vaecordia

i care so much about fictional morality and ethics but not in a lame ass "is this character/ship problematic" way. i'm cringe for other reasons.

i want to know what the court proceedings for a trial where the defendant claims mind control or possession look like. what's the worst crime you can commit in a world where people can cast spell of curse your entire bloodline over a careless insult at the farmer's market. how are magical prisoners treated. what kind of values would a society whose honour code is built on glory through battle and warmongering uphold. what's public opinion on the death penalty.

grabs your hand. come worldbuild with me.

[ Guilty ]

I haven't drawn in about 15 years beyond like, the occasional sketch or two a year, so of course it makes sense that the next thing I draw is... a highly ambitious stained-glass style artwork of Edgeworth. He's been rotting my brain and I realised I've been forgetting to post my latest fics so I'll be trying to catch back up on that.

Anyway Edgeworth has been living rent-free, despite my best attempts to evict him, he remains there and this is the result. Maybe this will be what gets me to start improving my art cause I do miss it.

wild strawberries

Kauas pilvet karkaavat (eng: Drifting Clouds), Aki Kaurismäki, 1996

if the horror of mordor is that it’s a fundamentally dead place, the horror of beleriand under melkor is that it’s alive. every wild thing, every plant, the land itself, all of it can be bent and shaped to the will of that which wants you gone. woods with vines to choke and trap and strangle, bogs replete with depthless pools and paths that lead nowhere and clouds of mosquitoes that can turn your blood to poison. leave a wound in the open air and by nightfall infection will have set in. goats and sheep are born shrivelled and eyeless. springs that if drunk from will bloat your belly and waste you away to nothing. deer watching with too many eyes, boars running mad and foaming even after they’re felled. just endless possibilities for fear and havoc and destruction, and all of it is intended…there is no comfort in the randomness of nature when nature hates you personally

Do non-immigrants understand how fuckin hard it can be to craft a national identity for yourself?

Like it stresses me out when people ask me where I‘m from, which is a normal question to ask but how do I explain to you that this is not a question with a simple answer, because no matter what I say I will feel guilty, like I‘m betraying my other countries of origins or like im not (insert nationality) enough to call it my home

Yes I was born there yes I went to school there yes I know the city like the back of my hand

But also all my friends and neighbors were immigrants and my school was for immigrants and I don’t know much about the culture and history of this place and I don’t speak the dialect

But how can I call my parents‘ countries my home when yes I know the culture and language but only to a certain extent plus I didn’t grow up in that society and I don’t have ties to and memories of one particular place or city

And no matter what country I‘m in something‘s always missing, it never truly feels like home

And even if I do decide to give a simple one word answer by just picking one country and sticking with it someone’s gonna ask/say something and I‘ll have to explain that „well, actually...“ and then I get asked a bunch of questions about why did you move here where is your family from what languages do you speak at home and just. Thanks for being interested but I get these question all the fucking time and sometimes it gets tiring.

Rant over

dont go where i cant follow

beren and lúthien inspired by east asian cultures

“Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”

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[Faithful] Haradrim Eru worshipper. Blue Wizards coped with their task, I believe.

________________________ I gave up the idea of writing the whole story of what I tried to picture. Instead I want the onlookers to get the inpression with no artist's influence involved. But there's not a single random object on this artwork ... ;) ⓘ *side note: there were very few circumstances and places where warriors would've left their real weapons. (snakes and Ulmo waters)

everything everywhere all at once is about intergenerational trauma. about depression and passive suicidality and the gravitational appeal of nothingness. about aging, getting older in your twenties and getting older in your fifties. about the specific hurt mothers can cause their daughters and daughters their mothers. about the harsh reality of the immigrant experience and the american dream. but it’s mostly about kindness and family and it’s about choosing to sit at home talking about taxes with someone who loves you, and it’s about telling your daughter that you’d choose her over the entire universe, and it’s about how even in the universes where life didn’t form, love can still exist. and it’s really all of that at once.

Tinuviel was dancing there.

To music of a pipe unseen,

And light of stars was in her hair,

And in her raiment glimmering.

[ID: A drawing of Luthien as a woman with brown skin and kinkydark curls. She's looking over her shoulder with a whistful expression and there are swirls and stars of white light in her hair. She's also wearing a silver coronet and a white dress. /End ID]

Yo does anyone have resources and info on historical dress/fashion history for Karelian culture? By blood I am South Karelian specifically (Imatra) and I'd love to learn more about what the people wore/wear as traditional dress. However, I can't speak or read much Finnish. :( I also have a hard time trusting google results, and i really don't wanna get this wrong!

Anything helps!!

The following comes with the big disclaimer that the kansallispuku (national dress) is not necessarily directly the same as the kansanpuku (folk/traditional dress) that people in a region wore, but are usually historical reconstructions of a specific outfit worn by someone in that region, or sometimes a bit more fantastical imaginings of traditional outfits... but they can serve as a good starting place to look further into things. I'm personally not an expert in folk or national dress, but maybe some of this might help?

Region-wise, Jääski or Ruokolahti's national dresses might be the geographically closest, since it doesn't look like there are any particular to Imatra.

Unfortunately, this PDF is in Finnish, but it has a lot of information about the folk(!) dress in these areas, too (I'm happy to assist with the language if need be!): https://digi.kirjastot.fi/files/original/ded0962cc8eb406cb78688b9433d729b.pdf

Also, finna.fi is a great resource for historical stuff, but you really need to know what to search for. Searching "Imatra" - or as it seems many people have worn Jääski dress in Imatra, using that search as well - among "esine" (objects) or "kuva" (picture) might bring some stuff? After that it's a bit of digging and looking at what kind of clothes get found from different regions.

Again, I'm in no way an expert, but these are resources I've personally looked at in my search for Karelian kansanpuku - I hope this helps!

make the world burn;

trying to speedpaint a bit! (time: 1h)

Foundation, Season One (2021)

The First Darkness 🖤

Art by tobi 泳