#naira scribbles

[nairanorica]

Apparently I'm incapable of drawing anything other than simple, stylized birds at the moment. So here's another super simple and stylized wagtail!

#bird #wagtail #traditional art #gouache #naira scribbles

[gamenu]

         "I managed to borrow a few pearls for you to study, dear." Beryl shifts, her tentacles gently setting three pairs of pearls where Naira can easily reach them without being in danger of getting wet. Her gills flex, drawing in more of the humid air of the surface, and let out a soft whoosh sound as she breathes.

         "These here," the tip of a tentacle gingerly nudged the rightmost set of pearls, "were grown up here on the surface in a lab by humans. The magic is... drier, I suppose, than the rest, but it is stable. The people wouldn't tell me too much about how they were made," she frowns slightly but the expression smoothes out after a second, "but what I can tell you is that some amount of transformation magic was involved. Perhaps there's fairies in your Hollow who could tell you more?"

                                                  -- @wishkept (feat. Beryl)

         "Thanks, Mama Ashengrotto." The fairy watches curiously as she slides the pearls towards her. Gently picking up the set on the right as she nudges them gently, she holds them close, studying them as much as possible. They were round and smooth, as pearls are. But while not to the naked eye, she can definitely feel the magic in them. She can feel the difference in them. The one left on the table had a much. . .denser magic. Almost like the pressures of the sea.

          As for the pair in her hands, they did feel lighter. She could definitely feel the Clumsy magic in here. "I think. . .i' would be possible. Azul decided ta humor me an' look fer tha funny creatures tha' make tha pearls outside his dorm. He let me keep it! But. . .they won' be ready fer a long while. If I can see wha' tha Clumsies here did, an' ask tha fairies back home fer advice, we might be able ta expedite tha process withou' hurtin' tha critter."

          She knows that's the only way the Animal Talents will agree to help. But she needs the Water Talents as well, creatures under the sea would need their combined efforts. However, the actual craft of the communication pearls would come down to Naira and her skills. While the pearls themselves wouldn't change, the particular infusion of magic would be hefty and extremely specific. There's also no telling how they'll react to fairy magic of all things. Maybe the dust talents can help her. They could ration out properly and give her an adequate diagnosis on things. . .

         "I think I'll need everyone's help back home ta make this done righ'. If we're expeditin' tha process, we're gonna need ta be precise about it." Placing the pearls down, she quickly scribbled down their measurements, the magic she felt, how much she felt, and then continued on. "When I visit home, I'll write down everythin' I'm told an' then come back here, if tha's okay?"

#wishkept #༼ 🌟 open your messages! ༽ #༼ 🌟 Touch my wings and it’ll be the last thing you ever do: TWST ༽ #Listen Beryl is just her mom now #Her 'MerMom' if you will

[handsigned]

billie eilish lyrics | accepting ! @sincarve​ said: ‘ call me calloused , call me cold . ’

rook’s always been good at both following and giving orders. she likes the structure of rules, likes have firm boundaries of what she should and shouldn’t do. while joining the military two years into college had been due to financial reasons, she couldn’t deny that she’d fit in within her fellow soldiers. naira had been a little more headstrong, but the army had turned that into a natural-born leader, someone with a confidence she’d never had before. while she wouldn’t join again, having lost to much to the army and gained so little in return, she begrudgingly has to admit that the training had molded her into the woman she is today. 

from how she’s sitting, with her left arm completely tied down and her right only barely free, tied off from the elbow, it’s difficult to write down her answers on the notepad that’s been placed in front of her. what does he expect, her to write down her entire confession, for her to spill out years worth of trauma and secrets onto the yellowed, lined page ? if she planned on talking ( she doesn’t ), it would be much easier to sign her words instead of scribbling them out. much to her dismay, barely anyone in hope county knows asl – though that perhaps works in her favor here. she’ll only give a confession if she’s allowed to speak in however manner she pleases. instead, she shrugs, reaching over and writing her thoughts down. you’re callous. you’re cold. want me to call you anything else, asshole ? i can think of a few things. 

ever the good soldier, she’s always been good at following orders. 

#♖ → john seed. ( sincarve. ) #♖ sᴏʟᴅɪᴇʀ ᴋᴇᴇᴘ ᴏɴ ᴍᴀʀᴄʜɪɴ' ᴏɴ (ʜᴇᴀᴅ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴛɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴋ ɪs ᴅᴏɴᴇ). [ main verse. ]

[olubukolas-thoughts]

The Wait - Chapter 3⁣ ⁣ Ajoke sneaked out of her house through the path that led to the stream. She had been restless all day. She had missed Kokumo and wanted to see him today at all costs. She knew there was no way her father or her elder brothers would allow her pay a visit to a man but she had to see Kokumo. It had been about four months since she saw him. The last day being the day they had written their final exams. They had promised each other to keep in touch by writing letters but she had not received any letter from him in over a month. His last letter informed her that he had been offered admission into the University of Lagos and that he would be picking up his letter in a few days. She wondered if getting into the University had suddenly erased her from his memory. She had no idea of where his house was located but she was willing to make an attempt.⁣ ⁣ She took out the sheet of paper on which Kokumo had scribbled his house address. She smiled as she looked at his cursive handwriting. The same handwriting which many of their classmates had fallen in love with.  She quickly folded the sheet of paper carefully and put it in the pocket of her dress. She had saved up a little change by selling the garri processed by her mum a few naira higher. She reckoned that one day, she would need cash. Today happened to be the day and the few cash she had saved up was coming in handy.⁣ ⁣ As she sat in the public bus taking her towards Kokumo’s village, she thought about the good times they spent together reading, walking home and sharing the snacks bought by Kokumo. She hoped those University girls she always heard about in skimpy wears hadn’t diverted Kokumo’s attention away from her.⁣ ⁣ The bus arrived at the last stop and she disembarked looking around like a lost child. Who could she ask for directions?⁣ ⁣ “Excuse me, ma.” She said to an elderly lady who was about disembarking from the same bus.⁣ ⁣ “Yes.” The woman responded looking at her impatiently.⁣ ⁣ “Ë jò ó mà. Àlejò ni mí ní àdúgbò yìí. Títì Alábéré ni mò n lö .”⁣ “Please ma, I am a stranger in this town. I am going to Alabere street.”⁣ ⁣ The woman looked at her and pointed to her left.⁣ . . Link in bio (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHa3Dq0lmMJ/?igshid=1q66p5rh38lmi

[rustyh706151-blog]

Of Hate Speeches, ‘Presidential’ Rodents, And Buhari’s Health

Hate speeches and dangerous rumours are the emotive ingredients that give birth to pogroms the world over.

Seeing both on the rise in this country, it makes sense that we try to nip them in the bud. It does appear, however, that the APC/Muhammadu Buhari administration is not getting the desired cooperation and support from the people in this regard. There is the suspicion that the administration simply wants to use hate speech as red herring and an excuse to clamp down on opposing views and opponents, just like it has tried to use its so-called war on corruption. Just like it has been selective in its war against corruption, this government has been selective as well in what it determines to be hate speech. It has narrowed it down to criticisms of the government or critical questions about what ails the president while completely ignoring the dangerous but patently false rumours circulating in the North that Buhari’s ill health was as a result of poison organised by an APC party chieftain from the South-West.

The ground is therefore being laid for an attack on people of the South-West in case of any eventualities concerning Buhari. Government has done nothing to dispel and combat this dangerous rumour. Government appears to have also taken sides as Nigerians trade hate speeches; just like it has been one-sided in its critical appointments and in the allocation of resources, favouring the Muslim areas of the North against the Middle Belt and the entire South. Hate speeches by IPOB, Niger Delta militants and pro-democracy activists from the South must be viciously put down while Arewa "quit orders," Fulani herdsmen’s atrocities, etc. are to be tolerated, even encouraged. This administration is seen generally to be hypocritical and dishonest. While it applies strict rules on others, it allows itself the luxury of laissez-faire. Many important members of this administration have been cited for double-speak and volte-face. The party itself has been accused of brazenly reneging on many of its election promises.

Talking of hate speech, President Buhari himself is a culprit. His campaign speech quoted above is one. With a spear swirling over his head in different directions, he called on his supporters in Hausa to "kill them" many times. His "monkeys and baboons will be soaked in blood" speech during the same 2011 presidential elections is also well known. It is likely that Buhari defenders will say he was trying to warn against rigging of the election but in the aftermath of those speeches, thousands of innocent Nigerians, mostly from the South and including Youth corpers, were murdered in chilling and cold blood across the North. Had the South retaliated, we might not have had the Nigeria whose "unity" Buhari lately described as non-negotiable and is ready to kill to defend, judging by his marching orders on the country ‘s military chiefs last week! Physician, heal thyself! Buhari has got to purge himself first before he will be qualified to point accusing fingers at others. When some talk of the "harshness" of Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state on Buhari, have we forgotten how Lai Mohammed ceaselessly poured invectives on former President Goodluck Jonathan? Who invented the phrase "clueless and incompetent"? Fayose, Femi Fani-Kayode, and the PDP spokesperson, Dayo Adeyeye all rolled into one have not done half what Lai Mohammed did to Jonathan and PDP. Yet, he was not arrested; he was not even threatened. Why can’t APC/Buhari behave similarly to their own traducers? Rather than unleash the armed forces on those demanding self-determination – which Buhari supports and campaigns for, for the Palestinians and Western Sahara! – why can’t this government ignore them if it cannot dialogue with them, just like Jonathan/PDP ignored the then River state Gov. Rotimi Amaechi when he threatened that APC would form a parallel government and make the country ungovernable if it did not win the 2015 presidential election?

Amaechi is, today, a Minister of the Federal Republic. We can go on and on!

There are so many other statements that important members of this government have made that have returned to dog their steps; even as the embarrassing in-fighting between the various discordant power blocs within the Presidency show-cases absence of discipline, effective coordination, and coherence in the Buhari presidency. Witness, for instance, the dog-fight between the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation and the acting chairman of the EFCC! As they say: Divided, they fall! Triple-barrel Minister, Babatunde Raji Fashola, boasted he would fix power supply in six months; more than two years down the line, he has left us worse than he met us. APC chieftain, Tony Momoh, boasted that if they did not fix the country in two years, Nigerians should stone them. Two years gone, they have fixed nothing. They met fuel at N86 per litre and boasted it would be more than halved but now it is N145 per litre. They met the Naira exchange rate at less than N200 to a US dollar but is now closer to N400 that N300. What have they improved upon since they came on board? What pisses off many Nigerians is their lack of integrity to admit their shortcomings; own up to the promises they made; and plead with us for understanding, patience, and cooperation. Instead, they have always tried to be clever by half; play the sophist; and draw the wool over our eyes. This way, they have lost the respect of many and forfeited the cooperation they sorely need.

Tell me, how many Nigerians believe the story that rodents ransacked and ruined the president’s office in his absence? It is a possibility, though, but because of the pedigree of this administration, not many will believe this as anything short of tales by the moonlight. The late Oba Asanike of Ibadan land once cried out to a bewildered nation that rodents had sacked him from the palace. And there were reports of rodents invading the White House of former President Jimmy Carter. As embarrassing as the event may seem, it is possible that rodents had actually caused some havoc in Buhari’s office and sacked the president. Needless to ask questions concerning whether there were no cleaners opening and cleaning the office during the president’s absence. What secrets were locked up in there that the place was never opened? We are not a nuclear-power nation, or else we might say perhaps the nuclear button or control room was stationed there. Because of the secretive nature of this government is why many are suspecting that the rodents’ story, as critical as it may seem in this era of Lassa fever spreading across the country, is a ruse to buy the president more time to rest or continue his medication, which had seen him spend 104 days non-stop in London. Whichever is the case; we should err on the side of caution and not take the risk of adding Lassa fever to whatever may be ailing Mr. President. Besides, the Buhari we had seen in the last one week sure needs more rest and we should indulge him with it. Like I have said, this president has become a bull in Nigeria’s china shop or a tsetse fly that perches dangerously on a man’s scrotum. Care is needed to extricate it. I know that many Nigerians will be disappointed that Buhari has not lived up to their expectations as a patriot imbued with the love of the nation and ready to make sacrifices for it. We should not force him. If he does not have it, then, he does not have it.

Some situations are uncanny and have a way of going from bad to worse. We had thought Jonathan was the ultimate evil from which we should run – but two years of Buhari and we know better. There was still some order and cohesion in Jonathan’s administration.

Soon, there could be fisticuffs between the Minister of Justice and the EFCC boss judging by the way things have deteriorated between them. And it does appear there is none who can call them to order. We never will be able to know whether matters would have been worse than this were Jonathan still the one in the saddle. APC boasts that the country would have collapsed – but we never can tell. Whatever we say remains firmly in the realm of conjectures. Why many now think we might have been better off with Jonathan, though, is the sheer cluelessness and incompetence – Aah! Those Lai Mohammed epithets coined specifically for Jonathan! – of the APC/Buhari administration; prompting many to conclude that they were mere power-mongers not prepared for governance in the real sense of the word. They keep shifting the goal post on when the economy will recover and get out of recession. They have got the country steeped in indebtedness with practically nothing to show for it in development terms. Crime waves are surging, with new entrants more than discounting the modest gains made on the Boko Haram front. Unemployment and suffering like never before experienced have submerged the land. Could it have been as bad as this – or could it have, in fact, been worse – had "Messiah" Buhari not come on board? Like I said, all such suppositions will forever remain in the realm of conjecture.

LAST WORD: "Eni kan l’o mo", as my people would say. It is the same as what Rita Marley, widow of Bob Marley, referred to as "who feels it knows it." People are dying – and many of it due to rampaging economic recession. Thursday before I sat down at Ikeja, Lagos to begin to scribble this in an office that has forgotten when last it saw power supplied by PHCN; I had stopped by at Shoprite to buy lunch and ran into a professional colleague who announced the passing away of another colleague. What killed him, I screamed. Economic recession, he announced without batting an eyelid. Two Saturdays ago, I was in Osogbo, Osun state for the burial of a friend’s wife, who got felled by marauders on the notorious Lokoja-Abuja road. I can go on and on. I dare to say that from what we read and from personal experiences, life gets cheaper by the day under this administration!

[lakrizawa-blog]

hey here’s my first digital drawing ever if you don’t count my scribbling in mspaint as a kid

it’s pretty terrible I know

anyway this is my oc Naira she’s sweet and pure and I hope you like her

#digital art #oc naira #my art #art #what the heck am I supposed to tag this with #I usually never tag stuff unless I'm just writing my reaction to the picture #can I even call this art #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #I spent like 2 days on this hecking bad thing #I kinda like the lips and eyebrows though #and for once I have decent anatomy???? #okay time to stop rambling in the tags #if you actually read through all these tags I'm sorry that I wasted your time

[zkretchy]

Naira doing something... Old sketch I quickly scribbles over again!

#doodles #ocs #art #zkretchy #naira #heagoly

[nairanorica]

Some non-spoilery Farcille to decompress after a quite busy and stressful weekend. Inspired by a prompt list on discord, namely the prompt "cartoon network color palette challenge". Not quite sure how I feel about the very bold pink cheeks, but I felt like it needed more pink up there

(Sorry for the repost, realized I didn't take a new photo after fixing something)

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #marcille #falin #farcille #gouache #cartoon network color palette #naira scribbles

[nairanorica]

Day 4 of okami inkvent! This ink is so shiny and sparkly - and since I gave Ammy shiny ink it only felt right to give Yumigami shinies too

#okami #inkvent #yumigami #naira scribbles

[nairanorica]

And the final one for Okami inkvent, whoop whoop! I started with Ammy, so of course I had to finish with Shiranui. This ink is gorgeous too, looks like a galaxy in a bottle!

#okami #inkvent #shiranui #doodle #traditonal art #naira scribbles

[nairanorica]

Guess what I watched today

Got possessed and doodled this. Not really fanart, but very much inspired. And maybe the most cursed thing I've ever drawn

#boy and the heron #ghibli #heron #i'm kinda sorry #but those teeth omg #naira scribbles

[nairanorica]

First inkvent doodle! Ofc starting off with the main girl herself - and gold seems very fitting for a sun goddess as well, even though it's always a bit of a struggle to paint with such a light colour. Unfortunately my phone has trouble picking up the glitter, it's actually quite sparkly in person

#inkvent #diamine ink #okami #amaterasu #doodle #naira scribbles

[nairanorica]

Deepnest is such a cool, atmospheric area but dang did those corpse creepers give me a scare the first time. You're just minding your own business and all of a sudden your hear this scuttling behind you and the corpse of the enemy you just killed is barreling toward you. Nope nope nope

#hollow knight #deepnest #corpse creeper #ATC #traditional art #acrylics #acrylic gouache #naira scribbles #I need to redo the watermark for this year #this one's really hard to read on lighter parts

[nairanorica]

Dunmeshi brainrot is real. Took three random pens with me today so I'd have some more variation than just my green highlighter for my lunch break doodles at work. So I doodled some characters with no reference - and omg I'm so sorry, I did you so dirty senshi 😭 I could tell he looks weird, but couldn't figure out what it was and I forgot the whole bottom part of his helmet. Poor guy.

Might finish the spread later :D

#dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #marcille #falin #chilchuck #senshi #doodles #lunch break doodles #naira scribbles

[nairanorica]

Was busy last week, so I gotta catch up on some Okami inkvent doodles! Here's number 7 - and it's actually pink, not red. I'll try to get the colour more accurate once I scan it. Also wow, why did this bleed so much?? Poor Kaguya, my girl :<

#okami #inkvent #kaguya #doodle #naira scribbles

[nairanorica]

More offbrand dunmeshis aka doodlin' dungeon meshi characters from memory. Getting in a lot of face practice, so I'm not complaining lol

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #doodles #dungeon meshi spoilers #you can't see anything spoilery #just characters that haven't appeared yet #but tagging it as spoiler just in case #naira scribbles