The tumbling of a Scribbling Face

wanting and needing and yearning and longing and desiring and pining and craving btw. if u even care

my daily habit of continuing on

A quick sketch of Tenar/ Arha from The Tombs Of Atuan

'Harpy' by Edvard Munch, 1899

early Steiff elephant pin cushion

1898

“It is a symbol that Solomon once set in place

and is taken to this day as a token of fidelity,

for the form of the figure is a five-pointed star

and each line overlaps and links with the last

so is ever eternal, and when spoken of in England

is known by the name of the endless knot.”

“So it suits this soldier in his spotless armor,

fully faithful in five ways five times over.

For Gawain was as good as the purest gold—

devoid of vices but virtuous, loyal

and kind…

… A prince who talked the truth:

known as the noblest knight.”

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Fitt 2, lines 625-635, 638-639) as translated by Simon Armitage

Details of the piece under the cut

today’s obsession is ancient tattoos, in particular the s-curved floral-antlered deer of the Siberian Ice Maiden and Scythian Chieftain. 

it’s such a heavily used trope in modern media (off the top of my head I can think of Pokemon, Annihilation, Bambi, Snow White and the Huntsman, etc) and why wouldn’t it be! antlers look like branches, branches look like antlers, it’s only natural to pair them

but it makes me strangely emotional that our brains have always worked this way, and been drawn to the same imagery over and over again. 

I’m also going to resist the urge to make paired enamel pins of these ancient deer, even though I deeply desire little wearable tributes of the past

Make the enamel pin pls @pangur-and-grim

well okay, if you insist!

pre-orders are open for these ancient stag enamel pins at greerstothers.shop

and as an added bonus, the Scythian Chieftan’s ram!

I’ve spent 9.3k in vet bills the last four days (details under the cut), so these are once again up for pre-order!

art by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1910s)

Carl Frederik Aagaard (Danish, 1833–1895) - Wildflowers by a Cornfield

Leo Gestel - Autumn (1909)

Bearded Vulture

northern lights photographed from space

After unicorns, some griffins studies :)

This year was quite busy, so these little ones have been waiting to be done for a very long time… Now I start getting more free time, I finally could finish it!

So I was watching a video on ptarmigans and it was mentioned that they dig burrows in the snow for shelter and protection. Which, cool! Burrowing bird! Then they showed this picture and

It's perfect

i get that for most people tragedy is just always gonna feel Bad to read and that informs a lot of bury your gays discourse but we must not forget that a lot of people sincerely enjoy writing and reading tragedy and queer audiences still deserve to have good tragedies written by and for them imo

like i hope i don't have to explain that there's a difference between a lovingly crafted tragic romance by a queer author featuring characters that represent them and a shitty tv show introducing a single gay character for brownie points then immediately killing them off for shock value