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Christmas gnomes are more popular in Scandinavia than Christmas elves and even regular gnomes, so sometimes people will have gnomes replace elves in Santa’s shop to make it more region specific.

But in folklore gnomes were always proud to do housekeeping. They repaired stuff, swept the floor, fed the animals and kept the home safe. If people didn’t respect them they’d take revenge, or worse, take their services somewhere else.

So I prefer to imagine the elves do all the toy producing, from design to carving to assembling to painting to sewing to packaging, while the gnomes keep the shop up and running, inventing and repairing the machines the elves use, cooking the meals for their breaks, cleaning and looking after the reindeer.

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I finally got to watch Viften (Empire) and it’s such a fascinating movie. It was written by Anna Neye who also plays Anna Heegaard, a rich free black woman who’s dating the Danish governor of the island.

It’s sold as an absurdist comedy and I think there’s no other way to describe it. There aren’t any real jokes but you often end up laughing at the absurdity of it all.

It’s extremely honest about the horrors Danes put the black population through but thankfully it only shows it in quick flashes of art as seen in the trailer. I once watched a video where they explained why most women aren’t into slasher movies and why black people generally don’t rewatch movies about racism and slavery. It’s because the the horrors shown are very real fears and a fact of life so the only people who can really enjoy watching a woman get horribly murdered as entertaining are men and only white people can watch a black person getting whipped to death with cinematic lighting and have a fun night out. By showing the horrors in art they get to be clear about exactly what is going on without coming off as exploitative.

But it’s also very honest about the ways a society based on slavery fucks with everyone. Most of the servants at the manor are slaves except the cook who bought her own freedom years ago. She tells the housekeeper Petrine that some day she too will be able to buy her freedom and get her own slave. That’s right, the freed black people aspire to get their own slaves because that’s the sort of values a society like this instills in people. And Anna tries to be as nice as possible to her own slaves but doesn’t take her own success for granted and is more afraid of an uprising than her white lover and ends up doing some really horrible things to her slaves to keep them down.

It also touches on how people viewed being black or white back then. That it wasn’t all about skin colour but also status. That’s why all the white people treat Anna as one of them. She’s a rich, educated lady so of course she’s “white”. Even Anna express contempt at being called black because she doesn’t work in the field. The poor freed black people also call Petrine white because she dress and acts like a Dane. Not as in “you are pretending to be white” but as in you are white.

And hats off to the director Frederikke Aspöck. There’s a scene where a woman buys her freedom and they put on a symbolic slave auction where she gets up on the podium and bids on herself. All the white neighbors have come to witness it because it’s seen as this joyous day and they all clap, she’s offered to drink with them and she’s all smiles. The director managed to make the scene wholesome while highlighting the absurdity of it and all you can do is chuckle because what the fuck? The white people think it’s a good thing that she’s free but continue to keep and mistreat their own slaves, and she no doubt dreams of getting her own down the road. It’s very much depicted as institutionalized racism and not just “a few bad eggs”.

And I didn’t know where to put this but there’s a lot of interesting symbolism going on with Anna’s dresses. She always wears dresses that match the colors of the rooms she’s in, establishing her as fully part of the system, but as she begins to realize that the Danish state will never see her as fully equal her colors start to clash with her surroundings.

I watched it on Netflix and it has English subtitles so it should be somewhere for English speakers to watch if you feel so inclined.

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I was listening to a non-religious podcast where an Evangelical Lutheran priest was talking about Satan and he was like “If you take away everything about the devil that isn’t in the Old and New Testament what do you have? An angel who isn’t anti-God but anti-human. He loves God. He sees God and the world He created as perfect, but by placing humans over angles the perfect order of things were cast into chaos. All Satan ever does is point out how dirty and disgusting and unworthy of God’s love humans are. When God is exited about Adam and Eve the snake, who admittedly may or may not actually be Satan, goes out of his way to expose them. When God gets excited about Job Satan tries to prove that Job doesn’t actually love God. When God chose a new leader for the Jews Satan says he is unworthy because his closest is filthy. When God himself becomes human Satan is besides himself with disgust. Satan is at the heart of his being a conservative”

And I know this is probably going to turn into a religious debate or whatever but I’m just so tickled by the mental image of conservative Satan getting nauseous and throwing up a little in his mouth at the sight of his perfect beautiful God in a disgusting, smelly human body. Just fucking keeping a bucket nearby every time he talks to Jesus because it’s the worst fucking thing he has ever been exposed to.

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Some more doodles exploring Miya's choice of fashion bc I realized my default fashion is like 2010's and before. Lol gotta do some studies now

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Introducing some old characters of mine that I have recently redesigned.Introoooducing Miya Hernandez! The lovable mothgirl lesbian that I've had for sooo long and am so happy to see her redesigned 😊.

Stay tuned for a full ref soon. 😘

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Some character explorations I did while designing Evie😉Check her out through #younghorrors

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Introducing a fullbody ref of Evie! The lovable, big-breasted, bisexual butch girl of my dreams! 😍⠀

Quick bio Evie is the second oldest of a whole line of Frankenstein creations created by her lovable (and hyper-active) mad scientist father. Evie lives in her own apartment close to the beach where shes able to perform all her favorite activities of exercising, hiking, surfing and a whole bunch of other activities she somehow manages to squeeze in one day while also going clubbing at night. The girl honestly never stops 😅⠀

Currently taken by her girlfriend Miya 😘⠀

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Introducing Eve my frankenstien oc who I hope to introduce more later 😉

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Update sorry posted wrong merboy!!

Iiinnntorducing the final boy of the #viomerboys Cast!His name is either Abai, Abilo or Eusebio idk I need to figure how to pronounce these (Brazillian) names correctly first. For now hes A

⠀Introducing A! The older brother of Xochi and the only one of the group that has actually completed the migration journey before! Which is kinda odd bc most Mers try to pick their partner on their first try (Some even pick beforehahnd)as the journey can be quite dangerous. Well, anyways, his expertise will be well needed in this group⠀

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Iiinnntorducing the final boy of the #viomerboys Cast!His name is either Abai, Abilo or Eusebio idk I need to figure how to pronounce these (Brazillian) names correctly first. For now hes A

⠀Introducing A! The older brother of Xochi and the only one of the group that has actually completed the migration journey before! Which is kinda odd bc most Mers try to pick their partner on their first try (Some even pick beforehahnd)as the journey can be quite dangerous. Well, anyways, his expertise will be well needed in this group⠀

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Finally finished this drawing!! Still figuring out his name I found some South American gods to be his name and heres what I found Jaci-the brazillian godess of the moon or Xochiquetzal- the aztec goddess of fertility beauty and female sexual power. Im leaning towards Xochi but idk how to pronounce their names 😔. If anyone knows how please let me now. ⠀

Quick Bio-Just like Odi Xochi is also really excited for the migration to the mating circle. Well maybe not the migration part but the ending mating and getting the attention from all those female suitors part is what hes looking for. ⠀

P.s Xochi is considered the prime definition of beauty in the mer world with his large plume tail, colorful fins, and large heaving....pecs⠀

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Introducing Ody's closest and most bestest friend Jedediyah! Jedi has been there since the begining from when there were just wee grubs to now as they set out on their journey. And Jedediyah HATES it so much! He hates that he has to leave his only ever home and go to some unknown territor, he hates how he and Ody have to put themselves in DANGER just for small solidarity chance they get to fuck some girl. This whole tradition is all completely medieval and he wants nothing to do with it.

He's only going bc Ody asked

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New oc here his name is Imperial Stone aka Pearlie by his friends.

Quick Bio: Pearlie is a foul pretentious fella who'd rather wack his fins off then join in the "great migration" to the breeding ground. But don't be fooled by his biting words and remarks in reality Pearlie is terrified to leave his home for the first time and travel the dangerous 7 seas⠀

Ps decided to try a new shading style for quickness⠀

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Various color schemes Im working on for these two new boys. Left is Imperial Pearl, and Right is Jedediyah. Some quick info both are long-time friends of Odysseas. Both don't want to do this dumbass migration journey (for different reasons), and both are snarky, snappy peaple, seriously Ody you really pick them. 😅

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Some doodles showing my thought process on how I'm gonna tackle drawing this dude.Also, bonus pic showing full body sketch 😉

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Guess who bought an adopt from the lovely @kirieytsuki (on insta) I aboalsulty fell in love with her designs and now I kinda wanna make a wole series based on this boi

<3<3Quick Bio: Odie is a lovely little merman just shy of 18 who is READY to go out and participate in the great migration. He wants nothing more to explore, to learn annnnd to make it ot the famous mer breeding grounds (where he can hopefully finally meet the mermaid of his childhood dreams)

LFunfact his side fins are a cute trait sought after in merboys there called “bride fins”

1st is my version (I had to simplify bc I want to make a story out of them)

2nd is origional artists adopts version

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