Disembodied Doorknob

Here can be found various amounts of Zelda fanart and other fanart and other art and other things. (For my side blog about cinematic platformer games, see @cinematicplatformerjourney)

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Y'all should check out this book in a new fantasy series just released by my friend T. D. Fox!! It's got ice people, secret agents, moral dilemmas, slow burn romance, and lovable characters. It's really good!!!! (And no AI)

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Polyphemus needs a hug

[10yrsyart]

'King Jesus' by Nikos Politis -> watch the Animatic <- my Youtube

as i listened to this song, i didn't receive the normal kinds of scenes that i see when planning a project. instead i saw flashes of Jesus' face in various situations and the things He has done. and i felt lead to use the work i've already completed to make this animatic, as even on their own, each piece was made in worship to Him.

"But if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the One who is truly righteous. He Himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins- and not only our sins but the sins of all the world." -1 John 2:1-2

"Blessing and honor and glory and power belong to the One sitting on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever." -Revelation 5:13

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WHOA 😮😮😮

(If you didn't watch the animatic . . . watch the animatic)

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Hero of Time

[thombalan]

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ooh it's scritchy-fliffy

[janaedrawsart]

More doodles of Links that I wanted to draw! I dunno what possessed me but it was motivated and single-minded lmfo 😭😂

Ft. Minish Cap Link, Spirit Tracks Link, Oracles Link, and Classic Link

Also a free close-up of Classic Link because he’s so cute and iconic:

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Even their departure held meaning.

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I want to play this game which isn't a game

[makrustic]

Whole Summer Solstice ☀️ 'Falling right there by the sunset, falling right there by you' Prints | Ko-fi | Patreon | Bluesky ⭐

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Oooooooohh 😮

[yamato-usagi3284tloz]

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Yeeees draw that sword dude

[jinxpologist]

i just pointed out in my judaism class that it’s interesting to me that when asked God’s name, God did respond with the ineffable name (the tetragrammaton) but put a much greater emphasis on who they are the God OF (I’m the God of Abraham, the God of Moses, etc.).

and my teacher said she feels a kinship with that because she remembers the joy that came with the first time she was called “(son’s name)’s mom”, and how beautiful it feels be named for who you love. and i almost burst into tears

[ahopefulbromantic]

So this has been sitting on my drafts for over a month and I have to tell you that this post has fundamentally changed me as a person and I will never be the same again

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Among the Folopa people of Papua New Guinea, parents are named after their children. When a person has a child, they're no longer called by their own name. Instead they're now called "[Firstborn Child]'s Father" or "[Firstborn Child]'s Mother," by everyone.

(Source: In Search of the Source by Neil Anderson and Hyatt Moore, copyright 1999, 2006, p. 203)

[wellamarke]

you would not believe this song has been here for quite so long and that tomorrow’s its date of birth

nine years in a waking dream and now with a comeback meme the parodies spring up from all round the earth

[thechaotictrickster]

Happy birthday

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You read this to the melody in your head and you know it

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i'll join in and celebrate although I'm a whole day late 'cause this old song deserves lots of cheers

it's my karaoke song been singing it for so long let's keep it up another 17 years

[ortut]

Julian Hooper 1. Introduction, 2016 2. Inevitable conclusion, 2016 (Acrylic on linen)

[certified-door-posts]

certified door post

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UM I LOVE THIS

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Ominous

[quousque]

YOU KNOW WHAT BOTHERS ME

when fantasy books describe the cloth of Quant Farmpeople’s clothing as “homespun” or “rough homespun”

“homespun” as opposed to what??? EVERYTHING WAS SPUN AT HOME

they didn’t have fucking spinning factories, your pseudo-medieval farmwife is lucky if she has a fucking spinning wheel, otherwise she’s spinning every single thread her family wears on a drop spindle NO ONE ELSE WAS DOING THE SPINNING unless you go out of your way to establish a certain baseline of industrialization in your fake medieval fantasy land.

and “rough”??? lol just because it’s farm clothes? bitch cloth was valuable as fuck because of the labor involved ain’t no self-respecting woman gonna waste fiber and ALL THAT FUCKING TIME spinning shitty yarn to weave into shitty cloth she’s gonna make GOOD QUALITY SHIT for her family, and considering that women were doing fiber prep/spinning/weaving for like 80% of their waking time up until very recently in world history, literally every woman has the skills necessary to produce some TERRIFYINGLY GOOD QUALITY THREADS

come to think of it i’ve never read a fantasy novel that talks about textile production at all??? like it’s even worse than the “where are all the farms” problem like where are people getting the cloth if no one’s doing the spinning and weaving??? kmart???

[systlin]

THANK U

[rosslynpaladin]

pro tip: what do you say instead? I gotcha.

 In Ye Olde Medieval Fantasy Dayes, everybody’s layer against skin (shirt tunic or shift) is gonna be linen. it’s almost never wool except stockings or hose (like pant legs). Say “undyed cloth” if you wanna make them sound simple and peasanty. Comment on how you can tell it wasn’t made for them (the fit is off) and has had probably eight owners before. 

Outer clothing is gonna be either wool, or a blend called Linsey-woolsey, and again you could say Undyed, but dyes are not only common they are CHEAP and relatively easy. (innerwear is often left undyed or bleached to white because it gets washed to heck- like beaten by a wooden stick on a stone by the river- and dye would just fade out a lot so why bother. Ths is also why innerwear has ties, rarely buttons, unless you are so rich you have people doing your washing delicately because they’re hired to do only that. Buttons would get broken in the washing)

A poorer person is often seen in “russet”, a kind of rusty orange-brown color. Purple was famously reserved for royalty in many times and places, but its  also just hard to do. We see a lot more magentas and fuschias for nobles or common middle class folks than we ever see of Purple- and not many of those. Deep blue was more likely on very rich people, but a light blue was common for even poorer folks. Yellow was popular with everyone, and so was green, and many shades of reds, including the color we now call orange (they did not- this is why redheads are called redheads and not orangeheads). Your vision of everyone in very drab brown and mud colors is from Hollywood- most medieval-ren folks have clothing with colors. Sometimes garish colors, to the modern eye. Traffic cone Orange and acid green was a popular combo in the 13th century.

[elfwreck]

Example medieval dye colors. Lots of yellows and orangey-browns. Woad gave a range of blues that are basically what we think of as “denim colors.” There were purples - royal purple was a specific color from a specific source - but if you mix wine-dye and woad-dye, you get purpleish dye. (Getting the color to stay that way may be more difficult. Everything worn by peasants fades; they couldn’t afford the really good fixatives.)

More examples and explanations here: 

Plum, dusty purple, lavender, burgundy, chestnut, blood red

Walnut, chocolate, tan, linen, pale apricot, spice, dark spice

Peasant clothes were often more colorful than the nobility. Nobles could afford bright, clear colors that peasants couldn’t - but one mark of wealth was being able to buy all 4-8 yards of fabric for an outfit at the same time. So nobles would have a full outfit, including hat, stockings, even shoes, of one type of fabric (with ornamentation of a contrasting type, and as many buttons or bits of silver as they could get away with wearing), while peasants would often have a shirt, bodice or jerkin, skirt or pants, stockings, and hat of all different colors.

Dying or re-dying any one piece of clothing was within most of their cost limits - dye itself is cheap; fixatives cost. But boiling your shirt for an hour with onion skins in a copper pot would re-color the fading fabric.

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And yet more medieval dye colour samples:

[historic-old-guard-lover]

While centered on medieval Europe for the finer points, this is broadly true for any clothing needs

[gethporno]

if anyone is interested in way too much information about the spinning, weaving, dyeing, and trading of cloth in ye olden days, pls see these lecture notes by my old economic history prof, who knew more about the textile industry in pre-modern europe than any reasonable person should. they’re old at this point but still pretty reliable.

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I have learned new things about the clothing of medieval peasants and that makes me exceedingly happy!! Thank you!!!

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Thank you to @ycmtpb for randomly liking this post today – I was literally just thinking about this one yesterday but I didn’t bother to dig it up.

I was thinking about it because I was doing some tie-dyeing, and started to wonder if medieval peasants ever tie-dyed their clothes, as they certainly seem to have had the capability to do so.

A quick Google search reveals that medieval peasants did not generally tie-dye; however, various tie-dye techniques have been used in other cultures throughout history.

So now I’m thinking about how much fun it would be to time travel back to medieval Europe and make a tie-dye rainbow swirl tunic and see what the peasants think of it.

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Also while we're at it:

Medieval castles were painted. Sometimes in bright colors. We only think of them as being all gray and brown because the paint did not last as long as the stone.

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What if you had a chocolate walrus instead of a chocolate bunny

I want a chocolate walrus

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Can you have just one smithereen?

[yasmeensh]

Zelda 2 enemy encounter. I disliked the grass enemies. I hated the forest enemies. I detested the swamp enemies. I only tolerate desert enemies. They are easy to spot and beat.