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Does anybody know good journalistic or academic articles about Romantasy/Dark Fantasy?
I'm interested in:
-how is that genre defined?
-why is it/how popular is it?
-how much "spice" is there?

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ARTISTS WANTED:

I'm seeking fantasy artists & illustrators for commissioned artwork for a D&D-style RPG. I'm looking for black-and-white line-art similar to what was common in AD&D and BECMI D&D books of the late 70s and early 80s.

DM me if you are such an artist or if you know one who is. And please re-post to spread the word.

Thanks! 🙏

#artists #fantasyart #dnd #ttrpg

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Finally finished ref sheet!
50% of full size here, due to upload limits.

This one is made to be printed at poster size (20 x 30 inches) at 300dpi with a quarter inch bleed on each side. So it's big.

Anyway, a lot of love went into her.

#art #dragon #DragonArt #krita

A poster-like ref sheet of my dragon form. She's a grey and white feathered dragon with black accents and magpie-like wings. This shows her face from three angles, a closeup of her eye, a full body shot, hand and foot and wing and tail and feather details, and it has a lot of painterly texture. It's a whole lot.

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Hello #portfolioday2025
I'm a book cover artist and character designer for Achillean romance and MM books in various sub-genres.
I work with fantasy, urban fantasy, historical romance and adventure, and can do cyberpunk, steampunk. I'm style-flexible if a project interests me.

www.thistle-arts.com
#PortfolioDay #bookstodon #art #MastoArt

Cover of "The Mage and his stolen prince" by J.E. Ridge

A young man in black clothes and long silver hair sits on a stone ruin. Another man with bright red hair sits near his feet and leans his head towards the blond man's knee.
They both hold magical purple flowers in their hands.
A beautiful mysterious garden is in the background.

Book cover art for "Blood Sails" by Sierra. J. Meril
Two white men caught ina dynamic fight on a deck of a pirate ship.
They are both dressed in richly decorated pirate clothes. One is a mage and has a fire spell ready to launch that is in a shape of a fiery bird. The other hold a sabre. Despite them fighting some erotic tention is palpable between them

A book cover: Rears & Vices by E.M. Caro. The cover has three men: an auburn-haired man, a black-haired man, and a blond man, all dressed in early 19th century clothing, all clearly sailors. The auburn-haired man is embracing the black-haired man across the shoulders. The blond is standing protectively by, holding the hilt of his sword.

Cover art for a 2nd book in the series called 52 HZ
It shows a young man with black hair and his eyes closed floating in water and a huge whale is visible behind his head.
Another man with read hair is sitting in the director's chair in the front plane as if he's imagining the first young man as his creative vision.

my finger hurts... paronychia :meowcry:

went to the woods today for a wee walk. followed random trails and met some new juniper bushes as well (not pictured). #nature #walking #forestwitch

photo of a pathway in a coniferous forest, pine and spruce trees and a medium sized boulder

photo of a mixed forest, birch and aspen(?) trees. the leaves have fallen and cover the mossy ground. some spruce in the background. one of the aspens has snapped in half but is still standing.

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JOY IS FASCISM'S KRYPTONITE
There is a reason why (when I was handing out zines as Lady Liberty at #NoKings) the JOY and HOPE zines went fast and first.

You can download those here: https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/zines

@guante.info @dorkydino.bsky.social h/t to @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social

(HOPE) Hope Does Not Glimmer; It Burns (guante.info/zines)

HOPE zine

(MOVEMENT BUILDING) Of What Future Are These the Wild Early Days? (guante.info/zines)

MOVEMENT BUILDING zine

(MUTUAL AID) All We Have is Each Other: Mutual Aid (dorkydino.com)

MUTUAL AID zine

(JOY) The Greatest Gift to Tyranny is Despair (Sue’s zine)

JOY zine

SEE BELOW for a short video on the paper magic of folding!

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The 3 pieces I made during demos at my open studio a few weeks ago. Fresh out of the kiln. Not too shabby for work done quickly & with people watching me!

#DragonbellyCeramics

3 pottery pieces on a table. A blue and green rice bowl, a black and cobalt blue mug, and a turquoise tea cup

Rice bowl. Glaze combination of a blue/gray and spearmint green satin

Curved mug, black gloss with blue over the rim

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アルルカン #oc

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Scratchboard drawing, 30x40cm, 2022

https://www.pierrebarrauddelagerie.com/2023-2024

#drawing #art #artist #artistonpixelfed #artistsonmastodon #acrylic #blackandwhite #blackandwhitedrawing #dessin #black #scratchboard #landscape #artwork #architecture #abstract #scratchboardart #abstractinarchitecture

A black and white photograph depicting a monumental architectural structure dominated by a vast circular opening at its center. Concentric rings radiate outward, framed by geometric stone walls and stairways leading toward the void. Mist or smoke drifts along the base of the composition, softening the rigid lines. The image evokes the texture, tonal range, and atmospheric depth of early 20th-century large-format film photography. (this description is made with the assistance of AI)

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He is accompanied by diverse symbols and various accoutrements of the drug user. On his head, he wears a single wing, representing false freedom of thought and the illusion of flight, and he wears a crown of Destroying Angel mushrooms. 3/5

Tonal preliminary concept featuring a skeletal angel of death sweeping aside its robe in a welcoming gesture to reveal its torso, only ribs and no flesh. A key hangs from a ring on its forearm. In its offhand, it holds a thin staff topped with a smiling mask.

Loose tonal concept featuring a skeletal angel of death with chains criss-crossing the dark cavity of its torso its torso. A padlock hangs from its waist, and a key dangles from a ring on its arm.

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Lachesis, Clotho & Atropos

Dessin représentant 3 personnage squelette. Celui de droite porte un long chapeau, ses bras et jambes sont des tentacules, celui du milieu à un corps d'araignée et tient plusieurs aiguilles longues. Celui de gauche à des bougies dans le crâne et tient un demi ciseau dans la main droite tandis que la gauche est une bougie. Un arbre pousse dans son dos et ses jambes sont faites de racines

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My wife has asked me for resources for learning Krita.

Ideally targeted at traditional artists who do not have experience with digital art, and structured in a like... Classroom/lecture structure, with like assignments and stuff.

Do you have any ideas?

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We are finally in Gaza city!

Not at home. But we are in what remains of our home. Since yesterday we are working to clean the place. We have been waiting for the water since the morning. I have to go to a internet point to find internet.

Once I saw my devastated home in front of me, I realised that we'll suffer for years.

Please donate to help my family overcome this difficult time. Your donation makes a real difference

https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family

#gaza #palestine

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DESTROYING ANGEL (1982)
Acrylic on Canvas - 34” x 24”

All of the concepts I submitted for the 1982 Year’s Best Horror Stories cover were strong. If I had tried to guess which one would be chosen, the concept that became this painting would have been my last guess. 1/5

#horror #horrorart #illustration #yearsbesthorrorstories
#dawbooks

In a field of poppies, a skeletal figure wearing a black and red silk cloak holds a smiling mask set on the end of a thin staff. Sweeping the cloak aside in a welcoming gesture, it reveals an antique key hanging from a ring about its emaciated forearm. The other arm is tied off with rubber tubing. Pronounced veins run the length of necrotic flesh. Beneath the cloak, chains wraps the torso, criss-crossing, secured by a padlock. The green tunic beneath is torn to expose yellowing rib bones. Atop its tilted skull rests a crown of mushrooms and a single bird wing. Its orbitals are dead black, and many teeth are missing. A syringe dangles from a loose chain around its neck. Another needle hangs from its belt with longer cord weighed down by a spoon. A long opium pipe with a bulbous end is tucked through the belt. A winding tree rises behind the angel of death, bare limbs branching like veins, blue against the purple haze of the misty backdrop.

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A number of tender plants in the understory appear to have been kissed with frost, bleaching their colors to stand out against the brown leafy duff on the forest floor.

Mottled red-brown oak leaves in the foreground left contrast frizzy horsetail plants emerging from the brown carpet of leaves on the forest floor. Horsetails, or equisetum, are normally green, with circular whirls of thin branches spreading out from the central stalk in regular rings. Here, they're bleached nearly white.

A closeup of one bleached horsetail, a tangle of white tendrils, next to a crumpled mound of brown, dead fern. A handful of yellow leaves are scattered about in the background, contrasting the reddish brown carpet of leaves.

A tiny oak sapling, less than knee high, spreads out wider than it is tall under the forest canopy. Its maroon leaves with red highlights have large splotches of white, presumably from frost, that fails to touch the red veins.

Husky Zeena investigates a mound of large-leaved fern leaves, their greens faded to a very pale yellow, in contrast to the brown ground covering of fallen leaves.

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A friend wants to join #Mastodon. Looking for a left-leaning, #LGBTQ friendly, and pro #Palestine #instance

My instance isn't accepting new signups or I would suggest that. Anyone have suggestions, please? Thanks in advance.

[edit] For the time being, my friend has found a "home". Thanks for all the suggestions!

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Encrage d'un dessin représentant 3 personnage squelette. Celui de droite porte un long chapeau, ses bras et jambes sont des tentacules, celui du milieu à un corps d'araignée et tient plusieurs aiguilles longues. Celui de gauche à des bougies dans le crâne et tient un demi ciseau dans la main droite tandis que la gauche est une bougie. Un arbre pousse dans son dos et ses jambes sont faites de racines

@whangdoodler@piipitin.fi we did and it broke so everything else is labelled w masking tape + whatever pen whoever labelled the thing happened to find. it's ugly but it works. (i do miss the dymo, one day i will replace it)

@whangdoodler@piipitin.fi this would be our house without extensive labelling i think

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