This Is the Nightmare Scenario

This girl in the wild is a danger, but we love her for it.

Digitally drawn over a paper sketch (5 hours of work in total).

A few days late, but happy 20 years to "I was there when it was written"

look! a fun book cover and a beautiful illustration on its own merits, by Paul Kidby who did most of the novels and official art in later years.

now. same thing in Germany:

“𝑇𝘩𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔𝘩 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝘩𝑟𝑒𝑤𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝘩𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐𝘩 𝑤𝘩𝑖𝑐𝘩 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑠 𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝘩 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛, 𝐻𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝘩𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡𝘩 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑠”.

(I promise I'll write a fic with context & link it on this post when it's done).

There's such recency bias in fandom. As an author you post something, get a few reactions, and then it goes off into the bin. As a reader you check the tags, see what's new, and move on. But a lot of old stuff is really good. It's just sitting there, gathering dust, waiting for someone to take a peek.

So go on. Treat yourself.