Post by: Keep Looking on June 24, 2020, 01:56:39 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 1: Birth
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 1: Birth
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Welcome to our second ever Chapter Break Filler! As Minna goes on break, us Minnions are kicking into action, and Yeethaw_Gang brings us our first work in response to the (rather suitable) prompt of Birth.
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Thanks very much to Yeethaw_Gang for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post your own works down below!
Also a reminder - we still have two prompts left for the taking, so if you want to claim either of them, go over to the organization thread and send me a message.
Post by: muidole on June 24, 2020, 03:22:32 AM
Post by: wavewright62 on June 24, 2020, 06:15:37 AM
Post by: Mirasol on June 24, 2020, 06:22:51 AM
Post by: midwestmutt on June 24, 2020, 08:57:38 AM
after sunset ends the day.
Birth is the starlight.
Post by: Annuil on June 24, 2020, 11:07:59 AM
Chapter Break Filler
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Prompt 1: Birth
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Welcome to our second ever Chapter Break Filler! As Minna goes on break, us Minnions are kicking into action, and Yeethaw_Gang brings us our first work in response to the (rather suitable) prompt of Birth.Spoiler: show
Thanks very much to Yeethaw_Gang for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post your own works down below!
Also a reminder - we still have two prompts left for the taking, so if you want to claim either of them, go over to the organization thread and send me a message.
I wander what have happened, because I see a white square instead of a picture or whatever it is supposed to be there...
Post by: Jitter on June 24, 2020, 11:51:28 AM
Annuli, the work is a picture containing a poem. The Forum doesn’t store actual pictures, they are in fact links to other services. Sometimes a user has something preventing them from seeing some of the pics, for example my work computer doesn’t show pictures that are links to imgur because it’s classified as “pornography”... which some of the content may be, but hardly everything is. But, no voting chibis for mm from work!
Post by: Annuil on June 24, 2020, 02:40:21 PM
Post by: scottishnottish on June 24, 2020, 03:10:59 PM
Post by: Vulpes on June 24, 2020, 03:16:12 PM
Post by: Vulpes on June 24, 2020, 03:25:57 PM
When the world grows dark,
after sunset ends the day.
Birth is the starlight.
I love me a good haiku. Very nice!
Post by: wavewright62 on June 24, 2020, 04:41:49 PM
Post by: yeethaw_gang on June 24, 2020, 10:28:52 PM
midwestmutt your poem is wonderful. I love me a good haiku, and I'm always a sucker for stars and space, even if mentioned briefly.
Post by: Róisín on June 25, 2020, 12:57:16 AM
Post by: Keep Looking on June 25, 2020, 01:27:11 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 2: Growth
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 2: Growth
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Our second prompt of Growth is brought to us by none other than wavewright62!
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May all of your tomatoes grow as impressively as Ingrid's! Thanks very much to Wavewright for today's piece, and if any of you feel inspired by this prompt, feel free to share your own works down below!
Post by: MollyVampiric on June 25, 2020, 02:05:40 AM
Post by: thegreyarea on June 25, 2020, 06:44:18 AM
yeethaw, a quite unexpected, but equally fascinating take on that prompt. I would be thinking on babies and such...
midwestmutt, a great haiku!
Wave, another unexpected and fascinating approach! As on Birth, I would be thinking about a toddler... It seems that my thoughts are a lot human oriented... :)
Sorry for not contributing (yet) but I'm quite busy right now. Butter good, everybody!
Post by: Vulpes on June 25, 2020, 09:33:33 AM
For the past 5 months or so I've been trying to write a daily haiku, here are some recent gardening-related ones by way of a secondary contribution on the growth theme, inspired by wave's lovely Ingrid:
warm day with showers
dig, rake, and level, plant seeds
squash many blackflies
shovel and rake soil
drop seeds in furrows, tamp down
hope for fall harvest
sudden summer heat
haul water to the garden
bright green shoots poke out
Post by: Mirasol on June 25, 2020, 11:07:05 AM
Wave this will definitly be my new headcanon XoX
And Vulpes, I think your Haikus fit the situation really well! I can practically see the scenes in front of my eyes...
I also didn´t expect the takes on these first two prompts the way they were, but I second Vulpes, art is supposed to be surprising, isn´t it? And both were amazing :sparkle:
Post by: midwestmutt on June 25, 2020, 12:01:45 PM
one thing i know about growth:
it's never too late.
Post by: Jitter on June 25, 2020, 01:03:59 PM
Wonderful haikus, midwestmutt and Vulpes!
Post by: wavewright62 on June 25, 2020, 04:54:59 PM
I forgot to mention on my image that it is based on the Rider-Waite tarot deck image for the Seven of Pentacles. My favourite source lists this as Anxiety About Produce, wondering whether your hard work will bear fruit.
Spoiler: wikipedia of this card • show
I originally had more scrawny green tomatoes, but opted to make them more pentacle-ish.
Post by: Mirasol on June 25, 2020, 05:27:08 PM
And wave, that fits very well! I don´t know a whole lot about Tarot, so thanks for the source. :)
Post by: Keep Looking on June 26, 2020, 12:39:24 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 3: Smile
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 3: Smile
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For today's prompt of Smile, our piece is brought to us by our very own Róisín!
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Thanks very much to Róisín for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post your works down below!
Post by: wavewright62 on June 26, 2020, 12:51:18 AM
Post by: Róisín on June 26, 2020, 02:48:04 AM
Post by: Jitter on June 26, 2020, 06:23:26 AM
Post by: Jitter on June 26, 2020, 07:53:53 AM
He was always a happy child. As a baby he smiled early and often. As a toddler he was absolutely charming with his puff of bright red hair and emerging freckles. His outlook was always happily interested in everything, and he was full of expectation, always anticipating the best outcome. “Mom, what is this plant called? Why does it grow here? Why does it have such leaves?” His curiosity was endless.
Even when something unfortunate happened, he still saw some good in it. “Mom, my arm really really hurts! But now I know what it feels like to be stung by a bee!” “I didn’t know what I look like under my skin. Now I do! Does everyone look so red inside or is it because of my hair?”
I should have been more strict with him, told him off his foolhardy stunts. I should have made it clearer that things may go badly! But his questions always made me smile. Oh, it was impossible to stay mad at that child.
And now he’s lost in the Silent World! It’s all my fault! I should have raised him more careful! Will I ever see his precious smile again?
Post by: midwestmutt on June 26, 2020, 09:33:16 AM
Small things make me smile.
The big things leave me in awe.
Oh, a popcorn fart.
Post by: yeethaw_gang on June 26, 2020, 09:55:17 AM
Jitter, oh god oh my I can feel the panic. Absolutely riveting and a dark but rather interesting take on the prompt.
midwestmutt, okay yeah you made me laugh out loud. I did not expect that. Your haikus are always so well crafted!
Nothing from me today sorry, head empty no thoughts :(
Post by: Mirasol on June 26, 2020, 09:58:54 AM
Róisín, I really like your story! I love stories that focus on the Hotakainens backstory, and this sort of poem format is really nice! (that was a lot of use of the word "story in one sentence...)
midwestmutt, this Haiku sure made me smile, or rather laugh ;D
And Jitter, your story is lovely too! And I know it´s a kinda sad one, but your description of toddler-Reynir was just too adorable, I had to draw him immediately. So here is smiling kid-Reynir in that plant-situation you wrote about: :reynir:
Smile(https://i.postimg.cc/Z5Ccf6Dm/toddler-Reynir-Smile-Mirasol.jpg)
He was always a happy child. As a baby he smiled early and often. As a toddler he was absolutely charming with his puff of bright red hair and emerging freckles. His outlook was always happily interested in everything, and he was full of expectation, always anticipating the best outcome. “Mom, what is this plant called? Why does it grow here? Why does it have such leaves?” His curiosity was endless.
The plant I, at least tried to, draw is called "sheep sorrel" or "Hundasúra" and grows in Iceland, accoring to google. The source I used said that Icelandic kids often eat the leaves as a snack while playing outside, I thought that was kinda fitting.
source: https://guidetoiceland.is/best-of-iceland/plants-in-iceland
Post by: Vulpes on June 26, 2020, 10:10:22 AM
Jitter, I like the idea that Reynir's mum might at some level blame herself, and that would go some way to explain her wild reaction on his return - all that suppressed guilt boiling out as blame.
Midwestmutt, that was... unexpected. As I noted the other day, the essence of art is surprise. And I certainly did smile!
Wave, the bonus info on tarot is much appreciated - I think I must've run across it at some time because that pose you drew evoked something, but I couldn't figure out what.
Awwww, Mirasol, that is one cute Reynir!
Post by: Jitter on June 26, 2020, 11:08:17 AM
Yeethaw, I hope it wasn’t that dark, after all he did come back! Although now of course he’s gone again, but at least he now has more experience, he has some magic, and his parents know the people he’s with. I’m sure they still worry, but hopefully much less!
Vulpes it doesn’t say if it’s his mum or dad :)
Midwestmutt haha, you did make me smile :)
:reynir: :reynir: :reynir: :reynir: :reynir: :reynir: :reynir: :reynir: :reynir:
Post by: Róisín on June 26, 2020, 11:19:01 AM
Post by: Jitter on June 26, 2020, 11:19:28 AM
Post by: Jitter on June 26, 2020, 11:20:43 AM
Post by: Mirasol on June 26, 2020, 11:36:15 AM
Post by: thegreyarea on June 26, 2020, 11:55:43 AM
Róisín, that's truly amazing! I agree that it should be canon :) Let's hope Minna takes a little time to read this thread.
Jitter, that's also a great short piece, that fits so well in Reynir character. Well done! I love the way you take those secondary characters and bring them to life! :)
Midwestmutt, another great (and funny) haiku! It seems that I'll have to reserve a shelf in the next Minnion bookshelf to put your haiku collection next to Jitter's.
Mirasol, a fine drawing! I loved the sheep detail!
Also sorry for not contributing yet, but I must focus on my prompt... You know, 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration...
Post by: Vulpes on June 26, 2020, 07:11:42 PM
Vulpes it doesn’t say if it’s his mum or dad :)
Ah, you got me, falling into sexist stereotypes about which parent would take that role! :'D
Post by: Róisín on June 27, 2020, 12:24:17 AM
Post by: Keep Looking on June 27, 2020, 01:03:56 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 4: Crawl
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 4: Crawl
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Our fourth prompt of Crawl is brought to us by Phocena!
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Thanks very much to Phocena for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post what you've made down below.
Post by: wavewright62 on June 27, 2020, 03:11:16 AM
Thank you both!
Post by: Jitter on June 27, 2020, 05:01:48 AM
Vulpes, to be fair, Mom is mentioned in the story as the person Reynir is asking his questions. But the thinker may just remember listening in to a conversation. In retrospect I should have put Dad on one and Mom on the other. When I hopefully get around to putting these together in the Archive I may change that.
Post by: thegreyarea on June 27, 2020, 05:22:30 AM
I keep being positively surprised by the unexpected ways each person finds to approach these themes. We are so lucky to have such talented people with us. :)
Post by: Mirasol on June 27, 2020, 07:29:53 AM
Mirasol, sheep sorrel does grow in Germany, mostly as a field weed. I think the name was something like kleine sauerampfer? Not sure, I only know a little German, and that mostly the names of plants, don’t know if I have the spelling right? I think kleine means small or little? And the leaves, like most sorrels, usually have that little wing at the base, giving it a sort of arrowhead shape. That was such a pretty drawing!
Oh, I actually recognize the name, if not the plant itself! (note to self: this is why you´re supposed to do the research before posting. :-[) You have the spelling right I think, just "Sauerampfer" has to be spelled with a capital letter since it´s a noun (that´s such a weird rule...) and yes, "klein" means small. "kleine Sauerampfer" would mean "small sour-sorrel".
Thanks again! :)
Post by: midwestmutt on June 27, 2020, 08:41:06 AM
'Til you're old when all speeds by.
2020--NOT!
Post by: Róisín on June 27, 2020, 10:49:19 AM
Mirasol, thanks for the info! The name makes sense, since it is the smallest of the sorrels, and is certainly sour enough to deserve the name. It tastes like lemony spinach.
It always amuses me, when I am teaching bushcraft classes and showing people wild foods, to see their expressions when they taste this plant, usually considerable surprise followed by delight, especially from the children!
Post by: JoB on June 27, 2020, 11:53:54 AM
Mirasol, sheep sorrel does grow in Germany, mostly as a field weed. I think the name was something like kleine sauerampfer?Yup, sheep sorrel = Rumex acetosella = Kleiner Sauerampfer (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiner_Sauerampfer). Though I have to say that the drawing reminds me more of Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, Wiesen-Sauerampfer (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesen-Sauerampfer)).
And we couldn't get rid of'em if we tried, if I read the relevant parts of those Wikipedia pages correctly. :o
just "Sauerampfer" has to be spelled with a capital letter since it´s a noun (that´s such a weird rule...)It's a compound noun and both parts get
(Q: How do you find out whether a mathematician is famous, or even very famous, among mathematicians?
A: The famous ones have stuff named after them, even though few mathematicians name their discoveries after themselves from the get-go. The very famous ones have their German colleagues put that in lowercase, like a proper adjective: Riemannsche Vermutung, but abelsche Gruppe.)
(Edit to weed out invasive typo)
Post by: midwestmutt on June 27, 2020, 12:23:30 PM
Midwestmutt, I feel your haiku! Who was that English poet who wrote: ‘The more we live, more brief appear/Our life’s succeeding stages./ A day, to childhood, seems a year,/ And years like passing ages.’ And then later in the poem ‘Why, as we near the falls of death,/ Feel we the current swifter?’.And always remember the longer you live, the sooner you bloody well die.--Isn't it Grand Boys--a very Irish song.
Mirasol, thanks for the info! The name makes sense, since it is the smallest of the sorrels, and is certainly sour enough to deserve the name. It tastes like lemony spinach.
It always amuses me, when I am teaching bushcraft classes and showing people wild foods, to see their expressions when they taste this plant, usually considerable surprise followed by delight, especially from the children!
Post by: Mirasol on June 27, 2020, 01:39:01 PM
Yup, sheep sorrel = Rumex acetosella = Kleiner Sauerampfer (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiner_Sauerampfer). Though I have to say that the drawing reminds me more of Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, Wiesen-Sauerampfer (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesen-Sauerampfer)).
Well, I tried :'D
It's a compound noun and both parts getRashedcapitalized, so "a small sheep sorrel" actually is "ein kleiner Kleiner Sauerampfer". ;)
(Q: How do you find out whether a mathematician is famous, or even very famous, among mathematicians?
A: The famous ones have stuff named after them, even though few mathematicians name their discoveries after themselves from the get-go. The very famous ones have their German colleagues put that in lowercase, like a proper adjective: Riemannsche Vermutung, but abelsche Gruppe.)
One day will come the day where I understand the grammar of my own native language. Today is not the day...
Post by: Vulpes on June 27, 2020, 02:30:02 PM
Midwestmutt, your haiku always make me smile!
Post by: Róisín on June 27, 2020, 02:31:41 PM
Post by: Vulpes on June 27, 2020, 02:43:11 PM
Mikkel cursed under his breath. He did not have the build for this nonsense! Why had he insisted on this mad errand? He lifted his head, looking ahead at the bobbing backsides of his companions making their way quickly and quietly along the half-collapsed passage. His backpack caught on a beam, reminding him that he was the one carrying nearly all the equipment. He sighed, knowing he had no choice, wanted no other choice, but to stay with this haphazard family he had adopted. He unhooked the pack, tried to make himself as small as possible, and crawled on.
Edited to... well, edit. Made it a drabble.
Post by: Jitter on June 27, 2020, 03:02:19 PM
Midwestmutt, thank you for another haiku to make us smile!
I'm thinking of the opposite end of life here :) Or two lives to be exact.
Crawl
Oh Mielikki help me with these two! I know they are too young to communicate, or to plan for that matter. But I swear they crawl to opposite directions every single time! Surely it can’t be just coincidence? And how is it possible to crawl so incredibly fast on such tiny plump little hands and feet?
“Jukka, no, you can’t touch that! It will sting! Juha, don’t push the…” *CRASH*
Breath in deep. Repeat: twins are a double blessing. Twins are a double blessing. Twins are a... seriously, if Hilja doesn’t return from her trip soon, I will put them into the firewood basket. With a lid on top!
Post by: Mirasol on June 27, 2020, 03:10:37 PM
Vulpes your story is so sweet, and Jitter, I laughed out loud at yours. :'D For the best of everyone involved I hope Hilja returens soon...
Post by: Vulpes on June 27, 2020, 03:22:26 PM
Interesting that you and Mirasol both used "sweet" to describe my little snapshot. Not what I had in my mind, but now that I re-read it, okay, I guess he's being sweet. Thanks for the insight.
Post by: Jitter on June 27, 2020, 04:13:39 PM
Post by: phocena on June 27, 2020, 04:28:26 PM
midwestmutt, you are so good at capturing everything so succinctly (and with lots of wit I may add)!
Vulpes, Nice to see Mikkel cares about the rest of the group! And admitting to himself that he depends of them is really sweet.
Jitter, that was such an endearing interpretation of crawl! I couldn't have possibly imagined how dark it could've been. Haha, reminds me of how hard it was to care for me as a toddler. My parents told me I was running at 10 months... good thing there wasn't two of me >:D
Post by: Jitter on June 27, 2020, 05:56:18 PM
Post by: Róisín on June 27, 2020, 07:48:57 PM
Post by: midwestmutt on June 27, 2020, 09:26:09 PM
Heh, I know, and sing, Isn’t It Grand. Funny song. Though I learned it in Outback Australia. Along with The municipal Dunny Cart, sung to the tune of Ghost Riders in the Sky.I wish I could hear that. Sounds hilarious!
Post by: Róisín on June 27, 2020, 10:43:45 PM
Post by: Keep Looking on June 28, 2020, 12:29:21 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 5: Walk
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 5: Walk
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Today's prompt of Walk is brought to us by Keitto-Kettu!
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Thanks very much to Keitto-Kettu for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to share what you've made down below!
Post by: Róisín on June 28, 2020, 01:53:27 AM
Post by: scottishnottish on June 28, 2020, 02:19:59 AM
before you were grown
before you could know
what life would hold
where you would go
the field where you'd walk
in wintery frost
the woods you'd get lost
exploring at dusk
the horrors you'd meet
between wonders so sweet
and moments of peace
amidst terrible things
dear me, so recently
so joyful in your naivety
somehow you were me
and yet, not exactly
i wouldn't return
not a day unlearn
not a scar un-earn
not rescind a word
because you see, dear me
it is not you or me
instead it is we
who've been through everything
and become who we
are meant to be
and to me, to me
that's worth every damn thing
yes to me, to me
that is everything
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A little poem from Tuuri's perspective, post-infection, in a quiet moment of reflection. (whoops, that wasn't meant to rhyme. Oh well.)
hi, I've been watching for the last few days but haven't had much time to respond, thus i must leave a general reply because there are too many nice things to comment on. But to Wavewright, Vulpes, Midwestmutt, Róisín, Jitter, Mirasol, Phocena, and Keitto-Kettu, lovely work, all of you! It makes me happy. (I hope I didn't miss anyone)
Post by: Róisín on June 28, 2020, 02:54:33 AM
Post by: JoB on June 28, 2020, 04:20:18 AM
Well, I tried :'D(With my level of of expertise in botany, I could easily be wrong about that. The "humanity is now at war with the kingdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)) I insulted" level of "wrong".)
Post by: Vulpes on June 28, 2020, 09:48:57 AM
I thought about who might walk that way, and recalled the suggestion (by Keep Looking? Jitter?) to consider minor characters, and decided that Gunnar looked to have the right attitude. Another drabble:
Dalsnes had been lucky to be cut off from the city. Once they understood the risk from small mammals, there were no more outbreaks, and they suffered out the winter in their well-defended valley. Now it was spring, and they had agreed that Gunnar should make a cautious trip to the city. As he walked down to the dock, he realised how trapped he had felt. For the first time in months, he wasn't rushing to a crisis, or plodding through the snow. He was strolling to his boat, with a relaxed rhythm that was close to a swagger.
Post by: thorny on June 28, 2020, 12:33:53 PM
Post by: Vulpes on June 28, 2020, 01:06:15 PM
Post by: muidole on June 28, 2020, 05:55:18 PM
I'm just occasionally lurking here, but wanted to say that I'm much enjoying doing so.
Likewise. Despite mostly lurking, I think it's cool how the fandom is able to organize and create such fun and creative content.
Post by: thegreyarea on June 28, 2020, 07:59:06 PM
Keittu-Kettu, that's a wonderful soundtrack for their walk!
Vulpes, a nice take on another secondary character that could very well be the start of a fanfic!
scottishnottish, this "little poem" is simply fantastic! I'm out of words to tell how much I love it! :)
Post by: Keep Looking on June 29, 2020, 12:34:11 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 6: Playtime
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 6: Playtime
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Today's prompt of Playtime is brought to us by MollyVampiric!
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Thanks very much to MollyVampiric for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to share what you've made down below!
Post by: Grade E cat on June 29, 2020, 02:09:48 AM
Post by: Annuil on June 29, 2020, 08:49:13 AM
(https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_pRambgQL36NrB0JP)
(I hope I did it right and you all will be able to see the image... if it’s not working I’ll leave an actual link)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_pRambgQL36NrB0JP
I finally caught up! I read everything (and listened to everything) and all the works people did here are wonderful! It is so interesting to see all of them, to see how amazingly different and beautiful, because of the difference, they are! :))
Post by: Alkia on June 29, 2020, 09:30:59 AM
Post by: midwestmutt on June 29, 2020, 09:41:28 AM
A square peg in it's square hole.
Let your mind run wild.
Post by: Mirasol on June 29, 2020, 09:55:16 AM
Keitto-Kettu, that´s such a nice song! I can really see a walking cicle animated to it in my head. Makes me wish I had the patience to animate anything...
scottishnottish, I love your poem! When I realized it was about Tuuri it got even better! and because I think I never got the chance to tell you elsewhere before, let me just gush about how much I love your poetry in general right here real quick...
Vulpes, I can only second Grey on that one! It really seems like the start of an interesting story.
And now to todays posts:
MollyVampiric, I just have to say I love your writing style. And this little backstory to Lallis new companion is so sweet! I agree with Kirsten, what worlds can you create with a toy that already has a purpose.
And lastly Annuil, where I sadly have to say that I can´t see the picture. But when I tried to quote your post, I think I saw where the problem is: I don´t know on what programm you uploaded it, but to enbed images here, the link must end with "jpg" or "png". I can only speak for postimages.com, but there it always gives you multiple links, and the one that is called "direct link" has the right ending.
Oh and look, while I was typing, midwestmutt posted too! With once again a beautifully crafted Haiku!
(here I was, thinking the English language had endless possibilities in words to express how amazing you find something, and now I finished this one post and nearly ran out... So I will just settle with seconding Annuil and Alkia with their posts for ending this one. You people are all so talented! XoX)
Post by: Mirasol on June 29, 2020, 10:04:04 AM
Post by: Annuil on June 29, 2020, 10:21:33 AM
Post by: Jitter on June 29, 2020, 10:32:05 AM
I loved every other piece too! And Annuil, the link works fine and I see the illustration.
One more thing, Gunnar is one of my fave side characters! Vulpes please write about how it went for him? Did he try for Bergen??
Post by: Mirasol on June 29, 2020, 02:59:23 PM
I also got inspired by MollyVampiric´s story, and Annuil´s illustration, so I drew something too:
From grocery stores, to clothing stores, to the occasional ‘for-fun’ antique or toy store, Kirsten loved all of it. The amount of choices made it an adventure; every object had a story. Every torn pair of jeans was battle armor, every toy with dirt on it was a hidden relic of a past world, every wet stick was a shiny sword.(https://i.postimg.cc/6QKTJvJ7/Playtime-Mirasol.jpg)
No one ever minded or noticed when she inspected an old toy, building a world of her own. She liked to think it was because of who she was. Her short height and her quiet voice made her invisible. Her icy blue eyes could shoot lasers. Her platinum blonde, curly hair was a shield.
I drew Kirsten! You could say it´s the other end of the scene Annuil drew. I also tried to do the "only grey colors exept for the cube (and Kirstens imagination)"-thing, but as you can see... there´s kinda too much color for it to work to begin with. Also I added dragons, because dragons are awesome.
Post by: Annuil on June 29, 2020, 04:20:18 PM
I should add the words on one of the red squares ;)
...
There you are!
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_pWfIn0Uz0EfYHJ05
Sorry, a regular link again.
Post by: Jitter on June 29, 2020, 06:22:11 PM
Playtime
Joni was looking for his daughter. She had wandered off from the home garden. She had just promised him she would stay in the yard, and now she was gone again!
“Sointu! Sointu, love, where are you?” No answer. Walking farther from the garden Joni grew apprehensive. The girl seemed to be fascinated with the craggy rocks to the east of the village. Joni had told her numerous times that it was dangerous to go there alone. She always answered, that there are no trolls or beasts there. But how would she know? She was just a little girl!
Admittedly, there hadn’t been any attacks so near the village for many years, but still. Besides, grosslings weren’t the only danger. What if she fell and broke a leg? She could be crippled for life! Or even die of the complications! Joni sighed, thinking about the health care of his youth. No one needed to fear a simple wound then! Now there was word of some people being real noitas, who could do actual magic. But none of them here, at Kaijatsaari, or any of the western Saimaa islands. If they were real, maybe some would eventually end up coming here too? Sometimes Joni was surprised to find himself contemplating the possibility that magic, or spirits, or the old gods existed. What nonsense! We are on our own! On the other hand, 14 years ago the idea of a troll was nonsense...
He was approaching the crags now. And yeah, there was Sointu, among the rocks! “Sointu! What have I told you? Why are you here again? You know it’s dangerous!”
“Oh, hi dad! They only call me when it’s safe! You don’t need to worry!”
“Call? What are you talking about?” Joni was suddenly alarmed. There had been a few weird attacks on the islands, and some people were saying there was a näkki around. Usually a näkki lured its victims into water, but maybe there were other, similar creatures?
Sick with worry, Joni continued slowly towards his daughter. “Honey, listen carefully. Come to me right now! Please, come to dad!”
“Aww dad, it’s their playtime, and they asked me to join in! I don’t want to go yet!”
“Playtime? What are you talking about? You must...”
Joni stepped behind his daughter, and saw who she was playing with. There were six, no, seven adders, slithering about on the rocks and his daughters lap. The zig zag pattern on their backs confirmed them as the venomous creatures they were, but their movements seemed... friendly? A couple were swaying their heads in front of Sointu, and another two looked like they were caressing her arms. Joni knew he should be terrified, but somehow the entire scene seemed very right.
“Don’t worry dad! They know you are my father. You can come closer!” The snakes were watching his every move, but still the feeling was relaxed. Well then, I suppose there is something in this noita thing after all. Probably comes from her mother’s side though. We have always been very boring.
Post by: MollyVampiric on June 29, 2020, 07:48:31 PM
Midwestmutt, your haiku ability is through the roof.
Jitter, I like your writing style.
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Post by: wavewright62 on June 29, 2020, 08:37:37 PM
Two amazing stories on the Playtime riff, though - Jitter and MollyVampiric, I love them both. I'm a sucker for a good origin story.
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Probably comes from her mother’s side though. We have always been very boring.
pfffft
Midwestmutt, you've got your haiku groove happening and I appreciate your craft!
Post by: Vulpes on June 29, 2020, 08:41:45 PM
Post by: scottishnottish on June 29, 2020, 08:59:45 PM
(Anyone else get that feeling when you're writing a reply where you wanna write an exclamation mark after every statement but it feels weird to write every sentence with one? Idek, I just wish I could send good vibes through my screen to all of you.)
Oh man, I feel that all the time. Good vibes to all of you! MollyVampiric your story was lovely and made me smile. And Mirasol, what a nice drawing to accentuate it! Jitter, I started reading yours with intense dread but ended with immense relief, very nice. Vulpes, your vignette made me giggle. And Midwestmutt your haikus are so much fun.
And Róisín, Vulpes, thegreyarea, and Mirasol, thank you all so much! Glad I could capture Tuuri's spirit. I really connected with her final conversation with Reynir--the fact that despite all that had gone wrong, she had no regrets. I've tried to consistently remind myself lately that failure is all a part of the journey of becoming ourselves.
Post by: Róisín on June 30, 2020, 12:49:48 AM
Post by: Keep Looking on June 30, 2020, 01:28:30 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 7: Discover
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 7: Discover
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Today's prompt of Discover is brought to us by Mirasol!
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Thanks very much to Mirasol for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to share what you've made down below!
Post by: Grade E cat on June 30, 2020, 02:32:04 AM
Post by: GaelleDragons on June 30, 2020, 04:33:50 AM
By the way, I haven't been very active here, but I'd like to thank everyone who has already participated, all your content is lovely. ^^
Post by: Róisín on June 30, 2020, 05:38:17 AM
Post by: thegreyarea on June 30, 2020, 06:23:56 AM
(Anyone else get that feeling when you're writing a reply where you wanna write an exclamation mark after every statement but it feels weird to write every sentence with one? Idek, I just wish I could send good vibes through my screen to all of you.)I get the feeling every time I write about these amazing contributions!
Molly, your Playtime is wonderful!
Annuil and Mirasol, your pics with the cube are fantastic, each on their own way! (and yes, dragons!)
Midwestmutt, I love to see you inspired! Thanks for giving us a fine haiku each day! Beware, we may grow used to that and start complaining the day you don't do one! :)
Jitter... I can't say how much I enjoy your amazing takes on those characters! You should really create a collection of them on AO3, and will definitively have a book of them the next time I draw a bookshelf!
Mirasol, todays's Discoveries is so sweet! Love it! Also, it seems that the passion for taking cats pictures survived the Rash!
(there you go, exclamation marks all around!) ;D
Post by: Annuil on June 30, 2020, 07:45:23 AM
(What would’ve our lives been without exclamation marks!.. ;D)
Post by: Alkia on June 30, 2020, 09:46:04 AM
(also, I agree, exclamation marks are the best, even if its very hard to not overuse them. a new punctuation mark that sends those good vibes is needed)
Post by: midwestmutt on June 30, 2020, 11:28:48 AM
What delights we have today! Unfortunately, I can't see one of them, Annuil's link? It says I don't have permission to view the OneDrive. :-\Thank you. My muse seems to have finally awoken from winter hibernation. We're getting a good mixed bag of art forms this break. Good job everybody and and I encourage the rest of the readers to have a try.
Two amazing stories on the Playtime riff, though - Jitter and MollyVampiric, I love them both. I'm a sucker for a good origin story.
pfffft
Midwestmutt, you've got your haiku groove happening and I appreciate your craft!
Post by: midwestmutt on June 30, 2020, 11:47:01 AM
In my sixth decade.
All's been done and done again.
Oh look! A new thing!
Post by: Mirasol on June 30, 2020, 12:05:22 PM
(Anyone else get that feeling when you're writing a reply where you wanna write an exclamation mark after every statement but it feels weird to write every sentence with one? Idek, I just wish I could send good vibes through my screen to all of you.)
Yes. All the time. If I run out of places where I can put exclamation marks I´ll add emojiis. :sparkle: Then I´ll delete half the emojiis again because they feel even weirder... But there´s always the reaction image hoard! :'D
Someone really should come up with that good-vibes-punctuation-mark.
So here´s to more exclamation marks:
Jitter! That story is awesome! I also was a bit worried at the beginning, but glad it turned out to be the viper sentinel mage. The last bit had me giggling too.
midwestmutt another great Haiku! I really like this one, it has such a hopeful tone!
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Post by: Jitter on June 30, 2020, 05:19:48 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/HFoIJdS.gif)
Post by: scottishnottish on June 30, 2020, 07:34:20 PM
Post by: wavewright62 on June 30, 2020, 09:34:20 PM
Midwestmutt, it is always a good day when you learn something new, although I like the way the phrasing hearkens to a dog or crow.
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Post by: Keep Looking on July 01, 2020, 01:22:06 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 8: Learning
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 8: Learning
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Today's prompt of Learning is brought to us by Jitter!
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I take he's living on his own so I made him a 20-year old student.Thanks very much to Jitter for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post what you've made down below!
Post by: phocena on July 01, 2020, 01:38:33 AM
Post by: Grade E cat on July 01, 2020, 02:45:39 AM
The piece just made me think of a more slow-motion version of this.
Post by: Jitter on July 01, 2020, 08:14:17 AM
Grade E Cat, I’m glad I managed to get it through. Besides the obvious (?) theme of there’s always something kids (or youth) don’t want to learn, although it may be different for different situations (and people), I was trying to show how knowledge slides away. Like, Lalli didn’t know the Earth is round (although Mikkel still did).
Once the survivors lose English completely, so so much is lost. Even if they later learn to decipher it like our archaeologists decipher e.g. Babylonian, the chances of creating a scientific community that can build on our modern science are low (not to mention the way so much is in electronic form only and will be destroyed over a few decades of no power.)
Now I’ve made myself sad, although I tried to make the story somewhat uplifting even though the theme is depressing.
Post by: midwestmutt on July 01, 2020, 09:55:24 AM
My foundations of learning.
Explains a lot, eh?
Post by: thegreyarea on July 01, 2020, 10:53:08 AM
We all experienced it, I believe, questioning, at some point, which use some of that knowledge pushed upon us could possibly have. Sometimes it didn't, but even then it's down there, providing a kind of common ground to build, or not, different things.
Now I’ve made myself sad, although I tried to make the story somewhat uplifting even though the theme is depressing.Now, don't be sad. Some knowledge would surely be lost*, but other things would be learned back, like boats construction, farming, using plants and, in this case, magic!
And also some (particularly the Swedes and Danes, but also Icelanders) still use old technologies, so it's supposed that they keep and teach then to the following generations.
Magic, alone, opens a whole Universe (or several Universes?) of new and exciting knowledge (that eventually may be combined with the ancient technologies), opening great opportunities for anyone that wants to... write fanfics! ;D
* Unless the government (or someone else), decided to create and maintain a kind of Library to archive the "ancient" knowledge, a bit like Asimov's Foundation**. In the future, when the danger from trolls and beasts are under control and wider areas are recovered, all that information could return to current use.
** That also had it's own agenda, but that's another story... or another fanfic!)
Post by: Alkia on July 01, 2020, 11:51:09 AM
unless they discover a *insert Scandinavian language*-English dictionary somewhere! a gift of foresight from the ancients :)
Once the survivors lose English completely, so so much is lost. Even if they later learn to decipher it like our archaeologists decipher e.g. Babylonian, the chances of creating a scientific community that can build on our modern science are low (not to mention the way so much is in electronic form only and will be destroyed over a few decades of no power.)
It really would be sad about the Internet and all electronic information, though
Like Grey said though, magic is a new and valuable knowledge! who needs digital info when you can summon luontos and make runes xD
Post by: Róisín on July 01, 2020, 01:31:56 PM
Post by: Mirasol on July 01, 2020, 02:15:43 PM
I have a holiday coming up but am not going anywhere (national band contest was cancelled due to Covid-19). I have some projects to work on, but I hope to spend some quality time with the Reaction Hoard. We have had so many splendid faces all throughout Adv. II.
Please do! I love scrolling through all those pictures!
(https://41.media.tumblr.com/a3b4396e726b74afb6f0ff7a542b7137/tumblr_inline_nxd1r1HzWD1r2g2kx_540.png)
(I mean, only if you want to and have the time to of course...)
Also Jitter, your take on "learning" is really interesting! Who knows what of the knowledge from the past will be usefull in the future. Makes me rethink not wanting to do homework right now... Plus your characterization of Aksel is hilarious. :'D
midwestmutt, your Haikus get better (and funnier) every day!
unless they discover a *insert Scandinavian language*-English dictionary somewhere! a gift of foresight from the ancients :)
It really would be sad about the Internet and all electronic information, though
Like Grey said though, magic is a new and valuable knowledge! who needs digital info when you can summon luontos and make runes xD
Yes, if the internet and/or tech broke down, so much would be lost! especially with the current trend to digitalize everything. In the end, physical copies do have a higher chance of surviving an apocalypse.
But yay for more fanfiction-ideas! I agree, mixing tech/science and magic always makes for very interesting stories.
Post by: Jitter on July 01, 2020, 04:16:12 PM
But then, I also tried to show how the world is widening again for them too. Sigurd is impressed about his dad having been outside of Dalsnes and thinks everyone has always spoken Norwegian, while Asbjørn has gone to an Academy. They are rebuilding! And yes, I think English has survived to am extent until Y91, in Denmark and Sweden at least.
And Alkia, thank you! I tried to write description first, I was particularly inspired by the picture where Berit is teaching Aksel to shoot. But I didn’t get it to work. Luckily the “circle of life” theme helped me along to consider various learning situations between generations of Eides.
Post by: Crumpite on July 01, 2020, 08:21:44 PM
There is one of those multi-gazillianares out in California that is archiving actual physical books in safe vaults, just in case !
Thanks for all the wonderful content here, keeping me interested ! 😀
Post by: wavewright62 on July 01, 2020, 09:12:31 PM
I recently read one of the later Pern books, going through the "prequel" times around Landing, where the specialisms many of the colonists had were negated once the power and gear ran out. Specifically, advanced microsurgery skills could not be used without the sutures, molecular biology could not be accomplished once the sequencers ran out of consumables. It was a known effect, since they'd gone to that planet specifically to establish an agrarian society, but the scientists still felt the loss and redundancy of their knowledge keenly.
Post by: Róisín on July 01, 2020, 09:15:06 PM
I guess you might call me a prepper, but I am the kind of prepper who gets my communities involved in what I am doing, plants community gardens, starts produce shares and farmers markets and street libraries and verge gardens, and teaches practical survival skills. My communities are the better for it, and it has helped my small town to do as well as is possible through the Covid19 emergency.
Post by: phocena on July 01, 2020, 09:45:36 PM
Post by: Keep Looking on July 02, 2020, 12:08:19 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 9: Child
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 9: Child
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Today's prompt of Child is brought to us by Alkia!
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Thanks very much to Alkia for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post what you've made down below!
Post by: Jitter on July 02, 2020, 04:41:52 AM
And Midwestmutt, a solid stream of haiku! Keep it coming!
I have a bit of a tingle in the muses about Discoveries, would you guys mind terribly I add something on it later?
Post by: GaelleDragons on July 02, 2020, 05:08:11 AM
Post by: Mirasol on July 02, 2020, 06:15:45 AM
Ooh... In addition of all the books on practical topics such as math and chemistry, books from literature would be huge. Would they be mass printing books from the silent world for people to enjoy? To the general public, the silent world is often reduced a terrifying place full of monsters, so to read a book and be reminded that they were people just like us would be so humanizing, and also exciting! And maybe dangerous in the eyes of the government - I wonder what the religious leaders of the community would think of people reading stories written by heathens.
I´d expect Sweden and especially Denmark to be very interested in that. While I don´t think they´d have the recources to mass-print them, maybe there would be public readings of old-world-literature, a bit like going to a theater in our world. That would reach a lot of people and would be super exiting, as you just said! XoX A story begins to form in my head right now...
Alkia, your kid-youngsters are adorable! And Emil looks so heroic, I can´t even :'D :emil: I feel very tempted right now to draw more kid-art, I might do that later today. (If you start noticing a pattern with the content I posted on this thread so far, so did I just now. I just really enjoy drawing kids)
And thanks Jitter! Reynir is indeed very draw-o-genic, I find myself doodeling him everywhere. Must be the hair...
I wouldn´t mind at all if you added something to Discoveries later, please do so!
Post by: Mariiii on July 02, 2020, 06:16:43 AM
Alkia I love your drawings, Lalli, Reynir and Emil are very cute !
Post by: Grade E cat on July 02, 2020, 06:35:11 AM
Post by: thegreyarea on July 02, 2020, 06:50:34 AM
Jitter, how could any of us mind to see more from you?
Post by: Annuil on July 02, 2020, 07:26:45 AM
And yes, yesterday’s one! Jitter, those little dialogs are amazing! A wonderful idea, I think writing dialogs is the best way to present the characters ;D
Post by: midwestmutt on July 02, 2020, 10:06:52 AM
Still peacefully sleeps within.
His day is complete.
My soul is a child.
Waiting for another try.
Reincarnation.
The prompts are getting harder for me. This was too big a subject for a single haiku.
Post by: thegreyarea on July 02, 2020, 11:40:40 AM
BTW, my friends, I was surprised today by a new set of deadlines to finish a lot of work. That means that I won't be able to complete my prompt in time :(
I already informed KeepLooking and she's working on a solution.
The work will be completed, but maybe in two or three weeks... I'll post it and inform everybody when it's ready.
That doesn't means that I'll disappear. I'll be participating (more or less) as usual.
All the best! :)
Post by: wavewright62 on July 02, 2020, 06:02:21 PM
Adorable child portraits, Alkia, with an epic wind blowing through them.
Naturally, Jitter, we are agog for your take, as always.
Awww, thegreyarea, RL deadlines are what they are, no stress from us. We'll catch you on the flip.
And Midwestmutt, while I'm not entirely convinced your inner child is done in this life, I do feel how appropriate this is for our overall theme on this break.
Post by: Mirasol on July 02, 2020, 06:19:59 PM
Grey, oh no! :( Good luck with your deadlines!
So turns out "later today" means "much later", because I only finished this now.
Since thanks to Alkias amazing pictures, Reynir, Emil and Lalli already got to be children today, I drew Tuuri and Onni instead. :tuuri: :onni: So have an about 4-5 year old Tuuri and an about 12-13 year old Onni picking blueberries. Though actually, only Onni is picking berries, Tuuri is mainly eating them.
(https://i.postimg.cc/mDFZfsPb/Child-Mirasolbetterquality.jpg)
At some point I got ambitious and wrote a story to it (I spent way less time on this than I probably should have, so please excuse any crucial mistakes):
She thought she had been subtle about it, but judging by the shocked look Onni was currently giving her, he knew exactly what she just did.
“You ate the whole thing??? We´ve been here all morning, and you ate all of the blueberries I picked???”
“Nooo, I didn´t! Look!”, Tuuri pointed angrily into her brothers basket. There, still half- okay, maybe she ate a bit more than she thought she did, but there still were blueberries in it. And it´s not like she didn´t help! But picking blueberries when you were small and couldn´t reach the good ones at the top was tiring, and naturally she got hungry after a while. And eating the ones already in the basket was easier than eating them directly from the bushes.
Onni gave a very angry sigh. “Why are you like this??? There, go away, I need to pick them again now. I´ve had enough of your “help” for today.” He lifted Tuuri up and put her down after a few steps, her back facing the bushes.
“Stay there!” he exclaimed and tramped back to the hedges. Tuuri heard him grumble about why their mom had made him take her with him.
After a while of huffily staring at the ground, she started regretting having eaten all of her brother’s hard work.
“Onni?”
“What?”
“I´m sorry. You can have the berries I picked. In my basket over there.” For a while her brother went quiet, she could hear him walk over to where she had dropped her basket.
“Those are like ten berries…”, Onni muttered, although he didn´t sound angry anymore. “But thanks.” He went back to berry-picking, and Tuuri went back to staring at the ground. Slowly but surely she started regretting to have eaten all those berries for another reason.
“Onni?”
A sigh. “Yeah?”
“Can we go home soon? My stomach hurts…”
EDIT: changed the picture to a better photo
Post by: Róisín on July 02, 2020, 06:35:53 PM
And everyone else, awesome work. I especially love the children.
Post by: phocena on July 02, 2020, 06:49:13 PM
Post by: scottishnottish on July 02, 2020, 08:31:19 PM
Jitter I love the little peek at the generations of characters, very well chosen moments to show how knowledge changes with the passage of time.
Alkia oh my god they're so cute! I love their little animal-selves as well. And Mirasol I love little Tuuri and Onni, the blueberry stains are a great touch.
Midwestmutt you will never hear complaints from me about more haiku!
Post by: scottishnottish on July 02, 2020, 10:04:14 PM
like we did when we were kids
one word at a time
"tree" "rock" "river" "flower" "stick"
reading them slowly
out loud from a children's book
simple sentences
"Emma hops across a brook"
you mark out her name
and replace it with my own
draw a stick figure
and tease that I've fallen in
it's gentle, that's new
you don't use the words "dumb Swede"
and you smile a bit
at the crude drawing of me
I steal the pencil
draw a little stick Lalli
he stands on a rock
leaning, looking down at me
you give me a frown
hold your hand out, "give it here"
take the pencil back
and you add something else there
an arm stretched downward
from stick-figure you to me
offer me a hand
to pull me up to safety
give me a quick glance
write five more words in the book
in perfect Swedish
"Give me your hand," so I do
--
A poem about Emil and Lalli learning each other's languages that kind of accidentally turned into a full scene.
Post by: Róisín on July 02, 2020, 11:36:34 PM
Post by: Keep Looking on July 03, 2020, 12:13:35 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 10: Err
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 10: Err
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Today's prompt of Err is brought to us by MollyVampiric!
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Thanks very much to MollyVampiric for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post what you've made down below!
Post by: Remberedink on July 03, 2020, 12:29:56 AM
Post by: Mirasol on July 03, 2020, 09:43:34 AM
And now to todays absolutely amazing contributions (aka the one´s I missed after going to bed):
scottishnottish, this poem is the most adorable thing ever!!! I love it!
MollyVampiric, your story had me laughing the entire time while I was reading it. And you portayed all their characters so well!
Post by: midwestmutt on July 03, 2020, 10:22:50 AM
Failed projects litter my house.
So don't be afraid.
Post by: Alkia on July 03, 2020, 11:07:29 AM
Midwestmutt, your haikus are delightful!
Mirasol, that blueberry picking scene was so cute!! Hopefully little Tuuri learned her blueberry consumption lesson ;D
aaaaaaaa, Scottishnottish, my heart!!!! Emil and Lalli learning languages together and holding hands has to be one of my favorite imagined moments between them yet
Mollyvampiric, I agree with Mirasol, i was also giggling all through that story!
Post by: Jitter on July 03, 2020, 12:32:12 PM
Scottish, I like all your poetry but this is soooooo wonderful. I didn’t realize who it was until at “dumb Swede”. After that I read with tears* in my eyes, to such extent I had to dry my face afterwards. Lovely, lovely boys!
Mirasol, lovely story and art! And seems just like them, Onni all serious picking and Tuuri not realky helping at all :) aConcerning the art, would you like a botany comment?
* good tears, absolutely!
Post by: Mirasol on July 03, 2020, 01:29:37 PM
Alkia,Jitter, thank you so much! And take it away with the botany! :'D I hope I didn´t get anything too wrong...
Post by: Jitter on July 03, 2020, 01:58:51 PM
Please don’t feel bad, there was no reason why you should have known that blueberries are not blueberries :) A bush like that could be currants, I don’t think it occurs strictly naturally in Finland but there are a few bushes in most gardens so there will probably be some around in Y75.
(https://i.postimg.cc/XvLNjpbc/44-E20943-5-B56-44-DB-B0-F3-7-C32-A65-B0-E63.jpg)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_myrtillus
Post by: Mirasol on July 03, 2020, 03:08:12 PM
I´m not really sure what to change in the story though. I liked the idea of using blueberries since we´ve actually been told that Tuuri likes to eat them in SSSS. And it´s kind of hard to change an inked traditional drawing...
I´ll probably upload the story to Ao3 later,
Post by: Vulpes on July 03, 2020, 04:49:29 PM
Post by: Jitter on July 03, 2020, 06:09:18 PM
Post by: Vulpes on July 03, 2020, 06:38:09 PM
Oh noo Mirasol, I asked you not to feel bad! How or why would you know there are several different things quite officially called blueberries? This sort of thing happens a lot! I was surprised by the Australians’ intense dislike of magpies, until I learned the bird called magpie is not the corvid we have at all, and is in fact a pretty nasty bird. The ones we have may cause some irritation occasionally, but they are nor harbingers of evil.
I noticed Mirasol's highbush blueberry, too - you beat me to the explanation! It's a sweet story, regardless - and unless you grow up picking the wretched things, you wouldn't know. I would very much be Tuuri, I spend many childhood days trailing along in my parents' wake, grazing instead of filling the small container I'd been given. They're so small, it takes forever (from a kid viewpoint) to even cover the bottom. Sad to say, little has changed, and I still have a habit of grazing rather than collecting for later!
I made friends with a British exchange student during university, and in spring they pointed out the birds hopping about on the lawn and asked in a tone of disbelief, "Is that what you call a robin??" I am sympathetic to this view, Turdus migratorius (even the name is awful) bears little resemblance to robin red-breast(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erithacus_rubecula_with_cocked_head.jpg). To me it reflects desperate homesickness - there are no robins in this hard new land, oh look, a bird with a red chest, let's call it a robin so that there are robins. Sort of like lonely sailors seeing manatees as mermaids!
Post by: scottishnottish on July 03, 2020, 10:03:05 PM
MollyVampiric this is such a fun story! Very true to the characters, and drunk Reynir made me laugh.
Post by: Keep Looking on July 04, 2020, 07:21:14 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 11: Young Love
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 11: Young Love
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Today's prompt of Young Love is brought to us by Count Shrekula!
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Thanks very much to Count Shrekula for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post what you've made down below!
Hey guy! Sorry for the awfully late post. I thought, since it's about half-way through the Chapter Break Filler now, that I might say that I'm so glad you guys are enjoying this! I haven't been interacting much (or at all, really) since I was still fairly busy with school, but it's been so great seeing you guys all coming together and posting your own stuff and having discussions and all that! I'm really glad that this event could be that for you all. I've also loved recieving everyone's pieces!
Anyway, thanks so much to all of you who have contributed in some way or another to this event, and I hope you enjoy the rest of it!
Post by: midwestmutt on July 04, 2020, 09:16:56 AM
Amidst the rolling storm waves.
Young love will sail on.
(I surprised myself with this nautical poem. I'm a confirmed landlubber.)
Post by: Vulpes on July 04, 2020, 09:49:43 AM
Post by: Vulpes on July 04, 2020, 09:57:41 AM
waiting seems endless
like an endless prairie sky
should I call, perhaps?
Post by: Annuil on July 04, 2020, 10:12:16 AM
And, Vulpes, this haiku cares so much truth in it, excellent!
Count Shrekula, very cute! I like the way you made the light focused in a certain place. ;D
Also, all the pieces here are amazing! So much creativity! I was a little busy so couldn’t join the conversations but I read all of them!
I love these long talks about plants you have here, it is great! ;D
Jitter, you made me homesick by sending that picture of the woods! I used to live in the more northern part of Russia, so we have forests that look like that (and those smaller blueberries as well). But it’s still good to see a familiar sight ;)
Post by: Mirasol on July 04, 2020, 01:48:35 PM
I love these long talks about plants you have here, it is great! ;D
I guess in that case I´ll be happy to provide more reasons to talk about them via my ignorance... :'D
I was busy all day so It´s nice to find so many nice things over here now that I have time!
Count Shrekula, I agree with Annuil, the lighting in your piece is very good and interesting!
midwestmutt and Vulpes, a Haiku on land and one on the sea, but both equally beautiful!
Sadly I´ll probably be busy until wednesday, since I have two more classtests comming up. So see you then! :)
Post by: Annuil on July 04, 2020, 03:35:38 PM
I guess in that case I´ll be happy to provide more reasons to talk about them via my ignorance... :'DIt’s not your fault! I thought it was Google who said the wrong thing! :'D
Post by: Jitter on July 04, 2020, 04:20:10 PM
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Midsummer magic
Seven flowers for young love
Who will be the one?
”Oh, good morning Tuulikki! Did you sleep well?”
”Good morning. I did, thanks for asking! A bit shortly but otherwise good. It is the shortest night of the year!”
“So, did it work? Tell me everything!”
“Did what work? I don’t understand!” Tuulikki looked at her friend with an innocently bland expression.
“Don’t even try! I saw you gathering the seven flowers! I know you are not supposed to talk after you start picking them, so I didn’t say anything. But I watched you go around picking them!”
“Oh well, ok! I suppose it did!”
“Aww! Who was it? I want to know! Was he nice in the dream?”
“Well, you don’t know him anyways. He’s not from here.”
“Not from here? How do you know him then? Or was he a someone you haven’t yet met?”
“No no, we have met. He’s from Toivosaari.”
“Ooooo! I see! You did meet someone at Ukonvakka! Why didn’t you say anything in the spring?”
“Well, I wasn’t sure if it meant anything. But after the spell, maybe?”
“Ah, tell me all about him! Right now!”
“Firstly, he was very nice and polite...”
“And handsome, I’m sure!”
“If you don’t let me speak, you won’t hear anything about him!”
Midsummer was prime time for spells for the ancient Finns. Spells to ensure good luck in love were widespread, and especially popular were various ways by which the young (especially women) could foresee who they would marry. Other spells were done to draw the love of a certain someone, or just for general success in love, or also more general luck, prosperity and health. Some of the more popular spouse prediction spells survive to this day, although nowadays done more as a game as with genuine belief in the results.
The most well known spell is to in the Midsummer night (night between the Eve and Midsummer day) pick seven different flowers from seven different meadows (locations) into a small bouquet, and when one sleeps with this bouquet under one’s pillow, the future husband or wife will appear in a dream. There are different versions, in some places the spell preparation includes stepping over seven different fences, sometimes there are more flowers, or the bouquet should include fern (the fern was supposed to flower only in Midsummer night) . The speller may be required to stay silent altogether or just refrain from speaking about the spell and especially about who they were hoping to see.
Many of the Midsummer spells were undertaken fully naked as well. Maybe for Tuulikki too it would have been even more potent if she had gone about the flower picking in her birth suit, but she’s a sensible girl and considering the mosquito population around Midsummer probably decided she’s not that interested. Good new is, it seems to have worked nevertheless!
Post by: Mirasol on July 04, 2020, 07:14:11 PM
It’s not your fault! I thought it was Google who said the wrong thing! :'D
It was google who said the wrong thing. But to be fair it was me who asked the wrong question. Or didn´t ask at all in this case. :'D
Jitter, nice story, and Finnish traditions are super interesting! So thank you for explaining the spells!
I´m way too tired to write anything sensefull right now... So yeah, See you on wednesday :D
Post by: Róisín on July 04, 2020, 07:21:53 PM
Some such piseog, small spells, required that the woman work it while naked (or ‘skyclad’ as the wiccans phrase it, including the seed-sowing spells. The implications are obvious). In those spells the woman would walk three times around some sacred object (originally something like a standing stone or sacred well, in more recent centuries a church) while scattering behind her the seeds of some useful plant and chanting a calling spell, something like ‘Hempseed I sow, hempseed I sow. Now, my own dear, come after me here, and mow, and mow’. At which point, if she looked back, she should see the young man harvesting her crop.
Some English spells invoked saints, for example, the one for inducing a true dream of the lover. Suitable flowers were gathered into a bouquet, tied with a ribbon, and placed under the maiden’s pillow with the invocation ‘Saint Luke, Saint Luke, be kind to me! In dreams, let me my true love see’.
The local Aboriginal tribes have a version which uses the flowers of the meemeei tree woven into the woman’s hair while singing a spell, which is rather lovely. And my folk may comb their hair at a man, with intent.
Have you seen the piece that Unlos and I did a few years back, ‘Nine Flowers’, with her glorious art and and my poetry, in which Tuuri is depicted working such a spell? It should be on both the art and poetry threads, with the skyclad version on the mature board.
Post by: Vulpes on July 04, 2020, 08:32:07 PM
Roísín, are you familiar with popping apple seeds as a husband predictor? My mother grew up in rural NS on a mixed farm with a big apple orchard, and did this. She and her sisters would put apple seeds on the stove-top and name each one for some fellow they were sweet on, and whichever one popped first was the one. They also did the apple peel thing you describe. But they were very straight-laced United Church members (no cards on Sunday, etc.), so you can be sure they were not doing any of this in the buff!
Post by: Róisín on July 04, 2020, 10:31:10 PM
Edit: are you familiar with the Finnish website ‘Luontoportti’? They have good nature articles, and a useful article on this plant. I remember finding itwhen tracking name changes of its relative Eyebright.
Post by: Keep Looking on July 05, 2020, 01:07:27 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 12: Heartbreak
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 12: Heartbreak
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Today's prompt of Heartbreak is brought to us by Abprallen!
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Thanks very much to Abprallen for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post what you've made down below!
Post by: Róisín on July 05, 2020, 01:13:28 AM
So much awesome work here! We should do this again next chapter break!
Post by: Annuil on July 05, 2020, 08:03:04 AM
So much awesome work here! We should do this again next chapter break!That’s for sure!!
Abprallen, so touching! I like the idea that, when feeling so bad, he tries to pet Kitty. It really helps! And usually, if you’re heart is broken in some way and the cat’s around, it pretty much is your first movement...
Post by: Annuil on July 05, 2020, 08:07:06 AM
(I thought something happened to him so he pets Kitty..)
Post by: thegreyarea on July 05, 2020, 10:12:16 AM
First, and taking on what Róisín said, I'm also expecting this fillers to become a Minnion tradition in the years to come!
Now, since my last comment, we had Mirasol's lovely pic+story, scottishnottish's awesome poem (when did him made anything that wasn't awesome?), Molly's amazing and funny story, (another) great haiku by Midwestmutt, Jitter's illustrated lesson in blueberries, Count's great take on young love, (yet more) great haikus from Midwestmutt and Vulpes, Jitter again doing her magic on us and Abprallen's heartbroken Reynir!
Uff! That's a lot, my friends! You are all awesome! I wish my work was already in that incredible mix... but it will be! Work is going fine, and as soon as I can I will pick where I left.
Butter Good!
Post by: Alkia on July 05, 2020, 11:13:32 AM
Midwestmutt and also Vulpes, more lovely haikus, yay!!!
Jitter, your story about young love and flowers is so sweet! Also makes me think about how the number 7 pops up so often in lore of all kinds
Abprallen, Reynir has suffered the worst betrayal known to humankind! the Kitty bite ;D
Post by: midwestmutt on July 05, 2020, 12:24:18 PM
She is in her sunset year.
It's a long farewell.
Post by: Róisín on July 05, 2020, 12:44:26 PM
And Grey, I look forward to seeing your work when you are not being run into the ground with work.
Post by: Annuil on July 05, 2020, 02:24:44 PM
My old cat is sick.:'( - the feeling that filles me after reading your haiku, midwestmutt, so sad...
She is in her sunset year.
It's a long farewell.
Post by: Vulpes on July 05, 2020, 04:10:43 PM
I know that usage, but in my tradition we used hazelnuts or chestnuts. Both the apple and the hazel were sacred trees to my family, but while hazelnuts were for eating as well as other parts of the tree being important for healing and magic, apple seeds were only for planting or for medicine, being thought too important to waste on piseog. Different traditions.
Edit: are you familiar with the Finnish website ‘Luontoportti’? They have good nature articles, and a useful article on this plant. I remember finding itwhen tracking name changes of its relative Eyebright.
Interesting variations on these traditions! I think I'd run across Luontoportti and then forgotten the name without bookmarking it, so I'll give it another look. Thanks for the reminder!
Post by: Vulpes on July 05, 2020, 04:15:58 PM
Sad haiku, but so true, lovely work midwestmutt.
Post by: Keep Looking on July 06, 2020, 12:13:32 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 13: Family
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 13: Family
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Today's prompt of Family is brought to us by Joe Steele!
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Thanks very much to Joe Steele for today's work, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to share what you've made down below!
Post by: Róisín on July 06, 2020, 01:21:52 AM
Post by: Grade E cat on July 06, 2020, 02:41:42 AM
Post by: midwestmutt on July 06, 2020, 09:34:35 AM
You start exploring within,
The family circle.
From birth to the grave,
only one thing remains true,
the family circle.
We pass through our years,
In an expanding bubble,
The circle of life.
Post by: thorny on July 06, 2020, 09:44:14 AM
My old cat is sick.
She is in her sunset year.
It's a long farewell.
I hope yours, like mine
Rallies unexpectedly
Purrs many months more.
(Not as good a haiku as your excellent one; but the wish is real.)
Post by: midwestmutt on July 06, 2020, 11:43:45 AM
I hope yours, like mineThanks for the sentiment. She has a slow growing cancer in a back foot pad. She has had it for over a year now but it is incurable and spreading. So far she is in no pain and can walk, it just itches her. I treat her with a topical hydrocortisone spray for cats and watch for any signs of distress. I will care for her as long as she is happy.
Rallies unexpectedly
Purrs many months more.
(Not as good a haiku as your excellent one; but the wish is real.)
Post by: Vulpes on July 06, 2020, 07:29:02 PM
Thanks for the sentiment. She has a slow growing cancer in a back foot pad. She has had it for over a year now but it is incurable and spreading. So far she is in no pain and can walk, it just itches her. I treat her with a topical hydrocortisone spray for cats and watch for any signs of distress. I will care for her as long as she is happy.
Oh, that's hard. We had one with a tumour above one eye, she was in no obvious distress and managed for quite some time until it spread to her jaw and interfered with eating. So glad you can do something for yours, even if it's just calming an itch.
Post by: Vulpes on July 06, 2020, 07:51:16 PM
Splendid set of haiku, midwestmutt! I wish I could come up with one, but I'm too tired to think.
Post by: scottishnottish on July 06, 2020, 11:21:07 PM
the scrapes and the scuffs
we shed side by side
in trenches and roughs
through dark of the woods
and light of the plains
through pain-wailing loss
and joy-whooping gain
is thicker than blood
of familial lines
for ties of respect
take these things to bind:
the mending of wounds
and baring of limps
confiding of fears
and sharing of strength
the never leaving
you to face alone
the things you most fear
the places unknown
It does not matter
if kin blood we bleed
for something thicker
makes us family
--
Inspired by the phrase "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." The SSSS crew has been through a lot together, and I think has become like family. I wanted to write something open-ended that could apply to any of the characters/relationships.
Aaa there are so many good submissions since last I posted. To everyone who's contributed, I don't have the energy to acknowledge you all individually at the moment, but know that this excludes no-one: your work is lovely and brings me joy.
Post by: Keep Looking on July 07, 2020, 12:32:15 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 14: In You I See Myself
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 14: In You I See Myself
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Today's prompt of In You I See Myself is brought to us by Wavewright62!
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Thanks very much to Wavewright for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to share what you've made down below!
Today's original prompt was Sharing of Knowledge by thegreyarea, but as he's had unexpected work circumstances come up, he'll be completing it at a later date. Best of luck with your work, Grey, and we look forward to seeing your piece when you have time to get it done!
Post by: Grade E cat on July 07, 2020, 02:21:56 AM
Post by: Jitter on July 07, 2020, 04:50:03 AM
Wave, I deeply concur with Grade E Cat - they must have been a handful! I absolutely love the "rampaging giant"! And the details of the clothing are spot on!
Scottish, another lovely piece. I'm sure they do feel like a family now! Which probably explains why they are all here. With the exception of Emil, none of the others actually had reason to follow Lalli - except that this is how families roll.
Midwestmutt, all your haikus are beautiful! This series of three is perhaps my favorite so far. Also hugs to your poor cat! And yourself.
Jon, I love how you convey the Hotakainens' deep solidarity to one another! Also the mention of the mist almost whispering to Saku is great! It's a common fan theory that the magic comes from Saku's line, and this is a great way of referencing it! I would agree with Vulpes, Saku's various ailments will probably be much lessened by having to deal with raising a baby in an apocalypse.
Abprallen, poor Reynir! But surely he knows it doesn't mean Kitty wouldn't love him anyways! Annuil, I also read it meaning he is otherwise heartbroken and seeks for comfort from Kitty - to no avail, at the moment. But I'm sure he'll soon be happier again!
Count, great piece! So much for privacy! But when will he call! (I'm so old that we had a phone with the round thingy you used to dial :) )
And I have probably forgotten someone again. Lovely content, everyone! I really like this soon-to-be-tradition! And we made it to the forum News! Wohoo!
Post by: midwestmutt on July 07, 2020, 09:03:49 AM
I see my own life in yours.
Oh you poor fellow.
Back to the the light-hearted stuff. I'm trying to perk myself up in these trying times.
Post by: Róisín on July 07, 2020, 09:47:54 AM
Midwestmutt, I can sympathise with your mirror haiku! Especially at present. I remember, as a tiny child, being fascinated by ‘the baby in the mirror’ and wanting to play with her. Never did catch her though. We could all do with a bit of perking up at present, I reckon! I know I have an anniversary of some wild events I lived through 27 years ago, which is a rather dark memory, but ameliorated by being also the birthday of a dear friend, and of one of my granddaughters, as well as by the company of old friends and companions.
Scottish, that also goes for your poem! No companionship and understanding matches that of the people who have survived horrors with you.
Post by: Vulpes on July 07, 2020, 08:16:19 PM
Wavewright, have you been spying on my cousins? :haw: That is so reminiscent of the chaos in their house when the whole brood was young, right down to mother enjoying the noisy antics.
I snorted at your haiku, midwestmutt, and startled my cat. Good one!
Post by: Vulpes on July 07, 2020, 08:43:08 PM
Mia helps her mother in the kitchen sometimes.
"Mum, how long should I cook this jam?"
"Til it's done," says Ulrike.
"How will I know it's done?"
"It will look done."
"Muuuuum! That's no help!"
Ulrike watches as little Torbjörn helps his mother in the kitchen.
"Mum, how long should I knead this dough?"
"Til it's done," says Mia.
She turns and looks at her mother.
"I'm turning into you!"
Ulrike laughs.
Post by: Annuil on July 07, 2020, 10:44:16 PM
All these stories and poems and other works here are so wonderful! I was a little busy, so I didn’t post anything and didn’t get time to make anything, but it’s so great to read all of this when there is a free minute!
Post by: Count_Shrekula on July 07, 2020, 10:58:27 PM
I'm taken away by the sheer talent in all these submissions and the extra poetry! It's been great looking through them all.
In particular, Abprallen, I loved your heartbreak piece, and Wavewright62, baby Reynir is sooo cute.
Post by: wavewright62 on July 08, 2020, 01:38:02 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 15: Loss
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 15: Loss
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Today's prompt of Loss is brought to us by GaelleDragons!
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Thanks very much to GaelleDragons for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to share what you've made down below!
Post by: thegreyarea on July 08, 2020, 04:36:21 AM
Wave, I love your family portrait! So well done, so vivid! And what a lovely (and big!) baby Reynir was!
Gaelle... Wow! Your talent never ceases to amaze me! Seriously, you are fantastic!
Vulpes and Scottish, great contributions!
Midwestmutt, I'm sorry to hear about your cat. I'm still in my first one, so I can just imagine how bad it is. But yours is loved and cared, and surely loves you back.
*hugs*
Butter Good, people, and sorry if I forgot someone!
Post by: Mirasol on July 08, 2020, 06:06:37 AM
There were so many great things posted while I was away, so I´ll keep this a bit shorter.
So many nice Haikus by midwestmutt, and may your cat have many happy days left with you! And so many lovely Reynirs (and family!) by Abprallen, wavewright and GaelleDragons! I also loved to read the conversation about different spell traditions. Plus more Hotakainen-backstory by Joe Steele, and another one of scottishnottish´s amazing poems, and Vulpes your story was so cute too and aaahh! I´m in awe! :sparkle:
I missed all the fun... :(
But I´m happy to be back and hopefully able to contribute a few things again. Butter Good! :))
Post by: midwestmutt on July 08, 2020, 09:27:17 AM
Don't set a thing down.
While thinking of something else.
Oh no! The remote!
Post by: Mirasol on July 08, 2020, 10:53:57 AM
Loss
“Sigrun! Sigrun, have you seen my knife??? It was right here! Come on, it can´t just disappear like that?!”
Emil looked around himself hectically. He just had it in his hand. Than a bird or something cried and he looked away for five seconds and it was gone. Sigrun looked up from packing her backpack.
“How´d you manage to lose it? Fell off the rock you were sitting on?” She chuckled.
“I don´t know! Do you see it somewhere around here?”
Sigrun at least pretended to scan the area around her. Then she got up demonstratively slow and leaned against a tree grinning.
“Sorry little guy. Haven´t seen it.”
She was lying. She was so obviously lying. It made Emil furious. He started spilling out the insides of his half-packed backpack while angrily cursing to himself.
Sigrun watched the Swede´s antics from over at her tree. Should she tell him? She figured no. He would notice eventually. For now it was way too entertaining watching her right-hand-warrior franticly searching for the knife that was exactly where it was supposed to be: in its scabbard, on his belt.
Post by: midwestmutt on July 08, 2020, 03:47:44 PM
Post by: Mirasol on July 08, 2020, 04:06:21 PM
Post by: Annuil on July 08, 2020, 05:01:34 PM
And your haiku is wonderful, as always, midwestmutt ;)
The loss of the sheep! Oh, how much I understand your pain and sorrow, Reinir! Beautiful drawing, GaelleDragons!
(I accidentally did the replying in the reverse order...)
Post by: GaelleDragons on July 08, 2020, 05:08:27 PM
And I'm glad you liked my art! I've been quietly enjoying all the art and writing posted here as well. XoX
Post by: Jitter on July 08, 2020, 06:10:38 PM
Mirasol, your story gave me an idea but it would work better as art, which I’m rubbish at. I’m thinking of Emil eating something or otherwise engaged in some mundane task, and Lalli pilfering his knife just because :)
Post by: Vulpes on July 08, 2020, 06:27:24 PM
I love your story, Vulpes! It reminds me of my own mom speaking like her mom, my grandma :'D
Thanks! It is, as they say, based on a true story. I love all the little sayings that just bubble up without me trying - at first I felt like Mia (I'm too young to become my parents!) but now it's a welcome tie to them. A few examples:
"You've got to eat a peck of dirt before you die." (What does that mean, even?)
"It sticks like snot to a screen door." (I now know that this would perhaps be bewildering to Finns and New Zealanders due to the rarity of screen doors.)
"Think thrice, measure twice, cut once." (My father was a careful carpenter, as was his father.)
"It's good, clean dirt." (Said when picking up and eating something that dropped on the ground.)
Post by: Vulpes on July 08, 2020, 06:39:19 PM
Post by: Róisín on July 08, 2020, 07:24:29 PM
‘For life is a toil, and love is a trouble
Beauty will fade and riches will flee,
Wages they dwindle and prices they double,
And nothing is as I would wish it to be’.
As to screen doors, I am fairly sure I remember them from New Zealand, though I can’t speak for Finland, though I think I remember having seen screened windows there - they certainly have mosquitoes. We have them commonly in Australia, because flies! And the variant I know is ‘Sticks like s*excrement*t to a blanket’.
My gran used to say ‘It’s good clean dirt’, when we kids would drop bread or apples in the garden, which amused me, and my grandfather had the one about cutting and measuring, which I took to mean that planning saved work and waste of materials.
I love proverbs and old sayings!
Post by: Keep Looking on July 09, 2020, 12:15:28 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 16: Support
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 16: Support
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Today's prompt of Support is brought to us by ScottishNottish!
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Thanks very much to Scottish for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to share what you've made down below!
Post by: Jitter on July 09, 2020, 05:33:20 AM
Post by: thegreyarea on July 09, 2020, 06:10:05 AM
Post by: Róisín on July 09, 2020, 06:12:01 AM
Post by: Annuil on July 09, 2020, 08:13:01 AM
I loved many parts, but “Pssh. Why would I be anyone else?” from Sigrun killed me! ;D
Yes! That was a good way to show her personality, you understand her character so well! (I love writing dialogs just because it really helps to present the characters) ;D
Post by: Jitter on July 09, 2020, 09:56:07 AM
Support
Emil was getting accustomed to country living. It was very beautiful at Toivosaari, and he enjoyed the work at their building site. Sometimes it was just the three of them working either on Emil and Lalli’s house, or Onni’s. Other times they helped some of the other people of the village putting up ridge beams or very large timbers. Similarly they received help whenever more strength or hands were required. The people were friendly and supportive of his attempts at so far quite broken Finnish.
And most importantly, Lalli flourished among his own. He definitely wasn’t a social butterfly, but he was clearly comfortable with most of the neighbors, as long as there weren’t too many people together. He went so far as to make the effort to arrive at the village meetings or occasional feast, even if he soon slipped away to watch from a little distance. Even Onni was… well, not relaxed, but less tense here than Emil had ever seen him. Being back to Finland really was good for both of them.
He really did want to build his life here, and he was making steps towards it. Sometimes some of the neighbors may turn up to ask just for him, if they needed only one person. And after he’d taken to the habit of playing with the kids (there weren’t many yet), he was sometimes asked to come help with them, which he loved to do. Two of the kids were even interested in learning some Swedish from him.
But. Toivosaari was small. In fact, it was a tiny village. The good side was everybody knew each other well, and you could always trust to receive help from anyone you asked. The bad side… sometimes it was a bit boring. There were no shops, no events, no radio. Even the newspaper came about 1-2 times a month, and was of course in Finnish.
Sometimes Emil felt isolated and frustrated to not know anything about the comings and goings of the Scandinavian capital. Or fashion! Lalli made clear they can take the trip to the capital island to shop for clothes or whatever Emil wanted, but it was hardly the same.
One Wednesday in late September the weekly post boat arrived again. Emil happened to be at the village waterfront, so he heard the postman yelling: “Paketti Emil Västerrstrröömmille! Asuuko täällä joku Västerrstrrööm?”
“Oi, that’s me! Thank you!” The parcel was fairly large, about the length of his lower arm each way. The postal markings on top said MORA. Oh, what could it be!
Back at the home sauna, Emil sat on the porch and pried open the parcel. It was a treasure chest! There were two really nice shirts, some cookies and sweets in glass jars (Emil made a mental note to turn those over to Lalli... well, most of them at least), newspapers and even a fashion magazine. And best of all! Three bottles of Emil’s favorite shampoo, and one of conditioner!
The enclosed long letter gave him news of how things were in Mora and Sweden in general, as well as about how his cousins, uncle and aunt were doing. In closing, Siv had written: “I enclose a few items you may find hard to come by in Saimaa. I know your hair may get tangly in wintertime, so I added the conditioner too. With love, your aunt”.
Post by: Jitter on July 09, 2020, 10:01:23 AM
The postman just says "Parcel for Emil Västerstöm! Is there someone named Västerström living here?". I can't show in English all of the differences in pronunciation when a Finnish-only person says his Swedish name, but maybe you get some of the idea. It sounds funny to Emil, but understandable :)
Post by: Vulpes on July 09, 2020, 10:22:35 AM
Jitter, I like your continuation of the EmilLalli story, it works by itself but I did remember the previous bit, too. As someone with very tangly hair, I've sometimes wondered how I'd cope in the apocalypse, because I'm sure there would be no more conditioner. Then I discovered half-strength apple cider vinegar - it works surprisingly well.
Post by: Vulpes on July 09, 2020, 10:35:30 AM
A peck in this context is a unit of measurement by dry volume, being about two gallons or a quarter of a bushel in the old Imperial system, if I remember correctly. And I have always taken the proverb to mean that small misfortunes and inconveniences happen to everyone, and the world affects us all, and of course that dirt gets everywhere. The saying always reminds me of that oh-so-true song ‘The Housewife’s Lament’, which has the chorus:
‘For life is a toil, and love is a trouble
Beauty will fade and riches will flee,
Wages they dwindle and prices they double,
And nothing is as I would wish it to be’.
As to screen doors, I am fairly sure I remember them from New Zealand, though I can’t speak for Finland, though I think I remember having seen screened windows there - they certainly have mosquitoes. We have them commonly in Australia, because flies! And the variant I know is ‘Sticks like s*excrement*t to a blanket’.
My gran used to say ‘It’s good clean dirt’, when we kids would drop bread or apples in the garden, which amused me, and my grandfather had the one about cutting and measuring, which I took to mean that planning saved work and waste of materials.
I love proverbs and old sayings!
I figured you'd recognise these! I had to do math skills tests with gallons, bushels, pecks and the rest (no idea why, we had gone metric by that point), so that's no mystery to me, it's the general meaning that's obscure - could mean a little dirt won't hurt you (which is what I figure it means) or the opposite, that once you've eaten a peck of dirt, you die, so don't eat dirt! That'd be a heckuva lot of dirt... O_o
The comment about screen doors was a bit cryptic, it related to a side-conversation on the video discussion thread. I was struck that Minna was chasing mozzies in her house (mentioned in one of her videos), and Jitter said that screen doors are rare in Finland. Wavewright chimed in that NZ has few screens also. I am still reeling from this information!
Post by: Mirasol on July 09, 2020, 01:01:28 PM
Mirasol, your story gave me an idea but it would work better as art, which I’m rubbish at. I’m thinking of Emil eating something or otherwise engaged in some mundane task, and Lalli pilfering his knife just because :)
Aaaaah... I tried to draw that but I apparently spontaneously forgot how drawing works, so that probably won´t be happening... At least not today. :P If someone else wants to try their hands at it, please do, I would like to see that scene! (if you´re ok with it, Jitter)
scottish, your story was sweet and hilarious. Very in-character, and Sigrun was an entire mood all the time. :'D I wish I had someone to play DnD with, I never got the chance before...
Jitter, lovely story! Was it...
I'm sure you worked out this is direct continuation to "Warmth" from last break. They are living in the sauna until the houses are up.
Ah yes, I was just about to ask. And aww, that package by Siv was so sweet! :siv:
Post by: midwestmutt on July 09, 2020, 01:40:28 PM
Post by: Jitter on July 09, 2020, 02:12:35 PM
And thanks all. It’s not within my 300 word limit, but then I have only written a couple.
Post by: midwestmutt on July 09, 2020, 06:28:49 PM
through the long, dry chapter break
Three more days, Minnions.
Post by: thegreyarea on July 09, 2020, 06:56:17 PM
And it gave me an idea. I don't know if they still have that kind of advertising in Y91, but anyway I will draw Emil as posterboy for some shampoo brand! :D (I just don't know when I'll be able to do that, but I will...)
Midwestsmutt, you are truly inspired on your haiku series!
Post by: Róisín on July 09, 2020, 07:42:37 PM
‘The maiden who, on the first of May
Goes to the fields at break of day
And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree
Will ever after lovely be’.
I can just picture Emil getting up early to do that, with Lalli tagging along and thinking it was sweet! Such a pity that I totally lack the art skill!
Post by: scottishnottish on July 09, 2020, 11:23:38 PM
thegreyarea I was definitely inserting a bit of myself when Mikkel was admiring Sigrun's self-confidence!
Róisín ah I can never play a character too like myself, I'd be bored so quickly!
Annuil I give all credit to Minna for such clearly-defined characters heh, I find them very easy to write.
Vulpes but brilliant is a brilliant word!
Mirasol I've played a handful of times but always enjoy it! I hope you can find a good-natured group to play with.
midwestmutt I actually got into D&D because of a podcast called The Adventure Zone, which features lots of goofs and shenanigans so I was very inspired by that hah. And a very encouraging haiku, thanks!
Post by: wavewright62 on July 10, 2020, 12:26:55 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 17: Contentment
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 17: Contentment
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Today's prompt of Contentment is brought to us by none other than event organiser Keep Looking!
Spoiler: show
Thanks very much to Keep Looking for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to share what you've made down below!
Post by: Jitter on July 10, 2020, 03:20:53 AM
Also cool reference to the magic!
Post by: Róisín on July 10, 2020, 04:24:40 AM
Thank you for a good Arni poem!
Post by: thegreyarea on July 10, 2020, 04:29:38 AM
Post by: midwestmutt on July 10, 2020, 09:45:53 AM
the apex of contentment
look at a fed cat
Post by: Róisín on July 10, 2020, 09:57:38 AM
Post by: JoB on July 10, 2020, 10:05:21 AM
I don't know if they still have that kind of advertising in Y91, but anyway I will draw Emil as posterboy for some shampoo brand! :DEven if the other stuff looks more like a wall newspaper instead of an ad poster, the cleansers sure do it (http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=134).
(I'm unclear whether that scene is supposed to take place in Mora, or Östersund. It's a bit in the past in either case.)
My laptop's currently acting up, so I can't check, but Y91 Iceland does at least have ads in their newspapers (memento un-skunking your cat) ...
... places with really low population densities (rural Finland) might still make ad posters a non-starter, of course ...
Post by: thegreyarea on July 10, 2020, 11:07:33 AM
Even if the other stuff looks more like a wall newspaper instead of an ad poster, the cleansers sure do it (http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=134).Well noted, JoB! I had that idea too. As far as I remember, however, we just saw institutional/governmental ads and also service ads in the comic, but not product advertising to consumers (like shampoo ads). But just because they are not show doesn't means they don't exist, particularly in newspapers and magazines.
(I'm unclear whether that scene is supposed to take place in Mora, or Östersund. It's a bit in the past in either case.)
My laptop's currently acting up, so I can't check, but Y91 Iceland does at least have ads in their newspapers (memento un-skunking your cat) ...
... places with really low population densities (rural Finland) might still make ad posters a non-starter, of course ...
I'll try to make something black&white, 50's or 60's style... something like this:
(please note that it's a link to a commercial page. I never bought them anything, and I'm not selling nor endorsing it in anyway. it's here just because it's well done, and funny)
Spoiler: show
:)
but, as I said, not now, neither soon, I'm afraid.
Post by: Jitter on July 10, 2020, 11:57:10 AM
Post by: GaelleDragons on July 10, 2020, 01:19:49 PM
Mirasol, your story gave me an idea but it would work better as art, which I’m rubbish at. I’m thinking of Emil eating something or otherwise engaged in some mundane task, and Lalli pilfering his knife just because :)
Aaaaah... I tried to draw that but I apparently spontaneously forgot how drawing works, so that probably won´t be happening... At least not today. :P If someone else wants to try their hands at it, please do, I would like to see that scene! (if you´re ok with it, Jitter)
I took the liberty of drawing that scene, so here goes
(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/b341db75-28ed-416a-bd81-a49fbce10349/de13iz2-52afa860-6c01-431c-a644-c433b65f83ea.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOiIsImlzcyI6InVybjphcHA6Iiwib2JqIjpbW3sicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvYjM0MWRiNzUtMjhlZC00MTZhLWJkODEtYTQ5ZmJjZTEwMzQ5XC9kZTEzaXoyLTUyYWZhODYwLTZjMDEtNDMxYy1hNjQ0LWM0MzNiNjVmODNlYS5wbmcifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6ZmlsZS5kb3dubG9hZCJdfQ.cABoLOEVVtsKZxreEiuks4p2e9zpETwFSj2dP2oF3Rs)
I know it's pretty Not Nice of Lalli to pilfer Emil's sword while he's working on his Finnish, but I wouldn't qualify Lalli as someone particularly Nice, so... ^^"
Now the question is: where will Lalli hide the knife? What would be the last place Emil would go looking for it? Mhhh... O:-)
Also I didn't know what the word "pilfering" meant in english until now, so thank you Jitter for helping me expand my english vocabulary ^^"
Edit: the image disappeared for a moment, oops! I've resized it, it should show up now. ^^"
Post by: Mirasol on July 10, 2020, 01:33:46 PM
midwestmutt, yes! We will get through the dreaded chapter break! :) And I don´t have a cat but I can imagine it vividly in front of my inner eye. Wonderful Haikus!
Róisín I could totally see Emil doing this. Hm... should I draw this? But it involves plants again... :'D
KeepLooking, that is an awesome poem! I can´t really put into words what I like about it so much, but I keep rereading it.
Grey, that sounds like an amazing and hilarious idea! I hope you have the time to draw it soon.
And GaelleDragons, ahaha, this is hilarious! :'D And beautifully drawn. Thank you for bringing the scene to life!
Post by: Jitter on July 10, 2020, 02:16:57 PM
Midwestmutt, another brilliant haiku! I love your series!
Contentment
Walking back towards Spirit House, Reynir felt a passing uneasiness. He closed his eyes and cast his spirit forward. The students, the members of the Circle… they were all right. But – Onni wasn’t. He was in pain again. His unwavering beacon for all these decades. Well, there must be endings, to make room for new beginnings. This new pain seemed to be the beginning of an end.
Approaching his old companion, Reynir smiled warmly. “How are you feeling?”
“I’m fine. Stop fussing!” Onni’s voice was terse, but his smile revealed he didn’t mind Reynir asking.
“Onni, I felt it, coming in. It’s a new one, isn’t it?”
“Yes. I think it is. In the lungs, I think. My luonto is even more tired than before.” Casting his spirit again just for a second, Reynir saw the old owl sleeping on Onni’s shoulder. He hadn’t been awake much for months now.
“Do you think… surely it’s not time yet?”
“No, not yet. But the time is coming. I know it, you know it… and again I feel it too.”
“Shall we bathe? Maybe it won’t help with the lungs, but it sure helps with the bones.” Reynir was old, and he’d been walking for hours. Not to mention carrying the lamb, who had felt light when he picked her up, but soon reminded him of his years.
“Oh, all right. If you insist!” Reynir knew Onni loved the hot spring just as much as he did. He beckoned two students over to help them to the bathing hall.
Sitting in the soothing heat, Onni sighed, both wistful and content. “Building the House here at the spring was your best idea ever, freckles.”
“Thank you, I like to think so myself as well. Although I have had some other moments too!”
“Well, maybe… once or twice.” Onni closed his eyes and grimaced, but soon his face relaxed.
“So, Onni… do you regret coming here? To live with us? With me?”
“Oh Mielikki help me! How can you still be so stupid? How could I regret it! My life has been so… so much more than I ever imagined, even as a proud kid, the gifted grandson of the great Ensi Hotakainen. I couldn’t regret it, even if it was just half of this!”
After a moment’s silence Onni added “But I am sad that I won’t see the forests anymore. Should have visited when there was still time. And don’t even try, the birch woods don’t count. You know that.”
“I will contact Lumi. Last time we talked, things were peaceful in the East. I’m sure she can spare Kaapo for a short while, to carry your spirit to Koli once more.”
“That would be good. That would be very good… Thank you. For everything.”
Under the warm water Onni took Reynir’s hand. Reynir squeezed back. He would hold on till the end.
Post by: Róisín on July 10, 2020, 05:57:06 PM
Post by: thegreyarea on July 10, 2020, 07:19:09 PM
Post by: Vulpes on July 10, 2020, 08:13:57 PM
I semi-promised a cameo appearance of the Hotakainen boat, and actually managed to find time to edit down a great rambling mess of vague ideas into something not too long, so here's my take on contentment. It popped into my mind as soon as someone suggested focusing on secondary characters, and I really wanted to include the boat!
The boat had been on blocks in the yard since the autumn of Year 0, but every spring Aino still cleaned the cabin. She always said it was to make sure nothing was nesting in it, but really it was her last link with Before. On this fine spring day, then, she leaned a ladder against the hull, and climbed stiffly onto the deck once more.
She stepped into the quiet cabin and stood a moment, transported back to that rainy autumn. She and Saku had been planning, their minds leaping years ahead. She smiled at the image of little Ensi taking piano lessons, with plump child hands, frowning over the keyboard. But memories intruded - little Ensi, her hands gripping the edge of the table, frowning.
"Can't you hear them? They say they want me to help them, but they're lying."
Aino shook her head. She grabbed her dusting rag and began wiping the table. Ensi strode by, little Jukka and Juha trotting in her wake. Aino watched, stilled in mid-wipe, great pride welling up for her strong, skilled, and respected daughter. So respected that when she returned from a scouting trip visibly thick around the middle, and gave birth to the twins five months later, nobody dared to pry. Not even Aino had managed to get more than "Ukko-Pekka" out of her!
The boys lacked Ensi's... gift? Curse? They were happy-go-lucky children, full of laughter. Aino smiled again, this time for the present - for her tough, competent daughter, and her cheeful, loving grandsons. She looked down at her hand, still holding the rag.
"You know," she said aloud, "this is kind of pointless. Nothing has got in here in 40-odd years, and old dreams aren't worth dwelling on."
She stepped out into the warm spring air and climbed back down the ladder for the last time, feeling... happy? No, this was deeper and more lasting. Content. That was it.
Edit to fix misspelled name that everyone was too polite to point out. And then re-edit to put the quotation marks, apostrophes, etc. to rights... why do those get changed on edit??
Post by: Róisín on July 11, 2020, 01:00:47 AM
Post by: Keep Looking on July 11, 2020, 01:40:28 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 18: Death
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 18: Death
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Today's prompt of Death is brought to us by Annuil!
Spoiler: warning for canon-typical gore • show
Thanks very much to Annuil for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post what you've made down below!
(and I'm glad you guys liked my poem! Thank you!)
Post by: GaelleDragons on July 11, 2020, 05:51:43 AM
Jitter, what a beautiful, sad story! I too am out of words ^^"
Vulpes, very nice! Always good to read stories about the Hotakainen family.
Oh and my picture did disappear during the night (do trolls eat pictures on this forum?). I replaced it with a smaller version, and it seems to be visible now. ^^
Post by: Jitter on July 11, 2020, 06:12:05 AM
Post by: Jitter on July 11, 2020, 06:15:52 AM
BTW I’m glad we have Rebirth to end with, and it coincides with the first page of new chapter too!
Post by: midwestmutt on July 11, 2020, 08:50:04 AM
If man weren't mortal
we would need to invent death
godhood is stifling
what is there to face
when all has been said and done
dull eternity
life is incomplete
that has always been the plan
die and try anew
Two for one kinda/sorta. Since I was unable to come up with a haiku for the prompt "walk" I snuck it into the title here.
Post by: Jitter on July 11, 2020, 02:56:19 PM
Post by: Mirasol on July 11, 2020, 03:00:11 PM
And an a lot more hopeful and equally beautiful one by Vulpes!
Annuil, this is stunning! (
As well as another batch of mistwestmutts wonderful Haikus! You just taught me a new word: "stifling" is a very nice word I think. Negative, but nice.
In other news, I can draw again! Hooray! And I actually did start drawing that extra scene Róisín came up with, it just needs to still be colored. I went just a liiiittle bit overboard with the background, so I probably won´t be able to finish it today. Is it okay if I still post it tomorrow? I mean the prompt it was ment for is now a few days passed anyway...
Post by: thegreyarea on July 11, 2020, 03:20:30 PM
Vulpes, lovely story, and also very thoughtful! Should be canon! :)
Midwestmutt, excellent haiku sequence, that even connects with the next prompt! Well done!
Mirasol, that's good to hear! I'm looking forward for your drawing, and I see no problem in anyone posting works a few days after the respective prompt, as long as people refer which prompt inspired them.
Post by: Jitter on July 11, 2020, 03:20:51 PM
Post by: Annuil on July 11, 2020, 06:58:43 PM
I love the detail of the little plant..Yay! You saw it, Grey! :haw:
Well, the prompt is kind of terrible itself, so...
I read everything that was posted here and everything is so amazing!
Your artwork, GaelleDragons, is lovely! Lalli, little burglar... ;D
Keep Looking, that poem is wonderful! How do you, people, write such nice poems?
Midwestmutt, haikus you write are always awesome ;)
Vulpes, your story made me a little sad, because it is so... natural? Or just true... I have a few things, like that boat, that remind me about the life “before”, when I had a friend in the house on the next street (now we are separated by, literally, an ocean) and a completely different life...
Huh, I got an interesting thought about that “before”. Now the whole world has that “before” and “after” life, you hear more and more often: “Oh, I’ve done that! Well... before COVID happened”
Isn’t it a little scary to understand that our own world is facing a strange disease now?.. O_o
Mirasol, can’t wait to see your drawing!! ;D
I hope I didn’t miss anyone, if I did, I beg your forgiveness... And sorry for a lot of text ;D
Post by: Vulpes on July 11, 2020, 08:03:00 PM
Vulpes, a great vignette! Very good characterization of everyone involved and very... lifelike? Her tradition would explain how intact the boat still looked at Y80.
Yes! That was what got me started on the idea. It looked in pretty good repair, and Lalli said only that they had a cool old boat in the yard, not that the kids played in it or anything. I thought about why it was kept up - no hope of getting fuel for it, probably not able to retrofit it to the current technology, so why is it there? Aino was the one most clinging to the idea that "this will all blow over in a few weeks," so it was easy to imagine her lingering on the past. I'm glad you liked it, and that it fits believably.
Gaelle, I see your drawing now, it's wonderful.
I love the linked haiku, midwestmutt. Very beautiful and true.
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Vulpes, your story made me a little sad, because it is so... natural? Or just true... I have a few things, like that boat, that remind me about the life “before”, when I had a friend in the house on the next street (now we are separated by, literally, an ocean) and a completely different life...
Huh, I got an interesting thought about that “before”. Now the whole world has that “before” and “after” life, you hear more and more often: “Oh, I’ve done that! Well... before COVID happened”
Isn’t it a little scary to understand that our own world is facing a strange disease now?.. O_o
<snip>
Sorry I made you sad, but that sort of thing was also in my mind as I thought about and wrote it. There are a lot of befores and afters in life, mostly little personal ones, but here we are with a global Before. It will be interesting to see what After turns out to be like!
It just occurred to me, I have a boat that connects me to a time before. Well, a half hull - these were scale models used by boat-builders back in the day to design the shape of the hull. We had one at the family cottage. When my father decided to sell, he told us all to take whatever we wanted. I took the half hull, which now hangs on my living room wall, and serves as a reminder of many happy times. Maybe that's why the Lumilintu caught my fancy.
Post by: Annuil on July 11, 2020, 09:26:53 PM
Sorry I made you sad, but that sort of thing was also in my mind as I thought about and wrote it. There are a lot of befores and afters in life, mostly little personal ones, but here we are with a global Before. It will be interesting to see what After turns out to be like!
No! It's a good kind of sadness, the one that comes from the happiness of passed days as you said there. (I love to be sad this way because it inspires me to draw and write cool things sometimes). Yeah, our "after" is still unsertian...
It just occurred to me, I have a boat that connects me to a time before. Well, a half hull - these were scale models used by boat-builders back in the day to design the shape of the hull. We had one at the family cottage. When my father decided to sell, he told us all to take whatever we wanted. I took the half hull, which now hangs on my living room wall, and serves as a reminder of many happy times. Maybe that's why the Lumilintu caught my fancy.
That's interesting! And cool! I have a little grey sharpner for pencils in a shape of an elephant that my friend gave me on one of my birthdays a few years ago. It no longer works as a sharpner, but it's still there, on my desk. ;)
Isn't it nice to have such things in our lives?
Post by: scottishnottish on July 11, 2020, 11:34:09 PM
Keep Looking, the imagery is wonderful as always, I really feel like I'm there along with Árni and feeling what he's feeling.
GaelleDragons I love your drawing! You captured the body-language well and I really enjoy your painterly style.
Jitter what a lovely scene, melancholy and nostalgic and sweet all at once. And I like how you characterized aged Reynir and Onni.
Vulpes this is a nice little moment of reflection, so much conveyed it just a few paragraphs!
Annuil very nice illustration, a perfect mix of gory and strangely beautiful.
midwestmutt I love the trio of haiku, an interesting reflection on mortality--so many thoughts explored in just a few words.
You all keep blowing me away!
Post by: Keep Looking on July 12, 2020, 12:46:22 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 19: Decay
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 19: Decay
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Today's prompt of Decay is brought to us by Helium Owl!
Spoiler: show
Thanks very much to Helium Owl for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post what you've made down below!
Post by: thegreyarea on July 12, 2020, 05:01:01 AM
(little time now, will add more later)
Post by: Jitter on July 12, 2020, 05:48:34 AM
Also it’s very topical with the Book 3 just out with Sleipnope as the cover art.
Scottish, I’m glad you like the characterization. I was worried Onni became too soft. But he’s had 60 years (many of which were good) to mellow :onni: :reynir:
Post by: GaelleDragons on July 12, 2020, 07:05:09 AM
Scottish, thanks! I'm glad you liked it! I'm trying to get better at watercolors, letting the colors flow around freely like Minna advised, and it really pays off x3
Post by: Annuil on July 12, 2020, 07:21:17 AM
Post by: Jitter on July 12, 2020, 07:58:32 AM
I’m taking the liberty to repost from PostImage to help Annuil see it.
So, here is HeliumOwl’s absolutely stunning Sleipnope art again (EDIT: under the cut). HeliumOwl, please let me know if you don’t approve and I’ll take it down. This is just to help Annuil and possibly others too.
Spoiler: show
Post by: Vulpes on July 12, 2020, 09:44:36 AM
No! It's a good kind of sadness, the one that comes from the happiness of passed days as you said there. (I love to be sad this way because it inspires me to draw and write cool things sometimes).
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I have a little grey sharpner for pencils in a shape of an elephant that my friend gave me on one of my birthdays a few years ago. It no longer works as a sharpner, but it's still there, on my desk. ;)
Isn't it nice to have such things in our lives?
I'm glad it's the good type of sadness - we need a word for that. Wistful sort of works, but misses the inspirational aspect.
It is indeed nice to have mementos! I like your elephant ex-pencil sharpener.
Post by: midwestmutt on July 12, 2020, 10:19:15 AM
All matter transforms
decay sounds so negative
Nature recycles
Post by: Annuil on July 12, 2020, 10:58:44 AM
Hi,
I’m taking the liberty to repost from PostImage to help Annuil see it.
Oh, Jitter, thank you so much!
Yes, HeliumOwl, that is most impressive and most beautiful! Wow...
Post by: scottishnottish on July 12, 2020, 12:12:37 PM
THE COSMIC CIRCLE
All matter transforms
decay sounds so negative
Nature recycles
ooh I really love this one. "Nature recycles" is such a simple yet powerful statement.
Post by: Jitter on July 12, 2020, 12:15:16 PM
I’m sure it has to do with some image sharing site(s) being blacklisted by your organization, network provider or something like that.
Post by: Helium Owl on July 12, 2020, 04:29:25 PM
thegreyarea haha thank you very much!
Jitter Glad you enjoyed it! I've been trying to think of a phrase that "Decay is but an unwelcome change that comes to us all" or "the souls of those who cannot move on end up with rot and decay" but it was sounded silly or pretentious, so just left it as is. You are most welcome to repost if it has any technical difficulties, thank you for doing that!
GaelleDragons Thank you! Some of the colours did get lost in translation (and many many filters), but I did reference the colour scheme from that one part of the comic that felt most thematic. Not to mention it's such a good colour combination anyway haha!
Annuil Yaaay thank you! I'm sure there will be a higher resolution image somewhere at some point! I have uploaded it through Imgur, might that have caused the issue for you?
scottishnottish The secret ingredient to good brushwork is
Post by: Mirasol on July 12, 2020, 04:44:09 PM
midwestmutt, "nature recycles" is a really nice way to phrase it. Beautiful Haiku, as always.
I'm glad it's the good type of sadness - we need a word for that. Wistful sort of works, but misses the inspirational aspect.
Thesaurus.com gave me "musing". It has the inspirational aspect, but now less of the sad/happy one... Hm, somewhere there must be a better word...
What exactly happened to my "don´t do anything you can´t finish in a day for the chapter break when it´s not supposed to be an entire promt"-rule? And where did the daylight go? So my drawing is done, but the only photos I managed to take look terrible because the lamplight is weirdly reflecting on them, so I suppose I´m taking better photos tomorrow... Sorry! :-[
Post by: wavewright62 on July 12, 2020, 05:08:04 PM
Post by: Vulpes on July 12, 2020, 05:44:00 PM
And in the meantime, midwestmutt nailed it in a haiku as usual. :)
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Thesaurus.com gave me "musing". It has the inspirational aspect, but now less of the sad/happy one... Hm, somewhere there must be a better word...
What exactly happened to my "don´t do anything you can´t finish in a day for the chapter break when it´s not supposed to be an entire promt"-rule? And where did the daylight go? So my drawing is done, but the only photos I managed to take look terrible because the lamplight is weirdly reflecting on them, so I suppose I´m taking better photos tomorrow... Sorry! :-[
Hm. Agreed, "musing" loses the sad or wistful aspect. One of those things for which perhaps English doesn't have a word.
Haha, I know the "bit off more than you can chew" problem! The drawing will still be lovely tomorrow, no need to apologise.
Post by: scottishnottish on July 12, 2020, 05:50:27 PM
scottishnottish The secret ingredient to good brushwork iscrimeseveral layers of file compressions haha. Contrast is starting with colour composition, then switching to grey scale and working on values there, switching colour plan layer on again and finding it absolutely wrong. Several hours later you've got yourself a neon piece!
Ah I see we have a similar process
Post by: Mirasol on July 12, 2020, 06:00:50 PM
Ah I see we have a similar processand crime is the secret ingredient to all good artcrime and swearing
Hm. Agreed, "musing" loses the sad or wistful aspect. One of those things for which perhaps English doesn't have a word.
I´ve been thinking about that too. There should be a website for finding a word that means exactly what you want it to mean in any language where it exists. Kind of unrealistic, but it would be cool. And really handy in situations like this. :'D
Post by: Keep Looking on July 13, 2020, 12:26:42 AM
Chapter Break Filler
'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 20: Rebirth
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'Circle of Life'
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Prompt 20: Rebirth
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As Minna posts the first page of the new chapter, our final prompt of Rebirth is brought to us by scottishnottish!
Spoiler: show
Thanks very much to ScottishNottish for today's piece, and if any of you are inspired by this prompt, feel free to post what you've made down below!
And as this is the final day of the Chapter Break Filler, I have some of my own thanks to give! Thanks so much to Jitter, who did a huge amount of the initial organisation with the prompts and selections, to thegreyarea, who sent out the reminders every day, and to wavewright62 who posted the pieces on the days when I wasn't available - it was great working with you guys and I cannot express how much easier running this was when it was a team effort! Also, thanks as well to everyone who made the prompt list!
And a big thanks to all of you guys who participated, whether it be by claiming a prompt (and the things people have made have been so amazing!), or making something on the day (midwestmutt's daily haikus duly noted) or just participating in all the interesting discussions you guys have had here. It's been so great seeing what you guys have made, and watching all the different things that have been happening in this space! I'm really glad this event could give that to you guys.
And yeah, I think it'd be great to keep this running for the next chapter break - by what people are saying, it seems that the Chapter Break Filler may be becoming a bit of a tradition. This community means a lot to me, so it's honestly so amazing that this idea I had could have a lasting impact.
Anyway, butter good to everyone as we go to the next chapter!
Post by: thegreyarea on July 13, 2020, 06:06:59 AM
We are so lucky to have such amazing people among us! I'd like to thank everyone that was involved, and particularly our great KeepLooking for sparking this new tradition! May it last for a long. long time!
Also, I was very happy to help \o/ and hope that my messages weren't too annoying to our dear artists.
Finally, I want to promise, again, that my prompt will be finished, as soon as I have the peace of mind/some free time. Then I'll see with our dear skald how and where to post it.
Now it's time to enjoy the new chapter. See you soon! :)
And Butter Good!
Post by: Jitter on July 13, 2020, 06:15:43 AM
I would also like to repeat all of Keep's thanks. And yes, it would be good to keep this going. The first one was themed specifically to have happy prompts, and this one mostly was as well, but at some point we can of course take a more somber theme. Grey also suggested at some point that as it's very interesting to see different takes on a theme, we could at some time have shared themes. Such as have six themes with three slots each, or something. But this will be a discussion for a later time, now we can concentrate on the new chapter for a while :) Although let's start planning in good time so that no one is terribly rushed with the first prompts.
Anyways, we have a little something to wait for here still. Grey has promised to post his Sharing of knowledge later, when his real life duties allow him to finish it. Mirasol probably has some art for us, and I would be surprised if Midwestmutt didn't complete his series (although no pressure of course). And I have one last silly bit, I'll put it into another reply as this is quite long already.
EDIT Ps I changed the font in my extra works to larger, I like to use a different font for the story parts but the other fonts look so small to me. So if they look different to you despite having read them before, never mind, it's just typography.
Post by: Jitter on July 13, 2020, 06:35:29 AM
Rebirth
“Augrharrrgh” Oðin spluttered awake and sat up in his bed.
“What is it, husband of mine?”
“Oh, Frigg! I had a terrible omen! A great horror descended upon the land and all peoples succumbed to it!”
“Shuhs, husband. It was just an omen. Go back to sleep. What time is it anyway?”
“It’s still that guy with the pompous name, what was it? United Nations.”
“Ok good, I’d like to sleep a few more centuries yet…”
Settling back, the two gods tried to go back to their slumber.
“Seriously tho, it felt very bad. I’m worried.”
“Truth be told, husband of mine, I feel a bit strange too. Maybe you should send the ravens out?”
“Huginn, Muninn! Go to Midgård and take a good look. I had a pretty nasty omen.”
“Ach, I’ll make us some nettle tea while we wait. No point waking up the boys, right?”
After a moment or a decade, the ravens were back.
Muninn spoke first: “Allfather, things are bad. Battles rage in many places and United Nations is weak, he cannot keep the peace. But our lands are peaceful.”
Huginn’s message was even more alarming: “Allfather, an ill wind blows. Many are worried about a pestilence, growing rapidly although beyond our shores. A red shadow rises.”
“I don’t like this, husband mine. Let us look.” She went into the throne hall, which had a bit of a musty smell, not having been aired for centuries. Sitting upon the high seat Hliðskjálf, she cast her eyes to Midgård. “I see the red shadow, and… giants! There are terrible beasts about to attack all humans!”
“Oh, by my beard! The Ragnarök is upon us! And here we slumber! Must be some ploy of Loki’s again! Run, wife of mine, rouse Thor, Balder, Tyr, Hod, Heimdall, Höder, Hermod, Bragi, Vidar and Vali! And send someone to Freya’s halls…”
The one-eyed god stormed off, shouting for his servants to waken and bring him Gungnir the spear. “And Sleipnir better have been well fed or there will be consequences!” The servants were running around and bumping into each other. The Allfather wasn’t nearly as grumpy at home as he often otherwise was, but he also wasn’t happy to be woken early and in the middle of a mess.
Soon the One-Eyed One galloped out of his gates, yelling: “My sons, Aesir, Vanir, to me! Ragnarök has come! And if anyone sees that snake Loki, I want him caught and brought to me at once!”
A general commotion broke out with all the Aesir and Vanir having been slumbering and now suddenly awake.
To everyone’s surprise, Loki peeked out of his house. “What is all the noise! Some of us are trying to sleep!”
“Loki, you traitor! Setting the Ragnarök upon us when we sleep! Do you really have no honour?”
“Ragnarök? What is this nonsense? Have you been at the mead of “wisdom” again, Old One?”
“Giants walk Midgård and an ill wind blows! Don’t try to talk your way out of this, Trickster!”
“Well, if it really is Ragnarök as you say, may I respectfully inquire how come Fenrir is still in his chains?” As if on cue, the monstrous wolf howled and rattled his chains.
Freya had also come out of her halls and walked up to Oðin and the assembling Aesir. “Loki is right. Fenrir is still bound, Yggdrasil is standing still, the ocean is calm. It doesn’t look like Ragnarök.”
“Hmmm, I guess you are right, O Fair One. But something is afoot in Midgård! I had a terrible omen, and Frigg saw it from Hliðskjálf. Huginn told us that a red shadow rises.”
“Well, hold on. I’ll take a look. Don’t do anything rash while I’m gone.”
Grumblingly, Oðin conceded. “But I’m not letting you go, Loki, before we get to the bottom of this!” Oðin grabbed his “brother” by the elbow and beckoned a few of his sons closer to make sure the Trickster wouldn’t escape by changing shape.
Freya flashed her falcon feather cloak and was gone. Soon she returned, alarmed.
“I am certain it’s not Ragnarök. Jotunheim is quiet. But in Midgård there really is a red shadow rising. It is looking very bad. I think our people may need us. That coward United Nations is powerless.”
Sighing, Frigga said “Well, there goes the sleep… but OK, since we are awake anyways, maybe we could keep an eye on our people until this passes? Whatever this is. Go get washed and dressed, and for our sake, air your rooms!” Asgård was swiftly coming alive again with the gods and their friends, troops and servants awakening from their slumber.
Privately, Frigg talked with her husband. “Old One, maybe you should have a private word with our folk in Iceland and Scandinavia. I noticed there is even a temple being built for us in Iceland, but the Scandinavians seem to have forgotten… but still, clearly this United Nations character is failing. Warning our own is the least we can do now.”
Sighing, Oðin put Gungnir away, put on his wide grey hat, and took Sleipnir by the reins “Come on, friend. We have a message to deliver.”
This was also inspired by some discussion a while ago about how come Iceland closed their borders so very early. There had been no deaths (reported) by the time they closed with only hours in warning, and remarkably, not letting even their own citizens, who just happened to be abroad, to return. In that discussion there was speculation about them getting warned, perhaps by some more mundane agency with surprisingly accurate information, or maybe they had some other type of Friends in High Places?
In reality the construction works for the new Asatru temple in Reykjavik were commenced in 2015. But maybe a couple of years here or there doesn't make that much difference for a goddess.
Post by: midwestmutt on July 13, 2020, 08:00:52 AM
I'll have another.
To toast you all once again.
See you down the trail.
Post by: JoB on July 13, 2020, 08:51:00 AM
I have a little grey sharpner for pencils in a shape of an elephant that my friend gave me on one of my birthdays a few years ago.
Spoiler: show
Post by: Mirasol on July 13, 2020, 10:03:41 AM
Jitter, the huge mythology-nerd in me is a big fan of your story! I have often wondered how the people in the SSSS-world started believing in their old gods again, and your take on it could as well be canon.
And midwestmutt, I really like this one! Made me laugh once again. Your series of Haikus over the course of this break was an absolute delight to read every day!
And art I did promise, so here goes, now with daylight and a proper photo:
‘The maiden who, on the first of May
Goes to the fields at break of day
And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree
Will ever after lovely be’.
I can just picture Emil getting up early to do that, with Lalli tagging along and thinking it was sweet!
(https://i.postimg.cc/6Qqw81SY/support-Mirasol.jpg)
featuring Lalli and Emil on their way to search for a hawthorn on Toivosaari on the first of May, while Emil tries to explain what exactly he is trying to accomplish by getting up barely after sunrise to look for a specific bush (or tree).
(While I was drawing, I started wondering who would have told Emil about this tradition. Any ideas?)
I placed it in the timeline of your support-story Jitter, but I couldn´t find whether you described what they were wearing in that one or the warmth-story, so I took the liberty to design their outfits here. I know Emil´s sweater is technically an icelandic one, but I figured Iceland probably has the largest fashion-industrie at this point since they don´t have to use most of their capacities for immediate survival. And Emil seems like exactly the kind of person that would go for every trend. :emil:
So funny story. This time I decided to do actual research on the plant in question, so I did a bunch of research on hawthorns, until I realized that the scene I wanted to draw didn´t even require me to draw a hawthorn. So I sneaked in the branch in Emils speech bubble, just to put this newly-gained knowledge to use. :'D
It´s supposed to be a "Crataegus monogyna", one of two kinds of hawthorn that grows in Finnland (and the rest of Europe). Since this is the kind that always comes up first when I google it, it seems to be the more common one. There are another few kinds that only exist in America. This specific kind gets 2-6 and sometimes up to 12 meters high, and blooms between April and June according to one source, and Mai and June according to another. I´d interpret this as "there is definitly a chance that it blooms at the time where the scene I drew happens".
And now to make this already gigantic post even longer, I would also like to say :sparkle:thank you so much!!!:sparkle: to all of the organizers of this chapter break, and especially to Keep Looking for comming up with this awesome hopefully-soon-to-be-Minnion-tradition. I had so much fun participating and reading through the beyond amazing contributions by all of you! You people are great, and so talented!
I´m almost a little sad the chapter break is over, but very much looking forward to the next chapter!
And last but not least that´s it from me today, more classtests to come (two more weeks. Only two more weeks of school for this schoolyear...). So while I´ll be studying, butter good to the rest of you!
Post by: Jitter on July 13, 2020, 10:23:57 AM
As for the hawthorns, the one you mentioned does grow here although it’s currently rare. One of the American varieties is very commonly used in gardens ( http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/puut/crataegus-grayana ), so would likely also be around. And it has the same look of flowers. I think the differences in blooming times have to do with the high variety of climate from Southern Finland (not to mention Denmark) and Lapland. In any case it does bloom in the early summer, and if not then the saying would be adopted to the climate!
Post by: midwestmutt on July 13, 2020, 10:40:23 AM
Jitter-great story. I'm a little grumpy waking up too, especially if things are already going awry.
Mirasol-I love the beautiful dawn colors and story about hawthorns which I hadn't heard before.
Once again kudos to everybody who joined in to this chapter break filler. I enjoyed them all.
Post by: Jitter on July 13, 2020, 11:44:19 AM
Mirasol, on your question: in Support, I mentioned how Emil is getting acquainted with the villagers and is for example doing child-minding for some of them. I suppose he would make some friends there and some of those would be interested in sharing beauty tips with him :) This would in any case be at least the following spring after Warmth, because they arrived in the late summer / early autumn ("after a summer apart" I think).
So he would have had time to make friends. On the other hand as Lalli is less interested in beauty (except that of Emil's) the discussions could well include some Swedish vocabulary (especially if the said friend was to interested they wanted to borrow the fashion magazines sent by Siv) and therefore would be mysterious to Lalli despite Emil's Finnish having improved.
Ok so another scene, Emil reading fashion mags with his friend(s) :)
Post by: GaelleDragons on July 13, 2020, 12:55:24 PM
:sparkle: Let us applaud once again our dear inventor Keep Looking and everyone who helped to make this chapter break filler happen! :sparkle:
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/2daea9894c099c47465a570fc6cb4814/tumblr_inline_nlmsb11uhy1r2g2kx_500.png)
Scottish, both the poem and the art are beautiful. Excellent use of watercolors and gouache (is it gouache? it looks like gouache ^^"), and I love how you did Tuuri's clothes. <3
Jitter, great story! Your take on Nordic mythology as related to the SSSS world is very interesting, it makes me want to read more things like that. ;)
Lovely drawing, Mirasol! The tiny broken finnish flag is a great idea to convey Emil's broken finnish, I wouldn't be surprised if something of this kind was used by Minna in the future of the comic... x)
midwestmutt, a big bravo for all your Haikus!
Post by: Jitter on July 13, 2020, 02:19:05 PM
Post by: GaelleDragons on July 13, 2020, 05:15:15 PM
If you like to read more about Odin the Wise (??), Neil Gaiman’s Nordic Mythology is good and easy :)I know about Neil Gaiman's work but I've never read Nordic Mythology, maybe I should look into it! Thank you for the recommendation!
Post by: Jitter on July 13, 2020, 05:48:15 PM
Post by: scottishnottish on July 13, 2020, 06:50:31 PM
And a big thanks to Keep Looking, Jitter, thegreyarea, and wavewright for all you did to make this happen! It's a tradition I would love to see continue for sure, it really makes the once-dreaded chapter breaks a delight.
midwestmutt what an excellent sendoff, a toast to you as well.
Ahh what a cozy drawing, Mirasol! The broken Finnish flag in Emil's speech bubble is a clever touch.
Jitter what a fun scene! And a great explanation as to why Icelandic and Finnish magic re-emerged as well.
And I didn't know you had such a fine visual artist in you as well!
Believe it or not I actually went to school for graphic design!
Excellent use of watercolors and gouache (is it gouache? it looks like gouache ^^"), and I love how you did Tuuri's clothes. <3
It's actually very pigmented watercolor! It was made by Poemsaboutyou on Etsy, very nice quality. It's hard to tell in the scan, but the gold is really sparkly.
Post by: thegreyarea on July 13, 2020, 07:32:23 PM
Jitter, another great story! Really well done, down to that fantastic detail of a moment or a decade later! I love the way you highlighted how their perception of time would be so different from ours...
"Honey, it's time to wake up!" "what, now? Oh, just give me five more decades!" :D
Post by: Vulpes on July 13, 2020, 08:35:57 PM
Kudos to Keep Looking, Jitter, grey, and wave for getting this going and running it so smoothly. It's made the break fly by.
Post by: Annuil on July 13, 2020, 11:52:10 PM
I love today’s pieces, Scottish, that is a great drawing, I really like the feathers.. :D
Jitter, I love your story, I bet the beginning of that illness did seem like Ragnarök! O_O
Mirasol, lovely picture (I really like the light and you did well with the drawing of hands ;))
Midwestmutt, I truly respect the way you did it all the way through the Break... that’s great!
And also I’m joining everyone with giving thanks to all who worked on the break, so I did a little drawing to do so:
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/3el00dpe449l7pt/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%2013.07.2020%2C%2023%2032%2031.jpg?dl=0)
(If it doesn’t work again, here is the link to OneDrive)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_pj1IM6bvsj48vZ_l
Thank you everyone and especially you, who did the organisation and planning! It would’ve never work this wonderful without you!
Post by: GaelleDragons on July 14, 2020, 05:03:21 AM
It's actually very pigmented watercolor! It was made by Poemsaboutyou on Etsy, very nice quality. It's hard to tell in the scan, but the gold is really sparkly.Oh interesting! I didn't know watercolor could look so opaque, anyway you did a very good job with it!
Annuil, what an adorable drawing! There's even little sparkles! :sparkle:
Post by: Mirasol on July 14, 2020, 10:58:52 AM
And Annuil, that drawing is so pretty! And a great way to honor our amazing organizers.
Mirasol, on your question: in Support, I mentioned how Emil is getting acquainted with the villagers and is for example doing child-minding for some of them. I suppose he would make some friends there and some of those would be interested in sharing beauty tips with him :) This would in any case be at least the following spring after Warmth, because they arrived in the late summer / early autumn ("after a summer apart" I think).
So he would have had time to make friends. On the other hand as Lalli is less interested in beauty (except that of Emil's) the discussions could well include some Swedish vocabulary (especially if the said friend was to interested they wanted to borrow the fashion magazines sent by Siv) and therefore would be mysterious to Lalli despite Emil's Finnish having improved.
Ok so another scene, Emil reading fashion mags with his friend(s) :)
Oooh, I would really like to draw that (unless someone else started already of course)! But I had to study yesterday so I didn´t have the time. Since even if I start now the chapter-break-special is already over (technically, except for Grey´s piece), should I post it here or in the regular art thread when it´s done?
Post by: Jitter on July 14, 2020, 11:53:10 AM
Mirasol, maybe if you want to tie it into one of the prompts, post here, and if not, in the general art thread? Either is good. While the chapter break is over, there are always Wednesdays and weekends!
Post by: Alkia on July 15, 2020, 11:41:00 AM
Post by: Noodles on July 20, 2020, 02:55:48 PM
Post by: Jitter on July 22, 2020, 05:26:06 AM
Post by: Mirasol on July 28, 2020, 10:49:26 AM
Ok so another scene, Emil reading fashion mags with his friend(s) :)(https://i.postimg.cc/L8qvBY87/Fashion-Magazines-Mirasol.jpg)
(No fancy background this time, I sadly didn´t have a lot of time for drawing over the past few days.)
Post by: scottishnottish on July 28, 2020, 12:42:03 PM
Post by: Jitter on July 28, 2020, 01:37:43 PM
Are those hair sparkles on the child sitting in the lap of the adult, or are they just that impressed with the high modes of the Capital of Scandinavia?
Post by: Mirasol on July 28, 2020, 04:05:17 PM
Are those hair sparkles on the child sitting in the lap of the adult, or are they just that impressed with the high modes of the Capital of Scandinavia?
More being impressed, along the lines of this:
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/be0e1d04ef09ea6d13dbff70e7d0744c/tumblr_inline_nlhgjuuVpW1r2g2kx_500.png)
Hair sparkles are Swedish magic after all. :'D
Post by: Annuil on July 28, 2020, 07:35:57 PM
Good job, guys, team work! ;) (ideas are very important)
Post by: wavewright62 on July 28, 2020, 07:37:37 PM
Post by: Keep Looking on July 28, 2020, 10:15:16 PM
Post by: Jitter on July 29, 2020, 02:56:48 AM
Post by: Mirasol on July 29, 2020, 04:39:26 AM
Yes, ideas are important! I sometimes run out of them, so it´s great when someone gives me more.