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theartingace · 3 months
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Hello! I’ve seen your work over the years and every time I see it I always get a kick over it. I have a sociological question to ask you about centaurs. How do humans or other races fit into their lives? Both in a general sense of life, platonically, and romantically? Sorry if you’ve answered this before.
Thank you! It always blows my mind that I've been puttering away in my little corner of the internet with my horse people for this long!
I've covered a couple different specific situations in my cultures; re platonic and romantic? but for the most part is it boils down to that romantic would probably be rare and boil down to individual choices for how they approach it? But for platonic I have sort of covered a lot of platonic relationships just from the standpoint that basically all my centaur cultures have a deep societal tie to another race. At first it was a lot of convenience- a way to get around the difficulties of centaur bodies getting in the way of certain ways of life, but at this point I just do it cause it's lovely to me!
Like the merchants build their cities with the dwarves and they both benefit from the dwarves engineering and centaur's strength and mobility re:trade. The centaurs easily manage huge farms, trade networks, and logging infrastructure on their strength and speed but benefit from dwarves (and a small portion of other bipeds) being better set up for building (try to imagine a centaur making a roof, it's vexed me for a year now..) and generally engineering wizzes so it's a mutually beneficial relationship to entwine their cultures in the main Merchant City
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Obviously my Riders are wholly entwined with their biped family as I've talked extensively about in.. too many posts probably haha
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but then my very lightly covered Mountain folk have a different, almost religious relationship with the Forest Giants in which the relationship between their two cultures is separate other than the spiritual importance they hold with each other. The giants live approximately 300 years but are very slow, sedate creatures who prize a life of peace and telling stories over all else. So the centaurs almost view them as minor deities and the giants keep and love the stories their fiery little companions entrust to them.
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As you can tell, I really love building all these races and cultures and then mashing them together and see what comes out! I find it makes the world feel more real and lived in when I'm not only thinking about how a culture would work and operate, but also how they interact with their neighbors! What's their main export and how does that shape their life and relations?? These are the questions I get LOST in so thank you for asking :D
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karshmallow · 8 months
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[OCs] in every au hiro is just a little creature
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probablyhuntersmom · 1 year
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The Owl Beast becoming Eda's harpy form. Flapjack's gift of restored life translating into Hunter's new flash step ability. Both of which could be metaphors for accepting and living with grief and disability.
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yaldabaothadeez · 5 months
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(source)
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rottencoreflesh101 · 1 year
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ALEX HAVE YOU WATCHED THE NEW EPISODE!
Literally just finished it and omg… I-
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noxcaelestia · 1 year
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Feather shedding 🪽🪶🎀
A conceptual design of an idea I had in which my harpy guys would care for each other when they shed their feathers respectively (so yes it’s quite sensual and more). So far this is one example of just Aeras, the little swallow.
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birdies-aus · 6 months
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charm perhaps? would anyone want him idk if i should poll it or just leave the post like this lol
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nightmaskart · 1 year
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Day 16: God
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cloud-ya · 1 year
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we've all seen (and deeply love; its really fun to see your next art take on hov) your hov zoo. however, consider whale hov. or siren hov (? assuming u havent already)
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karsisdoingart · 16 days
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a wip for Dasan Ref sheet that i'm going to work right now
i decided to give him a new look + new color combi ( nothing so overcomplicated )
i disliked so much the color combination i've chosed of his previous design >>
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sugardoodle · 2 years
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Sometimes, you just have to draw wings on your blorbo. Sorry I don't make the rules
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samhaven · 4 months
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A gigantic fucking bitch appears stilettos and all
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welcometogrouchland · 11 months
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Thinking again about WHO TF BOARDED THE FINAL SHOT OF TOH. THE 'BYYEEEE'. THERE'S LIKE. 60 CHARACTERS/CREATURES IN THAT SCENE WHEN YOU COUNT ALL OF THE PALISMEN/ANIMALS. WHAT MAD LAD GOT THAT JOB???
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prismit · 5 months
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huh, i wonder which biome i should go to...
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blobbei-art · 2 years
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This is actually quite an old WIP model but I do really like it and got compliments for it/the design at uni so I figured I should share it here since I only ever upload finished things on tumblr and I’d like to be more active. 
Harpy AU model WIP that I keep procrastinating on because adding the feathers separately manually seems like a pain in the ass and I’ve never retopologised in Blender before
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necromancy-inc · 2 years
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Full body image for @criogahn!
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