Presumably, in some parallel universe ( #hellyeahspacepuns ), it is entirely possible to love The Illuminae Files for the plot alone, completely setting aside its utter, groundbreaking artistic brilliance. Alas, this is not said universe. This is where art and literary magnificence marry and comingle and enjoy equ…

Fan art is amazing - and don't let anybody tell you otherwise ( and boy, will they ever try )! We can rhapsodize about our favorite things all day long (a nd boy, do we ever try! ), but eventually we run out of ways of expressing the depth of our emotion when it comes to a series. Along came fan art. Presumab…

Letting go of a beloved book is no meager task. So, more often than not, I advocate foregoing the experience altogether. (Cling to that book! Cling to it!) In late spring of this year, we were bombarded with a slew of anticipated releases in the YA community: Cassandra Clare's Lady Midnight , Morgan Matson…

"Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all." In these bookish/fantasy corners of the internet, A Court of Thorns and Roses  needs no introduction. Especially not from us. Sarah J. Maas's series sent us shrieking and scrambling for Tumblr and analyses and re-r…

"She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one." - Heir of Fire Fan art is a study in contrasts. The series that inspire us enough to create are the series we hopelessly adore. And the series we hopelessly adore are the series we feel no one person and no one visual medium can ever d…

Last year, we have advocated for author appreciation through fan art . Creativity, we reasoned, breeds creativity. What inspired our favorite authors to pen their favorite pieces in turn inspires us. And sometimes - at times like these - this inspiration takes many forms as it changes hands. From the initial, insubst…

Earlier I published a piece about author appreciation and fanart . In this day and age, there are precious few things I take as much pleasure in as combining two of my greatest passions - art and literature - and all in an effort to give back to those whose words never fail to leave me inspired and moved, and whose w…