druid studies and such

this is my side blog for all things relating to my pagan and (neo) Druid studies and the like. I'm a Queer and Trans, 30 y/o white american (he/him). my interests are all things Gaelic/Celtic (though Irish practice has my biggest focus currently). I am interested in both reconstructive paganism, as well as neo-paganism, depending on context/situation. see @zyca for my personal blog and art, and @shrineforlugh and @forbrighid for my deity-specific shrines. I imagine this blog will be a bit of everything!

[zyca]

a painting of the fire we lit on Beltane (May Day) :^)

check out more of my art here!

[thatdamnokie]

i love you fairy tales i love you folklore i love you myths i love you stories as old as humanity itself i love you oral traditions i love you characters carried through time on my ancestors’ tongues i love you story i’ve seen a million ways and want to see a million more i love you archetypes i love—

[huariqueje]

Meadow Bliss - Sarah Gillard

British , b. 1962 -

Gouache , 51 x 57 cm.

[petaltexturedskies]

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it? Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better? Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless. Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia? Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

Mary Oliver, “I worried”

[assaultmystic-archive]

if it helps nothing is permitted. you arent allowed to do anything. everything you do will always be able to be interpreted as, and therefore is, wrong. youre going to hurt people. you are going to manipulate people. youre going to fuck up. so what rules do you want to break? how do you want to be wrong? what kind of harm are you okay with doing to a person? what kind of manipulation is true to you? what kind of fuck up do you want to be? how do you make peace with the violence implicit in living? start there.

[soymoss]

starling

[transastronautistic]

ID: digital art on a bright yellow background of a bird with blue-black feathers, which have yellow and orange asterisk-shaped stars on them

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[idalievu]

downloads another pdf. downloads another pdf. downloads another pdf.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

there's literally nothing more radical in 2026 than believing that humanity can become good news for each other and the only world we'll ever share.

[liminalbeauty]

Saving the tags.

[ckayeviestudio]

corvid and the lotus ✷ great wisdom derives from murky waters

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

[whiskyandwonder]

[littlestpersimmon]

Respite

[zyca]

Opening cheap character bust commissions: $55 for the above style.

I'd specifically love to draw your elder scrolls character! but I'll accept any photo of any person that you would like painted :) (nothing criminal or hyper violent, thank you)

DM me here on tumblr, or on my patreon over here

Thank you!

[blasteffect]

Saturn by JWST

[2productive]

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

[nojoki]

and yet, i am loved