Post by: Mirasol on September 29, 2024, 02:46:54 PM
I´m honored to be the one making it this time. (Going up bit later than usual, but still in time to prepare I hope...)
In which I shamelessly rip off Wave´s usual explanation: YoinkTober is this forum´s version of the Inktober-challange, allthough we do not limit ourselves to inked drawings here (unless you want to, of course). Throughout October, there will be daily prompts to create artworks/fanworks/writing/etc. to, whatever floats your boat, so long as it´s creative.
The goal is one finished piece per day. The size or length of it doesn´t matter, the point is to keep creating. But if you can´t reach that goal, no worries! No matter if it´s lack of time, or you just want to do the few prompts that interest you, join in whenever you like, or just read or comment along.
Here´s some of the last few year´s threads for inspiration: (feel free to look a bit through the events-board and archive, there´s many more)
YoinkTober 2023 (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=1384.0)
YoinkTober 2022 (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=1312.0)
To get to this year´s prompts. As suggested by Jitter, I looked around the interwebs to find something suitable, and here´s what I landed on. As we usually do some kind of theme here, I looked for something that´s following one while both matching the vibe of the setting of SSSS and still being open enough to allow for other things:
These prompts are from the user @lonelytofu from Twitter/X, originally posted under the title "build a world in 31 days" (original picture and link under the spoiler.)
Spoiler: show
)Transcribing the promts for easier printing out/readability (cuz I know I´ll want to do that :.D):
Exploring the (Silent-)World for 31 days
:squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie: :squirrelcookie:
- Overgrown Ruins
- Nature Untouched
- Ancient Tree
- Deep in the Woods
- Cave Entrance
- Rocky Ruins
- Puzzled Platforms
- Hall of Deities
- Ancient Altar Room
- Windmills and Grasslands
- Abnormal Formations
- Path Along the Water
- Underwater Temple
- Buried Statue(s)
- Market Place
- Merchant´s Store
- Townsquare
- Inn the Middle of Nowhere
- Shanty Town
- By the Docks
- By the Beach
- Exotic Flora
- Cemetery
- Desserted Drylands
- Summoning Altar
- Volcanic Terrain
- Crystal Coves
- Freezing Fjords
- Eldritch Forest
- Idle Portal
- Astral Plains/Dreamland
I hope you find some prompts you like here, and as always, you may apply them to the Minnaverse or anything else you want.
Most importantly:
:sparkle: Have Fun! :sparkle:
Post by: dmeck7755 on September 30, 2024, 07:38:54 PM
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59340298/chapters/151342687
Post by: thorny on October 01, 2024, 10:08:35 AM
I like the use of that place of power; and I like that last line.
Post by: Mirasol on October 02, 2024, 05:26:01 AM
Here´s my entry for the first day: the ruins of Pergamos (here´s the reference I used) (https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/poppies-blooming-on-ruins-wall-acropolis-34160590)
(As suggested by my mom, who heard the prompt and was reminded of ruins full of poppies she saw on vacation once upon a time. She saw them in Troy, but when I went looking for images online I liked the composition of one from Pergamos, so I drew that.)
I´m trying to practice drawing especially backgrounds and props this October, as I haven´t quite found a style for that to match the way I draw characters that also doesn´t take forever. And I generally just don´t have a lot of practice drawing things that are not people or animals, so those things always look wayyy worse than the characters around them... :P
This was painted with a wild mix of alcohol-markers, brushpens, Eddings and watercolors, as well as lots of different fineliners.
Uncolored version under the cut, I was at that point not sure if coloring it would make it better or ruin it haha.
(https://i.postimg.cc/B6H8Kx4G/Yoink-Tober24-1-Mirasol.jpg)
Spoiler: No color • show
Post by: thorny on October 02, 2024, 01:24:34 PM
However, it's possible that creepy wasn't what you were after.
Post by: Jitter on October 02, 2024, 04:56:54 PM
Sorry gotta go sleep, will be back!
Have some more exclamatiin marks while I’m gone! !!!!!!!!
Post by: thegreyarea on October 02, 2024, 06:51:17 PM
I want to do them all! I love those prompts! <3
Yet can't this week, 'cos I'm traveling, but next week... ^-^
And I love your drawing, Mira! I can almost see several notoros on the base, around the flowers....
Also, that's one fine story, dmeck! I enjoyed that point of view and the internal conflict it allowed us to see.
Next week... :)
Post by: Mirasol on October 03, 2024, 04:40:15 AM
However, it's possible that creepy wasn't what you were after.
Well, creepy wasn´t exactly what I was after, but I´ll take it haha. I do see what you mean. That´s part of the reason I did decide to color it after all. Thank You!
And thank you Grey and Jitter! I´m glad you like the prompts! Have fun travelling, both of you! (even if it´s for work) :)
2: Nature Untouched
Okay, I know this looks like the exact opposite of this prompt, but hear me out!
I got a bit to overthinking because technically, almost no place in the world is still nature untouched by people. The closest thing that I could come up with is forests, and considering the next few prompts, I just wasn´t feeling drawing trees for three days straight... :.D
So I decided on a more post-apocalyptic reading of the prompt.
This is a location from the Splatoon 3 storymode, in which you explore an old fallout/flood-shelter built by (the now extinct) humans some 10.000 years ago.
This "nature", these plants that still grow in the facility´s greenhouses, still tended to by the AI the humans had automated this place with, no longer exist in the rest of the world. Neither does much memory of what humans even were, as they went extinct before the next intelligent life formed. This place is full of unknown machines, with descriptions in languages no one can still read, but there´s this little bit of life left that was completely untouched by the apocalypse that changed the world. And it remains so, because there is no way to enter the greenhouses.
(https://i.postimg.cc/cJhbXWw1/Yoink-Tober24-2-Mirasol.jpg)
I´ll actually also be travelling for the next few days, so depending on how the wifi is, I´ll possibly post the next few entries together. See you around! :))
Post by: thorny on October 03, 2024, 07:40:38 AM
Ancient Tree
Water's coming through clean to the roots again. It had been a long time: first gradually becoming tainted. Root and branch and fungi and all the creatures moving through them had for so long yearned for the clean nutritious water and air from a dimly remembered youth; and then the foulness had abruptly become even worse, both in the water and in the air. Mere survival had seemed uncertain, and full health not a thing to be even hoped for.
Indeed many of the moving creatures and some of the rooted ones had not survived; some changing in themselves beyond possible survival; others killed by the changed ones; some starving for lack of clean food to eat. The evershifting intertangled community of the forest had shifted so far that even deeprooted trees and the fungal network were at risk. But some seasons back there had been a thread of clean water; and then another; and then a rain that came in season and carried little poison; and left the air behind it tasting almost as in those days of youth. And since then the rain and the air had for the most part stayed cleaner, and the water at the roots felt cleaner every year.
The birds, who had never entirely left except to try to maintain their migrations, raised their beaks to that clean rain; and to the ones that followed. Every year there were more of them. The flocks of ancient years might never return all the missing species; but the numbers were nearly back to the times of youth. And there were new ones in the mix -- not new like the damaged new furred creatures, but new and in health.
Four times a squirrel had come running, daring in the sun of the day to call for a mate. And this spring the caller had found one; and the old hole in the tree was full of healthy kits. This year perhaps the nuts would be spread through the woods and the near-barren gaps where humans had removed the trees, instead of all dropping too close to one trunk to survive. Two of the daughter trees being nursed were putting on strong new growth.
The ancient tree was fading, fading; and knew the next major storm might be its last. But the forest -- ah, the forest would survive, and better than survive: it was growing into a new and joyful youth.
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 03, 2024, 09:47:41 AM
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59340298/chapters/151543276
and
Oct 3
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59340298/chapters/151555294
Mirasol. Beautiful!!
I will read the others a bit later
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 03, 2024, 12:44:28 PM
Post by: thegreyarea on October 03, 2024, 08:05:34 PM
Post by: Jitter on October 04, 2024, 04:15:34 PM
Same with Mirasol and dmeck as well. It feels so good to be eventing again!
Post by: wavewright62 on October 06, 2024, 04:17:35 AM
Much applause also for your drawings - really splendid.
Your story, thorny, is lovely in its hope and renewal.
dmeck, I am loving your stories too - you also went for hope (Merlin, what an inspired choice!), and Tuuri getting Onni to a lehto was a very badly needed missing scene!
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 06, 2024, 08:33:02 AM
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59340298/chapters/151772272
Post by: midwestmutt on October 06, 2024, 09:27:04 AM
and wears the works of mankind
to rocky ruins
Post by: Jitter on October 06, 2024, 04:25:51 PM
- Gunnar! We were worried for you! Why did you take so long?
- We... well, we knew that it's bad. But it's worse. Much worse than you can imagine. We went up and down the fjord, checked on every town. Nothing.
- Nothing? You mean...
- Yes. Just rocky ruins. Everyone's gone. And I mean everyone. It's just us now.
Post by: Mirasol on October 06, 2024, 05:06:10 PM
So yeah, like Wave said, just go with whatever suits you! :)
(Also, hey Wave! Thank you!!!)
thorny, dmeck, midwestmutt and Jitter, lovely, all of your works!!! I´m glad so many people are joining in with so many different interpretations of the prompts! I also missed eventing! :))
Speaking of daylight, I was out for most of today, so even though I´m back home, yesterday´s and today´s entries will be in the next post, once I can photograph them.
3: Ancient Tree
I was inspired by thorny´s story and tried to make this little nature-study (reference-photo I took in an actually very well-kept park a while ago) look a bit more abandoned. Perhaps another ancient tree who watches over its wildlife and waterways (a lake in this case) recover after the Rash?
(https://i.postimg.cc/MHjNS0v5/Yoink-Tober24-3-Mirasol.jpg)
4: deep in the woods
Not very deep on my part. I just wanted an excuse to draw some Jurassic Park fanart and landed on this fella (a Therizinosaurus), who is encountered in the sixth movie, deep in the woods. :) Not really a spoiler, as he is in the trailer...
Jurassic World Dominion was... a movie, for sure. But I did enjoy it featuring a whole bunch of unique dinosaurs that hadn´t been featured before and did actually exist. Like this one! A herbivore that defends itself with its really long claws! I wonder if it was an inspiration for Surma´s design in SSSS... (as in, the actual dinosaur, not the fact that it was in a Jurassic Park movie)
(with this one too, uncolored version under the cut. I generally think it was a good idea to color it, but it did look better at a point before where it is now... Know when to stop and so on and so forth... :P )
(https://i.postimg.cc/RC6ZFjts/Yoink-Tober24-4-Mirasol.jpg)
Spoiler: show
Post by: Mirasol on October 07, 2024, 03:17:35 PM
5: Cave Entrance
Some Maahinen seem to have moved into this cave between me taking the reference photo on a walk the same day (see under the cut. :) This time there´s no people in it, so I thought I´d share.) and drawing it. It´s probably fine. As far as we know, they are most likely harmless, after all...
(https://i.postimg.cc/fLBSKhTG/Yoink-Tober24-5-Mirasol.jpg)
Spoiler: reference • show
(I hereby take back all complaining I had about drawing trees. Rocks are worse, they´re so much worse. :') )
6: Rocky Ruins
I didn´t have a whole lot of time, so I decided to do a little experiment drawing some (https://cdn.britannica.com/52/159952-050-00D2DCB3/roadway-Pompeii-Italy.jpg) locations (https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11263/the-atrium-of-the-house-of-the-faun-in-pompeii/) from the ruins of the city of Pompeji using only brushpens and eddings. Well. It was an experiment for sure...
(https://i.postimg.cc/Bv5KjFWQ/Yoink-Tober24-6-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: Jitter on October 07, 2024, 03:45:17 PM
- What was this place? Why all this glass?
Lalli just shrugged.
- It has many levels, like their home buildings. Do you think they lived in these glass rooms?
- I don’t know, or care. Stupid oldworlders!
- You still feel nothing? Emil wanted to be sure. Weird and unusual places made him nervous.
Lalli just shook his head.
- I will tell if I do.
- We’ll in that case let’s investigate further. This floor is nothing but glass and rubbish, but maybe there’s something higher up.
The upper platform was connected to the floor via a staircase at the other end of the open area. The interior was bathing in sunlight, but still the place felt… off. Unreal. It was impossible to figure out what had been the purpose of this huge space.
Arriving to the staircase, they noticed it was wrong too. The stairs were too high for them to use comfortably. They were not made of stone or wood, like stairs should, but some weird grooved material. Nevertheless, they soon scaled the “stairs” and reached the next platform upwards. There were more of the glass rooms here, some less wrecked than on the ground floor.
- It’s just like the quarantine ship, except these rooms are larger. Do you suppose this was a quarantine facility? Is there a death room round the corner?
- No, stupid. Too big. 17 places to hide in that room.
Lalli was pointing into a smallish, barren looking glass room that offered no hiding spots for Emil’s eyes.
Advancing slowly along the platform Lalli suddenly ducked and pulled Emil down with him.
- Ouch! Why you…
- Shhhhhhh. Lalli pointed to Emil and to the floor, to indicate he was to stay in place. Then he crawled forward, quicker than Emil would walk, and peeked ahead over the edge of what appeared to be a completely oversized flowerpot (now with a small tree and some bushes growing in it). Then he nimbly backed up and returned to Emil.
- People. His whisper was almost inaudible.
- What? Who? Emil was trying to be quiet, but based on Lalli’s annoyed glance m he was failing.
- People. In glass room.
- Ok, but who? Not one of us?
Lalli just shook his head.
- But who is it then? Not another excursion?
- No excursion. They wear stupid clothes.
- Stupid? What do you mean?
- Flowing. Frilly. Colorful.
Each of the words more disgusted than the previous one.
Now this was a conundrum. Deep in the uncleansed zone, if anyone was here somehow surviving, they should be silent and invisible. Not prancing around in what sounded like highest Mora fashion.
- What were they doing?
- Nothing. Just stand. Stand near the window, waiting to be seen!
- Did they look dangerous?
- No. Look unprepared to fight. Unprepared for anything.
- Ok. In that case I think we should take another look.
- No. We leave.
- Come on, Lalli. You know we should. You don’t like strangers, but we must check on them. You said you don’t sense any trolls! Do you now?
- No.
- Ok, good. They had one head each? And the normal number of limbs?
- Yea. I said already they are people.
- They could be in danger. Or they could be from somewhere we don’t know about!
- Stupid foreigners *grumble*
But Emil was right. They couldn’t just abandon the group of idiots, who would surely get eaten with such glaring lack of Silent World survival skills.
- Ok, come. No clumsiness.
Crawling around the corner again, they noticed that while the people (still standing at the window, some 10 meters from the flowerpot) were indeed wearing the most impractical gear, they excelled in standing still and staying quiet. Not the slightest movement would draw attention to them, if only they were wearing something sensible. The boys scrutinized them while they were apparently surveying the platform, and the bigger floor below. Surveying, and surveying, and…
- Something’s wrong, Lalli.
- Huh?
- They are too quiet. No one can stand that still for so long!
- I can.
- Well, yes, but no one who isn’t you. There’s something wrong with them!
They stayed for another ten minutes, with absolutely no movement from the other group.
- Lalli, have you even seen any of them blink?
- Hmh. No.
- Ok, try and take a closer look. But don’t go into the room with them, ok?
Lalli nodded and crawled forward, and soon back again. If Emil hadn’t known Lalli would never, he would have thought that the scout looked almost a bit embarrassed.
- Not people. Statues, or something. Not alive.
- Statues? Have you ever seen such lifelike statues? Their hair looks soft and all. What are they made of?
- Don’t know. Weird Old World thing. Stupid oldworlders!
Later, back at the camp, Emil was describing the big building (which provided a huge wast of time p, nothing but rubbish in the glass rooms and outside of them) when Mikkel said he knew q lot about the Old World.
- A large and high indoor place? And many windows! I’m sure you looked into what they used to call a Cat-herd-al. It had something to do with their religion.
- Cat herd? Did they worship cats?
- Not that I know. But I don’t care much about religion, so maybe they did and I have just forgotten. But I’m sure it’s one of their holy places.
Post by: Jitter on October 07, 2024, 03:49:26 PM
And I especially love the Surmasaurus! Just munching away, but always ready to defend itself! (AI didn’t know there were six movies! The first one happened when I was a teenager, so quuuuuite some time ago!)
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 07, 2024, 06:24:00 PM
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59340298/chapters/151894258
I am not sure what the prompt for 7 is..
BTW awesome stories and art!! I forgot how fun this can be!!
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 07, 2024, 07:24:11 PM
Post by: wavewright62 on October 07, 2024, 11:13:33 PM
And I agree with Mirasol, drawing rocks is so hard, no pun intended. They either look like legos, or mush.
Anyway, speaking of mush, this doesn't follow a prompt, but it is apropos of Sigrun's birthday on 7 October. She's 8yo and blowing bubbles in her milk.
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/145b8b10be5e9d09ef42cba06ccb221a/bb849a12e1071607-f4/s2048x3072/be223187428810da8e0cdbfa0122c9e8855847bb.jpg)
Post by: Jitter on October 08, 2024, 11:19:11 AM
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 08, 2024, 12:43:41 PM
"puzzled platforms" immediately made me think of the open floors and bridges in large malls, so yeah :) In Finland malls tend to have about three stories. Maybe the oldworlders didn't worship cats, but boy did they worship things. Buy things, collect things, love things, thingsthingsthings! The statues must also look very weird to the boys :)
I thought they were mannequins.
Post by: Jitter on October 08, 2024, 04:46:38 PM
Post by: Mirasol on October 09, 2024, 05:54:27 AM
Wave, what a cute Sigrun-drawing. I completely forgot to add her birthday into the prompts as per tradition... My bad!
dmeck, I think I remember reading the prompt of the week-story of the bears reincarnating. So are the babies in chapter 5 their reincarnation? :) Great stories in either case!
Mirasol. i love the cace! And I’m sure the maahinen do too! Where is the photo from?
The photo is a little rift that I photographed in just the right angle so it looks like a cave. :D It´s from somewhere in the Black Forest area in Germany.
And I especially love the Surmasaurus! Just munching away, but always ready to defend itself! (AI didn’t know there were six movies! The first one happened when I was a teenager, so quuuuuite some time ago!)
Thank you! I had an illustration of this guy in a book when I was little and thought he was really cool, so I was very happy to see him get some spotlight. :))
There sure are six movies (but only since pretty recently). After the original trilogy, there was a long break until the franchise was revived for a second trilogy (and a TV-show as I´ve heard, but I haven´t seen that, so I can´t speak on that) starting 2015. Movie six came out in 2022 IIRC.
The two trilogies have pretty different vibes in my opinion, the first one being three self-contained cautionary tales with some reoccuring characters more or less, while the second is a continuing story following broadly the same cast with some extras. So in the first trilogy, personal stakes are higher, and in the second, possible worldwide consequences.
I really love the franchise as I´m both a little bit of a nerd about dinosaurs and animation-techniques, and it has both of that in spades. But to be fair, from a literature and historical accuracy-standpoint most of the movies are not great(TM).
Tuesdays are really busy for me, so I´m afraid another doublepost...
7: Puzzled Platforms
(This one really didn´t like being photographed, sorry for the quality... :P )
In which our most-best captain gets her own 2D-Platformer-game (for it is her birthday), exploring ancient cities all over the silent world, fighting trolls and securing books! (Inspiration for this area-design was a bunch of things, but probably most obviously the jump-and-run-game Celeste (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_(video_game)))
I´m imagining this to be a Metroidvania (https://www.thegamer.com/what-does-metroidvania-mean/#:~:text=Metroidvania%20refers%20to%20a%20very%20specific%20style%20of,to%20some%20of%20the%20world%27s%20best%20competitive%20speedrunners.) with some epic bossfights against some of the bigger foes from SSSS, maybe also some enemies that chase you through the world...
(https://i.postimg.cc/5NLM4P2H/Yoink-Tober24-7-Mirasol.jpg)
8: Hall of Deities
I didn´t have enough time to make something big or original yesterday. So instead I drew the Pyramids of the Louvre in Paris (I was too tired to add the castle lol).
Not a place of worship itself, but certainly one that collected a LOT of depictions of deities.
(https://i.postimg.cc/bYKhjXpc/Yoink-Tober24-8-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 09, 2024, 08:20:37 AM
Yes, I took the bears from that story.
dmeck, I think I remember reading the prompt of the week-story of the bears reincarnating. So are the babies in chapter 5 their reincarnation? :) Great stories in either case!
Awesome Art! I like the sudo mario bros. vibe
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 09, 2024, 12:58:14 PM
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59340298/chapters/152011801#workskin
For Oct 8
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59340298/chapters/152020021
Post by: Jitter on October 09, 2024, 03:03:16 PM
And The Cube was the second thing I thought about with puzzled platforms :)
Mirasol, I haven’t played 2D jumping games so I only thought of Mario Bros, but I guess there’s lots of the same elements with these.
Post by: wavewright62 on October 09, 2024, 06:30:13 PM
I won't get a chance to read the new stories until later, sorry about that.
Post by: Jitter on October 10, 2024, 01:50:16 PM
“Well met, lady! What brings you to our gates? Have you come to join us? Are you a warrior?”
“Oh no, I am not a warrior although I come from such a line. I am a gardener, and a teacher. A scholar and naturalist. And of course a mother, grandmother, wife.”
“Most honorable occupations, all of these things! But why have you come here? Surely you know we mostly take heroes and warriors?”
“Do bear in mind, Old Man, that not all heroes are warriors. But I am not of your people, although I have known many of yours. I seek merely to visit your hall and taste your mead on my way to my own land.”
“This is a boon you ask, as surely you must know! Our mead is for our warriors!”
“This is well known to me, being a mead maker myself. But I also know your mead flows freely, and you would lose nothing by humoring an old woman passing by your gates on her way.”
“You are right that out mead is plentiful! But all must deserve it to drink! And you are no warrior.”
“No warrior am I, but I am a bard. Perhaps I offer you a song that your people and mine enjoy in the far south of Midgård, where the animals are so different from your North? And perhaps bring you some of their tales, and those of others of that land too?”
”A skald on my doorstep! I would not dream of driving one such away with no nourishment! Please share our halls and our mead for tonight!”
”Thank you kindly, Old One. I thus accept your invitation, and will sing for you tonight in your hall of deities.”
“Welcome to Valhalla, dear Lady!”
Post by: thorny on October 10, 2024, 03:54:25 PM
-- I haven't had time to read all the ones linked to, let alone to write any; but I will be back.
Post by: Mirasol on October 10, 2024, 04:11:13 PM
dmeck, aww, I loved both of these stories! I see Lalli is using his magic for the real important things. And now I can´t shake the mental image of runos and runes being the ringtone of the nordic gods´ constantly ringing office-phones haha... :.D
Jitter, this is a sweet memorial for Róisìn! I´m glad she´s still a part of the stories told here.
9: Ancient Altar room
I would like you to know that what I painted the windows with are pearlescent watercolors, so they glitter. :sparkle: :sparkle: :sparkle: They are making me very happy. They don´t match many topics, but sparkly windows absolutely, so I took my chance.
This is a view on an old temple from the game "Cult of the Lamb". Not sure what in-game-belief it once belonged to, but no one was worshipped in there for a long time. By now, someone new has taken up residency here. An NPC named Chemach who builds magic items (mostly from corpses and severed body-parts...). She´s not a god, but enjoys pretending to be one.
(And she´s a green and blue bird-person, hence the feathers)
(https://i.postimg.cc/9fhYsN9c/Yoink-Tober24-9-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 10, 2024, 05:10:29 PM
Spoiler: show
Post by: midwestmutt on October 10, 2024, 07:58:28 PM
Post by: wavewright62 on October 10, 2024, 09:17:14 PM
Post by: Mirasol on October 11, 2024, 07:11:51 AM
A bit of a silly one. But I was sitting in a class about kids media and we were analysing Shaun the Sheep yesterday morning (I study informational sciences, for context :.D), which is when I remembered there was an episode where the sheep use a self-built windmill as a ferris wheel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnaPqgkANLo). (In case the link doesn´t work for you, it´s Season 2, Episode 37 :) )
I added glittery watercolors and glow-in-the-dark-paint to the stringlights, but the glowing-effect is very small, so I didn´t take an extra-picture for that...
(https://i.postimg.cc/wBtDB3tT/Yoink-Tober24-10-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 11, 2024, 08:35:20 AM
Oct 9 Ancient Altar Room
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59340298/chapters/152148799
Post by: midwestmutt on October 11, 2024, 09:37:05 AM
are things I can find near me
air turbines and corn
Post by: Jitter on October 11, 2024, 09:39:37 AM
Post by: wavewright62 on October 12, 2024, 02:51:24 AM
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/7524207d81b54108c0ccfc44485effd3/e67e8bdc38f715d6-f9/s640x960/836f35cabf44f4061167a4fe4bb95926f8c2ec17.jpg)
(sub-subtitled 'In which wavewright proves to be wavewrong')
(don't @ me it's a darn good line)
Post by: Jitter on October 12, 2024, 05:19:30 PM
Post by: Mirasol on October 13, 2024, 05:08:12 PM
As always, I enjoyed your story! :) I wonder what that troll was actually doing... Perhaps keeping a little network alive?
midwestmutt, lovely haiku!
Wave, I like the flowiness of the lines! (Eh waverwrong or not, water is one of those things that never come out right... I think the drawing looks nice.)
Another doublepost, I have no excuse this time, I just forgot to photograph number 11... :P
11: Abnormal Formations
I was real tired on that day, so I just made a little drawing of Spideydog, as I don´t think I´ve ever drawn him before.
(https://i.postimg.cc/y6t4j990/Yoink-Tober24-11-Mirasol.jpg)
12: Path by the Water
Something different. (Partly due to me misplacing my awesome how-to-draw-water-and-fire-and-stuff-book...)
I got to visit Pont-Aven in Brittany, France this summer, which is a city full of painters, so that´s pretty cool. (Also full of tourists...) In its museum there´s plenty of pictures painters from all over the world painted there or painted of the place - preferably of the river Aven, and the paths along it. I took some photos of paintings with artstyles that I liked, and I used one of them as inspiration for this. Though my painting doesn´t show any specific river with a path alongside it. I used acrylic markers.
I unfortunately don´t remember who exactly painted the inspiration, but he was part of a group calling themselves the Nabis around 1888, and one of their inspirations for how they painted were traditional japanese paintings. I think it´s so cool how different generations of people from different cultures keep inspiring each other, that´s why I mention it. :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/1XLkzhPv/Yoink-Tober24-12-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: thegreyarea on October 14, 2024, 08:06:11 AM
I'll comment later, 'cause now I just have time to drop mine for day 14 - Buried Statue.
NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD
TROLL STATUE FOUND AT COPENHAGEN PORT!
(https://i.postimg.cc/2jQxJnRm/yoinktober-2024-day-14-buried-statue.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/0rNmKMyH)
Professor Mickelson from Bornholm University, that can be seen giving a thumb up on the picture,
sent us the most recent finding from their Copenhagen expedition, a surprising troll statue found buried
in the sands next to the old port. His team considers that it's from the beginning of the second century.
This statue depicts a troll that developed a long tail, akin to a fish tail, a lot like some trolls detected on
Finnish lakes. However on this one the upper part shows a female body with no visible deformations.
Professor Mickelson believes that this, together with it's contemplative pose and proximity to water,
suggests that some group of survivors used the statue as an attempt to appease the water beasts
and protect fishermen when they risked their lives on the sea.
sent us the most recent finding from their Copenhagen expedition, a surprising troll statue found buried
in the sands next to the old port. His team considers that it's from the beginning of the second century.
This statue depicts a troll that developed a long tail, akin to a fish tail, a lot like some trolls detected on
Finnish lakes. However on this one the upper part shows a female body with no visible deformations.
Professor Mickelson believes that this, together with it's contemplative pose and proximity to water,
suggests that some group of survivors used the statue as an attempt to appease the water beasts
and protect fishermen when they risked their lives on the sea.
Post by: thegreyarea on October 14, 2024, 10:58:19 AM
This one for day 1, "overgrown ruins". I couldn't resist!
FURTHER ADVENTURES ON THE SILENT WORLD: GOING SOUTH
(https://i.postimg.cc/7hbmJMnj/yoinktober-2024-day-05-cave-entrance.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/tnQhL6fz)
BTW the original background is a picture of Paris' abandoned railway, from Urbex at Pinterest. (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/urbex-what-lies-below--344032859025890094/)
I'd love to see our team in Paris...
Sigrun and Emil came from adv. 1, page 540 (when they were happily blowing things up)
Post by: Mirasol on October 14, 2024, 06:23:58 PM
13: underwater temple
Well, sometimes underwater.
This prompt led me down a nice research rabbit hole on underwater caves, archaeological sites and purposefully flooded places. And as I got ready to draw, a youtuber I follow dropped a video essay on the sunken landmass Doggerland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3dstKGHeDM), which was a funny coincidence. :.D
But this is lake Bezid (https://odditiesoflife.tumblr.com/post/52963648700/sunken-town-in-lake-bezid-romania) in Romania. A village was flooded to create a water reservoir. But some highpoints, like the churchtower, are still visible, sometimes more, depending on how much water is currently in the reservoir.
(https://i.postimg.cc/59Zttn1k/Yoink-Tober24-13-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: thegreyarea on October 15, 2024, 07:56:19 AM
We actually have a few drowned villages sleeping inside dams in Portugal and Spain
This one is in Spain, close to Portugal: https://ominho.pt/mais-imagens-mostram-aldeia-submersa-que-emergiu-no-rio-lima/
And here a few more images: https://www.idealista.pt/news/ferias/turismo/2022/02/16/50999-as-aldeias-ibericas-submersas-que-estao-a-reaparecer-com-a-seca
Doggerland is a fascinating topic. So much land, and maybe so much history, under water... I even considered writing a story about it, but it seems I'd have to live up to 200 y to write everything that I'd like... :)
Now, here's my take on day 2 - Nature Untouched.
NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD
UNTOUCHED NATURE SPOT FOUND
IN THE AMAZONIAN FOREST!
IN THE AMAZONIAN FOREST!
(https://i.postimg.cc/dVT2ZwFv/yoinktober-2024-day-02-nature-untouched.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/cv0gVq65)
Professor Mickelson's expedition, sponsored by Bornholm University, sent us this amazing picture of Mount Roraima,
one of several isolated plateaus standing around 1000m above the South American rainforest.
The expedition comprises two airships, "Lalli" and "Emil", named after the famous duo of explorers from the first century.
The picture, taken from Emil's bridge, shows an outstanding view of the plateau with its many waterfalls and Lalli already landed.
Professor Mickelson's team reports that Nature on these inaccesible plateaus remain untouched by the rash,
allowing the survival of many species believed to be extinct.
They plan to raise funds for setting a permanent scientific base there.
one of several isolated plateaus standing around 1000m above the South American rainforest.
The expedition comprises two airships, "Lalli" and "Emil", named after the famous duo of explorers from the first century.
The picture, taken from Emil's bridge, shows an outstanding view of the plateau with its many waterfalls and Lalli already landed.
Professor Mickelson's team reports that Nature on these inaccesible plateaus remain untouched by the rash,
allowing the survival of many species believed to be extinct.
They plan to raise funds for setting a permanent scientific base there.
BTW the picture of Mount Roraima is real. I mean, this is not some fantasy scene created with AI. Those waterfalls are really there. XoX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Roraima
Sources:
original Mount Roraima picture:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F2ygqhvcdb0o61.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D03ac8e1c55e5d9a81a3c5c722a8ff3cbc858424d&rdt=63461
original airship picture:
https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/stocktrek-images-uss-macon-airship-flying-over-new-york-city_u-l-q12stcb0.jpg?background=F3F3F3
original airship interior:
https://thinkboxproduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AirShip_Interior_progress_bloom.jpg
Post by: Jitter on October 15, 2024, 12:29:25 PM
A propos Doggerland, if you like detective stories you may enjoy the Doggerland sesier by Swedish crime author Maria Adolfsson. In her books Doggerland didn’t disappear entirely but is an island nation which clearly is Nordic but has some Britishness in it too. And the characters and stories are good! It’s not horrible Nordic Noir, but not cozy crime either. I enjoy them but then I mostly read crime nowadays.
Post by: thegreyarea on October 15, 2024, 04:08:44 PM
Mickelson lives in the fourth century post-Rash, and is Mikkel's descendant :mikkel: (so, in my own canon, Sigrun's descendant too :sigrun:).
I have a few ideas for stories with this "indiana Jones" of mine... And yes, that's why he has the hat ;D
Here's my take on day 3 - Ancient Tree, this time with a (sort of) short story...
NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD
YGGDRASIL FOUND?
(https://i.postimg.cc/cCkWW81S/yoinktober-2024-day-03-ancient-tree.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Cn8XH5fP)
Well-known explorer, professor Mickelson, claims the discovery of what would be, without a doubt, the World's largest tree.
Anyone that looks at the massive trunk towering over the professor in the picture will surely agree.
The explorer from Bornholm goes as far as considering that this enormous specimen could be the legendary Yggdrasil:
"We got out of the woods and suddenly that absurd, unbelievable tree was just ahead.
We stood still and silent there for a while. There were no words to describe it.
Tall as a mountain, it made the pines on its base look like grass. No tree can be that big!
But we felt no fear, no. Actually it radiated a sensation of... well being,
a peaceful feeling that filled us simply from looking at it.
I couldn´t think on anything else but Yggdrasil, connecting our world with the cosmos.
We were very tired, and there was a small river to cross to reach the tree,
so we decided to set our camp, rest and wait for the next morning.
I never slept so well, not even at home.
However, when morning came, the tree wasn't there anymore.
There was just a low, flat-top hill, and normal-sized trees.
If we didn't have a few pictures I would think it was just a strange, collective illusion.
But I know what I've seen, and I believe that we... surprised a tree... no, a being,
that human eyes are not supposed to see.
People ask me if we are going back there, to see if we can find it again.
I say it's useless. We saw it because humans were absent for centuries after the Rash, and it got... lazy?
But now it knows we are back, and I'm very sure that no matter how much we search, we won't find it."
Anyone that looks at the massive trunk towering over the professor in the picture will surely agree.
The explorer from Bornholm goes as far as considering that this enormous specimen could be the legendary Yggdrasil:
"We got out of the woods and suddenly that absurd, unbelievable tree was just ahead.
We stood still and silent there for a while. There were no words to describe it.
Tall as a mountain, it made the pines on its base look like grass. No tree can be that big!
But we felt no fear, no. Actually it radiated a sensation of... well being,
a peaceful feeling that filled us simply from looking at it.
I couldn´t think on anything else but Yggdrasil, connecting our world with the cosmos.
We were very tired, and there was a small river to cross to reach the tree,
so we decided to set our camp, rest and wait for the next morning.
I never slept so well, not even at home.
However, when morning came, the tree wasn't there anymore.
There was just a low, flat-top hill, and normal-sized trees.
If we didn't have a few pictures I would think it was just a strange, collective illusion.
But I know what I've seen, and I believe that we... surprised a tree... no, a being,
that human eyes are not supposed to see.
People ask me if we are going back there, to see if we can find it again.
I say it's useless. We saw it because humans were absent for centuries after the Rash, and it got... lazy?
But now it knows we are back, and I'm very sure that no matter how much we search, we won't find it."
I was inspired by Dmeck's story, and decided to play with the idea. The tree base is the hill called "Devil's Tower", in Wyoming, USA, famously featured on Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". The picture I used is a still from the movie. Here's a picture for those that don't know it: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1c80b7x/devils_tower_in_wyoming_usa/
The tree trunk is from wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acero_%28Acer_Platanoides%29_visto_dal_basso,_Milano_Italia_scuola_Manara.jpg
So I just had to put them together, add a few clouds and Mickelson's hat :)
Post by: Mirasol on October 16, 2024, 01:50:25 PM
And thanks for the book-recommendations, Jitter! I don´t read a lot of crime-books, but I´ll keep an eye out for these.
14: Buried Statue(s)
Hm. I drew this picture (https://www.alamy.com/snowy-statue-of-indian-squaw-image311426330.html), because I think the statue in question looks so cool with the snow on it, but I couldn´t find any information on the statue itself, not even with reverse image search. :( I know it´s not AI-generated because it was taken in 2019, but still...
I´m sorry, I really should have made sure I knew who´s the original artist and what their intention with this artwork was before I started drawing.
(https://i.postimg.cc/Qd2x905t/Yoink-Tober24-14-Mirasol.jpg)
15: Market Place
"I know!", I thought at 10pm last night, "drawing a human-sized market-place will take too long, I´ll just draw one for smaller creatures, it´ll be so much faster!"
Well. by 2am I was eating my words. :V
Anyways, enjoy this picture puzzle, taking a page from Grey´s book:
(https://i.postimg.cc/k5WMxKFy/Yoink-Tober24-15-Mirasol.jpg)
Welcome, welcome, one and all, to our :sparkle: annual autumn-market :sparkle:!
(This year and tonight only held in the second shelf to the right at the back of the basement)
Still looking for some real special delicacies to fill your storage for the winter with?
:squirrelcookie: Well you´re in luck! :squirrelcookie:
The humans just restocked with the freshest produce and finest wines and cheeses*.
So for one night, and one night only, find all the delicious goods your heart desires (and some entertainment for the little ones while you shop) HERE!
Just remember our motto: Everything that isn´t gone by sunrise is gone forever**!
Please take a bag (tissue) or a basket (shot glass) on your way in, and mind the stairs.
*all items have not been stored for more than one year, guaranteed
**this includes you, esteemed, customers! We are not liable for anyone who gets caught by the humans because you leave too late.
Welcome, welcome, one and all, to our :sparkle: annual autumn-market :sparkle:!
(This year and tonight only held in the second shelf to the right at the back of the basement)
Still looking for some real special delicacies to fill your storage for the winter with?
:squirrelcookie: Well you´re in luck! :squirrelcookie:
The humans just restocked with the freshest produce and finest wines and cheeses*.
So for one night, and one night only, find all the delicious goods your heart desires (and some entertainment for the little ones while you shop) HERE!
Just remember our motto: Everything that isn´t gone by sunrise is gone forever**!
Please take a bag (tissue) or a basket (shot glass) on your way in, and mind the stairs.
*all items have not been stored for more than one year, guaranteed
**this includes you, esteemed, customers! We are not liable for anyone who gets caught by the humans because you leave too late.
Post by: wavewright62 on October 16, 2024, 06:03:02 PM
Post by: thegreyarea on October 17, 2024, 05:50:14 AM
And I can totally understand your feelling about trying to make it a bit easier... and somehow it ends being way harder. I've been there, many times ;)
Your drawing is fantastic, and I'd like to order some cheese, please :D
I've got some things to finish, but hopefully will be able to add a few more things later. Prof. Mickelson sends his best wishes to everyone that enjoys his
Post by: Jitter on October 17, 2024, 03:59:33 PM
“Seriously, Onni, I have to go. Why are you so worried?”
Onni was anxiously hovering at the cave entrance.
“Well, it is a lava tube. I don’t know much about your volcanoes, but I do know lava is dangerous! You can’t go into a lava tube!”
“Itäs an ancient lava tube! It hasn’t been even warm for a thousand years!”
“But you said yourself, there is no way to know for sure that a volcano doesn’t wake up at any given moment! What if…”
“Why must you worry so much? Nothing’s going to happen to me! And in any case, I am a mage! Don’t be afraid.”
“I am NOT afraid, but someone might mistake you for my student! And a student is the responsibility of the teacher. So, I must make sure you don’t endanger yourself.”
“Mistake? How do you mean? You promised to be my teacher!”
“I have promised no such thing!”
“Are you going back on your word? Just because you are afraid of an old lava tube?”
“You are not my student. I merely promised to help you learn.”
“Wouldn’t that make… never mind. I’m going in now.”
“Why do you have to go anyways? What are you expecting to find? Lost treasure? Buried statues? Old World supplies?”
“On the contrary! In there the earth is young, and when I go deep enough, it will be a place no human has ever seen. Nature untouched!”
“A cave of nothing but rock and ice is hardly nature!”
“You told me yourself that the spirits of each land are particular to that land. This is Iceland, the land of ice and fire. Lava and ice are very much nature here. You know that.”
“Stupid Iceland… don’t you dare fall, I won’t come to get you if you get stuck or hurt!”
“Don’t worry! I’m sure Lalli will! Bye now!” With that, Reynir jumped into the circular cave, leaving Onni huffing and puffing and not worrying at all.
Post by: Jitter on October 17, 2024, 04:10:15 PM
Mirasol, I love the mouse market :) The statue is beautiful, but the little guys are adorable <3 Hopefully they don't take all the supplies for squirrel cookies, though!
Post by: Mirasol on October 17, 2024, 06:20:46 PM
I´ll admit I didn´t manage to completely match the color. ^^'
Jitter, three prompts in one! I wonder what Reynir finds down there. :reynir:
I´m glad you all like the mouse-market, I love drawing picture puzzles! :))
16: Merchant´s Store
This year´s first (perhaps only, we´ll see) witch-character! Complete with her flying store selling potions and poison (and all that Jazz ;)).
I´m not super-sure where the theme-combination 1920s and axolotls came from in my head... :P
(rules I set myself for these mini-character-challenges are as follows: I must design an original character with a witch hat and a staff, and only color it with 3 markers, 1-2 additional effect-markers are okay too. If I´ve used the exact marker-combination before for a witch-character, it´s off-limits.)
Here my inspiration for the dress (https://luxtailor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Jean-Patou.jpg) and the car (https://www.supercars.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1927-1931-Model-A-Ford.jpg).
(https://i.postimg.cc/B6ZtdDx2/Yoink-Tober24-16-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: Jitter on October 18, 2024, 03:58:47 AM
Post by: JoB on October 18, 2024, 08:49:56 AM
That is one whopping tree, Grey! Do any squirrels live in it by any chance?Well, the region is somewhat teeming with rumours of one nicknamed "Godsquirrela" ... ;)
Post by: thorny on October 18, 2024, 11:00:31 AM
It's longer than I originally intended; it kind of got away from me. I was significantly far into it before I realized what it's about.
Inn the middle of nowhere
The roads are hazardous, of course; everybody knows that. Any distance that can't be covered in daylight usually isn't worth the trip. But sometimes longer trips are necessary. No human society has ever managed without some long distance trade; not everybody who wants to marry can find a marriage partner close to home, especially with so many tiny communities. And all those tiny communities, and the larger ones too -- they crave news, they crave new stories. We are the species that tells ourselves stories, after all.
So there are travellers; though not many. And, given that there are travellers -- there's need for shelters en route.
Some of them are unstaffed bunkers; many of them places found by the travellers themselves, with word spread among each other, and maps left in the nearest towns for those who aren't part of the travelling community to use. But here and there, among the more-used routes and occasionally along a rarely-used trail, there's an isolated building or three kept in repair, area cleared around it, fenced gardens and livestock paddock and a sign along the trail. Sometimes these places grow into another tiny settlement. Sometimes they disappear. Sometimes one turns into a trap; approach with caution, pay attention to your cat! and worse in some ways, if only because the cat likely won't warn you: there are still evil humans in the world.
But the word passes, among those who need to travel. The best reassurance to the customer, and the best advertising for the proprietors, has always been word of mouth (and the strongest warning, these days, the sudden disappearance of that word.) And the place whose sign reads only "Inn Within" has always had excellent word of mouth, ever since the mid first century when Tarja told stories there and Hennet cooked. They never said where the beer came from, and that hasn't been explained since -- but it's very good beer. Everyone assumes some hidden community, which trusts only the Inn but isn't about to extend that trust to the customers.
The sign's painted on the outer ring of a double palisade, both rings twenty feet tall, electrified wire strung near the top. Outside the ring, some cleared grazing and hay area for use on bright sunny days. Inbetween the rings produce grows in season. (No grains, though: maybe those come from the beermakers?) Inbetween the rings, also, the traveller must stop to be inspected. Ring the bell at the sign; someone will check what they can check by sight from the watchtower. Hold your cat where they can be seen, or the Inn will wonder why you haven't got one. The outer gate will open, if you've been approved; then the Inn's cats will inspect you also, and then one of the humans will check your weapons, and list them as you stack them in a locked cabinet. In emergency, the Inn can open those cabinets from inside the building.
Inside the inner ring: barns and paddocks for the Inn's livestock: healthy pigs, sheep, and cattle and, of course, chickens. Separate barn and paddock for the travellers' creatures: horses and mules, mostly. Cats, of course, come into the inn with their humans; so do any dogs, though the Inn's dogs live with the livestock until their old age, when they need the extra warmth of the stove.
And inside the inner ring, of course, the inn itself. It's run these days, in the late second century, by two intertwined families. Occasionally over the years a traveller has married in, or someone born in the Inn has either married out or otherwise chosen to leave; but for the most part the family's pretty stable. Everyone knows what their part is, and everyone knows how to turn their hand to other work if their hands are more needed elsewhere than their specialty. The menu varies; but the food is always good. The beds in the multiple rooms upstairs are warm and clean, with nearly always enough of them to choose one's bedmate or to choose to have none; and one can be assured in either case of sleeping safe. There's always music -- a traveller can pay their bill that way, or if there's no good musician on that road that night two or three of the Inn family will step in. And there's always news, of course -- the Inn family will pass on what other travellers have left, so there's news even if the only customers there that night are from the same place -- and, of course, there will always be at least one story.
Tonight there's only a small group there, three of them a Trader family with a cart of scavenged goods plus the grain and cider they've been taking in payment for them parked in the barn; one an old woman who wants to see once more the daughter who married out; and one a young man doing what young men do. Perhaps he'll marry in somewhere down the road, but he's not ready to do that yet.
The storyteller is one of the Inn people; also an old woman, but telling a new story, which she says she had from travellers a month ago. It's a very odd story -- a story about trolls. There are of course lots of stories about trolls, but this story is told from the point of view of the trolls! And these particular trolls -- they're changed from the humans they were two centuries ago, very much so; but their minds and their souls are not destroyed. They're still capable of love, and of compassion. All of them have killed -- but none of them has killed healthy humans; or other healthy animals, either, except out of need to eat. Over very many years, a few such managed to find each other, in the ruins of the world; and joined together. So one of the tiny communities in the world now is a group of trolls; travelling through the ruins at night when and where no human dares, salvaging books and other knowledge, useful tools and beautiful things, before the weather can destroy them; in hope of a time in the far future when perhaps they can make these available to the human communities, without being automatically destroyed because the humans assume by their appearance that they're like all other trolls.
The story gets applause, and fascinated reaction. Wouldn't it be great if such things were true! But of course, say all the listeners, such a thing could never happen. Everyone knows what trollification does to a human. It's essential to kill them; and a kindness of a sort, even when it's done by burning alive. The best that can be done is if a mage can help their souls home; and even that is usually not possible. But it's pleasant to tell fantasies, safe and well fed before a good hot fire! Tell the one about the cats who built a house on their own, next!
The storyteller laughs, and starts the story about the cats who built their house. She's certainly not going to tell them the one about who the beer comes from.
Post by: Jitter on October 18, 2024, 02:50:57 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/c19khtq8/Lalli-tuulimylly.jpg)
Inspired by Grey's photo montages. The background picture is from the game Horizon Forbidden West. Which I can recommend, but I love the first part, Horizon Zero Dawn even better. It caters to our interests too!
Post by: Jitter on October 19, 2024, 03:52:48 PM
As a child the lake (a different one, but a lake nevertheless, always a constant in her life) had felt like such a boundary. If only it were possible to just walk and keep on walking until you get to somewhere new. But the water prevented it, and she was too small to row a boat fast enough to get anywhere. And the winter was too harsh to make it to the shore either, even if she didn’t walk into one of the melted places.
But here and now, in addition to the water there was the wall. It kept her safe, but it also confined her. Restrained. Suffocated her. A change will come, but until then she walked along the water, sat on the rock, and raised her hand. And dreamed of the world the riverboat could - no, would - one day take her.
Post by: Jitter on October 19, 2024, 08:46:25 PM
These abnormal formations
Legacy of man
Sorry about the (relative) flooding
Post by: thorny on October 20, 2024, 10:53:51 AM
I believe I recognize the person on the path along the water --
Post by: Mirasol on October 20, 2024, 11:59:28 AM
Spoiler: show
thorny, I really liked this story! What an interesting premise!
Now apologies for my absence. I´ve had a REALLY busy weekend. Hope this will stay the only triple-post this year... ^^'
17: Townsquare
Another Christmas Market cup (I´ve drawn at least one for YoinkTober over the years). As I wouldn´t have much time to draw on that day, I tried to find something simple that showed a townquare, and Christmas Market cups tend to do. I chose this one from Schwarzenberg (https://schwarzenberg-blog.de/tag/weihnachtsmarkt-tasse/) in the Erzgebirge. I quite enjoyed the bold lines in the stylization.
Halfway into drawing I realized there is absolutely no townsquare on this cup. (in my defense, I had very little sleep) xD But a friend of mine had the great idea that I should add an actual Christmas Market in the background, as that would be held on the townsquare usually. I tried to make it look somewhat out of focus, not sure if it worked...
(https://i.postimg.cc/NfbWS9tc/Yoink-Tober24-17-Mirasol.jpg)
18: Inn the middle of nowhere
(my very selectively cooperative phone camera has apparently no problem taking good photos of drawings on a moving train, but on the floor of my room...!)
I got to play my first Pathfinder-oneshot some months ago, and I played a pirate captain character (the one eating soup). The players were told to invent a bit of backstory, and I accidentally invented her whole crew (which obviously didn´t show up in the oneshot, but details xD)...
They call themselves "The Magpies" because they specialize in elaborate heists for shiny objects, and I love them. ;_;
This is actually a scene from a few years before the oneshot, in their favorite Inn. It´s a pretty secluded building on a rivershore, yet never short of customers due to the widely-known amazing cooking-skills of the owner and his apprentice (the waiter here). And as said owner has a strict policy of "as long as you pay for your food and drinks, are polite to everyone there and don´t bring any weapons, you´re welcome", a pirate-crew is nothing too out of the ordinary to see here.
(The apprentice later joins the crew.)
Spoiler: they are drinking alcohol here, so just in case someone has a problem with that • show
19: Shanty Town
So a shanty town has apparently nothing to do with songs sung by sailors... Good thing I googled that before starting to draw. :-[
Here the reference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Barrio_de_Caracas.jpg) for this study, a shanty town in/around Caracas in Venezuela.
(https://i.postimg.cc/sgXtrjfZ/Yoink-Tober24-19-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: Jitter on October 20, 2024, 12:41:41 PM
I love both of your Inns, and they’ve something in common too - not all of that work was done by hand! I’m fascinated about the idea of trolls staying (more or less) sentient, and it’s clearly canon too, in addition to the various fics we have on the subject.
Dmeck, your troll apparently wasn’t sentient any more? At least I hope not. But were they a troll even before the Rash? Oh sell, no one will ever know now…
Post by: thorny on October 20, 2024, 12:53:39 PM
spoiler
That's my guess, also.
thorny, I really liked this story! What an interesting premise!
Thanks!
-- spoiling for spoiler, especially since the story itself has wound up as the last thing on the previous page:
Spoiler: show
Post by: Mirasol on October 21, 2024, 03:53:53 PM
(Now there´s already a "2" in front of it, time flies...)
A redraw from a shot from Arcane Season 1 (hehe, as I can say now that the second season is coming out in a little over two weeks :D), Episode 4.
I haven´t really figured out how to properly use that watercolor-white yet... :P Or I should really work on stopping to mix the paints directly in the pan. Or both.
(https://i.postimg.cc/ncsxt1Qq/Yoink-Tober24-20-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: wavewright62 on October 22, 2024, 03:43:08 AM
I was just about to point out that I couldn't see Jitter's large pic, but now I can. And of course, docks are also in the air! FAscinating.
Bravo to all!
Post by: Mirasol on October 22, 2024, 12:29:03 PM
So a while ago when playing Tears of the Kingdom I got stuck halfway up a cliff by the beach because it started to rain (I didn´t have the complete anti-rain-gear yet). The place I was going was :sparkle: right there :sparkle: so I figured teleporting away to do something else wasn´t worth it (and the beach was full of monsters I didn´t feel like facing, so walking wasn´t an option either).
But yeah, waiting for better weather and looking into the distance, I realized once again just how beautiful this game´s scenery is.
(https://i.postimg.cc/KjmV428k/Yoink-Tober24-21-Mirasol.jpg)
I painted this during class with a little travelling-set of watercolors I have (where the glittery watercolors are in too :D) and its accompanying self-watering brush (https://i.pinimg.com/736x/84/4d/ff/844dffe09e2dc85a79bcb0a02fa49e25.jpg). I haven´t really used this brush before. It worked a lot better than expected. Pretty much no unwanted paint staying on the brush and mixing. Definitely a viable option for painting on the go I think.
Post by: thegreyarea on October 23, 2024, 05:24:47 AM
Well, the region is somewhat teeming with rumours of one nicknamed "Godsquirrela" ... ;)
See what you made me do? ;)
My take on day 4 - Deep in The Woods...
NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD
GIANT SQUIRREL!
(https://i.postimg.cc/xdjZp6by/yoinktober-2024-the-squirrel.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/18TMfcBf)
Professor Mickelson shared another surprising, and terrifying,
picture from his adventures in the silent world,
on the land once known as Canada.
We can be glad that the professor and his team
managed to safely come out of this situation.
"For three days we walked deep in the woods, following a stream.
We were surprised for finding little to no big animals, infected or not.
I was taking some pictures just outside our camp, in that morning,
hoping to catch that magical moment when you can see a glimpse
of sun through the fog and the trees, when I heard... no, I felt,
coming from the ground, shaking my bones, a heavy "thump",
and every other sound in the forest suddenly died.
Of course I followed the first rule, and waited. It grew louder,
and each thump made the trees, and everything around, shake,
like a little earthquake. And then we saw it, through the fog.
I actually believe that fog, together with our
cold blooded stillness, saved us."
picture from his adventures in the silent world,
on the land once known as Canada.
We can be glad that the professor and his team
managed to safely come out of this situation.
"For three days we walked deep in the woods, following a stream.
We were surprised for finding little to no big animals, infected or not.
I was taking some pictures just outside our camp, in that morning,
hoping to catch that magical moment when you can see a glimpse
of sun through the fog and the trees, when I heard... no, I felt,
coming from the ground, shaking my bones, a heavy "thump",
and every other sound in the forest suddenly died.
Of course I followed the first rule, and waited. It grew louder,
and each thump made the trees, and everything around, shake,
like a little earthquake. And then we saw it, through the fog.
I actually believe that fog, together with our
cold blooded stillness, saved us."
So many amazing things!!!!!!! I'm loving this! I'll just leave this one, and come back later for comments on all that great art! :)
Original picture of a person deep in the woods: https://unsplash.com/photos/person-standing-beside-trees-NLGtLHoP8UY
Original picture of the (pre-rash) squirrel https://whitesquirrelinstitute.org/articles/the-elusive-fox-squirrel-a-south-carolinian-charmer
Post by: Mirasol on October 23, 2024, 12:57:59 PM
22: Exotic Flora
So what if Dahlias aren´t really exotic (according to my mom)*? I´ve been looking for an excuse to draw these all October! (Reference for the middle-one actually grew in my own garden. :D The other two are fancy special breeds I photographed in a park.)
But flowers are another thing I find quite difficult. So I attempted 3 different styles to see what works best for me.
(https://i.postimg.cc/BnvDfsP7/Yoink-Tober24-22-Mirasol.jpg)
*While they come from South America, they are insanely popular in my area in Germany to the point they grow in pretty much every garden. So how exotic is that at this point? :.D
Spoiler: pretty pretty flowers • show
Post by: Mirasol on October 24, 2024, 03:38:43 PM
The cemetery on Toivosaari, as depicted in SSSS A2, page 108. Sorry, without anything clever to add, the creativity-juices weren´t really there yesterday... :P
(https://i.postimg.cc/fL5wn849/Yoink-Tober24-23-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: Mirasol on October 26, 2024, 02:32:29 AM
Yes, I did spell this prompt wrong on the list (probably?), but so did the person I took it from, so I´m not sure if it was an honest mistake on their part or if it was an intentional pun... :.D
I briefly considered adding various desserts into the landscape, but decided against it in the end...
Something a bit different again, trying to do something with abstraction. It´s loosely inspired by Tolkien´s artstyle (https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fphr3r2om5ko41.jpg) (I have a book with the illustrations he made while working on the Hobbit and tLotR), though from memory, as I forgot to take a picture of the drawing I wanted to reference (I painted this in College again) and didn´t think googling it would work.
Here´s the reference (https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.6da1eb8226cf684fe3900b37640d715a?rik=vEUl9GQIVJOTxQ&riu=http%3a%2f%2fcdn.wallpapersafari.com%2f30%2f44%2fWUvb5c.jpg&ehk=Yt2K362jFXscaEmdRrm4OMMd%2fj05ZK6n2F4xwabhiL4%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0), the wallpaper-site I took it from just said this place is in Arizona.
(EDIT: I replaced the photo for a less twisted one... :) )
(https://i.postimg.cc/LXFtZvjy/Yoink-Tober24-24-Mirasoltry2.jpg)
Post by: Jitter on October 27, 2024, 08:25:39 AM
Grey, I knew there were squirrels! Although I was thinking of the smaller, talking, baking kind, not the terrifying godlike kind.
My plan is to do at least half the prompts and I have more in the works I promise! Work is hectic but soon…
Post by: Mirasol on October 27, 2024, 09:33:02 AM
(They´re also still blooming, so I kinda feel bad having to cut them already? But it´s cold outside...)
25: Summoning Altar
I already did a fanart for Cult of the Lamb this year, which was the first association I had here, so instead I drew a Great Fairy´s Fountain as they look like in the Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. Because I already drew Botw/Totk-fanart and this one generally looks most like an altar.
For those unfamiliar, Great Fairies in the Zelda-games are (mostly?) benevolent spirits who live in a magic spring and help travellers who stumble upon them by healing them and/or giving some powerup, though the latter often against some level of payment or as a reward for helping them. There´s usually more than one and they call the others their sisters. They are sometimes associated with the franchise´s main-religion, but not always. In Oot they are, and in my opinion their places of residence look like someone built a temple around them, so I thought it matches the prompt quite well.
After the first time you visit a Great Fairy´s Fountain, you´ll usually find it empty and have to call for the fairy (or summon it :D).
Can´t imagine they get a whole lot of passer-by´s though. They´re all in unremarkable holes in the ground or in walls.
(Mje, I´m not super-happy with how this turned out though...)
(https://i.postimg.cc/d0pWN8rd/Yoink-Tober24-25-Mirasol.jpg)
26: Volcanic Terrain
There´s a super-volcano under the Yellowstone Park (https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.5McEp_FgIdK1733UTGvRNgAAAA?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain), so I thought this qualifies.
This time trying to draw in a comic-like stylization. And this was the hour of my rarely-used, really brightly-colored markers, as they matched the colorscheme perfectly for once. :D
(https://i.postimg.cc/wB7fkWyg/Yoink-Tober24-26-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: Jitter on October 27, 2024, 02:30:04 PM
Post by: thegreyarea on October 28, 2024, 12:44:46 PM
Also amazing montage, Jitter!!! I wish we saw more of Lalli using his powers... And of course I'm very happy that my work served as inspiration! :)
Busy week, and busy weekend (mu birthday!) so I got a bit delayed... again! :D
So, to recover a bit, I took inspiration from Jitter and tried to handle more than one prompt at the same time. I hope you enjoy this little story, that may be continued... ;)
Let's star with day 6, Rocky Ruins, and them we move to some Deserted Drylands (day 24), and from that we may find some Idle Portal * (day 30, sorry to get there early :) )
NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD
SURPRISING DISCOVERY AMONG ROCKY RUINS!
(https://i.postimg.cc/fyFXxQXW/yoinktober-2024-10-28-SURPRISING-DISCOVERY.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/JHNGLgPS)
Famous explorer, Professor M.Mickelson, made a surprising discovery, hidden under
some rocky ruins, next to a vast city that existed before the Rash
on the hot southern lands extendidng beyond the Mediterranean.
In this picture we can see a large, heavily decorated and perfectly
round metallic device that was deeply buried on a level that,
Mickelson explains, would mean it was crafted many
millennia before the Rash!
Yet the device was in perfect shape, showing no sign of aging.
It also displays a level of detail that, in the words of the Professor,
"Can't be found anywhere else in the whole world, be it silent or not".
Mickelson, whose back, and famous hat, can be seen on the right side,
added that he and his team haven't yet find the purpose of this mysterious
device, claiming that further study is necessary to uncover its many secrets.
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some rocky ruins, next to a vast city that existed before the Rash
on the hot southern lands extendidng beyond the Mediterranean.
In this picture we can see a large, heavily decorated and perfectly
round metallic device that was deeply buried on a level that,
Mickelson explains, would mean it was crafted many
millennia before the Rash!
Yet the device was in perfect shape, showing no sign of aging.
It also displays a level of detail that, in the words of the Professor,
"Can't be found anywhere else in the whole world, be it silent or not".
Mickelson, whose back, and famous hat, can be seen on the right side,
added that he and his team haven't yet find the purpose of this mysterious
device, claiming that further study is necessary to uncover its many secrets.
---
NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD
CITY BURIED IN DESERTED DRYLANDS!
(https://i.postimg.cc/XNFQg2qH/yoinktober-2024-10-28-leaving-the-desert-city.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/NLs6sk1m)
After news of a surprising discovery (that our readers will recall from a few days ago),
Professor MIckelson's team shared the amazing picture above.
In this fascinating view, taken as the expedition left, one can
observe the huge size of the ancient city that now lies under the sand.
On the background three massive, awesome constructions, called "pyramids",
shine under the sunset. There are historical accounts of them dating from
ancient times, forty centuries (!) before the Rash.
Up to our days they stand, indiferent to time.
The fascinating device we reported about can be seen hanging below
one of the expedition's airship, on its way to Bornholm University for further studies.
The professor informed us that soon the Archaeological Department will begin
a call for additional funding to sustain their research and allow
more awesome discoveries.
---
Professor MIckelson's team shared the amazing picture above.
In this fascinating view, taken as the expedition left, one can
observe the huge size of the ancient city that now lies under the sand.
On the background three massive, awesome constructions, called "pyramids",
shine under the sunset. There are historical accounts of them dating from
ancient times, forty centuries (!) before the Rash.
Up to our days they stand, indiferent to time.
The fascinating device we reported about can be seen hanging below
one of the expedition's airship, on its way to Bornholm University for further studies.
The professor informed us that soon the Archaeological Department will begin
a call for additional funding to sustain their research and allow
more awesome discoveries.
---
NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD
A PORTAL TO THE UNKNOWN?
(https://i.postimg.cc/yxd67JDW/yoinktober-2024-10-28-setting-up-for-exposition.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VrxPRkBc)
Our loyal readers will surely be delighted to know that the ancient and mysterious device,
recently unearthed in the distant south, will be part of the new exposition
currently being set on the Archaeological Museum in Bornholm!
Professor Mickelson, on the right in the picture, flanked by his loyal assistant Ms. Tuuri,
informed us they are pretty confident that the device would have ritual purpose,
probably representing some kind of opening between our world and another,
perhaps a connection with the forgotten gods of those old times.
Therefore it was decided to mount it on a vertical position,
and a ramp will be set to allow visitors to pass through the portal.
We can add that an extra piece, a round altar found next to the ring,
will also be on display, and that considering the extraordinaire
toughness of the material visitors will be allowed to
actually touch these findings! We can't wait to feel that!
Our dear readers will be happy to know that presenting this issue of NFTSW grants a special discount price to see the exposition.
- Discount limited to two persons per issue - Additional conditions may apply - Please check previously the information available at the Museum's Ticket Office -
* And this series is dedicated to Jitter, that, IIRC, is a big fan of Stargate ;)
Note: The first picture is a still from "Stargate" (1994), the second a montage over an AI generated image (more on that later), and the third another still, from the "Stargate SG-1" series.
recently unearthed in the distant south, will be part of the new exposition
currently being set on the Archaeological Museum in Bornholm!
Professor Mickelson, on the right in the picture, flanked by his loyal assistant Ms. Tuuri,
informed us they are pretty confident that the device would have ritual purpose,
probably representing some kind of opening between our world and another,
perhaps a connection with the forgotten gods of those old times.
Therefore it was decided to mount it on a vertical position,
and a ramp will be set to allow visitors to pass through the portal.
We can add that an extra piece, a round altar found next to the ring,
will also be on display, and that considering the extraordinaire
toughness of the material visitors will be allowed to
actually touch these findings! We can't wait to feel that!
Our dear readers will be happy to know that presenting this issue of NFTSW grants a special discount price to see the exposition.
- Discount limited to two persons per issue - Additional conditions may apply - Please check previously the information available at the Museum's Ticket Office -
* And this series is dedicated to Jitter, that, IIRC, is a big fan of Stargate ;)
Note: The first picture is a still from "Stargate" (1994), the second a montage over an AI generated image (more on that later), and the third another still, from the "Stargate SG-1" series.
Post by: Mirasol on October 28, 2024, 06:11:10 PM
It wasn´t the only factor, but this has not happened to me before, and I´ve been commuting for 2,5 years. So I guess you can take this as a compliment, Grey?
I´ll be looking forward to the next edition (that I will NOT be reading on any trains! xD)
27: Crystal Coves
I learned from this prompt that "Crystal Cove" is a state park in California.
But this is Chihuahua, Mexico, and a study from this awesome photo (https://www.wired.com/2011/11/st-crystalcave/) I found. :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/7h7KH6pC/Yoink-Tober24-27-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: Mirasol on October 29, 2024, 01:36:48 PM
In which Sigrun finally takes everyone to Norway. :sigrun:
First order of business after the captain´s grand speech should be getting warmer clothes though...
(reference (https://res.cloudinary.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1608110372/clients/norway/snowhoeing_trolltunga_fjord_norway_photo_trolltunga_active_bd706c54-1178-48f3-9eb4-6b30d78f0486.jpg) was from a tourism-site hehe)
(https://i.postimg.cc/0Q11698z/Yoink-Tober24-28-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: Jitter on October 29, 2024, 03:02:08 PM
In sincerely hope no one is walking through the gate at the same time someone else is touching the smaller round altar. The swoosh brings instant extermination.
Now I can call the art cool, Mirasol! Although I guess the cave is actually stone and not ice :) Looks like a fascinating place. And Norway, so beautiful.
Post by: dmeck7755 on October 29, 2024, 08:24:38 PM
Love everything.
Question about the crystal caves. Aren't they the ones that are really really hot and have the funky humidity?
Spoiler: show
Post by: Mirasol on October 30, 2024, 06:39:11 AM
Question about the crystal caves. Aren't they the ones that are really really hot and have the funky humidity?Spoiler: show
Glad to have you back Dmeck! :)
Yes, I think those are the ones. I had read about the temperature, but not the humidity. Beautiful place, but being in there must suck... O_O
And I don´t mind at all. I´m looking forward to reading it!
29: Eldrich Forest
Is that a tree? Are any of those trees? I´d recommend to Emil to not look up, in any case. Just keep walking... And try not to touch anything.
(I was too tired to color this...)
(https://i.postimg.cc/XJc6zfHN/Yoink-Tober24-29-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: JoB on October 31, 2024, 04:08:07 AM
In sincerely hope no one is walking through the gate at the same time someone else is touching the smaller round altar.If I remember the series correctly, nobody touching this "altar" will be required. (Hence them installing the iris.)
Aaaaand here (https://www.skindeepcomic.com/reader-questions/2018-reader-question-115/)'s your belated HB cake-let, Grey! >:D
Post by: Jitter on October 31, 2024, 06:50:05 AM
And this facility probably won’t have the speaker announcing “unauthorized offworld activation”. Nor “chevron seven locked” for that matter.
But I assume everyone else just thinks this gate is buried and don’t dial for Tau’ri.
Post by: Mirasol on October 31, 2024, 08:12:35 AM
Admittedly, a bit of a shitpost, in terms of "trying to learn how to draw environments". xD
But anyways, here´s the Nether-portal in Minecraft, as it is traditionally built in a more or less completely empty world in creative mode that was loaded for no other reason than to impress siblings/friends with the fact you know how to do this. Or at least that was my experience playing Minecraft with my brother in our early teens. :.D (He went a lot more strategic about playing this game than me.)
(https://i.postimg.cc/ydv3wSFw/Yoink-Tober24-30-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: Mirasol on November 01, 2024, 05:50:51 PM
Happy Halloween!
And just like that, it´s the last entry again, huh? O_o What will I do with all that free time now? (Kidding, I actually have a LOT to do for college starting soon. So I´m glad the challenge starts and ends before that really goes into full swing... ^^')
Did any of you see/play that little Halloween-game (https://g.co/doodle/5eqqemt) Google had for the 31.? You are a wizard cat and fight ghosts in space. It´s very cute. The protagonist is such a creature. It inspired me and it matched the prompt, so I drew the second level.
Lower half is drawn with markers, upper half with watercolors.
(https://i.postimg.cc/7ZQJ6qv2/Yoink-Tober24-31-Mirasol.jpg)
Post by: thegreyarea on November 02, 2024, 08:28:28 PM
And your drawings are fantastic! I checked the link and that cave looks beautiful, and, as demck pointed, very, very uncomfortable!
I also love the scene with Sigrun and the team on that touristic spot :) Did they have time to reinvent the selfie after the rash?
Also love the eldritch forest! Emil has some experience on what can happen when you look up… and I think you did the “trees” with the exact level of ambiguity… Well done!
Thanks for the cake, JoB! I actually love the concept of the birthday cupcake. So simple, and yet it delivers the message! :) <3
As for the stargate, I’m sure no one will try to make it work, so everyone will be safe, right? Right?
Back to Mira’s drawings, we get the nether portal… It’s pretty! And I like the boxy clouds too!
Since I never played Minecraft, a quick check on it was mandatory (to me), and I found…
https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Nether_portal
Which has a lot of things whose meaning I have no idea, and this little piece: “There is an infinitesimal chance of failure for the corresponding portal to generate in the Nether, leaving the player trapped until death or until another portal can be constructed, either in the Nether or by another player in the Overworld. “ Sounds like a lot of fun… ;)
The Astral Plains are lovely! So many different things! The background (upper and lower part), the monster, the magical space cat that rides a broom :D
And thanks for providing the link! I really enjoyed it!
Now, I still have a few things set for this yoinktober… I’m sure my friends won’t complain if I keep posting for some days… next one will be tomorrow!
BTW, Jitter, yes, on the original of that last picture we have Daniel besides Samantha. I turned Daniel into Prof. Mickelson by changing Daniel’s blue uniform to brown, and then drawing the beard and the hat, and removing his glasses. To turn Samantha into Tuuri I made her less tall and changed the haircut. I'm glad you liked it! Maybe we get a bit more of Stargate soon... :)
Post by: Jitter on November 03, 2024, 06:36:48 AM
It’s very relaxing to write creatively and balances the work, but recently I’ve been physically unable to do any extra on the computer. But we’ll get to it so watch this space! And thank you so much Mirasol for setting this up! Just thinking the stories is invigorating!
Post by: wavewright62 on November 08, 2024, 01:11:06 AM
That is such a cute game picture, with the wizard-space-rainbow-cat! It's mad in the best way possible. I also like the creepy b&w birch forest Emil. (Dunno Minecraft at all, but I appreciate trying to draw game dynamics.)
I've seen the photos inside crystal caves in Mexico and Brazil - mind-blowing! The silhouette makes a nice contrast. Per Jitter's comment, volcanic features are cool up close too, including scoria fields and little ferns that take up residence in pools of water caught in the scoria.
Spoiler: no photos sorry • show
What blows me away about Cairo is the photos taken of the pyramids that show them isolated in the desert landscapes, and then the ones taken from another angle that shows them over the highway from the suburbs and commercial buildings. I don't know Stargate lore, but the images tickle me!
Post by: Mirasol on November 11, 2024, 07:21:19 AM
But still, thank you all for participating so far! :)) I find it so motivating to create something like this event together, and I had a lot of fun (as always)!
As for the Minecraft-thing, I must admit I´m not too sure on specifics either. :.D All I know about the Nether is that it is some sort of parallel fire-dimension where you need to do something if you want to beat the game´s objective (which is getting to yet another dimension and slaying the resident dragon, IIRC).
I have never done anything else in this game than build things though, so I´m no expert. :P
And I agree, volcanic features rule. I know that I have seen Scoria-fields before, but when I was 2 years old, so the memory is very fuzzy at best... But googling around alone gives some very nice pictures.
Post by: Jitter on November 20, 2024, 04:32:07 PM
”What are you doing, Onni?”
“Nothing”
“I can see you’re doing something! You are looking all funny!”
“I’m not looking funny! I have things to do, leave me in peace!”
“I knew it! You are doing something! Tell me!”
“Sheesh… Grandma gave me a task, and I’m doing it. Are you happy now””
“What task?”
“A noita task. You wouldn’t understand.”
“I do too! I will be a noita like you!”
“Umm, I don’t know about that”
“It’s possible! Everyone says so! Some people just get it later than others!”
“Oh no, please Tuuri, don’t cry!”
“Tell me about the task then!”
“Oh well… Grandma told me to find the mightiest tree on the island.”
“Oooo! I can help!”
“No, you can’t. I have to do it myself.”
“Come on, Onni! The trees around home are big, maybe it’s one of them?”
“I don’t think it’s going to be on our own back yard, stupid”
“I am not stupid! You are stupid! And mean! And stupid!”
Well, at least that got him rid of Tuuri. At least for a while. Onni continued his quest of looking for mighty trees. There were many big trees, but none of them seemed to stand out.
Soon Tuuri had forgotten she was mad at him, and got back with a length of rope.
“Look, I found us a tool! Now we can measure which tree is the thickest!”
Sighing, Onni decided to give his sister a chance. He didn’t seem to be making much progress on his own. So, the siblings spent the afternoon measuring any thick trees, near the jetty, around Aunt’ Hilja’s place, on the southern shore. And Tuuri showed Onni a trick she had learned in school, how you can use your arm and thumb with a stick to estimate how tall a tree is.
But at the end of the day, they were none the wiser. The thickest trees were not the tallest, and how do you measure thickness anyway? Some trees branched to become very wide, while some had just one thick trunk. Pines were taller, but spruces were larger. And birch were the prettiest, according to Tuuri.
Onni was certain the mightiest tree would grow deep in the woods. Tuuri on the other hand thought that maybe the mightiest tree is the one that brings most happiness, which would then be the birch where the swing was, at the school yard. But they noted that the trees that grew alone, not inside the forested patches of the island, tended to be thicker, and that the school yard birch was a bit worse for wear, and not very mighty looking after all.
“It’ hopeless! I can’t tell which one is the mightiest! They are all the same. This is a stupid task! I’m stupid!”
“You are just doing it wrong!”
“Well so are you!”
“But I’m not a noita, remember!”
“Ahhm, you are right. It is a noita task.”
“So, do something Grandma has taught you. Do it the noita way!”
The stupid little brat was… maybe she was onto something. Onni tried to calm himself down. Concentrating, he started to sense something. The familiar surroundings took on another layer of familiarity. He was starting to feel the trees, just like Grandma had taught him.
“So, what now? Did you give up? Why are you just standing there?”
“Tuuri, you were absolutely right. I need to do it the noita way. I’m sorry you can’t help me do it, but you already helped by reminding me! Thank you!” Suddenly Onni gave his startled sister a little hug, and wandered off so deep in concentration that Tuuri didn’t dare disturb him anymore.
In the evening, Onni came home from looking happy. Or at least less surly than usually.
“Did you find it then? The mightiest tree?”
“I did, yes! And it was the correct one! Grandma said I did well!”
“Ooo, I want to see! You must show it to me!”
“I will, you have earned it. Tomorrow.”
***
The following morning Onni led his sister to a rocky shoreline. Some small, scrawny pines were hanging on the almost bare rock.
“Here it is!”
“But… is it invisible? Are you mocking me? There are no big trees here, just these ones. Look, they are shorter than you!”
“They aren’t big, but this is an ancient tree!" Onni was pointing at one that was particularly bent and downright miserable looking.
"This pine right here is the oldest tree, and by far the oldest living thing, on this island! It has withstood the cold of winters, the storms of autumns, the heat of summers untold. And every spring a tiny little new growth has emerged. This tree was very old when the Rash came.”
“This tiny, stupid tree is the mightiest? Are you serious?”
“Yes, I can feel it. And Grandma says I’m right. Thanks to you I remembered to not look with my eyes but with my noita heart.”
Tuuri was still a little disappointed, but couldn’t help feeling a bit proud too. Maybe she did have some noita in her after all.
Yes, she absolutely understands she's not going to be a noita. She also understands how to make her brother do things she wants.
Post by: wavewright62 on November 27, 2024, 03:01:39 PM
Post by: Jitter on November 29, 2024, 03:37:24 PM
Post by: wavewright62 on November 29, 2024, 05:37:03 PM
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Yeah, I reckon that's about right, around 9ish.
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Post by: moredhel on December 08, 2024, 06:55:09 AM