Blood And Silk

Drow, Underdark, more Drow and contextless D&D campaign art

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Just a weird goblin that loves D&D and making things glow or glitter

Finally got around to making one

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The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

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I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

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It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

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Then in 2020:

Irish people donate €2.5m to Native American tribe devastated by coronavirus

Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’

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Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:

Eternal Heart Sculpture to Honor Choctaw/Ireland Relationship to be Unveiled at Choctaw Nation Capitol - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun

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Attacks so far

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Chibis for my Friendly Fires this year

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Let’s go!

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How things started between Fiadh and Stratus

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We’ll see if Jia Li offers to remove curses after this ever again

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Better than a 1!

Turned the Shattered Obelisk group’s motto into a sticker

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Long time no art meme

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Our Lady of Silver

I'm tired but I made a Selune sticker

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this is what i mean when i type 👀 btw

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Went on the Game of Thrones tour today

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Homie gonna share this

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@c-grace for practice!!

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Finished Lolth's warrior

I fear Dinin's failboy swag has captivated me, I do love to see a man chained up and terrified

Meanwhile Kaitain and Taayrul get put on babysitting duty to keep Malagdorl from getting himself killed

And Ravel and Saribel continue to be the only normal siblings in all of Menzoberranzan

Also nothing bad better happen to Braelin or else (sidenote but House Vandree having human skull cups is cool as hell, and Chellith being like 'well they're only for special occasions' is really funny, also rip Chellith I guess)

Malagdorl ripping someone's throat out with his teeth waow

Yay Allefaero's back

How do you manage to misspell a character's name two lines after last writing it

Btw why is Drizzt in those Part X things calling her Lloth when the title says Lolth & Dinin called her Lolth earlier

YES EFFRON IS FINALLY BACK (very briefly but still, also he's in Baldur's Gate 👀)

Oh Dinin, Braelin nooo (they're like okay-ish now but like, by male drow torment nexus standards)

Also Preego Melarn is up there as one of the most Glup Shitto names of the series

“What could go wrong with a fireball, after all?” Gromph said dryly, and when Catti-brie looked at him, she saw that he was staring her way.

He was trying to show her that he was still that hard-hearted and merciless grand wizard from Menzoberranzan, she recognized, and she thought it rather . . .

Cute? Or pathetic?

Oh my god he's her poor little meow meow

“Have you learned anything?

“Only that her twisted son is still a foul creature.”

Don't be rude about my boy Effron, he's allowed to be as horrible as he wants

BRAELIN!!! istg he better be okay by the end of this book

also I need to kick Malagdorl down a flight of stairs (affectionate)

did Yvonnel just get hit with the monopoly go to jail card

“I find your lack of faith disturbing,” said Avernil.

Star Wars reference???

They've been really into those edging metaphors these past few books

KIMMURIEL!?!?!?

I really hope Ravel and Saribel make it out of this alive at least

okay, I did suspect he would take over Malagdorl but what is he gonna do with his mind now, because I really don't want him dead dead

Okay so apparently everyone is pulling suicide moves now. Can they not?

Dinin has no idea who he'd have to get through to kill Breezy, that is the most protected child on all of Toril

Okay, so Gromph is alive at least, but uhm

Did they manage to misspell Effron as Ethan somehow? Did nobody proofread this fucking book?

Kimmuriel is the orb that's being pondered now

Also good for Saribel and Ravel that they made it out of there alive, that means I also have a reason for my Tav to be on the surface now

Also hopefully they can find Yvonnel because she's like the only person who could definitely turn Kar'niss back (and Astarion if they manage to make a smaller version of that web)

Now I just gotta manage to listen to Betwixt Two Worlds this weekend (I am so bad at listening to audiobooks)

Reading every d&d book progress: 40 (3,31%)

Books left: 1168(?)

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“Get out the fine skulls, we’re having company.”

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Shar and Selûne desk mat wips

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Legend of Aang stickers and keychains are now up in my store. They’re available both as sets or individuals

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Sneak peek at Legend of Aang stickers (and keychains) coming to my store soon