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I just want to say as someone who fell away from reading when I was young, Good Omens the show truly is what I believe made me want to pick up a book again. Even to start writing. I fell away from reading due a chaotic life and also feeling like I was “wasting time,” because it wasn’t productive. Which isn’t true at all.
David is what go me excited for the show. Then through the show I discovered you and Terry. It’s been a few years and I’m now 17 and excited for season 2. I’ve since begun collecting your books as I genuinely want to start reading again. I started with listening to you read aloud The Graveyard Book and I was truly entranced by the story. I currently only own copies of Good Omens, Norse Mythology, and Neverwhere, but I feel so much excitement for the books. Like I have physical books!!! Books I can hold! And read!! I enjoy looking at books.
I suppose this is a bit of a thank you? I’ve listened to a few podcasts/talks you’ve done and they have all very much intrigued and inspired me to even try writing my own story. Your Tumblr also feels like a safe space just as your books do. I guess I just want to say I appreciate you :D
You are so welcome. I appreciate you too.
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My hyperfixations are usually less singular and more like a braid of related content being woven together. My year of Good Omens had a lot of Doctor Who and David Tennant’s entire IMDB braided into it.
In a similar way, Sherlock Holmes as a hyperfixation has taken me through Benedict Cumberbatch’s entire filmography and down the Marvel rabbit hole. Now I’m obsessed with Loki--not only the Tom Hiddleston MCU character, but all the old stories. So my Sherlock Holmes braid has the MCU and all of Norse mythology plaited into it now.
At any given point during the week I might be listening to a Johnlock podfic, reading the Prose Edda PDF saved on my phone, searching for Loki amigurumi dolls on Etsy, at the library searching “Sherlock Holmes” into the catalog for the 17th time, listening to the Mythology podcast while I wait for the new Sherlock & Co ep to drop, reading poems from Trickster, My Beloved out loud to my cat, watching MCU Loki edits on TikTok, trying to draw Jeremy Brett’s beautiful face… I actually feel quite cultured in this period of my autistic little life.
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Abrahamic religions are controlling. At their very core they’re schizophrenic controlling hateful mythologies.
All your holy texts were written by a man in the early centuries, they took their hate for women, children, animals and pagan religions out in these manifestos essentially.
They demonized earth spirits calling them evil or demons or angels. The demonized pagan gods and goddess as well as stole the practices, holy water, temples, prayers, veiling, etc.
They fear mongered and still fear monger and brain wash people into believing their lies of Hell or eternal damnation.
News flash hell doesn’t exist, the depiction of hell you see is one of Hades many gardens for the dead in Greek mythology. In Norse paganism Hell is one of the five realms of Asgard not accessible to humans dead or alive.
There’s alpha male Christian Jewish and Muslim podcasts with hateful and harmful ideologies of controlling women, children, and fear mongering people who aren’t swayed by the bullshit they’re spewing.
This idea that the god or Allah and the church is causing harm and putting you through torment out of love is bullshit. A god that is said to be all loving wouldn’t torture his followers or leave their prayers unanswered.
It wasn’t gods plan for people to be murdered, hated on, abused, tortured, colonized for who they are and what they believe but these holy books that are re written time and time again say the opposite.
Every major religion has colonized an indigenous group of people that did not want their religion.
A lot of us have been so colonized by it that it became ingrained in our cultures even after it has erased and killed so many of our ancestors and traditional beliefs.
You dare call out the bullshit and people are calling you hateful, anti semitic, or Islamophobic. It’s not any of those things to call out the bullshit and share your experiences with them.
“But the Quran is scientific” it has multiple scientific inaccuracies that can be proven.
Not to mention these religions support and allow child marriage, forced and arranged marriages, can deny divorces, and find it perfectly okay to deem your wife and children as property.
You don’t get to tell me my religious trauma at the hands of the big three or my ancestors religious trauma or my friends religious traumas at the same hands are “just bad experiences” and that “I’m sorry that happened but” No! You’re brainwashed, go spew your nonsense to someone who gives a shit.
#text post#nyi#tw religious themes#religious trauma#religion#judaism#catholicsm#christianity#mormonism#islam#islamic#Muslim
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ABOUT ME
Hi! Call me Kazz.
Cis. Het. She/her. Mid 30's.
I am a dual Canadian/Australian citizen currently living in South Australia. I grew up in the 90’s, so 90’s nostalgia is my jam. My husband and I have been together since 2011. He is in most of my same RP games. I work retail in a grocery store and have a (useless) bachelor of arts in English and History, a Graduate Diploma in Education and a degree in Library Studies. Orcas are my favourite animal, although I’m also partial to cats, dogs, red-tailed hawks, Australian magpies and guinea pigs.
I’m currently the owner of three guinea pigs named Sable, Neil and Buzz. Check out their side blog HERE.
My hobbies are writing fanfic, playing RPGs, video games and cross stitching.
Link to my Fanfic on Ao3
Link to fuckyeahlabynight Tumblr's largest collection of everything to do with LA by Night and NY by Night.
Link to my Cross Stitching Side Blog
My CURRENT Fandoms include (but are not limited to):
Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss
LA By Night, NY by Night and Vampire the Masquerade in general
Critical Role
Dropout.tv
Doctor Who
Good Omens
I also love SMOSH, Dropout.tv, Last Podcast on the Left (and other true crime/spooky/disaster podcasts,) Disney, Shakespeare, Norse, Greek and Egyptian mythology, most films, musicals and theatre in general. My favourite musicals include Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Little Shop of Horrors, Six, Beetlejuice, Hadestown, and Les Misérables. I also love the Starkid musicals.
Past fandoms include Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dresden Files, Star Wars, the X-Men, Spider-Man, Marvel and the MCU, Batman and the DCU, Hellsing, Hannibal, Dracula Daily, Animorphs, Discworld, Game of Thrones, Supernatural, Smallville, Harry Potter, Team Four Star, Achievement Hunter, Death Note, Wolf’s Rain, True Blood, How to Train Your Dragon, Steam Powered Giraffe, Lord of the Rings, Rifftrax, The Sandman, American Gods, and Transformers.
My favourite video games include Dead by Daylight, The Sims 4, Wingspan, Power Wash Simulator, Hunter: Call of the Wild, Stardew Valley, Jackbox Games, Unpacking, House Flipper and Steamworld Heist.
I prefer watching streamers play horror games rather than playing them myself. (I make an exception for DbD, as I’ve become a killer main and that’s a lot less scary than playing survivor.)
I’m also into reading runes/tarot cards and doing some magicy stuff from time to time.
Current RPG games I’m Gming or are playing in:
Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition
Scion
A homebrew game called "Becalmed" using the nWoD system.
RPG Systems I have played in the past include:
Most New World of Darkness systems. (“Vanilla” WoD, Vampire: the Requiem, Werewolf: the Forsaken, Changeling: the Lost, Hunter: the Vigil and Mage: the Awakening, while also running games with Geists and Prometheans.)
Call of Cthulhu
Dread
Exalted (2nd and 3rd ed.)
Dungeons and Dragons (3.5 and 5th edition)
Spirit of the Centaury
Pathfinder
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Monster of the Week
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG
Apoc World
Shadowrun
Only War
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire
Marvel Multiverse RPG
Please note that though I used to love a lot of things that have *problematic* creators, that does NOT mean I support or condone the actions of those creators. I may still reblog things from those fandoms from time to time.
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Old Gods Explained
As I was working on the next installment related to Julie, I realized that I may have skipped a giant step.
The concept I had in mind, which I may not have really explained, is the idea that we know religion is involved in WH, and while there have been hints at Christianity being involved, the idea of old gods is really interesting. The concept is: Wally/Home have assembled old, neglected gods to renew themselves through the belief to be found in a tv audience. If you have read it, Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul, by Douglas Adams uses this idea (in relationship to Norse gods). The internet says that lots of people have used this idea based on Terry Pratchett’s work. I love Pratchett but didn’t really have a good time with Small Gods. I think the beginning is difficult for me. Here, their story is one about old gods not being gone, just forgotten. These gods are fueled by belief in a lot of ways, so they are immortals, but not really immortals with god-like powers, if they aren’t sufficiently fed by belief.
I was imagining the neighborhood as this kind of set up. Wally is our main/head god (or Home, as I personally think Wally is an avatar for Home, in the mythological sense (“the material appearance or incarnation of a powerful deity, or spirit on Earth”)). Note to self: consider a god clone for Home. Many of the characters do not remember where they originated or have vague memories of their start. (For example, Poppy lived in a tree in the woods, and Odin was “born” from a tree.) What if Home has pulled together forgotten deities and put them in this neighborhood, in order to pull belief from the kids, powering them up? I want to say that Long, Dark or Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has an instance of a god that has transitioned from godhood to tv/film stardom. Time to re-read. Maybe even American Gods? American Gods might focus on this heavily.
Anyway, Wally/Home has pulled these old gods to a new location in order to build a celestial allstars team, gaining the attention and belief of people to push them to renewed vigor. Because of this idea, I do think that it is highly possible that the gods are from different religious traditions. I am not sure what the reasoning of the choices would be, but perhaps considering the options, a theme will emerge. I have an early theory that Eddie is not a god; he is the only human in this setting, chosen so that he can make deliveries to the realm in which the TV show exists. We haven’t gotten into Ronald Dorelaine too much as of yet, but this theory would make him a powerful being (and Home/Wally his avatar? Jim Henson appears to have thought of Rowlf as his stand-in/avatar, though most of us would choose Kermit). But Wally does have the cross on his cufflink, so maybe it is the Christian god that he represents? Religiosity would have been falling at the time this premiered.
In general, it seems that religion began to fall off in the US in the 1900’s. I don’t trust all the graphs that I briefly researched, because it serves some group’s needs to overstate rates of Christianity in the US, but these generally vibe with what I’ve read.
In this graph, we can see Protestantism taking a dive around the second World War. Catholicisms has seen an increase, around the same time, slight increase in other, but there is a sharp increase in no religion starting around 1950 (from my studies, this is a reflection partially of a reaction to WWII, which really tested people’s concept of religion and the goodness of humans in general).
This one is similar, but shows a bit further in the timeline, and none is continuing to outpace religion’s growth by far.
It does make sense in the timing that if gods were powered by belief, that right around this time is when they might start to worry.
Now, we could probably write a book (and the podcasters for "Straight, White American Jesus" probably did, or at least will have some good episodes on it) on the rise of televangelism and its relationship to flagging religious belief in America. There is a history to the rise of televangelism in the US and it shows that televangelism really started taking off in the 60's and 70's (related to the big tent evangelist revivals of the previous few decades.)
Early depictions of Wally do tend to have an evangelist feel.
big hair, neckerchief, brown slacks
I couldn't find any good examples quickly, but see The Righteous Gemstones for examples, or maybe Jim Jones. The neckline is on point, but he'd be more in line with those other preachers in a blazer.
Fashion I pulled for another post, but this is of the time period.
Next time: More on televangelism in the 70's, finding out what elements of Wally we might find in these men.
OR
If I finish Frank's godhood, maybe that first.
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*Some* people in Frozen fandom are so offended and butt-sore at the mere mention of vikings and norse mythology, it should be studied.
The screenshot you see above is answer to my harmless theory post that was aimed at no one.
And now it's time to adress the elephant in the room:
There is not even the slightest hint that Northuldras will appear in next movies.
Yelana, Ryder and Honeymaren have no role in the books, comics or even in the podcast. If Disney wanted to flesh out Northuldra characters, they had more than enough opportunities to do that. Yet they didn't. I don't know why, but that's the current state of things. I'm not saying Northuldras won't appear in Frozen 3 at all, but as of now, there's nothing to indicate that they (or their mythology) will appear. If you don't like it, take your complains to Disney, not to me. Don't shoot the messenger.
There's a lot of fanon theories and headcanons surrounding Frozen 2. Unfortunately, some people take them as indisputable canon. There's even a self-proclaimed fandom police who attack others for the crime of not sharing their headcanons, and for disrupting their little echo chamber.
Let's dispel some of these fanon myths, shall we?
Drafts and deleted scenes are meaningless. They were changed or deleted for a reason. Using them to support any theses is absurd Runeard was in a block of ice therefore these men in helmets from concept art are villains??? what am I even reading Besides, let's take a look at the horned head pieces from both concept arts
Totally similar, right? No, not really 😂
2. Only movies are canon. Books are just bonus material and nothing more. Ahtohallan is not the mother of spirits, Northuldras didn't claim "her" as their own, Northuldra members weren't previous fifh spirits, yarl Aren doesn't exist. This is what mrs. Lee has to say about this
"don't hold us to anything except what we put in those features" This is where the discussion ends. Books lore will be not be included in Frozen3/Frozen4. Attacking me and throwing hissy fits won't change that.
P.S. No one ever said Ahtohallan is Asgard. It's a straw man argument. And The Sky Castle is its own thing, certainly not Ahtohallan from the past.
I won't even comment that remark about n**s and their favorite toys. I'm struck dumb. This person knows nothing about Norse mythology and it shows. And Norsemen didn't have priests; they had shamans. It was a pagan religion. They were called Seiðr.
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Do you like horror podcasts? Have you been looking for a creepily magical story set in the pacific northwest? Do you have some time on your hands but have no idea what to listen to?
You should consider listening to Antonyms! Antonyms is a horror fiction podcast centered around Jules, an inhabitant of Seattle (which has not stopped raining for six years), who suffers a strange injury on a camping trip with his friend. Suddenly, he thinks there may be more to the city than he thought-- and he does NOT like mysteries.
Antonyms launches this Wednesday (March 22nd) and updates weekly on Saturdays. We have spookiness, we have we have Norse mythology, and we have gay people!
If any of this sounds interesting, you can find us on Spotify or wherever else you find your podcasts. If you want to support us, you can find us on patreon at patreon.com/TheAntonymsPodcast.
#fiction podcast#horror podcast#podcast reccomendation#the magnus archives#welcome to night vale#i am in eskew#old gods of appalachia#antonyms podcast
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hiya papaya! my partner and i love your youtube videos, and we recently started a book review podcast focusing on books with queer themes. i wanted to ask if you had any lesser known queer ya book reccs, cuz i'd love to hear about them of so! also, i would love to cover your book at some point and perhaps talk with you about it, but that's future things cuz i don't want to fully ask that when we're only one episode in ourselves. thanks for making such awesome videos!~
I'm a huge huge huge podcast nerd so I may check out yours and would totally love to be on it! I really do despite all appearences spend most of my time gaming while listening to podcasts. Most of those podcasts are old episodes of mbmbam but look, we don't choose our autism.
I so don't do enough reading of NOT bad books in truth. Reading is hard and I take my occasional bad book breaks to read... like random stuff rather than specifically lgbt ya. But digging through my review archives and memory:
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention The Butterfly Assassin series by Finn Longman, which is foremost a spy assassin story set in a closed city but also has (and goes into more later) an aro ace lead character! And a very keen specific focus on close platonic bonds!! Stuff like that always gets passed over talking queer lit because it's not that bombastic I think to go 'there's good friendship here' but honestly so important to me to see books on purpose intentionally highlight platonic bonds as just as important as romantic or sexual. Anyway, great books. Caveat I know the author a bit but like, I am too autistic to hype up a friend's book that I DIDN'T genuinely love.
The aro/ace database is a key friend and work of art.
I think Angels Before Man is very widely known but a very interesting queer angel book!
Valhalla trilogy by Ari Bach is a very fun far future sci fi action fest with norse mythology parallels and dangerous lesbian valkyries
Archangel Protocol series, Lyda Morehouse isn't YA I think. Maybe. The fourth book could be, that one has a teen lead. Anyway, look!!! My fav angel weird sci fi universal unitarian religious 90s cyberpunk series...
I don't think my reccs help much at all here but there you go! I KNOW a lot of indie lgbt books. I just haven't actually read them.... yet......
#I'm a failure of a reader really who writes indie lgbt books but#I mostly read weird pulp on my off time#I'm 20% through harrow the ninth have been for months#next book I'm reading for fun is likely to be about a robot dog or like a ya book for 13 yr old boys#sometimes theres asks
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With A Martyr Complex: Reading List 2024
Adapted from the annual list from @balioc, a list of books (primarily audiobooks) consumed this year. This list excludes several podcasts, but includes dramatizations and college lecture series from The Great Courses, which I consume like a somewhat normal person this time around, but normally I'm a weirdo about them.
Myth in Human History by Grant L. Voth, from The Great Courses
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Augustine: Philosopher and Saint by Phillip Cary, from The Great Courses
The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Democracy and Its Alternatives by Ethan Hollander, from The Great Courses
Sex in the Middle Ages by Usman T. Malik, from The Great Courses
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik
The Fellowship of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of The King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tibet: History, Culture, Religion by Constance Kassor, from The Great Courses
Maoism: A Global History, by Julia Lovell
The Three-Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
Doppleganger: A Trip Into The Mirror World by Naomi Klein
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen
Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?...and Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-Box at the Vatican Observatory by Guy Consolmagno SJ and Paul Meuller SJ
Death's End by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
Other Minds: The Octopus, THe Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Ugaritic Texts: Ba'al Cycle, translated by the Scriptural Research Institute
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett
Propaganda and Persuasion by Dannagal G. Young, from The Great Courses
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
War in the Modern World by David R. Stone
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer
The Unbroken by C. L. Clark
Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford, from The Great Courses
She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted The Heartland and Crushed The Soul of Corporate America--and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
God against the Gods: The History of Monotheism and Polytheism by Robert Garland, from The Great Courses
Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee
A Desolation Called Peace by Akrady Martine
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, translated by John Addington Symonds
The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Broke Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
Anything For A Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in US Presidential Campaigns by Joseph Cummins
The Wicked and The Willing by Lianyu Tan
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
America after the Cold War: The First 30 Years by Patrick N. Allitt, from The Great Courses
The Aldo Moro Affaire by Jacopo Pezzan and Giacomo Brunoro, translated by a robot who could have done a better job quite frankly
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
The Shadow of The Torturer by Gene Wolf
Economics, 3rd Edition by Timothy Taylor
The Poetic Edda, translated by Jackson Crawford
Evgenii Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Mary Hobson (alternately titled Eugene Onegin)
Incomplete books: The Dragon: Fear and Power, Pilgermann, What Makes This Book So Great, Midnight's Children, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Heaven and Hell, Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed, The Last Emperor of Mexico, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, Emperor of Japan
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Great Courses consumed: 7
Non-Great Courses Nonfiction consumed: 19
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Works consumed by women: 14 or 15 (C.L. Clarke uses both they and she pronouns, counting is hard)
Works consumed by men: 35 or 36
Works consumed by men and women: 1
Works that can plausibly be considered of real relevance to foreign policy (including appropriate histories): 10
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With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, fiction division: Perfume: The Story of A Murderer
>>>> Honorable mention: The Dark Forest, Lud-in-the Mist, The Lord of The Rings, Ninefox Gambit, The Shadow of the Torturer, She Who Became The Sun, The Broken Sword, The Wicked and The Willing, All Systems Red
With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
>>>> Honorable mention: War in the Modern World, Norse Mythology, The Man Who Broke Capitalism, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Economics, When The Clock Broke
>>>> Great Courses Division: Tibet: History, Culture, Religion
The Annual “An Essential Work of Surpassing Beauty that Isn’t Fair to Compare To Everything Else” Award: Evgenii Onegin
>>>> Honorable mention: The Gambler
The “Reading This Book Will Give You Great Insight Into The Way I See The World” Award: The Gambler
>>>> Honorable mention: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Yes, okay? It IS Good After All and I was wrong to be a Hater: The Lord of The Rings
Best "Lesbian War Crimes" Book: Ninefox Gambit
Best Lesbian: Ma Xiuying (She Who Became The Sun)
Best War Crime: Mutually Assured Destruction by Antimatter Bullets (Death's End)
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This year I got a bit better at reading non-audiobooks, thought not as much as I had hoped, but I feel as though if I were putting more time into it the divide could be overcome. However, I also read far fewer audiobooks this year, in part due to that same promotion at work, in part due to The Election, in part due to falling into bad habits. An easy goal for next year is just working on getting out of that habit. I did manage to hit my target at the end, at least.
I took up the intellectual project of reading "Lesbian War Crimes" Science Fiction/Fantasy books, which had a pretty dramatic effect on the layout of my books for the year. Suffice to say, picking up a contemporary genre is not as Good For Me as reading from wide sources which include international literature and The Classics. Some were real hits though.
My own creative output was not as large as I wanted but it was consistently of relatively high quality and originality, which I think was good. My attempt at a novel failed out of the gate, but I can take a stab at another one in the new year.
Goals for next year: learn some econ, more literary fiction, get a novel down
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The norse brainrot is REAL
First i relistened to every single episode of this norse mythology podcast(great podcast btw go support the creator by listening here> https://open.spotify.com/show/7F0tD7bStFIDSVEbsnrxuI?si=d_xz31ygSpK9az7erNuPAA )
Secondly: i find myself creating a full kit of time accurate norse weaponry and kit for funsies(definitely not because of the medieval fair my town holds yearly)
And thirdly: i love the norse so dearly oðinn save me
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Hello
I habe just recently come across your page. My condolences for Minni.
But Holy Shit, your art style is so cool. Your whole page is freaking fantastic beautiful. Sorry for just putting random words together. I love the artstyle so much. To be honest i am flabbergasted. I hope one day I can draw in a similar artstyle too, but i don’t think anything can come near to the talent you have.
Like fr i saw your drawings and was shocked. May i ask are some of your paintings inspired by mythology? Because they remind me of trolls and a book i had when i was a child from Jan Lööf, it was about trolls.
Sending lots if luvs and hugs from little nowhere in europe. 💕💕💕💕💕💕
Hi 🧡 Last night I dreamed of Minni, she was sleeping at my feet and she was warm and her side moved with her breathing, but I knew she wasn't really there and it didn't feel wrong, so in time, I think it will be alright 🧡
And thank you! I hope you don't mind me answering this publicly as this became a longer rambling about creating and inspirations! Rest under the cut:
Often I think I'm still kind of searching for an art style that feels most comfortable to me, but thank you for liking where I'm now 💕 But don't put yourself down! It has taken me a lot of trials and errors to be where I am. And I could've saved a lot of time if I had committed myself to learning the fundamentals first, taken more art classes, etc, but hey, sometimes art isn't about perfercting a style but finding something you are so passionate about you cannot stop creating and you end up learning in the process (for me it is stories, I find it very hard to sit down and do a "random" art piece with no background story for the characters in it). And creativity comes in many forms! With a quick glance, writing comes more naturally to you than to me (even though I would like to do that more).
Your ask made me think what exactly has inspired my art. I haven't illustrated mythological scenes or people (only that I can think of kind of referencing myths is the "Mirror" swordtember drawing I titled as "Perseus' End" on my Inprnt), but I'd say mythology definitely is there in sources of inspiration. Not some one and only, but multiple mythologies I think (mostly European, as sources to those are more accessible to me because, well, eurocentrism and language barriers, but also geographical closeness). Mediterranean mythologies, first as a kid through (Hellenistic) Greek, now more nuanced (lately obsessed with Minoan art and clothing, many thanks to Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! podcast). Playing (= @artist-rat playing for me because I was scared) Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice mabe me dig more deeply into Celtic and Norse mythologies. I'm also inspired by Finnish mythology (and I started to write more in depth about it's nuances, but it got long so it probably needs its own post at some point)
In short, much of it's lost or unclear whether it was appropriated from Karelians (or Sámi) people. But after the sources of mythological events and characters are uclear, what is left that inspires me is this kind of animistic belief system and reverence of nature. That if you sing a spell to the trees or rocks, you can shape what is around you. That a everyone has their own soul bird that brings your soul to you when you are born and carries away when you die. And while I also enjoy high fantasy and epics, what also inspires me is finding beauty in ordinary, in everything. Especially in nature. While I get and appreciate the beauty of mountains and sea and steep cliffs, I try and can find beauty near me. Ordinary pines, birds that I see while I walk to supermarket, lake's small waves against small stones. And I also find beauty and inspiration how in many small things near you, one can find marks of something more. Dinosaurs never disappeared nor did their reign ever end: birds are still here and much more numerous than humans. The small exposed piece of rock is part of Earth's foundation, it's grooves and scrapes were left by tonnes ice that passed it ten thousand years ago. The esker made of gravel and sand is not as high as a mountain, but it is still the highest in the entire world and for thousands of years people before you have climbed on top of it and seen the lakes and forests around it.
Mythologies and cultures also inspire me in a way that I love to invent them. Mostly by looking at what has already been. Imagine what all ways people have had or could have to promise to live together, to enter to adulthood. And I don't think of myself as particularly morbid person, but when I have a new story or ttrpg world, I love to think how do people there bury their loved ones. Where do they think they go and what do they need for that journey? Can they ever come back?
I was also about to list some artists that inspire me, but this is already so long that I think that will also be its own post. But I have a side blog @harakkae and there tags "art" and "inspiration" where I have collected some art and artists that inspire me!
Sorry again for long answer, I swear I cut out a lot of my ramblings! And thank you for loving my art! Hugs and best wishes to you as well and based on the fact that you had a book from Jan Lööf, I think I might be from as or even more nowhere in Europe as you 🧡🐦
#it's near midnight and there probably are typos but man do I love explaining#and enjoy the little lynx 🐆
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Who is in the bracket. I need to project on to my blorbos.
here's a list of everyone who will be in the bracket, NOT in order because i lost my bracket and have to remake it, but these are all the players im putting out on the field
Klavier Gavin (Ace Attorney)
Tachibana Hinata (Fabiniku)
Loid Forger/Twilight (Spy x Family)
Juno Steel (The Penumbra Podcast)
Iruma (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun)
Kashima Yuu (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki Kun)
Magnus Bane (Shadowhunters TV 2016)
Viola/Cesario (Twelfth Night)
Rem (Death Note)
Double Trouble (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
Garnet (Steven Universe)
Godot (Ace Attorney)
Alex Fierro (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard)
Fiona (Shrek)
Adrien Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug)
Howl Jenkins Pendragon (Howl's Moving Castle)
Fujimoto (Ponyo)
Aziraphale and Crowley (Good Omens)
Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archive)
Francois (Dr. Stone)
Kirby (Nintendo)
Nanamine Sakura (Toilet Bound Hanako Kun)
Luna (Vanitas no Carte)
Kenjaku (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Jessie and James (Pokemon)
Loki (Norse Mythology)
Luz Noceda (The Owl House)
Neo Metal Sonic (Sonic)
Khensu (Cleopatra in Space)
Vinnie Dakota (Milo Murphy's Law)
Avery (Pokemon Shield)
Mikitaka (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Bugs Bunny (Warner Bros)
Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)
Whisper (Yokai Watch)
Batsubami Rei (Kakegurui)
Yuka Ayukawa (Blue Period)
Stacey (Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger)
Mizuki Akiyama (Project Sekai)
Deidara (Naruto)
Scarecrow (The Wizard of Oz)
Chris (Thomas Was Alone)
Testament (Guilty Gear)
Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Kuranosuke Koibuchi (Princess Jellyfish)
Link (Legend of Zelda)
Yoo Joonghyuk (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)
Aoi Kureha (Paradox Live)
Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods)
Phosphophyllite (Houseki no Kuni)
Kyza (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn)
Idia Shroud (Twisted Wonderland)
Lake (Infinity Train)
Winston Bishop (New Girl)
Mr. Finch (Person of Interest)
Nightshade (Transformers: Earthspark)
Callum (Subway Surfers)
Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Host Club)
Haruka Tenou (Sailor Moon)
HiMERU (Ensemble Stars)
Wataru Hibiki (Ensemble Stars)
The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms)
Kris, Frisk, and Chara (Undertale/Deltarune)
Teruki Hanazawa (Mob Psycho 100)
again these are NOT IN ORDER! the actual bracket should be out ugh. whenever i have time to remake it. if u have any complaints abt any of the characters pls tell me bc i probably wont do anything about it but i love drama
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Prelim Updates & Character List!
First, competing as a team won for all four prelim polls! Everybody's in, together! (For some reason I had a feeling the Naruto poll was a wild question, and with my practically non-existent knowledge figured Kakashi would win, but glad it's funnier this way lol)
Second, I have still neglected to organize the Portal prelims. Whoops. I'll probably figure that out today and post that tomorrow evening (5/1). Relatedly, I also realized I missed one more non-Portal prelim poll, so that'll go up at the same time (it's for Percy Jackson).
Third, uhh you guys probably want the character list huh. Don't know why I didn't do that in my original form is closed update. Here you go!
(One asterisk means they'll be on a team, two for the prelim I missed. Portal/etc will be at the bottom.)
Allison Ruth (Kill Six Billion Demons)
Annie (Skullgirls)
Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
B.O.B (Monster Vs. Aliens)
Bazooka Joe (Bazooka Joe)
Breakdown (Transformers)
Brightheart (Warrior Cats)
Buck the Weasel (Ice Age)
Captain Hook (Peter Pan)
Captain Typho (Star Wars)
Catherine Foundling (A Practical Guide to Evil)
Celia (Monsters Inc)*
Chevalier (Worm)
Dark Choco Cookie (Cookie Run)
Demoman (Team Fortress 2)
Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
Docm77 (Hermitcraft)
Dusclops (Pokemon)*
Dusknoir (Pokemon)*
Duskull (Pokemon)*
Ethan Nakamura (Percy Jackson & The Olympians)**
Every Dalek (Doctor Who)
Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu (Danganronpa)
Garrett (Thief)
Glenn Close (Dungeons & Daddies)
Hero's Shade (Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
Himeno (Chainsaw Man)
Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu)
Hudson (Gargoyles)
Hyakunosuke Ogata (Golden Kamuy)
Iris Clops (Monster High)
Iron Bull (Dragon Age: Inquisition)
Jack (Minecraft story mode)
John Silver (Treasure Planet)
Juno Steel (The Penumbra Podcast)
Kakashi Hatake (Naruto)*
Kaname Date (AI: The Somnuim Files)*
Kubo (Kubo & the Two Strings)
Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files)*
Laura Kearney (The Quarry)
Lila Bard (Shades of Magic trilogy)
Magnus Hammersmith I (Metalocalypse)
Man-at Arms (Darkest Dungeon)
Marie Mjolner (Soul Eater)
Merle Highchurch (The Adventure Zone - Balance)
Mike Wazowski (Monsters Inc)*
Midari Ikishima (Kakegurui)
Mizuki Date (AI: The Somnium Files)
Mr. Fischoeder (Bob's Burgers)
Nick Fury (Marvel)
Nifty (Hazbin Hotel)
Obito Uchiha (Naruto Shippuden)*
Odin (Norse mythology)
Pibby (Pibby)
Plankton (SpongeBob SquarePants)
Prismo (Adventure Time)
Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier)
Rachel Duncan (Orphan Black)
Rae Morningstar (Fable SMP)
Red Beard (Asterix)
Redcloak (Order of the Stick)*
Rem (Death Note)
Right-Eye (Order of the Stick)*
Rose Copen (Y: The Last Man)
Rose Wilson (DC Comics)
Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Sigma Klim (Zero Escape)
Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
Tengen Uzui (Demon Slayer/Kimestu no Yaiba)
The One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flying Purple People Eater (song by Sheb Wooley)
The Virtual Reality Assistance & Education Core (SteamVR opening tutorial)
Tyson (Percy Jackson & The Olympians)**
Viktor Vasko (Lackadaisy)
Violet (The Walking Dead (S4 Game))
Vriska Serket (Homestuck)
Wolf O'Donnell (Star Fox)
Xander Harris (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Zuko (Avatar The Last Airbender)
Portal/Portal adjacent:
Alan (Aperture Hand Labs)
Anger Core
Atlas
Bill (Aperture Hand Labs)
Cake Core
Curiosity Core
Deceptive Devin (Aperture Hand Labs)
Defective Turret
Fact Core
Friendly Frank (Aperture Hand Labs)
GLaDOS
Grady (Aperture Desk Job)
Morality Core
P-body
Party Escort Bot (Portal/Lab Rat)
Rick the Adventure Core
Space Core
Turret
Wheatley
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prefacing this by saying that i've been hardcore ruminating and having intrusive thoughts about this for the past day, so i'm just writing this down to hopefully get it out of my head and i can't promise how coherent it'll be
i've been listening to quite a bit of podcasts since my surgery last week (yeahhh yeeterus at last!). and honestly i've just kinda been blown away by the amount of celtic myth/folklore and scottish/irish history podcasts have popped up since i've been gone, and it's really getting me feeling comfortable with the mythology and the language in a way i never have before. it's a piece that was missing for years for me. which is why it's really driving me nuts that like...
i'm not expecting to agree with everything these people are saying. especially going into the myth podcasts, i very much do not, and with the couple i've listened to most at this point, i'm interested in what these people have to say and have a lot of respect for them as storytellers and for people who surrounding immersing themselves so much in these stories, even when i disagree with what they're saying. for the most part.
but fucking what's with this 'the tuatha dé weren't actually gods' thing? especially coming an episode or two after they went on a whole big thing about how the glorious goddess danu was erased by that nasty christian patriarchy. how can you hold those two views at the same time? the latter seems to imply some damn heavy things about the former to me?
their points were that they weren't all powerful/all knowing/omnipresent/etc/that they die (which i'd recently seen other professionals say and been annoyed by), which is bullshit because there are other gods like that who don't get called into question. they literally said that the irish gods weren't gods like the norse gods, and i'm pretty sure they also fall into a lot of those 'failings'?
their other was that the ancient irish didn't worship their gods??? have i..... missed some things? my brain has stopped working
#this was after listening to the candlelit tale's ep on oengus og just so i'm not vaguing#and in case anyone wanted to know exactly what arguments they're making#i have my theories on where this is coming from#but if there's definite things someone wants to fill me in on feel free#so freaking glad story archaeology is still going strong#and the irish history podcast has been a good time so far
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Berly and LA recap the season five Supernatural episode, Hammer of the Gods. Over drinks, they'll discuss lore, gore, and what they adore about the Winchesters and their adventures. Now, let's get tipsy! CW/TW for violent and lewd commentary; listeners beware! 🔞
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