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Brittany M. Willows 🐝🍁 PREORDER THE HOWLING DARK
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🇨🇦 Bi+ace • lvl 31 • she/her • Comic colorist/publishing assistant. Digital artist, anime trash, gamer. SFF Author of THE CALYSPIS PROJECT, BLOODY SPADE, THE HOWLING DARK (NOV.9.26) 🐺🌓

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And he does mean that quite literally 🙈
A snippet from The Howling Dark which reads: “Feel better?” asked Nahaki. Sylvain’s panting mouth curved upward. “Yeah, actually.” He flung an arm over his brow and let out a tremendous sigh of relief. “Fuck me.” Nahaki snorted. “I think we can consider you well and truly fucked at this point.”
January 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Commission for author_abbyrlaughlin of Seol and Shiloh from her steampunk fantasy western, IGNITE THE SKY! 🤠✨

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Digital illustration of a woman leaning into a man's embrace, her head tipped up towards him and his down towards her. Both are smiling and dressed in old western-style clothing.
January 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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Artists, quote with your faces! (a perfect prompt for me since faces are 90% of what my drawings focus on)
A drawing of my character Alexander, looking weary. He has shaggy jaw-length hair, a scar on his right cheek, and scales across his cheekbones. A drawing of my character Vy, sweaty and smirking. She has purple-black hair, sepia skin, and cat ears. A drawing of my character Cass, looking reflective. She has long rippling hair and pale freckles on gray skin. A drawing of my character Illia, speaking, his expression neutral. He has a scar across his nose, fangs, and untamed chin-length black hair that flicks out in all directions.
January 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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And with a temp move to Ottawa, a relationship to explore with my wonderful new girlfriend (hi if you see this!! 😊), THD's release, and the reveal of a bookish secret in store, for once I find myself looking more forward to the new year than not.

Here’s hoping for a transformative 2026 💛
This slide has two photos of me, one looking surprised and the other with my hand on a stack of papers looking excited. There's a screenshot from an email with part of the text blocked out. Visible part reads "Hi Brittany, I am writing because we are in the process of (redacted) and we are hoping to be able to include a (redacted) your book book Bloody Spade." Primary text on image reads "Got some author dream-level book news I can't wait to share!" Photo collage from Can Con. Primary text on image reads "I volunteered at Can Con and got to spend time with online friends in person." Secondary text reads "Also went on my first date in like 10 years during that trip hehe" This slide contains covers for all the books I read this year, which are as follows: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Binding of Bloom Mountain by Vesper Doom, Vicious by V.E. Schwab, Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews, Blue Lily Lily Blue and The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater, This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy, and Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault
December 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Overall, it’s been an interesting and unexpectedly rewarding year for me despite having its own struggles, and even as struggles persist from past years. I’ve made new friends, I’m playing DnD again...I’m doing more for me.
Another photo collage of me, friends, and family Photo collage from my friends' wedding
December 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Last year, I said “If my 30s are going to be symbolic of anything, I'd like for it to be change.” And with 2025, I think I’m off to a good start. This turned out to be a year of taking chances, trying things, making plans, and seizing strokes of luck.
Photo of me, a blonde white girl with short hair and an undercut, on a scrapbook style backdrop which is included in all following images. Text reads "The year behind, the year ahead" Photo collage of me with friends and family, me at the gym, and me riding a horse
December 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Another WIP I'm looking forward to is SUNDERED STAR, the BLOODY SPADE prequel that details Circ's fall from grace, the Cataclysm, and the creation and sacrifice of the original Keepers. I'm really excited to flesh out that whole mess of calamitous sibling angst & secret sapphic forbidden romance 👁️👁️
My characters Ophelia and Vy, foreheads touching, somber expressions on their faces. Ophelia is a fair-skinned woman with white deer antlers and crimson hair tied back in a long, thick braid. Vy is a tan woman with short, straight purple-black hair, and cat ears angled downward. Ophelia wears a white cream-colored dress, Vy wears a dark purple-gray bodysuit with black fur draped over the shoulders. A drawing of my celestial twins Circ and Cass clasping hands and touching foreheads, their eyes closed. Both have mottled white-freckled gray skin, collars with rings around their necks, multiple ear piercings, and glowing white hair. Circ's hair is short and fluffy, Cass' is long and rippling.
December 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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BLEAKHOUSE! ⚙️🌼 It's about an automaton girl (Artemis), a famous inventor's grandson (Ganymede), and warring parallel universes. What excites me about it is the grittier, more selfish nature that sets it apart from my other works. If I were to comp it to anything, I'd say Dishonored and Counterpart!
Grid containing nine images, which depict: a young man's bare back with his arms hugging himself, some gold wheels and gadgets, a photo of lips with a black moth sitting at the corner, paper scrolls, a painting of two heads being pulled away from each other, the rundown interior of a building, a close-up of a brown eye, a photo of daisies, a photo of a girl with short hair Sketches of two characters: a white boy with brown eyes and brown hair wearing a khaki-colored shirt, and a white girl with a short bob haircut and copper eyes wearing suspenders over a white blouse. The same characters from the previous image, drawn in a pose from the painting in the first image with their heads being pulled away from each other by hands
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Bonus Hikaru 'cause he went from what I can only describe as Anime Boy Band Member to Antique Professor
Old pencil drawing of Hikaru from 2009 Crop of Hikaru from the poster I drew this year
December 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I enjoy that this sketch has similar energy to his first-ever drawing, except he's evolved from having a tongue piercing to a split
Sketch of Alexander in his later-act design with snakes slithering over his shoulders, sticking his tongue out
December 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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QRP with your oldest and newest art of your OC! ✨

I've done this for Ellen and Iori a bunch, so how about Alexander? 2009 vs. 2025! Fun fact: I actually drew him first out of that trio (only by a couple months, though)
An old pencil drawing of Alexander from 2009. A crop of Alexander from the Bloody Spade poster I finished earlier this year. His current design is still very similar to his original with the gold-trimmed red military-style jacket, frilled ascot, and dark shoulder guards. Still has short, spiky white hair, pale skin, and piercings too. Biggest difference is that his eyes are gold instead of red, his brows and lashes are white too, he has a scar on his right cheek, and no longer has the tongue piercing.
December 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Art vs. artist 2025 🌟
A 3-by-3 grid of images showing drawings I've made this year. In the center is a photo of me.
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Your honor, I miss them
A sketch of the characters Kenon and Alana from my novel, The Calypsis Project. Kenon, a 9-foot-tall lizard-like alien stands behind Alana, a human soldier, preparing to fire his high-tech bow while Alana holds her rifle at the ready. His armor has blue lights, hers has green.
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Listening to Audiomachine's "Guardians at the Gate" put me in the mood to draw some of my neglected alien characters
A sketch of three different alien characters from my Calypsis Project books. The first is an elegantly dressed flat-faced humanoid alien with a craggy face, gazing down sinisterly at his fingers which are about to curl into a fist. Next is a lizard-like alien in chunky armor with a mane of hair down the back of his neck. His head is bowed, pensive. Last is another lizard-like alien, sleeker-looking than the previous one, in a more elaborate suit of armor with lots of points, talking to someone.
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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moment of appreciation for the glow-up between 2025 Circ and 2018 Circ
same drawing described above An older drawing of the same character
December 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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falling from grace ☄️
A rough sketch of my character Circ, his expression warring between smiling and crying as glowing tears roll down his cheeks, appearing to melt out of his starburst pupils. The whites of his eyes are turning black. He has short fluffy glowing white hair and several earrings and wears a thick silver collar with a large ring around his neck. His skin is a mottled gray with white freckles.
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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"Full" from THE HOWLING DARK (2026). 🌕🐺
A snippet from The Howling Dark (coming 2026) set against an image of a red moon. Snippet reads: His legs propelled him forward, forward. And suddenly, he was a pup again, running not across a barren stretch of clay and dirt, but through a snow-laden memory. His paws had been comparatively larger then, clumsier, and far from where they should have been. The moon had been full that night, too, but painted the deepest red. A great bloody wound in the sky, hemorrhaging doom upon the mountain peaks. I'm coming, Sylvie. Hold on.
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Bonus Circ in breakdown mode
A rough sketch of my character Circ on the verge of a breakdown, expression warring between smiling and crying as tears roll down his cheeks, appearing almost to melt out of his starburst pupils. He has short fluffy hair and several earrings and wears a thick metal collar with a large ring around his neck
December 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Treated myself to a very serious Hikaru for my cooldown sketch
Rough sketch of my character Hikaru with a serious expression on as his hair blows dramatically in the wind and these winding threads wisp around him. He has long wavy hair tied back with a ribbon, wears glasses, and is dressed in his usual old-fashioned professor attire.
December 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Some bunker infiltrating for "pipe" from werewolf book!

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A snippet from The Howling Dark (coming 2026) which reads: He heaved open the hatch and descended the flaking, yellow-painted ladder into the bowels of the bunker. From there, he wove through the narrow corridors. Scents of mildew and rust laced the air inside. The yellow-green ghosts of past leaks and weeping pipes streaked the walls from the plumping hugging the top to the accumulation of grunge trimming the bottom.
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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self-yeeting imminent

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A snippet from The Howling Dark (coming 2026) with the word "designed" highlighted. Snippet reads: They hobbled past the labs, crossing the line into the science and technology hub of Aries Ward. Each of the station’s rings, along with its central spire, had their own complement of lifeboats. As Sylvain had helpfully pointed out years ago, Illia couldn’t fly, but in a lifeboat, he wouldn’t need to. Their automated guidance systems were designed to be operated by the average citizen in an emergency. The reason he hadn’t considered them in the past was because they were guarded. In the past, however, he didn’t have a gun.
December 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Finished putting together some art for Secret Book Thing. Have a sneaky peek 👀
Four cropped images stacked atop one another, each depicting a close-up of a character's face. First is Iori, gazing down sternly as black ink bleeds from under his eye patch; second is Ellen, hands cupped over her mouth as tears bead in her wide eyes; third is Alexander's weary, pensive eyes with shaggy hair hanging in front of them; fourth is Kyani, looking upward with a concerned expression through the eye holes of her bird mask.
December 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Ellen with a short bob is kinda cute 🫢 (sometimes I just like to randomly scribble different hairstyles onto my WIPs lol)
A sketch of my character Ellen, who normally has long hair, but I've made it short here for fun
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Adding botanical horror to this story was one of the best decisions I could've made 🌺☣️

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A snippet from The Howling Dark (coming 2026) that reads: At the click of the instructor’s remote, photographs spilled across the presentation screen, depicting masses of enormous dusky vines dotted with vivid, star-flecked indigo flowers. Beautiful as they were lethal, this new genus of parasitic flora—typically found at the edge of the wastes—was nigh indestructible. Cutting encouraged them to grow back stronger, chemicals had no effect, and only in their earliest stages were they susceptible to fire. And unlike most parasitic genera, these didn’t prey on other plants. They preyed on humans.
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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*continues crying in -20, but on bsky*
Screenshot from a weather app showing a temperature of negative 20 Celsius, with a feels-like of negative 25
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM