A Grimmauld Place Cover I Made For Vorabiza’s Drarry Longfic “Secrets” https://archiveofourown.org/works/8184311/

Thank you, /r/ProgrammerHumor, I love you endlessly.

Redditors competing to make the worst volume sliders possible...

Just how rarely have idiots like that even sampled knowledgeably-recommended examples of the genres they scorn?

people I still want to stab over a decade later:

Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way, you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”

Rags and Bones cover

The Reichenbach-inversion fic I made this for is… unique, and hard to define. It's under 3K words, but very memorable. Its Sherlock "voice" is brilliantly done, and not quite sane.

Unfortunately, the hand-skeleton image I liked best in terms of position and wiring (why do so many anatomical models have the thumb wired too far up?!) is only available at a small resolution, so until I convince myself to use a different photo, this is as good as it gets.

A+ trope-subversions short story

In fairy tales and fantasy, two types of people go in towers:  princesses and wizards.

Princesses are placed there against their will or with the intention of ‘keeping them safe.’ This is very different from wizards, who seek out towers to hone their sorcery in solitude.

I would like a story where a princess is placed in an abandoned tower that used to belong to a wizard, and so she spends long years learning the craft of wizardry from the scraps left behind and becomes the most powerful magic wielder the world has seen in centuries, busts out of the tower and wreaks glorious, bloody vengeance on the fools that imprisoned her. 

That would be my kind of story.

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Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

freepngimg - icons, pictures and clipart

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Kissclipart and kissPNG - more vectors and clipart (often transparent!)

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

It occurs to me the guy with the Starfleet badge could use a Vulcan persona, and dress as an elf, ears fully visible, no knit cap needed!

Alternate version “Secrets” cover w/solid background for -ECRET-.

An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

Seriously just a bit of pollen could make your cat sick within a matter of minutes. Stay far away from Easter lilies if you have kitties!

This is PERFECT! 😆😍 (And I'm very picky about portraits.) Oh, I didn't even notice the communicators at first! 😉🏅

Stargate: Enterprise

(This art was made for the Russian Fandom Battle - the Stargate Team. Check it out cos it has more cool art!)