History Creator / UrsulaVernon

Ursula Vernon (born May 28, 1977) is a [[UsefulNotes/HugoAward Hugo]], [[UsefulNotes/NebulaAward Nebula]] and Lodestar award-winning American fantasy/sci-fi artist and writer. Creator of the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pos_3694.jpg Biting Pear of Salamanca]]. She has a fairly considerable Internet following, and has created a number of webcomics, including the very notable ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}''. Her artwork can be seen [[http://www.redwombatstudio.com here]]. She is also on Tumblr ([[http://tkingfisher.tumblr.com personal]], [[http://ursula-vernon.tumblr.com kid-friendly]]), [[https://twitter.com/UrsulaV Twitter]] and ([[https://bsky.app/profile/tkingfisher.bsky.social Bluesky]]).

Ursula Vernon (born May 28, 1977) is a [[UsefulNotes/HugoAward Hugo]], [[UsefulNotes/NebulaAward Nebula]] and Lodestar award-winning American fantasy/sci-fi artist and writer. Creator of the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pos_3694.jpg Biting Pear of Salamanca]]. She has a fairly considerable Internet following, and has created a number of webcomics, including the very notable ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}''. Her artwork can be seen [[http://www.redwombatstudio.com here]]. She is also on Tumblr ([[http://tkingfisher.tumblr.com personal]], [[http://ursula-vernon.tumblr.com kid-friendly]]), [[https://twitter.com/UrsulaV Twitter]] and ([[https://bsky.app/profile/tkingfisher.bsky.social Bluesky]].

Ursula Vernon (born May 28, 1977) is a [[UsefulNotes/HugoAward Hugo]], [[UsefulNotes/NebulaAward Nebula]] and Lodestar award-winning American fantasy/sci-fi artist and writer. Creator of the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pos_3694.jpg Biting Pear of Salamanca]]. She has a fairly considerable Internet following, and has created a number of webcomics, including the very notable ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}''. Her artwork can be seen [[http://www.redwombatstudio.com here]]. She is also on Tumblr ([[http://tkingfisher.tumblr.com personal]], [[http://ursula-vernon.tumblr.com kid-friendly]]) and [[https://twitter.com/UrsulaV Twitter]].

%%* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: There are good odds that an antagonist isn't motivated primarily by malice, even if their reasons only make sense to them.

* ''Literature/TheHollowPlaces''

* BoringButPractical: In ''Nettle & Bone'', Marra's fairy godmother Agnes gave her and her two older sisters the gift of health. Marra's at first outraged that Agnes didn't give them something with more immediate oomph, such as a blessing that would've protected her sisters from marrying the abusive BigBad prince. But being healthy, As Agnes points out, is pretty much always useful and doesn't have nasty side effects or unintended consequences. By contrast, the far more grand and exciting-sounding blessing the godmother of the Northern Kingdom gives [[spoiler: is actually a curse and is the reason all its kings die young.]]

* FantasyContraception: Herbs to control fertility exist in at least some of her settings, but - as with some forms of real world birth control - for some people the side effects are severe. Halla in Swordheart mentions that when she tried them she was sick for days.

* AlternativeCalendar: Illuminations is set in a Europe that has adopted the French Republican Calendar. It is currently Year 65.

* IAmNotPretty: Slate and Halla, the protagonists of the ''Clocktaur War'' duology and ''Swordheart'' respectively, are both aware that they're not conventionally pretty, while their love interests think they're extremely attractive, but in a subversion, the ladies mostly don't care. (Halla's main concern is regarding how her looks might affect her marriage prospects, but given the above, this rapidly stops being a problem.)

* NotWhatItLooksLike: A dramatic example in ''Swordheart''. After Sarkis rescues Halla from some attackers but loses track of her in the fray, he asks a nearby sex worker if she's seen her. The sex worker repeatedly tells him she hasn't seen anybody, and he keeps asking...until he realizes that a large, armed man covered in blood who wants to find a lone woman comes off as exactly the kind of person that woman should be getting ''away'' from. The sex worker is lying to help Halla get away. He apologizes and goes to look on his own.

* ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}''
* ''Webcomic/IrrationalFears''

She once [[http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1508804.html fought]] Creator/NeilGaiman to get to free nachos, leaving him weeping on the floor, covered in guacamole.

** "The Tomato Thief" (sequel to "Jackalope Wives") features a foreign god who [[BalefulPolymorph transforms people into birds and thereby forces them to do his bidding]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}''

* ''Podcast/TheHiddenAlmanac''

* ''Webcomic/IrrationalFears''
* ''Podcast/KevinAndUrsulaEatCheap''

* SignatureStyle: Women (or occasionally men) [[ClassicalAntihero with very little knowledge of the supernatural or fighting]] (but some knowledge of gardening) get in far over their head but power through it with good sense and practicality. Expect realistic outcomes, [[PlayingWithATrope tropes to be played with]], [[OurMonstersAreWeird and some really weird and evocatively designed critters]] to be scattered about. There is a high likelihood of encountering a SeldomSeenSpecies.

** This is also a major part of Literature/TheTwistedOnes.

** Literature/SummerInOrcus specifically does not share a world with the others, but is probably a part of the same multiverse since [[Literature/BlackDogs Dog Soldiers feature prominently.]] Especially since they specifically came to this world from another.

** She has also written two novels and a novella as reinterpretations of classic horror stories, Literature/TheTwistedOnes, Literature/TheHollowPlaces and Literature/WhatMovesTheDead.

** She has also written two novels as reinterpretations of classic horror stories, Literature/TheTwistedOnes and Literature/TheHollowPlaces

* BoringButPractical: In ''Nettle & Bone'', Marra's fairy godmother Agnes gave her and her two older sisters the gift of health. Being healthy is pretty much always useful, and doesn't have nasty side effects or unintended consequences. By contrast, the far more grand and exciting-sounding blessing the godmother of the Northern Kingdom gives [[spoiler: is actually a curse and is the reason all its kings die young.]]