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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #345 on: April 21, 2022, 06:10:41 AM »
Thank you! The owl is based on an existing picture (a little modified to include Tuuri) bit there are no decent pictures of medieval lynxes, and especially not ones that appear to stare into your soul while waiting for you to spill your sandwich on yourself. So I had to improvise more, there.

And you are right about the initials! Has anyone asked Minna?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #346 on: April 21, 2022, 07:57:50 AM »
Tehta,
They definitely capture the medieval style and the facial expressions are spot on.

Very nice.  (I do not have such talent )

Though here is a hedgehog
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #347 on: April 21, 2022, 12:34:13 PM »
Here is my prompt.  I started a story and realized I was writing more about Emil than Lalli.  (Though I like the idea and am going to try and finish it)

So here is a quickie Lalli

Lalli
Lalli is quietly watching the vermin.  He knows any sound or movement will alert it to his presence.  He needs to dispatch it quickly and quietly.

It is his responsibility to protect his family from such things.

Quietly..quietly..closer..closer BAM!  A successful kill. 
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"MOM!!
"Lalli caught another critter!!"
"Put it in a baggie and take it to the trash. "
"May sure you give treats to Lalli"
"Good Kitty! You protected us from the fearsome beast. Here are some snacks!!"

Lalli,"I do my best.  I am awesome!!" purrrrr..crunch..crunch

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #348 on: April 21, 2022, 01:32:11 PM »
Quote from: dmeck7755 on April 21, 2022, 12:34:13 PM
Here is my prompt.  I started a story and realized I was writing more about Emil than Lalli.  (Though I like the idea and am going to try and finish it)

So here is a quickie Lalli
That doesn't surprise me. In my mind Emil and Lalli are so connected that's hard to imagine a story with one of them that doesn't include the other.  :lalli: :emil:

And it's one fine quickie! :)

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Me, liking a story where the main character ends up being something else than what the reader assumes? No way! ;D

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #349 on: April 21, 2022, 01:58:39 PM »
Quote from: thegreyarea on April 21, 2022, 01:32:11 PM

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Me, liking a story where the main character ends up being something else than what the reader assumes? No way! ;D



Thank you!! You were my inspiration :)
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #350 on: April 23, 2022, 08:14:58 PM »
Quote from: tehta on April 21, 2022, 06:10:41 AM

And you are right about the initials! Has anyone asked Minna?

Lovely Capitals indeed!
Although I kinda doubt the alliteration, seeing as how there is not a similar correspondence in Finnish or Swedish.

Spoiler: estonian really is not just like finnish huh • show

I went looking for the Finnish translation of owl, expecting to see something similar to the Estonian 'kull'.  Instead, I'm told it's 'pöllö' which frankly makes me think of 'chicken' in Spanish!  But then the same source also told me the Estonian was 'öökull', which I would process as 'night owl', so ....

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #351 on: April 24, 2022, 04:08:39 AM »
Quote from: wavewright62 on April 23, 2022, 08:14:58 PM
Spoiler: estonian really is not just like finnish huh • show

I went looking for the Finnish translation of owl, expecting to see something similar to the Estonian 'kull'.  Instead, I'm told it's 'pöllö' which frankly makes me think of 'chicken' in Spanish!

Wasn't Onnis luonto specifically said to be an Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo)? If so, it'd apparently avoid the "pöllö" theme and go as "Huuhkaja" instead.

... which sort of jives with Onnis middle name ...

Spoiler: But still • show

I wouldn't want to be the Italian chef trying to sell a traditional "pöllö al matto(ne)" in Finland.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #352 on: April 24, 2022, 09:30:05 AM »
Quote from: JoB on April 24, 2022, 04:08:39 AM
Wasn't Onnis luonto specifically said to be an Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo)? If so, it'd apparently avoid the "pöllö" theme and go as "Huuhkaja" instead.

... which sort of jives with Onnis middle name ...

I agree. From drawings of Onni's luonto it looks like a Eurasian eagle-owl

That wikipedia link is pretty cool though Thanks!!
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #353 on: April 24, 2022, 11:04:03 AM »
Note that many (very many) of the birds on the list don’t actually live in Finland, I think it lists everything that has been recorded as sighted ever.

I had a problem with a similar list for Iceland when I needed to learn whether one can usually hear the songbird chorus there. There are quite limited species of terrestrial birds there that occur commonly in Iceland but the list threw me off for a bit. Birdlife in Iceland is rich and varied, but largely because of seabirds, there aren’t many passerines there.  :reynir:
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #354 on: April 24, 2022, 04:01:55 PM »
Hi! Am I still in time for adding a bit of Lalli?

Now let's imagine that something magic happened, and Lalli, with two of his best friends, will have to travel far away to find the answers...

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #355 on: April 24, 2022, 05:35:17 PM »
Grey!!

Awesome!!

I think the prompt changes Monday.

BTW New one is Cat-tank and vehicles

I have not written anything, but 'd like to mention @lwise 's story which fits in perfectly :)


https://archiveofourown.org/works/34821232

@lwise  I hope this was OK.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #356 on: April 24, 2022, 05:58:51 PM »
Quote from: dmeck7755 on April 24, 2022, 05:35:17 PM
Grey!!

Awesome!!

I think the prompt changes Monday.

BTW New one is Cat-tank and vehicles

I have not written anything, but 'd like to mention @lwise 's story which fits in perfectly :)


https://archiveofourown.org/works/34821232

@lwise  I hope this was OK.

Yes, of course!  Thank you!
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #357 on: April 24, 2022, 06:33:47 PM »
Quote from: dmeck7755 on April 24, 2022, 05:35:17 PM
like to mention @lwise 's story which fits in perfectly

That is very good.

But also -- blurred for spoiler:

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very sad, because that tank's going to be abandoned again in the Silent World, inoperable and probably never to be returned for.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #358 on: April 25, 2022, 04:30:07 AM »
Noo thorny!

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That's what fanfiction (of fanfiction) is for! I can see lots of ways the tank could be reclaimed: the Evil Committee could decide to send another expedition there (I think I had them evilly recruit Lalli to lead them to it in a fic) or the gang could decide they would like one for their own adventures. I am sure someone like Mikkel could learn to fix it. Or maybe some far-off-in-the-future museum would like it (although the tank might hate that, too?)


And grey, WOW. That is absolutely spectacular. What a seamless edit. (Although I really hope that Lalli doesn't plan to wear fur the whole time he is in Africa.)
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #359 on: April 25, 2022, 05:56:20 AM »
I think lwise did another story in which one of Mikkel’s little sisters goes on an expedition, along with some of the citizens of Little Copenhagen, a settlement on Bornholm, intending to reclaim the base where the expedition stayed and waited for rescue, as part of an attempt to resettle the Danish mainland. They also reclaim the Tank, and tame a feral dog who turns out to be very useful indeed…..well worth reading!
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