2024 Writing Log, Part 42
Nov. 2nd, 2024 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I edited Chapter 16 and Chapter 17 from An Unfound Door. These two chapters were much rougher than I remembered, and I ended up almost completely rewriting significant portions of both.
- I posted an illustrated description + short meta essay about Chapter 12 on my public-facing blog (here).
- I commissioned Hansoeii, a veteran connoisseur of handsome men, to draw Fhiad from An Unfound Door. She generally only posts commissions if they’re fan art, but I still want to share this beautiful boy. (Here) he is!
- I commissioned an extraordinary Final Fantasy XIV artist who goes by Maegraeth to create a portrait of Zelda and Ganondorf from my story Lay the Gods to Rest, and the finished piece is transcendent. If you’d like to see some stunning Gilded Age fashion, you can check out the illustration on Bluesky (here).
- I posted “A Wind-Grieved Ghost,” the piece I wrote for the Hyrule Fashion Anthology, on AO3 (here). This short essay is about the influence of medieval Japanese Noh theater on the costume worn by Ganondorf in The Wind Waker. I’ve been wanting to write this essay for a long time, and I couldn’t imagine a better venue.
- I posted a promo for the essay on Tumblr (here) that showcases a bold and colorful illustration by the amazing Astarsor.
- I drew my own fashion illustration of an alternate design of Zelda from the Breath of the Wild artbook and posted it on Tumblr (here).
- The annual 13 Days of Halloween horror zine is now available to download from Itchio (here). I’ve got two pieces in the zine, a short story about a yamauba mountain demon and a mock newspaper article about the Jersey Devil. I’ll share them both separately later on in November, but the full zine is super fun. I had a great experience with this project, and I’d strongly recommend applying to the zine if you’re interested in participating next year.
- I pitched an article titled “Dark Academia for Dark Times: Elden Ring and the Fall of the Academy” to Bloodletter Magazine, and they accepted it! Even cooler, my piece will be illustrated by one of my lowkey favorite professional artists currently working in publishing, Katy Horan.
- A recommendation list for the ShortBox Comics Fair that I contributed to is live on Women Write About Comics (here). This list is somewhat oddly formatted, and the fair has already closed, but it’s still good to celebrate interesting work.
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is a full-length review of Yami-hara, an intense and disturbing work of social critique with elements of supernatural horror. Despite the anime-style illustration on the front cover, this isn’t YA fiction, and I get the feeling that this book might have picked up far more traction if it weren’t marketed as such. But again, it’s important to celebrate good and interesting work even if no one will read it.
I will be honest, this election season is killing me. I scheduled a handful of social media posts, but I’m planning on spending the next week offline. I also canceled my classes for next Monday and Tuesday, as the entire city of Philadelphia has become a madhouse of rallies and canvassers. I wouldn’t mind if the campaigns weren’t operating at a “we hate trans people” and “we support Israel” level of vile and putrescent, but it’s really messing me up. As an added bonus, public transportation from local buses to Amtrack has more or less shut down, which isn’t great. My heartfelt apologies to people in other countries who have to watch this shitshow, and best of luck to all of us in the days ahead.
- I posted an illustrated description + short meta essay about Chapter 12 on my public-facing blog (here).
- I commissioned Hansoeii, a veteran connoisseur of handsome men, to draw Fhiad from An Unfound Door. She generally only posts commissions if they’re fan art, but I still want to share this beautiful boy. (Here) he is!
- I commissioned an extraordinary Final Fantasy XIV artist who goes by Maegraeth to create a portrait of Zelda and Ganondorf from my story Lay the Gods to Rest, and the finished piece is transcendent. If you’d like to see some stunning Gilded Age fashion, you can check out the illustration on Bluesky (here).
- I posted “A Wind-Grieved Ghost,” the piece I wrote for the Hyrule Fashion Anthology, on AO3 (here). This short essay is about the influence of medieval Japanese Noh theater on the costume worn by Ganondorf in The Wind Waker. I’ve been wanting to write this essay for a long time, and I couldn’t imagine a better venue.
- I posted a promo for the essay on Tumblr (here) that showcases a bold and colorful illustration by the amazing Astarsor.
- I drew my own fashion illustration of an alternate design of Zelda from the Breath of the Wild artbook and posted it on Tumblr (here).
- The annual 13 Days of Halloween horror zine is now available to download from Itchio (here). I’ve got two pieces in the zine, a short story about a yamauba mountain demon and a mock newspaper article about the Jersey Devil. I’ll share them both separately later on in November, but the full zine is super fun. I had a great experience with this project, and I’d strongly recommend applying to the zine if you’re interested in participating next year.
- I pitched an article titled “Dark Academia for Dark Times: Elden Ring and the Fall of the Academy” to Bloodletter Magazine, and they accepted it! Even cooler, my piece will be illustrated by one of my lowkey favorite professional artists currently working in publishing, Katy Horan.
- A recommendation list for the ShortBox Comics Fair that I contributed to is live on Women Write About Comics (here). This list is somewhat oddly formatted, and the fair has already closed, but it’s still good to celebrate interesting work.
- This week’s post on my book review blog (here) is a full-length review of Yami-hara, an intense and disturbing work of social critique with elements of supernatural horror. Despite the anime-style illustration on the front cover, this isn’t YA fiction, and I get the feeling that this book might have picked up far more traction if it weren’t marketed as such. But again, it’s important to celebrate good and interesting work even if no one will read it.
I will be honest, this election season is killing me. I scheduled a handful of social media posts, but I’m planning on spending the next week offline. I also canceled my classes for next Monday and Tuesday, as the entire city of Philadelphia has become a madhouse of rallies and canvassers. I wouldn’t mind if the campaigns weren’t operating at a “we hate trans people” and “we support Israel” level of vile and putrescent, but it’s really messing me up. As an added bonus, public transportation from local buses to Amtrack has more or less shut down, which isn’t great. My heartfelt apologies to people in other countries who have to watch this shitshow, and best of luck to all of us in the days ahead.
