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lau-in-ketterdam · 2 years

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Pls someone make a wallpaper out of this pls pls pls

#the sandman #Morpheus #Dreaming #Netflix #Palace #Dream #Wallpaper

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lau-in-ketterdam · 2 years

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Yessss lunch break with a twist 😍😍😍

You'll have killed it as usual hon 👀🤧🖤

“Digging Graves”

New chapter is live on “Dealing With Our Demons” by ravenyenn19 on Ao3 ⚔️

Guys. I hope you love it. It’s been a long time coming. It’s been so long. I also was stuck in a chokehold by this chapter and feel very iffy about it and I would love to hear from you guys. I really want it to land but I almost did a full rewrite. I don’t know. I just care so much about this story that it needs to be right. Oof. Okay I love you guys, I’ll stop rambling. I hope you enjoy. 🖤

Also linking my kofi if anyone wants to check it out! I’m saving anything I earn for publication if I do the self publishing route and to just fuel my writing with coffee and my Microsoft subscription etc. 🖤 if you can’t no worries! Reading my work is so much support already and it means everything to me. So much more than I can possibly convey.

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lau-in-ketterdam · 2 years

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Honestly mind blowing 😭😍 I'd buy the hell out of this

You guys already know I’m a sucker for Dealing With Our Demons and since I was working on the cover for my WIP, i thought

why not make a dwod one?

So, here it is!

@ravenyenn19

And how it would look in a book

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lau-in-ketterdam · 3 years

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You’ll wear my silks again, I promise

Beyond the realisation that I can draw sheer fabric using a layer effect on my app, this drawing was inspired by the heavier topics that SoC addresses, so only proceed if you are okay with the content. (CW: s*xual ab*se, f*tishisation)

One of the things I really appreciate from SoC is how Leigh wrote in the issue of fetishisation and exoticism of cultures and how harmful it is to the person of that identity. Beyond the abuse Inej endured in the Menagerie, it also broke her connection to her culture. Inej stayed away from silks after the Menagerie, even if it was part of her Suli identity. This made me wish for more insight on her relationship with her culture now after surviving the Menagerie, as sexualised stereotypes have always been very harmful and often seen when portraying female POC characters in the media.

Although my culture has yet to be fetishised in Western media (probably cuz it never appeared anyway lmao) this maltreatment exists in my own country against the women who don our own TRADITIONAL CLOTHES. They censor the exposed skin that traditional clothing cuts give in the name of “decency”, when our culture gave very similar clothing shapes for both male and female wearers. It’s all so disturbing, so I’m glad that Leigh addressed such a big topic that is still prevalent today, even if it isn’t as blatantly racist or sexist as it was before.

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lau-in-ketterdam · 3 years

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“She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and got drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”

Kaz Brekker and Inej Ghafa in Watercolor

I fell in love with @rithmeres‘ pencil drawing of this particular Kanej scene and decided to recreate it! What do you guys think?

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lau-in-ketterdam · 3 years

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1/3 alternative covers for Grishaverse books I’ve been working on recently🪶

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.” (c) Crooked Kingdom

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lau-in-ketterdam · 3 years

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Can someone write this ff please?

I so love this vibe pls😭😭😭😭

"Shall I tell you the secret of true love? [...] Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favourite flower, your favorite song, your favourite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart."

An older kanej portrait, commissioned by a fantastic client 🥰

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lau-in-ketterdam · 3 years

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Give me Kieran, Mark and Cristina content and all will be well 😍✨

Kieran to General Winter

General Winter,

Three sunsets. I told you, I have three sunsets. I will be back in just that amount of time. It is not a very long amount of time. And yet you have written to me, spent your valuable time and mine because you could not wait three sunsets to know whether I prefer velvet in midnight blue or one in more of an eggplant, I believe was your phrase.

Forgive me my temper. I am not really angry with you. I am only somewhat out of sorts this morning, after a night of merriment and whimsy on the streets of London-Town, along with my Nephilim friends. Now, obviously any faerie revel contains such dark delights as mortals can only dream, and so on. But after the previous night I must concede a grudging respect for the reveling capacities of an unexpected group: London businessmen of late middle-age. In our journeys we encountered what is known here as a “Retirement Party,” a kind of movable feast in which these businessmen traverse the city in celebration of a chosen one. In this case I knew him only as “Kraig.”

We met his Party thrice last night! The first time, at the Tongue & Grapes, we shared only a mutual acknowledgement of fellow celebrants passing in the night. The second time, at the Inn of the Shaved Werewolf, there were mutual roars of recognition from both parties, and a ceremonial exchange of beverages, as is custom. And the third time, at the Pigeon & Spoon, we were welcomed and—a great honor—inducted as honorary members of the Party, whereupon we were bestowed with festive hats and jersey-cotton smocks proclaiming the majesty of the great Kraig.

So you will understand if I am shorter of patience than I would like, this day, for I have a vile headache engendered by too much of what mortals call “shandy”, a repellent beverage with a kick like an angry kelpie. It quite left my darling Cristina asleep on a rather sticky table at the Pigeon and Spoon; Mark and I had to carry her back to the Institute. She is awake now, of course, and demanding coffee with rather more force than usual. Given that my time is short, I shall endeavor to answer your queries as well as I can.

I like the midnight blue, for the throne room. I think it sets off the creeping vines well, and also I think that you were hinting you prefer it as well. Next, I am in general agreement that the overall aesthetic of the throne rooms should move in the direction of an opulent Gothic feel, rather than its previous occupant’s preferred mood of “blasted hellscape.” Let us remind our Court that we are the Moon, as the Seelie Court is the Sun; rather than that they are Beauty, and we Tackiness.

However, I disagree about the skulls. I think they should remain. Skulls are perfectly appropriate in an opulent Gothic setting. In fact, I am hard-pressed to think of a style in which skulls would not be an improving presence. If such a style exists, it would definitely not be a good choice for the throne rooms of the Unseelie Lord, let us at least agree upon that.

Lastly, I am disturbed to hear that the Seelie Court continues to rebuff my requests for a summit of peace. You were right when you noted your suspicions earlier; they have become more secretive in this past year, even for them. We will see if our scouts manage to learn anything, although in my experience our scouts mostly seem to fall into forbidden romances with Seelie scouts and then they run off together; we lose something like four out of five that way. I suppose what I am saying is that I am not exactly holding my breath. (A charming human expression, is that not?)

You do not need to suggest to me that I contact Adaon; he is my own brother and I speak with him often. Whenever I bring up the possibility of a united court, or a meeting between myself and the Seelie Queen, he says the same thing: now is not the time for a summit that might lead to discord — now is the time to preserve the fragile peace between the two courts by leaving well enough alone. He has the Queen’s ear, so I must trust he knows what I do not. Still, you know it is not in my nature to do nothing and call it progress.

Speaking of that fragile peace, I must inquire—have your redcaps learned any more about the strange presence that has been noted in Faerie, and whether it is beneficial or antagonistic to our interests? I feel it through my connection to the Land — I am woken sometimes, feeling that presence I cannot define, knowing it is both of Faerie and not of it, and that the Land itself is afraid.

Enough of that. I trust that you can manage to keep the Court in working order for the thirty-six remaining hours I will be gone. If more color selection is necessary before my return, I trust you to go with your instincts, which have always served you well.

Until then I have the honor to remain Your Eternal Sovereign, Master of the Hob and the Domovoi, Breaker of the Broken Lands, Crown Under the Hill, Dark Star of the Evening, Friend of Kraig, and King of the Unseelie Court —

Kieran

#Goals #You gotta understand Cristina

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lau-in-ketterdam · 3 years

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✨ Inej Ghafa ✨

🎨 By me

Thanks to that amazing human being that is @ravenyenn19 for writing Dealing With Our Demons because it basically made my 2021 and it inspired me so much. I put a lot of Easter eggs from that into this art ❤️