#captain of the ranger

[wen316]

#pirate crush

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May 26th 2024 best hockey tweet(s) of the day

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Some sketches based on the first comic idea I had

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Merry Christmas from the Octonauts!

Another piece me and @littlemisspostit collabed on together! More versions under the cut with minor differences in terms of filtering, because we didn’t know which one we liked best-

Hope everybody is having a lovely holiday for all those who celebrate!:]

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Color wheel thing

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from @supersecretnerd’s post

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HAPPY 10 BLACK SAILS ANNIVERSARY!!!

(This piece was created for the fanbook event at @tobys-walrus-crew go go check it out!)

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Star Trek: Picard “Firewall”

Release date: Tuesday, February 27th 2024

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I'm kind of surprised that nobody's capitalized on the potential of a sentai show or manga of some sort either based on or licensing the current iteration of the Marvel/Shazam Family. I mean you probably could've done it with the Silver/Bronze Age versions but now there's six of them.

I mean, it just works.

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Aurora model kits (1970s)

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We're double fisting for this order. Captain n' Hangman on the horizon!

Jake "Hangman" Seresin | Adventure is Out There | requested by @scarlettwidow19

In case Rooster is more your flavor, or see what others are drinking!

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ok. /pos

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Been binge reading TVM and I LOVE IT. Bowman was already my favorite character but this story has already skyrocketed for me just how much I adore him. Though Felix is a very close second just cause of how he is with Carmen. I’d also love to know more about the Rangers.

1. Did you draw from any particular real world inspiration for them?

2. What’s the backstory behind how the Rangers came to be? Any little stories of particularly notable members you’ve thought up?

Yay awesome.. it's definitely the bowman book so I'm glad the focus on him is working hehe

1. Yes! The rangers are almost entirely a play on the Fianna, a band of heroes and hunters from Irish mythology. I strongly recommend you check out their stories because they're some of the greatest stories you'll ever read - start with the salmon of knowledge and then try diarmaid and gráinne. Fun fact, in older drafts of my books I call the rangers The Fianna but I found it messy.

As for real world inspiration, there's actual irl rangers as well, stewards of national parks and rare habitats. The rangers in Inver do not fight faeries so much as they manage the Ruad and ensure it is safe, and in Pascal's time (the far off distant future of 2017) rangers have become more ecologists than anything else, as their deep knowledge of the region and huge archives of faery activity over the centuries lends itself wonderfully to monitoring habitat health. So many of the ecologists I know were also used as inspiration hehe

2. The rangers of the Ruad (not the Greys) were founded by Finbarr Ó Casaide as part of the war that founded the state of Inver. He and the first rangers built the main Spikes barracks because (if you check the habitat map you'll see) there's a broad stretch of ancient yew wood north of the Lough, ideal for making bow staves. So Finbarr was a Spikes ranger. He and the others engaged in guerilla warfare against the werewolves led by the first D'Ouilly traitor, in particular the Tanet sect.

This is a short book I do want to write (it's on the table!!) eventually but you can find out more about Finbarr and his mortal enemy Olivier by searching the names on my blog. I'm stuck on mobile for the time being but I did write a pretty long summary of the pair of them and their relationship dynamic a few months ago.

Notable rangers include Finbarr himself but also Bowman André, who was the ranger who drafted the treaty between ranger organisations and the new werewolf monarchy, enshrining the terms of their operations in the Ruad into law. Although Finbarr's side lost their war, André's negotiations led to the current state of the ranger barracks as both gender neutral and independent of royal law, self-governing and so on. These wins came from the fact that any time the monarchy tried to employ its own army into the Ruad to protect trade or fight faeries or whatever, the soldiers would inevitably desert, or start pissing and moaning about it and why can't we just get the rangers to do the work instead. The flip side ofc was that most rangers are convicts who joined or were pressed into the service, because so few people willingly join an organisation that forces you to spend months at a time in the most dangerous habitat known to man, with no-one but other rangers for company.

Another notable ranger is Sharps Captain Torben, he's extremely famous and well-liked in the Régian [victorian] era due to his notoriously kind and gentle touch, as well as his good decision making skills meaning that there were almost no civilian fatalities under his watch for years at a time.

Finally another famous ranger is Hooks Captain Celeste, in 1969 she anticipated the disaster that almost swept Cánamac town away and ordered an evacuation before the tidal wave struck the town. I've written about that disaster on my sideblog @ranticore ;)

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Practicing different expressions with these two both interact with Avery sm soooo (esp need to practice with Kayleigh)

bonus image:

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The look , the voice , don’t stop now …..talking , did I forget to say talking . Clip created by Wen316

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Pretty 🌱🫧🌷