All is Bright, All is Light

She just loves to steal things that are important ;)

(Somewhere in the background there, Wicander yells: Tyranny where are my clothes?)

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Yes actually! Here‘s the illustration from Court of Wanderers that I hadn’t shared yet

SURPRISE: they all go together!!! 🩸☀️🗡️

that's all the Silver Under Nightfall art from me for now. I love these 3, and can't wait to sink my teeth into the sequel this month

read in 2025: silver under nightfall by rin chupeco

Court of Wanderers comes out this week!

This book is so tumblr-coded, so pointedly targeted at people like me who hyperfixate on stories and characters

It’s got vampires. It’s got an endearingly stupid protagonist with a filthy mouth and a bleeding heart too big for his own good. It’s got spell blindingly deep lore and a fascinating world inspired by Pilipino and Chinese culture. It’s got sick-ass weapons and even sicker fight sequences. It’s got science fiction and evil blood experiments. It has absolute banger lines like this:

“I’m not going up there on your back,” Remy said stubbornly. “And you can’t bloody make me.”

“Fucking hell,” Remy said not five minutes later, clinging onto Malekh’s back for dear life.

It’s got a smokingly hot vampire couple who are absolutely relentless in their seduction of the harebrained MC.

That’s right! On top of all of its other stunning qualities, it has a throuple! A queer throuple!

And they look like this

To the Editor:

Late last month, the White House launched its latest war– “Operation Epic Fury”– against Iran. Rather than asserting their Constitutional powers over foreign policy, Congress is already looking for ways to pour even more money into this conflict with Iran– including an effort to attach farm aid to war funds. Yet no amount of aid will make up for the harm that this destructive war is doing to America’s farmers.

The War in Iran costs billions of dollars every day, to say nothing of the costs to Iranian civilians and US soldiers. The Trump administration has had difficulty justifying this intervention to Congress, relying on explanations that are flimsy and constantly changing. Despite this, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is already offering to surrender Congress’ powers to the White House by declaring that “a supplemental funding bill for the military is inevitable.”

This is untrue: increasing the national debt to prolong a harmful war is only “inevitable” if Congress decides that it is. Most congressional Democrats are skeptical of this conflict, so Republicans have been planning to add “sweeteners” to their forthcoming budget bill in hopes of attracting Democratic support. According to Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), financial relief for struggling farmers is one of the most likely policies to be stapled onto an Iran War funding bill.

There is no amount of farm aid that will make up for the damage that this war is doing to American farms. Farmers across the country are already suffering from fast-rising input prices as a result of the trade disruptions caused by Trump’s war, a severe cost crunch which will raise grocery prices and destroy farmers’ livelihoods.

Fertilizers are one of the largest input costs for most farmers. For those growing corn and wheat, fertilizers make up more than a third of their budget. While most of the media has focused on the rising oil prices caused by the Iran War, farmers have noticed that fertilizer prices are spiking as well. One-third of the world’s maritime trade in fertilizer moves through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely closed as a result of the violence in the region. The impact on farmers and food prices will be severe.

The price of nitrogen-based urea fertilizers– the most commonly used fertilizer in the US– skyrocketed by 25% within only a few days. Overall, fertilizer prices rose by a shocking 71% in the 90-day period before and during the start of the conflict. 

These high prices could not have come at a worse time. Spring is the peak season for farmers to apply fertilizer to their corn and spring wheat crops. Such a sharp spike in fertilizer prices right at the beginning of spring poses a direct threat to future harvests of the food staples that feed our country. 

Not only will this war damage the well-being of farmers across the country, but these costs will inevitably be passed on to grocery shoppers. The effects could very well be worse than the price spike caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which contributed to the high level of food inflation that has hammered working families in recent years.

The longer the War on Iran continues, the worse that the pain caused by these trade disruptions will get. Yet prolonging the war is exactly what Congress would be doing by providing the White House with extra funding for it. Attaching a little farm aid to a bill that severely harms farmers is a fool’s errand at best.

The Justice Department is right to investigate price-fixing by fertilizer companies, as anti-competitive “seller’s inflation” by major corporations can contribute to rising prices. But in this case, they are likely to find that most of the recent price increases are a regular, market-based result of the White House’s reckless decision to launch a new war. The only way to end the high prices is to end the war.

Second top vote on the recent poll was for me to draw a girl this time. Here's Sakura!

"Say hi to your dad for me on the other side of the veil."