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Day 4: the Forest Queen

cw: blood, self-cutting for magic purposes

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(thanks so much to @margaretweek for the image description!!) [id: a four page black and white comic featuring Margaret, The Forest Queen, and Travis. Page 1: The first panel shows a silhouette of Margaret running through a black forest with the narration “Margaret had heard the stories” in front of her. The rest of the page is a shot of Margaret’s booted feet running and the bottom of her skirt, with the narration “She knew the trials of women who challenged gods and fair folk” on the ground.

Page 2: The top of the page shows Margaret running, exchanging dialogue with someone off page.”Margaret! Margaret help me!” “William?!” “Is that you, darling?” “I’m here, where are you?” The three panels below all show shots of hands, a hand emerging from water with an overflowing cup narrated “Psyche crossing the Styx for Eros’s hand in marriage”, a hand holding a nettle like a needle narrated “A youngest daughter sewing up nettles to break her brothers’ swan curse,” and two hands clasped to the chest narrated “Janet scorching her palms on the red ember of Tamlin’s body.” The bottom panel shows Margaret standing at the edge of a river with the offscreen voice saying “across the river- please hurry!”. The narration around her reads “The Maiden does not fear pricks or burns or the waves at her feet. The maiden is brave and good. She is in love and willing to die for it.”

Page 3: The full page shows Margaret reaching into the water, desperate, with two panels showing how she drew her knife and cut across her palm. A dark cloud of blood surrounds her hand in the river. She says “Allow me safe passage, just once, and you can have me when I return”, and the narration adds “she pleaded with the river”.

margaret week 2021, day one: cycles / rebirth / the river

there must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said - no. but somehow we missed it.

…well, we’ll know better next time.

Margaret Week Day 2 | Black Lilies

every heart is broken, oh, you tell yourself wide open lover

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[Image Description:

A pin-up drawing of the Black Lily Margaret from the Campaign Skyjacks Podcast. She is a thin young trans woman of color with warm-toned brown skin and dark amber-brown eyes. Her dark brown curly hair reaches below her shoulders and haloes out largely behind her. Her hair is swept over her shoulders, showing a tattoo of a black lily on the left side of her neck. Margret is looking directly at the viewer with slightly parted lips and an open but seductive expression.

The drawing shows Margaret sitting on the ground with her legs folded underneath her, but spread in a wide V; she is holding a bouquet of flowers strategically between her thighs. Margaret wears nothing but light green lingerie; her bralette covers her small/flat chest and has long lace detailing that reaches over her lower ribcage. Her panties are covered by her arms, the flowers, and her thigh fat.

The bouquet is made up out of black and white lilies, white and dark purple roses, and green and brown filler leaves. One of the white lilies is placed provocatively exactly between her legs, a pink blush rising from the opening of the flower.

The background is solid pastel yellow. The artist’s watermark is left to Margaret’s hips, displaying a simplified sun with the letter “S” inside of it.

A couple days late, but a blackwork black lily for Day 2 of @margaretweek!

[id: The first image is a card layed out like the luminaries of the card game Illimat. It is a long rectangular card with an illustration at the top and at the bottom the name of the card ”The Union’’. The second image is the illustration on its own, without the card layout surrounding it. In the bottom right of the illustration is a round mark, used in illimat to identify if luminaries are base game or from the expansion. This image has a simplified black lily with red stamen as its mark.

The image is split in a top half and bottom half and each side mirrors the other. The top half has Travis Matagot, a white man with white shoulder length hair half of which is up in a bun, wearing a loose white blouse, black pants that come up to his waist and a green fabric belt. The bottom half has margaret, a light brown woman with loose curly dark brown hair wearing a white dress with a blue fabric belt. Both of them are in a lounging position across their (relative) bottom edge of the image and hold up a card with the card back to the viewer. Travis’ card has a sun and moon motif on the back, while Margaret’s has two lily’s in the same style as the mark. A red thread that loops behind the cards connects the hands that hold up the cards. In the bottom left and top right is an upright stem of black bell like flowers, in a similar shape to a foxglove plant /end id]

Today is the third day of @margaretweek ! Which is a fan event to celebrate the @campaignskyjacks NPC Margaret. My fanart is based on the wonderfull card faces drawn by Carson Ellis for the card game Illimat. It really inspired me to experiment with a style I’m not used to and a limited colour palette to tie all cards together and I had a lot of fun with it. Some of the ideas behind the design are below the cut.

[id: green toned moodboard made up of 6 images: lilypads, an ocean wave, a Black woman's face, text reading "human beings are creatures of stories", a forest, and green candles burning.]

@margaretweek day 4: Stories | The Forest Queen

the forest queen saw them time and time again, watching their story play out through the centuries, but that doesn’t make those iterations any less real for the williams and margarets who lived them

[ ID: Digital art of Margaret from Campaign Skyjacks. She is a brown woman with long curly brown hair and a black water lily tattoo on her neck. She is drawn in profile with a bright red streak in her hair that turns into a red string. Above her is the hand of Travis, wearing a dark fingerless glove and two watches. The red string loops around a gold wedding ring before wrapping around Travis's ring finger. The background is blue. End ID ]

Day 3: Red Strings/Relationships | The Union (@margaretweek)