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[iskavii]

Anyone else read Firebringer by David Clement-Davies in Middle School or was that just me? Anyways I gave it a reread recently and decided to sketch Rannoch.

[art-of-tek]

MarInk Day 31: Fire

A good ol' Rannoch to close off MarInk! This has been the final piece in this art challenge and I'm glad to have completed it! I was wondering around the day 23 point if I was going to be able to finish it within March, but I managed!

As for future drawing challenges I'm not sure which one(s) I'll be doing! I may do Inktober if I'm able to, or I might make up something myself like I did with Navamber last year. I also really /want/ to do another Navember with new prompts but I'd have to think of new ones then which is difficult.

If you have a favorite piece of this drawing challenge feel free to let me know!

[one-with-the-tree]

#96 Kar

Book name: The Sight

Author: David Clement-Davies

Sorry but I just never bought into the idea that almost this guy got severely burned and then his fur just all grows back without a problem. So for my design he has most of his coat missing and his body is largely covered in burns where no fur will grow again. It definitely hurts him sometimes and his movements have also gotten a bit stiffer because of it, but with the help of his pack he makes do.

Also the parts of his coat we can actually see on his face I based on one of the classic WolfQuest default coats, the blueish gray one with the brown nose bridge.

[quotelr]

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

David Clement-Davies, Fell

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Scream of the White Bears | Author: David Clement-Davies | Publisher: Phoenix Ark Press (2019)

[omusa-inola]

I just finished watching all of the Twin Peaks franchise with one of my partners recently, and the magic and weird threaded into this mundane town and mundane people is a great example of what OP is talking about. The OA also does a fantastic job of doing this. Anything David Clement-Davies writes (My personal favorite author) is a perfect example of this. The warrior cats series, also a personal favorite, does this. These are all stories surrounded by myths, legends, magic. They are fantastical stories yes, but the characters are inherently just. Characters living their lives in a world they are placed in. And the magic is mysterious and changing and unpredictable.

A teacher of mine said once the word Weird originally meant Magic. The origins of the word weird stem from the root word Wyrd. In germanic this meant Destiny, in Old English it meant Fate. I think a story that reminds us of this subtly, reminds us of the small magics in our own mundane lives.

Welcome to Night Vale and The Magnus Archives made me realize just how much I want magic to stay sporadic and mysterious. I really liked the early days of both podcasts but once everything turns weird and becomes the norm I lose interest. They didn’t turn bad, they just turned out to be a type of story I personally isn’t into.

I think that’s why I like Lord of The Rings but could never get into Harry Potter. Yes, LoTR is a fantasy world but actual magic is still rare and awe inspiring. In Harry Potter people use magic to wash the dishes.

The best example I can think of from the top of my head is The X Files. They managed to raise the stakes and give us a little more info but the weirdness never turned mundane. It stayed sporadic and mysterious the whole way through.

This is of course just a personal preference but my friend who doesn’t share it and still loves both podcasts got it when they said “When the weird becomes mundane it just turns into a drama using different words” I love how it took someone who doesn’t feel the same way I do about magic in fiction to put my thoughts perfectly into words.

I’d actually really like to hear how you feel about magic and weirdness in fiction. What level does it take to grab your attention and does it ever get too much and become boring or are all levels of magic/weirdness good in your book?

[andwhateverwalkedthere]

Tor and Sita’s story as an obvious retelling of Jesus and the framing of Larka’s death at the end of the book has me thinking again about how a lot of Catholicism frames Jesus’ crucifixion and therefore sacrifice itself. Like it’s always said “For God so loved the world, He sacrificed His only son.” And we have the standard how can God let bad things happen how can He let His son die, but there’s also this refocusing of who is actually committing the sacrifice. Like of course Catholicism revolves around Jesus’ life as sacrifice, but idk it was Jesus who suffered and that was his suffering alone. Not God’s.

[okaycoffees]

evening routine:

think about 50+ year old actor of my choice (preferably british)

get butterflies in my tummy and giggle

spend the rest of the night hating myself because what the fuck was that

[ateepmelfart]

june 2024

[eldritch-bf]

My favorite kind of bad faith negative book reviews are the kind that reveal the reader has absolutely zero imagination joy or whimsy. Like in middle school I read The Sight by David Clement-Davies (similar to warriors but with wolves and some environmentalism/Jesus stuff at the end iirc) and anyway I remember a one-star review that simply said “ummmm… wolves can’t talk”

[gettingnowherefaster]

Started a book from a used book sale i got bc it's about am elephant with prophetic visions and her elephant community (?!) And it has a map plus family trees plus and elphant glossary. The elephant world building! And I looked on storygraph so see if it's generally well received (it is) but one person was like "this book was so WEIRD there is a map and family trees and a glossary it's too weird 1 star"

Obviously everyone can have their opinion but like.... if this is the weirdest book you've read.... read more weird books idk

[one-with-the-tree]

#95 Larka

Book name: The Sight

Author: David Clement-Davies

I like her fine as a character but it always annoyed me so much that she's white. She's an Eurasian wolf, those aren't white. Maybe pale gray or cream at most. So idk I kinda cheated for her design and made her cream instead.

And before you go "oh she's white because of the Sight power", that doesn't work because Morgra and Fell also have it and it did not affect their coat color. Fell also by all logic probably shouldn't be black but it has been sighted a few rare times in Eurasian wolves. White just doesn't really occur. She's an Eurasian, not a Hudson Bay or an Arctic or a Tundra.

[gennsoup]

The girl and the black wolf stood wondering on the mountaintop, feeling the chill air on their faces, seemingly lost in a dream, as they gazed into the immensity of the heavens. How could it be that wolf and man shared the same story? Or were they just in a story themselves, lost in a fable, as they hunted through the world for meaning?

David Clement-Davies, Fell

[standfucker]

The scorpion crew sounds so cool! As does the Storm pirates! Please talk about your OCs as much as you want, it’s so incredible that you’ve come up with so many amazing characters

I know I'm late to answering this ask, and the reason for that is because I was saving it for when I wanted to talk about an OC.

First of all, thank you so much, I'm super flattered that you think they are interesting! ^/////^

So right now I am going to talk about more Storm Pirates.

The Storm Pirates started out as a group of four: Ravi (the captain), Mel, Shen, and Alula (who I've talked about here once). They meet in a town's jail, where they're each detained for a different reason, and start talking to each other.

I'm going to focus on Shen for now.

Shen Haklavim, aka the "Skull Mask Swordsman"

Shen is a swordsman who uses two-sword style. She wears a wolf skull in order to hide her face so that opponents don't make a snap judgement on her based on gender.

She's butch, has a mohawk, and thinks she's short (she's 6 ft) because the rest of her family is all taller than her.

Shen carries six swords (three on each hip), using two at a time, and they are all paired blades meant to be wielded together.

Her swords are:

-Fell and Larka, the Day and Night blades (one's black, one's white) - these are her primary swords. -Benizakura and Musashi, the Land and Sea blades (one's red, one's blue) - old swords that are duller, but she's too attached to get rid of) -Amaroq and Miyax, the Parent and Child blades (one's gold, one's silver) - only busts these out for serious battles against other swordsmen.)

Shen loves weaponry, armor, and especially swords (she and Tashigi could talk for HOURS) as she comes from a blacksmithing family. Is a gigantic tomboy, very masculine, and dresses and acts as such. A bit "pure of heart, dumb of ass" sometimes, as she tends to act on feeling and instinct rather than thinking things through. Extremely loyal, but will put her own needs and wants above those of most people, and only really listens to the captain. Very physical in interacting with others and showing affection.

Shen's dream is to forge the world's strongest swords. Her father is a blacksmith, and she is the youngest of 7 children, with 6 older brothers. Her brothers learned to use weapons, but as the only girl, her father tried to keep her away from such things. But she wanted to be like her cool older brothers, so she went to them behind his back to learn to fight. Having once heard her father say that a great blacksmith must first understand the weapons they craft, and thus know how to use them, she seeks to become a great swordsman in order to truly understand her craft.

All of her brothers are both blacksmiths and warriors that specialize in a different weapon. The brothers in birth order, and the names of their signature weapons: Regel, first son - uses the spear, "Akela" Ein, second son - uses the katana, "Akame" Ozen, third son - uses the kama, "Kurojaki" Tofer, fourth son - uses the claws, "Tsume" Parva, fifth son - uses the axe, "Gabu" Zanav, sixth son - uses the flail, "Balto" (Her father uses the greatsword, "Fenris," and her mother uses the saw, "Moro".)

At the advice of Tofer (her favorite brother, and also the strongest of the brothers) she set out to find a master to instruct her in the ways of the sword. After traveling, Shen met and found her teacher, a swordsman known as "Urva the Mongoose". Urva's training was brutal, and particularly focused on speed, Urva's specialty.

Backstory happened (I can go into it if you're really interested o.o ) and Shen set out to follow her dream, traveling in order to fight strong opponents and become a better swordsman in order to become a better blacksmith.

Shen gets a reputation as a fearsome warrior who will challenge anyone carrying a sword, and gets her epithet before meeting the future Storm Pirates.

Shen gets detained for allegedly stabbing someone. She claims that the person "ran into her sword," but no one believes her--except Ravi, her future captain.

To close, Shen is a love letter to all the canine media I grew up with. Books, shows, movies, everything that shaped me is reflected in her character. All of her moves are named after canine media I loved growing up.

Her signature move is "Silver Fang", a spinning attack with both swords. She does a modified version of it called "White Fang."

Bonus: After meeting and fighting Zoro, they become friends/rivals. Zoro steals her move, Silver Fang, doing a three-sword style version of it he calls "Cerberus." (She, in turn, steals his move, Oni Giri, doing a two-sword style version of it that she calls "Hellhounder".)

[cataqu33rz]

I love making a fan playlist of my childhood audio book series that I've seen exactly 0 people talk about. it's just for me cause I keep hearing a song abd making the association and I'll go insane if I don't record it