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Lipika Vethaka

@lipikav.bsky.social

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Am a mouse. I live between cracks and borders 🐁🇹🇭🇺🇸 🔆Book Cover Illustrator 🔆Literary Fiction Writer 🔆Artist | Illustrator | Author of the TKAI series 🔆History and Design Scholar 🔆Harvard’25 🔆Seeking representation

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Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 6h

The word “between” comes from Old English betwēonum, meaning "in the space separating two things.” It traces back to PIE dwo, and through Persian, Sanskrit, Greek. A word of exile, tension, and resistance. A word for thresholds.
#DVPit #amquerying #amwriting

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Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 6h

The story explores how imperial structures mythologize nomadic heritage to erase border identities. Through a fictional Pan Turkic–inspired world, the novel questions who gets to define history, how memory survives erasure, and whether the desert—so often framed as silence—can instead speak.

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Bex Glendining @lgions.bsky.social · 13h

night sea

digital illustration of the sea at night. it’s in shades of blue except for the yellow moon and stars reflected in the water.

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yonq @yonq228.bsky.social · 15h

thank you for reposting art, it helps artists tremendously

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Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 6h

[Blurb]
In a crumbling empire between the desert and the sea, a thief and a prince swap places for a single day, only to uncover a buried conspiracy that forces them to confront the magic, myths, and monsters that silence the past.

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Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 6h

One is the desert—merciless, masked, empty. Red.
The other is the sea—royal, restless, drowning. Blue.
A moment is all it takes for the waves to kiss the shores. This city has two faces. So do they. #litfic #SilkRoadFantasy #BetweenTheSandandTheSea

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Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 6h

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Noel Reverie 🍂 @noelreverie.bsky.social · 8h

Sacrificed some time and reworked my drawing process (and style) for the like the hundredth time again. #artph

Digital art of a swordsman inside an agate inspired fantasy scenery.

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Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 8h

Here it is!!! Colored in with markers! #sketchbook

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Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 10h

I know that literary agents also choose people they rep too, so I hope for besties vibes, you know🥹💕? Like, we go hand in hand to Venchi's and dance to Lady Gaga bgm kind of vibe.

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Nana @grey0295.bsky.social · 15h

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Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you thank you!🥺

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柊@靴箱　関コミ【G-12】 @shoesbox.bsky.social · 18h

#笑顔の絵でその人の性格が分かるらしい

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#赫い簒奪者

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kej ✨✨✨ @kejart.bsky.social · 17h

OUR PARTY 😭😭😭

Jonah Walker @ MCM London N-19 @galacticjonah.bsky.social · 17h

I've started a new (written) DnD campaign and despite having barely started, I'm already so unwell about it.
Here's our /extremely normal/ party...hence the hashtag for them: #TheCuriosities

#originalart | #ocart

digital illustration of a dnd party made up of bizarre characters

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Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 16h

Canterbury field sketches!!!
I'll go home to color the pages tonight #sketch #travelsketchbook

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 1d

The only kind of climate change I can approve of 😌

Two big red cats circle a terrified hog encased in ice. The cat's tails are flames and melt the ice partially, exposing some pig butt and giving it a singe. "Uh-oh Step-Pig, I'm Stuck...!" ok I made the joke for you so you don't have to. Hot ham smoke emits from the pig and spells "BECOME AN" and melted ice on the bottom spells "ICE-FREE ZONE"

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Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 1d

Hehehe sounds like fun! I also collect rat plushies! Sometimes they're a little scary too, but that's just how they are.

Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 1d

HUHHHH???????

Lipika Vethaka @lipikav.bsky.social · 1d

"Nama Mithras" - Latin
(Namās Mithra - Sanskrit for Adoration to Mithra)

Yes, I visited the #LondonMithraeum again to bask in the glory of Mithra. This was an old piece when Vidaar assumed the role of Mithra in The Witches of Pompeii artbook.
#CultofMitthras #illustration #OCsky #イラスト

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淵゛◆8月個展 @qooo003.bsky.social · 2d

ラフ🍂