#fantasy basel

[herzspalter]

We're at Fantasy Basel 2024!

My incredibly skilled roommate @hagelwolke and I are sharing a table once more! We're at booth 582 in hall 2.1!

Come by and say hi if you're there, we're looking forward to seeing all of you!! <3

[thefox-i]

FANTASY BASEL TIME!!!!

@cordwaner were gonna skibbidi this place

[kenapiece-main]

FANTASY BASEL TOMORROWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[junie-junette]

Just to say : I'll be at Fantasy Basel next week (well, obviously at Basel, Switzerland) ! If you're from my little country, don't hesitate to come to say hi Hall 2.1, booth section 229 !

[karinagaz]

Upcoming conventions!

[h-chia]

Yoh, the vampire from my new manga ‘Mui And The Vampire’! An introverted boy who wants to get good grades and be ‘normal’ like most other people. When the transfer student Mui shows up, his school life can’t be further from normal.

Another piece I did with my new pens and paper. Oh, man, after drawing mostly digitally for years, I really miss real pen and paper 😂 Feels so good!

I’ll be tabling at @fantasybasel on 9-11 May! Come say hi to me! You’ll see my new manga. And maybe get my drawings on paper too! Stay tuned!

瀀瀲是我的新漫畫《沐漪與吸血鬼》的男主角，也就是那個吸血鬼😆他是一個內向但又有點腹黑的男孩，最大的願望就是可以考個好成績然後不要當個吸血鬼。努力維持低調校園生活不想惹麻煩的他，因為轉學生沐漪的出現而徹底改變了～

第二張用新買的紙筆畫的圖❤️覺得開心～彩色筆好好玩，以前覺得是小朋友的畫材沒辦法畫很漂亮，但其實紙選對再加一點小技巧，也是可以很讚的！

5/9-11我會在瑞士動漫展Fantasy Basel 擺攤，新漫畫也會在那時首賣喔！

[kasathedog-jjba]

Ever wanted a chance to hang with me IRL? Maybe get one of my prints? Well you can this week at Fantasy Basel 2024! Come find me in the bootrow 441 in hall 2.1! Don't be shy to say hi, me and my girlfriend will be happy to chat and chill 💕

[feefal]

Will be at FANTASY BASEL in Switzerland🇨🇭 starting tomorrow!! Find me at booth 475 in hall 2.1 ;)

[skygodz]

.A dazzling array of celestial phenomena occurred over the skies of Basel in July and August 1566. The spectacle was so unusual that it precipitated much public discussion.

👽👽👽🛸🛸🛸

[cucuumiia]

Long time no post :,) got absolutely crushed by uni stress💀

I made some button designs for Fantasy Basel next month🥺🤲 if you’re in the area, come and say hi! :D

[herzspalter]

Battle Tendency Boys! (Double-sided Charms)

Joseph and Caesar have been on my list for so long and I finally got around drawing them! I love them both so much; I really hope you like them! Gonna have them first at Fantasy Basel 2024 and then in the online shop!

[renthony]

Coming of Age at 30: Musings on A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ren Basel renbasel.com

Having nerdy parents meant I grew up surrounded by plenty of classic nerdy literature. Our home was filled with iconic science fiction and fantasy, and what we didn’t have, my parents gladly helped me find at the library. I never lacked passion or access to books, yet somehow I managed to skip right over the work of Ursula K. Le Guin.

How this oversight happened, I couldn’t tell you. I devoured every book about hidden worlds with wizard schools I could find—and there were many on the young adult market in the early 2000s. Though I read a decent chunk of them, somehow I never stumbled across the book that did it first: Le Guin’s 1968 classic, A Wizard of Earthsea. No, I didn’t find my way to Le Guin’s wizards until adulthood.

A Wizard of Earthsea introduces Ged, a boy with magical talent. Over the course of the novel, he attends magic school, grows into a young man, and earns his wizard’s staff. While at school, he is nearly killed when a botched summoning spell unleashes a mysterious and terrifying shadow entity. From there the novel follows Ged’s adventures as he seeks a way to defeat the shadow before it can kill him.

The novel is ultimately a coming-of-age narrative, and though I am an adult, it resonates. Ged’s journey with the shadow forces him to accept the darkest, most painful parts of himself, and it’s easy to relate that to my own struggles as I enter my thirties.

In a 1973 essay titled “Dreams Must Explain Themselves,” Le Guin wrote, “Coming of age is a process that took me many years; I finished it, so far as I ever will, at about age thirty-one; and so I feel rather deeply about it.” That quote convinces me I came to A Wizard of Earthsea exactly when I needed it most. In 2024 I am a disabled person in a so-called “post-COVID” world, still following strict safety measures as the rest of the world moves on. Every day I must exist in a world that fills me with fear and anger, and grief at what could have been before things fell apart. I have had to mourn the things—and people—I lost, and find new things to fill the void.

Entering my thirties has involved learning to love the self I have and react to the circumstances I’m in, rather than obsessing over a hypothetical version of myself that might exist if things were different. Just as Ged had to name and accept the shadow as a part of himself, I have had to face my own anger, grief, and regrets, and choose to accept them as part of me. Neither suppression nor avoidance of the shadow—of those difficult emotions; of that pain—can make it go away. It must be seen, and embraced, and processed.

While I’m sure Earthsea would have been relevant, and wonderful fun, to my younger self, I’m glad I came to it at thirty. The magic of a good story helps make confronting shadows a little less terrifying, and it’s true at any age.

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Written on commission, using the prompt, “500 words about an Ursula K. Le Guin novel.”

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[diminuel]

I bought a Cricut machine so my sister can make stickers for Fantasy Basel (her first artist alley table!!). And since I paid for it, I can make stickers too!

Look at him. Smol.

[thefox-i]

ANNOUNCEMENT TIMEE!!

Mark your calanders everyone! This year I will be selling designs at FANTASY BASEL in Switzerand 9.-11.5 2024!!!

Keychains? Stickers? Prints?? And an opportunity to talk to internet funny person who makes dangaronpa comics all in the same place???Insane!!!!

Don't let this golden opportunity slip!!

(IAll the designs shows will be purchasable at the con!)

[cordwaner]

Currently cooking up potential Astarion sticker designs for my very first convention booth at Fantasy Basel!

[mrkgrl]

Sample

Both Stiles and Derek will be freebie stickers at Fantasy Basel, ChibiCon, Austria Comic Con and Dokomi with every purchase. Please visit me if you are there!