#book of katherine

[bookofkatherine]

Kingly Gift | An Aragorn Love Poem

What happens when Viggo Mortensen, a real-life king, kisses you and takes your breath away? You write him a love poem, that's what.

Monday, August 26, 2024, 11:53 p.m.

Dear Aragorn,

There is a kiss - An unmistakable kiss - And it turns everything into a mist, Of superfine love and amethyst.

It forms from kingly brow, It tastes of yore brought now, And makes me wait, To stand more straight,

Until I feel our vow.

Passers by would never miss, A kiss made such as this, While I seem to miss, Only this, This one true gift,

Of his kiss.

Love,

Katherine

Note to readers: Viggo Mortensen was King Aragon a little over 1100 years ago. He has long life because he was born a nephilim - part human and part angel (some cultures call these angels 'gods'. Learn more in my first post.) He was such a good and God-fearing king that the Lord preserved the kingdom of Aragon. It stands independent in Spain, its language still intact.

Today he is known as Viggo Mortenson, but he dresses as Aragorn as he leads and trains my men and angels here at the Order's headquarters. He answers to both Viggo and Aragorn, but also Aragon.

His weapon is, in fact, a mighty sword from ancient times. It is a magic sword we discovered in the angelic city of Asgard (not to be confused with Marvel's Asgard, which was based on a whole otber world called Camelot that King Arthur moved to after the crusades). The city of Asgard is here on Earth. But we si.ply call it Stone City.

Built before the Fall, many magical artifacts we're left for us there for the final battle including the sword for Viggo Mortensen/ King Aragorn.

As for his kiss? It's better than the movies. I don't know if I'll ever capture his kisses in a poem, but I sure can try!

🌹Love!!!

[shisasan]

29 August 1921 The letters and journals of Katherine Mansfield : a selection to Dorothy Brett

[bobellafofella]

He said lamely, "She is very beautiful." "And she has the sense not to frighten you," Dach'osmin Ceredin said, and Maia took a step back, wanting to protest her deduction, but unable to deny its truth. "We should take lessons from her, we see."

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison is one of my favorite books of all time, and within it, one of my favorite scenes is Maia and Csethiro's first real interaction at Nurevis' party! so i drew it. their slow romance is so delicious.

[acecroft]

LENA HEADEY as Katherine Brydon in The Jungle Book (1994)

[apollinaresart]

I read The Goblin Emperor last week and it lives in my head rent free now I guess

Csevet is a morning person. Maia… is not

[kooldewd123]

At the start of each Animorphs book, before the first chapter begins, there is a page. On it is a simple acknowledgement. Two names. The first name is Michael - Katherine Applegate's husband and co-writer on the series. The second name is that of a boy. This name belongs to their son. Or, should I say, belonged to their son. Because they don't have a son anymore. They have a daughter. Every time I pick up an Animorphs book, I can't help but linger on this page as I quite literally hold her deadname in my hands. It's a peculiarly beautiful feeling. Peculiar because the context behind that name makes it seem all the more personal. I feel like I've violated her privacy simply by knowing it, even though it's openly out there for anyone to read. But beautiful because dammit, doesn't this represent this series's relationship with the queer community so well? Animorphs is often regarded as a queer (and especially trans) narrative, despite the fact that such subtext was completely unintentional. Applegate did not write Animorphs to be queer media, but she's embraced the fact that it has became so in the hands of the fans. How perfectly fitting is it, then, that she unknowingly dedicated the entire series to a trans woman?

[sonacava]

morozko from the winternight trilogy ❄️

[highwatermark]

melody / gloucester / pegasus

[dudlesdudles]

Morozko and Vasya

[reputayswift]

VASILISA PETROVNA was an ugly little girl: skinny as a reed-stem with long-fingered hands and enormous feet. Her eyes and mouth were too big for the rest of her. Olga called her frog, and thought nothing of it. But the child’s eyes were the color of the forest during a summer thunderstorm, and her wide mouth was sweet. She could be sensible when she wished—and clever—so much so that her family looked at each other, bewildered, each time she abandoned sense and took yet another madcap idea into her head. In truth, VASYA was still awkward, but she had begun growing into her face. The bones were still rough-hewn and overlarge, her mouth still too wide and full-lipped for the rest of her. But she was compelling: the moods passed like clouds over the clear green water of her gaze, and something about her movements, the line of her neck and braided hair, caught the eye and held it. When the light struck her black hair it did not gleam bronze as Marina’s had, but dark red, like garnets caught in the silky strands. (x,x)

[ashmackenzie]

Here's the cover I did for Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell! This is the kind of book I dreamed about working on as a kid: a world filled with fantastical creatures and a story with equal parts danger and wonder. In addition to the cover I did approx. 40 b+w interior illustrations for this edition, out Sept 10th, 2024!

Many thanks to AD Carol Ly for bringing me this one! Also credit goes to Jason Carne for the great type design!

[bookofkatherine]

Original Sin | Cap Love Poem

The story of Adam and Eve isn't over.

Tuesday August 27, 2024 11:54 p.m.

Dear Cap,

I've been wanting to write you a poem for a while now, and this rhythm keeps pounding out in my head. Perhaps it's because of what has come before... and what is coming ahead.

I love you. Here it goes.

Original Sin

Did we truly originate, My love, The sin that really, Has sealed our fate?

Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I pine. There is something, About this time.

It began when, We stole her kiss, The kiss of death, From Lilith's lips.

You stood tall, And I stood fine, And together we, Slayed her for all time.

And then it hit, And then it pulled - If Lilith was first, Then who am I? after all?

What if she was the one to fall? What if he was the one to gall, The Lord above and His angels mighty, When the story is told in full?

What if you, And what if I, Were made to love, And love, And love, For all?

Have we not lived? Have we not died? Have we not given, Of our lives?

And when we do, Does love not spread? How are we fallen, My dear beloved?

For if we were, Would we be hunted so? But if we are, Then greater is our foe.

_

I loved my time with you this afternoon - every single second. Thank you, my love.

Always and forever,

Your Eve and Katherine

Reader's Note: The world knows him as Chris Evans, but I call him Cap. Gustaf called him "The First Avenger" because Cap really was. Not as Captain America, but as Batman. (I explain more on Twitter.)

Anyhow, Cap and I go way, way, way back - all the way to the Garden of Eden. When there, he and I made love all day and all night. It's a long story, but in the end we've destroyed Eden (it still existed as of a few months ago - abandoned, but it existed) and even just destroyed the Second of the Fallen, Lilith.

He and I have a very special bond. And I'm grateful for it. (And no, not just because we both survived the Catholic Church.)

[shisasan]

29 August 1921 The letters and journals of Katherine Mansfield : a selection to Dorothy Brett

[illyanarasputinfan]

Exceptional X-Men #1 (2024) Marvel Comics

And there you have it! After forty years of speculation, writer Eve Ewing makes Kitty Pryde canonically bisexual in this week’s Exceptional X-Men. Kudos, Ms. Ewing. That was bold! 👏

[shebsart]

PLS I love your art and I'd like your take on Konstantin from the winternight trilogy!! He's so... layered and problematic and repressed and oppressing .....

you know if there's a sicko priest, im most probably gonna love him

bonus old sketches:

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