#drawtober2021

[sleepyseaslug]

squid game!!

[frecklef0x]

“The form of an animal is different from my own. One may study the creature, learn to move as it does, to think as it does. In time, this allows one to become as it is. You look around the world and you think you know it well. I have smelled it as a wolf, listened as a cat, prowled shadows that you never dreamed existed.“

[Raven + Moon: Inktober 2021]

[buboplague]

frigid cryptid

[sadface-art]

Day 27: Heads Will Roll!

[crowingoverthis]

Horns

[mildlycuriousdragon]

Drawtober Day 11: A Fictional Character

Scissor Seven my beloved,,,

[linkandorf]

Day 3: Sweet Cap'n Cakes

Today's Tune: Cyber Battle (Solo) - DELTARUNE: Chapter 2

Definitely my favorites from this chapter, I love em to death. Nelnal has been an inspiration to me and my character design for a good while now so seeing them end up in game I care about so much was wonderful to find out. (Also Day 3 my ass lmao)

[finngualart]

One day, Thor wakes up to find his hammer Mjolnir has been stolen and he tells Loki about it. Loki borrows Freyja’s set of falcon feathers (described as a shirt or cloak in the myth, but it’s a fan in this drawing because I have drawing prompts to stick to here, guys) to transform into a bird to find it, and discovers the culprit was the jötunn Thrym. The jötunn won’t give it back unless the gods give him Freyja’s hand in marriage. Thor and Loki go to see Freyja again thinking she will agree to this bargain, but Freyja snorts in rage and tells them to fuck off. The gods then come up with a plan to dress up Thor in a bridal gown and present him as Freyja, wearing Freyja’s signature necklace. Loki accompanies him to Jotunheim as his handmaiden. The jötnar are completely fooled by this ruse and think “Freyja” looks lovely (after a bit of smooth talking by Loki), until Thor starts displaying decidedly unwomanly behaviour by eating and drinking a great amount of food and mead. They realize they’ve been played, but before the jötnar get the chance to take their revenge, however, Thor has hit them over the head with his hammer, he and Loki go home with Mjolnir, the end.

One of the things I am trying to do with my Norse myths art project is to subvert the harmful and negative messages I came across and turn them into something positive. In this myth, Thor is extremely embarrassed about having to wear a dress and jewellery and pretend to be a woman, because this is terribly unmanly and shameful. There are more instances in other myths where a male god gets called ‘unmanly’ by another god. In Lokasenna (Loki’s Quarrel), in which Loki insults all the other gods because (s)he wasn’t invited to a party, Loki accuses Odin of dressing like a woman and practicing witchcraft, something an honourable man should definitely not do, I suppose in an attempt to hit him in the fragile masculinity. Loki apparently succeeds, because Odin then retorts that Loki is one to talk because (s)he gave birth to several children so (s)he IS a woman and the most perverted of all. These ideas about what a man or woman should be and should and shouldn’t do perpetuate to this day (the gender binary is a topic for another post, perhaps). So, my beautiful Mr sir male manly man Thor here says: it’s not shameful to be a woman. It is not shameful for a man to be ‘effeminate’, queer, dress in whatever clothes he likes, wear makeup, etc. Shame is such a harmful way to control other people’s behaviour. Be free, and let others live their lives in freedom.