#An Artist of the Floating World

[gillianthecat]

I don't know how I would answer this (and there's a couple of them I haven't read yet), but I'm curious about everyone else's thoughts:

[litsnaps]

[quotessentially]

From Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World

[smalltownfae]

Top 10 Favourite Books of 2022

Honorable Mentions:

Recitatif by Toni Morrison (the only reason is not on the top it's because it's a short story)

The Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Sistersong by Lucy Holland

[lunarharp]

..polly pocket au.. (<- a type of doll.)

[twsted-canvas]

Leota Dorm Uniform SSR

"Yeah, sure, I'll come along. Just don't do anything stupid, okay?"

[smalltownfae]

Top 10 favorite books of any genre

Are these the best books ever? No. Are these my favourites? For now, yes. This was pretty hard to pick tbh because they aren't all at the same level and I have at least 2 more I would mention and some I haven't reread recently so I can't say if they are still favourites. In the end, I was satisfied with this list at least.

Fool's Errand stands for the complete Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies. I just didn't want the entire thing to be Hobb books.

Btw @lairn I just bought Holes because it was cheap and I saw it on my dash and it looked interesting.

Tagging (if you want to do it): @monpetitrenard @xserpx @beeblackburn @random-jot @alloysius-g @electropeach @song-of-amethyst @garnetrena @vydumaj

Top 10 favourite books of any genre

There’s likely one of these already circulating somewhere but I’ve not seen one yet so I thought I’d start one.

Tagging (no pressure whatsoever): @richardsthirdnipple, @mejcinta, @bohemian-nights, @mercedesdecorazon, @gwenllian-in-the-abbey, @aifsaath, @dangerouswinnercandy, @daylander1000

[remainsstreet]

After a few years out of print, my book Floodgate Companion is back from Floating World Comics. Originally published in 2016, back in a third edition- 112 pages of otherworldly cosmic ephemera in a clothbound foil-stamped hardcover. Order here: https://floatingworldcomics.com/shop/art-books/floodgate-companion-by-robert-beatty

[fortunaestalta]

[rainywithachanceofstars]

look I don’t know how incentivized it is compared to the US or if it is even possible in Japan but I just. really want kazuki and rei to at some point consider getting married for tax reasons

[mikithemaker]

Sky island concepting for Nichyes story

[jonreytrevino]

Repost Classic : Cape Feather Power-Up

9/10/21

Twitter | Ko-fi | Upwork

[donutdrawsthings]

[starscreamingg]

Looking back on Detroit become human in the wake of the ai craze is like. The most morbidly funny thing to me One of these days I have to write something on how the story of that game just gets HORRIFYING when you view it through a (more) modern lens. Man

[funkypileofgoop]

An okay attempt scenery concept for Celesti, one of the five realms of Arinuo. The city in the sky.

There are five total realms of Arinuo, three of which are habitable, and they’re often depicted as being stacked on top of one another like so:

• The Astral Plane

• Celesti

• Midrealm

• Forbidea

• The Abyss

Even though they’re depicted as being right next to each other, They’re all technically thousands of miles apart and it’s nearly impossible to get from one to the next without the use of magical transportation.

Will be talking more about the realms soon :]

[jenn-the-mostly-harmless]

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First image: a digital painting of a fantasy scene of a green skinned person with a beast of burden discovering two mushroom people who are also shocked to see her. A floating island hovers in the sky, which is split into bright gold and pink on the left and a deep blue purple on the right. There is an ocean below, and two islands with mountainous dead coral jutting out of them. The mushroom people stand in front of this dark, shadowy landscape, hiding just behind a thicket of trees. Conversely, the woman and her beast stand in a brightly lit grassland, looking through the thicket as if it is a gateway to another world.

Second image: a detail of the first image, showcasing a close up of the mushroom people and their tiny little faces. Bleached coral peaks out from behind the bushes in the thicket.

Third image: a detail of the first image, showcasing a close up of the green woman and her beast. She is carrying a walking stick in one hand, and pulling her hat off her head with the other. The hat is a disc made out of dried grasses and decorated with beads. She is wearing red shorts, an orange tank top with blue trim, and a leather backpack. Her hair and clothes are also decorated with beads in yellow, orange, and red. The creature with her has a tapir like face, orange goat eyes, and boar like tusks. It is wearing orange and blue barding and leather saddle bags.

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I painted a new phone background for myself and decided to test the free anti-ai software Glaze on it. It creates a subtle texture that makes it harder for ai learning to steal. I think my settings were low intensity, slower render quality. My take away from the first time using it was that the preview is a lot rougher and more visible than the slow render of the same intensity. I hope that made sense.