#balan

[noc-loft]

TADC x Balan WonderWorld Balan Jax is very pretty... I think the outfit suits him really well.

[smellyvampirez]

"Jesters are immortal beings that came into existence when mankind appeared. They feed on the dreams of sleeping humans, and must keep consuming or cease to exist." These five Jesters are VERY powerful amongst their kind:

NiGHTS was once known as Night Terror, a fearsome and terrible Jester of the starless nights. After a traumatizing event, they changed their form, and became an ally to human dreamers.

Reala started as a very small Jester known as Cricket, feeding on scraps and fearful of other Jesters bigger than him. After consuming a fellow Jester one day, his form changed to become bigger and MUCH stronger. He is cruel and cunning, as well as being an excellent hunter.

Balan is a Jester with a love for music, and is an excellent singer. He sings lullabies to send the dreamer asleep before delivering a single killing blow. He is very adventurous, flying through the Dream Realm with ease. The hat is not removable.

Lance is a Jester of no words, relying on simple sounds for communicating emotion. He is a predator that travels in the shadows, using his tentacles to stab or constrict prey to death. Although blind, he is incredibly precise in his attacks, and can easily determine one's presence simply by feeling the surfaces around him. Excellent hearing as well.

Jackle, a Jester of games, loves to gamble with her prey. Win a game against her, and you can leave her domain. Often summons doors around the Dream Realm to entice dreamers to enter. She relies on tricks to win a battle. Despite her massive size, she is NOT the strongest.

[alex-frostwalker]

🎩🃏Ugly Ahh Baby🧸

Original Meme🖼️

Hatless Vers. 🔻

[melancholybat]

As a bonus, here's my first piece of the year I kept forgetting to upload lol

[artscheese]

In a different dimension, their distant relatives

[markiloon]

Stardew Valley- but you can also romance a silly magical theatre guy. I also used my in game farmer sprite as reference for height... and hoo boy! He's so TALL!

I was playing the game as a way to ease my nerves, and then this idea came up randomly ^^; This is my first time drawing with pixels! So sorry if it's not great XD

BUT- it would be awesome if there was a funny dating sim for Mr. Wonderworld himself. I'm tempted to do another one of these for Lance one day..

This was just done for fun! ^v^

(The frames behind Balan are from the game btw!)

[julijbee]

how does it look? is it almost done?

i learned from this post that tumblr has a limit for the number of tags. whoops.

my abridged rant about tattooing and finrod. abandon all expectation of punctuation and proper grammar all ye that enter here:

im currently enjoying the conflict between the permanence (“permanence”) of the elves and their bodies and the preciousness of a body. and the aversion to its marring (“marring”) and suffering. not the aversion to hardship as i see this as different but more the grief of the marks said hardship may leave and the weight of that hardship wrought upon the body “permanently” and the weight being that of grief.

so the idea of intentionally “marring” the body as something to be troubled by. i think also much can be said about the ease at which something troubling that comes from mortal people could be attributed to the darkness from which they flee. and maybe theyre right about the source being from that darkness or maybe that is entirely baseless and hurtful but regardless of its source its current purpose is clearly not evil. its a medium of creation to be bent in whatever direction it will by its wielders.

anyways, findaráto. he is hungry in his wanderings for secret places but also for new things and most of all for learning. and though he might have misgivings in his heart at the start he cant hold onto these things for long. not when it is clear they are untrue or different from what was supposed. and how could he wander far and be friend to all if he held his heart closed so? his heart is left open and he bars the doors from shutting.

it is a detached way of thinking to wish to be unmarred, detached in that is involves being apart from the world and what of it can touch you. finrod may be afraid of attachments to some degree but not to the extent that it stops him from constantly seeking them. To be burdened by the "weights" of attachments or by griefs is to have loved. for what is found in living within the world and loving it and loving it well and remembering it and carrying it within himself is everything good about living. (grief accompanies it but the grief and pain would likely be there anyways with the dark days at hand. no matter how far apart he held himself from life)

so of course it doesnt frighten him to "mar" himself. does pain alone lay claim to marking the body or can joy or other things mark it too? or his own want? is it not his own with which to live in and should it not suit him? should he not be allowed to welcome such a "weight" upon his skin and delight in it?

he likes how they look and wants one for himself is there really any more that need be said??

footnote: i have an overcomplicated set of thoughts about tattoos and tattooing that spawned this drawing idea; i spent most of my time in a contentious back and forth on the opinions of various elfin groups on tattoos or other related things. what does it mean to be marked/tattooed/scarred/etc. from artistic to ritual to medical to injury/cruelty. i love tattoos and i think they show something i love most about people in general. that everything is a avenue for creation, that we cover everything in our art including ourselves (ESPECIALLY ourselves) but fantasy as the mirror held up to our reality likes to reflect the notions carried over from colonialism and repression and opinions on a tattoo and what it is of and on what body it is and where on that body. part of me wants to be free from the realities of our current world when i engage with fantasy but another part of me does not want to be rid of them. it feels wrong to pretend that the viewer (of our normal world) will not look at something with eyes and thoughts from that world, because it is still just us engaging with the fantasy. i cant pretend it doesnt exist in the fantasy world when the baggage of reality gets brought along with those that engage with it. yes yes im thinking too seriously about a silly drawing, its what i do and i like to be this way. peace and love.