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viking-illustrator · 13 days

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Fun fact: this book is the reason I know how to write in Futhark runes.

I got this book for Christmas when I was maybe 14. I was already a weird kid who was hyper-interested in codes & ciphers & there was a “dragon alphabet” in there that I thought was cool, so I memorized it & started using it to write notes to a few of my friends in high school.

Come to find out it was actually a variant of one of the Futhark runic alphabets (I’m pretty sure it was the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc).

I started to modify it & research other runic alphabets, one thing led to another, & now I just casually have most runic alphabets memorized. As you do.

you know he would have been one of Those kids

inspired by this pic:

#runes #futhark #dragonology

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viking-illustrator · 1 month

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Another piece I finished tonight. It's my interpretation of Tyr and I hope people like him. This one was fun to do because I could let go of the finer details and focus on the details that mattered.

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viking-illustrator · 1 month

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Reblog to make it die faster

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viking-illustrator · 3 months

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graph of what being hungry is like with adhd

#i’m in this photo and i don’t like it

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viking-illustrator · 3 months

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For people who do rituals, meditative rituals, etc.

I was listening to meditative music, the song was a ritual for blot, a Norse/Germanic sacrifice ritual. I wasn't aware until I looked it up.

It was the first time I felt relived and at home during meditation in a little while. My question is, without an actual sacrifice for a ritual would I have been giving myself up as one?

I know very little about Norse rituals.

#‘myself to myself’ for the modern day

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viking-illustrator · 3 months

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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

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viking-illustrator · 3 months

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Getting inspired to write is actually really easy! All you need to do is be the busiest you've ever been in your entire life and as far away from a computer as humanly possible. Hope this helps 🥰

#ah shit #yup #I’ve got several ideas I want to make real #no time to do much of anything about them though

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viking-illustrator · 3 months

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