Amor Vincit Omnia

[cmm] changgu on retirement

Commissioned art of Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier 🧚🏻‍♀️ art by goldenmushroom_

Sorcha and her brothers from Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

I’ll be making the next two heroines, and after that, a series of special illustrations ✨️ But for now, I hope you enjoy 💜

I, and I, and I--

Come on Graceling fandom, time to wake up!!

And now with a painted vesion!

re-read Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore recently and appreciated how it took what could’ve been a standard scary fantasy power (ability to make people believe your lies) and fully ran with it

A name is not simply a set of sounds, but the identity we offer others before we even show our faces. Names carry with them our history and our origins. They help shape our place in the world. - DAUGHTERS OF OLYMPUS by Hannah M. Lynn

little astrologist out here saving humanity

"none of our stories belong to us. what is dna but lines in a narrative of our lives? what else is all our code? our literature? they exist before we do. we exist to perpetuate them. to perpetuate story. we are mere vehicles. we tell a story with our bodies, our lives, then we die. the story lives on."

a copy of a copy of a copy

If you love stories go read it! If you loved the book I'm begging on my hands and knees for you to go look up ghost quartet.

My 2023 adaptation of a scene from the fourth Earthsea book, Tehanu, now with alt text!

The Abhorsen and the King.

Gearbreaker by Zoe Hana Mikuta, p.113

"With how you came into the world and what you've seen lately you should know, the more you live, the more the sinner and the saint can't be pulled apart. All of us just getting by."