#Moroz

[aquatic-batt]

design tests for Marna (she/her) and Moroz (he/him)!!

[random-lildoodles]

So I made a new character. His name is Мороз/Moroz.

[sovietpostcards]

Ded Moroz arrives to a children's New Year party in a sputnik troika. Photo by A. Cheprunov (Kremlin hall, Moscow, Dec. 1958).

[zu-is-here]

Naive souls ♪( ´▽｀)

[silverskinsrepository]

Andrey Moroz

[uwmspeccoll]

Another Wood-engraved Feathursday

We mentioned the annual Wood Engravers' Network (WEN) Printers Bundles that we received as a gift from Tony Drehfal in a previous post. This group of wood-engraved birds comes from the 2018 bundle: Partridge by Susan Bradish; Titania [Tufted Titmouse] by Andrew Moroz; Falcon#1 [American Kestrel] by Sylvia Pixley; and an anonymous, untitled engraving of a woodpecker that we will venture is a Downey woodpecker.

Two of our favorite things: birds and wood engravings.

View more engravings by members of the Wood Engraver’s Network.

View more posts with wood engravings!

[schweizercomics]

Hey, friends! I hope you don't mind if I try to peddle a project I've been working on. After three years of designing, drawing, making prototypes, etc, I'm finally releasing (taking orders for) the wooden wall-hanging Santa's Workshop DisPlayset. I wanted to make something that people can hang in their homes year after year, and to be part of their holiday traditions.

The set comes with Santa, Mrs. Claus, and ten elves.

It's made of sturdy 1/4 birch, and has nine platforms on which to position the figures.

It also has a shelf below the stables on which to place the story cards that come with each figure:

I've also got 25 additional Christmas and winter holiday figures ready to populate the workshop, available either individually or as a big collection:

Thanks for taking a look! I really appreciate it. This has been a labor of love for a while and I'm excited to put it out into the world.

I'll be taking orders for US customers (looking into international shipping, but it's very difficult and pricy to manage) until August 15, 2023 to have them mailed by October 31, 2023 so you right-after-Halloween Christmas decorators can get yours up quick.

You can order the Workshop and/or figures at SchweizerCraft.com

Thanks again!

[thestuffedalligator]

I’m just saying that we have so many stories about ending an endless winter. Like so many stories about ending an endless winter. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Wintersmith, Spinning Silver, Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, the Hades abducting Persephone myth, Recess: School’s Out.

And I know this is universally portrayed as a bad thing, and I totally respect that, but. A little endless winter would be kind of nice right about now, right? Maybe just. Two years of endless winter. Three years, tops.

[fragmentofmemories]

Late Night Study.

[bison2winquote]

Vlov Arkhangel, Melty Blood: Type Lumina (French Bread/ Type Moon)

[bandagegirl]

hey so quick question, between fortuna and paidia, who has more followers? fortuna may be older but something like gambling and addiction are pretty tempting

Fortuna may have a ridiculously tiny active following currently but she has been part of the world for a long loooong time. After all, who doesnt wish upon a star, a dandelion, a coin thrown into a well? Who doesnt wish someone good luck on their way? A passive following spanning the entire history of the world. Far more influential than any modern celebrity.

[frosted-night]

The Rotgoc fandom is no stranger to misconceptions, like somehow saying Jokul Frosti is Jacks norse counterpart when Jokul n Frosti are two seperate spirits etc. You guys know that I'm sure.

One that nags at me is the notion that Jack Frost and "Father Frost" are the same person or spirit. In my research for the Christmas spirits, I've learned quite a bit about Father Frost, and its very clear that he isn't Jack. Father Frost is North, or related to him.

Father Frost comes from a Russian Folktale that goes as follows;

A stepmother orders her husband to take the stepdaughter out in the wilderness to die. The girl is freezing at the foot of a tree and Father Frost appears. Instead of fearing him she's said to be nice to him despite her circumstances. Touched by the girl, Father Frost dresses her in warm fine linens to keep her warm and gives her a chest full of gems. The Stepmother sends her husband to fetch the girls body to bury and to his surprise the girl is just fine. Stepmother is enraged but curious how the girl got such nice things. So, she sends her own daughter out in the same place the stepdaughter nearly died in, to get the same valuable stuff. Father Frost appears but the girl is rude to him, probably demanding the same things as her stepsister. Insulted, Father Frost punishes her by allowing her to freeze to death.

Moral of the story is don't be greedy ig. So whats the connection to North? Father Frost sounds more like a winter spirit than Santa right? Ehhhh kind of. Father Frost is based off of the Slavic counterpart of Santa, Ded Moroz(This is the Russian spelling of his name.) Ded Moroz is said to be either a winter wizard, snow demon. Back then he was mostly called "Morozoko" or "ded". He was reformed to resemble more of Santa around the time of Soviet occupation.

Now, the early iteration of Ded Moroz could resemble Jack Frost, why the literal translation for his name is Grandfather Frost. However, just because Frost is in his name doesn't mean they're related. Ded Moroz resembles Santa more these days or St.Nicholas...so who's Ded Moroz?

Keep in mind I'm not Russian or Slavic, Eastern European countries have differing versions of Santa/St.Nicholas that could just be aliases for North. A reasonable assumption is Ded Moriz is an alias for North. I suppose if you stretched it maybe Ded Moriz could be seperate from Jack or North but due to the evolution of Ded Moroz's character it makes it hard to split him from Santa.

Regardless, I can kind of see why some would tie him to Jack Frost but if you read more about Father Frost/Ded Moroz, it's pretty clear the two barely have any association.

[lovesmokerguys]

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[sovietpostcards]

New Year postcard feat. the Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow, artist E. Isayeva (1968)

[upwards-descent]

Rowan of Verdant Sunshine and Emmanuel Moroz are the leaders of a cult set on terraforming the post-apocalyptic planet back to it's former lush green glory 💚

[silverskinsrepository]

Andrey Moroz