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I do art and writing and also sometimes I stream games B) They/She

[prodigal-sunlight]

IN DEEP DOCKS’ GLOW

This set of adopts is based on the Deep Docks area of Silksong, drawn in the style of the game’s sprites.

1. Forge Haulier - 20$

2. Bellows Worker - 20$

3. Aerial Dockguard - 20$

The metals in Silksong are so prettyyyyy I want to break my teeth biting on them fr <3

Purchasing Details: After buying an adopt, you’ll be sent a png of the character with a transparent background. I currently only accept Paypal. Please credit me here on tumblr @prodigal-sunlight or my Toyhouse Prodigal_Sunlite

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

No cost too great?

[prodigal-sunlight]

PILGRIMS OF BONEBOTTOM

This set of adopts are characters based on Bone Bottom and the earliest areas of Silksong, drawn in the style of the game’s sprites.

1. Novice Pilgrim - 15$

2. Exiled Druid - SOLD

3. Pilgrim Standard-Bearer - 20$

I’ve got several more sets of Silksong adopts in progress based on various areas and species! It’s good to be drawing bugs again <3

Purchasing Details: After buying an adopt, you’ll be sent a png of the character with a transparent background. I currently only accept Paypal. Please credit me here on tumblr @prodigal-sunlight or my Toyhouse Prodigal_Sunlite

[midnight197]

Alright, I decided to showcase my Silksong-OCs, their Inspiration and their brief backstory!

Potencial Silksong-Spoilers!

Let's start with the one, that's the most fleshed out so far:

Name: Chip

Species: Vessel/Wings Mould

Pronounce: They/Them

Once an odinary Wings Mould serving in the White Palace. After being reanimated for unknown reasons they developed some sort of sentient and the ability to Shapeshift into a Vessel-Like Apperiance.

Like mentioned above, Chip based on a Wings Mould that turned into a more Vessel-Like Shape. This is also partly inspired by @hawaiianbabidoll's OC Mould aka The Armored Shade

More about their Backstory and involvement in Pharloom, can be read in their Toyhouse-Page! They're by far the most fleshed out of them so far.

Name: Ratchet

Species: Automaton

Pronounce: They/Them

Automaton build to protect the Cogwork Core as well as helping to keep it running. They were found damaged by Chip during Silksongs Act 3. With the help of Second Sentinel, Chip managed to repair them.

Ratchet was ment to be a Counterpart for Chip. The Cogwork Bugs - especially the Cogflies reminded me a lot of the Wings Mould. So it felt fitting to create a Character that basically mirrors Chip in a way. Especially because both Characters are powered by magic sources. Chip by Void and Soul and Ratchet by Cogwork and Silk.

Name: Tuka

Species: Bug/Pilgrim

Pronounce: He/Him

Tuka bases on the Scared Pilgrim you can Encounter in Silksong. I first spotted this Pilgrim in Silksongs Releasedate-Trailer and it instantly reminded me of the Vessels in Appearance. Even tho I knew it's not possible for it to be a Vessel, I thought it was quite funny. And they were cute, so I made an OC based on them!

Name: Zaya

Species: Bug/Pilgrim

Pronounce: She/Her

Zaya doesn't have to much thought behind her design tbh xD She's based on the Pilgrim Hornfly - Enemy in Silksong. I thought they were cute and I needed a Friend and Companion for Tuka!

They used to travel together to the Citadelle but got seperated in the Procress when the Void started to take over Pharloom. While Tuka made it all the way up, Zaya was stranded in the Putrified Ducts.

Name: Memori

Species: Scorpion

Pronounce: She/Her

Memori - formerly just named Mori - is, like Chip, a Character that existed before Silksong was released. She previously would live below the Distant Village in Deepnest. Before HollowKnight was released, it was planed to have the Bone-Forest below Deepnest - which is now the Marrow in Silksong - and Memori should come from there.

Now with Silksongs release I have put her into Pharloom instead. She's a Scorpion that grew up allone in the Marrow next to the Skarr. From them she learned to use the Bones of the Marrows Bugs for Armor and Weapons and from observing the Skarr, she also learned to fight.

Name: Xia

Species: Crawbug

Pronounce: She/Her

Xia is a Character that was created for an RP I have with my Best Friend! She's the right Hand (or Claw) and Caretaker of my Besties Character - who's the Daughter of Crawfather and with this the future Monarch of the Craws Hive!

She looks more creepy than she actually is. She's pretty sweet! However still a good fighter!

Name: Morai

Species: Weaver (1/8 Part)

Pronounce: She/Her

Last but not least - Morai! She's the newest OC in the Roster, but like Chip and Memori, she excited before Silksongs Release. She used to be a Vessel-OC, I once adopted from @prodigal-sunlight about 4 years ago. But I never found really a Place for her to be.

Until I realized, that there are probably more Weaver-Decendence out there in the World. We know from at least 4 that were brought to Pharloom. The last one being Hornet. However we never know, if she was the very last one to arrive, or if there are more Groups out there that are still capturing Weavers in the Name of Grand Mother Silk.

So I played with the thought: What if after everything that went down in Act 3, another Weaver-Decendence is brought to Pharloom?

And this is Morai. She's a Weaver of 1/8 Part - so her silken Powers are not that strong. However she's quite agile and knows how to defend herself. At least to the best of her Abilities, because I imagine her younger than Hornet.

I must say, I'm now really in love with her redesign <3

That's it for now! I might update this post when more OCs are finished lmao

Thanks for reading to all the way down here!

[prodigal-sunlight]

All these OCs look so good! And Morai’s redesign is SO pretty!

[solus-artifex]

OKAY, but i don't think we're talking enough about the fact that..

The one and only time that Silent Salt turned away from his virtue, solidarity, is when he decided to take on the burden of mourning by himself?

Like, the reason for his fall was because he did not wish for anyone else to be burdened with suffering and pain

[fauvatza]

The devil of silence ⛓️

( based on "the fallen angel" by Alexandre Cabanel )

[prodigal-sunlight]

HEY SO IM OBSESSED WITH SILENT SALT

[ruerock]

how it feels to submit an attack on artfight

[prodigal-sunlight]

ARTFIGHT TOMORROWWWWW Follow my artfight Here <3

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

[sunanthonyz]

[smallpwbbles]

ITS REAL OH MY GOD ITS REAL!!

[coronitasss]

Older stuff but I’ve been hollybottom truthing since day one

[pinkiepig]

So like she’s just straight up confirmed gay for Holly ,,, they were the lgbtq post all along,,, the lesbians always win in crk im so emotional,,,,

[pinkiepig]

GIVE IT UP FOR THE LESBEANS AND PANCAKES AUUUUUHHGJCGHDKFHKDGf.elsgirwlg/ilwghilweggulwgl/xegfqek.3Bjlf.we

[socksweeet]

so yeah about the new update

also sugar literally calls her "my other half" is this something???

[prodigal-sunlight]

THE TRAILER FOR THE NEXT CRK UPDATE… ETERNAL SUGAR LITERALLY CALLING HOLLYBERRY “MY LOVE”…:

[iddek]

Pay attention, 2014 Mad Men: This little girl is holding a LEGO set. The LEGOs are not pink or “made for girls.” She isn’t even wearing pink. The copy is about “younger children” who “build for fun.” Not just “girls” who build. ALL KIDS.

In an age when little girls and boys are treated as though they are two entirely different species by toy marketers, this 1981 ad for LEGO — one of our favorite images ever — issues an important reminder.

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[gnder101-blog]

This is my favorite advertisement. Also, a short story about sexist parenting with LEGOS. I work at a toy store that sells thousands of dollars of legos and I’ve seen time and time again parents refusing to buy blue box legos for girls and refusing to buy pink box legos for boys even when they ask for them. One girl came in with her parents and she wanted LEGO CITY because it was her birthday and they wanted to buy her gift with her at the store. [LEGO CITY is a LEGO series that lets a child build train stations, firetrucks, passenger ships, space exploration vehicles, drawbridges, garbage disposal trucks, basically anything related to the running of a city and it is not a gender based toy.] I showed them the LEGO CITY, but the mom told the child over and over “No, this is for boys you can’t get that” and eventually, she made the little girl choose a LEGO Disney Cinderella Castle instead because it was “more appropriate”. Even after I pointed out that every box has female and male LEGO people because the toy is meant for both boys and girls, she refused because it looked like a “boy” toy. I’ve had many occasions where a girl will be drawn to the LEGO CITY series only for the parents to come to me and ask  “Where are the GIRLS Legos, you know, princesses and stuff. I’m not buying her this sort of thing” and it makes me so, so, so, so, sad every time because I can already imagine the types of values in education and career choices the parents will be scolding child for wanting in the future when they aren’t even allowed to play with anything blue.  Let girls be kids without all the forced gender stereotyping, dammit. 

[benyw]

You know what little girls could grow up to be? Architects, engineers, builders.

You know what little girls cannot ever be, no matter what they do in life? A princess.

We sell real life careers to little boys, but to girls we sell lies and fantasy. Then we have the gall to say that girls ‘choose’ careers that earn them less, that girls just aren’t interested in STEM fields, that girls are stupid for pursuing frivolous nonsense, etc. etc.  

This is gender in action. Not nature, but socialization.

[cliteralviolence]

That last comment especially 👏🏻👏🏻

[milessperhourr]

As a female architect I approve this message.

[ahallister]

I loved LEGO when I was little, and it was an activity I enjoyed with both my sister and my two brothers. It galls me how the brand was marketed so heavily to boys in the 80s and 90s, because now those kids are adults and remember it as ‘something for boys’ and keep it away from their girls. Marketing can do damage for *generations*, not just in the immediate short term.

[quousque]

GENDER IN ACTION what a great fucking way of putting it

[azriona]

I was just thinking about this post/ad the other day. I’ve reblogged it before, and there’s a version that links to an interview with the little girl in the picture about her memories of the photo shoot. It’s all very girl-positive and how gendering toys is terrible, and for the most part, I agree. There’s no such thing as boys’ toys and girls’ toys. Or there shouldn’t be.

The thing that occurred to me about this ad, though - it’s not really breaking any gender barriers. The little girl in the picture? She’s dressed like a boy. She’s not wearing pink. Her hair’s not in ringlets. She hasn’t built what could obviously be called a princess castle. If you looked fast, you’d probably think she was a boy (until you noticed the braids).

So yeah, maybe this ad is saying, “Hey, girls can play with Lego too!” Except, not really. Because what it’s actually saying is, “Hey, girls who are actually tomboys can play with Lego too!”

I’m just saying - I think it would have been way more powerful if you’d had a girl in pink and ruffles and ringlets building space ships and skyscrapers and King Arthur’s castle. That it’s possible to be both girly - and want to do those things. This ad? Ain’t showing that.

[ghostrepeater]

Okay, so the thing i’m having a problem with here is that this little girl is NOT dressed like a boy, she’s dressed like a little girl at play in 1981.

Girls’ clothes in 1981 were not limited to various shades of pink and purple but ran the full spectrum of colors. They were also expected to stand up to the wear and tear of regular play (which in 1981 meant running around outdoors). Ruffles and the like existed but those clothes were fancy, meant for occasions or events like church and holidays, not everyday wear.

For example, here is a photo of my brother and i in 1983 wearing our everyday clothes

I am five years old here. At this time, my room was painted pink, i had what i called my princess dress, and my Barbie was the one that came with an all-pink wardrobe. At that time in my life i was absolutely NOT considered a tomboy; i was a typical little girl.

To your modern eyes, inundated with the sharply gendered clothing of today, the girl in the ad didn’t even read as a girl whereas in 1981, she did. And i’m wondering who is in the more constrictive box, girls then or girls now?

Also i saw these from the same campaign and they are adorable!

[puttingherinhistory]

How terrible is it to know that as a society we’ve probably gotten worse with pushing gender norms on kids instead of better.

 When I was in uni in one of my soc classes we read an excerpt from The Beauty Myth which talked about this, how when women started gaining more political/social/financial power in society the patriarchal started lashing back by buckling down on beauty standards and enforcing femininity. Beauty standards and the expectation for girls and women to be feminine has definitely gotten worse the past few decades as direct retaliation against women and girls for gaining more power, it’s a way to keep women and girls in “their place” in one way while they’re reaching for progress in other areas. If you’re interested in learning more about this phenomenon, I suggest giving The Beauty Myth a read