Dana Berube
@dana-berube
Boston-based SFF writer, artist, Mongolia enthusiast! [she/her] Repped by @benglishhh.bsky.social
I had a feeling these two would make for an excellent double-feature about humanity’s relationship with animals and nomadism/pastoralism, particularly in a modern (and specifically post-Communist) world, and I was 100% right. Great, mind-expanding reads for this city gal @songsforhorses.com
I've had this painting, a Koryo Studios collab with Pyongyang artists, in every office I've ever worked in because it delights me so much. Now that my new job is fully remote, I wish I could get a real print so I could hang it up in my apartment! Anyway, enjoy! koryostudio.com/blog/office-...
Are you still collecting photos of your lovely book in the wild? Seen in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA!
Couldn't resist drawing Cas in THAT shirt from ep1 of #TheVampireLestat #TVL #artsky
This extremely good flintlock fantasy series that draws on real-world cultures ended with a hint that in Book 3 we’ll be seeing “the Tenger Empire” LET’S FUCKING GOOOO
More Kerry lewks, because playing around with how he melds the specific flavor of masculinity that is Boston Guy with also trying to be as visibly queer as possible is extremely fun to write and draw (if his tattoos change every time I draw them, shhh, no they don't) #artsky #digitalart
Happy Pride from my boys! 🏳️🌈 Fun fact: an unwise purple dyejob during Pride is canonically the reason why Kerry's hair is so jacked up for the entirety of the book #artsky
This book gave me so many feelings I had to draw tonally inappropriate silly fanart about it!! We love our foreign language full immersion study abroad program all-time champion Ro!!!
All my apologies to her royal highness, but my friend showed me a photo of what their coworker's Persian looks like with a lioncut and I immediately lost control of my hands. #dcc #princessdonut
These are so fun. Illustrations of various scenes from when I first wrote a book about Sei and co as a kid. I remember being so proud of these!
Found some old sketchbooks while helping clear out stuff at my parents' house. Sei and Letetlei from 1999!!
Sorry for the terrible photo, but “bombastic bazooka of complex inferiority” and “wide-hipped” are my two new favorite descriptions of Trump HAHAHAH (from THE WORLD: A FAMILY HISTORY by Simon Sebag Montefiore)
@aptshadow.bsky.social has once again knocked my socks off with this series! This one ruled. 🐸 Also, we stan Yasnic/Jack, the Forrest Gump of the Palleseen Sway
Making good progress on the Metro Boston Indie Bookstore Crawl! Narrative in Davis really brought their stamp A-game @portersqbooks.bsky.social
New painting: Still Life With Two Friends, starring Tsukiji, the whale shark I got at the Osaka Aquarium 🥰 #artsky
This is what’s know as a Massachusetts Average amount of Polar seltzers to have in your home
A flood of good books coming out this spring, but my physical TBR looks like this (we will not speak of my ebook TBR)