Some Sketches I Did While Listening To Old Gods Of Appalachia Which Is One Of My Favorite Podcasts Of

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4 episodes into The Silt Verses and I’m already being so normal about it

but on the other side

And in the end, it is a matter of the length of the narrative.

Actually, I find Tolkien's treatment of Aredhel a bit annoying. It makes no sense for Aredhel to follow Turgon to Gondolin. Turgon's building of Gondolin and hiding there was perfectly reasonable for Turgon. The only thing he did that didn't make sense was taking Aredhel with him. Aredhel and Gondolin? I don't understand anything. Turgon is not her father, the king she must obey, nor is he the most agreeable of her siblings. And the Gondolin-like approach is completely incompatible with Aredhel's character as described throughout the book - a hunter, a lover of travel, and a temper that can be inferred from her friendship with the sons of Fëanor. Tolkien has her join Gondolin without any reason. Aredhel follows Turgon to Gondolin because Tolkien needs her to give birth to Maeglin, which will bring about the downfall of Gondolin. She was captured by an evil husband because she had to give birth to an evil son (and if you don't think race determines personality, this is all annoying.). Unlike the sons of Feanor, who brought about tragedy because of their own contradictions in personality, she had contradictions because she had to be the tool of tragedy. It's annoying to see a character who could have been really interesting get treated like this…. Like many women in real life, who had potential but were ignored and used only as a tool.

a little tiny baby carpenter in giant waders

hate it when the basis of your relationship is your mutual performances and so you can never develop a genuine connection. happy fratricide friday and sibling rane saturday (i scheduled this for midnight). in other words i am going insane over this fic

normal girl on a normal date :]

notes below the cut !!

the wrinkles on charity's shirt and the curls of her hair were initially intended to evoke her prey's spilled guts, but that kinda went out the window when i watched a couple field dressing videos n realised what guts actually look like

that being said. the anatomy of the carcass is complete bullshit

the victim's hands show hyperkeratosis, as a partial transformation into hooves. maybe this quarry didn't last long enough to fully transform

dont look at the trees they suck. im gonna do some environment studies i promise

charity camouflaging wasn't intentional - these are just the colours she wears in my head - but i think it works out pretty nicely

the speedpaint of this was around 22k sheets, so 22k individual brushstrokes. i usually to 10-13 per painting. what happened

ever since i made this post, i kinda knew i could have done better. finally got around to it :] vallerina continues to be absolutely heartbreaking but we move [eyes red + covered in blood]

closeups, ref, and speedpaint below :p!!!

shoutout to james for the idea of the corpseish hands!!! i love them so much, finally puts my raynaud's syndrome to use :3

the dancer in the reference is Alina Somova i believe !!

just listened to the @eelerschoice bonus episode about eel history and drew a european eel

seriously go listen to their podcast if you haven’t it’s sooo good