Tsevet comes in much the same way Kor did when I first met him: abruptly, in drama, making my home feel askew because it can’t contain someone so intense. And he likes jump-...
2025-02-05 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ai-Naidari I’m hoping to meet is new to me and I want to put her at ease, so I set out what passes for a formal table for me: I have even found a tablecloth, and if the ...
2025-02-03 12:54:21 +0000 UTC View PostSo that was good. In fact, he liked the way his parents were treating him lately… like he wasn’t a kid anymore. What had changed? If he asked them, would they say s...
2025-01-31 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostI may go where I please in Kherishdar, seen or unseen, and no place is barred to me… like an aunerai Exception, I am allowed license and I know it, keenly, tha...
2025-01-30 19:28:43 +0000 UTC View PostSome quick updates! First, and most notably, the next Kickstarter will launch sometime in February (late, probably) for a second Jokka collection. You can sign up here to be notified of launch: 2025-01-29 19:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post
“Isn’t it capping?”
“Hell yeah,” Fish said. “That’s a prime ride, Shellie.” He el...
2025-01-24 11:17:35 +0000 UTC View Postwe have to go hard at this srlsy
stats are down
Lucas snorted at his phone. “In what universe are stats down, you loser. Yo...
2025-01-17 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Running Peradventure has caused several of you to revisit the Jokka stories (and some of you to read them for the first time!), and that has led, inevitably, to questions about the missing stories… the ones that exist only as audio, or that were...
2025-01-15 17:59:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Going back the late 90s with this color pencil piece of one of my old D&D characters. The goal at the time was to imitate a Renaissance portrait of the kind I was studying in college, which often had pastoral backgrounds with Renaissance-style...
2025-01-14 14:21:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Did this morning really happen?” Amanda asked later while Felix rubbed her feet. “Did our son tell us that we were such great parents that he wanted to lend us to someo...
2025-01-10 10:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostMy habit of long-standing is to spend New Year's Day doing a little of all the things I hope to do over the coming year, and this was derailed by a two-day fever and subsequent recuperation period. In retrospect, there's nothing wrong with “spen...
2025-01-07 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
First and importantly: I have restored an old Livejournal tradition, the Three Kings Day Sale! Read about it here, and get your 15% off my books, art, a...
2025-01-06 14:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Thoroldaena’s player zoned into the game, his vital signs indicated high levels of stress—positive, perhaps, the way he bounded awake with a smile. “Galatea! We nee...
2024-12-27 16:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post
From my household to yours, I hope you have a lovely holiday.❤️
2024-12-25 00:58:36 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been so long since Ray had made his own breakfast that slouching out of bed and over to the kitchen to use it for something other than reheating leftovers felt strange....
2024-12-20 13:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostMollie Mindelbray stared at the character customization screen and tried not to dwell on the sound of her nails clacking awkwardly on the keys. She felt clumsy in a way she di...
2024-12-13 10:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Another one of these collections,” I say. “Why now? When I haven’t written another book in the canon yet?”
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2024-12-11 11:14:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This one is probably 20+ years old? I can't find a date on it, but it looks about that old. 2002ish, maybe? I remember I intended it for a Christmas card image but never got around to using it... so it is appropriate for December's back in time of...
2024-12-10 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHe checked briefly on Mom, who was shoulder-deep in centaurs, directing them as they started stacking up stones on one of the walls. Between Carl, Spellz, and the NPCs, she sh...
2024-12-06 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The First Servant’s stole, when it’s not on someone’s shoulders, hangs in the yuvrini in Qevellen. I’m standing in front of it, and even tho...
2024-12-03 17:11:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt is time to collect ideas for the next Fallowtide collection! This will be your (probably) final opportunity to get your questions answered canonically in a book about what happened during the 3-8 years that remain of the Fallowtide between Fire...
2024-12-02 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI know it's Black Friday and I should be trying to sell you things, but I think I'll just give you things instead.😁
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It felt like it had been forever since h...
2024-11-29 12:50:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“When the Admonishments were new,” I...
2024-11-27 17:33:28 +0000 UTC View PostSurela 2 is done, and lots of you are already enjoying it (and lots of you have preordered the retail edition, and will be enjoying it shortly!). A reminder: 2024-11-26 13:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We resume the gamelit after hiatus! Reminder that the index is here if Ray's recap wasn't enough to resituate yourself in the story: https://www.patreon.co...
2024-11-25 12:24:34 +0000 UTC View PostFrom: mmindlebray@omengalaxica.com
To: ray@chillaxandstreambro.com
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2024-11-23 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
“Talk to me about why I went looking for one word for moderation and I ended up with two,” I say.
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2024-11-21 21:26:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I love oil painting, so I regret not having a good space to do it in. I ran into this tiny painting the other day and was surprised how much I still liked it! You can see some of the classical art influences in it. When I paint with gouache I tend...
2024-11-19 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA few days early, on my shop; I was planning the 15th but I got it done faster than I planned. You can get it right now from my shop in ebook or paperback: 2024-11-13 17:29:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Typo checks and first reader reports are coming in at a good clip on Surela 2 - thank you all! I'm going to start formatting this weekend and should have that wrapped up shortly.
Meanwhile, I'm looking at everything I've dropped to finish Ex...
2024-11-06 16:42:58 +0000 UTC View Post