Are you really sapphic if a woman swinging an axe or sword mere inches from your face and then laughing at you for flinching while also complimenting you doesn't make you absolutely feral at the thought?
"Look at me Matsumoto... Take a good look at my face. Look at my eyes. Look at my mouth. Do I look familiar? Do I look like somebody... you murdered?" - O-Ren Ishii
Song by Christina Aguilera ft. Demi Lovato - Fall in Line
🎨♀Herstory+Celtic throwback♀🎨 - Graphite lineart and watercolour painting of the Scottish warrior-trainer Scáthach from Celtic myth for the 2014 FWW Stock Challenge on DeviantArt. I quite like how this painting turned out 😃 !
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. 🎨Media: Watercolours over graphite drawing
. 🍀Other references: DeviantArt stock pic for the main pose, photographs of stones and Celtic swords and designs, self-picture for the skirt movement.
I wanted to draw a Celtic warrior-woman from Irish myth, so here is how I imagine Scáthach of Alba, a formidable warrior-woman with druidic skills who trained warriors in her renowned academy in the island of Skye in Alba (Scotland). She trained a lot of famous heroes, Cúchulainn among them. Her sister, Aoife, was also a great warrior-woman, even greater than herself.
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. "If Cúchulainn would go to Scathach, the woman-warrior that lived in the east of Alban, his skill would be more wonderful still, for he could not have perfect knowledge of the feats of a warrior without that." (Lady Gregory's Cúchulainn of Muirthemne).
I wrote Scáthach's name and the names of some other famous warrior-women in Irish myth in the stones using the Celtic tree Ogham alphabet: The left stone includes the names of Nessa, Conchubar's mother, and queen Medb. The stone on the right has "Scáthach banlaoch" (Warrior-woman Scáthach), plus Ogarmach, the invader daughter of the King of Greece, and Macha.
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I depicted Scáthach with woad skin-paint, flowing loose hair and a checked sleeveless, ankle-length dress. Although the Celts in Gaul, seemed to favour trousers when fighting, there is evidence that the Insular Celts often preferred dresses and short/long tunics to pants. The warrior-women of this time (c. 1st Century BC) are often described in the mythology as wearing long dresses and cloaks, loose hair, a great number of ornaments, and little to no armour. The same goes for the men (with short/long tunics instead of dresses), as Celts didn't seem to be great fans of wearing armour, preferring to go to battle fully decked in all their (often encumbering) finery and/or with bare chest or directly fully naked xD
Your food is coming soon, frickers! making our own stickers! it is joint effort between my gf @dukevaleon and me, dreorcaul! (she did most of the work on these!)
More designs soon to come! Maybe an ebay shop or somewhere else if someone has good reccs.
Love to hear sticker ideas, if you have some!
Day 3 of my #zemaracomic #sketchcard for #inktober2022! #scifi #sketch #inktober #artober #artober2022 #sketchtober #aliens #warriorwoman #swordwoman https://www.instagram.com/p/CjRUlAvMgeI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
“A fight to determine the correct way of drinking tea“ - A title more befitting in my humble opinion but alright then.
Lucifer called her a pathetic human, but he knows that Alice was a former swordswoman, yet he challenged her anyway. She didn‘t let that slide. But Lucifer never admitted defeat or anything in that sort. That ought to teach him a lesson.