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Unravelled

Acrylic ink and colored pencil on paper. 2024

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I have been working on this ever since December, but I can finally say it is, indeed, done. This is gonna be a cover for the zine I've been working on with @kiwiitin and which (unless things go horribly wrong) will have its debut in TreKuplii. It will be an original dnd character zine focusing on these two good lads and their stories.

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Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

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REBLOG, don’t REPOST!

Commissions are OPEN!

NOTE; commission prices will be updated in the next term!

Socials:

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About Me:

Name: Hava / Vee

Age: 20

Pronouns: she/*they (this is new!)

Orientation: asexual, demiromantic, sapphic

Nationality: Canadian

I aspire to work as either a 3D character artist or a concept artist in the gaming industry. (I’m quite enjoying freelance though, even if it isn’t as profitable yet :)

While I’m very shy in person, I love meeting people online, so don’t hesitate to say hello! :)

- Vee

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Two years ago RF invaded Ukraine and tried to take Kyiv in few days (failed). Since then it occupied east-south Ukraine (~26% of territory) and keeps committing war crimes against us. Aside from fights on frontline, RF keeps shelling our cities, towns and villages with missiles. Even tho we desire to gain our deserved freedom and victory as soon as possible, our enemy is ready for a long war which is horrible. And of course it contributes greatly into propaganda to make people believe this invasion was justified even tho it is absolutely not.

Any donation is important and very appreciated, even one dollar, even 25 cents (believe me this is averagely how much people donate at a time). And I remind you that the sooner we win, the sooner we won’t need to be financially supported as we are now.

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Today 40 Palestinians died in an Israeli shelling of homes in central Gaza, while more than 100 were severely injured (majority women and children). Yesterday Israel bombed Syria, killing two. Israel also bombed Lebanon, killing a woman and a girl.

Just to be crystal clear—Israel is now simultaneously bombing Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.

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@promptsh20 brings you:

“Can we just stay like this?” A deep cuddling prompt list.

Digging at each others clothing in search of skin to feel even closer.

Tracing scars and pressing into beauty/birth marks.

Quietly waiting for their breathing to sync.

The silent agreement to only speak in whispers and murmurs.

“I’m sorry, I’m probably suffocating you.” “No, I don’t mind. If I do happen to suffocate, just know I died happy.”

Pecks and nose grazes over all areas of exposed skin.

“Do you want to cuddle?” “Yes, a million times yes.”

The small inkling of panic that the other may leave when they shift positions and then the relief when that’s all it was.

Falling in and out of sleep holding each other and admiring the other while they sleep.

“I needed this.”

Shared excitement over the prospect of a cuddle session after a long day.

One throwing their limbs over the other and the other holding them in place.

“I don’t really want to get up. I’m so comfortable right now.”

Rubbing gentle circles over the other’s back/lower back.

“Is this okay?”

Resting their head on the other’s chest and feeling completely relaxed by their heartbeat.

“I look forward to this everyday.”

Holding and cradling their face to study it, perhaps noticing something new. Something else to love.

“It’s that time already?”

Neither moving for hours, unless it’s to give the other a kiss or to move closer.

“Do you want me to hold you closer?” “No that’s not it, ugh—I just want to curl up inside you. Is that weird?”

Setting up or prepping a place together for cuddling purposes .

“Cuddling has never felt like this. I honestly feel like I’m melting into a puddle and my brain is mush. Or is it just this way with you?”

Heavily doting on each other, feeling lucky seeing the other vulnerable like this, even just knowing them like this.

“I’m sorry, I can’t do anything that’s going to take away from the cuddling.”

Helping each other find a comfortable cuddling position, it doesn’t take very long.

If by any means the other has to get up, a series releasing and detangling ensues.

“Oh my god, your such a cuddle bug.”

Being so wrap up in one another they forget about important bodily functions for example, hunger.

“Ah, there you go. Safe and sound, hm?”

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hoping one will reach you

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Notes / guide to faces / whatever

What it is - basically line tracing of sprites so it would be easier for you to understand shapes of faces. Muriel and Portia can be not so accurate cause we have only ¾ view of them, so i drew side and front view by myself haha … Also Asra’s page outdated  cause we only recently got front view of him.

Anyway maybe for someone this will be helpful.

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Ballads at Midnight

Release date (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Steam) English: April 1st, 2022

"When a sarcastic bard is arrested and exiled to an abandoned castle, she expected to be at the mercy of a hungry, blood-thirsty vampire. She soon discovers that the vampire, Lucius, is not starving: he is gravely bored. She may just survive on borrowed time, one ballad each midnight."

This is a free game by Synstoria! You can download it from itch.io here, or from Steam here.

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The synopsis says: “It’s the hottest summer on record and London is dying. Prices are high, pay is low, and stressed commuters are packed on to London Underground trains again like the pandemic never happened. To add to the misery, the temperatures underground just keep climbing and climbing, the heat trapped in the clay with nowhere to go. 

“Five travellers on an unlucky tube carriage find themselves bound together one morning as witnesses to a single horrific event – an event they can’t quite seem to remember. They make an unlikely team: weary tube driver, a disillusioned civil servant, an ambitious city trader, an overwhelmed hotel worker and an unhoused young man just trying to get by – but now they must come together to confront what they have seen and stop it in its tracks. Because there’s something lurking in the stifling darkness and labyrinthine tunnels that run below London… something old, something vicious, and something very, very hungry.” 

I couldn't be more excited to be working with @jonnywaistcoat on his next two novels! This is just more of what he does best - pulling apart the very seams of society and giving me very specific new sleep paralysis demons, and somehow getting me to say thank you afterwards.

And if you're near London next month, why not pop along to Gollanczfest to hear him chat all things horror with Joe Hill and V. V. James? Tickets are still available:

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DREAM WITCHERY. Have a Month Out this Week!

Let me tell you a couple interesting facts about that.

A month ago, my latest book, Dream Witchery, was released by Llewellyn Worldwide and hit the shelves everywhere. I AM delighted with the amazingly positive response everywhere, from a total Sold-out in several US stores to an immediatly Out-of-Stock in Amazon UK.

Also, during the edition process, the book was adapted into a 12-hour audiobook, narrated by Gary Tiedemann and distributed by our absolute favorite: Tantor Audio

Also, the rights have been acquired to later translate and adapt the book into Portuguese... Published at any moment in the next few years.

Because it is a 400-page book, some stores still do not have it, which is easy to understand; even if they need it, this book takes up two or even three books in a shelter. We are talking about 400 pages of pure magic and South American folklore curated (as it should be) by someone from South America.

Dream Witchery began as a small collection of notes on dream magic from various journals I brought from Venezuela & Brazil, translating these and constantly comparing notes while curating each line as much as possible.

All of these notes had something in common with the manuscript. They came from different tribes, cultures, and parts of South America. I group these notes by country and later by tribe of origin. I was making it a tribal-dreams-magic grimoire.

From the Caribs and Yanomami to multiple other families/tribes that inhabit the central and northern region of the Amazon, especially those near our most significant rivers, learning sorcery, hunting, and medicine is just a part of Dream Witchery.

This manuscript had about 65k words written at the time of its presentation to the publishing houses, this was before including all the collaborators and guests from different regions and cultures who agreed to be part of this work.

This book had 65k words at the time of its presentation to the publishing houses before including all the guests from different regions and cultures who agreed to be part of this work. They gave the book a diverse, beautiful flavor and a - yet necessary - contrast.

Dream Witchery was rejected and questioned by multiple editors and publishers for (as they mentioned) "not being commercial enough" or "too black." They would prefer (as always) a book written by a British woman or a white American man about OUR culture. Or a simple other Spellbook.

One of the most important contributions in this book was having the help and support of my partner, David Dagnino who, in addition to being an Engineer who graduated with honors, is a dedicated freelance illustrator and has carried out multiple projects in the past, not only for me.

I needed more than an illustrator, someone from my country and land who knew my culture and who could represent it in detail, from the old skin-changer man with his cigar and horns from Nueva Esparta to the devilish tree of Trinidad and the masks of the dancing devils of Yare.

Working on each illustration separately one by one and constantly modifying them under the editor's notes to improve their quality took hours and hours of work every day, and the result was worth every second.

Because bringing positive and quality representation was always the goal.

The editor's notes made by Heather Greene during the editing process were our daily homework; she perfectly knew how to wisely press the points necessary to maintain the work, which was pure and balanced for readers.

She knew how to balance a 400-page book; she guided each step of the process gently but with due and notable experience. Dream Witchery passing through her hands was a compilation of journal-like notes that became a beautiful, orderly manuscript for Llewellyn Worldwide

The enormous team behind Llewellyn understood that Dream Witchery was not another book on dream magic but a magical compilation of tribal stories, initiatory rites, formulas, and Amazon folklore with dozens of necessary footnotes to shape the book's spirit.

Writing formulas and rituals that you have witnessed many times but have never read in another book was difficult. This required acting like a storyteller, telling the reader every detail of what you experienced and saw from your eyes and helping the reader to understand the world from your vision, from what you lived, over and over again.

Imagine being present during a 12-hour ritual with at least a hundred people in the mountains, comparing your notes with others, and trying to detail the essential points so the reader can glimpse what you experienced at a concise age.

To close the final process, the collaborators and endorsements came, and each of them was chosen from a long list of possibilities to offer a picturesque and colorful contrast, to offer and celebrate our magical diversity.

Most of the books of Witchcraft having contributors limit themselves to inviting just invite the AMZN-best-selling American authors of the moment (not very diverse). This community includes celebrated authors, yes, but also bloggers, event organizers, store owners, jewelers, and artists who use their platform to elevate others. And I want it to celebrate them too.

For this reason, those invited to collaborate on Dream Witchery were so diverse, and each one had something completely different to offer, from recipes from my mother and grandmother to recipes from authors and bloggers from Latin America and other parts of the world.

Featuring among many others contributors in Dream Witchery:

Ariana Carrasca - Oncle Ben - Maria Elena U. - Miss Aida - J. Allen Cross - Lorraine Monteagut - Hector Salva - Laura González - Phoenix Coffin Williams - Jennifer Sacasa-Wright - Dawn Aurora Hunt - Alysha Kravetz - Mira A. Gade - Laura Davila - Emma Kathryn - Temperance Alden - Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani - Ella Harrison.

They bring (literally each one of them) something unique, magical, beautiful, and authentic to this book.

The last months before publishing a book are full of nerves, constant anxiety attacks, at least in my case, and few breaks. But having the blurbs of other authors who read the book was the most positive support it could require, and that came from those who read and endorsed it.

#dreamwitchery was beautifully gifted with magical words by the people I most respect in this community. Including Vincent HigginbothamJake Richards - AuthorJudy Ann NockClaudiney Prieto Rebecca Beyer. And Annwyn Avalon they give it like a powerful blessing.

And now that eight years of work (the same time I have been living in the USA) are available in your local bookstores and virtually everywhere, it is an ancestral celebration of life, the words of the ancestors of my land, and the ancestors of many others, healing the world, one reader at a time... I Am just Happy and really Grateful.

PS: For those who don't have it yet, Dream WItchery is available in your favorite local bookstores. Barnes & Noble and Amazon Kindle

And available here below too:

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I would do UNSPEAKABLE THINGS for this man and have no regrets about a single thing.

Ruminating

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✴ happy new year! ✴

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My contribution for the @dragonageannual 2024 calendar! The Magisters Sidereals and the chaos they brought to the world. Reflections of a past long gone, devoured, tainted.

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Hi.

I dont like making this post, but i need to. Cars lights broke and it looks like it is an electric issue rather than just a bulb expired and ill just need to replace it. Repair for that is in hundreds, which I don't have. In fact, I have been in red for past 6 months, no matter how hard I try to save up. Things just keep breaking. Meds just keep increasing. Rent went up as well few months back. I applied to as many social assistances as i can, but my paycheck is in limbo area.

I am sole provider in a household with spouse going trough expensive immigration process, with me being an immigrant as well without family support.

I am at my end. And I am so, so, so tired.

I am not here to ask for money for free, I am able to offer art services.

You can check my pinned post for what sort of comissions I am able to offer. Prices are completely negotiable. I have no option, this is desperate move.

I am looking as well for a third job, which is against my doctors advice, just to get somewhere.

I know many of you are in simmilar situation as I, and I don't ask from anybody to give me last morsel late stage capitalism put in your hand. A reblog would be as appreciated, since word tomouth helps artists immensely.