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Hooooowww did people 1) hear the folksong Valravnen about a knight who's been transformed into a bird (likely an eagle, not a raven) and can only break the curse by killing a baby, 2) see that one (1) now-extinct noble family referred to their heraldic beast, a wolf/bird, as a 'valravn', and 3) read one single 1800s countryboy's explanation that valravnen is like an evil valkyrie, and SOMEHOW extrapolate from those three wildly unrelated sources that "The Valravn" (because it's never a folkloric concept with different interpretations, it's always a single specific creature) is a were-wolf/raven who haunts battlefields to drink the blood of slain warriors????

Please stop depicting 'the' valravn when you don't even know what it is, I'm begging on my fucking knees, I hate the way recent Danish folklore-inspired popculture has latched onto this figure and keeps depicting it in wilder and wilder ways😭😭

If you want a folkloric evil bird creature in your story please just use a fucking dragon or gammen. Use a damn cockatrice or vættehane, idgaf. Please just stop muddying the already-confusing lore of valravnen. The figure has been abused enough already and you are making my hobby as a folklorist very difficult😥

-Softly holds your massive taloned hand-

When you hear the Old Church bell toll and a sad wail echo through the forest, do not approach. For the Weeping Raven is there, grieving for all she lost.

It is best not to disturb her, lest you want to join her in sorrow.

Quick thingie to illustrate one of the novel published in the furry fanzine I’ve been organizing with friends. I’ll probably share infos about it later ! Stay tuned ;D

My first attack on artfight for the lovely @mynameissiduri Valerie, was so much fun to do :)

By request, a Nattramn (night raven) The Nattramn is the ghost of a sinner who is cursed to rome the skies in the form of a raven. The only way for a nattramn to find peace is to find the tomb of christ. They can only fly at night.

Crow with fangs. Yes or no?

sure.

Lil title animation practice I've been working on since I came home from this weekend's convention! And ofc needed to see it with an image to really get that title feel!!

Kinda dig it! What do you think?

masks I've made