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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: [email protected] #art #comics

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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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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 4h

this is SO CUTE! 💜 and gosh what a fun merch idea

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1d

New #Patreon post! About the newest draft of Stave & Octant, my little worldbuilding game that's grown into a monster-sized baby. #ttrpg #gamedesign

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TTRPG Devlog #5: Stave & Octant update | Anna Landin

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1d

the fantasy puzzle mystery-solving story of a terrible genius and long-suffering ex street-rat smell like salt, hawthorn and dead leaves

... they'll be delivered sealed in plastic, for everyone's comfort

the fantasy-gothic pseudo-romance set in the aftermath of war smells like citrus and cinnamon

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 1d

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1d

New #Patreon post! About the newest draft of Stave & Octant, my little worldbuilding game that's grown into a monster-sized baby. #ttrpg #gamedesign

www.patreon.com/posts/ttrpg-...

TTRPG Devlog #5: Stave & Octant update | Anna Landin

Get more from Anna Landin on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1d

this is not the future we were promised and I, for one, am upset about it.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1d

they keep talking about this Ive-designed gadget, and they more they repeat it the less I believe it exists

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1d

Well 👏fucking 👏 done👏

a couple of anime characters standing next to each other with their mouths open . one of the characters has the number 5 on his shirt .

Alt: Three boys from the anime Haikyuu yelling excitedly

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1d

... scratch that, it's 65. I forgot a whole dang set of questions.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 1d

"I'll make a nice little worldbuilding game," I said. "A short, straightforward game with some illustrations," I said.

friends I just did the roughest of layout plans, and this little monster is going to be 63 pages if I let the Hubris Gremlin in my brain have as many illustrations as it wants

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 3d

Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!

A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)

The Apple-Tree Throne

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 3d

Happy fourth decade, Ty! 🎉🎉🎉

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 3d

there was a looming deadline, but also I was being paid peanuts - so I just hand-drew a somewhat wonky, non-vector version of it and called it good enough

she didn't complain, possibly because she didn't give much of a damn in general

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 3d

oh my god Dylan did I ever tell you about the time I was hired to do posters for some municipal event, and my client sent the *official municipal logo* to me

as a 200px wide, 72 dpi jpeg

and when I asked for a higher-res version, she sent *the same file a second time*

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 3d

those sound like good guesses!

I figure a beef-twister might work in food production in some capacity - in charge of looking after aging beef or something like that.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 3d

See I know "knocker-up" means your job was to wake people up in the morning before alarm clocks were a thing, but there are so many mysteries

what is a sand view and why do you need to make one. is "cow-banger" a joke answer or long-lost slang for something innocent. why do turnips need *shepherds*

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 4d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 4d

asdfjkdfgkjhl 😆

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 5d

all 104 card prompts written and with them, the writing of the second draft done! 🎉\o/ 🎉

now I just need to wrangle it all into a readable playtest document with some rough layouts and like. show it to some friends.

but before that: the rest of the evening off to read and have a snack

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 5d

I've really only read Fafhrd & Gray Mouser in the comic-adaptation put out by Dark Horse, and I think *one* of the short stories.

I really ought to read more of it.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 5d

it's some gunk going around for *sure*. and when that combines with me having put off a thing because it is scary for long enough that my brain has decided it is a *monster*, I feel all scritchy on the inside.

maybe I'll be able to get to the thing I need to do tomorrow.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 5d

definitely intentional, yes: I believe her design is closely modelled on the actual appearance of Erika Ishii, the actor who voices her.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 5d

corvids are great! we've got a bunch of jackdaws and magpies living around here, and a handful of crows - and a whole nest of ravens in the abandoned limestone mine outside of town.

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 5d

if you run too fast, she knocks herself out by smashing her unrestrained boobs into her own chin

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 5d

it is the most bland, uninspired and kinda wonky-looking version of what a hot ninja girl could look like, yeah

Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 5d

yes I am posting a lot to procrastinate finishing the second draft of my game

which I'm focused on to anxiously avoid something else

it's all squirrels upstairs today

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