YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge

[wavewright62]

Huzzah, now the Hukka appears, and what a grand grand image of a Hukka it is!   

Sweet vignettes of the bargains we all go through with our significant others. 

Mmmm, chewy meatballs, noms...

[Jitter]

Lallicat, adorable Reynir shenanigans! Now I want to know about the “incident”! Also, do I understand correctly that Lalli is (has been?) teaching, with the another course? What does he teach and how did this happen?

I think this would do some good, to air our some of the stuffiness in the Academy Although to be fair, we’ve only seen one course and that was through the eyes of Reynir who isn’t necessarily the best judge ot... well, anything. There are probably some less condescending types there too.

[wavewright62]

Well, Jitter, you're in luck - I swear I drew this last night and didn't see your post first, BUT...

Double prompt fulfillment - 'Own choice Character' (2 of 'em!) & 'All I wanted was a....'
The headmistress of the Seiður Academy catches up with her old friend Helga from the country, who sometimes has new runes to share. Helga relates a story of how she adjusted a rune to get back at a farmer who laughed at her. "All I wanted was a little respect."

[Jitter]

Sorry guys I have a headache amd thus I’m taking the easy way out.

Character

Name: Rakel Valgeirsdottir
Age: 22
Profession: Reporter (skald)
Nationality: Icelander
Birthday: 12th June
Height: 170 cm
Immunity: NO
Languages: Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Finnish (bad)

Rakel is interested in the world, but as a non-immune doesn’t even think about leaving Iceland. She studies in the Reykjavik University, but has lately been devoting time on her work as a reporter. As a journalist she at least gets to hear the news from other lands. Maybe she’ll look for a position with the Nordic Council later in life, preferably in the Silent World Research section (which doesn’t exist yet). She is friendly and easygoing.

She features here (and on p 21-22 of Adventure 2)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26989501

[wavewright62]

Sorry guys I have a headache amd thus I’m taking the easy way out.

Character

Name: Rakel Valgeirsdottir
Age: 22
Profession: Reporter (skald)
Nationality: Icelander
Birthday: 12th June
Height: 170 cm
Immunity: NO
Languages: Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Finnish (bad)

Rakel is interested in the world, but as a non-immune doesn’t even think about leaving Iceland. She studies in the Reykjavik University, but has lately been devoting time on her work as a reporter. As a journalist she at least gets to hear the news from other lands. Maybe she’ll look for a position with the Nordic Council later in life, preferably in the Silent World Research section (which doesn’t exist yet). She is friendly and easygoing.

She features here (and on p 21-22 of Adventure 2)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26989501

Oooh, I LOVE this character, and you've endowed her with my birthday, AWWW (not on purpose, I know, still....)!
I hope you feel better soon.

[Annuil]

Ooh, Wave, that’s great!  I feel like those two get along really well! :'D Amazing expressions 

Jitter, I hope there is Mikkel around where you are, so that he can help you with your headache! 
It’s a nice way to handle the problem of a headache-day, a lovely character 

Okey, here is my two-days-late work for “Sauna” (I’m really sorry, I’m punching and kicking myself to keep drawing and keep trying to catch up as much as possible...)

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_s3ZgNuKvP0aVBil-
“Emil, it has been over a 100 degrees in there, here is a snowball for you!”

You know how much fun it is to get out of a hot sauna and run around in the snow barefoot? They say it actually improves your health, if you don’t get too cold  :'D
(I once did a barefoot-snow-race with my dog up in the mountains of Norway and it was the best thing I’ve ever done!)

[Jitter]

Thanks guys, better already.

Wave, what makes you think it was an accident! Of course I gave her your birthday on purpose!  The character is actually at least 50 % Grey's doing, he gave me the pointers to the fic I linked, which I wrote for the Fandom for Australia exchange for him (and I owe him another one as he graciously paid for two works!). He suggested the boys befriend the reporter girl so a lot of what I made her be is based on the premise that this will happen

Wave, also your seiður are great! The farmer got what he deserved I'd very much like to see female mages in action btw, in canon I mean (as well as in fanworks! But canon could use some more female mains).

Annuil, poor Emil! Let me guess, Lalli has only just coaxed him to step outside in the first place ("It's not that cold really, it will feel good after the heat, and you'll only need to stand on the threshold I promise!"), right? Lalli is evil sometimes!

[Annuil]

Thanks guys, better already.

Yay!

Annuil, poor Emil! Let me guess, Lalli has only just coaxed him to step outside in the first place ("It's not that cold really, it will feel good after the heat, and you'll only need to stand on the threshold I promise!"), right? Lalli is evil sometimes!

Ahaha, I haven’t asked them but that’s how it probably happened.
Lalli is not evil, he just does what’s best for his friend! He knows that it’s nice for your immune system to get some snow after the sauna, that’s what (I suppose) grandma always told him!  :'D So he does it, no matter weather Emil likes it or not

(I actually just realised that, except for Sigrun’s wound, there were no other sickness in the crew, they managed to stay healthy even after getting into freezing water and sleeping who-knows-where! )

[Jitter]

Actually it makes sense they'd have much less infections. Firstly, the people surviving at Y90 are descendants of the tough ones who lived through the apocalypse. Not just escaping the grosslings, but also surviving famines, collapse of all infrastructure, eating whatever scraps they could scavenge and surviving wounds without modern medicine. So, even the non-immunes are generally among the part of the population (in comparison to present day) who have a strong immune system.

Secondly most of the infectious diseases we have today are zoonoses i.e. originate from animals. The amount and variety of livestock is smaller, and all wild mammals are to be feared. So the likelihood of contracting a plague by eating a bat is much much lower than today. Also all of the human population is subject to the same seasonal variations, i.e. the summertime easement that is evident with many (not all) viral infections today will happen everywhere and there is no human population who would at that time be in winter and thus "storing" the virus which could then return the next winter.

None of these mean that they would be rid of the common cold but the chances of a serious widespread epidemic are a lot smaller than we have today.

On the other hand, if one does get sick or injured in Y90 the situation is serious. Bacterial pneumonia can easily be lethal if they have no antibiotics. However we don't know if they do. I think they have some although definitely not all of the varieties we have today. On the other hand there is no rampant use of antibiotics for minor (and even viral) causes in humans, and with no infection at all in livestock and thus the drug resistance of bacteria will likely be much less widespread and what antibiotics they do manufacture probably work quite well. (I believe it's been established that the resistent populations revert back to non-resistent when the situation that makes resistance useful normalizes).

[Annuil]

Yeah, you’re probably right. They do live in the post apocalyptic world. And there is something to add - they all are military people, I mean, they probably are used to living in such circumstances, as they did while in the Silent World (not sure about Emil) but still...
They also are pretty good at sanitizing everything and following the protocols about it.

[Jitter]

All I wanted was a little break. In retrospect, it probably wasn’t a good idea to wish for a power outage. I’m pretty sure it didn’t really make any difference, but... at the very least it was insensitive towards the people we already knew were getting sick.

But then, who could have thought it would come to this? Surely, we’d all seen Contagion, 12 Monkeys, Outbreak, 28 Days Later, Andromeda Strain... Ok, maybe not everyone. I had. You know how in movies you always wonder, “Have these people never seen a horror film?” Well, I had seem them all. And I’d read books. And the only part of history classes I was really interested in were the ones about plagues. I used to think the bubonic plague was kind of cool. I had imagined the scenario many times but still, not for a second did I imagine it would come to this in the real world. Not when the lightning speed spread of the Rash was detected. Not when people started dying. Not even when we heard the first reports of monsters. You don’t believe your world ends. I suppose people have to be built like that. Usually it’s true.

This time it wasn’t true. When the radio stations started going silent, I was beginning to believe. The others still laughed at me. They are not laughing anymore. No one is laughing anymore.

[Mirasol]

Oh boy, this thread really blew up since the last time I´ve been here. (Or maybe I just was away for quite a while...) But I finally have a little bit of time again!
Alrighty, very long post incoming:

Annuil I agree, I would totally buy SSSS-themed face-masks! And lovely pieces! Oh no, you´re giving me ideas with those duskling-meatballs... Maybe it´s time again for SSSS-themed-past-midnight-cooking in my house that everyone just lets me do because they get to eat the results...

Also, here is the picture of the IKEA cookie-cutter set!
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_s2khry45ROz9zQJd
If anyone is interested

_{We need an IKEA thread!}

Yes, that is the exact set we have! (Or at least we have every single cookie-cutter in it, so I´m assuming it´s the one.) We Minnions have to thank that designer who made these masterpieces!
(On another note, we do have an IKEA-thread, though it´s quite old. You can find it here! I read it a while ago, thinking someone should necro it. But it´s been inactive for 5 years, so maybe that´s a bit too much...)

Lallicat, my best attempt at an Australian accent is still anything but just that, but the piece was still hilarious! :'D So was Reynir bargaining with Onni. Should I find a promt it even remotely fits, I´m going to draw Onni in that troll-costume...

Grey, I love the composition in your Hukka-piece!

Jitter, I´m glad you´re feeling better! But seriously, we need that bargain-conversation to happen in canon. Oh, while I was typing you posted the next one! Concider my heart crushed! Amazing!

Wave, hilarious and beautiful drawing!


Some catching-up on my part:

12.10. "Vaettur / Maahinen" I was so looking foreward to this prompt! And I had so much fun drawing it!


13.10. "Hukka" (Just some panel-redraws because I couldn´t come up with a good composition.) I was also looking foreward to this one, but had absolutely zero fun drawing it! My white pen died (and proceeded to smudge everywhere on myself and my workspace...) in the middle of it and it took me literal hours to find a way to work around this, making it the first drawing this year I didn´t finish before midnight. Then also my darkest grey marker gave up, one that I don´t have a refill-thing for, so I guess that was it with pretty grey-palet-drawings for the foreseeable future. :'(


14.10. "Character" This one was very fun again! I drew my self-insert in a small part of her dreamspace. Proper character-sheet is still coming, so is a proper drawing of the dreamspace, it´s been in the works for... basically since I joined this fandom (Original design still has hair about twice as long, as I made it before I cut my hair in... May or something?), but I can´t decide on the colors. As you can see, I couldn´t here either. :'D But I still fully intend to one day finish it and necro the SSSSona-thread with it!

Some general info for context (not a lot, more details will be on the actual character sheet):

Age: 17
Profession: none yet, but training to be an Academic after dropping out of Seiður Academy
Nationality: Icelandic
Immunity: Yes
languages: :iceland: (main) :norway: (decent) :finland: (excitedly learning, but basically useless)

- her Fylgia is a European Golden Plover (in Icelandic called "Lóa"), because birds are neat and I liked that word
- The rope she is holding onto leads to a sort of treehouse outside of the picture that will be visible once I finish the actual dreamspace-drawing
- note to self: Do not try to draw a waterfall with fineliner...

(Yay, you´ve made it to the end!)

[Annuil]

I’m adding my own drawing from today to all those wonderful Mirasol’s works! (I will come to comment everything a little later ):
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AsSnHPIBASO_tAjURWWdIyxPp0rw
Here is my “Character(s) of your Choice” or I would say it’s more of an OC, kind of...
two pictures (one is just a close up of them)
I don’t know what else to say about it so, there you go 

Edit: I’ll do the “Bargain” as well, it’s just because my inspiration wanted to do the “Character” first

[Jitter]

Great work, Mirasol! I especially like the vaettur! And you have a very interesting premise for your character - clearly she is a mage, yet quit the Academy? Why? How? Do they allow this? (Apparently they do)

The Onni in troll costume could well go to tomorrow’s Annoying, or Onni/Tuuri. Or on the 19th or why not 30th on the grossling list

Annuil, so sweet! But you say “kind of OC” so not Reynir and Tuuri then? (I love the box!)

[Mirasol]

Aww, sweet drawing, Annuil! I agree, the box is a great detail!

Great work, Mirasol! I especially like the vaettur! And you have a very interesting premise for your character - clearly she is a mage, yet quit the Academy? Why? How? Do they allow this? (Apparently they do)

Thank you! And you´ll have to wait and see... (And I´ll have to finally get to work! :'D)

The Onni in troll costume could well go to tomorrow’s Annoying, or Onni/Tuuri. Or on the 19th or why not 30th on the grossling list

I´ve been side-eying the "Annoying"-prompt as well. So that´s probably what that is going to be.