#iona

[homefryboy]

fuck orbitty all my homies hate orbitty

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[iona-xiv]

Unused shots that were too pretty to delete. ;-;

[thunderstruck9]

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (British, 1883-1937), The Sound of Iona. Oil on panel, 36.5 x 44 cm.

[hragon]

Iona, Oath of Hexes paladin, and her new steed, Dirge

[villainanders]

unascended gale/mindflayer tav in the epilogue :3

[uwmspeccoll]

Manuscript Monday

This Insular manuscript was created by Irish Catholics, who were well known to be stewards of knowledge and artistic ability during the ‘dark ages’ of the 6th-10th centuries CE. In particular, the Insular style consists of flattened, two-dimensional figures of people and animals accompanied by elaborate ornamentation throughout its pages. We often see interlacing designs and Celtic knots within this ornamentation and the proportions and rendering of the figures and architecture seen throughout the manuscript are not always realistic. For example, in the Book of Kells, produced around 800 CE by Irish monks in Scottish west-coast island of Iona, the columns holding up the arches on canon tables are circular and would lack structural integrity in the real world, for obvious reasons. We can see the flattened, strange rendering of figures on folio 32v (shown below), which is a depiction of Christ Enthroned. Christ’s knee is lifted to hold up the codex in his hand, but the placement of his knee is anatomically incorrect. We also see the flatness of the figure and the inclusion of ornamentation throughout the image, and we can see even more of this decoration on carpet pages throughout the manuscript. The Insular style was not only limited to manuscripts but was also used in metal objects like broaches, chalices, sculpture, and architecture which are also said to have been inspiration for Insular style manuscripts.

Our copy of the facsimile of the Book of Kells was published by the Faksimile Verlag of Luzern, Switzerland in 1990 and includes a separate volume with commentary edited by the noted Trinity College librarian Peter Fox. If you have the urge to see the original Book of Kells, it is shown in the Trinity College Library in Dublin. The library shows two folios of the manuscript at a time and changes the pages shown every twelve weeks.

View more Manuscript Monday posts.

– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

[theashbourns]

sketching up some very bg girls to annoy my other chars

[serxeri]

[womblegrinch]

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883-1937) - Iona, north shore

Oil on board. 14.6 x 17.6 inches, 37.2 x 44.8 cm.

Estimate: £40,000-60,000.

Failed to sell Christie's, London, 21 March 2024.

Cadell first visited Iona in 1912 and returned nearly every summer for the rest of his life.

[ronqueesha]

nine images that capture your oc's vibe!

IONA

Thank you for the tag, @andrigyn! This was fun.

I chose mine and everyone's favorite horny dhampir, Iona! But I definitely will do this for a few more characters.

I'll tag: @arcandoria, @silent-moons-camp, @captastra, @lordcaptains, @themumblingmouse

[iona-xiv]

O Green Word, keeper of life’s breath, Guardian of roots and leaves, Hear me, your wandering child.

Cradle me in your stillness, And awaken me with your truth. Let your guidance be my light, As I step beyond the forest’s edge

[arcandoria]

@ronqueesha's Iona

[hragon]

My newest DnD daughter! This is Iona Ravensdottir, my beautiful, spooky, powerful hexblood paladin. She is the Oath of the Hexes subclass from the Dungeons of Drakkenheim sourcebook which is so, so very fun.

[xandezsims]

[Simblreen 2023] Haunting History

A quick lookbook featuring some of the amazing goodies we got last week! A big thank you to all our Simblreen buddies! :3 Credits below.

Marcel Roe and Iona Kirkpatrick Fernandez: @chere-indolente @laeska @wistfulpoltergeist

Leah Quinn: @theroyalthornoliachronicles @buzzardly28

Theodore Duncan-Gray and Valerie Duke: @historicalfictionsims @johnnysimmer @lilypixels @simmillercc @laeska @serenity-cc

Poses by @helgatisha; CAS Background by @thatonegreenleaf

[izasbjdphoto]

My last dollieh arrival of 2024 was a Dream Valley Vanora in light tan skin. I still can't make up my mind which wig should be her "standard" one. The grey was what I put on her initially because she rejected everything else, and I didn't want her bald. But I did order her the multi-pastel and the dark purple wig shortly after. But now I can't decide, what is best?

I didn't have a wig chosen for her as she was an in-stock impulse purchase on my part. I had gotten a big back-payment of money owed, so I took a portion of it to purchase her from DDE. Cost a pretty penny, plus customs since I'm in the EU, but she was totally worth it!

I've named her Iona, and I am so glad I do finally own one! I couldn't join the preorder back in 2023 for her, because I couldn't afford it, nor did I have a character for her.

It was good I didn't join the preorder then, because the first half of 2024 was financially very difficult... I had also ordered Territh (DV Alter) for christmas, who I had pushed off for years, but I really wanted him for one of my wife's characters that I wanted to shell to complete an RP pairing of ours.

She still doesn't have a preexisting character, or a back story, for her, but that's fine. I originally wanted to get Adria's fullset because her outfit would have been perfect for Jazz, but I didn't like her face or ears as much. I barely looked at Vanora at the time, because I was so enamored with Adria's outfit. I forced myself to content with living vicariously through other owners, but sadly barely anyone had them or shared them? I was honestly surprised as they are both lovely!

Let me show some arrival pictures of her under the cut, plus more rambling. Beware of resin nudes!

Her shipping saga was... intense. DDE shipped her huge box (she herself is 66cm) through UPS. Sadly UPS kept having hiccups. First they kept pushing out the delivery date, because they fucked up and didn't forward the box to the delivery depot in time despite me having paid the customs already online.

Then they just didn't show up for the next two delivery days, literally trapping me at home for 3 days, because the delivery window was from 8am to 6pm... Of course this was all during the high traffic holiday time, where my sister needed me to help her bake Christmas cookies, but I couldn't get anyone else to wait for the box for me (I tried to find someone, but no one could and she was too big for a flex box). The second delivery day, they marked the box as "recipient not at home" at 8pm. I was home of course, and awake, but I couldn't call UPS because they closed at 7pm. A thing to note about UPS is, that they try delivering 3 times before they even think about bringing it to a shop, or just plain old return to sender. So I think you can understand why I was antsy.

Finally on the third day, she arrived about 5 minutes before the delivery window was over with. I was happy to finally open the box:

She was packaged safely at least, but due to traveling in winter with freezing temps, over half her magnets had gotten loose and needed to be reglued. I had to take her apart completely because her torso stabilizer had knocked loose, so I wired her.

I think I spent 3 hours getting her wired, restrung, and dressed, because she was being a brat. She came with a small bust as a gift, but I kept the large bust on her, it fits better into the custom made Iplehouse SID corset from CeressBJDclothes.

I bought her during the black friday sale on DDE, so I ended up qualifying for a past Dream Valley event doll, so I chose Tea, as a little gift for me wife since she mentioned liking him. We jokingly call him "Audrey Two" after the carnivorous plant villain of Little Shop of Horrors. His mouth can open, and he is cute over all, and fits in with some other silly little plant like creatures we got.

But anyway, I am glad I got her after all, I think we now have at least 1 doll in each of DV's standard colors! I have an Ann, Bor, and Eve in white, an Ann in the old orange tan, an Apocalypse Horseman body in normal pink, an Alter in normal (yellow toned), Vanora in light tan, and my wife has Tea in white and an Olivia in grey. I just love the fantasy dolls DV makes, they are so good...

So yeah, please let me know which wig looks best!

[artinandwritin]

Just a few little doodles of gussiri and their cat(s) (i think it's funny af LMAO)