#covered the city for a while

[benevolenterrancy]

May your hardened heart be woken By the soft and distant song Of all you left here unspoken All the shards we keep stepping on - Take this body home Take this body home Call the wind, and let her know Take this life outgrown Take this broken soul Call the stars, call them all And take it high, take it far, take it home

[jonathankai]

yeah, I think neither of them planned it through

(I always feel hesitant when drawing fanart on paper, but I've been feeling such a strong pull towards traditional art lately (as you can guess, I tried and couldn't bring myself to work on this comic digitally), so I want to see if a switch from digital fanart to traditional is possible and worth if for me).

[thedawningofthehour]

Splints right after escaping from Draxum's lab:

"Oof, I think we're safe now boys. Big Mama said the city was under New York, so I guess we're in New York. I've been here a few times. It's been...years, but we'll figure it out together alright?"

'squints towards Lower Manhattan'

"Looks like they finally tore down those ugly towers."

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2025: BLACKFISH CITY by Sam J. Miller.

Finished this last night! The jacket copy starts, "When a strange new visitor arrives in a floating city in the Arctic--humanity's last hope after the ravage of climate change--the city is entranced. She's riding an orca and has a polar bear at her beck and call," and, honestly, I'm sold (love a good floating city!).

I adored the setting and the worldbuilding--supremely cool city that was thoughtfully developed--and I loved how the narrative came together at the end. All the POV characters felt distinct (thank heck, because there were Many of them), and I had a fun time figuring out how to piece all the relationships together and percolating on The Science. Overall had a great time!

[fairyofshampgyu]

no one gets fairy of shampoo the way I do ⋆⭒˚⋆<3

[skloobles]

please excuse me while i ponder bunnyville's political system. mostly based on me just having watched raucous caucus.

i'm fully of the belief that the mayor of bunnyville is just a ceremonial position put in to keep the public from rioting. especially considering there isn't any legislature (that we're shown anyway) and decisions are CLEARLY made without any oversight (see community service and charity).

there's elements of democracy there (like the punishment referendum in community service) but at the end of the day secretary octopus is the one who's in control until she resigns or dies or something like that. also if i were secretary octopus i'd think twice about handing power to modchi idk

also do candidates just REGISTER to run for mayor without needing signatures or anything like that?? political participation must be really low for there only to be 3 candidates

more on this - are political parties banned or do they just not exist? because all 3 candidates in the race ran as independents (probably). perhaps there's a sole legal state party that controls everything we just don't see. maybe mayoral candidates just aren't allowed to have any political affiliation. but tbf in such an image-dominated culture the lack of parties in the mayoral election kinda makes sense.

just some thoughts

[thefloatingstone]

Here's the cover I mentioned in the tags of the other post

Also he has a bandcamp

[obaewankenope]

I have an angry daisy who wants to over-groom but is currently feeling thwarted

[deadrlngers]

me after saying "yes i agree" in the work group chat while absolutely NOT agreeing

[killjoy-prince]

Birthmas manga and merch haul

[littleeyesofpallas]

B(IO)M(EAT) NECTAR[BMネクタール]

[juicedpeachy]

mxtx-tober day 4: idol/celebrity

[feelingtheaster99]

I am so proud of lil Conrad for continuing to stick up for himself and for the Big Guy

[quatregats]

I have gone to Cotlliure and sent the legend himself your regards as best I could!

+ bonus pictures of the walk to the cemetery and back to town because there was lots of interesting nature and views

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 8: Edmund H. Garrett (1/2)

...& a small mystery that solved itself!

I've been looking forward to this one for quite a while!

1 / 2 || 2 / 2

Edmund H. Garrett created dozens of vignette illustrations for this two-volume 1894 edition of A Tale of Two Cities. What makes this edition special - besides the sheer volume of work and Garrett's attention to detail in regard to characterization - is that most of these illustrations appeared in the page with the text, much like Rafaello Busoni's!

What are even more interesting for me personally, though, are the larger rectangular illustrations which do not appear within the text-pages - because my original source for these did not contain those at all! The thing is, many months after finding my original source, I did actually come across the first of the larger illustrations (the one pictured above) in a photo of an open book on eBay or Etsy, and because it was the only illustration pictured in the listing, I assumed it was from a new mystery illustrator that I would discover at some point. Imagine my delight when, on a whim, I set out to find higher-quality versions of these vignettes on the Internet Archive, only to discover that the illustrator who made the vignettes also made that mystery illustration!

And that's not the only way I got lucky here: While I did manage to find higher-quality versions of both volumes, I actually found them separately (one uploader had apparently only scanned vol. 1, and another had only scanned vol. 2), and these, as far as I could tell, were both the only versions uploaded to the Internet Archive at all - wow! As you probably know by now, I don't get a lot of easy wins with this project, so I'm very grateful when I do😅

And without further ado, here they are: Garrett's illustrations for vol. 1!

Hope you enjoyed - vol. 2's illustrations will be up in two weeks!

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

[scionshtola]

i’m out of sapphic regency romances. should i read this