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“Evening Bells,” (1891) by Carlos Schwabe 

Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Into darkness I must row

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On the Gobrin Ice

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How does one hate a country, or love one? […] I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?

— Ursula K. Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, p. 212)

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Personal work inspired by greatest writer ever aka Ursula K. Le Guin's short story Winter's King. You can find it in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, it's set in the same world as The Left Hand of Darkness and it's... well, brilliant, like pretty much all her writing.

“Thus, although the best known picture is that dark image of a young king standing above an old king who lies dead in a corridor lit only by mirror-reflections of a burning city, set it aside for a while.”

And then, as she often does, proceeds to break your heart.

At first, I wanted to make 3-4 illustrations for this story, but found a way to put all scenes into a single piece. And I believe that actually works better, given the cyclic nature of the story.

I'm not done illustrating Gethen. Genly Ai and Therem Harth rem ir Estraven: you are next. Once I finish the commissions I'm working on and have the time and energy for personal art, that is.

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"You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Christmas in Edinburgh, Scotland

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Snowy countryside

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I must go to him. He’s coming!!

Nosferatu, 1922

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DISHONORED 2012 — [ 1 / ∞ ]

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Hair ornament (2003) by Susie Ganch

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Christmas Eve walk

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Frances Hardinge’s Fly By Night !

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This protective book cover from about 1630 shows elaborate silver smith work over violet velvet.