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23/he/him/ I'm a Literary Analyst who draws sometimes / My art tag is #nabiscart / https://ko-fi.com/INBlackwoods

earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding

Sorry I haven't been drawing anything for a couple days I've been busy making a clown suit

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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

Anonymous asked:

could you tell us what flowers are behind jonathan and the ones on the shovel?

Certainly. Behind him are Forget-Me-Nots, and on the shovel are Bluebells. I was thinking of how long he was seperated from Mina, which made the Forget-Me-Nots seem fitting to me. Of course neither of them would ever forget the other but they might be sappy enough to exchange those flowers when parting. The unexpected length of Jonathan's trip would make that a more poignant gift, bittersweet even. Bluebells can represent constancy, everlasting love, and some other things I found interesting and again relevant to the Harkers.

Does anyone remembers the series that these pieces were from? Well, I got around to Jonathan finally.

I was thinking about how Jonathan might behave after being trapped in the castle, if maybe he would care less about social norms and Proper Behavior afterwards. Maybe he'd be rude now, meaning, at worst, he would stand with his hand in his pocket (very rude) and be publicly affectionate with his wife (scandalous).