The Fallen Angel Of Babel 📜✒️🪽

An excuse to draw the freedom earring (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

my beloved Vestrit women

A man and his bunker - the first page of the self-insert framing story I drew for my next book (link to the pre-launch campaign below).

(I spent an obscene amount of time researching late soviet armored vehicle turrets for that cutaway, hours i will never get back)

But the bunker returns, later in the book - if you survive reading the main book, this is the intro to the back-matter...

The mighty tome this will be printed in will be launching TUESDAY on kickstarter - follow along here, and be first in line!

in shock hearing people say that babel only takes a turn and becomes heart-wrenching at the end because that experience is so incomprehensible to my chinese diaspora ass that felt like their heart was being torn from their chest in the very first chapter likeeeee babel is underscored by such immense amounts of tragedy and loss and horror around colonialism and imperialism from the very beginning it's so crazy that white people can just read the first half of babel and not feel like every bone in their body was being dissolved in acid by the centuries of unspoken grief written in robin's experience SORRYYYYYYYY. average poc reading babel vs average white person reading babel truly LMFAOOOO

farseer trilogy character design sketches

more bloody kisses

Iron Widow • Xiran Jay Zhao (@/xiranjayzhao) ⭐️⭐️

The Penelopiad • Margaret Atwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️

On Palestine • Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé ⭐️⭐️⭐️

In the Garden of Iden • Kage Baker 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔄 The Raven Boys • Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain • Nghi Vo 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Bruising of Qilwa • Naseem Jamnia ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Dream Thieves • Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

Blue Lily, Lily Blue • Maggie Stiefvater 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Into the Riverlands • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

🔄 The Fifth Season • NK Jemisin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

Sky Coyote • Kage Baker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spear • Nicola Griffith 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Siren Queen • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️

🔄 Outlander • Diana Gabaldon 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔄 Gullstruck Island • Frances Hardinge ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

House of Open Wounds • Adrian Tchaikovsky 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Great Illustrated Classics) • Howard Pyle ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Babel • R.F. Kuang ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

Chainsaw Man Vol. 1-11 • Tatsuki Fujimoto 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔄 The Bloody Chamber • Angela Carter 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Haunting of Hill House • Shirley Jackson 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Sacred Bodies • Ver (@/sticksandsharks) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔄 American Gods • Neil Gaiman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mammoths at the Gate • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Key:

⭐️ stars out of 5

✨ 1/2 star

🔄 reread

💀 did not finish

📌 in progress

also i just hate modern adaptations. get ye to the costume department and start starching skirts 🫵

netflix hill house is a good horror show but why did they name it after this book like. it’s so not the same type of ghost story. tv hill house is haunted by ghosts that are very scary guys. hill house the book doesn’t have any ghost guys. the book characters were never a family, that’s kind of made a point of. and nell can’t be theo’s sweet innocent dead sister bc she’s theo’s jealous mean nasty wonderful toxic yuri life ruiner. call it smth else…

req for @hawkepockets !

when ur trying to be a silly little flirty guy but your friend is too busy going through the most harrowing experiences known to man