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Val Freire is FAR-EVILER

Builder of Worlds. Mixer of Drinks. Teller of Tales. Breaker of Limbs. Wielder of Colors. Maker of Runes. Fixer of Stuffs. Thanks for asking and you? =D

ABOUT ME

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December
far-eviler:
“. #shadowhunterarmy looking dashing af @barnesandnoble queen of air & darkness book launch. union square ➰🖤➰. (at Barnes & Noble)
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it’s a rare &...

far-eviler:

. #shadowhunterarmy looking dashing af @barnesandnoble queen of air & darkness book launch. union square ➰🖤➰. (at Barnes & Noble)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq_V1nWA-XH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fid9zkh3zelx

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it’s a rare &  always remarkable thing to talk to fans. thanks to each & everyone  that shared your stories & tears. it means the world to me. 

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September
Asker Avatar Anonymous asked:

hey! i’m a super huge fan of “the mortal instruments” series and one of the things that got me super hooked was your rune designs in “the shadow hunters codex”. i was hoping to get one of the rune designs tattooed later this year (courage in combat to be precise) and i wanted to know if i can go through with it and if yes, how to go about doing it. i would kill to get your permission for something like this that means so much to me! <3

Hey, I’m a huge fan of you (always good to hear from Anon)! I’m flattered as eff that my runes got you hooked on Shadowhunters. Hate to break it to you but I don’t think there’s a remedy for that. Since early days @cassandraclare​ & my s’elf made it a focused effort to create solid visual for the TMI world. Her incredible trust and generosity left me enough room to not just smash together a bunch of pretty nonsensical swirls but to make a tangible language that millions have responded to. As a tattooist, I felt responsible to make sure gibberish never went on peoples’ bodies, since then I’ve been blessed to hear shared stories with countless others on what these precious and precise things mean to them. It was not easy work on the first few, creating and learning along the way but it was worth every anxious step and tireless night.

Years later, creating newer ones came easier, were more fun and meant more with each set. “Courage in Combat” means the most to me. It’s a weird thing to have something so private also so public and it’s the one I’m proudest of when I see shared. So, it kill you… just to honor me with being part of your story? uhh…

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I will never say no to this question !!! meaning I’ll always say yes to this question!!

Firstly; Altho I’m certain you do Anon, as a piece of advice for any reading and because I know there are wrong versions floating around (Pinterest/Google Image Search) make sure the image you want to get tattooed…

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…is the rune you would want to get Tattooed. Double and triple check that. Or even run it past a friend. OR check with an expert!✌

(as long as people aren’t trying to make a buck off my work, I’m happy as a kitty on cracknip to say share it)

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And Then: 1) I suggestion you find a decent shop. 2) Ask if you can look through the portfolio book of some of the artists there. I prefer to do this in person instead of on-line because I’d like to see if I get along with the person. If you click with the artist, book some time and settle in to make a connection of a lifetime.

True Fact; getting a tattoo (especially your first) can be a really intimate experience. A really big part of my job in the first few months of working in my friends’ shop was just hand holding. Putting clients at ease came first and then taking designs requests. It was the best, well the start of the best work experience of my life.

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Also; The other suggestion I have is ask friends who’ve got tats. Maybe they have a recommendations for you. Chances are if they’ve got good or bad experiences and they’ll talk to you about it, at length.

Lastly;  give it time. Best advice I ever got was from the guy who apprenticed me. Pick a piece, hold onto it for 6 months or 6 weeks even. If you still feel like you love this piece as much as you did on day one than it’s meant to live on your body. Its simple advice but if I hadn’t listened I’d be covered head-to-toe in awful 90′s-00′s band-motifs and cover-ups of cover-ups of band motifs. But to speak in plain cliche’s “Tattoos are Addicting” but “Your Body is a Temple.”

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There were times I spent crying tears of fury in the autoclave room because I couldn’t deal with how horrible some stories were or sad pieces were we had been paid to cover-up. To this day, I’m still terribly adamant on preventing bad tattoos, bad tattooists and dedicated to promoting the good stuffs! Even now, Tattoo Fixers on E4 is one of my go-to shows when I need comfort, it’s hella nostalgic for me… in a bittersweet way.

There is a list of reasons why @cassandraclare​ & I work well together, but if I had to guess why it works best… it would be because when the opportunity comes we jump at the chance. For me, I can’t stand the idea someone might step into this role who’d care for the people & culture one iota less than would be worthy. Those wrapped up and entrusting themselves to the Shadowhunter world deserve the best or at least our best effort.

All the stories are true… or have truth in them to be sure and this short, red-head with a bad temper would kick anyone’s ass who’d poorly mark/mutilate a fan for the sake of enfranchisement, profit or just for the s‘cause. However y’all come along, you’re Beautificus as you are and if it’d make you contented to get marked up I’d be happy to have y’all marked up… and I’d be happy to fuck up anyone who cock that up leftwise!

Anyone and everyone who wants to get runes tatted on them DO EET!! Take photos, share it, tag me or just send it via e-mail, I’d lurv to see it!

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Maybe you can tell but I love talking about tattooing. It’s a thing. Have an awesome, AWESOME experience! You’ve got my blessing and brightest thoughts, Anon… all the Anons 💞

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August

Completing the Quest: An Interview with Elfquest’s Wendy and Richard Pini

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for the evening crowd: I interviewed the creators of #ElfQuest, with an assist from @far_eviler – we talk going digital, harassment, and how Richard Pini saved Skywise from a romantic death!

Hey bb, ¡¡¡( •̀ ᴗ •́ )و!!!

(Source: womenwriteaboutcomics.com)

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August
Asker Avatar Anonymous asked:

Do you have an instagram page?

https://instagram.com/far_eviler

sure, wherein I upload inconsistently ‘cause I’ve no idea what life expects of me & no idea what to expect of the world…

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Imagine if I were an artist or something & had any insight at all! What would that look like?【・_・?】

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August
far-eviler:
“  wishuponthenightskies:
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“ siavahdainthemoon:
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When you decide you no longer want be upset about having your name removed from the rune/tattoo art you’ve worked close to 8+ years on because you’d rather acknowledge it’s just feckin’ pretty.

Wait wait @far-eviler I haven’t been watching the show, just reblogging gifsets, but are you not being credited + paid for them using your art?!

yep, @siavahdainthemoon  pretty much. ¯\_(⌣̯̀⌣́)_/¯

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it more than ruffled my feathers previously but at this point I feel too apathetic to be upset. I can’t even get it up anymore about they’re cannibalizing my runes to create ‘their own’. I remind myself, at least this makes fans happy, that makes me happy. The End.

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…but on a truly happier note, they do not have licence to use the 40 new runes➰ •̀.̫•́✧.

What the heck?! Can’t you like… idk get legal action? Or talk to @cassandraclare idk but that is some fucking bull right there. Fans should band together and refuse to support this show until you are properly compensated for your art. This is like that bullshit argument that exposure is somehow valuable to artists when it doesn’t pay the bills.

I’d like my name…

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I know it’s hard to pronounce/spell but even the film made a little room for it toward the end. If the show continues not to… I guess I can understand why.

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I love the work, I love the fans and I encourage the fans to love whatever they want to. Without restraint. Maybe it’s my chronic cynicism but I think there is more to get out of rare-pair gifsets than boycotts/petitions these days.

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If there was a stir-up about everything there would be nothing good left. I want to get something good out of it. As it is I watch the show through gifsets so that I only see the joy of it. I get to only watch people’s happy responses. It isn’t fun for me to sit through another hokey plot with contrived visual pieces. And it doesn’t make sense and it isn’t healthy to willingly open the door to, well, unfunness in life. Especially when fans do cross-over gifsets with other shows like @teenwolf! With quality better than the source material, boundless love and imagination that rivals that of @cassandraclare herself… I gotta admit, considering all this ish, life without fandom’s loving-ness would not be worthwhile.

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Finally.

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July
Asker Avatar Anonymous asked:

If you had to get one of the runes tattooed onto yourself, which would you choose and where would you put it?

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  • A} the only Rune created entirely for selfish design – most Runes were suggested or specifically requested. This I felt I needed. the “Fearless” Rune always rubbed me raw, fears an essential thing. it emboldens our temperaments and we’re ignorant without it. “Courage” is the will of actions we take within the scope of fear. imho
  • II} (if ever, IF, then) incorporated into a backpiece I’m still imagining.
  • 3} and I’ve yet to see one I’ve like as much as the very 1st sketched. – ℂ𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟 ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕓𝕒𝕥

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July
Collecting Runes sounds like a great pastime! I wholly encourage it—that’s why I’m sorry to say those innumerable alt!runes won’t see the light of a scanner. Means loads you care so much, totally worth the effort to make but I guess you’ll love these...

Collecting Runes sounds like a great pastime! I wholly encourage it—that’s why I’m sorry to say those innumerable alt!runes won’t see the light of a scanner. Means loads you care so much, totally worth the effort to make but I guess you’ll love these more in absentia.💗

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June

@hitrecord & ubisoft games — Beyond Good and Evil 2

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in 10yrs, I’ve worked steadfastly with 2 peoples, Cassandra Clare & HitRecord. with Cassie I’ve had a specified audience, an individualized vision & pinpointed artistic expression that is fascinating & challenging. with HitRecord.org I’ve had a broad audience & take part in mind-blowing collaborative collective. 

Last year, at around this time I was proud to pimp out Cassie’s new line Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices).

Now, I’m proud to pimp out the hug news! @hitrecord‘s will be partnering w/Ubisoft, by inviting artists + fans around the world would get the chance to help make the game “Beyond Good and Evil 2” —  #BGE2 here: https://www.hitrecord.org/bgegame #UbiE3 #E32018

I hope to see you there! 

(Source: hitrecord.org)

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May
.*screaming with pride*. 👻🤟🏼✨ CONGRATUWELLDONE @dothemantaray on the impending nuptials my v. bestest bruv from another muth. see❕ wondrous things are there when least expect it. like the next strange flavor of bacardi or stranger to be your life...

.*screaming with pride*. 👻🤟🏼✨ CONGRATUWELLDONE @dothemantaray on the impending nuptials my v. bestest bruv from another muth. see❕ wondrous things are there when least expect it. like the next strange flavor of bacardi or stranger to be your life partner. @dothemantaray i’m babbling with joy. salud, you goon 💋🍾🍸 (at Sugar Land, Texas)

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March

Endometriosis Surgery

blorfff:

[My sister started a campaign for me. As some of you know from posts and personally talking to me I’ve been going through something for a quite a while. Please read my story, share and/or donate. Anything helps, much appreciated and thank you.]

If you’ve enjoyed my work in comics from my books like Return of the Living Deadpool, 1872, and others please share, thank you ❤️ -Nik

Updated Message from Mike Hawthorne peeps;

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Get on it!!ლζ*♡ε♡*ζლ

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January

cassandraclare:

I heard a rumor that Sherrilyn Kenyon is no longer suing you for plagiarism or copyright infringement or whatever. Is that true? Is the court case over? I keep thinking that if it was, it would have been covered more in news outlets. -[redacted]

Okay. Let’s walk through this.

Are you being sued for plagiarism?

I am not, no.

I heard Sherrilyn Kenyon accused you of copyright infringement/plagiarism?

She did initially, yes, but then she dropped those claims.

When did she drop them?

Almost two years ago. May 31, 2016.

Why did she drop the claims?

You’d have to ask her. I would guess it was because almost all of her specific claims referred to material in books she hadn’t published yet at the time my books were published. Claims about things happening to characters in books she published in 2010 that I supposedly ripped off in City of Bones in 2007. That kind of thing.

 In most cases copyright infringement is kind of muddy and the merit of the claims has to go before a judge to be decided, but there are a couple of exceptions to that. One of them is the question of “access” – did the alleged infringer have access to the material they allegedly infringed: i.e. could they have read it/seen it/heard it? In this case, since I only move forward in time like everyone else, I didn’t have access to books published in 2009 or 2010 when I was writing City of Bones in 2005. That’s straightforward business with no complicated judgment call needed. So before anything had happened with this lawsuit in an actual court, Kenyon’s team withdrew the entire copyright claim in full, leaving only a complicated trademark complaint regarding the title of the TV show and the design of my covers.

That’s weird. 

I go into detail below. Read on! Keep in mind 2007 is a significant date here because all three of the first TMI books had been turned in to my publisher by then.

So, wait, if Kenyon dropped the copyright claim isn’t that the big deal thing? The plagiarism thing?

Yes, I’d like to think so. Trademark claims are about branding and packaging, which by and large isn’t even up to me as regards my books. (Publishers do that.) There’s nothing in this lawsuit anymore that even slightly refers to the contents of my books, and I care about my reputation for integrity as a writer far more than I care about my publisher’s branding strategy.

That said, it is of course horrible to be sued — it is a horrendous process that upends your entire life; it is destructive to your work, your family, your finances, your friends, and your sanity. 

Have you read Kenyon’s books or met her?

I have never read any of her books. I have never met her or communicated directly with her in any way. 

So what’s the problem?

The problem is no one knows that the copyright infringement claims were dropped, and when I see it mentioned, it’s always stated as a fact that I’m being sued for plagiarism or copyright infringement. And I am not. This hasn’t been anything but a trademark lawsuit for a year and a half now. And this doesn’t just turn up in Internet gossip — it turned up in a poorly researched article in Forbes, for instance. This is an accusation I have to live with despite the claim having been withdrawn.

Why didn’t I hear about this?

Because of the way the copyright claim was withdrawn. Let me walk you through this.

When Kenyon filed her initial complaint/suit, it included an “Exhibit” that broke down a long list of elements, characters, and ideas in her books that she claimed had been copied in my books, and what material from my books was supposedly “the same” as her material.

(First of all, let me point out that while this document was riddled with inaccuracies and errors, it never, at any point, claimed that any direct text from Kenyon’s books was copied into my own. Kenyon has never claimed that — to do so would require providing examples of the plagiarism, and there are none. Whereas claiming copyright infringement is much muddier. The claim merely requires that you feel you have been copied. For instance, a woman once sued Stephen King claiming he had broken into her house and stolen her diaries so he could base a character on her. Her evidence was that she felt that that was true, and nothing prevented her from filing that suit. Anyway, though many people are confused between the two, the Kenyon complaint did not levy an accusation of “plagiarism” — she claimed “copyright infringement” because plagiarism refers to the copying of exact passages of words and nothing else. A claim of plagiarism requires proof to file a suit; a claim of copyright infringement requires proof to win a suit but not to file it. They are not the same.)

The initial complaint was a shock to me, since I’d never read any of her books (and still haven’t), and have no familiarity with their characters or world or anything about them. Upon reading the complaint, however, I noted that a number of claims about what happened in my own books were inaccurate. For instance, the exhibit claimed that  Valentine was a demon, that Amatis was a shape-shifter who was in trouble for breaking “shape-shifter code”, that the Shadowhunters were a highly technological society (while true in the TV show, in the books, the Shadowhunters are specifically anti-technology), that Isabelle’s eyes were hazel. And so on. Because of this, my legal team started early in going through, in detail, the claims in Kenyon’s document. 

What we found was stunning — that (a) the claims in Kenyon’s filed exhibit were often totally inaccurate as to the contents of my book/s. Her claims are on the left, rebuttals are on the right.

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(b) quite a lot of her claims suggested that she had invented common and ancient storytelling tropes, e.g. “A sword having a name,” and stated that those tropes’ presence in my books could only have come from her books and not, say, the entire literary and folkloric tradition of tropes that all authors draw on:

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and, most importantly, © a huge number of her claims were impossible due to the chronology of publication — that is, when she was comparing material in our books, her material had been published *after* my material. Copying does not work that way, since time does not work that way.

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So my legal team wrote all of that up — a point-by-point, line-by-line refutation of Kenyon’s claims, and filed it as our own exhibit. You can read it right here. If you’d rather hit up twitter, you can see some of it here.

In response, Kenyon filed what is called an Amended Complaint.

The court allows her side to take on board anything from our response and, if necessary, file a new version of the lawsuit making changes based on anything they’ve learned.

And in the Amended Complaint, the whole copyright claim just…disappeared.

Like, gone. Not there at all.

What was left?

Trademark issues. They are more specifically about what the covers of my books are allowed to look like, branding strategies, and the title of the television show. I cannot go into the details of this, or why it would come up suddenly thirteen years after my first Shadowhunters book was published, because that is part of an ongoing case, and one cannot comment on ongoing cases. The copyright thing however is not ongoing. Again, it was dropped in May, 2016.

If Kenyon won her case would the TV show be cancelled?

Yes. 

Interesting.

Well, we’ve all learned something today. Primarily, we have learned that I am not being sued for copyright infringement or plagiarism or anything like it, and also that people are really interested in negative gossip and controversy, but not particularly interested in exoneration. I cannot tell you how much it sucks to be accused of something awful that you did not do, in public (however used to it you may be); I cannot express how humiliating and horrible it is, or how depressing it is to realize that basically nobody cares if it isn’t true. Many, many news outlets reported on Kenyon suing me; only one that reported on the original claim reported that she had dropped the copyright claims.

I have done my best here to provide 100% factual information for anyone who was confused or believed false reports about this situation. I am under no illusions that this will prevent people from saying I am being sued for plagiarism, because it gives them pleasure to be cruel. I can only hope that for those people who are actually interested in what is true, this will serve as a useful link.

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In the past, I’ve had so many words on this topic that I’ve run out any to share. I have got hand gestures should anyone be interested. ☕️…ssiiip

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October
. rachiefaery’s day 🥃. @rachelfreirestudio i can’t think of a thing . no doubt e’ryone is quickier n wittier with their b-day kerfluffs. i’m lousy lousy at that. i thought to be clever enuff to update my previous rachie sketch’em. i even thought i’d...

. rachiefaery’s day 🥃. @rachelfreirestudio i can’t think of a thing . no doubt e’ryone is quickier n wittier with their b-day kerfluffs. i’m lousy lousy at that. i thought to be clever enuff to update my previous rachie sketch’em. i even thought i’d film it but 4got to press record . all those magical secrets, kept magical & secret… so 🍻continuing to sharing elf secrets, lost magics & on behalf of your future eviler, adventures as long as i keep your portrait well hid you’ll never grow old. (at New York, New York) — 🦇➕🦄💨cheerleaderfortheapocalypse

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June
Asker Avatar Anonymous asked:

Do you have any more plans to make anymore shadowhunter runes? I would really like to see the acid or amisso runes!

Welll, @cassandraclare & I have thrown the idea around but the final decision (the ‘ifs’, ‘whats’ & 'whens’) lands in her lap. I’m never not up for it •̀.̫•́✧ but as a collective conjuring… y'all should poke at her 'til she pokes to me(¬_¬”)-cԅ(‾⌣‾ԅ)

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May
wishuponthenightskies:
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When you decide you no longer want be upset about having your name removed from the rune/tattoo art you’ve worked close to 8+ years on because you’d rather acknowledge it’s just feckin’ pretty.

Wait wait @far-eviler I haven’t been watching the show, just reblogging gifsets, but are you not being credited + paid for them using your art?!

yep, @siavahdainthemoon  pretty much. ¯\_(⌣̯̀⌣́)_/¯

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it more than ruffled my feathers previously but at this point I feel too apathetic to be upset. I can’t even get it up anymore about they’re cannibalizing my runes to create ‘their own’. I remind myself, at least this makes fans happy, that makes me happy. The End.

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…but on a truly happier note, they do not have licence to use the 40 new runes➰ •̀.̫•́✧.

What the heck?! Can’t you like… idk get legal action? Or talk to @cassandraclare idk but that is some fucking bull right there. Fans should band together and refuse to support this show until you are properly compensated for your art. This is like that bullshit argument that exposure is somehow valuable to artists when it doesn’t pay the bills.

I’d like my name…

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I know it’s hard to pronounce/spell but even the film made a little room for it toward the end. If the show continues not to… I guess I can understand why.

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I love the work, I love the fans and I encourage the fans to love whatever they want to. Without restraint. Maybe it’s my chronic cynicism but I think there is more to get out of rare-pair gifsets than boycotts/petitions these days.

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If there was a stir-up about everything there would be nothing good left. I want to get something good out of it. As it is I watch the show through gifsets so that I only see the joy of it. I get to only watch people’s happy responses. It isn’t fun for me to sit through another hokey plot with contrived visual pieces. And it doesn’t make sense and it isn’t healthy to willingly open the door to, well, unfunness in life. Especially when fans do cross-over gifsets with other shows like @teenwolf! With quality better than the source material, boundless love and imagination that rivals that of @cassandraclare herself… I gotta admit, considering all this ish, life without fandom’s loving-ness would not be worthwhile.

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ABOUT ME

Val Freire is a writer/artist/designer, born in historic Greenwich Village, New York in 1979. The 2nd of 4 rather sheltered & off-beat kids to 2 rather off-beat creative educators.

early life: At birth, expected to be a boy, she was thusly dubbed "Mathew Alexander". This surprise abruptness set a life-long precedent in her development.
Ms Freire decided, at age 14 she was too intelligent for a formal education. It'd take 2 more years to convince everyone else of this.
At 16 she actively pursued interests in calligraphy, photography, graphic illustration & all manner of story-telling. Thus keeping engagements as a Tattooist apprentice & shop manager, a Logo designer for a photo lab & an overactive-member of the Harvey Milk High School youth program. The combination of which would inexplicably drag her all over the States, & entirely against her will, back to New York in time to turn 18.

currently: New York is where her home resides, her loyal pets & an ever-expanding collection of comics. Although you'll likelier to find her traveling, hunkered in cafes, drinking endless cups of coffee & telling stories.

interest: inventive expletives, fashionable weaponry, decadent intoxicants & drawing on objects that are not intended for it.

favorite artist: (but not limited to) Salvador Dalí, Norman Rockwell & Vincent Van Goph, all of which have died, as Val expects to do one day as well.

Love & cherish her for this one reason.