#The Cairn Maiden

[3584-tropical-fish]

Season two bookbinding finally complete!! If you haven’t seen my season one copy, it’s here :D

Progress photos under the cut

[little-water-bears]

sister carpenter

[catwyk]

travel doodles part 2!!!! notes and info below if youre interested :]

link to part 1

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picture 1: the cairn maiden!!! i drew her veil on whiteboard ONCE and im obsessed w shading thin drapery now. tbh im just obsessed w drapery

picture 2: headshots of faulkner, roemont, carpenter, and shrue that very much leave something to be desired, but im including them anyway

picture 3: faulkner comforting his father during ep 38 (best s3 episode)

picture 4: PYJAMA FAULKNER !!!! also during ep 38

picture 5: wallace, faulkner and thurrocks attempting to contact the endless drear in ep 22 (best s2 episode). again this leaves somethig to be desired but whooo cares maybe ill adapt it digitally

picture 6: very rough 2-panel comic of faulkner stealing carpenter's pancakes. there was gonna be a third panel where she stabs him with a fork but i fucked it up so badly i had to rip out the whole page. the text reads "couldnt care less" // "still waiting for his food"

picture 7: drawn most of the way through listening to season 3, and you can tell bc im just desparate for carpenter and faulkner to have a happy moment :( this is them going out for coffee together (the text shows that carp has a cappuccino and faulk has a hot chocolate)

picture 8: young em and carpenter playing in the white gull, trying not to fall in :] better times all round. this is another one i wanna digitize

picture 9: an older em and carpenter, where em is cleaning her scraped knee. his speech bubble reads "stop kicking your damn leg."

[silvernsold]

The Cairn Maiden

reduction prints with a linoleum block, I ended up liking the final one better than the one with multiple drops but its ok <3

[tinybrownie]

The Cairn Maiden

[felidaefatigue]

Another one done on my work breaks, Steward Acantha, Odds and Ends, and of course the Cairn Maiden, Old Soilbreath, the Bone Crow.

[finalgirlart]

sister carpenter and the gods who just won’t leave her alone

lyrics from nobody’s soldier by hozier

[thesainteclectic]

This is the place.

This has always been the place.

You were always walking towards this moment.

We were always waiting for you here.

The soil will swallow you.

The roots will tear at you.

Foxes and flies will bear you away.

There’s nothing left to hold on to.

There’s nowhere left to go.

There’s no need to worry any more.

[lich-slap]

What Carpenter and the Trawlerman and the Cairn Maiden have got going on is a very worse form of "God loves you, but not enough to save you".

God loves you so much he is saving you for something special, whether you want it or not.

[resident-quilt]

going FERAL

Carpenter in her rant to Paige: “the last words [my parents] ever heard were that they were to be devoured by something they did not understand.”

Paige, creating the chant of her god: “I will steal myself away from their intent for me. My blood will not ripen their soil, nor shall my body blossom into their chosen colours.”

“I will be hallowed, but not for them.”

Paige. Paige, creating a god of martyrs and victims. A god of scapegoats... but also, a god of understanding. A god which respects the last wishes of all who call upon it. A god whose purpose, intentionally or unintentionally, responded to the anger Carpenter expressed all those months ago. 

And Carpenter, Sister “I would rather die for nothing and with nothing in my heart than die for you, my Trawler Man” Carpenter........... wow.

Not to mention!! The juxtaposition between the Cairn Maiden and the Many Below??????? They’re both there--not only for the followers of the faiths they lead, but for the followers of other faiths when they die. 

Except the Cairn Maiden is for deaths that always were going to happen, the deaths that everyone walks towards, the death you’ve been waiting for all your life. The death a person should, and is destined, to have. And the Many Below is for deaths that you struggle against, for deaths in which your fate and faith and purpose in life is ripped out of your hands. The death you weren’t walking towards all your life. When it manifests, the Many Below is violent, cruel, vicious, savage.

IT’S LIKE. IT’S LIKE THE CAIRN MAIDEN BUT ANGRIER if that doesn’t scream Carpenter I don’t know what does. 

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character — Monster Bracket — Round 2

Propaganda

The Cairn Maiden (The Silt Verses)

A god that only wishes to meet people at the place they die and cradle them, appears as a veiled indistinct figure in the distance

as far as gods in the silt verses go, she is queen of staying in her lane. if you follow her, she shows you visions of the place you will die, and in return, you care for the dead and give them a proper burial. yeah she lingers on the road behind you, but she's just checking up on you!

Garfield the Deals Warlock (The Adventure Zone: Balance):

c'mon

there's nothing hotter than a successful small business owner

We're into catboys on this site

it's sexy as hell to be able to admit when you've been straight bamboozled by another sexy magic user. And, I guess, to make people into your weapons? I guess?

If Tumblr has taught me anything it’s that Garfield is SEXY

no i would fuck garfield the deals warlock. i'd end up selling my soul in the process or some shit but i would

[idislikethissite]

Hey what if Paige doesn’t see Hayward again. What if their garbled voices through the phone is the last they know of each other.

What if when Paige sees Carpenter next, Carpenter has modified the Withermark (twisting the water) with the marks of the Wound Tree (making a floating tree; perhaps willowy)

[catwyk]

another whiteboard sesh!!! we just cannot stop doing these !!!

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please check them out!!!

[woodlouseonastring]

cairn maiden reference :O

[Image description: a sign post that says "passing place", all caps, in black letters against a white diamond shaped sign. It is among green, possibly fir trees and a grey sky. /End image description.]

[douglasfeiffel]

Better to die like this, probably.

Better alone.

So they don’t have to see you.

So you don’t have to look at them when you go.

Like an old dog burrowing under the floorboards.

Up ahead on the roadside, there’s the shape of an abandoned car, and hope, pure hope, swells for a heartbeat...

...until you get a little closer, and you can see the true detail of the rusted wreck.

Its passenger seat is dangling open.

Its bonnet is a broken shell.

Wildflowers are growing up through the wheels.

Hiiii guys I couldn’t stop thinking about the car where Carpenter collapses at the end of season one. I feel like it’s a really beautiful place and I’ve never seen anyone draw it before. So here ya go. This was also a chance to practice scene drawing as I almost never draw scenes 😅 I just really like drawing people

[magus-incognito]

To Lay to Rest

This is the place— this has always been the place.

You were always walking toward this moment. We were always waiting for you, here.

The soil will swallow you; the roots will tear at you; foxes and flies will bear you away.

There’s nothing left to hold on to. There’s nowhere left to go. There’s no need to worry anymore.

—Carpenter, TSV 24: And I’d be Gone Without a Trace.

This prayer may be applicable to spirit, memory, monument and person, for an end in peace.