Hari Conner

A photo of the achievements section of Night at the Vampire Castle, that include "Help kill a billionaire" and "Make friends with a dog"

@haridraws.bsky.social it’s arrived! Excited to play it to unlock these achievements 😁

reminder that you can be the gentlest, kindest person--you can dedicate your life to protecting the planet!--and still keep a little list of people you fucking hate. it's okay to be angry! anger is a symptom of giving a shit!

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

An illustration of two lesbian ghosts dancing. The left hand ghost wears a 1760s silk sack gown, the right hand wears an early 1500s style gown with puffed sleeves and a short cape with feathered beret. They are both blue and translucent. They are in a heavily wooded and overgrown graveyard, a lone candle burning with a blue flame sits on top of a slab grave beneath them. The illustrated border shows as follows: On top, clasping carved stone hands emerging from yew branches with berries. To the sides: tin lanterns with candles burning, carved stone hourglasses & carved stone broken columns. Beneath: Vaults based upon the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery flanked by trees.

💀The Ghostly Galliard💀

pencil sketches of several figuines with attached keys. one, labelled 3, is a very tall figure with no arms, a long neck and small head, covered in nails with keys hung on them, and loops of rope with keys attached. the other figures are smaller figurines, each not much larger than the key they hold. they are labells 4a-4f. 3. A plague-marker from the streets of the Charnel Quarter, Iull City. These ominous figures, some standing over a storey tall, were set to guard areas of the city which had been struck by plague. Charnel-coroners would take the keys to houses struck by the plague, after locking the building up securely, and fix them to the plague-marker. The house woud then be regarded as a tomb, and could not be disturbed or entered. Look up at the tall plague-marker and its hundreds of keys. Could it fit through your front door? 4. Various key-guardians associated with burial hoards of the Vellum Age. These small figurines all have keys attached to them, and were beleived to act as protectors of the treasures interred with the body. Though several of the keys fit kists or reliquaries found nearby in the tomb, some have no evident lock, and are beleived to have a more symbolic purpose, protecting the riches buried alongside the deceased, as well as more generally protecting the soul of the deceased themself. They were usually situated very close to the body, often clasped in the hand. What precious thing do you think these creatures are guarding? What would you lock away?

#Objectober 2: Key! I have drawn several keys today.

aaah incredible, I'm so excited!!

Announcement dropped! So excited about this ✨

If you make comics in the UK, fill this in.

I'm really hoping for a better future for our industry but we need information about how the heck we're all surviving currently in order to change it.

Hari Conner's review of Flip 5/5: Wow!!! I devoured this in one sitting. This author's comics are just so readable, and this one's probably the most conceptually ambitious, and my new favourite. The acknowledgements talk about th...

this is a book review thread now bc I've read some bangers recently

Flip was EVEN better than I expected tbh, SO compelling & ambitious and made me emotional!!
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
(due to my personal interests/issues I also need you to know it contains one(1) aubrey/maturin panel)

ugh god - hope the storm passes by as non-awfully as possible, look after yourself

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#books

#art

graphic for the drawing prompt challenge #Objectober. text reads: Objectober A drawing challenge of THINGS Prompts 1. cup 2. key 3. cutlery 4. toy 5. brush 6. sharp 7. soft 8. wheel 9. weight 10. worn 11. crown 12. lamp 13. tool 14. loud 15. orb the image is decorated with drawings of everyday objects (clothes peg, scissors, stool, beaker, lamp, spoon, pull along toy) with little arms and legs.

graphic showing the rules of the challenge. test reads: rules: • make some art about objects! Any kind, style and interpretation is good! If you’re stuck, there are some bonus challenges to give you some ideas. • You do not have to hit all the prompts. Take it easy! • using reference is encouraged! Using AI references is NOT. I made a list of some handy reference sites I found, which you’re welcome to use: toadrefs.carrd.co

graphic titled "Bonus Challenges" text reads: Stuck for inspiration? Try these! • Draw each object being held or used • Each object is found in the room or pack of a single character. What story do they tell? • Each object is a museum exhibit. What do they tell us about the people that made them? • Draw each object broken • Combine two prompts and draw an object that works as both make the objects into little creatures use real objects to design a character a pencil and a hairbriush, both with little legs, decorate the image.

I'm trying out a wee drawing challenge for October! #Objectober is a v chill challenge designed to make drawing inanimate objects fun and also to broaden our use of reference!
if you take part I'd love to see your work!
also I made a website for reference resources: toadrefs.carrd.co

I know if it's within your brain this might not really help but jsyk - I personally do feel great about your art, am always delighted to see it, and think nobody is doing it like you

⚠️ I'm looking for lettering work! I specialise in handdrawn bubbles and can also edit lettering in your anthologies to give them a more professional, cohesive finish. As well as Quindrie Press, past clients include Webtoon, Shortbox, and Discord Comics!

⚡ Contact & portfolio: evegwood.com/lettering

Carved in Stone A storyteller's guide to Pictland. Available now for pre-order!

I wrote a massive TTRPG setting guide encyclopaedia about the ancient Scotland and the Picts who lived in it. It covers everything scholars currently know about life in the 7th century, from landscapes to kingdoms to faith, magic, settlements, and so much more.

Check it out!
carvedinstone.scot

this is huge! what a great resource!

Hari Conner's review of Trans History 5/5: I truly believe everyone’s world will be richer with an understanding of trans history. When ideas of gender are subconsciously deeply-integrated into all aspects of your society, it's revealing ...

this book is extremely good

"I truly believe everyone’s world will be richer with an understanding of trans history... this is an incredibly accessible, thoughtful, easy to read explanation on the subject - even if you're totally new to it"
Full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

this is the problem with posting non-work thoughts, many of my non-work thoughts are things like ‘ow’ ‘oughhh’ ‘AAAAA’

Doing a low amount of activity and ME/CFS cranking up the dial for ‘all symptoms’

Is ME like scurvy opening up old wounds dyou think. because i stood up a bit today and now it’s not only that I can’t move, but also I’m being plagued by old ailments. Gland pain and fever-symptoms w no temperature. The knee that was vaguely hurting last month is now stabbing pains

three screenshots, one of an article titled 'today's vampire love is all about cringe losers', one an Astarion tweet reading 'being a vampire is less about drinking blood and more about the gay theatrics', and one is a tumblr post by whumping-valentine reading 'I love you vampires. I love you gothic cemeteries. I love you romantic cannibalism. I love you ravens and bats. I love you dark religious imagery. I love you autumn. I love you thunderstorms and rain. I love you My Chemical Romance. I love you bite marks. I love you forests. I love you victorian era aesthetics. I love you blood loss. I love you cannibalism as a metaphor for gender dysphoria/ body dysmorphia. I LOVE YOU VAMPIRES'

My new choose-your-own-romance book Night at the Vampire Castle is out now in the US AND UK 🩸 Here's some important pics from my inspiration folder to give you a vibe

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I haven’t stuck mine yet but I did consider using for advertising

a sketchbook drawing of casimir from Night at the vampire castle sat on the floor reading. Off-panel, August asks 'are you BENDING THE PAGES BACK?' He says 'It's just a cheap paperback... bookbinding is nothing like it was 100 years ago.' August replies 'I've changed my mind, you really are a monster.'

releasing some 'vampire who just wants to read and brood in peace' sketches from the patreon vaults. This is Casimir from Night at the Vampire Castle, my new book that, as you may have heard, just came out this week

Photo of a textless comic in a magazine. It depicts a small boy with a speechbuble made of scribbles over him as he struggles to explain himself. But upon visiting a library and reading some comics he is able to pour his thought scribbles into a comic. The final panel depicts the boy grown up, selling his comics at a convention.

A photo of the front cover of Booklists magazine

I have a comic in the latest issue of Booklist's, a tribute to how much comics helped me as a dyslexic kid with lots of ideas but who struggled reading traditional books or articulating my thoughts. Comics told me there was another way!

Tigers...

There’s one week left to grab yourself something new to read in the SAPPHIC SEPTEMBER queer book sale at Proud Geek.

Get 10% off all sapphic books, graphic novels and manga at proud-geek.co.uk/sale (ends September 30th).

#booksky

I guess technically all 8 romanceable characters are playersexual / schrodinger's bisexual (otherwise the book would have limited options or be unprintably long.) but if you're reading and in your heart you're like 'that's a lesbian' then that's your right obviously, far be it from me etc