Happy belated birthday to all my October-born readers! I’m late, but I have a great excuse — I actually did it! I moved to Florida, just in time to escape the cold Minnesotan winter! I’ve written most of this post sitting on a beach! But more on that later — you came here for Opal…
I love deadlines. I like the wooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series Happy December everybody! Yes, this post was meant to go out last week, before we left November, but sadly my household contracted the plague or some such nonsense and…
Everything I love is problematic, … no media is perfect. … So what can we do? Love the things we love, but acknowledge room for improvement. — Delilah S. Dawson, Everything I Love is Problematic In November 2015, I read an amazing article by Delilah S. Dawson published on one of my favorite sites, The Mary Sue,…
Happy belated Valentine’s Day, and Happy Birthday to all my February-born fans! Are you ready to be inundated with amethysts? So much purple — here we go! First up is this gorgeous Little Amethyst Dragoness by one of my favorites, Russian professional artist Alvia Alcedo. She captions it, “Little brave dragon on a treasure guard,” melting…
Check out this adorable scene called Dragon Song by Canadian professional artist Kei Acedera, the co-founder of Imaginism Studios. Kei writes that this is “the story is about a dragon that rescues the princess from her horrible prince and the two become the best of friends and live happily ever after…” I love it when…
Happy belated Halloween, everyone! Isn’t this Halloween Toothless by Swedish deviantartist Tenynn so scary!! You can see an ‘updated’ version of this here, but I prefer the original. Check out more art in his gallery and see his current work at his FurAffinity site. I really tried to get this post out for October 31, but…
R is for Reign of Fire Next up (and a little late, apologies) in the April 2017 AtoZ Challenge, let’s talk about the famous — or some might say, infamous — 2002 blockbuster movie Reign of Fire. Above is a concept sketch from the Reign of Fire wiki of one of the movie’s climatic scenes, and below is…
Happy belated Halloween everyone! I’m only a few days late, but I just had to share this amazing Dragon Pumpkin Carving by American deviantartist Ciarra. Here is another carving called Skeleton Dragon Carving that is also amazing, and according to the artist, done on a very small pumpkin about the size of her hand, which…
There’s no other way to say it… last week was rough. I’m calling it the Lost Week and I plan to post twice each day this coming week — once for the actual day, and once to fill in a missing post — and this lovely artwork called The strength inside by Russian deviantartist FlashW seems like…
You might know how much I hate to share an image when I can’t identify the original artist, but I’ve been hanging on to this one for a long time now, and I can’t think of a better time to use it, despite having to label it “artist unknown.” It’s been a crazy week, and…
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