Read Velvet Season :: From the desk of Extrarabbits

Hello!

Thank you for reading Velvet Season. I've been fiddling with this story for over a decade. (It started as a Twine game—iykyk.) I hope you enjoy it, and I would love to answer any of your questions and will do my best to do so without spoiling future installments for you.

Two things I wanted to share today:

First, my new story Birthday Girls starts Fri, 7/21, and will be published on Friday nights (11pm Eastern, 8pm Pacific). It's set in the same world of the Obvious and the Obscure. And has its own supernatural phenomena, some talking animals, and at least one mystery. It's about Eleanor, who swears she is perfectly normal and is pretty sure her, uh, sisters aren't ghosts. Like, 80% certain. 👀 (Link below in the episode description.)

There's no special order to the stories, and shouldn't be any spoilers or dependencies. I hope you'll give it a go and let me know what you think. (But if you're mean to me, remember this is who you're being mean to: 🐇🐇🐇)

Secondly, I've forgotten to include my image references so I'm adding all of them for the story so far here, below. Going forward I will include sources for the originals in the episode descriptions.

Many more tomorrows to you, 🐇🐇🐇

All images are edited versions of old-timey advertising, ephemera, antique engravings, scans from old books, or other artworks that are well into the public domain.

Sources/references:

Velvet Season banner

“Perusia (female)”, Iconographia Zoologica, between 1700 and 1880

1 - Morning Ritual

Advertisement poster: “Van Nelles gebroken thee vol en geurig. Specialiteit Afternoon Tea.” Nathaniel Lloyd & Co. (London), Erven de Wed. J. van Nelle (Rotterdam). 1927/1932

2 - Old Rue and the Blue Hound

Alexander and some other cats, Eddy, Sarah J, 1929

3 - Florist Row

The antique Greek dance, after sculptured and painted figures, Emmanuel, Maurice, 1916

4 - Fasol and guests

“Trouble in the Greenhouse” Rhymes and Jingles, Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1903
Furs and Furriery (Pelze und Kürschnerei) von R. Russ Winkler, Kürschner Ihrer Majestät der Königin, Edinburgh Juni 1899.

5 - Moira and the Lurkens

The collie: its history, points, and breeding, Dalziel, Hugh, London 1888

6 - Foundlings and Feelings

“Epidalea calamita” Iconographia Zoologica, between 1700 and 1880

7 - The Obvious and the Obscure

“Gelosia recta - S. Paulo 1860-70” A Arte Tradicional no Brasil. In: Sociedade de Cultura Artística. Severo, Ricardo, 1914-1915.
“Heliothis”, Iconographia Zoologica, between 1700 and 1880

From the desk of Extrarabbits

“Swamp Hare Lepus aquaticus syn. Sylvilagus aquaticus.” The quadrupeds of North America, Audubon, John James; Audubon, John Woodhouse; Bachman, John. 1851.