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mamasita ( /term of endearement ) is it rent lowering enough (/sil) to ask for a falin x laios x marcille of dunmeshi fame board *twirls around* theyve been roating on my mind lately (⁠；⁠^⁠ω⁠^⁠）u can choose the type or stim!! 🍮🍮🍮

[dailyadventureprompts]

Thirsting Grail, Outergod of Wants and Wounds

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Adventure Hooks:

While travelling the party encounters a once famed surgeon who seeks their help in undertaking pilgrimage to the distant shrine of a death god. When pressed on her motivation, she reveals that through some curse or divine act of cruelty, those she operates on can never die, but also cannot heal. 

There is a tree that grows in the ruins of the old braon’s castle, said to have sprouted from the chopping block upon which he had his wife’s lovers executed. The tree grows no leaves, only flowers, and it’s said that if you make a tea from its blossoms, you will receive a vision of your one ture love.  Beings of woven thorn are said to guard the tree, but there are those who would pay desperately to drink of its boughs. 

A once peaceful kingdom dissolves into a generations long civil war, any hope of peace drowned beneath a tide of violence, ruination, and grievance that none can hope to escape.

Among the outergods there are none more eager to engage with mortals than the entity known as Thisting Grail. It is a thing of violence and appetite, and seems all too eager to lend its power to those most likely to misuse it, whether they sought it’s aid in the first place or not. 

Scholars and madmen have long debated the Grail’s motivations, what goal or ideology it is trying to achieve with the visions and often horrific miracles it bestows. In truth, Thirsting Grail has no goal beyond the pursuit of violence and longing, it is a means without an end, ready to lend itself to any cause that would make the world a bloodier, hungrier place. 

The god is formless, an ocean of boling blood that takes on the shape of whatever “vessel” its followers imagine for it, borrowing their cultural iconography and birthing itself anew each time. There are litanies of these avatars, hundreds more likely forgotten by history;  blood saints and baleful red stars and heart hungry blades. Perhaps because of blood’s ubiquity in ritual and occult practice the Grail’s influence can “seep” its way into the worship of other entities, divine or demonic, and it’s not unheard of for otherwise upstanding and dogmatic worshippers of banal gods to accidentally begin practising the grail’s bloody rites. 

Sanguimancy and other forms of blood magic are the most obvious of Thirsting Grail’s gifts, but it has other more esoteric offerings: smoke from sacrifices or incense mingled with the formless god’s essence can grant visions of desires made manifest, though often twisted through a disturbingly carnal (in both senses of the word) lens. All too often worshippers ( and the cult leaders that encourage them) see these visions as prophetic, leading to the outergod being sometimes called “the mother of truth”.  It can also manifest the objects of desire: succulent fruits, unearthly lovers, weapons of inordinate power, but there is something fundamentally wrong with these creations as they cannot grant true satisfaction, and often leave those that partake of them wanting more than when they started. 

Those who fall prey to Thirsting Grail’s influence can become warped as their own veins become polluted by the entity’s ichor: becoming feral creatures of endless cruelty and appetite, or having their wounds open wider and wider until there is nothing but wound remaining of their swollen flesh. Those so overtaken grow and warp and merge with others until new horrors are birthed from them, a permanent seedbed of 

Titles: Mother of truth, formless mother, font erubescent, the bloodstar.  Symbols: A red grail or fountain, cultural iconography stained with blood.  Signs:  Wounds that bleed but do not heal, plants overflowing or cracking open to expose their innards. Unsettling red dreams.  Worshippers: Those with bloodstained hands be they doctors, butchers, or murderers. Vampires, occultists, and other sanguiphiles. Instatiable gourmands and unfulfilled lovers.   

Inspiration:  I wear my influences on my sleeve with this one.  I’ve been turning the Elden Ring mythology over in my mind for some time partially because I think there’s a lot of fun ideas there but also because I felt like (in typical Fromsoft fashion) there wasn’t enough shown to really scratch my itch for discovery. 

The formless mother/bloodstar was chiefest among these elements: A killer aesthetic with lore that was a little too thin to use as inspiration. After a while that thinness turned into a feature, the idea of an eldritch entity of pain and violence that conformed to the needs of those who worshipped it, granting power to those who would go out and make the world more violent and painful.  I liked the idea that “mother of truth” was a misnomer, and that cultists would ascribe meaning and intent and iconography to a god that didn’t care one way or another. 

Another strong influence is the Grail from Cultist Simulator/Book of hours ( SERIOUSLY, play book of hours you fools), an eldritch entity/aspect of reality that presides over hungers and births be they literal or figurative.  The Blood + Mother connection was obvious here, but the Grail provided some more texture and esoteric aspects to fill out my version’s storytelling potential.

[workersolidarity]

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MADE IN THE USA

✍️ Artwork depicting a bomb made in the USA falling on the head of a Palestinian civilian.

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[nkp1981]

"This Is The Way" created by Christopher Owen Art

Source: https://bit.ly/4053dAo

[artisbart]

Wow Factor artist Brent Baker #artsource #contemporary #interiordesign

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Carabiniere salva ragazza: gesto diventa anche illustrazione

L’opera è del disegnatore fiorentino Antonio Federico Artsource

[mccleanphotography]

SALE EXTENED 25% Off Art. Ends at MIDNIGHT! 1/1/23. HAPPY NEW YEARS! Shop www.mccleanphotography.com or link in bio. @deptvetaffairs @artsourcefineart @artsourceinc @artsource @artcollector @artcollectors (at Ocean Beach San Diego California.) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm5DIaIPxnT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sweetside]

Who drew this?

I need to know since most of my Yuko icon, come from.

[quinlanart]

New work by Chris Quinlan Irish palette knife artist. View this & new collection at #artsource Dublin, Nov 2022 - stand J3 #abstractart #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #irishartist #quinlanartist #paletteknifeartists #buyirishart #artsource #rds #dublin https://www.instagram.com/p/CjWEdrRKX6a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dublinartclasses]

Congratulations and thanks to all artists who participated in the first Juliette Gallery Exhibition. You are a credit to your work and wonderful to work with. Looking forward to the next one. #irishartcollectors #irishartistsoninstagram #irishmodernart #irishcontemporaryart #irishfineart #artsource #artoftheday🎨 #artworld #artistssupportingartists #artistsunite #buyirish_artexhibition #buyirish #oilpaintings (at Malahide Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWRW3fWsirz/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Sketchin' • • • • • #sketcbook #art #drawing #sketch #draw #artist #illustration #artwork #digital #illustrazione #academic_artworks #art_we_inspire #artoftheday #arts_gate #artsource #artsy #cinematographylife #dessin #esquisser #artistic #artistsoninstagram #digitalart #f0xdrawpictures #girl #sketch_daily #sketch_onn #topcreator #vscoartist #worldofart (at Hutchinson, Kansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMEGHx_j08g/?igshid=1sq62twsd6m3m

[enoshimastims]

Boop boop e doop, here we are again~!

Could we get an Alphinaud Leveilleur/Alisaie Leveilleur ship based stimboard?

Blue/Red and extra bonus and huggies if you can lean into the idea of possession (throat bruises or hickies especially!) vaguely suggestive but not straight up nsfw!

& please no source/kin/id tags, thank you!

- 🦊 (for Alphinaud. Xe was feeling left out & missing his sister)

[dailyadventureprompts]

Monsterhunt: Wreck, Wrack, & Ruin

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Adventure Hook: The party are hired to put a stop to the undead rising from the old cemetary, and to determine whether it is some forboding sign or a curse brought down by some graverobber, as the town authorities are split on the matter. While investigating they will discover signs of dark rituals taking place, though they will have to be very clever to realize that the infact not at all humanoid.

Background: While most crows are content with petty mischief (and three occasional murder), these three arcane avians have no respect for mortal or godly law, and spend their days sowing curses and petty blasphemies wherever their dark wings take them.

The three carry with them an unrotting eye, the last remnant of a witch by the name of Hemani Lokryn, who used the birds as familiars for years and nurtured them to sentiance with a diet of dead men's brains. When the magehunters finally caught up to Hemani, the three were unable to save her from her cell or execution, so she commanded them to gore out her eye and carry it with them that her spirit might escape her body's fate.

Further Adventures:

When challenged or interrupted the crows make to scatter , as any one of them that survives an encounter and makes it back to where they've hidden Hemani's eye they'll be able to resummon the other two. Generally they always keep one in reserve, but this limits the force of magic they're able to bring to bear in any confrontation. If the party is clever, they'll poof two of the familiars to smoke and feathers and then track the straggler back to their roost.

If they weren't discovered in their earlier capers, the trio may try to bait the party into exploring some obviously haunted dungeon in the hopes of having them dig up some important artifact necessary for their latest scheme. This "bait" might come in the form of one of the crows pretending to be some kind of omen, or a barely legible letter pleading for help delivered in the dead of night. They might even try a breadcrumb trail of golden coins if they get desperate.

A girl has disapeared from her home after a series of strange occurrences, leaving her parents in a state of absolute panic and in need of the adventurers' aid. Always a little odd and shunned by other children for her morbid fancies, Cordelia was overjoyed when a trio of spooky birds decended on her usual sulking spot and told her that she had a great destiny ahead of her. Her new friends weren't exactly lying: Cordelia has a spark of sorcery about her, being the distant scion of the now forgotten Lokryn line after the family moved and changed their name to avoid their then infamous reputation. This makes her the perfect vessel for Hemani's resurrection ritual, as she aims to possess her descendant's body in a twisted "inheritence" ritual. The party will need to act fast to find Cordelia's motivations and trail, the crows have been gaining her trust for weeks with games and magic lessons, and now they lead her to a place of power where they'll take her eye and place their mistress's in its stead.

The story will not end should the party be too late and find the witch ascendant or completely gone. Hemani or "Cordelia Lokryn" as she now calls herself seeks to reclaim the power and influence she once wielded as not all of it fit into the childish body she's stolen. Vaults must be plundered, old servants called up from their resting places, a lair established, all of which may provide the party opportunities to challenge her once again and save Cordelia from her awful "destiny".

All this mucking about with eyes and resurrection has given Hemani a connection to the god of whispered secrets, who now drives the witch to seek out his own long-hidden eye of power. Cordelia's soul barely survived the first grisly grafting, and may be forever lost should she suffer another.

[fergaloconnor-artist]

So, I’m exhibiting at an event called ArtSource in the RDS Arena in Dublin from 10th-12th Dublin. The majority of my recent work including all my personal works from the last number of months will be on show there. It’s a large art fare with around 150 artists and it will be hectic to say the least. So much prep and framing and such and such.

Here’s one last piece I’m working on for it. Hopefully I’ll have the inking finished tonight and blast through the painting tomorrow c:

[colourman72]

These two pieces on way to their new homes today. Shame to separate they work so well together. Limited edition of 4 . Still have available from the series. . . . . . #framedart #abstractart #limitededitionprints #digitalart #colourfulart #modernart #contemporaryart #artgalleries #artoftheday #artlondon #buyart #collectingart #artmagic #artsource #exclusive #digitaldesign https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5Ws8plaxH/?igshid=w69vw9fdql8x

[300iqprower]

Fun fact: Voyager looks like that due to previously being summoned by Erice. He would have appeared as a 43-year gentlemen (his own words) but Erice's preferences from requiem left a mark on his spirit origin.

ok so wow i didnt think i'd ever have a use for the reference art I use for my OCs outside of exactly that, but I have a design pitch for "proper" voyager:

Maybe tone down the anime belt syndrome, tone up the magic steampunk a little, and bam - Perfect!

Source on the artists' ArtStation for those interested in some other characters they've designed. Turns out they're a video game concept artist! This one was one of several intended playable characters for a Korean MMO sidescrolling Brawler/Beat Em Up (cause I guess in Korea basically everything is part MMO. Something about how over there video games are seen as a social activity rather than one of personal fulfillment?) called Trinity 2. It was announced in 2011 but it was shut down after a year of being stuck in beta. Based on the trailer yeah it looked reallllly rough and this guy is one of the only characters in that art gallery that doesn't even show up.