Venessa Kelley

Fan
Name:	Venessa Kelley
Alias(es):	VKelleyArt, Mudblood428
Type:	fan artist, fan writer
Fandoms:	Carry On, Red, White & Royal Blue, The Song of Achilles
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URL:	@vkelleyart Tumblr, Mudblood428 on AO3, @VScrivanoKelley on Twitter, vkelleyart on Instagram
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Venessa Kelley is a fanartist and fanfiction writer (and professional in both these fields and in voice acting). She is a BNF primarily in the Carry On fandom, but she has also created popular art for Red, White & Royal Blue and The Song of Achilles.

Venessa often illustrates her own fanfic, and has illustrated fic by other authors. She also writes and illustrates comic panels, particularly for fanzines. Her work appears in Golden Days, Let It Snow!, and the Simon Snow Coloring Book.

She frequently answers Tumblr asks from fans, and publicises work from other writers and artists on her Tumblr side blog: @vkelleyshares. She also appeared on The One True Podcast, Episode 15: Snowbaz, where she gave an overview of the fandom and the ship, as well as examples of her favourite fic and fanart by other creators.

Example Fanworks

Fanart

Venessa is extremely prolific. As well as producing full-colour artwork regularly, she also completed Inktober in both 2019 and 2020. She has often collaborated with calligrapher penpanoply.

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  Penny and Simon, 2018

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  “Simon Snow is lying on the sofa.”, 2019<refTumblr, 2019</ref>

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  SnowBaz for Simon's birthday, 2020

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  Page 4 of Wedding Letters comic, written and illustrated by Venessa, 2020

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  Simon and Blue from Wayward Son, 2020

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  Red, White & Royal Blue art, 2019

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  RW&RB art, 2020

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  The Song of Achilles art, 2020

Fanfiction

While possibly most known for her art, Venessa is also one of the most popular fanwriters in Carry On fandom.

• Merlin, May I? - first kiss, 7k, 2019
• Light a Match In Your Heart - Venessa's only NSFW piece, 12k, 2019
• When the Tides Held the Moon - Merman AU, 50k, 2020

Original works

Manu cover art

In addition to her fanworks, Venessa publishes her own original work, which is shared on the same platforms.

• Manu, a queer, latinx graphic novel-in-progress written and illustrated by Venessa Kelley
• She is also re-writing When the Tides Held the Moon as an original story, now set in America featuring an own voices Puerto Rican hero.

Activism

In 2020, Venessa made several posts about the Black Lives Matter movement as well as running a fundraiser.

• How to make the internet safer for POC (when you're white)
• For well-meaning white American friends/followers struggling to understand black anger.
• Red, White & Royal Blue fanart raffle to raise funds for charity