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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you Tina! Endlessly kind of you to say!

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 16h

✨🍂It's #portfolioday up on Goblin Hill! 🍂✨

Artwork from the distant driftless include book covers & illustration for the discerning client looking for textured, rich, and liminal works for their #fantasybooks, #tabletopgames, #cards, and #characterart!

Title: The Lighting Dogs of Tornado Alley

An illustration of a power line pole, three coyote faced figures are lounging on the cables and power boxes, looking down at the viewer. A bolt of lightning streaks behind them in the background. the figures' eyes are glowing.

Cover image: an elaborate landscape illustration of the Midwestern prairie. Papercut scrollwork frames the title of the book.

Text: Goblin Hill

Image: a perspective drawing of a long low rambling residence built in the prairie style. It is perched on a hilltop in rural Wisconsin and built of stone, stucco, and cedar. The house is wrapped around a hilltop on three sides, terminating in a short tower. The broad roof shelters many windows, porches, and enclosed balconies.

Text: N P C

Image: a skeleton in decaying motley is seated against a dank stone wall in a deep dungeon. The floor is cobbled stone and beside him is a rickety cloth and pole sign advertising various wares for sale. The skeleton raises a single shining coin. The text bubble below him reads:
RATTLING AGGIE
"Ah! Brave traveller! We've descended quite far have we not? Do not fear my visage, I still have wares to sell thee if you've coin or rot to spare!"

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 9h

These guys cling to it as if bloodline is the most important thing and it's like... are you polishing up the ole family crest buddy? What's your legacy buddy? A start-up idea and a used kia sorento? They're chuds.

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Marcus Jernberger @marcus-jernberger.bsky.social · 12h

Hey Hey #portfolioday
I'm Marcus, a Swedish illustrator, children's books author and general draftsman.
Looking for work in storytelling or culture, or just drawing in general.
marcusjernberger.myportfolio.com

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Andrés L. Mignucci @andreslmignucci.bsky.social · 12h

Ah, #PortfolioDay! We meet again.

I'm Andrés, an illustrator, character designer, and concept artist who loves creatures, real and fictional, extant and extinct!

📭 [email protected]
🌎 andreslmignucciart.myportfolio.com
📷 instagram.com/andresmignuc...

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 16h

✨🍂It's #portfolioday up on Goblin Hill! 🍂✨

Artwork from the distant driftless include book covers & illustration for the discerning client looking for textured, rich, and liminal works for their #fantasybooks, #tabletopgames, #cards, and #characterart!

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 5d

𝔓𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔉𝔦𝔫𝔨𝔰

From "Hearth Spirits and Kitchen Bogles" in An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.

Text: Pantry Finks

Image: an illustration of three squat winged gremlin-like creatures perched on a single old kitchen chair. One is crouched atop the chair, one on its arm, and another beneath the chair, crawling through its spindled legs. The bottom-most imp reaches for a loose spool of thread.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 10d

𝕹 𝕻 𝕮

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 1d

From 'Something in the Woods Loves You', by Jarod K. Anderson.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 1d

In the minds of many Americans, we traded ‘the pursuit of happiness’ for ‘fend off desperation’ long ago. Settling for such grim motivations feels like an absolute failure of imagination for creatures who are natural crafters of meaning, for creatures who need whimsy and ritual to thrive.”

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 1d

They aren’t working in pursuit of something. They are working avoidance of something. For many, especially those without the safety nets of robust support systems of family wealth, that’s the nature of our society.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 1d

“When I talk to my peers about work, a majority of them tell me they work to avoid consequences. Unpaid bills. Loss of healthcare. Homelessness. Endless other variations on that theme.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · Nov 14

"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."

— Arthur Machen, The Hill of Dreams

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

You nailed it!

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 2d

Taurus: You will have the opportunity to exact a terrible vengeance. Take it. Treat yourself.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely gorgeous, the whole thread! Love your line sensibilities!

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Yuming Li @yumingart.bsky.social · 3d

Mystic

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 2d

"It's pronounced weiner-slave."

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 21d

𝔅𝔢𝔶𝔬𝔫𝔡 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔦𝔢𝔩𝔡𝔰 𝔚𝔢 𝔎𝔫𝔬𝔴🍂
An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.

A compendium of the supernatural creatures, forces, and genius loci of the American Midwest, from Up On Goblin Hill.

Exclusive first-looks now appearing on my patreon!
patreon.com/upongoblinhill

Photo: a brown leather scrapbook, square and worn at the edges. Embossed on its cover is the crest of Goblin Hill; a small pointed shield supported by tangles of ivy.
A piece of paper bearing the legend "Beyond The Fields We Know, An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits." is attached to the cover by wax seal.

Interior image of the Alamanac showing its scrapbooked elements of paper and illustration, stained by age and water damage.

Interior image illustration of the Lightning Dogs of Tornado Alley.

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Ami Thompson @amithompson.bsky.social · 3d

My Limited Edition OC Book is finally here! It will be available at LightBox Expo, Patreon, and Gallery Nucleus at a later date.

This book is for mature eyes only ⚢🫦