bear elves

a bear blog for world of warcraft

[stranglethorn-bonfire-bash]

The time has come for 2023's Bash announcement!

[stranglethorn-bonfire-bash]

Attention, beachgoers! The time has finally come to GET HYPE for the Stranglethorn Bonfire Bash 2023, on Epsilon on Friday 08/25 & Saturday 08/26! This year we have plenty of new elements and returning favorites to keep your summer positively star-studded!

First, this year’s theme: CELESTIAL! Since last year we celebrated the terrestrial, this year we decided to turn our gaze to the skies and observe… the stars! The planets! The mysteries beyond our world! And our games and activities around the island will aim to capture that spirit, so take your time checking out all we have to offer this summer.

Obasi has spent the past 6+ months working on an incredible patch of over 200 custom made and modeled beachwear and accessories, and we cannot WAIT to show you the results! The patch is, of course, optional, but is highly encouraged if you’d like to see everyone in their spiffy mixed and matched suits.

An important announcement: THERE WILL BE NO ART BASH THIS YEAR! No prompts, no teams, we’re taking this summer off from that aspect because… Rage/Obasi is getting married, and Buttart/Poeful is going to be her Bridesmaid!!! As you might imagine, the real life wedding of one of our hosts took up a not-insignificant amount of time and attention for us, so we hope you’ll understand and perhaps enjoy the break from the grind this year.

That being said, the discord will still be active for sharing art, brainstorming mogs fitting our theme, and collaborating just for fun! We’ll also be featuring an incredible CHARITY ART RAFFLE packed with talented artists offering special custom art pieces to lucky raffle winners who donate to our nonprofit of choice– more info to come!

This year the discord, opening officially 08/04, will be open to general attendees as well as artists, and we’ll have more information on how to earn your yearly badge coming soon. For all updates stay tuned here, as well as our twitter and carrd.

See you soon!!

[swampgallows]

listening to sets from dragonstomp via the vods and man i missed out on some banger convo

[netherstray]

November 26, 2016 - Turkey Protest, Stormwind City - Moon Guard

[isei-silva]

Darnassus is under attack!

They have very different leadership styles.

[nelfs]

this is what they did to the artifact weapons at the end of legion

[jainaproudwhore]

Here’s a thing i did

[warcrafticorn]

[warcrafticorn]

[efoxgirl]

babygirl I know video game lore you wouldn't even care about

[warcrafticorn]

Mood Board 2 for Meliah!

[warcrafticorn]

A mood Board for my New Autumn Priest/Light Druid Meliah

[catchymemes]

[nehti-deactivated20210306]

some of you are not ready for this discussion but. the fact that the animal/anthro/beast races in most fantasy settings are almost always coded as poc is. kinda racist. and its particularly egregious when the coding attributes aspects of black and brown ppl to said beast races, like we dont already have enough of a history of being exoticized, dehumanized, and compared to animals by whites. im tired of seeing white ppl make bank on this like coding a race of creature-people as black or brown is such a kool new unthought of idea. man i just want white ppl to stop giving beast races black traits and hairstyles, acknowledge thats fundamentally racist and maybe try taking another approach with their own wordbuilding and stuff. idk what to tell yall expect that you should be able to create settings in which beast races arent blatant and dehumanizing references to poc, and dont have to encompass racist caricatures and stereotypes that exist in the real world. 

i think, in many instances, white creators sometimes do this in a misguided attempt to make it “different’ or w/e…as if believe that making races with specific cultural coding and references from poc and nonwhite cultures into creatures instead of actual humanoids somehow subtracts from that fact? like “look these arent actually black or brown people theyre cats/lizard/etc people!” when really, even if it may not be the intent, due to the fact that black and brown traits are being heavily ascribed to said beast races in the lore and wordbuilding, what you get is just another instance of white people dehumanizing and misrepresenting peoples and cultures that they do not fully understand. intent doesnt necessarily justify or excuse results. 

[nehti-deactivated20210306]

ykw. if it were just like. one or a rare few instances of this happening. i wouldnt really be speaking on this? but its a fairly consistent issue across the board. when there are beast races in fantasy settings, theyre almost always accompanied by lore containing copious and blatant references to cultures of colour. i understand that its an uncomfortable truth that many ppl have avoided discussing, but if youre a white creator and you feel uncomfortable or called out for this, then just think of how black, brown, and/or indigenous ppl feel when we see our cultures referenced blatantly in fantasy, reduced to creatures and/or problematic caricatures, time and time again. 

if your fantasy wordbuilding cannot exist without dehumanizing black/brown/indigenous people (and while this happens with a myriad of different people and cultures. im merely speaking for my own here), then perhaps sit down and ask yourself why that is.

[jainaproudwhore]

Here’s a thing i did

[itsjustbeek]

The Sanguine Order on Twitter

“The Sanguine Order has now formally opened its applications. We look forward to seeing you! https://t.co/8vUvynRKCb”

The Sanguine Order ( Wyrmrest Accord, both Horde and Alliance ) has started accepting guild applications this week!

[kargathbladefist-deactivated202]

i cant stop thinking about the jailer just absolutely seething in his tower because some little cartoon dinosaur is scurrying around his evil hell playground like a bug and sabotaging his plans

[panjya]

I finally drew the beautiful and talented Windspeaker Zu’massirah; she’s the one who does most of the Menagerie’s paperwork and the War-Goddess Panjya’s closest friend, despite the two being Pa’kura and Raptari respectively. @bearicorn-arts