Work In Progress, Obi-wan Waking Up From A Nightmare, With A Small Boga Just For Fun.

I ragazzi delle scuole imparano chi fu Muzio Scevola o Orazio Coclite, ma non sanno chi furono i fratelli Cervi. Non sanno chi fu quel giovanetto della Lunigiana che, crocifisso ad una pianta perché non voleva rivelare i nomi dei compagni, rispose: «Li conoscerete quando verranno a vendicarmi», e altro non disse. Non sanno chi fu quel vecchio contadino che, vedendo dal suo campo i tedeschi che si preparavano a fucilare un gruppo di giovani partigiani trovati nascosti in un fienile, lasciò la sua vanga tra le zolle e si fece avanti dicendo: «Sono io che li ho nascosti (e non era vero), fucilate me che sono vecchio e lasciate la vita a questi ragazzi». Non sanno come si chiama colui che, imprigionato, temendo di non resistere alle torture, si tagliò con una lametta da rasoio le corde vocali per non parlare. E non parlò. Non sanno come si chiama quell'adolescente che, condannato alla fucilazione, si rivolse all'improvviso verso uno dei soldati tedeschi che stavano per fucilarlo, lo baciò sorridente dicendogli: «Muoio anche per te… viva la Germania libera!».

Tutto questo i ragazzi non lo sanno: o forse imparano, su ignobili testi di storia messi in giro da vecchi arnesi tornati in cattedra, esaltazione del fascismo ed oltraggi alla Resistenza.”

Piero Calamandrei

“ I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”

Bram Stoker, Dracula

I so badly wanted someone to write the story of these two sailing at least for a while! Rhaenys both on board and flying Meleys who will obviously accompany them! An adventure where they met with pirates, where she can visit other ports with him... something so she can feed her adventurous side before her children are born, before she is stuck on the Driftnark like a bird with a broken wing!

finished with the basic greyscale, ready to colorize it. I suck at colorizing so tipo are welcome!

Also sorry for the insanity in the timelapse.

"Lord Tytos Blackwood met him in the outer ward, mounted on a destrier as gaunt as himself. Very tall and very thin, the Lord of Raventree had a hook nose, long hair, and a ragged salt and pepper beard that showed more salt than pepper. In silver inlay on the breastplate of his burnished scarlet armor was a white tree bare and dead, surrounded by a flock of onyx ravens taking flight. A cloak of raven feathers fluttered from his shoulders"

Just realized that the reason I love making friends on tumblr is because it’s exactly how you make friends on the playground as a six year old. No, I don’t know their name but they love mermaids too and built this awesome sand castle. No, I don’t know their age but their imaginary cheetah is friends with mine. You like this show? You like this character?? You can sing the theme song really loud??? Here is a flower crown. Here is a juice box. You can share my time and I might never see you again but part of you stays in my soul forever. In my mind we’re still on the swing set and the sky is blue and nothing will ever be wrong again.

I've been naked since I was born

"At last, a living legend lets it be" concert review in The Guardian (October 1989) / Paul McCartney standing next to a statue of himself and his former bandmates in his hometown of Liverpool (2018) / "Still Sane" (2013) – Lorde / "That Was Me" (2007) – Paul McCartney / Paul McCartney and George Harrison, arriving at Orly airport, France (1965) / Paul McCartney quoted in Moranthology (2012) – Caitlin Moran / "Naked" (2018) – Paul McCartney / "Paul and Linda McCartney: Ram" review in The AV Club (May 2012) / "How I Became a Paul McCartney Fan: Discovering the Depths of the Former Beatle’s Underappreciated Solo Catalog" Billboard (June 2018) / "Vintage Clothes" (2007) – Paul McCartney / "Naked" (2018) – Paul McCartney / "One Of These Days" (1980) – Paul McCartney / "Sir Paul McCartney: 'Retire From What?'" BBC 6 Music News (2018) / "Karma" (2022) – Taylor Swift / Paul McCartney pictured beneath portraits of the Beatles from his exhibition "1963-64: Eyes of the Storm" at the Brooklyn Museum (2024) / "One Of These Days" (1980) – Paul McCartney / "Naked" (2018) – Paul McCartney

Art by J.R.R. Tolkien

the fine folks in my patreon discord did NOT want me to have an easy time drawing this dragon

The best notes written in manuscripts by medieval monks

Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages

Oh, my hand

The parchment is very hairy

Thank God it will soon be dark

St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing

Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink

Oh d fuckin abbot

Massive hangover

Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job

Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night

If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral

I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today

Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark

11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again

Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God

If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen

Ereinion Gil-Galad, son of Fingon, Idril and Earendil in the Havens of Sirion. First meeting.