#bupu

[inkalibur]

Raistlin and Bupu

In music terms, I listened to the Flood album (TMBG), Eve6, Jar of Flies (Alice in Chains) and most of RHCP Greatest Hits while sketching and painting. I have no idea how much time I spent on this.

[szaimyn]

The Revelation

I did it! I finished it!

To start, things I messed up:

#1- I forgot to add the staff of Magius. I was already in the shading mode when I realized it

#2- A bunch of mistakes involving Raistlin's robes. Also noticed this in the shading faze

And #3- just a whole lot of little mistakes throughout

But overall, i'm glad with how it came out! My main focus was to just finish a big drawing before I felt too overwhelmed and I did it!

I hope to redraw this sometime in the future and hopefully add Caramon and Chrisania into the piece as well. And maybe do some preliminary sketches of Bupu (she looks way too tall) and Takhisis. I really just looked at some official art of Takhisis real quick. And tried my best to copy the dragons that were on the cover of the Dragons of Hourglass Mage cover for the gate.

So my next venture is to finally watch The Last Trial. I had seen it show up for years on here, but I knew I had to reread everything before I could finally watch it. I'm really hoping that this will give me a better outlook on one character (even though I highly doubt it).

Should I add a spoiler warning for this? If so, please let me know. I don't like spoiling a good story. Or is it vague enough?

[skull-bearer]

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dalamar the Dark/Raistlin Majere, Past Dalamar the Dark/Jenna Characters: Dalamar the Dark, Raistlin Majere, Jenna (Dragonlance), Palin Majere, Bupu (Dragonlance), Dunbar Mastersmate, Original Male Character(s), Horkin (Dragonlance) Additional Tags: Ghibli AU, Laputa- Castle in the Sky AU, Second Generation, Knights of Takhisis, Post Summer Flame, No Chaos, Resistance, War, Genocide, Violence, Airships, Sky Pirates, Gnomes, Mages, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mystery, Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Despair, Hope Summary:

As the Knights of Takhisis close upon Wayreth, and the last bastions of resistance fall; Dalamar discovers a strange mystery, that may lead to a final beacon of hope in this darkening world. Chapter 7 At last, Bupu returns home. Meetings take place.

[tenth-sentence]

"So you got rid of your pet gully dwarf."

"DragonLance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight" - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[mask-of-prime]

TLG: Rebuilding Trust

During Kion's absence, Kiara had been taken to Savannah Summits by Simba as a teen, merely attending and just getting acquainted with the political environment, eager to voice opinions she was sure about at the time. Fast forward to today, on Simba's last Savannah Summit before retiring someday soon, Kiara attends her very first Savannah Summit in which she's allowed to have her very own say on serious matters. Kiara was determined to prove that she could bring a history-making contribution to the table by welcoming a new and unlikely representative to the roster...

Days before this major Savannah Summit, Kiara, with the escort of Kovu and Vitani's Guard, meets with Jasiri, whom she'd become great friends with during Kion's absence. Jasiri, despite recently being on good terms with Simba and his family last time she'd met with them, was uncertain of how the rest of the Pridelanders would react. As usual, Kiara's supportive and optimistic words eventually managed to persuade Jasiri into attending, as she too strived to break barriers.

The Savannah Summit arrives, Kiara makes a major announcement, introducing the newcomer who makes her way down the entrance to Mizimu Grove. The animals are in shock, audibly gasping and jolting at the sight of the hyena, but they keep to themselves. They've seen her fight alongside Kion and his former Guard before, proving her alignment, yet they were still wary.

While the Pridelands' herds' post-traumatic stress from the invasion and ruthless overhunting from Shenzi's Clan during Scar's Reign is valid, their transgenerational trauma alongside the long-running banishment of Shenzi's Clan has led to ignorant stigmatisms surrounding hyenas as a species over the years. Kiara, having prepared her speech, has Jasiri's back by clarifying to everyone that not all hyenas follow the customs of the clan that had once taken over the Pridelands, and that Jasiri's Clan (which features members that descend from Shenzi's Clan), intend to learn and grow from their predecessors' mistakes.

Simba, who had been getting better at overcoming his paranoia brought on by his PTSD, is pleased with Kiara, telling her that this was the best time and place to introduce a genuine, trusting hyena leader like Jasiri to the Pridelanders to end a long, needless prejudice. Hyenas were to no longer be banished from the Pridelands, and to Kiara, Jasiri, and (even on behalf of) Kion's wishes, all living beings who respected the Circle of Life were welcome to the Pridelands.

(...this does make me wonder, though, does anyone think Nala would feel the same about Jasiri? While Nala's rational enough to know Jasiri's nothing like the members of Shenzi's Clan (and she knows Shenzi's Clan all too well, spent a majority of her life growing up with them), do you think the presence of any hyena might spark a deep-rooted, subconscious trauma in her? I can see her trying so hard to be openminded to Jasiri just as she was to Kovu, but these memories of Scar's hyena army won't stop bugging her. Perhaps she starts to understand the feelings Simba once went through.)

(Note: To clarify, including Jasiri in the Savannah Summit is not to make the Outlands a mere part the Pridelands, as that would lower Jasiri's status as prime minister and take away from her drive to restore the Outlands as a separate yet equally opportune, prosperous land. Because Jasiri's the leader of a whole land, like that of Sokwe of the Theluji Mountains or Dhahabu of the Backlands. Jasiri would moreso attend some kind of "super summit" in the future, where it's all kingdom leaders instead of herd leaders)

(Another Note: This took way longer than I can believe, usually I get drawings done over a matter of like three days at the most if I'm busy, but this took probably two weeks. What's sad is that the idea was so clear and fresh in my head that I was ready to jot the whole thing down, but I found myself procrastinating, getting a few weeks of school out of the way, and even questioning the drawing's existence. In the end I think I'm glad I took my time, I allowed myself to introduce myself to several character designs that were new to me, and I carefully eyed every detail)

[sharry-arry-odd]

"What is it, little one?" Bupu rolled over to face him. Her eyes were red, her nose swollen. Tears streaked down her dirty face. She snuffled and wiped her hand across her nose. "I don't want to leave you. I want to go with you," she said brokenly, "but–oh–I will miss my people!" Sobbing, she buried her face in her hands. A look of infinite tenderness touched Raistlin's face, a look no one in his world would ever see. He reached out and stroked Bupu's coarse hair, knowing what it felt like to be weak and miserable, an object of ridicule and pity. "Bupu," he said, "you have been a good and true friend to me. You saved my life and the lives of those I care about. Now you will do one last thing for me, little one. Go back. I must travel roads that will be dark and dangerous before the end of my long journey. I cannot ask you to go with me." Bupu lifted her head, her eyes brightening. Then a shadow fell across her face. "But you will be unhappy without me." "No," Raistlin said, smiling, "my happiness will lie in knowing you are safely back with your people." "You sure?" Bupu asked anxiously. "I am sure," Raistlin answered.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[greenedera]

An "unlikely encounter" that became the most loved and moving relationship of all Dragonlance. For the @dragonlance-week, I share my portrait of Raistlin and Bupu, the moment when he's going to leave her. “ A look of infinite tenderness touched Raistlin’s face, a look no one in this world would ever see. …” Full: https://www.deviantart.com/elenazambelli/art/Raistlin-and-Bupu-Farewell-Little-One-857701808

[entheovision]

..::A living ethnobotanical tribute to the memory of Valentina Pavlovna Wasson::..

¨ They gave us chocolate to drink, somewhat ceremonially, and suddenly I recalled the words of the early Spanish writer who had said that before the mushrooms were served, chocolate was drunk. I sensed what we were in for: at long last we were discovering that the ancient communion rite still survived and we were going to witness it. The mushrooms lay there in their box, regarded by everyone respectfully but without solemnity.¨ Gordon Wasson  

May the women, the Goddess & sacred femenine rise up again .

Artwork and graphic desing: 

Life Magazine May 13, 1957. Great Adventures III - The Discovery of Mushrooms That Cause Strange Visions. Secrets of "Divine Mushrooms".