Meet the Artist: @nooskadraws

Greetings! I’m Aleksander (he/him), also known as nooska, and I’m a trans gay illustrator from the U.K. Historical fiction, fashion, and fantasy are my cup of tea. I’m currently working on my first ever graphic novel entitled “Ancestree” set to be published by Oni Press: a queer Victorian gothic tale filled with plant ghosts. My hope for my art is to draw more beautiful trans people with inspiration drawn from my Belarusian upbringing and its folklore. When not making art, I can be found curled in an armchair reading, taking a nature walk in the hope of being found by the Fey, or rolling dice with friends.

Pleased to meet you, Aleksander! Check out some of the art he has picked out to feature below.

For more of Aleksander’s work, head over to his Tumblr, @nooskadraws, and give it a follow!

👻🎩🍂AUTUMN HAS COME EARLY! 🍂🎩👻

i’m delighted to announce that ANCESTREE my queer gothic original graphic novel will be out in 2025 from Oni Press! ✨🌿🌸🍵

✅ gay prince and trans fairy romance

✅ plant ghosts

✅ help, this house is built on secrets and they’re leaking

August 2022 Deal Announcements

August 2022 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Marquette University professor of English B. Pladek’s DRY LAND, set at the cusp of America’s involvement in World War I, when a young queer forester discovers an uncanny gift for growing plants, seemingly from nothing, to Dennis Lloyd at University of Wisconsin Press, for publication in fall 2023, by Brenna English-Loeb at Transatlantic Literary Agency (world English). Mark…

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Still basking in the bliss of RIZE THE PEOPLE days later elated on the love shared & positive energy expressed by all. @ancestree played same show at the same place exactly a year ago yet the whole vibe evolved and transformed into a next level growth experience that inspired all. Give thanks to @nattalirize for the care, curation and coordination with Paradise Gardens. It’s truly an honor to perform as @ancestree and combine intentions in such a powerful space. Big ups Minori Music & @kingivier all the players, performers, collaborators and contributors. Give thanks for the people who filled the place with love especially @eyesofjem for capturing these moments an excellent artist & photographer. Stay blessed #rastacruz ❤️💛💚#roots #community #collaboration #creation #concious #lionheart #onelove #smileygreen #bass #ancestree #underground #givethanks #family #friendship #unity #dancehall #irie https://www.instagram.com/p/CjYD2N2rtdB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The ancestral tree, or ancestree

This sounds like something one of Nathan's younger siblings would say right before Uncle Ivar cuffs them upside the ear.

Character idea: a banana that was picked from its tree and magically transformed into a man. All he wants is to find his bunch and return to his ancesTREE.

His name is Mewangohome.

Covet chapters 52-55

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Chapter 52

AncesTREE

I had to see this and so do you. 

And now I’m the one standing, openmouthed in wonderment, as Giant City is finally revealed.

Chapter 52 summary: Grace communicates with a tree for two fucking pages. That’s it! That’s the entire goddamned chapter!!

Chapter 53

I look around at my friends, all of whom look as in awe of this city as I am. “We ask someone,” I answer as I tug his hand and head straight for the guardhouse.

Chapter 53 summary: Grace somehow opened the gate to the giant city, and the group of them stands there and ooh and awe over the entire thing. This is also the entire chapter. 

Chapter 54

And turn to see one of the most gorgeous girls I have ever seen walking toward us. That she is also nearly twelve feet tall despite only being twelve or thirteen years old only makes her beauty more obvious and her excitement inescapable.

Chapter 54 summary: They walk up to the guard house, where a guard has a slingshot with a boulder “as big as Grace” aimed at them. He wants to know why they’re there, and won’t let them through unless they have an appointment with somebody. Eventually, Hudson, Jaxon, and Flint say that they’re royalty, and wish to speak with the giant royalty. 

Some calls are made, and the group is made to wait until this is sorted out. Finally, they say that since they know what the others are, but not Grace, they won’t let them in until they learn what Grace is. 

Chapter 55

We’d just assumed the Blacksmith was his name, like with a capital B. How foolish I feel now as I realize that’s not his name at all; it’s just his profession. The Bloodletter told us to find the blacksmith who made the cuff—not the Blacksmith.

I’m sorry, but why the hell would you think that “blacksmith” was a name, and not an occupation?

“I’m so sorry, son, but the blacksmith who made these original cuffs hasn’t been seen in centuries.” Which is the last thing any of us wants to hear.

Chapter 55 summary: As they’re waiting there, a girl named Erym shows up. I guess she’s some kind of giant princess. Anyway, she’s really excited that something has finally happened in the town, and she greets all of them eagerly. Especially Grace, if only because gargoyles have been thought to be extinct. 

Erym shows them around the town a little, and tells them that they’ll stay with her parents overnight. And that there’s to be a feast in their honor tonight. 

As they go, they pass by a shop selling cauldrons. Macy gasps out that by “giant” they don’t mean the size, but rather, by who made them. They all stop and watch as the cauldrons are made, and the giant who runs the shop explains a little about the magic that they put into each one. 

Finally, Hudson asks the lady if there are any who specialise in cuffs. She laughs and tells him to be more specific, since half of the giants there are blacksmiths. He then spins a tale about the anti-magic cuff he’s been wearing since he came back. But the lady says that the giant who made all of the magic cuffs disappeared a long time ago. 

Acyl CoA dehydrogenase Caused Regression of Renal and Hepatic Growths Caused by Crizotinib

Most rights set-aside.The lately printed quinoxaline/thiophene-based polymer TQ1 continues to be revised in the acceptor unit, either changing the actual acceptor energy which includes a pyridopyrazine, replacement of the acceptor-hydrogens simply by fluorine, as well as alternative in the alkoxy side sequence simply by alkyl. The changes within actual, digital along with system attributes are talked about. To the polymers including the more powerful acceptors a low overall performance is located, wherein the two cases the present in the gadgets is actually sacrificed. Increase of the pyridopyrazine-based acceptor seems to bring about more severe or even additional reduction components when compared to the plastic that includes the actual fluorine atoms. An identical executing materials are received any time changing the actual alkoxy aspect string throughout TQ1 to a alkyl, the location where the solar cell efficiency is mainly improved upon about the fill factor. It can be demonstrated that the typical TQ1 framework is well changed in many approaches, exhibiting the flexibility and also robustness in the regular TQ1 framework and functionality #Link# . (h) The coming year Elsevier N.V. All rights set-aside.Luo & Tsai (The coming year, Biometrika) presented the particular proportionate likelihood percentage design. They offered a great iterative protocol for your calculate in the standard syndication function but did not establish their unity. Ideas give a proof unity.Motivation: Genetics sequencing regarding several examples from your identical tumor offers info to research the entire process of clonal development within the population regarding cells that provides go up to some tumour. Results: We formalize the situation regarding reconstructing the clonal evolution of your growth utilizing single-nucleotide variations because the different allele rate of recurrence (VAF) factorization issue. We all get #Link# any combinatorial portrayal with the methods to this problem and show that the problem is NP-complete. We get the integer straight line programming means to fix the VAF factorization trouble in the the event of error-free files and also lengthen this particular solution to true data with a probabilistic product pertaining to errors. The ensuing AncesTree protocol is much better capable of #Link# discover ancestral relationships between particular person variations compared to current techniques, especially in ultra-deep sequencing files while higher go through counts regarding strains produce high confidence VAFs.Ponatinib (AP24534) had been identified as any pan-BCR-ABL inhibitor that potently inhibits the T315I gatekeeper mutant, and it has advanced directly into scientific improvement for the refractory as well as resilient CML. On this review, many of us investigated a singular series of several and 6 membered monocycles since alternate hinge-binding templates to exchange the Half a dozen,5-fused imidazopyridazine central regarding ponatinib. Such as ponatinib, these kind of monocycles are usually tethered for you to pendant toluanilides by using an ethynyl linker. Numerous compounds within this string shown excellent in vitro potency against each ancient BCR-ABL and also the T315I mutant. Especially, a part regarding inhibitors showed desired PK and had been orally productive inside a mouse style of T315I-driven CML. (D) 2011 Elsevier Limited.

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Explore Past Generations in 'Ancestree' from Calliope Games

One of a trio of new Calliope Games titles arriving on the scene around the same time is an interesting looking tile drafting game where players will look to build a family tree.

Ancestree: A Game of Genealogy

Ancestree: A Game of Genealogy

When I was a child I pushed to search my lineage. I have always been curious as to who was in my family. Many questions have been answered but many questions still remain.

Luckily my aunt Toni, who I am really grateful to for giving me so much information over the years, on my mother’s side of the family & my late great-aunt Juanita on my father’s side did genealogy.

If you want to have fun…

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the non-fiction books i read in 2023

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Wednesday, 7th February, 2018

Just ten thousand years ago: ~ Research reveals ...

We once were ‘brown’! -

Whoever ‘We’ may be -

“First modern Britons”?

“Dark to black.”

Now that’s some ancestree!

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Plus DNA says “curly hair”,

Along with “eyes of blue”:

A pretty challenging, heady mix...

Of facts we never knew!