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[twisting-roads]

posting this one just for myself to find again later, because god knows I won't be going through my bookmarks

[enoshimastims]

Boop boop e doop, here we are again~!

Could we get an Alphinaud Leveilleur/Alisaie Leveilleur ship based stimboard?

Blue/Red and extra bonus and huggies if you can lean into the idea of possession (throat bruises or hickies especially!) vaguely suggestive but not straight up nsfw!

& please no source/kin/id tags, thank you!

- 🦊 (for Alphinaud. Xe was feeling left out & missing his sister)

[dailyadventureprompts]

Monster Hunt: The Doloron Colossi

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Enigmatic titans that stride endlessly through the snowy wastes, mummified by the cold, driven on by some unknown puprose, most think the colossi remnants of a forgotten age, and give them wide berth lest they be trampled underfoot.

There seems to be no aim to the Doloron's wandering, as they trek across the tundra and mountainsides alone or in groups of two or three like some mobile monument to hopeless exhaustion, occasionally collapsing to be buried by drifting snow only to be unburied decades later when some shift in weather or poor traveller unearths them.

Sightings of the Doloron are thought to be a bad omen, least in part because none are sure what draws their unthinking ire or what can dissuade it. Everyone has heard stories about the unlucky travler who somehow angered the colossi before escaping to warmer lands, only to have the giants arrive along with the winter winds and level the entire village. Some tales suggest their wandering is a millennia old hunt for some ancient foe they are sworn to slay before they can finally die.

Adventure Hooks:

It's well known that each Colossus is garbed in enough Adamantium to outfit a small legion, and while some scavengers spend years hunting for the smallest scrap offcast in the frozen wastes. Some of those prospectors found a Doloron trapped inside a ravine and half buried in ice, and now an impromptu mine has popped up excavating the undead and trying to strip its armour piece by piece. Only now the thing is whispering to them in an unknown language, a never ending, half heard litany in a language none of them can understand.

A cruel wizard has realized that the giants follow the worst of the winter storms, and has used weather magic to "steer" a Doloron into a frontier garrison, with aims of using it to bring a nearby kingdom to its knees.

Legend says there is some way to rally the colossi to one's aid, though accounts vary whether it might be a great horn carved into a hidden mountain, the crown upon which they swore their oath of service, or the words of forbidden binding that gave them their beleaguered immortality. As the final battle approaches, the party may need to discover the truth of these rumours if they hope to even the odds against their foe.

[workersolidarity]

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MADE IN THE USA

✍️ Artwork depicting a bomb made in the USA falling on the head of a Palestinian civilian.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[nkp1981]

"This Is The Way" created by Christopher Owen Art

Source: https://bit.ly/4053dAo

[artisbart]

Wow Factor artist Brent Baker #artsource #contemporary #interiordesign

[delectablywaywardbeard-blog]

Carabiniere salva ragazza: gesto diventa anche illustrazione

L’opera è del disegnatore fiorentino Antonio Federico Artsource

[sweetside]

Who drew this?

I need to know since most of my Yuko icon, come from.

[quinlanart]

New work by Chris Quinlan Irish palette knife artist. View this & new collection at #artsource Dublin, Nov 2022 - stand J3 #abstractart #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #irishartist #quinlanartist #paletteknifeartists #buyirishart #artsource #rds #dublin https://www.instagram.com/p/CjWEdrRKX6a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dublinartclasses]

Congratulations and thanks to all artists who participated in the first Juliette Gallery Exhibition. You are a credit to your work and wonderful to work with. Looking forward to the next one. #irishartcollectors #irishartistsoninstagram #irishmodernart #irishcontemporaryart #irishfineart #artsource #artoftheday🎨 #artworld #artistssupportingartists #artistsunite #buyirish_artexhibition #buyirish #oilpaintings (at Malahide Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWRW3fWsirz/?utm_medium=tumblr

[doodlebrad]

Sketchin' • • • • • #sketcbook #art #drawing #sketch #draw #artist #illustration #artwork #digital #illustrazione #academic_artworks #art_we_inspire #artoftheday #arts_gate #artsource #artsy #cinematographylife #dessin #esquisser #artistic #artistsoninstagram #digitalart #f0xdrawpictures #girl #sketch_daily #sketch_onn #topcreator #vscoartist #worldofart (at Hutchinson, Kansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMEGHx_j08g/?igshid=1sq62twsd6m3m

[fergaloconnor-artist]

So, I’m exhibiting at an event called ArtSource in the RDS Arena in Dublin from 10th-12th Dublin. The majority of my recent work including all my personal works from the last number of months will be on show there. It’s a large art fare with around 150 artists and it will be hectic to say the least. So much prep and framing and such and such.

Here’s one last piece I’m working on for it. Hopefully I’ll have the inking finished tonight and blast through the painting tomorrow c:

[enoshimastims]

mamasita ( /term of endearement ) is it rent lowering enough (/sil) to ask for a falin x laios x marcille of dunmeshi fame board *twirls around* theyve been roating on my mind lately (⁠；⁠^⁠ω⁠^⁠）u can choose the type or stim!! 🍮🍮🍮

[dailyadventureprompts]

Thirsting Grail, Outergod of Wants and Wounds

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Adventure Hooks:

While travelling the party encounters a once famed surgeon who seeks their help in undertaking pilgrimage to the distant shrine of a death god. When pressed on her motivation, she reveals that through some curse or divine act of cruelty, those she operates on can never die, but also cannot heal. 

There is a tree that grows in the ruins of the old braon’s castle, said to have sprouted from the chopping block upon which he had his wife’s lovers executed. The tree grows no leaves, only flowers, and it’s said that if you make a tea from its blossoms, you will receive a vision of your one ture love.  Beings of woven thorn are said to guard the tree, but there are those who would pay desperately to drink of its boughs. 

A once peaceful kingdom dissolves into a generations long civil war, any hope of peace drowned beneath a tide of violence, ruination, and grievance that none can hope to escape.

Among the outergods there are none more eager to engage with mortals than the entity known as Thisting Grail. It is a thing of violence and appetite, and seems all too eager to lend its power to those most likely to misuse it, whether they sought it’s aid in the first place or not. 

Scholars and madmen have long debated the Grail’s motivations, what goal or ideology it is trying to achieve with the visions and often horrific miracles it bestows. In truth, Thirsting Grail has no goal beyond the pursuit of violence and longing, it is a means without an end, ready to lend itself to any cause that would make the world a bloodier, hungrier place. 

The god is formless, an ocean of boling blood that takes on the shape of whatever “vessel” its followers imagine for it, borrowing their cultural iconography and birthing itself anew each time. There are litanies of these avatars, hundreds more likely forgotten by history;  blood saints and baleful red stars and heart hungry blades. Perhaps because of blood’s ubiquity in ritual and occult practice the Grail’s influence can “seep” its way into the worship of other entities, divine or demonic, and it’s not unheard of for otherwise upstanding and dogmatic worshippers of banal gods to accidentally begin practising the grail’s bloody rites. 

Sanguimancy and other forms of blood magic are the most obvious of Thirsting Grail’s gifts, but it has other more esoteric offerings: smoke from sacrifices or incense mingled with the formless god’s essence can grant visions of desires made manifest, though often twisted through a disturbingly carnal (in both senses of the word) lens. All too often worshippers ( and the cult leaders that encourage them) see these visions as prophetic, leading to the outergod being sometimes called “the mother of truth”.  It can also manifest the objects of desire: succulent fruits, unearthly lovers, weapons of inordinate power, but there is something fundamentally wrong with these creations as they cannot grant true satisfaction, and often leave those that partake of them wanting more than when they started. 

Those who fall prey to Thirsting Grail’s influence can become warped as their own veins become polluted by the entity’s ichor: becoming feral creatures of endless cruelty and appetite, or having their wounds open wider and wider until there is nothing but wound remaining of their swollen flesh. Those so overtaken grow and warp and merge with others until new horrors are birthed from them, a permanent seedbed of 

Titles: Mother of truth, formless mother, font erubescent, the bloodstar.  Symbols: A red grail or fountain, cultural iconography stained with blood.  Signs:  Wounds that bleed but do not heal, plants overflowing or cracking open to expose their innards. Unsettling red dreams.  Worshippers: Those with bloodstained hands be they doctors, butchers, or murderers. Vampires, occultists, and other sanguiphiles. Instatiable gourmands and unfulfilled lovers.   

Inspiration:  I wear my influences on my sleeve with this one.  I’ve been turning the Elden Ring mythology over in my mind for some time partially because I think there’s a lot of fun ideas there but also because I felt like (in typical Fromsoft fashion) there wasn’t enough shown to really scratch my itch for discovery. 

The formless mother/bloodstar was chiefest among these elements: A killer aesthetic with lore that was a little too thin to use as inspiration. After a while that thinness turned into a feature, the idea of an eldritch entity of pain and violence that conformed to the needs of those who worshipped it, granting power to those who would go out and make the world more violent and painful.  I liked the idea that “mother of truth” was a misnomer, and that cultists would ascribe meaning and intent and iconography to a god that didn’t care one way or another. 

Another strong influence is the Grail from Cultist Simulator/Book of hours ( SERIOUSLY, play book of hours you fools), an eldritch entity/aspect of reality that presides over hungers and births be they literal or figurative.  The Blood + Mother connection was obvious here, but the Grail provided some more texture and esoteric aspects to fill out my version’s storytelling potential.

[colourman72]

These two pieces on way to their new homes today. Shame to separate they work so well together. Limited edition of 4 . Still have available from the series. . . . . . #framedart #abstractart #limitededitionprints #digitalart #colourfulart #modernart #contemporaryart #artgalleries #artoftheday #artlondon #buyart #collectingart #artmagic #artsource #exclusive #digitaldesign https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5Ws8plaxH/?igshid=w69vw9fdql8x

[300iqprower]

Fun fact: Voyager looks like that due to previously being summoned by Erice. He would have appeared as a 43-year gentlemen (his own words) but Erice's preferences from requiem left a mark on his spirit origin.

ok so wow i didnt think i'd ever have a use for the reference art I use for my OCs outside of exactly that, but I have a design pitch for "proper" voyager:

Maybe tone down the anime belt syndrome, tone up the magic steampunk a little, and bam - Perfect!

Source on the artists' ArtStation for those interested in some other characters they've designed. Turns out they're a video game concept artist! This one was one of several intended playable characters for a Korean MMO sidescrolling Brawler/Beat Em Up (cause I guess in Korea basically everything is part MMO. Something about how over there video games are seen as a social activity rather than one of personal fulfillment?) called Trinity 2. It was announced in 2011 but it was shut down after a year of being stuck in beta. Based on the trailer yeah it looked reallllly rough and this guy is one of the only characters in that art gallery that doesn't even show up.