The sculpture as a whole is AMAZING -- related to a particular kabuki performance where they would actually remove the gold mask to reveal the full face during intermission. Very Veyadi-core.

This week on #FinishUrBookFall, I present to you the mood board for Veyadi, moodiest of board-erline anxious breakdown-havers

(YOU try being half of a resurrected AI divinity while the world debates going to war first with you or itself!! YOU do it! He will PAY you to do it!!)

i feel like the rest of the internet deserves to know what evils Tumblr is committing upon its userbase in collaboration with Netflix.

behold: a screenshot of the tumblr dashboard. yes, the clown is on every dash. no, you do not opt in. no, you cannot make it leave.

Return of the Jedi was probably my favorite of the original trilogy growing up -- and the fireworks at Endor are probably foundational to why I still love fireworks today.

Getting to reach for them through none other than Wedge "Two Death Stars" Antilles in FACPOV was a real gift of gifts.

I've written TWO

Star Wars: Ronin is about a renegade Sith trying to answer for the legacy of his mistakes (like what if Anakin Skywalker had an "i fucked up" epiphany AFTER betraying the Jedi Order)

The Archive Undying is divine AIs, mecha, body autonomy problems, and fraught queer romance

OH! ANOTHER THING TODAY.

I was interviewed by @arleysorg.bsky.social for Clarkesworld! Arley asked some truly incredible questions.

And please go give him some love and a salute today of all days.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/candon_interview/

EYYY GUESS WHO GOT TO WRITE THEIR BLORBO

Wedge Antilles crawled into my brain when I was but a teen and has lived somewhere in the rafters ever since. Getting to write him alongside @suzusaur.bsky.social's Norra Wexley (his future wife, for the uninitiated), was beyond special.

Me and my buddy this weekend

Some plot stuff too 5/5

The totally chill themes 4/5

THE UNIMPEACHABLY NORMAL PROTAGONIST 3/5

THE UNIMPEACHABLY NORMAL CAST 2/5

TECHNICALLY this is book promo

but also it's a shitpost that is a love letter to me from my wife about my book so hey enjoy. she's funnier than i am and also perfect. 1/5

then there's STAR WARS: RONIN which oh my fuuucking god just look at that

Kotaro Chiba does such shockingly delightful shit with flattened aesthetic, bound up in the lineage of Japanese art and history, and it's so wholly perfect for Visions as a whole and this project in specific

i have been blessed with cover art that hits like a kick in the teeth!!

The Archive Undying's cover was wrought by Sung Choi, who's done a ton of concept art -- i have gazed upon his Destiny work for hours bc it's actually super good Downworld Sequence vibes

I was gonna wait until getting back home to start dropping cat pics but it turns out I miss them. Here’s half the herd: Pigeon (left, genuinely dumbest animal I’ve ever met) and Lazer Ted (right, most pathetic con artist)

Come. Come. We feed.

i became bad at computer abt five years ago so this is really truly the best i can do until someone explains how the bsky header works

right cool okay hi intros

I'm Emma Mieko Candon, author of...

🗡️⛩️STAR WARS VISIONS: RONIN (star wars through the lens of japanese history and folklore + disaster queers)⛩️🗡️

🦴🤖🌿THE ARCHIVE UNDYING (feral mecha + divine cities + failed attempts to assassinate god + disaster queers)🌿🤖🦴