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“You too, child?”

Albert Wåhlander  ||  Free! Dive to the Future EP9

I’ve said it a bajillion times and I’ll say it a bajillion more: motive. 

It fixes 99% of writing problems. 

Scene is boring? Give the characters a motive. Character doesn’t feel real? Find their driving motives behind their worldview and actions. Tension missing? Find a motive and prevent the anyone from getting what they want. 

Dig into those passions, however big or small. Prevent characters from reaching it, make it glaringly, blindingly obvious what they, in their deepest parts of their soul, crave. 

Motive motive motive. 

cathedral of lost giants

But you know… I’ve heard and learned a lot of things about you, Nanase-kun.

The time is finally here! Inked Fairy Tales is now available for pre-order!

Inked Fairy Tales is a collection of art and writing featuring classic stories, both well-known and obscure, with a twist; none of these tales are quite how you remember them. Presented in classic storybook style, all illustrations have been rendered in black and white ink with gold accenting. With thirteen writers and thirty-two artists from around the world, Inked Fairy Tales offers a diverse and varied look into the stories that have prevailed as cultural icons for generations. We welcome you to take a peek into our wild, wondrous world.

https://inkedfairytales.bigcartel.com/

Now, for the bundles!

Bundles

Beauty and the Beast: zine PDF ($10)

Little Mermaid: physical zine*, 1 random bookmark ($25)

Jack and the Beanstalk: US version - physical zine*, 2 random bookmarks, 2 random postcards, 1 random button, 1 random sticker. International version–physical zine*, all postcards (3 in total), and all bookmarks (4 in total) ($35)

Mother Goose: Full Bundle–physical* and PDF zine, 4 bookmarks, 3 postcards, 3 stickers, 3 buttons ($45)

Rapunzel: Merch Only–4 bookmarks, 3 postcards, 3 stickers, 3 buttons ($15)

*physical zine is sized at A5 

Giveaways

As promised, to promote the zine, we’re offering a slew of giveaways and incentives!

Free Poker Card to First 50 Buyers

To our first 50 buyers of the Little Mermaid, Jack and the Beanstalk, or Mother Goose bundles, we will be giving 1 random poker-sized card featuring an original illustration from one of our contributors as thanks for supporting the zine! Please note that due to shipping limitations, we can only offer this particular promotion to our US-based customers. However, international buyers among the first 50 will be given digital access to all 8 unique card designs!

Poker Deck Raffle

Along with the individual poker cards, we will also be raffling off 1 complete deck featuring all 8 original designs! Eligibility is the purchase of any one of the physical bundles. 1 winner from any country will be randomly selected when pre-orders close.

Reblog Giveaway

We will be raffling off 1 physical zine! To enter, simply reblog this post, and a winner will be randomly selected when pre-orders close. No giveaway accounts, please!

Commission Raffle

We’re excited to announce that several of our contributors have stepped up to offer commissions for raffle! Each buyer of any bundle is automatically entered into a drawing to win a commission from 1 of 11 of our artists and writers. More details regarding the contributors in question as well as the specs of the commissions will be announced in the near future.

Get your copy of Inked Fairy Tales here! Pre-orders are open until March 29th!

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I finally get to post a preview for my piece for @inkedfairytales

I got assigned to 1001 Nights and even though they encouraged us to think about of the box, I admit you’ve got to squint to recognize mine. I came up with a post-cannon type thing. It involves a hut in the desert, a mute character, a really tall jinn and human sacrifices. (I had to cycle through 5 ideas before settling, everybody else’s ideas are so good!)

This zine was so fun to be apart of and filled with so many fantastic pieces! I’m so hyped to see how everything turns out!

Extract:

“It’s not a good story to tell, little mouse.”

Almost as if to apologize, Ra picked up the book again and started reading. Ra had a way of forming words, his voice deep and mellow, blending with the turn of the page. Ebbing and flowing, the story drifted around him like dragging notes. Ra looked over the top of the cover as he read.

“I was a king once,” Ra didn’t say it like it was a story. He said it like a memory, bittersweet on the tongue. “They used to come to me. I’ve helped raise a city out of the sand. I’ve known the feeling of bringing armies victory. I’ve known the maddening years of darkness, waiting, seconds turning to centuries in darkness.”

Thoughts melted away as a familiar warmth settled over him, radiating from Ra like the afternoon sun. It felt like smoke coiled in his mind, slowed down and sluggish. Bo’s eyelids raised and lowered. He watched with dull entrancement as the colored shadows cast by the hanging lanterns first glittered and spun then morphed and arched into dancing figures that twirled and skipped across their walls, moving in tandem with Ra’s story. Bo’s eyes sagged then fogged. In the state in between sleeping and waking, his vision blurred, he saw Ra’s skin darken then shift. What are you?

Something fell then shattered.

I’m never satisfied with my vnc drawings-

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