Leslie Hudson
@lesliehudson.bsky.social
Singer songwriter, pianist, storyteller, recording artist & touring musician. Deep loves: folklore, poisonous plants, wolves, crows, Star Trek. They/them, queer, autistic, poly, enby, hedgewitch & sonic alchemist. https://lesliehudson.com
To you too, my friend! I hope tosee you next summer on your home turf 🧡
October 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
To you too, my friend! I hope tosee you next summer on your home turf 🧡
YES. This is also why I'm about to take a 6 month hiatus from most platforms that I use. I just cannot think straight anymore.
I am an artist. I am here on this planet to make art, not content.
I am an artist. I am here on this planet to make art, not content.
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
YES. This is also why I'm about to take a 6 month hiatus from most platforms that I use. I just cannot think straight anymore.
I am an artist. I am here on this planet to make art, not content.
I am an artist. I am here on this planet to make art, not content.
based in turn on 'Sun-Maid and Dragon-Prince' in Apples of Immortality: Folktales of Armenia (LA: UofCA Press, 1968) collected & translated by Leon Surmelian
October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
based in turn on 'Sun-Maid and Dragon-Prince' in Apples of Immortality: Folktales of Armenia (LA: UofCA Press, 1968) collected & translated by Leon Surmelian
📚 sources
Based on the story 'Sun-Girl and Dragon-Prince’ in the children's collection The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000) as retold by Katrin Tchana, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman...
Based on the story 'Sun-Girl and Dragon-Prince’ in the children's collection The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000) as retold by Katrin Tchana, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman...
October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
📚 sources
Based on the story 'Sun-Girl and Dragon-Prince’ in the children's collection The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000) as retold by Katrin Tchana, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman...
Based on the story 'Sun-Girl and Dragon-Prince’ in the children's collection The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000) as retold by Katrin Tchana, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman...
Arevhat decides to search for a cure by walking to the end of the earth. She returns, lifts the curse, and man & land are restored. She is finally located by her monster-prince-turned husband, who asks her to come home. She gladly accepts, leaving her child to be raised by his father.
October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Arevhat decides to search for a cure by walking to the end of the earth. She returns, lifts the curse, and man & land are restored. She is finally located by her monster-prince-turned husband, who asks her to come home. She gladly accepts, leaving her child to be raised by his father.
Enraged by her good fortune, her step-mother tries to drown her in a river but she survives until she can climb ashore. Having walked through the endless desert, one day she meets a man who cannot look at the sun and lives in darkness. Their friendship develops and they have a child together...
October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Enraged by her good fortune, her step-mother tries to drown her in a river but she survives until she can climb ashore. Having walked through the endless desert, one day she meets a man who cannot look at the sun and lives in darkness. Their friendship develops and they have a child together...
🔎 origin
Armenian
📖 story
Arevhat meets a woman who changes her life forever when she transforms her hair so it shines like the sun. Out into the world she goes, only to be stolen and fed to a monster. Her kindness melts his heart and he falls in love with her, turning back into a prince...
Armenian
📖 story
Arevhat meets a woman who changes her life forever when she transforms her hair so it shines like the sun. Out into the world she goes, only to be stolen and fed to a monster. Her kindness melts his heart and he falls in love with her, turning back into a prince...
October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
🔎 origin
Armenian
📖 story
Arevhat meets a woman who changes her life forever when she transforms her hair so it shines like the sun. Out into the world she goes, only to be stolen and fed to a monster. Her kindness melts his heart and he falls in love with her, turning back into a prince...
Armenian
📖 story
Arevhat meets a woman who changes her life forever when she transforms her hair so it shines like the sun. Out into the world she goes, only to be stolen and fed to a monster. Her kindness melts his heart and he falls in love with her, turning back into a prince...
I love your art, Beckett!
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I love your art, Beckett!
Li Chi is a young woman from 4th c Chinese legend who stood up to power and saved her people from the tyranny of unjust rule and the complicity of wealth.
She had a sword, a dog, and some sticky rice balls. With them she slayed a monster.
She had a sword, a dog, and some sticky rice balls. With them she slayed a monster.
October 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Li Chi is a young woman from 4th c Chinese legend who stood up to power and saved her people from the tyranny of unjust rule and the complicity of wealth.
She had a sword, a dog, and some sticky rice balls. With them she slayed a monster.
She had a sword, a dog, and some sticky rice balls. With them she slayed a monster.
📚 sources
Based on the story ‘The Serpent Slayer’ in children's collection The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000) as retold by Katrin Tchana, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; originally recorded by Gan Bao in the 4th c Jin dynastic collection Soushen Ji
Based on the story ‘The Serpent Slayer’ in children's collection The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000) as retold by Katrin Tchana, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; originally recorded by Gan Bao in the 4th c Jin dynastic collection Soushen Ji
October 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
📚 sources
Based on the story ‘The Serpent Slayer’ in children's collection The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000) as retold by Katrin Tchana, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; originally recorded by Gan Bao in the 4th c Jin dynastic collection Soushen Ji
Based on the story ‘The Serpent Slayer’ in children's collection The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000) as retold by Katrin Tchana, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; originally recorded by Gan Bao in the 4th c Jin dynastic collection Soushen Ji
🔎 origin
Chinese
📖 story
Li Chi volunteers to be the annual sacrifice to a local serpent in order to protect her community. Armed with a sword, a dog, and some sticky rice balls she slays the monster and frees the village, bringing the bones of all those who died before her back to their families.
Chinese
📖 story
Li Chi volunteers to be the annual sacrifice to a local serpent in order to protect her community. Armed with a sword, a dog, and some sticky rice balls she slays the monster and frees the village, bringing the bones of all those who died before her back to their families.
October 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🔎 origin
Chinese
📖 story
Li Chi volunteers to be the annual sacrifice to a local serpent in order to protect her community. Armed with a sword, a dog, and some sticky rice balls she slays the monster and frees the village, bringing the bones of all those who died before her back to their families.
Chinese
📖 story
Li Chi volunteers to be the annual sacrifice to a local serpent in order to protect her community. Armed with a sword, a dog, and some sticky rice balls she slays the monster and frees the village, bringing the bones of all those who died before her back to their families.