#Princess of the Wolf Gods

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

SHE WHO SPITS BLOOD AND RUNS WITH THE WOLVES -- THE WOLF GIRL PRINCESS.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on an original "Princess Mononoke" (1997) Japanese B5 Chirashi handbill. A Hayao Miyazaki film.

PIC #2: A commercial poster (20x29) design, a reported "rare style," of Miyazaki's animated fantasy classic.

Resolution at 960x1350 & 960x1371.

Source: https://posteritati.com/poster/39526/princess-mononoke-original-1997-japanese-b5-chirashi-handbill (Posteritati 2x).

[verflares]

caution: dog will bite

[heavendraven]

twilight princess really dropped the character design of all time and then did NOTHING with her....

[sombredancer]

Asian dramas and my favorite types of characters

There are my favorite types of characters as a list. A villain with a fatal weakness

Drama: The Scholar Who Walks the Night /밤을 걷는 선비 Character: Gwi Screentime: Secondary Gwi is an ancient vampire and a master of puppets (and Joseon's king is the main of them). He is merciless, invincible and scheming all the drama long, until he accidentally kills a girl, who was his hostage and recalcitrant puppet from her childhood on and was the only one who could scold him and deny him. Nothing about it is said directly in the drama, but after her death he goes insane, kills all of his puppets and this way causes his own death. So, I suppose, she was his only weakness, and I like this type of a personal drama for a villain. Punch-Clock Villain / the Dragon

Drama: 100 Days My Prince /백일의 낭군님 Character: Moo-yeon Screentime: Secondary Moo-yeon works as an assassin for the killer of his father, who is constantly threatening him with the life of his sister. Moo-yeon is a man of a very ill fate: his family was accused of a treason and executed, his sister became a fugitive, he was forced to sell his conscience for his and sister's lives and, as a cherry on the top of this cake, fell in love with the daughter of his captor. And died trying to save her... His story is sooooo sad, but it makes me feel for this character fully. Also, he is the king of whump because the half of the drama he is injured and suffers from his wounds. The whole sad story of this guy is analyzed by me here, here and here.

Drama: The King Loves /왕은 사랑한다 Character: Moo-suk Screentime: Minor Koreans, obviously, like this type of characters, too, so there is another Dragon of the main villain, Moo-suk. In his free from dirty deeds time he h̶e̶l̶p̶s̶ ̶o̶l̶d̶ ̶l̶a̶d̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶c̶r̶o̶s̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶o̶a̶d̶ literally saves cute children and restores self-confidence of young ladies. And then he falls in love, rethinks his life and dies from the hand of his master. Predictable and sad. Still a memorable guy, though. 50 shades of a Byronic Hero

Drama: The Wolf / 狼殿下 Character: Chu Youwen Screentime: Main A Mowgli boy was adopted by a wicked emperor, brought up like a cruel beast and was forced to do some dirty stuff for the emperor. He is mysterious, severe and you never know what's on his mind. As a true Byronic hero. He is some kind of Dragon, too, but it's a Chinese drama and he is a main hero in it, that's why he doesn't really do anything bad during the series. His soul is kind and his heart is pure, but he hides it from his love and deals with all of his problems on his own. It's the reason why all of this drama is a masochistic tango between him and his love. Whump lovers will be happy, too, because he is constantly in chains, pierced by arrows like a hedgehog or works as a slave in mines. As any other Dragon, he has a BE.

Drama: Lost You Forever /长相思 第一季 Character: Xiang Liu Screentime: Secondary A mysterious demon general, whose name makes everyone shake in fear. A former demon slave, who is true to his word enough to fight for his benefactor even if he knows crystal clearly that it's hopeless and he and his army will die in the end. A man who has huge problems with expression of his emotions in a socially approved way. Edward Cullen of Chinese dramaland. He is enigmatic, with thick vibes of a bad guy, yet very loyal to his benefactor as well as his love and very selfless. Because of this loyalty he will die and the love of his life will never-ever find out about anything he has done for her during the story.

Drama: My Journey to You /云之羽 Character: Gong Shangjue Screentime: Secondary A guy was through trauma in his childhood and it made him look intimidating and unfeeling. A tsundere is born! He coped with his trauma by taking extra responsibilities for everything and everyone and turned to be a walking killing machine instead of a man. But an enemy assassin comes to his life and teaches him how to be a human once more. It's a painful experience, but it`s necessary in order to grow up as a character and is beautifully fulfilled. It was a great joy to know that he survives at the end of the story, it's a rare thing for this type of characters, so even if there is season 2 someday, I will not watch it in order not to spoil my impression of the first one. I wrote about him detailed here, here, here and here.

Drama: Princess Agents / 特工皇妃楚乔传 Character: Yan Xun Screentime: Secondary It's the transformation story, too, like a previous one, but this time it's transformation from an ordinary man to a villain. Prince Yan Xun is a hostage colony prince in a metropolis empire, but he enjoys a noble life along with other nobility youth. The society around him is awful, each of these noble youths is a psycho who appreciate human hunt and so on, but cheerful and easy-going Yan Xun doesn't think their bloodthirstiness could turn against him. When relationship between the metropolis and the colony become tense, though, Yan Xun's friends of yesterday are happy to drink his blood. He loses his whole family and, insanely longing for revenge, slowly turns to one of those monsters himself.

Drama: A Journey to Love / 一念关山 Character: Li Tongguang Screentime: Minor This guy has got a very realistic personality and background: he is a bastard who was deprived of mother's love since he was a child. The first circumstance made him power-hungry, scheming and outwardly emotionless, the second one made him longing for mother's love on insanely level. So he is invincible outwardly, but turns into a teary mess when it's about his female tutor, who is a mother figure for him. The contrast between these two personalities is enormous and makes this character very alive and interesting. During the drama he will not cope with his Oedipus complex but circumstances will solve this problem for him.

A pure-hearted hero

Drama: Creation of the Gods Ⅰ / 封神三部曲 Character: Ji Fa Screentime: Main It's maybe strange to find this type of characters in the list of my favorite types, but morality and selflessness of a character is very important for me, too. This story is some kind of King Arthur's legend, but in a Chinese way. The emperor is bewitched by a demon and is bringing the kingdom to it's downfall, the Gods are here to find the savior with the help of a magic scroll that can be opened only by a true king. Ji Fa, a hero of this story, doesn't care about scrolls, but his heart is loyal to his kingdom and to his family (in this very order). He genuinely wants to help his friend-prince to be a king his kingdom deserves and, despite awful things that were done to him and his family, doesn`t harden his soul and betray his ideals. And, I suppose, although he isn't aware of this, he IS the future King Arthur of China. Interesting character decisions

Drama: The Legends/招摇 Characters: Jiang Wu Screentime: Minor This character is something like a rival of the male lead. He is a xinmo - an inner demon of some other character and represents the darkest features of a human's soul. He is a ruthless killer, a dark sorcerer without conscience, but what was very unique, being literary the worst part of a human personality, he values his assistants a lot and genuinely cares for them. A villain is usually a lone wolf. He doesn't trust anyone and doesn't value anyone, his loneliness is usually his weakness and a key to his downfall. So I was pleasantly surprised that sometimes a villain is capable of building healthy relationships with his subordinates.

Drama: Sh**ting Stars / 별똥별 Characters: Do Soo-hyuk Screentime: Minor

This guy truly surprised me. Firstly, he is supposed to be something like a third wheel in relationships of the main couple, but he just calmly got a refusal from the female lead, said "OK" and, absolutely relaxed, proceeded to live his life further. It's something unbelievable for me, because I used to see the insanity caused by an unrequited love to be the plot engine of a lot of dramas. Secondly, he is well-written as a character, straightforward, principled and has tsundere-ish or Byronic vibes - all the character features that I like =) Part 3 will be about other interesting types of relationship, mostly between men.

[zelda-the-sacred-realm]

"Those Who Rule the World"

(Open the image to see it in better quality)

Finally after a long time I have completed this main artwork dedicated to my comic!

I'm happy to have started working on this again, if I had given up I probably would have regretted it forever, and now that it's ready I can say that I love it so much!

Imagine Twilight looking for those masks, masks that belonged to gods who possess incredible powers. But he discovers that those gods are still alive, mercilessly, and seeking vengeance on the chosen ones of the Goddess Hylia.

As strong as Twilight was, he could do nothing against the gods who rule the world, whose goals are destruction and suffering.

But sometimes fate has to take its course...

Thank you very much for believing in me, if I kept working on this it is mainly thanks to your support, I hope the wait was worth it and you like this 💖

[puppyeared]

Doodles from stream

[themintman]

dude ever since hearing about the whole Jack miniseries thing I've had little ideas for their quests bouncing around in my brain. And like. I don't plan to go into detail with many of them but this one I just HAVE to it's so silly 😭

So basically it starts like a generic pillager outpost rhing. They go to the outpost, defeat the pillagers, free everyone, just standard stuff. But as they're leaving they notice that when the remaining pillagers fled they left behind a ravager calf. So everyone is like "damn that's sad nothing we can do tho"

Except for nurm. Who smuggles the calf back into town.

So now Nurm has this very illegal, villager killing baby monster called Princess or something just.. chilling in his house. The only people who know about her are Sammy, Jack and Vos. And over the next few months they have to look after this huge puppy of a creature, all while pretending theat they don't have a ravager because aha that's ridiculous who would bring a ravager into town, right guys??

They take her on several quests, each time the plan to sneak her in and out of town gets more and more elaborate as she gets bigger (like. From the size of a smallish dog to an ELEPHANT. These things are big). Every so often someone catches a glimpse of her and rumors spread through town. Someone will tell the gang about how they saw this "mighty beast with horns that scrape the sky" and they're just like SHIT, PRINCESS GOT OUT AGAIN

Eventually they have to give her away though cause, yknow, it's illegal to have a ravager, especially without a license.

[tracingpapier]

ohgb my god ive gotta make a post!!!! mixed doodles from the past month or so

(the hope design is heavily inspired by @/sharpedgedfool's design! please go check out their blog and their team dark comic!)

[nemainofthewater]

Best character surnamed: Ji

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgotten anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here

[sun-citadel]

[ zealously posted zelda facts ]

[darkdragon768]

Don't tell no lie;

You can't deny;

The beast inside.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

DEFENDER, PROTECTOR, & WARRIOR OF THE FOREST -- PRINCESS OF THE WOLF GODS.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on San, the "Wolf Girl Princess," from the 1997 Japanese animated feature film from Studio Ghibli, "Princess Mononoke," directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Artwork/colors by Jim Lee, c. summer 2018.

"Lee has spoken about his love for manga and anime in many public forums. He reportedly cited manga styles as an influence in his iconic "Punisher: War Journal" series in the 1980s, and in recent years he has said that his kids have drawn his attention back to the genre.

During panels, con appearances and podcasts, Lee has often mused about how his daughters are more interested in manga and anime than Western superheroes.

"My kids, they draw huge eyes on all their figures," he said, laughing at the Canadian National Comic Expo in 2006. "What's up with that? Why is everything backwards? You don't want to put color on it?"

-- COMIC BOOK (Michael Hein), c. August 2018

Source: https://comicbook.com/anime/news/dc-comics-jim-lee-princess-mononoke-sketch.

[mascamaiorum]

APOLLO LYKAIOS, the Blue-Eyed Beast

There was a ‘dark’ underground and background to the ‘god of light.’ This claim plainly contradicts the received opinion about Apollo, the Greek god who was pushed farthest of all into the realm of the ‘bright’ and the ‘spiritual.’ It removes him from the unfruitful antinomy of the pair of opposites, ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian.’ It also confirms the ambivalence which Thomas Mann seems to feel in his urge to identify origins: ‘Who can say where the stories originated, above or below?’ (Christa Wolf)

"And you, Apollo, lord of the Wolf, be a wolf to the enemy force and give them groan for groan!" (Aeschylus)

The epithet Lykaios/Lyceus shows Apollo as protector and master of wolves （λύκοι）. For example, the god Apollo Lykaios was invoked to ward off enemies. And as an averter of evil, he protects herds, flocks and the young. We can see some parallels to the divine/protective role of wolves in other cultures, for example in Japan. (Ralph Haeussler)

[isa-ah]

How long have you been drawing, and was there any specific piece(s) of media that greatly influenced your style?

these were probably the biggest influences off the top of my head from when i was little tiny til my mid teens i’d say. they’re all still pretty visible in my art today too!

when i was old enough to hold a crayon my grandma set me up with a box of them and let me scribble all over the wall in our hallway and that trend pretty much continued my whole formative life. she would buy me sketchbooks, pens, colored pencils, my first tablet, etc. and now i’m a fulltime artist as a profession so! :-)

[callmecottontail]

[tyrannuspitch]

thinking about hela again. building her piece by piece like a frankenstein 🖤