This Quote By Tamsyn Muir Really Stuck With Me:

This quote by Tamsyn Muir really stuck with me:

"For anyone on the female-identified axis this is especially hard because it seems to me that most books by anyone female-adjacent have an expectation that they will comfort the uncomfortable and discomfit the comfortable etc., whereas a guy can just tell an adventure story and be done with it. This ties in with an idea that I think nowadays that good art is moral and bad art is immoral: i.e. if a story is bad it actually has to be because the lessons are bad, and if a story is good it must somehow be beautiful on the moral scale. We go looking for why the art we love is moral even if the art we love is a donut. I think this is the pressure of capitalism on time – that everything has to double or triple up in benefit compared to the time we take on it: if we’re prepared to waste eight hours on a book we had better be able to tot up at the end how that book was also feeding us in some way. That’s brand time we just used."

From here: https://www.inthemargin.com.au/features/norman-spotlights-tamsyn-muir

three different colourations of a fallow deer, photographed by Mszafran on deviantart Source here

I drew Ianthe of the third house. Maybe I should do her sister! I cant wait to see more of her in the second book, i'll soon tackle it! She is very fun to draw how smarmy she is!

My boyfriend didn’t go to university until he was 28 because he didn’t feel anywhere near ready when he was 18. He graduated with first-class honours, went on to do a Masters, and is now a history teacher. It’s so much more important to do things when you’re able to fully commit to them and do them to the best of your ability than to rush to do them by an imaginary deadline.

I want to hug him so bad