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[nora-gp3a]

weekly drawings with Vicky✍️

[freyjuseggr]

Seiðr Sources Masterpost 2021

Here is an updated list of all of the books and papers I recommend for the study of seiðr

The Viking Way - Neil Price

Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic - Clive Tolley

The Archeology of Seiðr: Circumpolar Traditions in Viking Pre-Christian Religion - Neil Price 

Old Norse Religion in Long Term Perspectives: Spinning Seiðr - Eldar Heide

A Biography of Seiðr-staffs - Leszek Gardela

Shamanism in the Old Norse Tradition: A Theory Between Ideological Camps - Stefanie v. Schnurbein

A Sourcebook of Seið - Stephen Flowers (there are a lot of problems with this guy but its just a collection of every mention of seiðr in the sagas and Eddas)

The Hunting of the Vétt: in Search of the Old Norse Shamanic Drum - Clive Tolley

Remnants of Seiðr: Charms and Incantations in the German Diasporas - Nóel Braucher

The Image of Seiðr in Old Icelandic Literature: Consistency or Variation- Lyonel D. Perabo

Seiðr & Shamans: Defining the Myth of Ritual Specialists in pre-Christian Scandinavia - Sebastian Klein

The Chicanery of Seiðr 

Out of the Waters Beneath the Tree - Catherine Heath

On Shamanic Traditions

SHAMAN An International Journal  for Shamanistic Research

ECSTATIC RELIGION A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession 

SHAMANISM Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy - Mircea Eliade

On Spirits

Spirits Through Respiratory Passages -Eldar Heide

The heroized dead. People, animals, and materiality in Scandinavian death rituals, AD 200-1000 - Kristina Jennbert

Vorðr and Gandr: Helping Spirits in Norse Magic - Clive Tolley

On Shapeshifting and Soul-parts

Shapeshifting in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature - Lyonel D. Perabo

Road to Hel- H R Ellis Davidson

Initiation Rituals in Old Norse Texts and their Relationship to Finno Karelian Bear Cult Rituals

Related Topics

ETHICAL WORLD CONCEPTION OF THE NORSE PEOPLE - ANDREW PETER FORS

The Religious Roles in pre-Christian Scandinavia

BALDR’S DRAUMAR (BALDUR’S DREAMS) 

Viking Worlds Things, Spaces and Movement

The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture - Paul C. Bauschatz 

[catsblessing-deactivated2025070]

☆ — meatcore graphics

whoaa going thru the materials to gauge this aesthetic was a weird time

[carryondrawing]

An alternate universe where The Archivist forgets to top up his oyster card and misses the train

[carryondrawing]

An alternate universe where The Archivist forgets to top up his oyster card and misses the train

[mx-paisley]

RHDHHAHAHASHSHSSHSHHSS IM SO NORMAL ABOUT THEM

[mostrovskaa]

Some simpler art of other malevolent characters because I can't help myself :-) (Kellin, Butcher, Oscar, Marie to be exact)

[strangestcritter]

rip crew of the aurora, you would've loved joining dress to impress servers and making sure no one else can win

[butter-cupz]

hi the mechanisms tumblr!!!

i posted the same thing like two years ago asking about ideas for a mechs tattoos and got many great sugestions and inspos people had

now i want to get one of my own, specifically connected to gunpowder tim but i have NO IDEA what should it be

perhaps someone here will help me plsplspls

[g0bleen]

« I am not a brave man »

This is a TMA animation i worked on during the summer holidays and i am really proud of it 👩‍🦯👩‍🦯✨

[stageturn]

WHOOOAAAAAAOOOO. WHAAAAOOOOOAAAOOO.

[mechanismslorearchive]

At long last, the Mechanisms Lore Archive is live! There are still some quirks we're working out, and I doubt we'll ever truly be finished, but the as-complete-as-possible version can be found here:

Mechanisms Lore Archive

[thelemonsnek]

Today? I bring you more blinkies. Tomorrow? Who knows :)

[image id: five blinkies based on the Mechanisms' albums. Each of them has the album's respective logo at both ends of the blinkie, and the album name across the center. The first is Once Upon A Time (In Space), which has a red background with white stars blinking in the background. The second is Ulysses Dies at Dawn, and has a blue background that fades into a yellow sunrise. The third is High Noon Over Camelot, which has a orange background, and three bullet holes punching into it. The forth is Tales To Be Told, and has a grey background, with the Mechanisms logo bouncing up and down. The final blinkie is The Bifrost Incident, and has a black background with a rainbow flashing across the text. End id]

[the-magnus-protocol]

Tma + tmagp art masterpost

[femcassidy]

prophecy class cancelled due to foreseen circumstances

[michael-rusts]

A traditional lineart-sketch of soft Brian and Jonny propaganda after I successfully infodumped my sister about the mechanisms (she favours Brian!!) Is Brian looking for lice or braiding his hair? We may never know...

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Been playing around with the concept of long haired Jonny a bit, and my impression is that usually jonny doesn't get to grow out his hair much because it gets burnt/pulled/cut off in fights, so when there is a lot of action going on, especially when they are on an adventure lavishing in violence and more violence, it just..stays short. It doesn't help that he barely takes care of it and sheds like crazy (speaking as someone who also sheds hair easely, but I keep it long)

Now, sometimes through the millenia, it takes a bit of time to seek out good violence, so whenever the crew can do nothing else but stay on the aurora, jonnys gets to grow out his hair a bit! He honestly doesnt care enough to cut it off (and noone trusts him with scissors so they dont suggest it) but he still has some sensory issues from time to time, though he doesnt count them as relevant enough. Brian notices though, especially when cuddling, so he usually plays with his hair, pulls it back, all that. Brian generally admires any physical trait about jonnys body, as he doesn't have one of his own (that is his impression of himself at least). Usually there ARE fights between the crew mates that damage jonnys hair still, sometimes enough to have it all short again, or at least charred, but I think during this particular span of time where brian and jonny are comfortable with eachother there just happens to be more time spent cuddling brian than bullying tim! I don't know why I'm putting so much thought into this but the little things matter to me aah

The sketch before the lineart looks like this:

Just for comparison :) traditional art is PAINFUL

And yes that is Brians coat that Jonny is bundled up in!

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

❝what actually is a .jmj error?❞

[evil-cryptile]

Brian and Jonny and Jonny and Brian

The last Brian sucks absolute balls but i got a migraine and couldn't make him look ok before i had to go to sleep. My wife who is deformed