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Worlds & Stories Discussion Board / Re: Girl Genius discussion OPEN SPOILERS
« Last post by Jitter on October 29, 2024, 03:18:37 PM »
Is it a still of one baron frantically running around and trying to slap the device away? Or a bunch of minutely different timelines? Is the time frozen to stop him from throwing it? Nobody knows!
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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Jitter on October 29, 2024, 03:02:08 PM »
I am, and I recognized the gate in the first picture immediately. You did add prof Mickelson or at least his hat in the last one, right?

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.
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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Mirasol on October 29, 2024, 01:36:48 PM »
28: freezing Fjords

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 was from a tourism-site hehe)

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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Mirasol on October 28, 2024, 06:11:10 PM »
Well well well, the new edition of NFTSW was so captivating I managed to miss my stop on the train while reading. :P
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 I found. :)

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Worlds & Stories Discussion Board / Re: Girl Genius discussion OPEN SPOILERS
« Last post by thorny on October 28, 2024, 01:12:09 PM »
The only thing I can find in that tangle that isn't Baron or Device is something blurry towards the top left of the cluster; just to the left of the Baron who appears to be balancing the device on one finger. But it's so blurry that I have no idea what it is; except that it doesn't seem to be Mama Gkika, who ought to be there.

And nearly all the iterations appear to have either thrown the device away or to be trying to catch it. But what that means I also don't know.
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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by thegreyarea on October 28, 2024, 12:44:46 PM »
Amazing drawings/paintings, Mira!!! You are awesome!!!  <3
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!


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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NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD

CITY BURIED IN DESERTED DRYLANDS!


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.

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NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD

A PORTAL TO THE UNKNOWN?


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.
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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Jitter on October 27, 2024, 02:30:04 PM »
I guess it would be silly to call a picture of the Grand Prismatic Spring “cool” but I love the painting! I’m fascinated by volcanic features, luckily mostly from afar.
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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Mirasol on October 27, 2024, 09:33:02 AM »
Thank you, Jitter! This is actually the first year I made a flowerbed in my (parents´) garden (with some different dahlias, as well as sunflowers, coneflowers and marigold). It has somehow thrived despite my periodical complete neglect... The "digging them out for the winter"-part is fast-approaching now, and admittedly I haven´t completely thought this through... But I´ll figure it out.
(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...)





26: Volcanic Terrain

There´s a super-volcano under the Yellowstone Park, 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

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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Jitter on October 27, 2024, 08:25:39 AM »
Mirasol I love your paintings as always. Dahlias are definitely exotic! I’d love to have them in my garden, but here they need to be dug up and stored for the winter and so would forget

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…
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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Mirasol on October 26, 2024, 02:32:29 AM »
24: Des(s)erted Drylands

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 (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, the wallpaper-site I took it from just said this place is in Arizona.
(EDIT: I replaced the photo for a less twisted one... :) )

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