in other news i finished assassin’s fate :’)

So yesterday I had a dream about a warm drawing of sleeping Fitzloved next to Nighteyes, probably from the time of Fools errand. But that's all I remember, and now I don't have the time and energy to do anything about it, so I'll just leave it here

It feels as though the Six Duchies and Bingtown exist in completely different eras — at least three or four centuries apart. The Six Duchies is obviously high medieval or very early modern, whereas Bingtown is closer to the eighteenth or even early nineteenth century. And it’s not only the absence of glass in the Six Duchies, as Althea observed. Here are some differences I’ve noticed.

In Bingtown, people have water pumps in their houses. They have tea houses and even restaurants (something that only appeared in the nineteenth century in our own history), whereas in the Six Duchies there are only taverns. They have proper shops with shop windows (also a very modern feature), whereas in the Six Duchies people buy goods directly from artisans or at markets. Medicine in Bingtown also seems more advanced — not just herbs and salves, but things like laudanum and military surgery.

Their family structure is also moving towards a Victorian-style bourgeois model, in which women are expected to stay at home. Of course, they don’t have firearms or any kind of modern industry. But they do have magic.

It’s not surprising that worlds so far apart in development could coexist in a fantasy setting; what is surprising is that they exist so close to each other geographically while remaining so different.

PS I forgot about money! The Six Duchies use basic gold, silver, and copper coins, whereas Bingtown operates with notes as well as various types of coin.

Malazan fanart -Chain of dogs

You: So why is The Malazan Book of the Fallen your favorite fantasy series?

Me: Well, it's exciting and raw and messy and sincere and angry and frequently unfair: sometimes it'll make you bark with laughter and a few pages later hit you with something so unutterably heartbreaking that you'll have to put it down and go for a walk; and also sometimes there are dinosaurs with swords for hands

i cannot imagine such devotion

I just want to let you guys know Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required) and there are (shocker) many books...

yayyy the fitz the loved

ive always wanted to draw this meme

Most accurate Fool I'll ever draw in my life

continuing inktober, a little late

the jester was an obvious choice - there wasn’t a single chance I’d draw anyone else. the dress was pretty straightforward too...

but as for rivalry… only some indirect consequences of palace intrigues can be seen. I thought for a long time about what to weave in here, but in the end I didn’t manage to develop any complex idea

Mountain gang ❄️

Mary Oliver, from Upstream: Selected Essays