#narh

[annabel-in-numberland]

For literally over a year now, I've been trying to find a good system for running a story set in dieselpunk New Albion, but nothing I knew nor any suggestion I looked into appeared to be The One.

However! I'm a good chunk of the way through the rulebook for Eureka Investigative Urban Fantasy, a game still in development but pretty well constructed by now, and I think This Is It. I think This Is It, y'all!

Gonna finish the book, run an adventure module with my group, then see if I can put together a good mystery in New Albion. Basically as soon as I got back into ttrpg, I've had the sense it'd be an incredible setting for a game. Expect updates.

[shaperaverse-brainrot]

[tristinian]

My project for art class the last half of this semester was an A1 board, and I decided to make fanart.

[art-o-gant]

ALL ONE TONIGHT WE CALL SPIRITS COME 🕺🕺

[annabel-in-numberland]

ok but you can read this basically perfectly in tune/rhythm of The Bust (narh)

This took forever and now my fingers hurt

[fayzart136]

Funny how Puppetshades 4 made me redesign most of the characters, especially the puppetshades and Astrid. But L3x? Nah, that robot is gangly. Because i said so. /J

[saucepanguy]

y'know what I've had enough of you. please exit the bunker, take the red pill, and report for active duty

[sameeksha-4717]

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[thechibi]

Okay but the little logo in the first photo? Makes it look like he's wearing a halo... just saying! 😇

Matthew Porretta as Robin Hood in "The New Adventures of Robin Hood"

[ottoman-empire]

"Osmanlı'da Ramazan" ✨🌙

Osmanlı Devletinde, Ramazan ayı her zaman önemli bir yer tutardı. Osmanlı'da Ramazan'a özel bazı gelenekler vardı.

✨🌙 Narh Defteri; Ramazan yaklaşırken ekmek ve eşya fiyatlarının inip çıkmaması için devlet tarafından sabit fiyatlar belirleniyordu ve belgelerle kayıtlara geçiyordu. Bu kayıtların tümü Narh Defteri'nde toplanıyordu ve tüm bakkal ve esnaflara iletiliyordu.

✨🌙 Tembihnameler; Osmanlı Devleti, halkının bu mübarek ay içerisinde nasıl davranması gerektiğini belirten bir "Tembihname" yayınlardı. Müslümanların, 5 vakit namazlarını camide cemaatle beraber kılması ve Gayrimüslimlerin açık alanlarda yemek yememesi gibi konular yer alıyordu.

✨🌙 Davulcular ve Sarı Çiçek; Ramazan davulcuları, davullarına tokmaklarını vurmadan evvel pencereleri süzerdi. Eğer bir pencere kenarında "Sarı Çiçek" varsa orada davulunu çalmazdı. Sarı çiçeğin manası "Bu evde hasta var" demekti.

✨🌙 Zimem Defteri; Zenginler, hiç tanımadıkları mıntıkalardaki bakkal, manav vb. dükkanlarına girer, onlardan "Zimem" yani "Veresiye" defterlerini çıkarmalarını isterdi. Baştan, ortadan ve sondan rastgele sayfalar açarak "Silin borçlarını, Allah kabul etsin" derlerdi.

✨🌙 Kahvehaneler; Ramazanın vazgeçilmez tutkularından olan kahvehaneler, teravihten sonra başlayıp bazen sahura kadar devam eden sohbet ve dinlenme yerleri idi. O dönemde entelektüel çevrenin toplandığı, kitaplar okunan, sohbetler yapılan mekanlardı.

✨🌙 Huzur Dersleri; Ramazan ayının 10 veya 8 gününü kapsardı. Bir alimin seçilen ayeti tefsir etmesiyle başlayan dersler soru-cevap şeklinde ilerlerdi. Bu derslerin yapılacağı yeri Padişah belirlerdi.

✨🌙 Ramazan Eğlenceleri; Gündüz saatlerinde birçok kişi evinde dinlenirken iftar sonrasında eğlenceler başlatılırdı. Sahur vaktine kadar karagöz, orta oyunu ve meddah gibi oyunlar oynatılırdı. Bunun dışında sahura doğru davulcuların sokaklara çıkmasıyla maniler okunurdu.

✨🌙 Diş Kirası; İftar saatinde kim kapıyı çalmışsa kesinlikle geri çevrilmezdi. Büyük konaklarda hem zenginler hem de ihtiyaç sahipleri için sofralar kurulurdu. Misafirler uğurlanırken "Bu akşam sizi yedirdik, içirdik dişinizi eskittik" denilerek avuçlarına para bırakılırdı.

[pagliaccis-clown]

Got bored over summer break and designed some posters for DoNA and NARH

[jongseongsnudes]

ayooo

getting tired of jake mf sim ✋️

[project-catgirlpillar]

Narh au where instead of turning them into an i Pad Amber Turns mascot into a Bag of peas

[projectproductions]

Whenever I imagine the Voodoopunks (New Albion Tetralogy) I kind of always imagine them being representative of different groups within each instalment.

During The Dolls of New Albion (DONA) the Voodoopunks are first being invented and are still feeling out what they are as a group. Since it's primarily composed of teenagers and young adults the Voodoopunks are foundationally a sub-culture within New Albion born from the cultural installation of necromancy as an everyday standard consumer's commodity. However I would like to argue that they are specifically a counter-culture within New Albion. It's stated that most people treat Dolls as accessories or objects of projection rather than as real people but - while the Voodoopunks aren't much better - the Voodoopunks seem to take an almost opposite stand to this. Instead of objectifying the Dolls to the point of dehumanisation, the Voodoopunks objectify the Dolls to a point of reverence or deification. Most people would begin to think of death as trivial in the face of being able to reverse it, but the Voodoopunks instead revere death more than they appreciate their lives - they revolve themselves around death rather than trivialising it. They're countering the cultural perception of the Dolls. This idea of them being analogous to a counter culture is also supported by their political motivations. Most sub cultures - especially counter cultures - have some ideological or political motivation within them which ran against the popular zeitgeist of the time (grunge came from the rejection of the idea that poverty produced only undesirable things, emo from the rejection of the idea that negative emotions should be hidden away from public view, etc). The Voodoopunks are an anti-establishment group, and essentially voting for them would have been a vote to get rid of the establishment of the DONA-era New Albion government (something which was known to be corrupt and unforgiving as seen throughout the tetralogy). What sets them apart from most anti-establishment groups within media however is their emphasis on spirituality born from the change in culture around death in New Albion. The society of DONA-era New Albion is very scientifically- and economically-centred, they prioritise the advancement of science and enterprise over civilians wellbeing or connection. The Voodoopunks counter this cultural president by embracing the inherent spirituality of spirit summoning and co-existence - spirituality being something often seen as antithetical to science. They're basically a youth counter-culture, young political ideological group, and a rising religion all wrapped into one born from the birth of an economic enterprise and the culture surrounding it. Each aspect runs both parallel to each other and intertwined with each other, one aspect never dominating the others - although it all stems from the inherent counter- culture of the Voodoopunks.

Compare this to the Voodoopunks of The New Albion Radio Hour (NARH). Due to a prolonged sense of isolation from the larger connection of New Albion society for around a decade (most likely longer), the Voodoopunks have all but basically lost their counter-cultural roots since they've been disconnected from the culture they were countering. Additionally the ideological aspect of the Voodoopunks seemed to have seeped and been absorbed into the now more religious fanaticism aspects of the Voodoopunks. This isn't to say that they aren't a significant political and ideological force - they are literally the face of the residents against the New Albion government after all - but their ideological aspects have some second to their spiritual religious ones. They're basically a cult now (not in the exploitative way, but in the collective of concentrated religious activity kind of way). They have their own religious wrights and rituals, they have self proclaimed hymns and chants and prophets. Thomas is literally able to recognise them by their sound of their singing alone. The Voodoopunks in NARH are identified by their religious aspects, with other aspects of them being second to their fanaticism.

Both previous installations of the Voodoopunks have been similar in the fact that they aren't the status queo, they were in fact counter to the status queo and actively against the establishment of New Albion. However in The New Albion Guide To Analogue Consciousness (NAGAC) they are the establishment, or at least they run the establishment. Something noticeable is that in NAGAC the only time the Voodoopunks are referred to as the Voodoopunks are in reference to the people, while in previous narratives the title Voodoopunks referred both to the people and what they represented as a group. No, in NAGAC whenever the Voodoopunks are referred to as a collective outside of its people they are referred to as Arcadia Corp. I think this is indicative of the fact that the Voodoopunks as a group have lost almost all of their back bone in the sense of counter-culturalism and ideological individuality. What are the Voodoopunks in NAGAC except for just being the people who run Arcadia Corp? A religious group? Not really, they've lost almost all of their fanaticism as they became more mainstream and palatable from the population of New Albion. The religious aspects they have left are all watered down, music sounding like it's been Christian Rock-ed and sanitised. Heck there isn't even a song called The Voodoopunks in NAGAC! There's "The Voodoopunks Ascension" but that isn't even the Voodoopunks main/signature song in this album - Kyrie is! Essentially in the shuffle of becoming the mainstream and publicly acceptable norm for the pursuit of power, the Voodoopunks as a group lost what made them themselves - ending up with the people being only the Voodoopunks in name until they too die out.

I find the development of the Voodoopunks so interesting. They're never truly all good or all bad, but they are a significant driving force in New Albion throughout the years in the pursuit of their own goals and desires until eventually they drive them into extermination.

It's a really good representation of how ideology, government and politics, economics and innovation, and culture all interact with and influence each other within history and the real world. Also on how as years go by often sub-cultures and counter-cultures will lose their connection to their original purpose and become almost bastardization of themselves as they become sanitized and stripped of their essence as they enter the view of the socially accepted public eyes.

[moonfall666]

ive been trying to get my sister into the shaperaverse (we made a trade where id listen to her favourite musicals if she listens to my favourite concept albums)

but anyways she really liked DONA but the said shes having trouble finishing NARH because she doesn't like it very much..... im so offended 😭

[katyahina]

Oops you need not respond to this but one thing I omitted in my previous ask that might be interesting, is that Velka probably had purple eyes?

Purple is the color associated with darkness in this game, and Velka is the heretical witch that dabbles in the dark. But also, Friede "assumed the form the people of the painting yearned for" which seems to be a sort of a composite of Velka & Priscilla. She wears the long hooded robe Velka is depicted with in her statues! This assumed form includes purple eyes too probably, since in her portraits before the change, she had a duller eye tone. And I think Velka's signature black hair since Yuria and Lilliane seem to have white, it's pretty black in concept art, though it's hard to tell in-game...

Also why "Caitha" who is Velka sheds blue and red tears... Because her eyes are purple!

But also purple hair preset in Dark Souls says that it's the hair color of a near-extinct race, and the child Beatrice model as well as Zullie's concept art seem to have this dark purple hair... The witch race!

Obviously both Zullie and Beatrice dress head to toe in purple too. It's a witch thing.

Anon, I did read your previous ask, and I should get to it later when I can because it is actually a very fair request and I should have posted something like this earlier! I am glad that you are happy with me posting the close-ups of Dark Souls 1 characters! However, I can answer this one right now so let me do it though

1) You've linked the article for Gwyn's family tree in your previous ask! I browsed through it and it is a really good one! You didn't need to link it to me though ahaha; I am well aware about all of these members in the family... after all, I am not just an artist, but also a loredigger!

I wanted to point out that the exact family tree is not something strict in the source material, but partially up to interpretation! Heck, people still argue whether Queen of Lothric is a separate character or not XD I will go through strictly-confirmed members with the references when I have my PC back though like you want to, it would be SUPER helpful to have them all in one spot and grab the post quickly!

The article about family anon linked for the readers, it is actually a pretty good start and useful:

2) I am REALLY not a fan of the theory of Caitha being Velka! If you like it, no shade towards you, I am just feeling very strongly about it personally and prefer to keep the characters separate from each other! I think they are more than fine as separate characters; the one crying for the victims of tragedies, including but not limited to victims of crimes, and seeking to soothe their pain AND the one punishing the guilty!

I fully agree with the idea that Velka's eyes would be purple, though, it has been my idea as well! And trust me the red/blue/purple thing HAS been driving me insane, as well as Velka, Narh Alma and Caitha being Gods connected with the Dark. But I've bounced off every idea and they are better off as separate characters at least for the sake of consistency! I am not a fan of conflating named characters with distinct motivations and vibes into one in general, but Caitha and Velka one is something I feel stroingly about.

3) Beatrice's child model doesn't have purple hair! This is just not true!

As for her concept art, I am not so sure either:

It doesn't look purple for me either, rather grey too!

As for Zullie's concept art, I'd say the same:

It can be interpreted as purple hair, especially from afar, but I'd think grey as well! It is a bit harder to tell with her, but as for purple clothing.. yeah, definitely the color of the Dark!