#arsay

[gethoce]

What does Little Freak do when it's bored?

[I'm low-key curious]

Sorry this took a little while to get around to, but thanks so much for the fun ask! Have its ref as a bonus.

Also here is Found Soul (Parallel Marx)

[improvised-finish]

A Neon-Drenched Nameday

"Arsay!" Lehon'a exclaimed as she caught up to the other Miqo'te, stopping her on the streets of True Vue. "A little chocobo told me it's your nameday today, is that right?"

"Sure, that's true. Why do you ask?"

"Well..." A grin grew across Lehon'a's face as she pulled a couple slips of paper from her jacket pocket. "A friend of mine is playing this new music made using Alexandrian tech at a club just down the way, and I thought maybe we might celebrate with a night of dancing and drinks!" She pointed to the establishment as she spoke, not even remotely hiding her enthusiasm for the idea. "They gave me two tickets, so this one's got your name on it."

"Sounds like fun, so let's do it!" Arsay replied, plucking one of the tickets from Lehon'a's grip with a smile.

The club's lighting echoed the same neon pink and blue color scheme present all across the city, though the contrast was intensified by the lack of ambient light inside. The DJ booth stood to one side of the space, elevating its occupant above the dancefloor, and a few scattered tables sat opposite. There was a small crowd gathered already, most likely the die-hard fans and true party animals.

A hrothgar in reflective glasses climbed up in front of the DJ equipment, and nearly everyone in the club turned their attention to her.

"Come on, we made it just in time!" Lehon'a said in a hushed tone, waving Arsay to the front of the crowd. "The sound right here is the best, and we should have enough room to let loose."

Her train of thought was cut off as the voice of an announcer came over the sound system: "Solution Nine, make some noise! For one night only: the sensational, the electric, the queen of bumpin' beats herself: DJ Stardust!"

Lehon'a and Arsay shared a look that grew into a pair of wicked grins as the first song began to play, and it wasn't long before the whole crowd was swept up into the futuristic melodies and driving rhythms of the music, and all but the most stubborn of wallflowers were on their feet and on the dancefloor.

As the night eventually wound to a close many hours and dance moves later, Lehon'a closed her eyes, drinking in the last outro of DJ Stardust's final song. Try hard as she might, she just couldn't imagine a better time than sharing the dancefloor with a friend. Happy nameday, Arsay! Hope we can do this again sometime, she thought to herself, opening her eyes to see Arsay offering one last round of applause to the DJ before the party's end.

(a few alternate angles and some notes below the cut!)

Gosh, I went like so unbelievably overboard with this! I originally just had the initial invitation shots, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I had the itch to do more. I figured why not take advantage of the Neon Stein's existing setup and do an action shot... which quickly involved adding some S9 NPCs to fill in the crowd. and then adding Wuk Lamat and Koana and Gulool Ja as little easter eggs. and then @a-pink-beau because Gulool Ja shouldn't be unaccompanied. and then @reversalsun and @godspeedwagon and another mutual friend. and then G'raha and Y'shtola because I had to. and then my other wol as the DJ cause I couldn't find the DJing loporrit in Brio.

Before I knew it this scene had like twenty actors and it's by far the most involved thing I've done (thought tbh it didn't feel like it took that long), and it was all just thanks to a little nameday request! All of this bluster to say: happy nameday Arsay ( @wildstar25 )! I look forward to seeing many more of her adventures in the future and the amazing poses you come up with, they really are inspiring.

Anyway. With that, I return to my cosplay cave for the next month, cause con is only a few weeks away, and I've got a Pitou to finish! I leave you with these alternate angles to show off a bit more of the background :3

[pruskita]

@gethoce I HAD TO DRAW THEM 😭😭

I swear that one day I will draw a good drawing of those three but aaaa I can't, it excites me 😭😭😭😭

[tsalmu]

Stylized rendition of a woman (Goddess? Ereshkigal?) with two serpents and a bull-headdress. Original cylinder seal c. 2400-2200 B.C (Old Akkadian period) Found in Susa (Shush, Khuzestan Province, Iran) Contained in Mohsen Froughi collection. Cataloged in "The Art of Ancient Iran" by Edith Porada (1965)

[antlering]

The Women of Ba’al Hadad

In the mythic and ritual texts from Ugarit appear three goddesses within Ba’al Hadad’s household - Arsay, Pidray, and Tallay. It is still debated whether they are Hadad’s daughters or brides or both, but they accompany Hadad throughout the Ba’al Cycle either in a pair (as Tallay and Pidray) or in a trio.

Tallay, goddess of dew, has the clearest name and epithets of these three deities but also the least known presence outside of the Ba’al Cycle. In one cosmic epithet she lives in the space between Hadad’s eyes. Arsay is a goddess of earth equated with the Babylonian chthonic deity Allatum; unlike Tallay and Pidray, she does not accompany Hadad into the underworld, perhaps because she is already there. The meaning of the name Pidray is highly contested and her epithet bt ar has multiple translations, but her importance at Ugarit should not be underestimated - she is the recipient of her own festival in which she was given a royal bedchamber, perhaps functioning as a hieros gamos between her and the king of Ugarit. She is also offered as a bride to Yarikh during his wooing of Nikkal.

[chthonicdivinebard]

The second tier of Gods have Their own households as well. Athirat's sons are said to have Their own houses, according to Baal's complaint (KTU 1.3 IV 48 and elsewhere). This presentation presumes that while El may be patriarch of the clan, the family-heads have houses of Their own. Within these households are families with a "baal" at their head. Accordingly, every male family authority ideally might have His own house. In the mythological material, Baal has not only His military retinue but also three "daughters" (bt), namely, Pidray, 'Arsay, and Tallay, evidently reflecting His meteorological and chthonic aspects. The designation bt may not merely be a term for "woman," since 1.24.26-27 refers to Baal as the Father of Pidray. In a further familial construct, Mot refers to His own brothers as well as Baal's (1.5 I 22-25, II 21-24; 1.6 V 19-22, VI 10-16); the God's comments apparently point to the households with these two Gods as their most prominent members.

Astral Religion and the Representation of Divinity: The Cases of Ugarit and Judah by Mark S Smith in “Magic in History: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World” edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler (p 189)

[gethoce]

Behold the Baterpillars: Pidray, Arsay and Tallay

[gethoce]

Happy birthday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💐💐💐💐💐✨🎉✨🎉✨✨💐✨💐, I hope I can do something for you when I have free time.

Thank you so much! :D

Have a doodle of the Morphometa kids that became a thing in my AU because of you e0ieh2ogbe2e2

I haven't gotten around to drawing them again since, but they'll appear in a big ask I hope to work on next heheh ~