Fanart of Mirnatirus from Spinning Silver by @naominovik
Was lucky enough to catch her on her UK tour! :)
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years later, I'm still obsessed with #spinningsilver by @naominovik
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I finally painted the Mireym + Staryk king icy glare contest. Did Naomi Novik know, when she designed a character with white hair, white skin and an all-white outfit, what that would mean in terms of aesthetics? I tried my best to make him mysterious and sexy, but he still ended up looking like a fae version of Mr Clean
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I'd like to request HH Charlie meeting TSE Charlie and they compare how their lives went
Sorry that this took a while! Ended up getting carried away and making it a little comic :] I hope you like it!! It was really fun making this, actually. I think they'd both get along really well despite their differences.
Small Henry bonus under the cut.
He read TSE Henry's last letter.
HH Henry, you have no idea what rabbit hole you dug into.
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wip of the faves... at any given moment I am thinking about the scholomance trilogy
(preview from the latest batch of sketches going up on my patreon!)
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Best Books of 2023
I've already written quite a bit about these books and have a tag #best books of 2023 where I also include my honorable mentions, so here is a rapid fire of my best books of the year!
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual's Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J Brown
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Feast Makers by H. A. Clarke
The Mirror Season by Anne-Marie McLemore
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
Painted Devils by Margaret Owen
Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
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Every time I reread a bit of Spinning Silver, I notice new ways the Staryk king is 100% a panicking, highly reactive dufus who does not know what he's doing at any point in the book any more than Miryem ever quite does.
Miryem and the Staryk king are peak clown-to-clown communication; to the point that they come to understand each other on a deeply personal, cross-cultural level - enough to realize that they are actually well-matched in terms of their values and long-term goals enough to actually fall in love with each other - all while still completely missing like 90% of everything the other one is trying to say at any given moment.
I love them and I love this book so much.
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The Staryk king is cross about something and whatever it is, Miryem’s not having it. She’s got the sullen glare down pat
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hi i just finished spinning silver and its so good i think im gonna throw up. you ever read a book with an ending so satisfying that you want to break open your rib cage.
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