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Y’all wanna see something horribly sad? This is the place for you. If you’ve read the beginning of a conjuring of light you know this scene and it broke my heart so much i had to draw it to get it out of my system.

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Captains Bard and Ghafa!!! The only crossover I will ever need.

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Kell: Don't say a word

Lila: Fergalicious

Kell: I said no words!

Lila: Oh I see, two weeks ago when we were playing scrabble it wasn't a word, now it is. How convenient for you.

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Alucard is a gift tbh

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😭😭😭😍😍😍😍😍 it’s so pretty

The second commission I did for @firenationcreations! This time with Kell and Lila from the Darker Shade of Magic series. 

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just! because! a! fantasy! novel! is! written! by! a! woman! does! not! mean! it! is! Young! Adult!

to explain, there is this incessant problem, amongst publishing in general but especially amongst readers, to instantly categorize a fantasy novel as Young Adult simply because it’s written by a woman. now, there is nothing wrong with YA fiction (duh), nor is there anything wrong with women writing fantasy (again, duh), but just because a fantasy novel happens to be written by a woman does not instantly make it a YA fantasy. this problem has to do with two things: 1) misogyny bc obviously women can’t write “real fiction” (“real fiction” being Adult fiction, predominately Adult literary fiction, as genre fiction is often looked down upon as inferior) and 2) YA being considered “lesser” than Adult fiction, across all genres, but most especially SFF. 

and when it comes to women trying to argue that their book isn’t YA, they often receive boatloads of ridicule afterward from people telling them that they cleary must hate the Young Adult category since they’re unwilling to allow their books to be categorized as YA. off the top of my head, three authors who’ve gotten this kind of response are R.F. Kuang, V.E. Schwab, and S.A. Chakraborty. their Adult books absolutely need to be Adult for the content, themes, and plot, and to mis-categorize them as YA is not only perpetuating the problem women face in publishing, it’s opening young readers up to the chance that they’re going to pick up a book that they might not be ready for or that they probably shouldn’t be reading. if young readers pick up an Adult book, it needs to be a conscious choice on their part, so they’re going in equipped to consume the Adult content (and R.F. Kuang’s books absolutely need to be in the Adult category, no matter that Rin is a teenager. Adult novels can focus on children). this is why i’m so adamant about the content of Young Adult books being safe for anyone from age 10 to age 18 (it’s intended for readers from age 13 - 19). 

thanks for coming to my ted talk

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Goddamn this is stunning

Happy to share 3 new papercraft artworks featured on the exclusive alternative dust jackets included in the Illumicrate Collections Edition for the Shades of Magic series in collaboration with V. E. Schwab! —– ADSOM: The was such a weird-feelings concept to work on! 

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Can we talk about how Kelsey Ellison IS Lila

Being Lila Bard for our upcoming Darker Shade of Magic production has been a dream! 

Somebody with a disability playing someone with the same disability, can you believe it! If only Hollywood could listen… 

(We both have glass eyes in our right eye, but myself and Lila don’t let it stop us from doing anything!)

I can’t wait to share more with you! If you haven’t seen the latest posts about it, see Rain’s tumblr here

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Hogwarts Houses au with the adsom gang

Kell: Ravenclaw. Definitely. All those trinkets he collected for no other reason than he wanted to have them? Literally going against direct orders to get all of them? Always trying to think rationally and logically? Learning so much about magic? Being pessimistic? Ravenclaw.

Lila: Slytherin- my girl is the DEFINITION of ambition, like she followed a guy who had every reason to intensely dislike her on a trip she isn't sure she'll survive, entered the Essen Tasch, a whole ass tournament for the best magicians IN THE WORLD just to test her strength, holds grudges, planned to kill a ship's captain to take it as her own and overall was a Slytherin.

Rhy: Hufflepuff. Do I have to elaborate? No. Am I going to? Yes. This is the person who got kidnapped and nearly killed, and his first concern when he woke up was that his brother was hurt, AND THEN literally pardoned the people who were planning to kill him. He is explicitly stated to be extremely trusting and fully loyal to Kell, and stayed with Alucard on that ship even though he had no actual reason too. Also just generally how much he cares for his people, the b e a u t i f u l scene where he goes around with blankets, and how the trait he values in himself the most is how lovable and approachable the people see him as, all just make him the most Hufflepuffy Hufflepuff ever.

Alucard: Gryffindor, but I can't really explain it. I guess it's just how much of a natural leader he seems to be, but how much he tries to seem like part of the crew, laughing at all the jokes, teasing his crew mates, ect.. Also his reaction when Rhy stopped breathing just seems like A Gryffindor Thing.

Holland: Slytherin. So I'm gonna try to keep this unbiased even though i hate this guy with a passion (don't attack me ok i can see why you would like him but i just don't). Anyways I think Slytherin because of how intent he was on helping his city. He was willing to do just about anything for his city to prosper, and this lead eventually to him being reckless. He also held a grudge against Red London his whole life, and was actually willing to give up his body and will a SECOND time for the sake of his London, that's how ambitious he was.

Also the dynamics? I mean sorry if this is just me but I've always thought that Gryffindors and Ravenclaws would get along the worst out of all the possible combinations, while Ravenclaws and Slytherins, and Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs would get along well because they are the pessimistic and optimistic houses respectively.

EXTRA MENTIONS

Tieren: Ravenclaw

Ned: Ravenclaw, he was so eager to learn

Maxim: Gryffindor

Emira: Hufflepuff but this one is the hardest

Ojka: Gryffindor, she's loyal to Holland

Calla: Hufflepuff, she deserved so much better

Astrid/Athos: Slytherin, just like anyone on that throne

Hastra: Hufflepuff, I will never forgive V.E.Schwab

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Okay but INEJ GHAFA MEETING DELILAH BARD—

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Kell Maresh from the Shades of Magic trilogy by @veschwab

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Finally got around to drawing my favorite character! Background inspired by Qistina Khalidah's Queen of Peace.

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Captain Bard and her smuggler bf

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Kell, to Lila: It’s really sad that I have to specifically make this a rule, but absolutely no pickpocketing or stabbing indoors at Rhy's birthday party.

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oh to be a citizen of grey london and accidentally being pulled into red london with kell maresh and learning the magic of antari’s while fighting the evil by his side

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Kell, to Lila: It’s really sad that I have to specifically make this a rule, but absolutely no pickpocketing or stabbing indoors at Rhy's birthday party.

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Kell and Lila from a darker shade of magic by V.E 🖤🗡🩸