Melt The ICE

The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya Volume 1 rerun Book Two Update 7 of ??? (READ the Latest Update, starting from this page)

After his transformation into a vampire and committing his accidental first kill, Zeynel returns home to the safety of Ayse's embrace. As the night grows he confronts the meaning of his new reality.

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AAAAAAAAAA!!!!! @ Zeynel and Ayse TT_TT Anyway the night-time scene gave me a lot of grief with the printed version (it was WAY too dark). I've fixed up the contrast for this edition - now I just need ONE MORE chance at redemption.

- The art style I’ve used to depict the djinn is in homage to Siyah Qalam – black ink drawings, which is part of the historical heritage of the nomadic people who will one day form the Ottoman Empire. These drawings are a synthesis of Chinese, Persian, Indian, Turkish and various other cultures in the region, and contain lurid depictions of (perhaps pre-Islamic) demons and mundane nomadic life.

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As usual author's commentary is on the website!

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Mothman

I think she came out really well, especially with the 70s inspired look! Initially I was planning on giving her some circular red tinted sunglasses, but I like the more buggy look (gives Luna Mothews a little yk) also played into the eye imagery that a lot of folks use when drawing mothman. Also tried to mimic the neck fluff with how her hair kinda poofs at the ends, don’t know how well that came across though. more refs and the excerpts from The United States of Cryptids under the cut

There's an Australian game show called Hard Quiz where contestants pick an expert subject to be quizzed on. One of the contestants picked the Barbie movie as their expert subject, and for one of the questions which referred to the character of Midge, they used this picture as a reference.

I can kind of understand why because when I, at least, google "pregnant Barbie", it's the third image that pops up.

The source is a Today.com article that talks about discontinued Barbies. And if you use Google Lens to reverse image search the picture, the AI confidently explains that it's a Happy Family Midge doll.

However, as I am sure that you can see from the other pictures in the Google image results, that isn't what Happy Family Midge looked like at all. There were a couple of variations on Midge, one with the classic red hair and an AA variant, but none with blonde hair.

The much pictured blonde doll is a Judy, a completely different 11.5 inch fashion doll with no relation to Mattel.

There's even an article I can find from well before people clutched their pearls about Happy Family Midge talking about the problems with Judy and her having a baby.

But I will admit: Judy looks more like our mental picture of a Barbie than Midge does, so she does make for a good shorthand for "pregnant Barbie".

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