#plaidy

[an-albino-pinetree]

2023 was a hard year for me, but I learned a lot, my family, as a whole, did a ton of growing, and towards the end of it, I found all of you. So thank you. 🥂

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎆🎇

@sm-baby

@gummy-axolotl

@hootbon

@unfunnyaceartist

And allll the rest of ya I couldn’t fit in this page ; ;

I feel so honoured to get to be a part of this close lil circle, that I’ve found in this fandom- you guys are awesome and so damn talented. The aus I’ve seen have blown my mind.

The Jax’s have broken into the port wine, and I’ve made us all the ancient recipe, of grasshopper pie -v- (grasshoppers not included)

[an-albino-pinetree]

You good?

A couple doodles of my TADC OC, Dizz!! I never showed him on my tumblr, but the basic inspiration for him was a spinning top and wooden doll! Other character inspirations include Snufkin, Wirt from OTGW, Dipper from Gravity Falls, Noddy, characters like that!! Considering drawing an actual model sheet for him, where I can actually go deeper into his personality and details!!

[period-dramallama]

Jean Plaidy covers are so lovely and for WHAT

[lovesickgoose]

Me n @bearfag 🪿🐕

MAKE YOURSELF💥

[shinyasahalo]

Writing a fem character as a villain by making her abusive toward her children, have her obsess over a man, and be vain about her appearance, makes her a boring villainess.

[an-albino-pinetree]

I’m sorry they’re such small doodles, but he’s amazing, I really like his concept! ; ;

new TADC oc, Dumar!

basically emmet from lego movie but more existential dread

[fideidefenswhore]

Your thoughts on the prolific author Jean Plaidy? Did you read any of her books? Do you have favorite/most hated? What do you think about her view on the Tudors, Boleyn's, Yorks, Stuarts, Hapsburgs, etc?

I have found them very dull, paint by the numbers, etc. Honestly I find most of the novels from that era of that era that way, though, it's part of why I can't stand Weir's, hers just feel like a complete emulation of Norah Loft's which are also that way for me. I feel like newer authors of the genre are more likely to take risks, even if all their creative decisions are not my favorite, I can respect that (Suzannah Dunn, Christopher Rae, etc).

To be more specific, as a Henry VIII Enjoyer, these novels miss the mark for me. He's always very one-dimensional, sadistic satyr meets bluff hail-fellow-well-met, extremely pliable and easy to manipulate; it's just very boring and not satisfying to read.

[m-andrade-87]

RECOMENDACIONES PARA EL #LEOAUTORASOCT 2024

Hola mis pequeños dragones, un año más os traigo algunas recomendaciones de libros escritos por mujeres para celebrar el mes de las autoras, y si, ya sé que hoy no es el día habitual de publicación, pero como ya dije en X (antiguo Twitter) y habréis podido comprobar este mes la celebración de Halloween (ya sabéis que la fiesta se celebra durante todo el mes en el blog) cae en jueves por lo que…

[angelfall33]

Mi Opinión: Madame Du Barry; Amante Real – Jean Plaidy 

[an-albino-pinetree]

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I'm jumping in on this, if that's okay! Could I request a stimboard for my oc Plaidy, involving

glow in the dark, campfires, and red plaid? :]

@an-albino-pinetree

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[an-albino-pinetree]

Not me falling head over heels for another au-

Freakshow/Sideshow au belongs to @hootbon and @ask-the-ultimate-baseball-star

[messyturtlequilts]

Our Flag, Our People

The quilt was my entry in the 2024 Cherokee Nation Homecoming Quilt show. The theme for the weekend was "Weaving our Future."

I used the colors of the Cherokee flag - orange, yellow, brown, green, white and black. The extra red stripe was in honor of MMIW. You probably can't tell, but the white fabric actually has symbols from the Cherokee Syllabary on it, which I ordered from Spoonflower.

Pattern was Plaidy Cake by Allison at Cluck Cluck Sew

[zippocreed501]

AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

'Respect your characters, even the ­minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters' stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist's.'

'Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words a day. Jean Plaidy managed 5,000 before lunch, then spent the afternoon answering fan mail. My minimum is 1,000 words a day – which is sometimes easy to achieve, and is sometimes, frankly, like shitting a brick, but I will make myself stay at my desk until I've got there, because I know that by doing that I am inching the book forward. Those 1,000 words might well be rubbish–they often are. But then, it is always easier to return to rubbish words at a later date and make them better.'

'Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews, the friends' embarrassment, the failing career, the dwindling income, the repossessed house, the divorce . . .'

'. . . Working doggedly on through crises like these, however, has always got me there in the end. Leaving the desk for a while can help. Talking the problem through can help me recall what I was trying to achieve before I got stuck. Going for a long walk almost always gets me thinking about my manuscript in a slightly new way. And if all else fails, there's prayer. St Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers, has often helped me out in a crisis. If you want to spread your net more widely, you could try appealing to Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, too.'

Author Extraordinaire Sarah Waters

[an-albino-pinetree]

EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS

Ayo its everyones fav bunny boy, and a poor victim called plaidy. I wanted to draw my friends oc with their tormentor :) @an-albino-pinetree

[celebrateeachnewday]

Artist Jane Crowther

My 2024 Booklist

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson The Color Purple by Alice Walker Maskerade by Terry Pratchet (#18 of Discworld) The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey The Great Gatzby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Coraline by Neil Gaiman The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Murder Most Royal by Jean Plaidy A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall

[period-dramallama]

Me when an article I'm reading calls Jean Plaidy 'one of the greats in historical fiction'