintersong, which is to say that I think it's better to live for yourself than to die for love. But this is my belief, of course; yours may differ. In which case, feel free to write AU fanfiction to right my wrongs! I used to do that when I felt the author didn't end a book I loved properly. 😉

[mossby]

another OC drawing! this one has a background, woah... it took a while, too, like about 8 hours!

left is Tinkersong, real name Tink R. Song (she/her), a very powerful gnomish bard who teaches at a magic university, and is also a clockwork robot mechanic. right is Shadowsong, real name Hiirandel Caiharin (they/them), a half-elf bard and Tink's top student at said university. Tink is drinking a sweet herbal tea and Shadow is drinking black coffee.

[druidonity2]

Maiev Shadowsong

[varliona]

[ammatice]

[t00thpasteface]

given illidan's whole situation with his everything, i think he would sleep by laying stomach-down on tree branches like a leopard. i also think maiev would sleep standing up like a horse

[kasimova-dariia]

Night elves!

[deathbypixelz]

In my AU, one of the major aesthetic tweaks I make to the kaldorei is remove a lot of the metal in their armor and replace it with leather, fur, and cloth. They still use metal of course, but for a people who cares so much about and is presumably very knowledgeable about the environment, they'd know mining all that metal is super unsustainable and damaging. Also leather and fur and cloth is easier to move and sneak around in.

With that said, I wanted to do a bit of a redesign for Maiev Shadowsong my beloved. I didn't want to touch her overall silhouette, because that shit is Iconic As Hell, but I replaced the heavy plate with more flexible samurai-type armor. There's already some Japanese/Korean/general SE Asian aesthetic influence in canon, so I wanted to draw on that. Not so much the (fantastical) Viking aesthetic I usually lean into, but I threw some of that in as well (e.g. the winnigas wrapping on her legs).

This isn't a "final draft" of her redesign, moreso a proof-of-concept for myself. So there'll be changes, as with all character designs lol

[aliteraryprincess]

Sequel Stack Challenge

I was tagged to do this six ages ago by @bibliophilecats and @appleinducedsleep. Thank you and sorry for being so late!

So as far as I’m aware the challenge is just to make a stack of sequels that you’ve read (or maybe not read--I don’t know, there weren’t any rules). But I decided to put my own little spin on it. This is the Unexpected Sequel Stack, meaning that when the author announced the sequel or when I became aware of their existence, I was surprised because I hadn’t expected a sequel.

Extras by Scott Westerfeld (Uglies #4)

Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle #2)

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle #3)

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (The Shining #2, kinda)

Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones (Wintersong #2)

West by Edith Pattou (East #2)

I’m not tagging anyone, but if you want to do it, consider yourself tagged!

[sjaejoneswriter]

I’m not sure if my question went through but if it didn’t, do you have an idea as the author of what happened to François? Or do you prefer to leave it to the readers interpretation? It’s something that’s been on my mind and I would like to know more about this if you care to share! Or maybe it’s something that you want your readers to think about?

I've surprisingly (?) gotten a lot of questions about the ending of Shadowsong, specifically with regards to Josef and François and what happens to them.

As for Josef, well, we know he [redacted]. For François, I think he remained with the performance troupe that he and Käthe were traveling with during the events of Shadowsong, helping Liesl compose songs and becoming an impresario. Of them all, he has the most professional musical experience, and is also the most trained. There weren't a lot of opportunities for young men of color back then (although composers like Joseph Bologne, Chevalier Saint-Georges—who inspired François—found a good deal of professional musical success during his lifetime), but I like to think that the madcap world of actors and artisans would suit him.

[serpenlupus]

I'm sure they'll all have fun at the pool xD

Inspired by Hearthstone's fabulous Beachparty Skin for Maiev

(I actually made this last year but seems I forgot to post it here)

[cocolacola]

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