#les sciences

[fox-teeth]

Hundreds of years in the future and thousands of light-years away, Mazu from Three-Hills practices her culture’s ancient art of sculpting spirit guides for the dead. But when technology from beyond the stars encroaches on her people’s lives—and deaths—what will happen to her art?

Read the rest of my new graphic novella "The Maker of Grave-Goods" this October exclusively through ShortBox Comics Fair--the innovative all-digital comics convention! @shortboxcomicsfair

[evelasco-art]

Personal work inspired by greatest writer ever aka Ursula K. Le Guin's short story Winter's King. You can find it in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, it's set in the same world as The Left Hand of Darkness and it's... well, brilliant, like pretty much all her writing.

“Thus, although the best known picture is that dark image of a young king standing above an old king who lies dead in a corridor lit only by mirror-reflections of a burning city, set it aside for a while.”

And then, as she often does, proceeds to break your heart.

At first, I wanted to make 3-4 illustrations for this story, but found a way to put all scenes into a single piece. And I believe that actually works better, given the cyclic nature of the story.

I'm not done illustrating Gethen. Genly Ai and Therem Harth rem ir Estraven: you are next. Once I finish the commissions I'm working on and have the time and energy for personal art, that is.

[terristre]

[sunflowertaters]

Happy Birthday to the GOAT Ursula K Le Guin, who would've been 95 today.

She was one of the great American writers, along with a great feminist, anarchist, and daoist. If you've never read any of her work, I highly recommend reading The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. It's short at 5 pages, and is a great sample of her exceptional prose and ideas:

https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf

If you want to read one of her great novels, The Dispossessed is my favorites

The last thing I will recommend is Margaret Killjoy's eulogy for her:

https://crimethinc.com/2018/01/25/we-will-remember-freedom-why-it-matters-that-ursula-k-le-guin-was-an-anarchist

[cowabummers]

The sad outcome of many sarcasm overdoses

[humanoidhistory]

Les Edwards.

[this-is-cool]

The superb sci-fi-inspired creations of Brandon Le - https://www.this-is-cool.co.uk/the-superb-sci-fi-creations-of-brandon-le/

[phantastische-illustrationen]

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand Of Darkness (1981) (Tim White)

[thebrokenpaintbox]

Sci-fi reimagining of Morgane Le Fay from Arthurian Legend! In this version, she is a cyborg rather than a fairy, and her talent for magic is instead the ability to interpret vast amounts of information.

I spent an ungodly amount of time trying to settle down on the colours.

I think I’ll try something nature-themed next. Expect lots of plants. I have three different ideas in mind right now – explorers who have stumbled upon an ancient civilisation deep in the wilderness; survivors traversing a post-apocalyptic world where nature has re-claimed everything human; some sort of clearing in a wood with fairies, except they are the original, dangerous, scary, child-stealing kind. Let’s see how this pans out, I don’t draw full scenes very often, let alone ones with dense vegetation!

[adastra-sf]

Ursula K Le Guin's daily schedule

5:30am — wake up and lie there and think

6:15am — get up and eat breakfast (lots)

7:15am — get to work writing, writing, writing

Noon — lunch

1–3pm — reading, music

3–5pm — correspondence, maybe house cleaning

5–8pm — make dinner and eat it

After 8pm — I tend to be very stupid and we won’t talk about this

Bed by 10:30pm

From the book, Ursula Le Guin: The Last Interview.

[syrupsyche]

:)) Hello :) I am procrastinating on sleeping, so I bring more teacher AU queries

Do Fantine and Joly get along? :O

and Did R manage to get his trousers up before Javert caught him and Enj in the closet, did he get caught with his pants down a second time? 😭

eheheh ty once again Emile!! I think Fantine would absolutely adore Joly; she was so happy and jovial in her youth too, so I think she would see herself reflected very well in him 🥹 she was quite shy at first but once she learns that he was the one who finally helped Combeferre with his phosphorus experiment (😨), she was instantly like "so...I heard you have a liking for unorthodox science experiments...👀"

As for Enjolras and Grantaire....their escapade unfortunately didn't end that night 😔:

Enjolras is never PDA-ing ever again.

[a-ramblinrose]

“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.”

[vermilllionsands]

Les Edwards

[emperorcandy]

you know Morgan le fay absolutely has the vibes of a mad scientist

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

The Lathe of Heaven | 1980

[tyresdeg]

callum ilott | 24 hours of le mans 2024