Hello. She’s ready. As I said before, I unashamedly decided to reference Romanian/Transylvanian traditional costumes for my interpretation of Laudna, both because I myself am from there, and also because it just fits so well as it pertains to her backstory + official portrait.
Week 2 of the #maylay challenge is done. I animated the Fairy one too because I really wanted to make sure it was clear how the axe works. It’s going to be very fun next month when I plan on doing the characters to go with each of these weapons, and the Fairy one is 1000% gonna be a pipsqueak barbarian pixie whose temper is inversely proportional to their size.
I initially wanted to do a very predictable guitar axe, but random inspiration hit me, and I went for this music box grenade idea. The way I picture this working is, when thrown, it should release a hypnotic siren song upon impact, which should affect (aka stun, or induce a ‘no thoughts, pretty song’ state) all creatures who can hear it.
I initially wanted to do a very predictable guitar axe, but random inspiration hit me, and I went for this music box grenade idea. The way I picture this working is, when thrown, it should release a hypnotic siren song upon impact, which should affect (aka stun, or induce a ‘no thoughts, pretty song’ state) all creatures who can hear it.
I cannot believe how popular the last two CR portraits got. I for sure thought they were gonna flop because my usual experience in the past couple years on any social media site is *crickets*. I used to get much better engagement in the past; idk how the algorithms changed and what identifiers I belong to that get me ostracized but I’m glad to learn that not all hope is lost for my art.
god i’m not even through one episode of paranormal home inspectors and it rules, this lady thought she was being haunted by the wails of the restless dead but she was just listening to raccoons fuck in her attic
psychic: these are hieroglyphics… the spirits are trying to communicate…
home inspector: you put new paint over old paint and now the old paint is bleeding through, that’s why you’re not supposed to do that
homeowner: my daughter’s room is always cold… cold like the dead…
home inspector: you put furniture on top of her heating vent
business owner: i got locked in the bathroom even though the door has no lock
home inspector: it has a lock. the lock is right there. on the knob.
Fun fact a scientist who is very not spiritual or superstitious began seeing corner eye hallucinations and feeling intense fear and a presence in his lab around the same time that everyone else in the building was suddenly reporting it haunted.
Determined, he found that the “hauntings” stopped when the industrial air conditioning unit, that had just recently been installed, was turned off. We’ve found that measurable micro vibrations in a structure cause immense fear, and a feeling of a presence and corner eye hallucinations – just like when you watch a scary movie alone at night and you see things move in the corner of your eye or are afraid to go in the cellar because you’re convinced someone’s in there.
Why?
Because many members of our species built homes in and around cliffs and caves for tens of thousands of years. And it’s likely that these certain shaky vibrations give us intense fear and a need to move far away because that would have saved our lives if the cave were collapsing or unstable.
You’ll notice it’s always falling apart, dilapidated homes that are “haunted” - or very very old restored homes. These places might just be slightly structurally unsound. That’s all.
That’s infrasound, sounds that are below 20hz, or the limit of normal human hearing. Things that produce infrasound in nature include severe weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, tigers, alligators, rhinoceros; also known as things that can kill people. We developed an evolutionary sense of dread when our brains perceive sounds we cannot hear. The vibrations from infrasound can also vibrate the eye causing visual hallucinations.
You know what also causes infrasound? A LOT of machines, especially large industrial ones. There’s a reason haunted house stories started popping up in post industrialization. That scientist was Vic Tandy and he wrote about it in a the paper Ghosts in the Machines
“Vic Tandy, experimental officer and part-time lecturer in the school of international studies and law at Coventry University, along with Dr. Tony Lawrence of the University’s psychology department, wrote in 1998 a paper called “Ghosts in the Machine” for the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. Their research suggested that an infrasonic signal of 19 Hz might be responsible for some ghost sightings. Tandy was working late one night alone in a supposedly haunted laboratory at Warwick, when he felt very anxious and could detect a grey blob out of the corner of his eye. When Tandy turned to face the grey blob, there was nothing.The following day, Tandy was working on his fencing foil, with the handle held in a vice. Although there was nothing touching it, the blade started to vibrate wildly. Further investigation led Tandy to discover that the extractor fan in the lab was emitting a frequency of 18.98 Hz, very close to the resonant frequency of the eye given as 18 Hz by NASA. This, Tandy conjectured, was why he had seen a ghostly figure—it was, he believed, an optical illusion caused by his eyeballs resonating. The room was exactly half a wavelength in length, and the desk was in the centre, thus causing a standing wave which caused the vibration of the foil.“
Okay I didn’t need my eyes to have a resonation frequency but thanks for that, science
I love that Vader is just…Vader, and he’s working with all these Imperials and they all just kind of have to deal with the fact that a super depressed, 7 foot tall cyborg with superpowers is in the office every day.
Anyways, my increasingly unpopular take in this day and age is that no one is entitled to know anything about an author’s personal life. They put their stories out there for you to judge, they didn’t put *themselves* out there. And expecting queer people to out themselves before you decide whether or not they deserve harassment is just fucking heinous.
The private life as eroded so steeply in the online age that there’s no longer even a cultural expectation of it. Indeed, people have elevated the curtailment of privacy to a virtue, and not only is that disgusting, it is all but GUARANTEED to come back and bite those of us with marginalized social identities on the ass in the next few years. Stop it! Resist the Facebookization of culture!
…I want to just draw a fashion zine of just Miss Piggy, oh my god. she is so underrated and underutilized, where is my succession-like muppets satire thing LOL I want it so bad. let me do it disney call me pls
