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Anna Landin
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(she/her) Artist/storyteller/ttrpg designer. Eat the rich.
✨ Patreon http://patreon.com/annalandin
✨ Artstation http://artstation.com/annalandin
✨ Games on itchio http://annalandin.itch.io
✨ Email: anna.m.landin@gmail.com

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · Jul 1
Comic creator, freelance artist, storyteller, character designer, ttrpg creator. Find me and my stuff on on:

✨ Patreon patreon.com/annalandin
✨ Games on itchio annalandin.itch.io
✨ Artstation artstation.com/annalandin

#art #comics #ttrpg
Cover for the character design artbook Silkpunk, by Anna Landin. Five characters in wearing outfits inspired by traditional Chinese fashion cover one half of the cover, with a brightly lit temple-like building and a full moon in the background. Cover illustration for the comic The Care and Feeding of Monsters by Anna Landin. Two men - one dressed in an apron and the other in many layers of black and grey - surrounded by a bunch of delicious-looking food. Cover illustration for the tabletop roleplaying game Dust of the Traveled Road by Anna Landin. Three figures in fantastical outfits, painted in bright, warm shades of yellow, orange and red, against a dark indigo blue background. A character sheet illustration for a character named Silas Cormorant. He's a grey-skinned, wiry-looking elf dressed in what looks like hand-me-down pieces of several different outfits. He's got a ragged coat and a long scarf. Next to him are details of his belongings: an ornate dagger, a battered notebook, a ragged pouch on a belt, and so on.
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the only downside of having spent some of my cold reading a bunch of Poirot is that now my writer-brain is thinking in the cadence of a early 20th century mystery novel, and I might have to write one just to get it to stop
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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To celebrate my rejoining the land of people capable of breathing through their nostrils - here, have a #TTRPG devlog! It's got pictures in it that I scribbled this afternoon, and also one from a childrens book from 1975 that I read thirty years ago. #art

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TTRPG Devlog #7: Blackbirds+S&O Layouts | Anna Landin
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November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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If you like horror games from a different point of view, you have GOT to check this game out. Incredibly easy to pick up, endlessly replayable, and it's got a terrific expansion included! annalandin.itch.io/something-is...
Something Is Wrong With This House by Anna Landin, GalacticJonah
a nightmare tug of war
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November 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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this sounds *incredible*, I hope you had a lot of fun!
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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sneezing like a mostly off-screen anime character someone keeps thinking about

the podcast outline has footnotes and the beginning of a research plan now, and the novel nobody will read ticked past 11,000 words and is still going

I'm going to need more tea.
annalandin.bsky.social Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 8d
I have a cold. Not a terrible one, but enough to make me feel, as the kids say*, ämlig**

It makes it difficult to draw. So my brain has decided that NOW is a good time to outline+script a history podcast I may not ever make, and worldbuild and begin writing a novel I will never share with anyone.
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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2025 has been a *year*, and so my actual treat for myself is Whittard's tea calendar. All black teas, which is nice, because I'm mildly allergic to rooibos and that seems to be everywhere these days.

in an ideal world, there would be advent calendars filled with antique books and knicknacks
clairewillett.bsky.social Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8d
everything is bonkers right now and we need a timeline cleanse. let’s play a game. if I handed you a blank check but you could ONLY spend it on an Advent calendar, what absurdly pricy collection of little treats are you buying yourself?
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I have a cold. Not a terrible one, but enough to make me feel, as the kids say*, ämlig**

It makes it difficult to draw. So my brain has decided that NOW is a good time to outline+script a history podcast I may not ever make, and worldbuild and begin writing a novel I will never share with anyone.
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Happy anniversary to the best game of all time*! I can't believe it's been 25 whole years since I first watched my son Vivi first wander down the main street of Alexandria. 💜

*) this is objective fact, obviously, and can't be argued with.

#art
Illustration of all eight main characters of Final Fantasy 9, to celebrate the game's 25th birthday.
July 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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not appreciating the way my body is giving me two separate and unrelated ailments at once right now, it's really messing with my plans

but at least the sore throat keeps me from talking quite so much, which is appreciated by my cats, who otherwise have to listen to me spout spontaneous lectures
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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we're a handful or episodes into the original Macross, and Hikaru is the most impressively useless main character I've come across in a *while*.

the only thing the guy's got going for him is that he's sorta good at flying, and that is IT
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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my work week so far has consisted of me doing a watercolour painting of a baby, and spending an hour sculpting toes on a rabbit

never let it be said that my work is not diverse in subject
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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update from the trenches of the war for the local library:

- the new location will have no internal walls enclosing the library (for?? reasons??)
- the blueprint for the new location got re-drawn a few weeks ago
- our municipal chief got interviewed on the national news and looked like a buffoon
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Y'know it's nice to log onto the godforsaken internet and find a crop of good news for once

keep it up, please
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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New month! New plans! #Patreon plans, even!

Getting by as an artist is only getting harder by the day in this era of generated garbage and global economic wobbling. Adopt an artist today and do your part for the cultural eco system. #art #comics

www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...
A summarising comic where the artist presents her plans for November. These plans include a new episode of the webcomic The Care and Feeding of Monsters, a bonus recipe comic, traditional art in the form of paintings and sculpture, and work put into her two ongoing tabletop roleplaying game projects, Blackbirds, and Stave and Octant.
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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there's a "most artists are working poor" post floating around and I would like to say that yes, yes we are

I don't open my annual retiremend fund update letter any more because I know doing so would make me scream into my own hands endlessly

please consider feeding me so I can continue making art
annalandin.bsky.social Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 15d
New month! New plans! #Patreon plans, even!

Getting by as an artist is only getting harder by the day in this era of generated garbage and global economic wobbling. Adopt an artist today and do your part for the cultural eco system. #art #comics

www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...
A summarising comic where the artist presents her plans for November. These plans include a new episode of the webcomic The Care and Feeding of Monsters, a bonus recipe comic, traditional art in the form of paintings and sculpture, and work put into her two ongoing tabletop roleplaying game projects, Blackbirds, and Stave and Octant.
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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New month! New plans! #Patreon plans, even!

Getting by as an artist is only getting harder by the day in this era of generated garbage and global economic wobbling. Adopt an artist today and do your part for the cultural eco system. #art #comics

www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...
A summarising comic where the artist presents her plans for November. These plans include a new episode of the webcomic The Care and Feeding of Monsters, a bonus recipe comic, traditional art in the form of paintings and sculpture, and work put into her two ongoing tabletop roleplaying game projects, Blackbirds, and Stave and Octant.
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Secondly - a new #TTRPG devlog on my Weird West PbtA game! In which we discuss the first playtest session, and genre-emulation and prescriptive mechanics. www.patreon.com/posts/142416...
TTRPG Devlog #6: Blackbirds playtests | Anna Landin
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October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Speaking of #Patreon posts - I've got several of them today, as I catch up on stuff I promised to post this month.

First up - new #sculpture project! it's another fantastical creature, but more complicated this time. www.patreon.com/posts/new-sc... #art
New sculpture project: Skvader | Anna Landin
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October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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New #FeedingOfMonsters episode! A wild Raith appears - and my personal potato agenda strikes again (I love potatoes: they're the best staple food).

You can read the archive on #Patreon: www.patreon.com/collection/6...

#art #comics
Comic page 1 of 4. Panel 1: Noah steps out of the grocery store. A cat watches from atop a crate of asparagus. Panel 2: Noah carries his bags up a hill out of town. Panel 3: Noah looks through the rusted iron gates and up an uneven path into the darkened woods. Panel 4: Noah looks exhausted. Panel 5: Noah begins to walk into the dark woods, slumped over and clearly tired before he's even begun. Comic page 2 of 4. Panel 1: Noah steps over a fallen log, looking tired and uncertain. Panel 2: Noah holds up one aching hand and says "Oof, that hurts!". Panel 3: A voice in a black and jagged speech bubble speaks to Noah from off-panel, scaring him. Panel 4: A terrified Noah looks over his shoulder. Panel 5: Raith emerges from the dark of the forest, his clothing ragged and shadows cast over most of his body. Comic page 3 of 4. Panel 1: Noah says "Oh, it's only you" and no longer looks scared. Raith steps out of the woods, and says "Hurt?". Panel 2: Noah holds up his aching hand and explains. "My hands. The bags are pretty heavy." Panel 3: Close up of Raith looking a bit unimpressed. Most of his sharp teeth are showing, and says "Heavy", repeating a part of what Noah just told him. Panel 4: Noah, looking at his raised hands, now suddenly empty. Panel 5: Noah turns and looks at Raith, who is now carrying the bags and vanishing off to one side of the panel. He says "Uh, I can at least carry one of them." Raith replies "No. Heavy." Panel 6: Noah catching up to Raith, who asks "What kind of food is it?". Noah says "Oh, lots of stuff. The heaviest stuff is the potatoes, I think." Panel 7: Close up of Raith's face. He looks very confused. Comic page 4 of 4. Panel 1: Noah looking a little confused, gesturing as he explains. "You know, potatoes? You dig them up and eat them?" Raith leans into the panel, eyebrows raised, asking "Are they tasty?". Panel 2: Noah, a little shocked, gesturing with one hand. "Of course they're tasty! They're potatoes!" Panel 3: Large panel covering more than half the page, showing Noah and Raith coming out of the woods and approaching the house they live in. The porch is a dark shape in the foreground. Noah says "You seriously haven't had potatoes before now? They're a staple!" Raith asks "Stapler?". Noah replies "No, a STAPLE. Like a basic food!" Raith says "I want to eat a stapled potato."
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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and now I'm going to go take a nap, because it turns out it takes several days to fix a 36-hour dent in your sleep schedule
October 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Speaking of #Patreon posts - I've got several of them today, as I catch up on stuff I promised to post this month.

First up - new #sculpture project! it's another fantastical creature, but more complicated this time. www.patreon.com/posts/new-sc... #art
New sculpture project: Skvader | Anna Landin
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October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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New #FeedingOfMonsters episode! A wild Raith appears - and my personal potato agenda strikes again (I love potatoes: they're the best staple food).

You can read the archive on #Patreon: www.patreon.com/collection/6...

#art #comics
Comic page 1 of 4. Panel 1: Noah steps out of the grocery store. A cat watches from atop a crate of asparagus. Panel 2: Noah carries his bags up a hill out of town. Panel 3: Noah looks through the rusted iron gates and up an uneven path into the darkened woods. Panel 4: Noah looks exhausted. Panel 5: Noah begins to walk into the dark woods, slumped over and clearly tired before he's even begun. Comic page 2 of 4. Panel 1: Noah steps over a fallen log, looking tired and uncertain. Panel 2: Noah holds up one aching hand and says "Oof, that hurts!". Panel 3: A voice in a black and jagged speech bubble speaks to Noah from off-panel, scaring him. Panel 4: A terrified Noah looks over his shoulder. Panel 5: Raith emerges from the dark of the forest, his clothing ragged and shadows cast over most of his body. Comic page 3 of 4. Panel 1: Noah says "Oh, it's only you" and no longer looks scared. Raith steps out of the woods, and says "Hurt?". Panel 2: Noah holds up his aching hand and explains. "My hands. The bags are pretty heavy." Panel 3: Close up of Raith looking a bit unimpressed. Most of his sharp teeth are showing, and says "Heavy", repeating a part of what Noah just told him. Panel 4: Noah, looking at his raised hands, now suddenly empty. Panel 5: Noah turns and looks at Raith, who is now carrying the bags and vanishing off to one side of the panel. He says "Uh, I can at least carry one of them." Raith replies "No. Heavy." Panel 6: Noah catching up to Raith, who asks "What kind of food is it?". Noah says "Oh, lots of stuff. The heaviest stuff is the potatoes, I think." Panel 7: Close up of Raith's face. He looks very confused. Comic page 4 of 4. Panel 1: Noah looking a little confused, gesturing as he explains. "You know, potatoes? You dig them up and eat them?" Raith leans into the panel, eyebrows raised, asking "Are they tasty?". Panel 2: Noah, a little shocked, gesturing with one hand. "Of course they're tasty! They're potatoes!" Panel 3: Large panel covering more than half the page, showing Noah and Raith coming out of the woods and approaching the house they live in. The porch is a dark shape in the foreground. Noah says "You seriously haven't had potatoes before now? They're a staple!" Raith asks "Stapler?". Noah replies "No, a STAPLE. Like a basic food!" Raith says "I want to eat a stapled potato."
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I don't know jack about baseball, but I think if they make it to 20 innings, they should start playing by Calvinball rules.
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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the downside of having a night of lost sleep is that it keeps fucking you up for days afterwards.

especially when you combine it with DST changes and having to get up at 6am for early morning appointments.
annalandin.bsky.social Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 25d
due to cat problems (solved now), my brain went full No Sleep Only Stress mode, meaning I've slept approximately 3 hours since yesterday morning.

I wish my brain wouldn't do that.

on the bright side, reading to distract myself means I've gotten through three webnovels in two days.
October 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM