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No denying she's a funny girl...

@trulyhopelessromantic / trulyhopelessromantic.tumblr.com

AND I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT LOVE AND I WON'T......... One of these days I'll be a published writer and the life I've always imagined since I was a kid might finally begin ~~~ PLEASE CHECK OUT MY SITE www.patreon.com/trulyhopelessromantic LIKE MY WRITING ON FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/Brittany-Edwards-author-101516631621963/ ~~~ I also run THEHAUNTEDMANOR tumblr~~~~~ I also write for FANTASYDRABBLE on tumblr 

Lawyer: How would you like to handle the custody agreement?

Parent: I want my wife to take one of my infant daughters to the UK and I’ll take the other one and we will never see each other again.

Lawyer: You want to fucking what?

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here’s to all of the people whose names have been lost to time. the unmarked graves, the forgotten memories, the writers of anonymous scribbles on the walls, the ordinary people who made great men great, the people who perhaps did not impact as many lives but who nonetheless made a difference. your stories may never be told, but despite all that, you too are history.

Howl truly is the man of all time. He’s a playboy. He’s a malewife. He fell in love with a ninety year old woman. He’s a rugby player. He smells like hyacinths. He’s not a natural blond. When dying his hair went slightly wrong, he filled his home with slime. He has a PhD. He’s a wizard. He found a way to another universe and he told absolutely nobody about it. He makes video games about the magical universe for his nephews. He can’t play the guitar. He always takes a guitar with him when he’s trying to seduce a woman. He’s a self-proclaimed coward. He got drunk to trick himself into doing something dangerous. He overcharges for his services to rich people. He undercharges for his services to poor people. A woman invaded his home and declared herself his cleaning lady and he just let her stay. He loves spiders. He lies about his surname to everyone, including royalty. The true spelling of his first name is Howell, but we don’t find out until halfway through the book because the POV character thinks it’s spelled Howl. He’s even Welsh.

Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn for my Six Wives of Henry VIII project. These portraits have taken a lot of research to get them to look as accurate as I can get them without access to a lot of academic texts in America. Both portraits are based on contemporary, or near-contemporary copies of lost originals, especially in the case of Anne.

For Catherine’s portrait, I intended to illustrate a younger queen about a decade before Henry started looking into annulling their marriage. For Anne, I wanted to portray her life as a courtier and musician, since she excelled at both. Her instrument is called a rebec, which was kind of like a premodern violin.

This project is part of a broader theoretical series into archeologic illustration. I’ve uploaded the process of painting Catherine over on tiktok with a bit of history of her life. Anne’s vid to come soon!

Yesterday was a bad writing day. I spent a lot of time staring at a screen. Lots of Tumblr replies. Lots of Twitter (the Netflix Sandman trailer going out didn’t help). Lots of being grumpy at myself and convinced I couldn’t do it any more. The script was a mess. I was doomed. This morning I printed out what I had to fix, picked up a pen, made a few notes and started typing. It was fun and easy and straightforward. I finished it and sent it to the people who needed to see it, and just got an amazed call from our script editor saying she was laughing while crying and couldn’t work out how I’d done everything in a day.

And I hadn’t done it all in a day. All of the being miserable yesterday was necessary for it to fly today. All of the knowing it was insoluble and awful made the work today relatively easy. I had to get out of my own way, and had to read it freshly, without being attached to anything. And then I just did the notes. And to make the thing that worked today, a lot of stuff that didn’t quite work or sort of worked had to be written too. It’s always easier to fix stuff that exists.

Anyway. Yesterday = bad writing day. Today = good writing day. I thought it was worth telling people, in case there was anyone else out there who was having a bad writing day too.

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;; thank you sir