#sff aesthetic

[transcendragon]

I’ve really been enjoying making moodboards inspired by my writing recently! I went a bit wild with them, this isn’t even all of them. The first and final moodboard here uses all my own personal art and photo edits, the rest I made with Canva.

The first one is a general author moodboard with my own art, then there are some moodboards based on characters from my urban fantasy novel “August Out of Time”: August Lloyd, Fergus, Mina, and Coyote. Then, after this caption, there’s a moodboard for my new sci fi horror WIP “Unintended Designs” and three boards for its main characters Jen Ishii, Nao Tanaka, and Jonathan Isengrim. Finally there’s an “Unintended Designs” moodboard made with edits of my own photos.

None of my long form fiction has been published yet, but if you’re curious about my writing I post SFF short fiction on my blog available to everyone!

Warning that the later moodboards after this read more have themes around blood, holes, injuries, and medical stuff! They are for my sci fi horror WIP.

[orkazh-arts]

Oh to be a gardener robot with a pet cat living in a solarpunk world and taking care of little plants... ☀️🌿

[My piece for the #WeekAndArt2024 event, a French online art contest]

[literatureaesthetic]

my most recent read — jade war by fonda lee

i've been really struggling with fantasy this past year (i blame wheel of time for putting me into a slump😵‍💫), but i finally feel my sff mood returning and picking up jade war was the perfect re-entry into the genre.

i surprisingly LOVED this book. the characters are absolute perfection, the slow and intricate politics worked so well for me, and this series is so propelling. there's never a dull moment. everyone always pitches this series as 'the godfather but asian and fantasy', and i absolutely agree. beyond excited to continue!!

[child-of-hurin]

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I DO get this post and I think many interesting things HAVE BEEN done with this concept, and it can be explored,

but there is something so fundamentally western about this post because cannibalism was and is one of the top 3 excuses for colonialism!! The very real and varied forms of exocannibalism and endocannibalism practices by the natives of the Americas was, and still is, the easiest route to dehumanize them and justify the atrocities committed against them!

Cannibalism is a powerful western taboo and I get the appeal of using it as a metaphor to talk about other taboos, and I do think such an approach could be done successfully and with nuance, and maybe I'm being unfair to a one-sentence post -- but oh the way this comes across in the context of the actual, real life history! The inescapability of discussing colonialism always on the moral playing field of the colonizers! What does signalizing the monstrosity of colonialism through cannibalism say about the colonized who ate, indeed, the flesh of other men?

[thebellekeys]

Playlist for The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake

Playlist for The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake

Playlist for Parisa Kamali

Playlist for Reina Mori

Playlist for Callum Nova

[literaryelise]

“He is Nizahl’s Commander. I should burn with hatred every second spent in his presence.”

The Jasad Heir, Sara Hashem

[innocentlymacabre]

They came for us in the dead of night, under the cover of darkness. Like cowards.

~~ first line from a short story entering production

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

What is solarpunk to you, anyway?

What do we mean when we talk about #solarpunk? This is a list of the #nonfiction #articles &etc informing our thinking + contextualize/feed into discussions on the #podcast.

Here’s a list of (very selected) non-fiction articles, posts, etc. that have informed our thinking on solarpunk and that contextualize and feed into the discussions that we have on the podcast: Places to start “Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto” by Adam Flynn (2014) SOLARPUNK: A REFERENCE GUIDE maintained by Jay Springett of solarpunks.net until early 2018. An excellent list of solarpunk…

[rowanmgrey-author]

moodboard | the godslayer

An SFF novel featuring a sapphic romance, dragons in space, god-like powers, magic and war.

Taglist: @digital-chance

[barleycrow]

Bridge to another world 🌿

[franklyn-newt]

"He wanted to ask about their life span, and what that meant for them. Would they even remember him in a hundred years? Two? Did they even love the same way? "

(x)

[holliday-is-holligay]

I put a plant in an astronaut’s suit and made it shoot its family… half its family. It sent the rest out the airlock.

[literatureaesthetic]

no because i'm actually emotional holding wind and truth by brando sando in my hands😭 i've been waiting YEARS

[orangememesicle]

referring to any piece of media as “hopepunk” is a surefire way to make sure i never engage with it ever

[thethiefandtheairbender]

also for newer followers who might not know

i'm writing a book! and it's getting published!

if you just want the immediate details you can click the read and read a short FAQ! if you need more to get sold on it, stick around and check it out!

My YA SFF fantasy debut, ALVOSKIA: Call of the Infrans, follows an Unchosen one named Ally who is struggling to find where she belongs amidst her chosen one found family family when violence arrives at their doorstep, and they're forced to fulfil their duties earlier than expected. There's dragons and child soldiers and subverted fantasy tropes, some tone consistent werewolves, an almost entirely queer main cast with the majority also being characters of colour, and if you've been following my blog for any amount of time, it probably has something for you.

If you like ATLA: "what if there were multiple Avatars running around, and what if they weren't all automatically good people?" + past lives and reincarnation cycles

If you like Derry Girls: hot mess of teenagers getting in and out of trouble together while being ridiculous (and sometimes very sad)

If you like PJO: young teenagers with cool powers going on quests together and coming-of-age. And snark. Lots of snark

If you like Six of Crows: morally dubious collection of protagonists, some heisting may or may not happen, outsiders working together

If you like TDP: elves and dragons and long standing grudges and politics

If you like Star Wars: y'know how the Force like consumes you the farther you wander in? yeah that's the magic system here. + some shadow, death, and shapeshifter stuff

If you like HTTYD: you're here for the found family and fun fantasy aesthetic aren't you

Rep: queer (aro, ace, bi, pan, trans, lesbian, nonbinary, genderfluid, gay main characters, often times overlapping); Asian (Indonesian), Black, Sri Lankan and Pakistani (coded) rep; hijabi rep; one character is an amputee and one main character is Autistic.

The debut month is March 2026! Sometimes there is even very pretty (commissioned or friends) art for it:

If you want more info in the meantime you can shoot me an ask or you can follow this sideblog for it. If you want a taste of my fandom writing first you can check out my AO3 or writing snippets on said side blog, like this one:

Likes and reblogs mean a lot and I hope you enjoy!

[innocentlymacabre]

NOW THEY CALL ME THE PLAGUE⤳ six snippets

taglist roundup post because I've shared a lot of snippets since my last one ~~

Eda looked at Trance intently. They didn’t have the slightest idea what they were dealing with. They might have a slightly surer footing in this disturbing realm, but other than that they were standing there next to her, purely because she’d said to. Her word had always been enough for them. And they’d always been enough for her.

Always leave one survivor. Someone’s got to tell the story.

This snippet is actually a full chapter - do with that what you will.

It had been a long time since she’d seen her old captain, and the wounds of leaving her had never fully scabbed.

An eternity passed in perfect silence before Eda finally felt ready to gingerly let go. She pulled back with shaky breaths and faced her friend. Sal mirrored the smile Eda wore: happy, melancholic, familiar, reaching for something that once was and something that’ll never be, all in one go.

“Listen,” Eda insisted, “listen closely.” There was something in her when she asked that question. As if hope had made a sudden return to her. Trance closed his eyes and concentrated, hunting down the mystery sound that had gotten her so worked up. Just as he was about to give up, he heard it. The faintest tune, seemingly coming from deep within the ship itself. It was like the opposite to the fires, just before everything went out. It was slow, measured; it was reassuring. Like a comforting hand holding his at the end of a long day.

They grabbed the bottles out of the sand and cheersed, chuckling silently at their joint remembrance. They sat in silence, drinking in the sun, and once their bottles were empty, Sal turned to Eda, and Eda realised what was going to happen next. Sal smiled warmly, the kind of goodbye you give someone when you make a promise to see them again, but you both silently know that’s not going to happen. They both turned their focus back to the sea and watched the sun disappear behind the horizon, pulling the skies down with it. The ocean flowed into the elusive line, and then the furthest reaches of their coast. Everything slowly retracted until it was just Eda and Sal once more, and then Sal went too. “Sing me a song, my Harp,” she said, just before going. “Sing a happy song for me.”

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