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February 28th is Kalevala Day in Finland, to celebrate the Finnish national epic. in the Kalevala, the jealous and impetuous Joukahainen challenges the great demigod Väinämöinen to a battle of song. He is promptly sung down into a swamp, and is about to fatally lose until he promises his young sister, Aino, as a wife for Väinämöinen. Joukahainen returns home in shame. While his mother is delighted at the prospect of Väinämöinen as a son-in-law, Aino is horrified at being married off to an old man, and drowns herself to escape her fate; she either dies, or is turned into a fish, depending on the interpretation.

#this drawing nearly killed me. btw. #kalevala #aino #? how else to tag this

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kultaseni

#thank you to lefa for letting me bug him for translations i loveeee yoooou #flight rising #veilspun #dragons #disclaimer i do not speak finnish my best friend is just finnish nd kulta is a very lovely term of endearment.

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mirror mirror 

#saoirse #dungeons and dragons #dnd #hiiiiii :-) its my girl

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what about when you insulted krumblor my friend krumblor. 

krumblor? 

the cookie dragon...

#cookie clicker #the way i legitimately thank krumblor for every dragonflight and dragon harvest.. my bestest westest friend #and he deserves a nap :-)

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it’s been A Year, alright, but at least i drew more than i did in 2020 :-) and hopefully i will draw even more in 2022!

#all i drew in july were those headshots for my fic and looking back at them #some of them are INSANELY ugly. and i need to redo them so bad. #summary of art #summary of art 2021

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it’s my best friends birthday today so i drew his druid =)

#its LEFA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO #world of warcraft #night elf

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we create horror movies. we create a girl. we destroy her. why?

text under cut. tw for mentions of rape and assault

what is my purpose? i am a creature designed only to suffer. i am a survivor. i am a vessel for the viewer. i suffer for the sake of it. i suffer for the viewer. i suffer for the gratification of the viewer. i am the otherwise useless woman that gets my revenge on the killer at the last second. i am the only one that flees. my trauma enables me to survive. my loss of humanity grants my survival. my only purpose is to be degraded. my only purpose is to be abused. my only purpose is to be raped. my only purpose is to be stabbed. my only purpose is to be strangled. my only purpose is to entertain. my body is exploited to the horror of the viewer. my body is exploited to the horror of men. the men that enact violence on me do not exist. the men that enact violence on me are walking next to you in the street. the men that enact violence on me are creating this film. i am the viewer. i can never be real. the monsters that hurt me are not real. the monsters that hurt me made me. why must i be created to showcase the horrors that are? look around you. i am you. i am real. i am the final girl.

#in celebration...? of halloween its time for horror art #i feel VERY strongly about horror in many ways. and the way it is used to degrade women for titillation is one of them. #blood #rape mention

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my dear friend has been playing skul: the hero slayer and we all agreed the witch is cool but her design is not!! so i redrew her. i think its fun when shapeshifters have lingering features when they shift a lot =)

#skul the hero slayer #skul: the hero slayer

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when i was 14 i created the closest i’ve ever had to a fursona: my part vampire, part cat, part dragon, part angel self insert. this was the style she was originally drawn in too =) unfortunately her name is a scene-ified nickname of my deadname so i cant share that but... rest assured it was good. 

#dont ask why i drew this as such high res bc the answer is it was an accident #also i had to do the silly abstract background to complete the feel LOL

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ride on

see you

i could never go with you no matter how i wanted to

#this is like 1/5th of a horse and i never want to draw a full one thanks #this is very vaguely niamh cinn óir sooooo. enjoy

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prompto: logging elixirs on fantasy my fitness pal

noctis: man,

#this is art i guess.

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"Every step I take," Cú Chulainn cried, "Is measured out in centuries." But Ferdia just laughed, and shook his golden mane - "And now I must make my stand; for your death is my destiny." But Ferdia just laughed, and shook his silver spear and fell  to battle again.

#how the fuck do i tag this sorry. #the táin #i guess. #cú chulainn #????!?!?!?!?!

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lunar vision

#this was originally a two piece image but i didnt like the first one <3

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a portrait of jimi hendrix for my mum for her birthday. you know how people put “I learned a lot while doing this piece” after painting a complex digital work? all I learned was I hate guitars and my tablet’s perception of colour is evil. 

#the neck of the guitar is the best thing about this imo LOL #jimi hendrix #worst part is i went to print it and the photo paper had mold on it! so i am in hell.

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Saoirse Oakmoon is a kind, well-meaning, and frustratingly condescending noble wizard. Ask her for help and she will oblige, even if she fondly treats you like you’re completely incapable the entire time. 

She left home to learn magic, a break in tradition with her family of rangers and warriors, and despite having completed her studies a couple of years ago, has apparently not reconciled with them. While she is open about many things, she doesn’t ever talk about them, and her once endless pool of money is rapidly drying up. Interestingly enough, even the most well-connected nobles seem to know nothing of any elven family called Oakmoon...

#saoirse #i literally. dont know how to tag this. how do you tag for dnd ocs? anyway #i had to do really weird things with knee high converse to get a ref for those boots so if they look weird thats why

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oh, sorry, you were expecting actual art from me? i don’t think so. have more f1 au instead.

#the first one is a very loose fucking impression of the pit wall LOL

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*lies down in bed* OH i forgot to post those f1 doodles *bolts upright*

i had a great time drawing mccrees little personal garage.