#Fey roman

[5am-the-foxing-hour]

Saw these poses and brain went "draw for Wolfsbane au" and thus... here we are.

A bookworm who fell asleep while reading.

Roman finally got to tag along to a market as his tiny self. Virgil and Remus getting surprised by some rain.

Original poses by Mellon_soup on Instagram

Pose 1 I Pose 2 I Pose 3

[skeletinmoss]

Here's a Sander Sides poem I came up with. Do with it as you will.

Indigo for nature, orange for blight, Green for darkness, and red for light. Purple for a promise, yellow for pain, And sky for a belief to sustain.

I felt so inspired I made all of them in one day. Fey au?

They turn out so pretty and I love them, and I want to make something else with them!

[ro-doodles]

I am a little obsessed with the parallels between Rue and Wuvvy’s relationship and Rose and Pearl from Steven Universe. The absolute love and devotion that can never be fully returned, the total romance and tragedy of it all. That feeling when you love someone so much but not in the way they’re looking for.

Also I wanted to give Rue another pretty dress cause they deserve it.

Also this would make Hob Greg which is a little silly.

[seafleece]

feed your love to the flowers, they’ll take all that you can give

[sapphireofmars]

me, whenever i watch aabria gming: aabria iyengar, your mind is *chef's kiss*

[tomris-katun]

[that-one-tired-tiefling]

I hate drawing crystals.

But I drew them, they look like shit, but I don't care.

Anyway, if you read previous post like this you'd know that I run DnD campaign where I base shards of a broken god on Sanders Sides. There are 7, last time I showed how Morality looks like.

Today, I present to you shard of Creativity, Roman of feywild.

Tried to be as creative, hehe, as possible with him. He lives in Feywild and was called a prince since he can create things out of mid-air and is in constant full creative mode and fey creatures love that shit.

Again, not scared that my player will see this.

And again, DeeSkakuna is my furrny nickname I use for signing my works.

Enjoy.

[kiwibirb1]

My middle school Latin teacher had us write stories to increase our understanding of how the language was used (which was a very good idea especially when literature is all we have left of the language) and the pure unhinged things I wrote are amazing.

Grumio was cannibalized then sent off to the Fey, yes, the Fey, never seen again. Prompt was to include a cat by the way.

When we were learning about baths and toilet demons and all that good stuff I came up with the platypus mafia, who are wanted by Caesar himself, not just the empire. They snuck into other people's work too like they were off fighting dragons and shit.

There was one that was just biblical figures? Like we had to change the characters in an already written story and it just turned biblical.

Latin was amazing our class chant was "Multis Sanguis Fluit" because it was like th efirst thing we learned and actually absorbed.

[sagilsnonsense]

Here, you guys get some more odd ass doodles of fey Milo

One of them is him discovering that trolls are WAY more attractive than the man-made books make them out to be.

And the other is the very reason why you should never layer up on clothes when you already have a bunch of fur.

[pulchrasilva]

Lucky when you get to the Fey Ballet you need to add the image of Noise dragging Roman and Youngblood out of Neon by adding like. CATEGORY FIVE DUAL HAND HOLDING MOMENT

Oh I will I will 100%

[roleslayingweek]

Day 6

Today's prompts: Family and the Fey!

[5am-the-foxing-hour]

Fey Remus and Fey Roman: *in a competition to see who can chop up their pile of wood into firewood the fastest* Patton *gathering the thrown about firewood into baskets so Janus can carry them to the woodshed*: Oh! Virgil, where are you going? Vampire Virgil *dressed up in a black cape and more vampire aesthetic look, compared to his more relaxed everyday wear*: Coven meeting. Shouldn't take longer than a week... Ugh I hate when the whole family get together. Too many people. Werewolf Janus: Good luck. Vampire Virgil: Thanks. I'm glad it only happens once every century. Patton: I keep forgetting you're really old, Virgil. Vampire Virgil: I'm younger than those two idiots *gestures towards Remus and Roman who are now hurling insults at each other*. Werewolf Janus: ... how old are they exactly? Witch Logan *basket of mushrooms at his hip*: The two of them are about as old as this forest, so a millennia give or take, but who knows really. They never give me a good answer. I'm starting to suspect they don't know it themselves.

[theo-in-the-toaster]

Somehow I only just finished The Fey Ballet. I genuinely forgot that I hadn’t finished it until I was gonna send it to a friend. Now I’m crying cause like… Noise. Why? But also the frog calling Noise “the purple twink” and Roman and Youngblood just sorta going with it. They didn’t even react, they just immediately knew who he was talking about.

I really wanna draw the scene where Roman accidentally dips Noise but I can’t draw dynamic poses very well. Guess I’m gonna have to learn

[madgirlmuahaha]

Maya angst, here we gooooo!

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Y'all wanna know about a gender-non-conforming knight from 13th century France? No? That's okay- I'm fine with talking to myself.

I'm obsessed with gender performativity in early medieval texts- so obviously I had to know everything about Le Roman De Silence.

To preface-

So, long before there was the Marvel Cinematic Universe- there was the interconnected works of the Arthurian Legends. The original superheroes- King Arthur, Merlin, Morganna le Fey, and the rest of the cast. However, one of the lesser known (only arguably canonical) interconnected texts of the Arthurian legend hails from France. People argue over whether or not to include these texts as part of the cannon of King Arthur because it's technically french- and the french-english divide between characterization of all the main players of Arthur's court is remarkably different. Much research on this suggests the discrepancy of characterization is largely due to distance between where the stories originate, and sociopolitical tensions between the French and the English. Either people were too far apart to share stories- thus too far apart to keep characterization uniform, or they fucking hated each other enough to mess up the characterization on purpose. For example, many of the French portrayals of King Arthur paint him to be a rather terrible person, where English portrayals are generally more kind to him.

All that aside- many people will disagree that Le Roman de Silence should even be part of the Arthurian legend canon anyway- because it only mentions Merlin at the end of the poem and because it's a super french poem.

The main storyline is about this character named Silence. From the Old French Poem- Le Roman de Silence.

Gender? No- Never heard of it.

The latter half of the story in this poem is predicated on a complex mediation of Nature vs Nurture. What happens is that a baby is born into a wealthy family, and for sociopolitical reasons, the family decides to raise the girl baby as a boy. They name this child "silence." Silence grows up with full access to an education, as was typical for the boy children of aristocratic medieval families- this education becomes important later as Silence wrestle with where they fit into the larger social structure after maturing into adulthood. Essentially, they find the idea of marriage too boring and would like to be a Knight or Explorer instead. (I love them.) Anyway, it's fascinating to me that the conceptual ideas of nature and nurture are personified into being something like "deities" which are overseeing the growth of Silence through the ages- and so we get these deities commentary.

Silence wants to be a knight- so Nurture brags about being right that gender is more performative than it is biological. Then, later Silence grows up to be remarkably "pretty" and according to the deity of Nature- they brag about being right that biology and gender are intrinsically tied. It's such a thought-provoking mediation on gender as either performance or pure biology that I forget it was written in the 13th century- long before Freud or Lacan or any of the others who became hyper fixated on human presumption of gender as either a social category or a biological necessity.

I argued in a paper, once, that the narrative itself does actually finally end on the note that Gender is a performance, and it is tied into social roles only so the ruling class can have control of the population. That is why the stories ending shifts into horror-genre-esque of Silence marrying into the upper-ruling class.

I also have a strong urge to write a Fanfiction of Silence as a knight- who does not meet a sad fate but rather lives happily as a knight and eventually marries a princess. Okay- Okay? fine I said it. I said it-

Social pressure to marry?

The story takes a dark turn, however- when the King demands Silence to reveal themselves in front of the court. Obviously, even the author of the story was aware that misogynistic social standards would not allow for people to ever really be free of gender stereotypes and roles. So, Silence is then forced out of the adventurous lifestyle of a knight and into a marriage. Also, this is the place in the story where Merlin makes an appearance (I have a theory that Merlin is representative of the devil, and the author really hated that all AFAB people were forced into marriage back in 1200's. So that's why the devil shows up when all the bad shit is happening to Silence).

Inevitability and dismay-

What I find particularly interesting about this poem is the fact that the end, as Silence is forced into marriage and back into "proper" social roles for their assumed biological characteristics, is the fact that it is written like an early attempt at gothic horror!

So, one of the stipulations for something being a "gothic horror" is 1.) old, archaic, twisted buildings. (this blog is indeed named after my fixation with gothic horror elements, it's interplay relation to social reform, as its emphasis on decay as the tonal necessity for social indemnification). Anyway, the other most important aspect of gothic horror- is an overwhelming sense of desolation, isolation, and loneliness.

Sure, Silence is forced into marriage- but even with the forthright writing style of the author, we, as readers, are struck by Silence's loneliness. Thus, the "happily ever after" part of the storyline wherein the characters get married, as it traditional to chivalric romance, is recriminated against in subtext. Now, we have a moment in which the "happily ever after" is a creation of horror rather than peace.

Ending the narrative with marriage as equivalent to a loss of freedom and a sense of evermore-present loneliness, cumulating in the edifice of horror-struck fear in Silence at their own new future, is a remarkably bold social statement coming from a 13th century author.

I just think it's a really interesting text on the thematic points of negotiating Gender identity, in broader terms of performance and social roles, as much as it is a critique on the total social control that the monarchy held over the people of 13th century France.

Edit: I need to add that Silence themselves consistently rejects the idea that they are AFAB and instead only ever refers to themselves as "Silence" or "the knight"

[citnamora]

MAYA ANGSTERS READ THIS RN

Do you think Maya kept Mia's magatama? That she convinced Gumshoe to let her have it back after the trial, because it's the only thing left of her that hasn't changed since Mia left her in left Kurain? Do you think she ever fastened it around her neck, just once, and wept upon looking at her own reflection? Because the reality hit her that she'll never be able to connect with her sister in a tangible form again, being the only one at the time who channeled her? Do you think for the first few years, on the day that Mia died, she runs her hands over that same magatama and wonders how things would be different if her sister was still around?