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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #45 on: October 05, 2020, 08:15:02 AM »
Lallicat, great rambling! Reminds me of Newt in Aliens. They mostly coma at night. Mostly. The Hummingfluff(??) is adorable!

Wave, here’s a fox in a hurry if I ever saw one :) Both movement and expression are spot on!
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #46 on: October 05, 2020, 11:58:45 AM »
Jitter, yeah, it's based off of Hummingfluff, though it's not very good :'D
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #47 on: October 05, 2020, 04:52:23 PM »
Mielikki


Mielikki metsän emäntä.............. Mielikki mistress of forest
kaunein kukka kankahaitten........most beautiful bloom of the wood
Sinun salot suloisimmat...............your woodlands most wonderful
Metsät mannut makoisimmat......Sweetest forest and land

Päästä pieksuni poluilles............Let my boots tread on your paths
Sukseni suo sujutella..................Let my skis slide freely
Anna meille antejasi....................Bestow your boon upon us
Viruttele viljojasi...........................Let your grain* flow (to us)

Marjat meille makehimmat..........For us the sweetest berries
Sienet sievät suloisimmat...........Most delicate mushrooms
Pähkinäiset parahimmat.............Nicest of the nuts
Yrttikasvit ylisimmät.....................Highest herbs of healing

Jänis mulle juoksuttele................Let the hare run to me
Rusakoita rutistele.......................Lead the brown hares** to me
Oravainen ojentele.......................Present me with squirrels
Linnut liekaan lennättele..............Let birds fly into my trap

Suvulleni syömiseksi...................So my kin will get to eat
Perhekunnan pitimiksi.................For my family to feed
Kesäkauen kestilöihin..................For our summer celebrations
Talven tullen turvaksemme..........To keep us safe in the winter

Mielikki metsän emäntä..............Mielikki mistress of forest
Salojen sininen neiti....................Blue maiden of woodlands
Sulta pyyän pöytihimme.............I beseech you for our tables
Rukoilehen ruuaksemme............I pray of you our food

* Tapio and Mielikki’s grain = the bounty of the forest, both game and berries etc
**jänis and rusakko are two types of hares, both common in Finland

The Finnish is a runo or prayer for Mielikki written in some semblance of the Kalevala meter (trochaic tetrameter). The English is simply a translation, not even trying to be poetry.
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #48 on: October 05, 2020, 11:33:16 PM »
Wow, Jitter, that’s still awesome! (In some parts it does sound like a poem ;)) thanks for putting this up! ;D

Here are my “Tapio and Mielikki”:
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #49 on: October 06, 2020, 05:45:15 AM »
Thank you, everyone! :))

Annuil, I love how you put the dusklings in the shadows in your "Hunted"-picture, and your designs for Tapio and Mielikki are beautiful! To your question: yes, I drew all YoinkTober-pictures with markers and fineliners, except for the golden and silver details, those were those pens you are actually supposed to write on CDs with. :'D

Wave, everything in your drawing is so dynamic, and Puppyfox´s face is really expressive! Awesome!

Lallicat, what an adorable Hummingfluff, and what a sad but beautiful story!

Jitter, a beautiful poem! I agree with Annuil, even the translation sound kind of like poetry.

I would like to add my own Mielikki to the collection: (I was going to draw Tapio too, but after going down several internet-rabbit-holes in trying to find out how to depict them both it was so late that I only had enough time for one design. But doing the research was just so interesting!)
This design is mostly based on the way she is described in Rune 14 of the Kalevala, or rather the translation I found. Though I wasn´t always sure whether the text was currently referring to Mielikki or one of her daughters. Then of course the Letho-infopages and a whole bunch of other websites.
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #50 on: October 06, 2020, 09:50:17 AM »
Thank you! I have several of the Runos somewhere, but now that I think of it I may have published them only on the comments. I’ve been meaning to put them into AO3 but never got around to.

Both your Mielikkis, as well as Annuil’s Tapio, are great! In the Runo 14 Lemminkäinen describes Mieilkki both in her finery and in plain clothes. Sighting her when out hunting would usually mean you will be having a good hunt, but if she was wearing old and ragged clothes, the hunter would have bad luck. So Lemminkäinen, who’s been having no luck hunting the Moose of Hiisi, begs her to change her plain old clothes to the ”bounty dress” signifying a good hunt for him.
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #51 on: October 06, 2020, 11:53:14 AM »
Both your Mielikkis, as well as Annuil’s Tapio, are great! In the Runo 14 Lemminkäinen describes Mieilkki both in her finery and in plain clothes. Sighting her when out hunting would usually mean you will be having a good hunt, but if she was wearing old and ragged clothes, the hunter would have bad luck. So Lemminkäinen, who’s been having no luck hunting the Moose of Hiisi, begs her to change her plain old clothes to the ”bounty dress” signifying a good hunt for him.
Ooh, so that’s how she is supposed to look like! I’ve read some articles about her being a woman only on the front but from the back looking like a piece of tree, that’s why I kind of covered her with the bark...
I might have misunderstood it, should’ve read the actual Kalevala texts (translated obviously)  O_o
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #52 on: October 06, 2020, 07:27:32 PM »
Dunno about Mielikki specifically, but many forest deities across the world are said to manifest as part humanoid/part plant or animal. And forest women are often depicted as having backs made of tree, whether they are good or evil.
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #53 on: October 06, 2020, 07:47:37 PM »
(Hm, I thought I had commented? Oh well) 
Such lovely renditions of Mielikki!  I love the runo - I can almost hear Onni invoking her with this.

My Mielikki & Tapio are still in pencils, alas, but like Mirasol, I was also going with the bear cub.  Thank you for the dressing advice, as I had her in tunic and leggings, ready for hunting.  My Shelter in the Rain is not even started.  I may just skip straight to Sigrun.
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #54 on: October 06, 2020, 08:00:57 PM »
Mirasol and Annuil, your Mielikki/Tapios are great!

Here is mine, a little late, sorry. (And I wrote this really late, so I'm sorry if it's not top quality :-\)

--- Mielikki and/or Tapio ---

Mielikki had been slumbering for centuries. A god's energy is derived from heartfelt prayers and offerings; the words alone have no power without the belief behind it. She had received no such prayers in a very long time. So it was a surprise when a thread of power woke her up. It was a prayer from a small girl, asking for a blessing for a homemade rabbit trap she had made herself. The child's innocence made the prayer valid and Mielikki had regained a fraction of her power. Feeling benevolent towards the small child who had strengthened her, she granted the prayer, ensuring a good catch. The next day, when the child saw the amount of game she had caught, she decided that Mielikki was most definitely real and vowed to never forget that. So Mielikki strengthened bit by bit, gaining power from the prayers and offerings from one devoted follower. The child was now a young woman when the plague hit. She ran to the forest, begging Mielikki to take mercy on her and offer her protection and guidance. So Mielikki created a lehto. It would not do for her one source of power to die from the plague. So she would protect her. As she felt her husband twitch beside her, she had a feeling that The Girl wouldn't be the only one of her supporters soon.

92 Years Later...

There were new visitors to her lehto go. And a strange group they were. Seven humans, one cat, and one spirit. Two of them were her mages. They had given her prayers and offerings and had asked for a place to rest on their journey. If she wasn't mistaken, it was to free the Kade that was nearby. If they were to accomplish that, they would need more than just a place to rest. So she gave them her blessing.
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #55 on: October 06, 2020, 08:27:14 PM »
Please bear in mind that the Finnish “pantheon” is far from organized. The Kalevala has merely a version. Dressed in bark and leaves is another version, and Tapio is often described in such garb. He’s also known to go naked in his realm :)

They, like Finnish deities in general, are not well-defined gods but in many tellings powerful spirits. Like there will be a spirit of each distinctive area of forest, but they are the spirits of all forests.

I also had a little storylet about sheltering in the rain, but it seems to have disappeared instead of getting posted. Oh well, I’ll rewrite later. When it’s not 3 am.
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #56 on: October 06, 2020, 09:21:27 PM »
Well I finished my "Shelter in the Rain!" Here goes!


--- Shelter in the Rain---

Sigrun had invited the crew to hang at her place, so, naturally, Reynir was lost. Her instructions to her apartment were... vague, to say the least. "Turn left once you pass that rock that looks like an upside-down grenade if you squint really hard" were hardly adequate instructions and Reynir felt the same way he had when he had discovered he was stranded in the Silent World: like an idiot. To top it all off, it had started to rain, and in a matter of seconds, he was soaking wet. He spun around helplessly, and nearly cried with relief when he spotted Mikkel's huge figure. And he was carrying an umbrella.

"Mikkel!" he called as he jogged over to him and ducked under the umbrella. "Thank goodness I found you! Do you know the way to Sigrun's house? She gave me directions but-"

"Don't worry," Mikkel cut him off, "I happen to know the way." So two men under an umbrella started walking towards the general direction of Sigrun's place.

*'*'*

Lalli had taken one look at the directions Emil had translated for him and gave up. They made no sense, and, knowing Sigrun, they never had in the first place. But he figured he could find his way on his own. How hard could it be? He was sure he was going in the right direction when it started to rain. He hissed in displeasure and ran under the nearest tree, trying to stay as dry as he possibly could. It was out of the question to continue in such rain when he was dressed in such light clothes. He knew he should have worn his scout uniform, no matter what Emil said about "being casual." He stayed under that tree for a solid five minutes before deciding to brave the rain again. He took one step and rushed back to the safety of his tree. It was pouring buckets out there.

"Lalli! Hi!" Lalli turned around in shock. He knew that voice. Of course it was him. He opened his mouth to answer but was saved by Mikkel gesturing to the umbrella and then to him.

"Come." Lalli gratefully squeezed himself between the giant man and the freckle-head.

"... Thank you," he grunted. So three men squeezed under an umbrella started walking towards the general direction of Sigrun's place.

*'*'*

Emil was looking for the rock shaped like an upside-down grenade.

"It should be right around here..." he murmured. "Unless I made a wrong turn somewhere..." He yelped in surprise and covered his hair as rain started pouring from the sky. He looked around for shelter but saw none. Frantically, he took off at a sprint, hoping was running in the right direction, squeezing his eyes shut. He bumped into several people as he ran past, yelling sorry over his shoulder as he continued his mad dash. But just his luck, Emil felt himself run into what felt like a very large man. He gulped hard as he looked up to see who he had hit now. It was Mikkel!

"Closing your eyes doesn't keep you dry, stupid," Lalli told him as he peered around Mikkel. "Come. Mikkel knows way to Sigrun." So four men squished under an umbrella started walking towards the general direction of Sigrun's place.

*'*'*

Sigrun opened the door with a grin.

"There you guys are! I was worried you had gotten lost on the way! It's not like my directions were hard or anything!" Lalli grumbled something in Finnish that she chose to ignore. "Come in! Oh, and be careful around Dagny," she added, almost as an afterthought. "He's taken a liking to attacking people's feet when they let their guard down."

(Do you guys want more of Dagny? Because I'm thinking of doing more with him.)
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #57 on: October 06, 2020, 11:44:41 PM »
Mirasol, your Mielikki is beautiful, I love the colors! That shaded hair looks like a really cool idea  :))

Lallicat, a nice story! I love it! Mikkel is being Mikkel and collecting everyone on the way is great :'D And Sigrun describing the way to her place is also really close to her character  :'D
(There are a few orthographic mistakes, but it didn’t disturb really, when I was reading)

Okey, here is my “Shelter in the rain”:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_sws3ATW4q0jd9vUK
(Onni turned out really young... and I hope you can see the Tuuri-bird who found herself a nice shelter under her brother’s hood  ;D)

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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #58 on: October 07, 2020, 10:09:49 AM »
Lallicat, a nice story about Mielikki! Something like I would expect it to happen too! Although I find it interesting you decided she was awoken before the Rash. Maybe that's what helped at least some Finns survive? The last paragraph is posted twice, you may want to edit that?

And the story about Mikkel being the shelter (against the rain and against other troubles) for the boys is adorable. It's good that he "happens" to know the way to Sigrun's :)

Annuil, a cute scene with the Tuuribird sheltering from the rain :)


So here's my Shelter in the Rain again (I hadn't saved it anywhere so when it didn't post I had to rewrite - became longer so maybe that's ok).


Ensi was normally ok with any kind of weather. She just let it wash over her. But this storm was ridiculous! It felt more like a beating than a wash! The howling wind and horizontal rain were bad enough, but maybe it was the hailstones mixing with the rain that finally won her stubborness to keep going. She had hoped to make it to the northern end of the lake by nightfall, but Ukko had other plans. And besides, if she veered too far off her course here, she'd spend the next day paddling around looking for her landmarks. She had a reasonably good idea of the lay of the land and water here, but she was far from home and the labyrinth of rocky islands and straits was challenging.

The small and relatively gently sloping island to the right looked like a good candidate for a stopping place. Nimble despite the wind she quickly paddled around it. She discovered crumbling remains of a jetty, so there probably were ruins of a cabin here. Still, neither her human nor mage senses indicated any danger. So she paddled to the shore and pulled the canoe up, and set quietly for the centre of the island. There was indeed a cabin, and it looked to be in a tolerable condition. It might well offer a dryish shelter for the night. The other end of the building had been a sauna. Oh, it would be nice if the kiuas was still in working order! Despite it still being early September, she was freezing with the cold rain and wind.

The cabin even had a door still attached. She pricked up her ears and other senses, but still nothing. If this tiny island really had remained fully free of grosslings, maybe the cabin could be fixed up to make a scouting camp. She made a mental note of the location and grabbed the door handle.

The door opened with a creak. Simultaneously she heard a shuffling from inside the room. She pushed the door forcefully and it hit something. She spun back and drew her blade. Two voices yelled in unison "Perkele!" She had come blade to blade with a human. A man she hadn't met before. "Mikäs mies sinä olet?!"
"Kuka olet ja mitä teet täällä?" Ok so they were both Finns.
"Relax. I'm human." Ensi said, lowering her blade tip marginally.

After staring at her for a while the man lowered his. "Sorry. Must be careful."
"Ensi Hotakainen, from Toivosaari. Immune, mage, scout."
"Toivosaari? Never heard."
"It's in Haukivesi. West of here."
"Still doesn't ring any bells. Oh yes, Ukko-Pekka. That's me."
"Could we perhaps get inside? I've had enough of the rain."
"Oh yes, sorry. The cabin is surprisingly nice! We may even be able to use the sauna!"
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Re: YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge
« Reply #59 on: October 07, 2020, 10:25:04 AM »
Sigrun

She hated it when she wasn't on top of things. Like now, Mikkel and the pipsqueak's cousin (His name's Onni, she reminded herself) were talking about something and Mikkel was clearly winding the other man up. She would have liked to be privy to the conversation. The Finn was far too serious, he would be so easy to tease. He was already bristling, when Reynir added something. Oh, about the Surma thing. Onni seemed to make a gesture of denial, but she also noticed he didn't appear to be fully convinced. Now she was really irritated! How dared they discuss threats without her!

Reynir was saying something about Mikkel and looked a little sheepish. A bit more sheepish than he usually did. Sigrun turned to Mikkel, drawing breath to demand translation at once. However she suddenly ran out of steam, when Mikkel nonchalantly put his arm around her waist and pulled her to a half hug on his shoulder. Well, all right. Maybe she could wait a bit more. Amusingly, Onni looked like he was billowing the smoke of his anger now, with the fire between him and them. Tee hee hee, good that her most best team had come, or the Finn would have gotten himself killed by his short temper!
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