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SAW PUPPETS TODAY

The dark crystal puppets I saw in Atlanta!! I feel like my life is nearly complete oh my days 😭

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elfling. sisters

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man i wish tdc aor capitalized more on the gelf clans having unique wings because the second book just canonized stonewood gelfs having like. red and gold wings with EYESPOTS?? WHY COULDNT WE HAVE THAAAT

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everyone laughs at Amri for his

"the All-Maudra had to produce Vapra heirs- with pure Silverling blood, no doubt. Not a mix of snow and salt water"

reasoning when figuring out why a Vapra princess (Tavra) would keep her Sifa lover (Onica) a secret.

(hee hee, Tavra and Onica are both women, Amri must not know where babies come from- never mind that Gelflings aren't human and already have weird biology / magic going on)

but jokes at Amri's expense aside, doesn't it just explain so much of how Mayrin treats her daughters?

her HALF-SIFA heirs to the VAPRA throne...?

wouldn't Amri's reasoning mean that openly having children (or just /a/ child??) with a Sifa became a problem for Mayrin later on?

she did that when she was young and adventurous and newly made All-Maudra, back when she honestly acted like a balance of her three future daughters- strong and daring like Tavra, creative in her problem solving like Brea, trying hard to live up to her mother's high standards like Seladon.

Mayrin isn't like that by the time her daughters are grown though. She's clearly worn down by the living crown, resigned to just maintaining the status quo and not making life under the skeksis any worse or more dangerous than it already is, settled into both the power and the chains that loyalty to the skeksis places on her.

did she end up regretting having her kids with Kam'lu?

did it leave her feeling she must demand the best from her daughters: not just to make up for the subversion of tradition by having had them in the first place, not just to keep the skeksis from doubting her family and clan and removing them from power and the safety it gives them, but also for her daughter's own sake- to give the Vapra and skeksis as few chances to criticize or remove them from power as possible?

is her past relationship with a Sifa, and it's fallout, the reason WHY she doesn't want Tavra falling in love with one?

or does that have more to do with Kam'lu not being around anymore. Him leaving, or dying at sea. He fell in love with a woman who was ready to twist tradition into new shapes, but she changed, and now in the present Mayrin is alone. Kam'lu is never seen or mentioned in current times. We never see his daughters remembering him.

Did they know him at all?

(let's put a pin in that)

Tavra in the books says Mayrin's daughters had to earn their mother's love. That Mayrin placed being All-Maudra over being their mother.

That doesn't sound like Mayrin in her comic, the Mayrin that met and bonded with Kam'lu the Sifa ship captain and was so excited to have her first child.

Was her changing what broke her and Kam'lu apart, or did he insist on returning to the sea, Sifa that he was, only to shipwreck and down like Mayrin's mother had- maybe in a storm very like the one that almost killed Onica and Tae. Is that what broke Mayrin instead?

Is that why she can't accept the idea of Tavra with a Sifa?

Too much salt water already in the family. Or fear Tavra will run off to her father's clan and be lost to Mayrin like him (half way comes true, Tavra and Onica promised each other to leave both their clans behind, and they do, but by then Mayrin is already dead). Or, even if Tavra does stay in Ha'rar, did Mayrin fear her daughter wouldn't be accepted if she openly challenges the way of things just like her mother once did?

Point is: Amri didn't think Tavra was half-Sifa.

Seladon, heir to her mother's throne, definitely IS half Sifa, Mayrin was already expecting her at the end of her comic.

the Grot are a bit isolated from the other clans and Amri's main interest in the Vapra at first is thinking they all kinda really suck, but. This is still the daughters of the All-Maudra. There is a joke in the Sog about the "many daughters of Mayrin", so clearly the personal life of the All-Maudra is a topic of gossip and songs even on the other side of Skarith land.

and Amri didn't know? About Mayrin's Sifa lover?

did Mayrin never officially name Kam'lu as the father of her children?

(is that where the joke of many daughters comes from. if she won't say who the father is who's to say she isn't hiding other children too)

or did Mayrin have trouble having children at first. Did any of her children from Kam'lu even survive... but that would make the joke of many daughters so cruel, let's assume that isn't the joke. Let's say it's just speculation of possible unacknowledged children instead.

maybe many Gelfling /suspect/ who the other parent of Mayrin's daughters is, especially the people Mayrin's age or older who would've been paying attention while the whole thing played out, but with no official word, it stays just rumors. Just an uncomfortable moment that makes Tavra's face flush when it's brought up.

Amri clearly believes that a half-Sifa All-Maudra would be a huge scandal, maybe wouldn't even be accepted at all.

so maybe it's not just a crooked wing and a name with history that has Seladon feeling insecure. Maybe it's her Sifa father. Maybe it's her Sifa blood. Maybe, buying into the skeksis beliefs to prove herself, she ended up learning to hate what she was

maybe it's just being the only daughter old enough to really remember Kam'lu and the whispers that a Sifa in Ha'rar's citadel might have brought each time he visited, or having to watch her mother's pain, keenly aware or assuming that Mayrin would be better off if she Seladon hadn't been born from a Sifa father. The reflexive guilt and blame for herself and her parents both.

maybe the reason we never see Mayrin and Tavra having any kind of personal interaction or moment together is thanks to Tavra quietly continuing to visit the wharfs and her Sifa lover despite Mayrin's own history, despite being old enough to vaguely know about but not have been part of it, and Mayrin preemptively closing herself off from the soldier who happens to be her daughter before she can have her heart broken again

(the fact that Tavra is a reflection of the Mayrin who was once an active and hands-on All-Maudra. The fact that of Mayrin's daughters it is Tavra who the Vapra are shown to see as THEIR maudra. Even after Seladon is crowned. It's Tavra who people from various other clans- Drenchen, Grotten, Sifa- wish could lead them)

(They all see in Tavra now what Kam'lu saw in Mayrin back then.)

is that why Tavra tries so hard to believe that people can always change for the better and do the right thing? Why she wants to at least forget whatever terrible thing it was Mayrin once did- and hope she will light the fires of resistance now?

has she heard or seen dreamfasts of the woman Mayrin used to be and want so desperately for that person to not truly be gone?

is she also trying to be like her mother- just, not the version of Mayrin that she sees today?

anyway. Brea also doesn't seem to know she's half Sifa.

(if she's half Sifa. if Kam'lu is the father of /all/ Mayrin's daughters)

or, if she knows her father wasn't Vapra, she ascribes so firmly to the "a Gelfling belongs to the clan of their mother" view that it doesn't even mean anything to her where her father came from. She clearly never knew him. If she had, meeting the Sifa wouldn't have been such a curiosity and adventure for her.

TLDR: imo Mayrin disapproving of Tavra's Sifa lover despite having had children with one herself isn't a plot hole, it's the explanation of why Mayrin and Seladon are Like That*.

*in need of therapy. Badly.

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watched the dark crystal some time ago and loved it ^__^ (may have gone a little overboard with the stamps)

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What started as a silly sketch of Midieval Deet and Knight Rian ended up taking over 6 hours of my life 😞 I hope it looks good

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He couldn't wait to tell a few stories of his own. Now there's so many he doesn't know what to do with them all... 🗡️

Rian's scars from the Garthim Wars 💦 This was meant to be just a doodle but it turned into a full blown art piece! Only the best for my boy I guess, haha ✨ I don't think we actually know how much the green covers his skin so this is my headcanon. It just looks nice ok 👉👈

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R.I.P Dark Crystal fandom. I think you died before Season 2 was even cancelled...

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Day 4 of @dark-crystal-week: Fizzgigs! They are very loud and very round balls of fur and i have no idea how to draw them.

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i dunno daily soldiermoss gif

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Day 2 of @dark-crystal-week: Maudra! I went with Seethi, who is the most beautiful out of all the maudras (non-negotiable).

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Day 1 for @dark-crystal-week: Drenchen! Celebrating with everyones favourite guy Gurjin. I had so much fun doing his hair.

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soldiermoss for pride month!!

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Id be cryin pissin if someone jumped off a ledge with me with no hesitation

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i am black!deet truther..i claim her she’s a sista now 🎀

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wip. butchfemme stonegrot superiority

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me when i take 1000000000 frame by frame screenshots of my favorite character doing literally anything