Dark Chest of Wonders

Hello! This blog contains: art, games, manga & comics, (mostly mild) NSFW stuff and my shitty drawings. You have been warned. (btw my english sucks - be patient)

[casey-jane-lewis]

More fun facts about ancient Celtic marriage laws: There were no laws against interclass or interracial marriage, no laws against open homosexual relationships (although they weren’t considered ‘marriages’ since the definition of a marriage was ‘couple with child’), no requirement for women to take their husband’s names or give up their property, but comedians couldn’t get married

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

It’s Adam and Eve not Adam Sandler and Eve

[annajiejie]

I want to expound upon “comedians couldn’t get married” thing because it’s actually really interesting. Satire was respected in Ancient Ireland. It was thought to have great power, enough to physically maim the subject one was making jokes about. Satirists could bring down kings with a witty enough insult. That was actually their original function. When the king didn’t do right by his people, a bard was supposed to compose a poem so scathing it would raise welts on the king’s skin to oust him (it was illegal for a “blemished” king to rule.) Unwarranted satire was considered a form of assault. So what it boils down to is ancient Celts being like “These people are too dangerous to reproduce. DO NOT TRUST THEM WITH CHILDREN. EVER.”

[burdmom]

whats a king to a bard

[thatthreeanon]

Thats literally a dnd skill

[systlin]

Vicious Mockery is an IRL bard skill and the Irish feared it greatly.

[meabhair]

Look, how else are we supposed to amuse ourselves? Vicious mockery is how we bond

[izzybeth]

This seems excellent but I want citations because I am a killjoy.

@asnacsociety, do you have any idea whether this is legit?

[asnacsociety]

Sadly, this post is somewhat misleading. Interclass marriage was actually a super big deal, among other inaccuracies here. Someone wrote up a commentary on the issues with this a while back, and I’d echo their recommendation of Fergus Kelly’s Early Irish Law, or just any reputable book on the topic. There’s a lot of nonsense out there, and to be honest anything claiming a universal “ancient Celtic” fact is probably at the very least generalising, if not downright wrong.

But, on the plus side, the satire thing is true, at least in literature.

[laizy-boy04-deactivated20220501]

Happy Birthday Diluc💕

[kawacy]

demon slayer

[sn4pe]

[nipuni]

Stacia “Stix” Sotar, Waterwitch with memories that aren’t her own. from Witchlands by @stdennard 😊

[boykeats]

Rural Boys Watch The Apocalypse (rough draft) by Keaton St. James

[fandomsandfeminism]

You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie. 

[garnisein]

Ok, let’s see if tumblr still hides my posts :)))))) yes, my first post/fan-art in ages lmao

[not-shamhat]

what’s a king of heroes to a horrible goose?

[driflloon]

another day

[venusinsecond]

Earth signs

[bijonse]

taurus capricorn virgo

[etspera]

@trulytheoretical

[drawingden]

Plant Sketches by Shin jong hun

[nartothelar]

You do your art traditionally, right? How do you scan it so neatly?

Before I used th scanner method, which can be found here, but now I use the app IbisPaint X to just extract the line art from phone pictures! It’s super easy and quick!

1) So here’s a regular picture before editing. This method works best for smaller drawings (you can use a printer to scan larger works ^^) for clarity’s sake!

2) Once you’ve selected an image, choose a size (I usually just choose originl), press to “Extract Line Drawing, and adjust “White” to lighten the image!

Eraser mistakes and crop and you’ll be done! Be sure not to lighten too much or you’ll lose some shading.

3) If the line art is too light, you can just duplicate the line art to darken it!

I also use an eraser at a large size and very light opacity to lighten up certain areas that are still too dark.

4) It even works for pictures that don’t have the best quality

Hope this helps! I’ve used this method on nearly all of my art since a few months ago and it works every time! IbisPaint X is also just a really cool app with a bunch of features and it’s FREE! Good luck drawing!

[lastencoregraphics]

I’m not done yet! Like I’d let you! Damn you!

[ydotome]

These fools may make me laugh myself to death! - Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia - Episode 3

[guillotinaaah]

Lucio’s prosthetic arm:-has sharp claws-

You freaks:

[devofuck]

my pussy just did a backflip

[2dtraditionalanimation]

Wonderful 2D animation project by the amasing Sergio Pablos !

[beardymcmountainman-deactivated]

This is fucking insane. The amount of extra matte layers/flats/compositing going on here is just unreal. This is all 2D, there’s no 3D geometry used at all. Might recognize Sergio’s work if you’re a fan of Treasure Planet too, he was responsible for Dr. Doppler

[kahtiihma]

this is so gorgeous????

[thefloatingstone]

GUYS THE NEW TRAILER HAS BEEN RELEASED AND IT’S COMING TO NETFLIX IN NOVEMBER THIS YEAR!!!!