#Banshee Norn

[lesser-mook]

riddhe tweaking #Gundam gif

He should've gotten more to do ngl or went full on evil, way more of a threat. Way too lukewarm, wasn't a fan of his arc.

[identifying-gunpla]

SD Gundam Cross Silhouette: Unicorn Gundam 2 Banshee (Destroy Mode)

on my shelf: photobooks and plastic robots

[gundamfight]

[stag-beetle-and-skeleton-bloom]

oh yeah built the Banshee a while ago, forgot to post

[chilisaws]

hm.

[jlcomicsandgames]

Gundam, Gunpla Most Ever from Japan! Shenlong, Dagger, Banshee Norn, Uni...

[thatfantasylovingdork]

This is literally the perfect end to this story and I’d like to imagine it’s canon even though it’s fanfic.

(Here is a link to the rest of the official story so you can understand this fic: https://web.archive.org/web/20080603064824/http://www.ece.utk.edu/~cboyd11/DS/!story.html)

[neildylandy]

it seems you bitches have come to a standstill on my gunpla poll of tumblr dot com

which has left it up to Me to choose my next project. with 3 votes each for raphael and barbatos, and 1 vote for the banshee norn, the choice was ultimately pretty easy:

IT'S HEINDREE TIME, BABY

experimented with color-shift spraypaint on this one (on top of a black basecoat, as was recommended to me by the paint can) and the results are absolutely stunning. took considerably more effort than a tamiya spray would have but oh my god it was worth it. look at my beautiful boy.

video of the color-shift effect in action under the cut

[ID: A silent video of the HG Heindree, showing off how its armor changes color from turquoise to blue to purple as light passes over it.]

[h3lfaerie]

Chapter 10 - Ruination (Part 2) Preview

Out. He needed out.  

Needed to remember the bite of the wind on his face, what unchecked speed and strength were like. Though the brunt of it was somewhat diminished by the helmet, he could still taste the tang of the aether as lightning cleaved the air to his left. So close by that the tremors made his teeth sing. 

What have you done? 

It was a keening tempest. Darkness cupped him in its palm and clenched. And within he felt this burning horrific thing that pushed against his mind. Like a red-hot needle sinking through the bone.

What have you done?

The surging wind did nothing to muffle the orts of her voice. The pain and grief that lay in it still. Surely the Norns, those cruel fickle beings, had passed it to him, like a hearty wish on Snoggletog.

Hiccup. 

Something within him caught – a thorn ripping at tender flesh.

Then thunder cracked, and the world went numb with it, ringing through some worn battered part of Hiccup’s soul that might have been still wailing. He felt it all. Every strike of every drop in every undulating gust of wind, together and apart, same and different. Until the rain soaking through his gloves turned to warm, sticky blood.

Hicc-

Agony lanced through his spine.

And he had just enough thought left to deeply deeply regret what he'd done as Toothless roared, screamed a high, pitiful sound as he fell toward the sea of black-grey clouds below with all the grace of a wounded bird. 

There was a trick to drawing the current of lightning, holding it close as it ran its course through their bodies, unfettered, rushing through scales and weathered armor alike. It granted them invisibility... so long as the Night Fury willed it. If summoned, lightning left not an ache nor a scar.

But when it came unbidden, it was fire.  

It was molten ore poured into his veins, boiling his blood until it was nothing but steam. Power—raw power shuddering through bones as surely as it did through flesh.

And it left behind a mark. A brand of branching fern that would forever remain on the skin.  

[eleemosynecdoche]

Built an NZ-666 Kshatriya mobile suit.

She's a big girl.

Just look at her holding hands with this Qubeley!

Overall, the kit has only one pair of hands and nowhere to store the beam swords (the funnel rack is part of the solid inner wing binder piece), but she's so massive it's not surprising at all. I shudder to think what an RG or MG model of her would cost.

But with that, I have Full Armor Unicorn, Banshee Norn, Sinanju, and Ksgatriya. All I need are Rozen Zulu and Geara Zulu, a Delta, and a Jegan or two and I'll have Unicorn fairly adequately represented...

[theladyofbloodshed]

Hi, just saw that you posted about one of the stories in A Very Fantasy Christmas and I can say that I was very surprised to see one of the characters named Muma Pădurii. Very pleasantly surprised, I mean.

What inspired you to go and look into Romanian folklore for that specific story? Because I love to see the folklore I grew up on represented. Have a great rest of your day/night!

Hello!

Firstly, I am a huge fan of folklore and mythology. This is my little collection at home and I borrowed every single folklore/myth collection from my local library over the years. I try to weave pre-existing folklore into my stories and add my own twists. In The Story of Old (another series of mine), I had the Leshy (Slavic), Makara (Hindu), dryads, shapeshifters, griffin, chimera, dragons, Ankou (Cornish/Welsh), Sedna (Inuit), norns (Norse), witches, illuyanka (Hittite) as well as some traditional Scandinavian tales. I also have Black Annis (British), harpies, werewolves, and banshees in The Eddanor Chronicles.

For this book, I narrowed down the types of fantasy creatures I wanted in it. With The Great Hag Bake Off, I knew I wanted hags in it. I first looked at British folklore. In the story, Jenny Greenteeth plays the main role but there are also mentions to Nelly Longarms and Mother Shipton. For the second character, I wanted a hag but one different to the British ones as they tend to be wizened old women. Baba Yaga seemed like an option, but so many stories already featured her. I delved further and found Muma Padurii. I saw this image of her where she is depicted as young rather than old and ugly so went for that route with her instead.

As a side, I have always wanted to go to Romania - Peles Castle especially. I think it's rich in storytelling. I've also taught lots of Romanian children who always tell me about the food they have at Christmas and I need to try it for myself!

[praemonitorius]

PG 1/60 Banshee Norn.

Took it to the local Military Hobby show and it won first place in its 'Out of Box' category.

[gundamfight]

[purityvalentine]

i looked at other things on the website where i got the image for my thumbnail and it's dangerous...

1/144 RG Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu Mina...

BLACK RED AND GOLD??? LITERALLY ONE OF MY FAVOURITE COLOUR SCHEMES? IS THIS A JOKE I WANT IT

1/144 HGUC AMX-011 Zaku III

the preference for zaku is barely restrained but look how chunky this guy's shapes are

i would be on his side

1/100 MG Gundam Exia [Recirculation Color/Neon Purple]

THIS BITCH PURPLE?

AND SO SLEEK??? BUT IT WAS LIMITED EDITION SO I LIKELY CANNOT GET ONE

1/144 HG Susanowo

this guy is a bug i like him. i really want to try sharpening all the spikes on him and just. WOE, SPIKE BALL UPON YE*

*i would never throw a gunpla

1/144 HGUC Banshee Norn (Destroy Mode)

This is kintsugi to me. I will not be elaborating. It fucks.

[serraplays]

This one took me about 8 hours to build, but damn it was fun. Here’s the Gundam: Banshee Norn (Destroyer Mode)

[adarkrainbow]

Fée VS Fairy

As I was writing my previous post about Dubois’ theory of the “May Queen of fairy tales”, I realized I forgot to talk here of a VERY important point that needs to be clarified if I go further into a dissection of fairy tales. 

The French “fée” is not at all the same thing as the English “fairy”.

The English word “fairy” is basically a catch-all term for every kind of supernatural entity or inhabitant of the “Otherworld” in the folklore of the British Isles. Heirs of the many species of the Aos Si, the Otherworlders (Banshees, Leprechauns, Cluricans, Pucas, Dullahans...), fairies include as much the tiny little winged female imps of Victorian poetry and the miniature flower-girls of Shakespeare, as the selkies, kelpies and black hounds of folklore. It is a very wide and complex world.

The French “fée”, while the equivalent and French translation of the English “fairy”, doesn’t mean the same thing at all. A “fée” is a much more delimited, classified, clarified type of supernatural entity. In fact, to distinguish the British “fairy” from the French “fée”, people sometime use the term “Dame Fées”, “Lady Fairy”, because the Fée is ALWAYS female (the word itself is female) and usually appears human-like (either with a few small traits to separate her from humans, or with no traits at all to distinguish her from humans - unlike the more monstrous and alien fairies). The Fée is still however a creature of magic, but rather in the sense that she is a mistress of spells and enchantments - in fact, the French “fée” is equated and confused with witches and enchantresses. They basically are otherworldy sorceresses that look human and have human desires, and yet perform inhuman feats and usually live in domains of marvel, magic or horrors. 

The French “fée” were originally the “pagan goddesses”, the “druidesses and priestesses” of the old religions and the various nymphs and female spirits said to protect or inhabited sacred areas and natural landscapes - in fact, the fées were said to inhabit or manifest always within a specific landmark: a fountain, a spring, a tree, a rock, a grotto... And in turn, as Christianity grew in France, the Church decided to cover and eradicate these “superstitions” and the “relics of paganism” by either denouncing fées as witches OR by turning fées into female saints (this notably explains the unusual approach of French people to Catholic saints, that often only exist as a cover up of a wizard or fairy). 

Taking all of this in consideration, the figure of the fairy in French fairytales (and in fairytales in general, as the French fairytales heavily influenced the genre that THEY ACTUALLY CREATED) makes much more sense. 

It is also very interesting to see that as the French fairytale genre shaped itself, it actually defined the very archetypal division of the “good fairy” and the “bad fairy” (which wasn’t a thing before, when the fées were ambiguous entities). The French fairytale introduced a manicheist moral dimension to the fée, through the two archetypes of the “Fairy Godmother” (good fairy) opposed to the “Carabosse” (evil fairy). 

Before the French fairytales of the Renaissance, in medieval times (as the Middle-Ages were THE age of fées, where the fée figure was shaped, created, popularized) there was actually a “duality” between two different types of fées - but it was not one based on morality. Across the many medieval texts, from medieval folktales to Arthurian myths, the “fée” was divided into two archetypes: the “fairy godmother” and the “fairy lover”. The “fairy godmother” is actually an anachronism, as the position of “godmother” came from the fairytales ; but it was the “fata”, the “fairy of destiny”, the fairy as the shaper of fates, deliverer of prophecies, giver of curses - the inheritor of the Moirae, Parcae and Norns. The other archetype, the “fairy lover” (la fée amante, opposed to the fée marraine) is pretty self-telling: it is the fée as a supernatural lover or a seducing woman from the otherworld. 

If you want to have a better grasp of the French fée, the medieval fée and how it evolved into the “fairytale” fée, you just need to look at the three most famous and major “medieval fées” that embody all of the archetypes and elements talked above: Morgan Le Fay and Viviane from the Arthurian myth, and Melusine the legendary half-snake bride. They are the “holy trinity” (if I dare say so) of the French fée in the Middle-Ages.