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Richard H. Fay Artist and Illustrator
@richardhfay-artist.bsky.social
Published sci-fi, fantasy, and horror artist and illustrator Multi-genre print-on-demand artist, designer, and photographer www.zazzle.com/mbr/238607540283613365
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One character, three drawings! Red-haired Earthling girl having adventures with various alien friends. "Telling Tales" (Apr 2015 Spaceports & Spidersilk), "Scootering with the Wind Riders" (Jul 2016 Spaceports & Spidersilk), "Visiting the Pool of the Piptrixons"(Jul 2019 Spaceports & Spidersilk).

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I could certainly use more kindness than last time I was on this platform. I'd love civility and sanity.

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My prose fiction has been compared to the works of Lord Dunsany, Sheridan Le Fanu, and M. R. James. Of course, that might be why it's a hard sell today, but those who get that my short stories harken back to a time when beauty of language was important appreciate my prose. #writing#prosefiction

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky#Books#BookChallenge#Day1

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Halloween Poem "Gathering of the Dead". Background digital manipulation of Fort in Knocknagranshy by Walkergw obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Background Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...#poem#poetry

Gathering of the Dead

by Richard H. Fay

Never gaze upon the rath
On a cool November's Eve,
For there wandering souls meet
Beneath a bright Hunter's Moon.
Grey wraiths gather amongst stones
Marking ancient pagan graves
While wan spirits dart about
Glimmering a corpse-light glow.
Murmured voices chant strange words
Forgotten by living men.

Never set foot upon grass
Barely bent by ghostly feet,
For fey gasts hate intrusions
Into their phantasmal fete.
Free from prying mortal eyes,
Tattered lads reel hand-in-hand
With filmy spectral lasses
While impish harpers play tunes
Sweet as lost love remembered,
Soft as a doomed man's last breath.

Never enter that fell dance,
Though seduced by glamour’s charms,
For embittered shades steal life
Deftly drawn into their midst.
Ice cold hands bruise naked flesh,
Spreading fatal corruption.
Dusty kiss chokes plaintive cry
As soul parts from withered corpse
And gathers with fellow dead
On a chill All Hallows’ Eve.

(Originally published in Tales from the Moonlit Path, Halloween Issue, October 2009)
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Look at this! Another art share! OK, artists, you know what to do — share your art in the quote posted thread! #art#artists#artshare

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Thanks! Here are my latest works: "Abstract Platforms, Pillars, and Circles", "Nordic Protection from Witchcraft or Witch's Knot", "Magic Potion in Mazer and Chalice Combo", "Blinded Polyphemus". #art#illustrations#artist#artshare

In this abstract artwork, an orange circle sits between three yellow pillars standing on a square or rectangular base, while a red and soft red circle sit upon a triangular platform atop the pillars.
This apotropaic symbol/design supposedly protects against witchcraft, negativity, and evil. This version also features the colors gold, turquoise, red, and blue, considered protective in various cultures.
A jeweled cup that combines a chalice and medieval-style wooden drinking bowl, or mazer, contains a multi-colored fuming magic potion in this fantasy illustration by Richard H. Fay.
This illustration by Richard H. Fay depicts the most famous Cyclops of ancient Greek myth, the savage man-eating Polyphemus, after he was blinded by Odysseus.
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I truly believe Musk hates artists and other creatives and goes out of his way to stifle the posts of artists and other creatives on Twitter/X. I know for a fact some of his Elon Bros think artists are nothing but parasites — a few have come out and called me a "parasite" for being an artist.

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I truly believe Musk hates artists and other creatives and goes out of his way to stifle the posts of artists and other creatives on Twitter/X. I know for a fact some of his Elon Bros think artists are nothing but parasites — a few have come out and called me a "parasite" for being an artist.

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Richard H. Fay Artist and Illustrator
@richardhfay-artist.bsky.social
Published sci-fi, fantasy, and horror artist and illustrator Multi-genre print-on-demand artist, designer, and photographer www.zazzle.com/mbr/238607540283613365
26 followers50 following82 posts