#Mother Ginger

[weavers-of-the-prophecy]

It doesn’t come as a knock at the door. No, Mother Ginger’s grown paranoid about that, refusing to open packages, holding her stump of an arm close when strangers walk too nearby her front door.

Instead, it’s another innocuous thing. Nothing too unusual. A tap on the shoulder at the grocery store. Usually, he wouldn’t grab her attention- one quick shot and done.

But no. This is a Puppeteer. This is the woman who’d stolen a person’s free will and kept faer trapped for centuries, who’d hurt the kid and gotten away relatively unscathed, and goddammit, he is going to enjoy this.

@nobodys-soldier

She turns around, dozens of scuttling feet trying to operate like ordinary legs and failing miserably.

She can't put on the comely old lady act these days. So she just settles for a vaguely unnerving smile and keeps the heaviest object she can spy close at hand.

"Ah, Ilania's soldier boy. To what do I owe the pleasure?"

[violetrose-art]

Meet the regents of the Four Realms

The Sugar Plum Fairy of the Land of Sweets, Mother Ginger of the Land of Amusement, Shiver of the Land of Snowflakes, and Hawthorne of the Land of Flowers

[lands-of-fantasy]

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

Illustrated Posters

[cinder-starlight]

I realized I never really delved deep into Winter Wonderland (mainly because my other platforms aren’t made for this style) but also bc I don’t think I’ve had the chance

So ig tumblr will be the first to get to know everyone more personally :D

Summery: Clara’s Christmas takes a sour turn as she discovers she is to be married in the spring when she turns 18, running away with her nutcracker she discovers Winter Wonderland. She believes it to be a paradise with a tyrannical Rat King—but all her beliefs are shattered once she meets his son, The Mouse Prince. With him she has one week to stop an arising threat within the land, followed with her trying to balance her home life and solve her own problems along the way. Making unexpected alliances, fighting beasts, solving mysteries and discovering what might’ve happened to her missing Mother. in the hopes she can stay in this pleasant world a little longer.

Anyways Disclaimer: this is all concept art; nothing is finalized unless stated otherwise and this may contain spoilers for anyone who’s interested in the story and wants to go into it blind.

I mainly wanna start with the main Silberhaus cast, Clara, Uncle Drosselmeyer and Uncle Scrooge (yes I made a Christmas character from another story fit into my Nutcracker adaptation—I think it’s neat >:3)

I certainly think that in terms of being a family, Clara is definitely closest to Drosselmeyer, mostly because he’s just about as outlandish as someone for their era could get (this takes place roughly between 1880-1889)

Meanwhile Scrooge is the Scar of the family trying not to lose his marbles with the drama that happens left and right.

Drosselmeyer and Clara’s bond is nice to me because a take of mine is that Clara’s father isn’t necessarily on her side, I took the time into account and aspects of different iterations of the characters and especially the books to conjure all this up—I’d like to think where her father’s priorities lie in his image and son Fritz, Drosselmeyer is like “yo- my niece is kinda sick, she’s smart” and idk something about that warms my evil little heart

Sugar Plum and Nikolaus, real quick, Nikolaus is NOT santa, Nikolaus is just the appointed guardian of the Isle of Toys, for the Isle—a Guardian is selected, through time they end up looking more and more like the Ancient Being of the Present, dressing in red and aging to look like the Santa we may know and love.

Nikolaus was a toy soldier originally who had ties to the Muridens (rats/mice), but after some freak incident the two cut ties and never spoke to nor saw each other face to face again.

Sugar Plum on the other hand is a bit more complex and hard to describe without bringing up any major spoilers. She’s the king of gal who must keep a party going because if SOME SINGULAR SOUL dares be unhappy or a sourpuss in her domain then god KNOWS what they could do if they make others feel miserable. She’s the kind of lady who’s sweet exterior really doesn’t do her sour center justice

I don’t have a lot to say on Mother Ginger but she is certainly a personal favorite of mine, she is the definition of peacekeeper but also has that motherly attitude we all need when things get way too out of hand. Her kids (which are called Crumbs) are possibly my favorites above her—they don’t talk and you never know how many there are until you’re swarmed by them—despite her fabulous appearance she actually has a soft spot for being a bit creative, there’s nothing this mama ginger wont style up—the reason she has so many Crumbs is because she- lemme speak—likes to make them; by making their cores and essentially baking them into existence, it’s a whole process I’ll get into another time but she truly knows no bounds with her unlimited love.

Perhaps I’ll discuss the more unusual characters another day 👁️👁️

Such as the Rat King

Mouse Queen

Mouse Prince

And even a few dubious fellows

[tiranushka]

[phantom-of-the-ruckus]

The Handee Nutcracker: Mother Ginger

Aaaand here is the sweet Mother Ginger! Daisy Danger. I had some struggles with her colors but she looks really sweet (pun intended)

And here's how she looks with the rest

(I think Nick would be the last from the main 4 line up due to space being little, the next ones might be my ocs + Scout and Owen)

FYI her dress is meant to resemble a bit of a ginger house as I wanted to get a bit creative into her character. I did take some Inspo from the Rococo Era in France, as the some of the references I was looking for her dress I noticed it was from there

So, I decided to style her hair into those wigs and give her a dress shaped closely to the gown. I did try to go for a more pink, but legit she just looked like Princess peach, so I tried to play a bit of color until I accidentally put brown in the skirt part of her dress

I actually enjoyed how it looked and at first, I try to make it look like hot cocoa before realizing it is more fitting to make it like a gingerbread decor. The white fluff is the "snow" (as her dress is NOT candy lol) and the upper part is meant to be the roof

About her kingdom, in the "4 Realms movie" hers was the amusement kingdom, so I am leaning a bit more towards it, but make it more into the parties type of fun with her having some gingerbread-inspired dresses for the occasion. She's not exactly a party girl but rather a hostess

So, her kingdom of amusement would be like the place the other rulers love to visit and hang out with as Daisy often loves to be the mom friend + she's the caretaker of the Princess Scout (and someone has to make sure the kiddo doesn't get sick from all that candy lol)

I think Daisy would also be the type of person whom everyone can seek help, but will also get disciplined (as she may be sweet but she is firm) She is obviously very understanding and did not hesitate to put Riley under her wing when the guards of her kingdom found her

I am still debating whether Riley meets her first or the Mouse King, but either way, Riley would not trust Daisy at first, even though Daisy is nice to her, but I do think both will reach that sweet friendship as Daisy would totally be the person Riley would just cry to

Also, a reminder that the ask box is open if you are curious about the Nutcracker AU ^^

[lotties-ashwagandha]

I should not be attracted to mother ginger… but like… 👀🏳️‍🌈

[highflyartist]

I did it... I FINISHED THE MAJOR ARCANA!!! LETSAGOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

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The Devil - Thomas Drosselmeier (Saragona's Dad) [ft Lucanus (Pre-Teen Edition)]

The Emperor - Richard Jacobs (Erin's husband and Taylor's dad)

Death - Fritz Stahlbaum

The Tower - Stahlbaum Household

The World - Mistress Marcella/Mother Ginger/The Silver Fairy

The Hierophant - Louise Stahlbaum

The Chariot - William Drosselmeier (The Second-oldest triplet between Henry and Thomas)

Judgement - Duchess Elizabeth Carter

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Nutcracker month art prompt created by @artsynoova / @noovamulticolors

[ichbinmeineeigenepuppe]

Hut auf !

[comicalfellow]

Does your Mother (Ginger) know?

[weavers-of-the-prophecy]

"You pride yourself on being a mother and a skilled weaver and yet you treat your 'tools' like a petulant child. If you are so keen on finding your goddamn Messiah I'd suggest being more mature and actually treating the avatars under your care as sentient beings rather than disposable objects. Maybe then you would accomplish more."

It hisses out, completely not caring about the consequences that will happen. It had enough of her and would gladly kill her if it wasn't for keeping its friend safe.

She sighs, snaps her fingers, and a little strand of thread begins to weave its way around Amelie's body. It's tricky work, of course. It hasn't got very much of a body for her to hold on to, but there's just enough thread left there for her to reshape it.

Slowly but steadily, Amelie's body starts to change. Painful, bony protrusions jut from its back. Its skin grows denser, more carapace-like. Eyes open where eyes were not before.

"I pity you, Amelie. We could have been so much more than this."

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[lands-of-fantasy]

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

Character Posters (Variants)

[burythecarnival]

🎀⛓ outtakes from shooting for shibari day ⛓🎀

[winterstellars]

alys rivers and gwayne hightower can pop up on screen for 2 seconds and serve a spoonful of cunt and i'll be clapping my little hands like a baby watching the blueberries do spins on cocomelon

[tiranushka]