Rejected Princesses

I've had some pretty wild depression the past couple years. I'm finally starting to work through it - with art. This is the first piece I’ve made for myself in around ten years, and… yeah.

Hey y’all! Here’s another weird history/myth video lesson.

This one is about peculiar deaths in history. I’ll probably do another video on the subject, as I don’t want for subject matter.

And here’s another one, where I screwed up the recording and had it in gallery view the whole time. Whoops! Everyone in the videos said they were cool with me posting it. This one was about historical folk with interesting gender identities. If you’re cool with viewing this in Brady Bunch view and seeing a bunch of my random friends, here you go:

Hey all! Long time. Weird time. How you been? Healthy/hearty/happy, I hope.

I’ve been keeping away from pretty much all RP-related stuff for over a year due to basically having a mental health breakdown (doing much better now!) -- but at the request of some friends, started just doing pretty informal hangouts where I tell weird history stories. I thought I’d share.

Keep in mind: these aren’t RP. This is me joking around with friends. The production value is low, I’m not providing citations or content warnings (at least so far), and I am almost certainly not going to check the comments. But it’s weird times and I’ve had fun doing these and I thought I’d share. I hope that it’s helpful.

Here’s a second one:

And a third one, which I just did:

SURPRISE! 

I'm going to be at San Diego Comic-Con TOMORROW (Sat), signing at the Harper-Collins booth (1029) at 11am! Come get your book signed. If you don't have your book on you, you can buy one, or you can get a free signed dust jacket or signed bookplate! 

To answer other questions:

Yes, I’m still alive.

My day job (working on video game cinematics) ends in August, and I’m back to writing after that.

It’s been a lovely way to restore my mental health and finances, both of which were in a bad way earlier this year.

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian teacher and activist who dethroned a king and inspired feminist activism across all of Africa, died on this day in 1978. She was often called “The Mother of Africa” and “The Lioness of Lisabi.” If I was in charge of teaching a history class, I’d put her in the same standing as Martin Luther King, Jr. or Gandhi.

Honestly it’s not really about pixies per se – it’s just that “Pixie Legal” had a good ring to it. The main character even says it’s not technically correct, but it works better for marketing purposes. The book features a wide variety of cases with supernatural creatures from around the world. I’m not even sure there’s a case specifically featuring pixies in the current draft.

The overarching plot, as it stands, centers on the main character skyrocketing to fame when he makes an ironclad contract that gets three as-intended wishes from a very pissed-off djinni. His success proves short-lived, however, when his client gives said wishes to their spoiled daughter for her 10th birthday, and she proceeds to essentially destroy the fabric of reality with them.

Wild West abortion doctor and “Queen of the Bolsheviks” Marie Equi was born on this day in 1872. She is the only known lesbian to have been incarcerated in San Quentin for sedition. She had an affair with Margaret Sanger, mother of Planned Parenthood and pioneering figure of birth control. She threatened to stab cops with poisoned hatpins. She horse whipped a dude in the face once for disrespecting her girlfriend, and made the New York Times because of it.

Wildly difficult and extremely strong-minded, she was a terror to the political establishment and, unfortunately, to many of her loved ones. There’s evidence that she engaged in abusive and unfaithful behavior with her partners several times throughout her life.

Hi -- first off, apologies for not reading the article more thoroughly from that lens, it was posted in haste as I had about five minutes of time walking from my day job to my car. I hear you and I apologize. I’ve deleted the post.

Secondly, I’ll reply with a rejoinder: have you considered writing to me as if I am a human being? If you’ve been following my blog for any period of time, you know that I deeply care about this sort of thing. It would have meant the world to have you approach me with, “Hey, that article came off to me as transphobic, and here’s why. It upset me that you post it. I ask that you please be more thoughtful going forward.” instead of flaming me. I understand you’re upset, and why that is. Your feelings are valid. I’m sorry to have put something in your feed that made you upset, and I hope you can accept that I’m deeply sorry. 

But please understand that I’m human. I’m going to have slip-ups like this. 

Getting messages like this really hurts. I'm constantly behind on checking my email or opening my Tumblr inbox because every single time, every single day, there’s something like this waiting for me. It’s absolutely the most major factor in me shutting down this project and moving on to do something else. Hard to run a business when you start having major anxiety over just checking email.