mossy

@dragonlike.bsky.social

37 Followers 79 Following

I suppose I exist. She/They, aroace, autistic, Peruana, certainly very human

Cover of A Story A Story, An African Tale Retold and Illustrated by Gail E. Haley. The background is a vibrant green, with darker green used to illustrate trees and plants. In the foreground is a small crowd of people in colorful clothing with varying patterns. They look upward and to the left, where the edge of a spiderweb can be seen, attached to the ground and leading upwards.
Cover of the updated edition Hamlet by William Shakespeare from Folger Shakespeare Library with notes. The cover is a textured light blue, with a blotch of red and white in the bottom left corner.
Cover of The Call to Shakabaz by Amy Wachspress. From bottom to top, painted strokes of blue green yellow and red make up the background. To the top right is a blotchy sun of yellow with a layer of green. The blue outlines of four figures travel forward in a line towards the sun.
Cover of Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill. To the left if an intricate spear with a braid of red hair attached to and winding around it. The background shows the blue outline of a person atop a horse and holding a spear. A pale sunrise behind them.
Cover of A Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. A nearly see through leaf sits upon a light green background. The empty outline of a bird in flight cuts through it.
Cover of How to Defeat A Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe. A blond figure in a green tunic stands with their back to the viewer on a cliff. In the distance are a flooded temple to the left, buildings built into massive trees to the right, and an ominous castle under a thundercloud with red lighting striking down. Music notes cross the image, seeming to emanate from the standing figure.
Cover of Princess the Hopeful: A Storytelling Game of Fighting Fear; this specifically being the Vocation edition. A girl wearing a strange and elaborate armor like outfit in green, white, and orange stands in an archway. Her hands behind her, she carries a silvery bow almost as long as she is tall, and a quiver of arrows on her back. She looks forwards with a smile into the darkness beyond the archway, light shining in from behind her.
Cover of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. The background is the blurry profile of face, the details hard to make out. The foreground has the book's title in a white semicircle to the right, and author's name in a rectangle to the bottom left. Connecting the two shapes is a small moon.
Cover of The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. A girl in an orange dress sits against a tree to the right, blond hair blowing behind her. In the foreground is the edge of a lake, with a group of white birds on and near the water. In the distance is a path leading up a hill to a castle. The whole image is overlaid with a cracked paint effect.
Cover of Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins. A yellow and green hued underground cityscape, with high peaked towers resembling stone formations.
Cover of Blades in the Dark by John Harper. A sinister hooded figure wielding a dagger in each hand seems to appear out the black background; defined by the negative space around them, they're visible only by reflection of light off their jacket and eyes.
Cover of Wondla by Tony Diterlizzi. A circle showing a starry sky upon a light blue background. At the top of the circle is the face of a girl, her hair in two low buns with braids at the sides. She gazes upward win wonder, one hand holding an odd device shaped like a magnifying glass. To the bottom left is a blue being with a pronounced snout, and longer bits of fur along their chin and narrow neck. To the bottom right is a large being with dark fur, a sinister looking smile, and small arms in comparison to their bearlike body. At the bottom of the circle is the head of a robot, with wide eyes and two ovular hear protrusions resembling buns. Vines creep along the edge of the circle.
Cover of Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. A young woman with short hair leaps towards stylized swirling mists, face unseen. She is clad in a long gown and petticoat, barefoot, with dark gray strips of cloth from her mistcloak twining around her and billowing out from her back as if they were wings. To the bottom of the illustration are the snarling faces of angry men, their heads shaved and intricate tattoos around their blank eyes.
Cover of Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. A woman with sharp features and chin length bob cut gazes at the viewer with yellow eyes. Behind her is the side profile of a doberman, decorated with glowing green geometric patterns; small neon hummingbirds flit around it. The background is a turquoise and red neon circle, also consisting of intricate patterns. Behind it all one can see hints of city lights and fog.
Cover of Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. A person stands with her back to the viewer and head turned to look over her shoulder and one hand raised towards her face. She wears a high necked black bodysuit with intricate metallic detailing. Diamond shaped detailing layered along her back up to her shoulders resembles a spinal cord. Her hair is in an in intricate updo, multiple hair sticks made to resemble wings adorn her bun. A pair enormous of wings coming from the left of the image seem to be reaching out to surround her. The wings are flame like, more red on the outer parts with a warm yellow glow towards the center.
Cover of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. A young woman with short red hair wears skull face paint, aviator glasses, and black clothing. She wields a sword in her right hand and appears to be walking forward towards the viewer. Behind her is a black starry sky and broken, wailing skeletons.
Cover of Tatterhood and Other Tales, edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps with illustrations by Pamela Baldwin Ford. A woman wearing a tattered hood and dress rides upon the back of a white goat, wielding a wooden spoon as a weapon as the goat tramples about. Surrounding them are three squat figures dressed in green. They have tails, large feet, claws and pointed ears. They appear to be trying to attack the riding woman, but end up cowering beneath the might of her goat and spoon arm.
Cover of Fablehaven by Brandon Mull. Through a doorway an old woman with unkempt white hair wearing rags sits upon a stump; she has her back turned to the viewer, looking over her shoulder with a smile while holding a knot of rope. Around the outer edges are colorful fairies gazing towards her. The entire cover is a green hue.
Cover of Alana The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce. A redheaded youth in a yellow tunic grips a sword in one hand and pets the nose of a horse with the other while gazing off to the side.