#madderty

every time i post any hakoda art, half the tags are “hI SIR! 👉👈” LMAO i cant stand youse

heheh thank you!!!!! i tried to incorporate a dragon too but it didn’t really work out.... i like him this way though 🖤🤍💜

Welcome, we have cucumber sandwiches and public access radio, I’m a grandma now and the world is our oyster but only after we’ve taken a handful of tums. Why, only yesterday I was wild and free and yet here we are; we must band together against the young whippersnappers and form a sewing circle to banish the youths.

"For the thousandth time: not in front of my desk."

I love writing both Bea and Mattie.  A lot of stories tend to skip from the proposal or wedding or pregnancy discovery to the HEA epilogue with the kids, but it feels important to me to write Arthur and Sadie actually being parents and growing and changing from that, given that the longing for a peaceful life with a home, a partner, and children is at the heart of both of their stories and their development.  and that means letting the kids be individuals in their own right rather than story props.  I wasn’t sure who they’d be when I started writing, and given Mattie was only one and Bea was two in Chapter 11 (Minnewakan) it’s really here in 1907 I’m getting to discover their personalities far more too.Mattie, like Sadie observes, feels a lot like the gentlest, sweetest parts of Arthur, a sort of purer, undamaged version of him.  If Beatrice was still alive, I suspect she’d confirm that a four-year-old Arthur was very much like that.  If things had turned out differently, and Arthur had grown up with a far less traumatic and abusive childhood, he would likely have been able to show that kind, empathetic, generous side far more easily than he did for many years.  I’ll guess that both he and Sadie will fight hard for Mattie to be able to be that kind of man and not let the world force him into a more toxic mold of masculinity.Could change by the end, but as it stands, I HC that Mattie will likely end up helping Felipe in New Caledonia as he grows older, and eventually becoming a doctor.  Much like his daddy, he likes helping people and it makes him happy.  ;) 

(waves)  You know with as much of a giddy horse girl as Arthur Morgan Griffith is, at least one of his kiddos would get that trait passed on.  ;)  As for learning to ride, Bea’s a little young for it yet in Chapter 11, since she’s only two, but maaaaybe in 1907 when she’s five!