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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

hello from the land of post-election political mess where we still don't have a new government! I hope you're doing well! I'm doodling epic fantasy characters and have also made myself the fanciest writing desk in town. Check it out: www.patreon.com/annalandin/p... #art #Patreon

A corner of a home library, with a comfortable leather armchair and a writing desk with a big painted panel of birds, branches and flowers in gold and monochrome shades of blue.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm still chipping away on this project, and this month I had to start making an alphabetised list of named characters just so I can keep track. It's 111 names long, and I'm not done naming important people yet. and yes, that is still just volume 1.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

anyway, have a magpie, before I log the heck off again so I can hide from the world until the national elections are over #art #birds

Acrylic painting of a Eurasian Magpie. It is a medium-sized, black and white bird, with its wings spread wide and its back facing the viewer. There is a bright red background.

Detail of the previous image, showing a closeup of the bird's head and part of its wings. The blue-black iridescence of its feathers can be clearly seen.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So uuuuh. Funny thing about this. Guess who has a 75-chapter outline of volume one of an epic fantasy series? You could read the opening pages of the first draft right now, if you want to, on #Patreon. #art #writing www.patreon.com/annalandin/p...

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August roundup: Fantasy Epics, Heraldry, Birds and Tables | Anna Landin

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

we are 20,000+ words of worldbuilding and outlining deep, and I have spent the morning doodling heraldic imagery I think we might be doing this? eventually?? no I have not been sleeping much. writing brain is too insistent on getting the words out.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Also! While I'm here, before the gross heat makes me retreat back into the shade of the writing cave: New birb painting! A Goldcrest this time, which is the tiniest bird I have ever seen. It weighs five grams. #art #birds

Acrylic painting of a goldcrest bird, sitting on a bundle of fir twigs. It has beige plumage, black and white wings, and a streak of yellow like a crown on the top of its head.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

well, 100 years ago was 12 years before my grandma was born, so. going with great grandparents. my great grandpa was an upholsterer. I think that would have been pretty neat. I like doing craft-y things. if we ARE going with grandma's job, I'd be a librarian, which would be even better.

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Kaden 🥩 Stranger Still - Out Now!🥩 @kadenramstack.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#KadenPlayed 125 Grimoire #SoloTTRPG by @annalandin.bsky.social This is a spellbook making game where you draw a hand of cards, and determine what spells you can make from the components! annalandin.itch.io/grimoire

Grimoire by Anna Landin Instruments: Cards, 1d6

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So, a funny thing has been happening this month. Every time I've sat down to work on some digital art, we've had power outtages. And I mean big, five-to-seven hour outtages that take out everything, including the cellphone network. I am beginning to think I'm cursed.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 18/07/2026

hi this is a really big deal. Chaco Canyon is one of the most important historical sites in North America. the area tribes are extremely opposed to this. please please please comment on this with the BLM. it takes two minutes.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sorry I fell off the internet for a month - I, uh, wrote a novel? Well, the first draft of one. And then 20k of an unrelated novel because why stop when you've got momentum. #art #writing www.patreon.com/annalandin/p...

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Not one but TWO #Patreon posts to round out the month! There are two of them, because I have painted enough birds to put them in a separate post of their own, and then do one for the digital art I've been chipping away at Y'all do like birds, right? #BirdArt #art www.patreon.com/posts/may-ro...

Acrylic painting of a black woodpecker. A medium-sized black bird with a patch of red feathers on its head and a long, yellow beak sits on a pale tree trunk. Its eye is yellow, and staring intensely. Its back is turned to the viewer, so you can see the detail of its black plumage.

Acrylic painting of a small group of long-tailed tits: three of them with completely white heads, one with the more common dark eyebrow stripe. They are small, round birds with black and brown wings and tail-feathers, and white chests and heads.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

when I was younger, we had a picture book about two kids went to a fairytale world, flying on log that had been transformed into a dragon. later the dragon turned back into a log, as a plot device to prevent the kids returning home whenever they wanted. I wept a river for that log-dragon.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

tom waits appearing to you in a dream to tell you he's made an incredible breakthrough and showing you a box with a bag of flour, a water bottle, a toaster oven and a hammer and calling it a "build your own crumbs kit"

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

culturally inconsistent naming traditions in fantasy fiction will never stop being funny to me. a thing I'm reading right now features: - Lisa - Oji - Nikki - Elrand - Xanthas - Randy - Katana - Arinberg Dirlassel Nant ... all from the same cultural origin.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sir David Attenborough turns 100 years old today, so to celebrate, I painted another fellow who is well into his old age - the Seychelles tortoise, Jonathan (194). Happy birthday! #art

An acrylic painting of an elderly giant tortoise, surrounded by peaches and peach blossoms, which are symbols of longevity.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

You like birds? Because I've painted some birds and posted them on #Patreon, if you like that sort of thing. Like this chaffinch, for example. Referenced from an RSPB photo that had no artist-credit, unfortunately. www.patreon.com/posts/april-... #art #birds

Acrylic painting of a chaffinch in mid-flight. It's a bird with a reddish-brown face and belly, and grey feathers on its back, wings and tail. Its wings are spread wide, showing the pale feathers underneath.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

it's kind of funny how Hironobu Sakaguchi is responsible for my favourite game of all time (FF9), but both times I've tried games he's made with his own Mistwalker studio (The Last Story, Fantasian) I've ended up dropping them both.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Tapped out of my Fantasian Neo Dimension playthrough at 40+ hours, because I realised I just did not care what happened next. it's one of those cases of a game made up of many good parts that simply fails to work as a whole.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

probably my small collection of animal skulls that I've found near my home. that, or the old 1910s photo album I bought at a yard sale once, filled with studio photographs of people I don't know.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

okay, new Tom Waits music in 2026 was NOT on my bingo card, but I'm very happy to be surprised by it

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Alejandra Pinal (commissions open) @alejandrapinal.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It is my birthday today! I come before the council to ask for a reposting of my art if possible 💚

A panoramic piece, done for the ttrpg "Legend in the Mist"

It depicts a crowd of villagers cheerfully marching into a dark chasm, one of them looking at the camera with a dark, dominated grin

A digital piece of art showcasing the inside of a spaceship cockpit, where a woman in practical clothing cleans a disassembled gun while facetiming with someone against the backdrop of a bright planet viewed from space

Piece done for London station

A series of character sketches.

One of them, a confident looking elf in fancy clothes smoking a cigarette.
A young woman holding an axe on her shoulder, smiling brightly at the sun.
A wizard with long hair making two quills float and write by themselves
Lastly, a couple of wizards, with gorgeous hair, reading and spending a moment of intimacy together

Character art done for the "City of Mist" TTRPG

It depicts a woman of Arab descent, in a dynamic, "pirate" style pose, with a window cleaning outfit, and a wind rose in the big

She is the rift of Sinbad

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I am two days into being 38, and so far so good. I've mostly been eating cookies, attempting and failing to sleep in late, and reading. My gifts this year were an absurd number of videogames, and two aprons I can use when I paint.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Hemlock, Warden of the Woods, burnt ashen by dragonfire, furious and vengeful - and far away from home. We finished character creation for our Legends in the Mist-campaign this week, and I'm looking forward to playing her! #Emberwrought #OCsky #LitM #art

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I am so stricken by the foul plague of pollen allergies that I seriously considered not getting out of bed this morning. the siren song of breakfast got me moving, but I might still change my mind

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

got up at 05.45 today, discovered I didn't *have* to get up at 05.45 today, and am now going back to bed until I'm ready for Easter to happen

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I woke up yesterday with a mildly sore throat, and it's not gone away yet so I'm chugging tea with honey and staring the possibility of a cold dead in the eye, daring it to fucking try anything. I've already been ill for most of 2026 so far, I do NOT have the time for this.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Somehow, despite everything, I have managed to make enough stuff this month for a #Patreon post! #art It's got a bird in it, and an angry faun, and some comics-covers. And some whining about ants. www.patreon.com/posts/march-...

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The Midnight Walk - Out now on Switch 2, PC & PS5! @moonhood.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🔥 Nintendo gamers! It’s time to embark on our dark fantasy adventure made entirely in real-life clay... and what-have-you. The Midnight Walk is OUT NOW on Switch 2 for $29.99!

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

how rarely do I use my scanner? well I just opened the lid to scan a thumbnail and found a sheet of paper in there with the rough sketches I made for my Goncharov illustration

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

shoutouts to the tiny spider who is aiding me in the fight against the ants invading my bedroom it has stacked at least ten ant corpses in a pile next to my bed, like a stack of tiny, grisly offerings. ... anyway I've been sleeping in the living room for the past week.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

thank you for the help, hobby ornithologists! the current best guess is piebald flycatcher. I'll have to keep an eye out and see if I can get a better look if it returns some day.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

dear bird-nerds of the internet. I spotted an unfamiliar bird in my garden earlier today, and I can't find it in my field guides. it flew away too quickly for me to get a good photo, so I drew a picture of roughly how it looked. can anyone tell what this might be? #art #birds

Coloured sketch of a small bird. It has a white chest and cheeks, and a black or brown beak, head, wings and tail-feathers.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

my favourite game-genre is JRPGs. even if I had time to play every day - which I don't: I have work to do and books to read - my current backlog would still take me actual years to finish. and if by the time I do, AI-slop is still the order of the day, *I can just play all of them again*.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

there would be a library in every forgotten little backwater town and village from here to the Three-Country Cairn, each of them with additional room for art studios, practise space for local bands and meeting places for study circles. And a nice café, with boardgames.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

first playtest GMing for 2026 done! ✨ because illness and general not-wanting-to-be-on-the-internet-ness delayed things happy to be back! happy to have my players finally uncover the torn-out, still beating heart in a box they've been carrying around! glad I could end on a spooky cliffhanger!

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

perhaps because I've read a lot of them, I can be very hard on unchallenging stories. I want plot! I want character arcs! I want conflict! I want interesting worlds! but if you put a cute talking cat in there you'll have me at hello I'll put up with a lot of mediocrity for a sufficiently cute cat

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We're in the back half of the original Macross now, and I can't believe "you have to make out in front of cameras while pop music plays" and "behold! a small baby!" are viable military strategies in space. #AnimeFriday

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I spoke too soon, because I followed up my flu with a bout of nausea that lasted several days, while I slept on the living room floor because ants invaded my bedroom. can I get a refund on 2026? I think mine is defective.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

started reading one of my new history books, and I'm glad I got it on discount, because the author keeps annoying me by handwaving the most complex and interesting bits of history so he can move on to summarising stuff badly. that is not how you're supposed to communicate history, my guy

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It feels weird to do this, considering the state of the timeline right now, but uh. I'm working on some pretty pictures you might like to see. #art #Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/end-of...

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It feels weird to do this, considering the state of the timeline right now, but uh. I'm working on some pretty pictures you might like to see. #art #Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/end-of...

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

for someone who has read approximately 3% of Dragon Ball, I have very strong opinions on Broly, the best boy. ... this has been your Anime Fridays update.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

February has been just one long miserable bout of flu, but today I got to buy a stack of history books on steep discount and ate enough Turkish food that I got home afterwards and passed right the fuck out so at least I'm wrapping up the month on a positive note

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