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consistently overestimating the general public’s level of arthurian understanding.

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Three more requests! I meant to make them all black&white but well, green knight somehow doesn't work all that well without green 🍀

IX. The Green Knight for romanodegois and @a-gremlin-for-my-thoughts VIII. Otesánek eating his mum for msdearcos who asked for folklore's creature from Czechia VII. for christine.kasparian who asked for spooky fairytale for the autumn season. I chose czech fairy tale Hádanka (Riddle) about this queen who made household items from the bones (and hair) of her lover to take a revenge on his killer.

Enjoy! 💀

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I forgot to post it but back around summer I drew Baba Jaga's hut. Try to find the cat!

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Ok I finished Long Live Evil! It was really good. Kinda took me a while to get into it but those last few chapters were a whirlwind!

I'm genuinely looking forward to the next book :3

Reading Long Live Evil. I think this book is, in some ways, leveling critique at a style of adult fantasy that I don't read. It's still fun but sometimes I'm not sure what to make of it x)

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Reading book to young Sam vs READING BOOK TO YOUNG SAM 💀

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The Orb of Cairado by Katherine Addison, a novella in the world of The Chronicles of Osreth, to release 31 January 2025!

Summary:

Set in the world of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee The Goblin Emperor, The Orb of Cairado offers an unlikely hero in historian Ulcetha Zhorvena.

Five years ago, Ulcetha was studying at the University of Cairado, working his way toward becoming a scholar first-class in the Department of History. Then a prize artifact disappeared and Ulcetha, deftly framed, was kicked out. Now he works for a crooked importer, using his knowledge of elven history to write provenances for the fake artifacts Salathgarad sells.

When the airship Wisdom of Choharo explodes, killing the emperor and three of his four sons, it takes with it Ulcetha’s best friend, Mara Lilana. But Mara leaves behind a puzzle—the one thing Ulcetha can’t resist. And the puzzle leads Ulcetha back to the Department of History…and maybe the chance to clear his name.

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This is a standalone novella. I contacted the publisher, and they said it will be sold as an ebook as well (at least in the US and Canada), but didn't say when.

The conclusion of The Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy, The Tomb of Dragons, releases 11 March 2025!

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🌊Woman & Sealskin🌊

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light pollution has always been a thing, in medieval times it was the fleeting flash of a sword constantly glimmering up all over the world, blanketing day over half of all night

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The romantic drama in this is like if Jane Austen's Emma included more mortal peril.

Rae has a comedically bad perception of who is into who. As an aroace I find that very relatable

Reading Long Live Evil. I think this book is, in some ways, leveling critique at a style of adult fantasy that I don't read. It's still fun but sometimes I'm not sure what to make of it x)

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i never feel more like a steeple-fingered villain than when i see someone making reductive statements about a genre i like and i think tch. pathetic. not only can i tell that you are only acquainted with three utterly mainstream works of this genre, but i can tell exactly which three they are

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being deconstructed probably feels good as fuck for a genre

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Guinevere

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Update: I am now 2/3rds of the way through. This is great progress, in my current and ongoing cursed state of not being able to read!

As usual, I'm kinda struggling to be invested in any of the romantic stuff going on, but the schemes and plots are intriguing enough to still have my attention. And in a turn of events that will shock absolutely no one, I'm captivated by whatever Marius has going on. How much repression and mental illness can one guy have? Guess I'll have to tune in to find out

Reading Long Live Evil. I think this book is, in some ways, leveling critique at a style of adult fantasy that I don't read. It's still fun but sometimes I'm not sure what to make of it x)

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Ok so I finally listened to ep. 89 of Blurry Creatures and yeah, it definitely bears a resemblance to the most credible eye witness accounts in Fairy-Faith. Some of it, like some of the accounts in fairy-faith, sounds a little speculative. Still, the coherent accounts that repeat over time, and across cultures, is compelling.

I didn't think, when I started my fae studies, that it would have such a tangle of connections to psychology and anthropology, religion, and paranormal investigations. It's been fascinating to say the least.

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Eugenides leaving earrings at the altar of his god then leaving earrings for Irene I'm firing myself into the sun

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happy anniversary janet and tam lin!!!!!!!!