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Anime Your Characters: The ‘These Other Doors’ Edition (part 2)

Thea van Diepen

Last time, you got to see the anime versions of the main characters of two of the stories of These Other Doors (created using this dress up game), entitled The Tree Remembers and Mermaid’s Grotto. For this post, none of the stories have proper titles yet, so thank goodness for code names. Two of these I haven’t started writing yet, but I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and planning for them, so that’s where all of this is coming from.

Anime Your Characters: The ‘These Other Doors’ Edition (part 1)

Thea van Diepen

Back in June, I found a dress up game which I pretty much immediately used to create pictures of major characters from my forthcoming White Changeling series. Part one of this can be found here. And part two is here. Well, earlier this week, I was bored and had some time on my hands, so I created anime versions of the main characters of the short stories planned for These Other Doors. Plus two other characters. Um. I’ll explain: I’ve

How Many Genres Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?

Thea van Diepen

Fantasy How many fairies does it take to change a lightbulb? Depends on how many working ones they want to run off with. How many gremlins does it take to change a lightbulb? One. But its entire extended family will invite themselves over to practise their electronics juggling afterwards. How many unicorns does it take to change a lightbulb? Oh, ha ha. You’re hilarious. Let’s make fun of the only intelligent species without opposable thumbs. How many dragons does it take

News, and Perhaps Some Humour. I’m in a Mood

Thea van Diepen

I have three pieces of news for all y’all: I’ve got a brand new guest post on Puttylike! About specializing without actually specializing! Exclamation marks!!! Expected Aberrations is going to be getting a total makeover in the somewhat near future. Edward is a vampire. … … I’m so sorry. I did that earlier this morning to the people who get my Backstage Passes emails, and it’s still funny. And then I made it awesome, but here I’m just inflicting you

What Amateur Linguists Do For Fun

Thea van Diepen

So, today I was totally going to write something serious and important or something, but then I got very distracted by playing around with a font I made yesterday. You see, yourfonts.com had a thing going on yesterday whereby you could make a font from your handwriting for free if you had the coupon code… and I had the coupon code. The unfortunate thing is that I didn’t have any time to immediately play with said font, because homework was eating