Viking Art

you know he would have been one of Those kids

inspired by this pic:

Fun fact: this book is the reason I know how to write in Futhark runes.

I got this book for Christmas when I was maybe 14. I was already a weird kid who was hyper-interested in codes & ciphers & there was a “dragon alphabet” in there that I thought was cool, so I memorized it & started using it to write notes to a few of my friends in high school.

Come to find out it was actually a variant of one of the Futhark runic alphabets (I’m pretty sure it was the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc).

I started to modify it & research other runic alphabets, one thing led to another, & now I just casually have most runic alphabets memorized. As you do.

Another piece I finished tonight. It's my interpretation of Tyr and I hope people like him. This one was fun to do because I could let go of the finer details and focus on the details that mattered.

Reblog to make it die faster

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

graph of what being hungry is like with adhd

For people who do rituals, meditative rituals, etc.

I was listening to meditative music, the song was a ritual for blot, a Norse/Germanic sacrifice ritual. I wasn't aware until I looked it up.

It was the first time I felt relived and at home during meditation in a little while. My question is, without an actual sacrifice for a ritual would I have been giving myself up as one?

I know very little about Norse rituals.

Hi there! Prefacing by saying this comes from my experience and research:

The Norse gods will not trick devotees/practitioners like that; they don't deal in "devil's bargains" or anything of that nature. Sure, in the myths Loki and Odin are tricksters, but even in those accounts they tend to reserve trickery for either playful pranks or fooling enemies/those outside their circles. Even in a story where Odin does try to outsmart an innocent farmer, the farmer ends up tricking HIM and Odin is so pleased that he rewards the farmer for it (all that to say: it still seems rather playful).

But in a spiritual sense: I've found they want intentional sacrifice or offerings. These can be immaterial as well, so I believe your offering was your time/attention.

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

Everyone reblog! Spread the word so more and more artists learn that in addition to Glaze that coats art against ai scraping mimicry there's also an offensive tool now, able to skew and poison data pools.

Now poisoning will need many artists to nightshade their art and it's most important to get this ou to those the most at risk of being scraped. Reblog!

Getting inspired to write is actually really easy! All you need to do is be the busiest you've ever been in your entire life and as far away from a computer as humanly possible. Hope this helps 🥰

this is such incredible advice for creating any kind of art i have to put it over here to remind myself

And this goes for writing too.

There are stories that only you are qualified to tell best: that only you are able to tell. You are uniquely positioned in spacetime to do this job because of your life detail, your upbringing, your reading, your thinking. No one else can tell your stories just the way you do, no matter how good a writer they might be.

And inside you somewhere are characters desperate for your attention; desperate for your intention and your work to breathe life into them. They need your voice raised to tell their stories. No one else can do it. You are their only hope.

Waste no more time worrying about whether your take on their stories will be good enough. You have more important things to be thinking about. So go get on with it. :)

Being a witch trying to research with books is just like:

"no"

"that's blatant misinformation"

"this guy was exposed as a nazi"

"no"

"that's historically inaccurate"

"this person was exposed as a terf"

"no"

"oh something I can use-"

Rune Art, unsure about artist, was sent to me by a pagan friend a while ago.

Artist is Lunaria Gold

I believe they’ve also made a deck out of it that you can purchase.

Replace the green aventurine with about a half-cup of cranberries & this actually makes a really nice winter stovetop potpourri.

#peak comedy

I loved this play on the idea of people “invoking the name of Thor” in the sagas and he just appears like an Ancient Norse Batman