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Anna Landin

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(she/her) Artist/storyteller/ttrpg designer. Eat the rich. ✨ Patreon http://patreon.com/annalandin ✨ Artstation http://artstation.com/annalandin ✨ Games on itchio http://annalandin.itch.io ✨ Email: [email protected] #art #comics

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · Jul 1

Comic creator, freelance artist, storyteller, character designer, ttrpg creator. Find me and my stuff on on:

✨ Patreon patreon.com/annalandin
✨ Games on itchio annalandin.itch.io
✨ Artstation artstation.com/annalandin

#art #comics #ttrpg

Cover for the character design artbook Silkpunk, by Anna Landin. Five characters in wearing outfits inspired by traditional Chinese fashion cover one half of the cover, with a brightly lit temple-like building and a full moon in the background.

Cover illustration for the comic The Care and Feeding of Monsters by Anna Landin. Two men - one dressed in an apron and the other in many layers of black and grey - surrounded by a bunch of delicious-looking food.

Cover illustration for the tabletop roleplaying game Dust of the Traveled Road by Anna Landin. Three figures in fantastical outfits, painted in bright, warm shades of yellow, orange and red, against a dark indigo blue background.

A character sheet illustration for a character named Silas Cormorant. He's a grey-skinned, wiry-looking elf dressed in what looks like hand-me-down pieces of several different outfits. He's got a ragged coat and a long scarf. Next to him are details of his belongings: an ornate dagger, a battered notebook, a ragged pouch on a belt, and so on.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 26m

all 104 card prompts written and with them, the writing of the second draft done! 🎉\o/ 🎉

now I just need to wrangle it all into a readable playtest document with some rough layouts and like. show it to some friends.

but before that: the rest of the evening off to read and have a snack

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 28m

I've really only read Fafhrd & Gray Mouser in the comic-adaptation put out by Dark Horse, and I think *one* of the short stories.

I really ought to read more of it.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 41m

it's some gunk going around for *sure*. and when that combines with me having put off a thing because it is scary for long enough that my brain has decided it is a *monster*, I feel all scritchy on the inside.

maybe I'll be able to get to the thing I need to do tomorrow.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 43m

definitely intentional, yes: I believe her design is closely modelled on the actual appearance of Erika Ishii, the actor who voices her.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 56m

corvids are great! we've got a bunch of jackdaws and magpies living around here, and a handful of crows - and a whole nest of ravens in the abandoned limestone mine outside of town.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 56m

if you run too fast, she knocks herself out by smashing her unrestrained boobs into her own chin

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1h

it is the most bland, uninspired and kinda wonky-looking version of what a hot ninja girl could look like, yeah

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1h

yes I am posting a lot to procrastinate finishing the second draft of my game

which I'm focused on to anxiously avoid something else

it's all squirrels upstairs today

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1h

it really does not

nor did that "improvement" of Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn that floated around a few years back

they keep doing the same thing, and it's like kids flinging sand at each other on the playground.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1h

what is YOUR favourite bird, and why?

I like bearded vultures because they eat *bones* and look positively satanic and also they use red clay as make-up to dye their feathers because they're *fabulous*

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 3h

Look. I know this doesn't relate *directly* to my thread on the fracturing of institutional memory in pop culture but ALSO

we should all build multi-generational nests to pass on our most precious things

(bearded vultures are my favourite bird)

Living Dead Meer @meerkatsrmammals.bsky.social · 6d

Birbs. Lovers of history.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 3h

two anime girls are screaming with their arms in the air and the word bravo is above them

Alt: Two anime girls, one standing up and clapping enthusiastically while yelling "Bravo!"

media.tenor.com

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 4h

ooh have fun with it! I'm 115 episodes into it and enjoying it quite a bit. Much of it is, obviously, music I've heard - but plenty of it isn't.

also: warmly recommend Cocaine & Rhinestones, for a country-specific history podcast. Just... nope out of the episode on Spade Cooley when he warns you to

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 4h

and so I regularly find out about a new Youtuber or whatever who has millions of subscribers that I never knew even existed

not because I'm ignorant or they're irrelevant but because there is no collective pop cultural surface for them to breach.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 4h

in a way, "mainstream" doesn't exist in the same way any more. there is music that gets played on the biggest radio stations, sure - but *radio stations* matter less these days.

and so the mainstream fractures. there are hugely, globally popular things now that I have not, and will never hear of.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 4h

yeah, the lack of generational inheritance of collections is definitely part of it, imho! The newest-and-most-popular algorithmic push I mentioned is too.

also, in many cases, the infrastructure that made older music, film and tv just... doesn't exist in the same way any more?

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 4h

Keeping up to date with what's coming out now is good! It's why my roster of weekly anime-watching nearly always has something from the current season in it.

It's just that our sense of continuity with the history of different mediums feels, idk. like it's unravelling? or being hindered?

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 5h

anyway here's Kurt Cobain in 1993 complaining about not being able to own Leadbelly's guitar before launching into one of the most heartrending versions of Where Did You Sleep Last Night/In the Pines

a song Leadbelly picked up from a phonograph record from *1926*
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEMm...