the 42nd unwritten book

Originally submitted: Feb 1, 2007

For 14 Valentines.
Day 1 - Women in Academics.

Women have, since the beginning really, held the role of an educator: mothers are our first teachers and we take from them the ability to smile and the understanding of warmth -- the idea of safety and comfort and being loved. But -- appropriately enough -- in a more academic context, women have been trusted with the role of conveying information for millennia. In Egypt, although female roles were marginalized to the extreme, a queen, a living Isis was one of the most powerful roles in the royal household, for she would shape the pharaoh into a living divinity worthy of the auspices of Horus. St. Anne, mother of Mary, a the patron saint of mothers and pregnancy and wives -- and she carries a book in her depictions, for it's she who taught Mary to read.

Modern day women in academics are a much more professional bunch, with degrees and doctorates and office hours -- and many challenges one would imagine wouldn't exist in the halls of universities. [Continue reading]

--Rageprufrock

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Lineart by me, colored by Val! Though, this lineart wouldn't have been done without her either, for she saves me from horrific anatomy issues. Thank you, darling. ♥ (We've decided that this is John from her librarian!AU. ♥ )

John Sheppard is played by Joe Flanigan on Stargate Atlantis.
Drawn in Photoshop CS.

Let's pretend I didn't pretty much do 90% of this today. OTL;