#winter in hieron

[awellreadmannequin]

I finally finished Winter in Hieron and was chatting with Jack about how it intersects in interesting ways with the work I do as an academic. So at their insistence, I’ve copied some of the thoughts from that conversation here. After the semester is over, I’m gonna write something more coherent than a handful of discord messages because there’s some really interesting stuff going on in Winter that I really want to talk about.

#claire thoughts #winter in hieron #friends at the table

[glassgob]

[Image ID: Full-body digital illustration of Adaire Ducarte and Hella Varal circa Winter in Hieron. They are bodily facing each other but looking toward the camera. End ID.]

part 1 of my mini series of drawing hieron guys. i still have c/w art in the works but i have GOT to get these guys out of my head and onto paper before i explode

#adaire ducarte #hella varal #friends at the table #f@tt #seasons of hieron #winter in hieron #(just to be specific) #no hella isnt shirtless during wih im sure she has a cloak or something to keep warm #but whats the point of drawing that #once again i havent looked at a single image while drawing these except for that one da vinci painting #its like 55% canonical info 35% how i mentally picture them 10% im gay

[hieronzine]

🍂❄️🌸Applications Announcement!🌸❄️🍂

Hello Friends at the Table fans! We are very excited to announce:

A Chaotic Cataloging: A Seasons of Hieron Fanzine

Applications for #HieronZine contributors will be open from Saturday May 4th until Saturday June 1st.

Introducing the Mod Team:

🌸Muna🌙 @peacereturnedtothevalley - Head Mod + Socials

🥐Katie✒️ @KatieDiek - Production

🍷Lee🐇 @imperialhare - Finance

🎭Avi🗡️ @oziads - Design & Art

🎨Annie🐭 @dancy-nrew - Art

🍊Julian📚 @burins - Writing

🦉Danny✨ @suedeuxnim - Writing

We're super excited to get this project going, hope you are too!

#hieronzine #friends at the table #hieron #fatt #f@tt #autumn in hieron #winter in hieron #spring in hieron

[oziads]

happy (really, really) late secret samol, @swordbreakerz!! i drew maelgwyn haunting ephrim in a gay way for you 🔥⚔️🌑 (twt link)

i'm so sorry for how long this took, but i hope you enjoy it nonetheless! maelgwyn is my favorite fatt character of all time and i really enjoy him & ephrim as parallels and foils of each other :^)

#secret samol #secret samol 2023 #img id in alt text #friends at the table #maelgwyn #ephrim #seasons of hieron #hieron #spring in hieron #winter in hieron #maelphrim #fatt #my art #secsam

[wereshrew-admirer]

Hey did you know that Throndir is canonically a fat hairy gay man? he's rugged, he's a main character in a story that's over 200 hours long, he has a cute dog!! he was The Ranger for crying out loud!!

only you can stop wildfires literalism from winning (a silly tumblr poll - Vote For Throndir!!)

oh and for the record:

#throndir #friends at the table #fatt #f@tt #hieron #spring in hieron #fall in hieron #winter in hieron #my art #yes i do think throndir should win this poll but mostly i just love to draw body hair #throndirsweep #we just need 900 people to see reason lol

[bestfattsong]

Qualifiers round 1, part C

#fatt #f@tt #winter in hieron #twilight mirage #spring in hieron #bluff city #bracket #qualifiers #live at the table

[lustrecannon]

young sunder and fantasmo doodle because i was thinking about them the other day and they made me really sad (thumbs up)

#friends at the table #seasons of hieron #the great fantasmo #sunder havelton #autumn in hieron #winter in hieron #traditional #traditional art #my art #sketches #brush pen #watercolour #watercolor #fanart

[rancidmice]

smoke weed n read the constitution with the big big lady….

also size chart bc i can’t get over this… she’s 5x bigger than fero 😭

#friends at the table #winter in hieron #hieron #seasons of hieron #fero feritas #mother glory #fatt #f@tt

[andmaybegayer]

you're getting high and looking at the Constitution together

#welcome to friends at the table an actual play podcast focused on critical worldbuilding #friends at the table #winter in hieron

[guccigarantine]

this song makes me want to climb to the top of a foggy mountain and then stare out into the distance with melancholy in my eyes

#it’s my favorite song on the wih album #jdq how do you fit so much sorrow into this one #friends at the table #winter in hieron

[silberkuste]

steeped in winter, reminiscing of warmth

secret samol 2022

#secret samol #friends at the table #seasons of hieron #winter in hieron #spring in hieron #hieron #hadrian #samot #samothes #my art #illustration

[awellreadmannequin]

Hmm, I think that some of my new followers might appreciate this passage I just wrote for my paper:

Ultimately, caring about culture means caring about the bodies which practice that culture. Failing to care about those bodies, letting them become “bare life” means failing to care about culture. Or rather, I should say failing to care about bodies is a failure to care well about culture. Museums have historically served to preserve culture without necessarily maintaining it. A museum is a dead thing, a place where the artifacts of culture put on static display to be silently observed. The only bodies that move in museums do not interact with the artifacts contained within in the same way that the bodies who produced them would. As Shimrit Lee puts in her book Decolonize Museums:

By displaying humans, animals, and objects alike in detailed, simulated environments, curators sought to capture particular cultures and time periods. This act of “viewing culture”—from world’s fairs to the museums of today—results in what Johannes Fabian called a “petrified relation,” whereby various non-European societies are perceived to be living in a different historical epoch. Today, these types of exhibitions continue to deny the possibility of shared humanity and connection between visitors and the people whose cultures are on display. (Lee 2022)

It is bodies in living relation to one another that make and practice culture. In museums, culture becomes disembodied and thereby disconnected the human experience of it. Instead, cultural artifacts become props in a curatorial narrative: “These objects, violently plundered from the colonies, were first “decontextualized,” or extracted from the context of their original use, and then “recontextualized” in the sense that they were inserted into new settings” (Lee 2022).

Like, imagine how insane I felt listening to Winter in Hieron while this is the sort of thing I’m studying, thinking about, and writing. Hieron is literally built on physical and metaphysical recontextualization! And beyond that, even the mortals who are unaware of the metaphysical nature of Hieron’s reality are constantly struggling over how culture should be contextualized. Mother Glory’s death hit me so hard precisely because it was a symbolic victory of Rosemerrow’s recontextualization of culture. In turn, Fero’s decision not to stay and help the gnolls is such a monumental failure to care about (I’m using that in a technical sense, dw about it, iykyk) their culture and their, er, humanity..? Gnollnity? Whatever, that which makes them subjects. And don’t even get me started on the orcs, who have so completely mastered recontextualizing culture that they it enables them to DO MAGIC. Like, pattern magic clearly depends on culture in order to give facets of the material world meaning (libraries, desks, broken mirrors, stolen fiddles, and so forth) but it doesn’t actually have any interest in that context beyond that. Lem is able to do pattern magic without really what the materials he’s using really are beyond their place in the pattern. You know, now that I’m thinking about it, I’m not even sure he knows what the deal with his fiddle even is? I might be wrong, but the point is that the fiddle seems to be more important for its place in the pattern than for the thing it actually is as defined by its history.

Ugh, this show is making me feel rabid and I gotta stop writing this post and get back to the actual paper I’m writing…

#claire thoughts #winter in hieron #jack told me to post my thoughts about the show more #so blame them for this #friends at the table

[glassgob]

[Image ID: A lyric comic based on the Winter in Hieron episodes 02 and 04. The song used is Black Hyena by Everything Everything. The first panel is of Mother Glory and Chatterchin on a rooftop, overlooking the museum. The next panel transitions to inside of the museum, where Lenny Lenova is giving a speech in front of a banquet of halflings. The third panel, Mother Glory's nails drag against the inside walls of the building. The fourth, the banquet tablecloth catches fire. Fifth panel, the gnolls are baring their teeth side-by-side, at the ready. Embers float to the ceiling. The sixth panel is chaos. The gnolls are tearing through the burning building. Mother Glory has a halfling pinned at her feet but stares directly ahead. In the final panel, Lenny is cowering. He is encompassed by the lyrics. Black hyena gonna bite the idiot. End ID.]

my secret samol gift for ratvortex on cohost! gnolls in hieron go crazy

#friends at the table #f@tt #secret samol #secsam #winter in hieron #mother glory #chatterchin #idk what else here to add #ill talk about my thoughts more later rn i just wanna post so its out there #happy secsam!!!

[wakethedevils]

#friends at the table #fatt #f@tt #autumn in hieron #winter in hieron #spring in hieron #marielda #counter/weight #c/w #twilight mirage #partizan #palisade #dungeon world #mechnoir #the sprawl #blades in the dark #the veil #scum and villainy #beam saber #heart: the city beneath

[thebestestbat]

#friends at the table #winter in hieron #spring in hieron #fatt #hieron #throndir #red jack #POLLS #i need to know the general consensus

[oziads]

🌋🔥when you try your best but you don’t succeed </3🔥🌋

a 2021 redraw of my 2020 pic commemorating my very special boy maelgwyn’s deathiversary <3 (twt)

#friends at the table #fatt #hieron #seasons of hieron #winter in hieron #maelgwyn #marielda #my art #my fanart #mine