#anyway. point is. really does make me shiningly glad every time i learn something i grew up with and loved was also gay

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absolutely no idea what got me thinking about 90s SFF cover art but i really did think this particular set was awfully striking back in the day! and thanks to this very thorough overview of Fionavar Tapestry Cover Art Through the Decades i now know it was done by mel odom, who i'd never heard of before looking him up just now but who it turns out is apparently family, not to mention alive and well and posting on instagram!

#always something really beautiful and also really sad—so i guess just 'poignant' in the end— #abt discovering i was raised by queer ppl i didn't even know #like. something in me recognized something in this art. but at the same time imagine what it might have meant to KNOW these things. #instead i was given a piece of john crowe ransom's to read‚ years before i ever saw anything of robert duncan's #no mention that one was a vicious censoring homophobe and one was a gay man and brave as hell #i LOVE 'my mother would be a falconress' and like. imagine if i could've known we were both queer #anyway. point is. really does make me shiningly glad every time i learn something i grew up with and loved was also gay #book covers #bookblogging #formative #mel odom #guy gavriel kay #the fionavar tapestry #<3