am not over this isenia post, that shit was crazy and characters belong to hella on @tbos-main
full picture and art notes under the cut:
Okay we have A LOT of notes:
Eyes:
Dreea's eyes are in every illustration to show her influence and pain (also to illustrate the curse on house Harasaeon)
Dreea's eyes also match Turisha's Kaunakes (Sumerian fleece-like robes) to illustrate her connection to the Harasaeons, but also can't forget that Turisha's actual name is Isha ll
Dreea's eyes mostly show pain, but we note the red sclera to show more anger at some points (note dreea's eyes with red sclera looking at hammari and isenia through the coils of Echis' body)
Sayna's eyes in the third illustration are basically to reflect her emotions on the day her tongue was cut: from begging Hammari to the hopelessness, because she knows that Hammari is doomed, and so is Rin (do not go north)
Isenia:
her shirt gets darker- from light olive green to a darker one to show her journey (note this for nate)
she keeps that single braid in her hair all throughout her life- maybe to remember nathairan? but also to show that she does not completely lose the fear of her childhood
stag antlers never on her head until her death = birth of the stag hunt
the red ray of divinity stabbing her (Harasaeons ruining her life), but also a sign of her own divinity
holding the lamb = nathairan, but also later she holds hammari = she must kill the lamb
Turisha-Hammari-Herines:
Hammari is wearing Turisha's kaunakes, as well as strands of her and papa's hair around her wrist
When Hammari is older, her kaunakes includes green for Echis (and blue because i liked the colour)
the rays of divinity around each Harasaeon are red and almost threatening to show that while they are favoured by dreea, they are also a cursed house (the rays of divinity around herines are replaced by knives due to the nature of his curse)
The crown is big on hammari, but it also blinds herines (maybe crown = family which is so big and blinding for these two specifically)
hammari has a very red lip in her illustration to represent sayna's blood on her lips (if i don't slide in saymari somehwere then it isn't me)
Nate:
three-eyed raven moment ala got because ofc (also because nathairan of kroi is thought of more as a monster and a saviour)
nate has a green shirt like isenia, but his is dark mint; mint is a lighter green than olive = while his shirt is a darker shade of mint, the fact that his shirt IS mint means that there is actually hope for him in the future
the burning house; no rays of divinity for herines or nate = "divinity abandoned this place a long time ago"
herines is the faceless villain at the bottom of the page instead of looming over nate = nate making himself the monster to save his people (mirroring isenia choking hammari in image 2)
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.
a cosplay photo so old it was taken on actual film (which explains the streaks from my scanner) and the con we were at doesn’t even exist anymore. it was around 13 years ago actually now that I think about it.
media: we have an anti-authoritarian story for you!
me: sweet hit me with the good stuff
media: so there's this marginalized underclass of people, right?
me: okay
media: and they're like, stigmatized for something that's mostly an aspect of how they are born, or where they're from, or they're badly misunderstood, right?
me: yup, got it, I'm with ya
media: so these people are rebelling against the current social order, because it's the instrument of their suffering
me: oh good great sure
media: but also they're violent and deranged and need to be stopped
me: ...what
media: yeah they're going too far, they're trying to overthrow the system and assassinate the nice cop trying to help them and also they burned down an orphanage
me: ...why? would they burn down an orphanage??
media: extremism is bad
me: still not seeing what this has to do with their fight though???
media: also now they've shot a dog. oops they shot another dog
me: what?! why? I though their motive was to overthrow oppression??
media: yes but their suffering has also made them evil
me: ...???
media: don't worry though, the good guys will defeat them and restore the status quo
me: the status quo that's been killing people?
media: well it turns out it was only killing the kinds of awful people who burn down orphanages and shoot dogs :)
me: oh. this is actually a pro-authoritarian story, isn't it?
media: nooo of course not don't be sillyyyyyy we're super progressive look one of the cops is a black lady don't be sillyyyyyy
