Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 269
May 2, 2016
May 1, 2016
snufkinandhisamazinghat:
Le petit lion with his quill.
Work! (also, if someone knows the artist for this image I found on Google please, please, please let me know so I can credit them)
Tee hee. Turtle.
Still my favorite line in the show.
Guns and ships.
Hanover is George III. For those who don't know.
Ivory tower ;)
HERE COMES THE GENERAL!
Star-crossed duelists.
Poor Maria...
sabaatahir:
The stunning Helene fan art given to me at...
The stunning Helene fan art given to me at #yallwest by super talented LA artist @fictograph. Thank you so much for taking the time to imagine it and draw it and frame it!! It made my month!
sabaatahir:
#yallwest wrap-up w/ @taherehmafi , #gwendabond and...
#yallwest wrap-up w/ @taherehmafi , #gwendabond and @lbardugo. Was so happy to see so many readers and authors. Thank you to the 20,000 rad people who came out!
"The feminist critique is in the air now. If my rendition of Black Panther wasn’t created by that..."
The feminist critique is in the air now. If my rendition of Black Panther wasn’t created by that critique, it breathed the same air. I can’t really kill off or depower women characters without grappling with Gail Simone. I can’t really think about how women characters are drawn anymore without thinking about the women in Bitch Planet, and how they seem drawn beyond the male gaze.
This is why criticism is important. The job of criticism isn’t to interrupt or encourage commercial prospects. (“Batman vs Superman smashes Box Office, despite critic complaints!”) Criticism should push our imagination and help us understand what is actually possible in art and, I’d argue, even what is moral. Through much of my time collecting comic books I never took much issue with how women were drawn. I had a vague sense that there was something about, say, the reworking of Psylocke that bugged me. But I simply didn’t give it much thought. It never occurred to me, for instance, to ask whether a superheroes pose was anatomically possible. It never occurred to me to ask why a super-hero would have DD cup-size. Was that for her benefit, or for mine? I never asked.
The feminist critique of comics has made “not asking” a lot harder. That, in itself, is a victory. The point is not to change the thinking of the active sexist. (Highly unlikely.) The point is to force the passive sexist to take responsibility for his own thoughts.
”- The Feminists of Wakanda, Ta-Nehisi Coats (via stitchingatthecircuitboard)
April 29, 2016
caswift:
Is anyone else unable to read the new crooked kingdom excerpt? I keep getting a ‘we cannot...
Is anyone else unable to read the new crooked kingdom excerpt? I keep getting a ‘we cannot process your request’ error
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Never mind, heads up to non-US fans, select US as your country and it’ll work!
You can read the first TWO CHAPTERS of Crooked Kingdom at...
You can read the first TWO CHAPTERS of Crooked Kingdom at Grishaverse.com! They’ll want your email addy, and if you’re not in the US, you’ll need to enter a rando US zip code. I’m fond of 10012. Hope you guys enjoy!
We’ll have a longer sampler available at my Vroman’s FR event, BEA, and Bookcon. And if you find me at Yallwest this weekend, I will whisper secrets to youuuuuuuu.
Sneak Peek #3: A Bullet for Death's Rifle by Emily Duncan, illustrated by Sonia Liao
Death is a girl named Caterina Kazakova. She harvests souls with her sniper rifle and watches as war tears through her country, as it always has and always will. When Caterina falls in love with a soldier in the warlord’s army, she knows what they have will be a short and bitter thing. A girl who is Death cannot love; a boy who is a soldier in this war is fated to die.
She collected the tethers like strings tied to her fingers, some black, some red, some in colors that Caterina had no name for. There were many, the aftermath of this battle was grim. A shot. A tether tied to her index finger. Another shot. A string tied to her wrist. She did not discriminate, she tied strings from both sides around and around until her own gloves had disappeared underneath the weight of the souls and their stories.
But it was dangerous to listen. It was dangerous to bend an ear and allow the soul their final words. If one spoke, the rest would hear and demand their turn. Too many tethers, too many strings, too many souls to ever hear their woes and their unfulfilled dreams. Better to set them free.
- Except from A Bullet for Death’s Rifle from @glitzandshadows , art by @sonialiao
Thank you for your support!
Oh man so I have a weird relationship with short stories in that
1. my writing is…. way different with them. I can’t maintain this prose for anything longer than a short story.
2. I always trip myself up with worldbuilding (no surprise there)
but I knew that I wanted to go back to the dark and smoggy high fantasy!Soviet Russian world of the song witch Anya and her warlord husband, even if I had no idea if I could match the prose of that first story. Also I don’t know the world outside the ice fields & cabaret that were in the first short story. But I liked the picture of a girl with a sniper rifle collecting souls, a boy with stormy eyes caught in an endless war, and a chasm of a boy being slowly broken by all the death he sees every day. And i really liked the idea of having Anya and the warlord pulling the setting and the events of the story around.
And Sonia’s art is gorgeous. I was floored when I saw it especially because of her spectacular use of color against a purposefully colorless story.
Hey, @glitzandshadows and @sonialiao are doing something cool together. Help spread the word!
