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merrymorningofmay · 2 years

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thought i’d share another thing i made here :’)

i started working on this thing back in january, as russian troops were gathering around our borders, and i got around to finishing it a couple months later, after they retreated from kyiv and my lucky family and i were able to get back home.

for half of the process i was asking myself, “is making this even worth it if it’s going to be bombed to ashes in a couple of weeks?” (the answer was yes); for the other half, i was asking myself how and why do you even make a house now that there are dead and gutted houses all around (the answer was “well, what else is there to do anyway”).

was aiming for the “small ukrainian granny’s apartment” vibe with soviet era “ugly 70s brown” color furniture and a bit of a witchy/magical realism touch :’) details + a bit of ukrainian folk trivia below!

featuring:

a little pot with a star in it, because stealing stars from the sky and storing them in pots for their evil little purposes is a classic ukrainian witch thing;

eastern orthodox icons, because every respectable ukrainian granny has those in her house + massive church-sanctioned witch hunts were never really a thing in ukraine and a witch is likely to have as amiable a relationship with god and saints and angels as with chorts (demons);

portrait of taras shevchenko, adorned with a rushnyk, because, again, can not be a proper granny apartment without those;

a blooming fern, because fern bloom is a Thing in ukrainian folklore (leads you to a hidden treasure, protects you from evil magic, brings you good luck, all that stuff);

a calendar booklet. it has recipes, farming + (dubious) medical advice, lame granny jokes, and shows February 25, because we’re still stuck in February 24 and hoping for the next day to arrive;

a mysterious tiny door. that rune means “heritage,” and i thought that a witch’s inheritance would warrant a little spooky door to keep it safe (also, our heritage is precisely what russia is trying to take away from us right now, so the concept has a special meaning to me);

fashionable pink slippers!

bonus: a CREATURE

#mari makes #miniature #diorama #ukraine #witch #ukrainian folk #ukrainian art #taras shevchenko #rushnyk #lots of tags bc i want attention

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divorcetual · 8 months

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I am actually so serious I think it really messes with a childs creativity and joy to tell them to never make a mary sue OC. Like that unbridaled form of joy where you make a self insert OC who super cool and everyone loves them and they have every superpower in the world SHOULD be something a kid makes, it nourishes their ability to create things for fun and not be stifled by "oh but what if my character is too overpowered and cringey...". whatever

#^ 10 y/o me was obsessed w/ art YTers who would always talk about good and bad art and mary sues and stuff #I think kids should be encouraged to make bad art and stupud OCs as much as possible abd im so serious about that. i think its actually #amazing for their development as both as person and artist

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prokopetz · 4 months

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The problem with Victor Frankenstein isn't that he's not as smart as he thinks he is. The problem with Victor Frankenstein is that he's exactly as smart as he thinks he is in one very specific area, and he just expects that to automatically translate to every other area of his life and is taken completely by surprise every single time it doesn't.

#media #literature #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #mary shelley #characterisation #he's the forefather of every stem influencer who thinks having a phd in physics automatically makes them a qualified sociologist

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bigfatbreak · 15 days

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Birds of a Feather previous / next

#my art #feralnette au #birds of a feather #long tags #sorry I went apeshit in the tags #LETS SAY IT ALL TOGETHER NOW #I - M - A - G - OOOOOOOOO #its fun drawing marinette's back to Alya and having her appear stout and unstoppable and totally logical #and then you see her face and she's like two seconds from completely snapping and is keeping it together by a thread #as a note just because mari feels very certainly abt smth doesnt mean she's right. feelings can be valid and also irrational #in the throes of grief she decided it was better to be alone than to lose someone again so she started pulling away #and lila made pulling away very very very easy to do #shes also vaguely aware she's being unfair in pinning this on alya which is why she started spinning the drain on cockmoth again #legitimately all the shit that's happened to her wouldn't have been so catastrophic if he was never in the picture and she knows it #but the bitterness of her bestie choosing a fantastic liar over her at the worst of times stiiiiiings #alya's personal timing was bad but lila really took advantage of the fact that marinette had been acting off and weird #she basically clocked marinette as being unstable from SOMETHING and made up a lie about her #knowing she wouldn't have the strength to defend herself #between her social life going tachy bc of lila and losing fu in a way that felt like personhood death marinette was really put on the spot #and alya doing her thing of busting in there and assuming her bias is correct was a terrible combo #essentially marinette is highly unstable and alya is just realizing that #busting in and giving her a lecture when she's slightly hysterical and definitely delirious from exhaustion is NOT the way #to show her she's self sabotaging #cuz thats just gonna make her double down on self sabotaging. bc marinette will not accept that she is also a CHIIIIILD

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lucyspriv3cy · 3 months

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The chokehold this movie has on me is insane.

#the virgin suicides #gatekeep gaslight girlboss #female hysteria #female manipulator #2014 tumblr #this is what makes us girls #manic pixie dream girl #girl interrupted #this is a girlblog #girlblogging #girl blogging #lana del rey #cecilia lisbon #lux lisbon #anatumblr #mary lisbon #therese lisbon #lisbon sisters #girlblogger

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lanalove2012 · 3 months

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lizzygrantt1uvr · 4 months

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#marie antoinette #this is what makes us girls #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #girlblogging #lana del rey #coquette #pinterest #coquettte #sofia coppola #this is a girlblog #aesthetic #manic pixie dream girl

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heartshapelocket · 1 month

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rahabq · 6 months

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candyje11yfish · 4 months

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theyre so scrimbly

#the owl house #toh #the owl house fanart #toh fanart #luz noceda #owl house #amity blight #mari's art #lumity #luz x amity #its quite difficult to make blue look warm.#this is terrible my artstyle looks too close to the toh artstyle now nooooo

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merrymorningofmay · 6 months

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new craft alert!!!

and it's the green knight again!!!

"but mari, why does the bride have a moustache" – my conservative dad upon seeing the sketch for this out of context

close-ups and ramblings below!!

so there are. layers to this. if it reminds you of a wedding, you're correct! if it reminds you of tarot cards, you're also correct!

i also accidentally Did a Gender to Gawain by placing him on the right, which in heraldry is the wife's side, but that only adds to all the gender the poem does to him, really

what's that!! a pentacle that is also a flower!! inside an axe??? aka the only design that wasn't pulled from romanesque bas-reliefs/that one ancient celtic sculpture/an anglo-saxon brooch that reminded me of the seasons wheel in the movie. i'm kinda proud of it ngl

and to round up the "green consuming and corrupting" theme, dried botanicals in resin in the lid!

#mari makes #the green knight #sir gawain and the green knight #gawain #arthuriana #diy #crafting #wood carving #jewelry box

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dollyticia · 1 month

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✩ ⋆｡° 𖦹 ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧⋆ ˚｡⋆𖦹⋆｡°✩⋆

the trees, like lungs, filling with air

my sister, the mean one, pulling my hair

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ndcgalitzine · 2 months

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the way Nick's soft tummy is driving me insane 🥵

#Nicholas Galitzine #ngalitzineedit #Mary & George #Red White and Royal Blue #rwrbedit #maryandgeorgeedit #Henry Fox #George Villiers #*#I CAN'T DEAL #I MAKE GIFS TO COPE #I NEED OTHERS TO SUFFER WITH ME #1k

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yrsonpurpose · 2 months

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"I didn't ever want to keep you from the King, but the King from you."

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bigfatbreak · 2 months

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The Charity Ball part one / part two / part three / (you are here!)

bonus! rehauled Mayura~

I wanted. something. more dynamic to draw when she was getting thrown around-

#dad villain au #my art #viceroy #bitterbug #marinette dupain cheng #tom dupain cheng #emelie agreste #mayura #adrien agreste #lets fucking gooooooo #ngl this update was just an excuse for me to draw smiling viceroy. even in supervillain form he cant hide how much he adores mari #viceroy's butterfly wing helm curls up at the edges when he's really pleased #so naturally just looking at his kid makes his wings go cute mode

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sapphicmuppet · 10 days

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”average adventuring party kills two clerics a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. Average adventuring party kills 0 clerics per year. Spiders Ratgrinders, who hangout in the far haven woods & kills a whopping two clerics a year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

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