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It's ready! My mini-fanzine featuring five illustrated stories based on The Blue Castle is now available for download! 🎉
Printable and digital PDFs available here!
I hope you enjoy! :)
Printable and digital PDFs available here!
I hope you enjoy! :)
More Blue Castle illustrations!
Mar. 21st, 2023 12:48 amWith these pieces, my little zine is nearly complete! I have one blank page at the end of the zine, and I'm debating whether to leave it blank, make another illustration for it, or put a little author's note there, maybe just a thanks for reading to an as-yet-undetermined audience. :)
Anyhow, piccies!
( Cats' breakfast )
( Completed Valancy picture )
A few more decisions, a couple of layout tweaks, and then printing. 😱 I'm afraid I'm going to be spending the better part of an afternoon at FedEx Office.
And afterward, I'll have to see about converting this to a PDF. Just because.
Anyhow, piccies!
( Cats' breakfast )
( Completed Valancy picture )
A few more decisions, a couple of layout tweaks, and then printing. 😱 I'm afraid I'm going to be spending the better part of an afternoon at FedEx Office.
And afterward, I'll have to see about converting this to a PDF. Just because.
Blue Castle fanart
Mar. 18th, 2023 01:44 amYikes, it's been awhile since I posted here! I've been keeping busy, though unfortunately, not with writing. I have, however, been flexing my wimpy little art muscle, trying to build it up. As part of my single-minded obsession effort to make my own little zine, I've taken to illustrating some of my Blue Castle fics. They're no masterpieces, but I'm proud of what I came up with. Besides, the rough-around-the-edges nature of these fits the DIY spirit of zines! :)
( Just a candy-shop window )
( Snuggling by the fire )
( Valancy portrait )
Three illustrations done, two to go! These were the more complicated ideas I had, so I'm glad to have gotten them out of the way first! :)
( Just a candy-shop window )
( Snuggling by the fire )
( Valancy portrait )
Three illustrations done, two to go! These were the more complicated ideas I had, so I'm glad to have gotten them out of the way first! :)
Title: All the Light and Shadow of It (2,181 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Blue Castle
Rating/Warnings: General Audiences / No Warnings Apply
Characters: Barney Snaith, Valancy Stirling
Relationships: Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling
Summary: In the aftermath of the incident at the train tracks, Barney comes to terms with how he feels for Valancy, and how important she has become in his life.
Notes: Written for a prompt on Tumblr.
( Excerpt below the cut )
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Blue Castle
Rating/Warnings: General Audiences / No Warnings Apply
Characters: Barney Snaith, Valancy Stirling
Relationships: Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling
Summary: In the aftermath of the incident at the train tracks, Barney comes to terms with how he feels for Valancy, and how important she has become in his life.
Notes: Written for a prompt on Tumblr.
( Excerpt below the cut )
Title: A Token of Appreciation (2,458 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Blue Castle
Rating/Warnings: General Audiences / No Warnings Apply
Characters: Barney Snaith, Valancy Stirling
Summary: He hadn't been thinking of Valancy during that trip to the Port, not really. At least, not until he saw the little boxes of chocolates in the window of the confectionery and decided then and there that Valancy simply must have one--as a friendly gift, a token of appreciation, nothing more. Definitely nothing more.
Notes: Happy Valentine's Day! :D
( Excerpt below the cut )
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Blue Castle
Rating/Warnings: General Audiences / No Warnings Apply
Characters: Barney Snaith, Valancy Stirling
Summary: He hadn't been thinking of Valancy during that trip to the Port, not really. At least, not until he saw the little boxes of chocolates in the window of the confectionery and decided then and there that Valancy simply must have one--as a friendly gift, a token of appreciation, nothing more. Definitely nothing more.
Notes: Happy Valentine's Day! :D
( Excerpt below the cut )
Title: Bracken and Fir (1,511 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Blue Castle - L.M. Montgomery
Rating/Warnings: Mature / Mild Sexual Content
Characters: Valancy Stirling, Barney Snaith
Relationships: Valancy Stirling/Barney Snaith
Summary: Overtaken by darkness during a walk through the woods, Barney and Valancy spend a night beneath the stars and the trees, in a makeshift bed of bracken and fir boughs.
Notes: Written for the Yuletide New Year's Resolutions collection
The light of the late-afternoon sun slanted through the trees, plunging the path before them into a golden twilight. Even now, the ground was getting dark, the thick underbrush greedily drinking up the last warm rays of the day, and with each passing minute, Barney’s steps became more uncertain. He was no stranger to nighttime tramps through the woods, but he’d never had anyone with him, then—no one whose safety depended on solid footing, no one who was just learning the shape and feel of the forest. So, he reached beside him and took Valancy’s hand, and together they trekked a bit farther, slowly, carefully, until the light grew purple and soft and only the silver dust of moonbeams filtered through the boughs above.
“Well, looks like this is as far as we’re going for a while,” Barney said calmly. “The woods get tricky at night—harder to navigate, harder to walk. Don’t want to risk either of us getting injured.”
“That’s quite reasonable,” said Valancy, seemingly as unperturbed by the situation as he was. “In that case, what do we do?”
“We make ourselves comfortable.” He released her hand and crashed through the brush to the base of a fir tree, where he gathered armfuls of fallen branches. He knelt and parted the bracken and arrayed the branches on the ground, then bent the bracken over them, pressing hard to keep them down, to make a soft, cozy spot on which he and Valancy could sleep.
He could feel her eyes on him as he worked, but she never asked what he was doing. Her implicit trust in him warmed his heart, and he returned to her with a smile.
“It might not be luxurious,” he said, nodding to the makeshift bed, “but I promise you, it is comfortable.”
( Read more... )
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Blue Castle - L.M. Montgomery
Rating/Warnings: Mature / Mild Sexual Content
Characters: Valancy Stirling, Barney Snaith
Relationships: Valancy Stirling/Barney Snaith
Summary: Overtaken by darkness during a walk through the woods, Barney and Valancy spend a night beneath the stars and the trees, in a makeshift bed of bracken and fir boughs.
Notes: Written for the Yuletide New Year's Resolutions collection
The light of the late-afternoon sun slanted through the trees, plunging the path before them into a golden twilight. Even now, the ground was getting dark, the thick underbrush greedily drinking up the last warm rays of the day, and with each passing minute, Barney’s steps became more uncertain. He was no stranger to nighttime tramps through the woods, but he’d never had anyone with him, then—no one whose safety depended on solid footing, no one who was just learning the shape and feel of the forest. So, he reached beside him and took Valancy’s hand, and together they trekked a bit farther, slowly, carefully, until the light grew purple and soft and only the silver dust of moonbeams filtered through the boughs above.
“Well, looks like this is as far as we’re going for a while,” Barney said calmly. “The woods get tricky at night—harder to navigate, harder to walk. Don’t want to risk either of us getting injured.”
“That’s quite reasonable,” said Valancy, seemingly as unperturbed by the situation as he was. “In that case, what do we do?”
“We make ourselves comfortable.” He released her hand and crashed through the brush to the base of a fir tree, where he gathered armfuls of fallen branches. He knelt and parted the bracken and arrayed the branches on the ground, then bent the bracken over them, pressing hard to keep them down, to make a soft, cozy spot on which he and Valancy could sleep.
He could feel her eyes on him as he worked, but she never asked what he was doing. Her implicit trust in him warmed his heart, and he returned to her with a smile.
“It might not be luxurious,” he said, nodding to the makeshift bed, “but I promise you, it is comfortable.”
( Read more... )
