Workin on a neopet pet lookup : ) I’ve always wanted to customize them!

Baby Gelert

The other researchers are also here! (magical edition!)

my current neopets! I've been doodling stickers of them which you can use on telegram if you wanna!

Who Knoweth the Spirit of Man..., (1901) by Byam Shaw (1872–1919)

'WHO KNOWETH THE SPIRIT OF MAN THAT GOETH UPWARD AND THE SPIRIT OF THE BEAST THAT GOETH DOWNWARD TO THE EARTH' – Ecclesiastes, Chapter III, verse 21.

Wait I'm moving to an ask now but uh. What is wolf and the seven young goats. I'm confused now :(

"Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein" is a fairy tale from the Grimm Collection. The mother goes out, telling the kids not to open the doors to any strangers. When the Wolf arrives, it takes him three tries, but he eventually tricks the kits into believing he is their mother, so they let him in and get eaten immediately.

Except the youngest, who hid in the grandfather clock, and only comes out when the mother returns.

(Mother and child find the wolf asleep, cut open his belly, replace the (healthy) kids with rocks, and once he wakes, watch him drown in a well. All's well ends well etc etc.)

Considering the similarities to Red Riding Hood (the wolf, the ending) and Snow White (seven living in a house, three tries to find a trick that sticks) I thought it was... fitting, to make it the Heap boys' backstory in my turnedabout AU.

OOP

thinking about gelert im so sorry dude

first of all: I am having a blast with Camlann, it's been a while since I've excitedly awaited the new episodes of an audio drama! Thank you for putting this amazing story out in the world :) I have Very Important Burning Questions after the main character descriptions - 1) what type of dog/breed is Gelert? 2) is Gwaine a snapback guy? 3) are there any sort of headcanons floating around regarding Kay's appearance (ngl, I heard him speak and I was immidiately like. yeah. this checks out. annoying little shit :) ) bonus question: has there been any concious choice made for the spelling of the names? as someone who has studied the mabinogi and had to translate sections pwyll and branwen (and voluntarily had a go at Yr Afallenau Myrddin), I have noticed my brain tends to default to certain spellings, so I was wondering if there is a reason for the spellings you've chosen?

Hello hello hello!!!! Thank you so much for the kind words this is lovely of you!!!!

Regarding your questions:

Gelert is an Irish Wolfhound! Big grey boi

Hmmm, snapback might be slightly too American for him. Gwaine is quite proudly Scottish. He was living in Bristol though, so he's definitely a fashionable sunglasses guy.

Hahaha yep! Honestly with Kay the defining feature is Forgettable. Like, I'm kind of joking and I'm kind of not. He's someone who easily blends into crowds and who people tend to pass over and underestimate. He was a scrum-half on the rugby team, so he's definitely wiry. But he's not bulky, and I always imagine everything about him being a bit washed out. I also imagine him as shorter than Arthur and Gwaine.

Kind of! Also hell YES fellow medieval Welsh person!! So broadly speaking when it comes to the character's modern names I wanted very modernised, easy to pronounce names. This is partly a practical issue - the actors have to say the names a lot, and not all of them speak Welsh. But it's also about the fact that Camlann is very much a story that rejects the premise that there is a 'pure' or 'true' version of any story, or the idea that you need the oldest or most accurate name to really connect with it. So with Gwaine - Gavin, Owen, Owain etc could work just as well as Gawain. It's also sometimes a character choice - for example Dai very specifically wanted to keep using a Welsh name when he moved to England. Dai is easy for English speakers to say, but still distinctively Welsh, so it was the compromise he settled for. And then sometimes it's kind of a backstory thing - Gwen's Dad Kai taught Western Literature at a university in Hong Kong. He was a single dad, and Gwen was his only child, so they're very close. Gwen's mother gave her her Chinese name, Shújūn, but left when she was a baby. So, (unusually), Gwen and her Dad chose her English name together when she was a teenager. But because Kai taught broadly Western Literature, he was working with English Arthuriana rather than Welsh, hence Guinevere/Gwen instead of, for example, Gwenhwyfar.

Thank you so much for the questions, andf for listening to the show!!! It's always exciting to get a chance to ramble about it.

Day 14 - Baby gelert

(I realized I messed up the numbers so today is day 14 actually)

I really love gelerts and baby gelert is my absolute favorite baby! Hoping to get one soon <3

The baby brush is such a bless tbh

Jakks Pacific Plushies

Baby Aisha

Baby Bruce

Baby Gelert

Some more Dark Ages brainrot sketches!

1) Shame! Father Emir has a problem with self flagellation, went to a council meeting with a permanent 3 dmg and -1 dice. And killed it.

2) Emir and Tertius, being trashy as usual

3) Hengist! Local Nos sheriff

4) Kresimir, local dragon, rowing a boat with a pole

5) Aurelia the Oxford plum pudding pig and her babies

6) Our adopted Fae daughter Amica accidentally got stripy when someone asked her to pretend to be a cat.

7) Leo and Godwin, two ghouls being super cute!

8) Gelert, sheriff's dog, local hero

9) Tiny comic of a super sweet emotional moment between Father Emir and his ghoul Æthelfrid. Talking about feelings is hard.

Story ran and NPC's owned by the amazing @spell-fox , Leo owned by @cynical-tuba

Bought the new body paint at the nc mall this week for my baby gelert!

Don't mind me... I've just been going balls to the wall on Neopets. :3c I suppose tumblr's a good a place as any to show them off. This is the whole family as of 12/5/23.

Bohdian the Speckled Shoyru

Dreamdozer the Faerie Chomby

Emberdine the Baby Gelert

Pearlpip the Pastel Kiko

HueShift the Toy Bori

Sparklemore the Starry Zafara

Spiritwell the Relic Koi

PolarRainbowe the Mutant Poogle

PolarRainbowe was a pound pet I intended to zap until a particular result, but I unexpectedly got a rly cool mutant I'm hesitant to part with! 😭

Tbh there are so many lovely newer Neopets colors but they just rarely grab my attention the way the older nostalgic ones still do haha. Don't get me wrong, this is NOT me COMPLAINING about new colors, just kinda talking aloud about how much nostalgia continues to fuel my decision making when it comes to dreamies. Like, Darigan, Lost Desert, Faerie, Halloween, Grey, Plushie, Mutant, and Baby all constitute colors that I still adore to this day, whereas when I see people with these absolutely stunning Candy, Pastel, Valentine, or Toy pets, I'm like "Omg, so beautiful" but I never really prioritize myself owning one lol. They feel so much more sleek and shiny and new and I feel like an old man that's still oohing and aahing over Faerie Ixis and Halloween Lupes lmao.

That said, I do have a Pastel Aisha I kinda ended up with accidentally (she was a lab ray zap I grew attached to), and an Origami Eyrie I'm really proud of, so I don't want to sound anti-new pet colors either. When I see designs like this I 100% get it:

All of these are so lovely. I kinda want to wait for more pet options for Valentine but I definitely want one eventually, and there are so many Candy pets that are just to die for. Toy is super cute, and Burlap is amazing and it's a tragedy how hard it is to get... I just feel like whenever I picture or look at my own dreamies both working towards or already achieved I'm like... Faerie ixi, Halloween Lupe, Spotted Gelert, Desert Hissi, Baby Chomby, Grey Moehog, Darigan Krawk... LMAO.

neopets UFA for followers / mutuals:

Shuuqu - grey xweetok

shonnky - baby gelert

Subclasses - blue peophin

Mouwsie - desert xweetok

Blgt - rainbow ogrin

LoveConfession - yellow aisha (no collar)

you can do whatever you want with the guys listed above ^^ idc if you give them away or retrade them!

reply or send an ask / dm if you are interested! :3c