#scarlet garden webcomic

[scarletgardenwebcomic]

The story starts with a bang.

[projectniko]

Announcing Scarlet Garden, a passion project of mine for years. But I definitely couldn't have done so without a close friends of mine contributing to the story, they inspired me to discover my passion for rps, storytelling and art. Without Catown, without the characters, I wouldn't have discovered my calling. So thank you guys, again.

Shoutout to these guys: @thesillyraven who started the original campaign and @atak-achrativ who have been my beloved friend of mine and have been baking the story with (she also owns Seraphim, Chara and several characters from the campaign, so credit to that too). There's one more person who were also apart of the campaigns, but I lost contact with them so I'm unsure if they will see it out there.

Thank you guys for making this true and giving me the push. Also shoutout to the countless of strangers I kept asking how the wip looks so far.

[alexanderwales]

The Index

This is an index of things I've written and posted online, with minimal descriptions because most of them have blurbs if you click the link. This list is not exhaustive, especially because there are a bunch of short stories and dribbles in various places. If something you liked is missing, let me know.

Web Serials

Worth the Candle - Juniper Smith is a teenaged Dungeon Master who ends up in a world filled with all the things he dreamt up for his campaigns, along with signs of his friend who died months earlier. This Used to be About Dungeons - Five teenagers live in a house together, bake bread, tend the garden, and occasionally fight monsters in dungeons. Thresholder - Thresholders travel from world to world, fantasy one minute and scifi the next, always encountering an opponent, growing stronger as they battle. Shadows of the Limelight - Fame gives you superpowers, and Dominic just saved the world's greatest hero from defeat in full view of a large audience. Glimwarden (unfinished) - A small town huddles around lanterns that keep the darklings at bay. Four teenagers must grow in power as the darkness encroaches. The Dark Wizard of Donkerk (unedited) - Two men steal a baby from an orphanage, then find out he's too cute to sacrifice and raise him as their own.

Fanfic

The Metropolitan Man (Superman) - Lex Luthor attempts to unravel the secrets of the alien. A Common Sense Guide to Doing the Most Good (Superman) - Superman gets really into effective altruism. Instruments of Destruction (Star Wars) - A fable of project management aboard the second Death Star, through the eyes of Admiral Tian Jerjerrod. Branches on the Tree of Time (Terminator) - Sarah Connor is working as a software engineer at UCLA when a naked man shows up on her doorstep. A Bluer Shade of White (Frozen) - Elsa can make life, and Olaf is smarter than he looks.

Shorts

Eager Readers in Your Area - Artificial intelligence has left authors scrambling for readers. Charlotte clicks on an ad. Variations - An orc visits an art exhibition where she feels out of place. Contratto - Julia takes a job as a marketer, working for the vampires to keep their secrets safe. The Randi Prize - James Randi offers a prize for anyone who can demonstrate supernatural abilities. Coming Home - After a long time isekaied to a fantasy kingdom, an errant father has coffee with his estranged son.

I also post short stuff to this very tumblr, which can usually be found under the #microfiction tag unless I forget. Usually this is mirrored on AO3, unless I'm lazy.

Web Comics

Millennial Scarlet - Lamont Pearce is a gig economy demon hunter whose mother ran a government agency meant to defend against Hell. Worth the Candle - A webcomic adaptation of the web serial

Non-Fiction

The AI Art Apocalypse - Slightly outdated thoughts from 2022. Why to Write a Sex Scene - Observations on the narrative purpose of carnal pursuits. Game Review: Underhill - This review contains no screenshots, because this game does not exist. Writing: An FAQ - Accumulated wisdom from 4 million words and counting. Creating Interesting Magic - A much-requested post on making interesting magic systems (and characters, and plots, and worlds). How to Write a Web Serial - It's both easier and harder than you think. The Trouble with Writing Nazis - On giving villains too much credit. Interesting Things to do with Time Loops - Exploring the boundaries of the conceit.

[ariel-seagull-wings]

TOP 12 BEAUTIES (FROM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)

@princesssarisa @sunlit-music @mademoiselle-princesse @the-blue-fairie

@amalthea9 @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @astrangechoiceoffavourites @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark @superkingofpriderock @draculashaxanbride @lioness--hart @anne-white-star @gravedangerahead @grafedelweiss @lord-antihero​

Growing up, Beauty and The Beast has always been one of the fairy tales wich i have a deep emotional connection. I love how it combines elements of adventure, mystery, horror, comedy, drama and romance to form a beautifull narrative about external versus internal beauty, coming of age, self-discovery, familial love, friendship, building of a romantic love and redemption. And connecting me to this emotional rollercoaster of a story, is the heroine, the curious and sensitive Beauty, who faces her fear of the unknown to save the life of her father, and trough this act of sacrifice discovers eternal happiness in the most unlikely of places.

And tonight, i make this humble ranking in tribute to her.

12º Mitsuko Horie as Maria in Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics (1989)

In this anime episode based on the german variant The Summer and Winter Garden, we are presented to Maria, a simple and hardworking peasant girl who is kidnapped by the Beast away from her family home. Maria lives a long period of silent sadness in the Beasts palace, until he starts to show a more sensitive and considered side, and she forgives him. When he lets her go visiting her family, Maria has to say goodbye to her father, who dies, and due to her grief, forgets for a moment of Beast’s castle. And after finally remembering, she rushes in despair hoping to save Beasts’s life...

Maria is the most vulnerable encarnation of Beauty, and one cannot help but constantly want to hug her in protection.

11º Léa Seydoux as Belle in Christophe Gans’s La Belle et La Bête (2014)

A young woman who tries to act always calm and serious, but inside herself hides deep sadness and melancholy, born from the feeling that she is considered guilty for the death of her mother at her childbirth. So she treats her journey to the Beast’s castle as a way to make amends, because she feels that if her father went to die at the Beast’s hands for picking a rose that she asked for, it would be another death that would be her guilt. And in the castle, exploring the mirrors that reveal the Beast’s past, she learns that someone shares her desire of becoming cleaned from any feeling of guilt, and take its right to happiness.

10º Trish Van Devere as Belle Beaumont in Beauty and The Beast (1976)

An older, more grounded and no nonsense, but still sensitive portrayal. Coming from a family formed by a well-intentioned but misguided father, two materialistic and mean spirited older sisters, a vulnerable younger brother and a cruel brother-in-law,  Van Devere’s Belle has great pressure over her shoulders to be the voice of reason to people around her, wich makes us empathize with the state of tiredness she gets in. She is always tough and honest when necessary, and kind and gentle when she also needs to be.

09º Nina Krachkovskaya/Amy Irving as Anastasia/Nastenka in Soyuzmultifilm’s Alenkiy Tsvetochek (1952)

In this animated short adaptation of the russian variant The Scarlet/Crimson Flower, writen by Sergey Aksakov, our Beauty is Nastenka, the youngest daughter of a brave captain of a merchant ship. Nastenka is a dreamer, shy, and prone to philosophical melancholy, even tough she doesn’t necessarily knows the reason of her sadness, what makes her self-discovery all the more relatable to audiences, specially young ones.

08º Marina Ilichyova as Aljona in Irina Povolotskaya’s Alenkiy Tsvetochek (1977)

Besides also sharing the shiness, sadness and melancholy of her animated counterpart, the peasant-girl-next-door Aljona is also a deeply frightened young woman, whose narrative arc involves learning to let herself loose a bit more, and not let her fears dominate her. This arc is highlighted in the moments where she gives a subtle smile when she talks to and plays along the Beast of the Forest.

07º Joyce Taylor as Lady Althea in Edward L. Kahn’s Beauty and The Beast (1962)

An elegant and confident noble lady, Lady Althea is the fiancée of the wise, brave and humble Duke Eduardo. She arrives at the dukedom excited with the wedding, but makes a discovery: since assuming power as a ruler, Eduardo is under a curse that turns him into a Beast every night. Now Althea has to deal with the dillema of staying to support her fiancée with her love, or leaving, in fear of his Beast side, and Joyce Taylor’s performance in the role engages us into this dilema till the end.

06º Dima Bawab as Zémire in Zémire et Azor (2014)

This comic ópera composed by the belgian André Grétry transports the story to a fairy tale land combination between France and Persia, presenting us to the adorable Zémire, a merry, romantic and idealistic young lady, who enjoys letting herself get loose in a world of dreams, reading books of fantastical stories. She also is curious and inquisitive, insistently questioning the servant Ali until he thells what concers so much her father, so she gets to take the journey to the palace of Azor, the Prince turned into a Beast. There, at first she is scared, but then, showing a sense of wonder, starts playing with the wolves that guard the palace and have merry conversations with Azor, with whom she eventually falls in love.

05º Josette Day as Belle in Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et La Bête (1946)

At the same time a relatable audience surrogate, and an individual character in her own right. Day’s Belle starts as a mysteryous woman, with a stoic, resilient face, and elegant, if rigid, gait. As the film rolls, we slowly get to piece her passions, her vulnerabilities and her fears. Specially her fear of leaving the comfort of her family home life, adventuring to the unknown, and falling in love.

04º Vanessa Williams as Beauty in Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child (1995)

The sister of a tall and strong, tough lazy man, named Tree, and a pretty, tough vain lady, named Precious, William’s Beauty is brave, truthfull, altruístic, and also has a light hearted sense of humour and an introspective sensibility. The highlight of this encarnation is when she is at her home room’s window, she sings a song pondering her doubts between staying at her family home, or returning to the Beast’s palace.

03º Beauty from Megan Kearney’s Beauty and The Beast Webcomic (2012-17)

Made as a tribute to other Beauties that camed previously, while being her own version. An emotionally repressed young woman, who lost her mother at childbirth, and suffered bullying during childhood, being called ‘ugly duckling’ by other kids, Kearney’s Beauty grows burying her emotions in the hard work on her family’s farm, and is in search of an identity and a place in the world. One day she asks for a rose that grows in winter that appeared in her dreams, and this is the exciting incident that catapults her journey to the Beast’s enchanted castle, where she blossoms into a lady who is brave, witty and confident. 

02º Paige O’Hara as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and The Beast (1991)

The first encarnation i ever saw when i was a child. The young lady who newly arrived at a small village, with an introspective bookworm behaviour that is the target of her neighbours. She doesn’t pay attention to the gossip, but laments her loneliness, and longs for a friend who understands her sensitivity and shares her desire for adventure in the great wild somewhere. When she first meets the Beast, she resists coming closer to him,  who provokes fear and anger in her. But after the Beast saves her from wolves, Belle’s reaction, while still energic, becomes of compassion, empathy and zeal. As she spends more time with the Beast, learning to see him as her friend, Belle finally notices that her beautfiull discontentment was rewarded, because she finally found someone to understand her.

And now the moment that everyone was whaiting: My Number One Beauty is...

01º Zdena Studenková as Julie in Juraj Herz’s Panna a Netvor (1978)

Julie is the youngest of the merchant’s three daughters, and also the daughter born of his second wife and greatest love. This makes her the merchant’s favorite daughter, while in turn that favoritism makes her life very sheltered, since her father fears loosing her like he lost her mother. When she takes her father’s place and rides a horse to the ruins that the Beast calls his palace, you get the feel that is not only out of filial duty, but also a desire for freedom that motivates her decision. Arriving at her destiny, she is fascinated by the ruins and the magic that they contain, and gets even more fascinated by the voice of the mysteryous Beast, who unbknowns to Julie, is containing a violent desire to devour her. Slowly, Julie learns that it wasn’t just out of curiosity that she inquired and playfully talked to her host: even without seeing the Beast, Julie is falling in love with Beast, and must decide wheter she accepts this feeling or rejects it and returns to the safety of her family home.

Starting out as passive, but slowly revealing herself to be braver than she ever expected, showing strenght in her vulnerability when learning to find the sublime in the grotesque, Zdena Studenková’s Julie is both an easy to follow audience surrogate and a unique individual character, beautifull in her complexities, and that is why she is my Number One portrayal of Beauty.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Susan Sarandon as Beauty in Faerie Tale Theatre (1984)

[yuri-caps]

hi my favorite genres for anything are fantasy and scifi so i was wondering if u have any yuri manga recs in those genres? ty 💕💕💕💕

sure, i’ve got a few! (a lot of the fantasy ones are webtoons and/or not explicitly “yuri” but they still have Lesbians In It lol)

fantasy rec:

miss angel and miss devil

april flowers

aerial magic

scarlet

beauty and the beast girl

elixir

the devil’s cure

like a snowfall in spring

moonlight garden

mage & demon queen

till she met her

carciphona (good ol’ enemies to lovers slowburn)

honey & venom (it’s on tapas)

sci-fi rec (mostly lesbian robots):

SHWD

tonari no robot

always human (wlw sci-fi webcomic)

qualia the purple (SUPER trippy, really think)

love data

circuits and veins

[ownedbybooks]

Well… I need some help choosing it, so vote for your favourite or the one that seems more interesting in the list below! Don't forget to like and reblog if you want to spread this as book recommendation list lmao it's totally worth it!

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo - even though I've read it 2 years ago and it's a very deep and dark story, I've got a new physical edition of it (in portuguese, because I've read it in english for the first time), so I am going to reread it soon.

The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare - it wasn't like my FAVOURITE reading but it was fun and since it's a theather screenplay I feel I will reread it super fast and the format will help A LOT to draw the webcomic

O Cortiço, by Aluísio Azevedo - one of my FAVOURITES BRAZILIAN CLASSICS ARGH I love it because it's very dynamic like a soap opera, but it can have some sensitive scenes/topics. But the DRAMA!

Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen - I like the author, I like romance and tbh I would love to do a modern au comic of all Jane Austen works, so maybe this will be the time to do so???

The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells - I remember reading it for school when I was 12 and loving it, so yeah… I pretty much want to read it again.

A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle - I love BBC Sherlock and I actually want to read all the Sherlock books, so this could be the time to do it, even though I've only read this one when I was 12.

Til, by José de Alencar - ANOTHER Brazilian classic. Not one of my favourites but I feel it would be easier for me to reread it (comparing to other brazilian classic books), since I don't hate it and I feel it shows a side of the brazilian culture that people overseas don't see as often (or at all!)

The Paul Street Boys, by Ferenc Molnár - it's from an Hungarian author and I remember having so much fun while reading it when I was 12!! I would LOVE to reread it!

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett - my IT READ recommendations for books with children. I love love love how the protagonist grows and matures in this book and how it's very sweet and nostalgic at the same time.

Dom Casmurro, by Machado de Assis - THE classic Brazilian author! I LOVE THIS BOOK LIKE ARGH I seem to hate the majority of Brazilian classics I had to read in high school BUT THIS ONE IS SUPREME.

Well, not me wanting to do a webcomic from a classic book just because I want to have the pleasure of rereading something lmao

[recentanimenews]

Virginia Rocks Out for New "Street Fighter" Charity Album

  Street Fighter meets hip-hop when local artists band together to create a tribute album like no other. Street Fighter: The RVA Warrior brings together 20 music creators from Richmond, Virginia to revitalize both the game series's classic themes and local public schools.

  Building a Better RPS strives to give Richmond's public schools a makeover with high-end cleanup and repairs, all of which will take $1800 per school building and 12,000 man hours overall. Fundraising events take place periodically around Richmond, but this most recent one is available worldwide and is a perfect fit for gaming and music fans.

  From the Player Select Screen to M. Bison and Chun Li's theme, 20 local artists are remixing 12 familiar pieces of music. You can sample them on Bandcamp right now, where you can also download the whole CD for $9.99 or buy it digital on a name-your-price system.

  RVA locals can also head out to Garden Grove Brewery tonight at 8 PM for a release party with tournaments, cosplay, and live art by tattoo artists Amy Black. They'll also be serving Yoga Fire, a Street Fighter-themed habanero-infused IPA. If you're not local or just can't make it out, you can check out the stream on Twitch. Or you can check out the Facebook events page if you're interested in attending.

    Project organizer Alan "8-Bit Mullet" Brymer was excited over just how much support and participation he received from the local music community. "It's been a great way to connect with other artists, support a good cause, and have fun re-living a game that each of us grew up loving despite our different backgrounds."

  Don't forget to grab your copy of Street Fighter: The RVA Warrior and watch tonight's release party stream on Twitch.

  Source: Scarlet Moon Productions

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  Kara Dennison is responsible for multiple webcomics, blogs and runs interviews for (Re)Generation Who and PotterVerse, and is half the creative team behind the OEL light novel series Owl's Flower. She blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos.

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

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