hi!! maybe you know me or maybe you don't. i'm an aging, disabled genderqueer who has been living in the pits of this hellspace for a while! i've shat posts, written poems, made music & videos too!
i have a book club, i've offered music commissions for a few years, & i recently made a bandcamp where my first album is up for sale.
i have been unable to work for a while & am surviving in a low income apartment with help from my familys support, commission orders, selling plasma every week & pawning things off on ebay to make rent/grocery money, that kind of thing. recent stays in the hospital threw a big wrench in these efforts & i am in a tighter spot than ever now with little help from assisted living services so far. (ty to everyone who has offered advice, links, numbers, it means a lot. i promise i am trying)
you might relate to living on that cusp of stability where you're a grown adult who is capable of taking care of themselves but who would sure have a much easier time with someones help. at worst i'll have no consistent home, & i'd like to keep being here for as long as i can.
so since i've never made an outright asking post before without trying to give something in return, i'm doing that now. i really need help.
my KOFI. this is the easiest way to support me.
my venmo: FlowersForJean
or buy my album.
thank you. here is a picture of my cat socrates (sock for short)
a series of illustrations depicting the story of sture wolff and the troll prince, a knight in medieval pareidolia sweden who has a number of tales spun around him, which also vary in details depending on who tells it (most notably, human vs troll retellings). these are specifically more from a troll perspective if that isn't obvious lol...
these were done for a class assignment, and are a bit of a compositional homage to the åsmund series of illustrations by gerhard munthe, the first two specifically inspired by Åsmund Goes Up to the Door in the Rock (1902) and The Fifth Hall (1902) :) more under the cut...
sture wolff is often used as a bit of a cautionary tale from the nordic troll perspective, warning of the "fickle" nature of man and that getting too involved with them is a Bad Idea. the figure of sigrid (the human woman, who in the story falls in love with the "troll prince" two-tusk bluebelly) is in many of those versions also a cunning figure herself, betraying two-tusk in the end and having been the one to lead sture to the hidden troll village in the first place. but there are versions, especially the older ones, where she defends him in the end, and never betrayed him.
obvs human versions of the story are more "expected" like other knightly hero folklore stories of its time, where sture through cunning figures out how to reveal the hidden troll village (with fire) and saves sigrid from the bluebelly, who in this version, curses sigrid to fall in love with him.
in universe this story is based on what was likely Real People, and the "bluebelly village" was a real troll settlement that was destroyed at some point in time, and it's a bit unclear what actually happened to everyone involved in the end.
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