#aph Edmonton

[battle-of-alberta]

Look at this photograph~!

You can have one contemporary and relevant doodle, as a treat :)

the Juno’s have kicked off in Edmonton, this year’s host city! The Junos are national music awards for Canadian artists (similar to the Brit Awards in the UK or the Grammy’s in the States). They started over 50 years ago in 1970 in Toronto, and were last hosted in Alberta by Calgary in 2016. This year, notoriously infamous Alberta band Nickelback is the inductee for the Canadian Music Hall of Fame :)

Ed’s taking a selfie at one of the various displays set up in malls around the city (of course, this one is based on a photo I took at The Mall recently, you know the one.)

[nakamopapina]

Here it is @battle-of-alberta Beard! Ed with his # 1 support bro, for the game

I accidentally made his skin too dark, sorry!

[sams-scribbles]

Originally created 4/3/24 Made this as part of Monmonton day 2k24! Totally innocent ice cream sharing happening here, nothing else to see folks

Montreal OC belongs to the enviable @randomoranges and Edmonton OC belongs to the always wonderful @allbeendonebefore

[acetechne]

Can I request an APH Montreal H4 or an Edmonton E3?

what on earth

[allbeendonebefore]

Updated and crosslinked Ed’s three reference/bio things so I don’t lose them again. Here they are in case you wanted to look at the changes

[2015 Visual Ref Sheet Here] (Just added the links to the other two)

[2018 Personality Bio] (Updated a few things re: Personality, Relationships, Tattoos, etc.) 

[2019 All About Ed Directory Here] (Added text between the reference images to re-iterate and clarify what is depicted there)

[sundownintheparisoftheprairies]

Calgary, Edmonton and Alberta are about to be insufferable and I'm living for it.

[trilliumvevo-moved]

i'm pleasantly surprised with how this turned out, so i'm posting it here ;v; this is Ethan, my OC for Edmonton.

[roniebuttercups]

A Draw This In Your Style!

Characters: Calgary/Calvin McCall & Edmonton/Edward Murphy Belong to @acetechne/@battle-of-alberta

This took so long. I had my vaccine recently (June 5th) and drew for 3 days straight while my arm was sore. However it was so worth it!!!

More versions under the cut!

[aphmontreal]

It always breaks my heart when my most precious team loses.. even though I have to admit the chances of actually winning the Stanley cup were relatively low. BUT IT STILL BREAKS MY HEART, OKAY? It’s a normal way to feel, because us Montrealers like to believe it will happen, no matter what.

Call me a hopeless dreamer, but perhaps next year will be our year :,)). Though people have been betting that the maple leafs will win a Stanley cup before we do with their Auston Matthews.

(( IM ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE MAPLE LEAFS BUT I HAVE GOOD HOPES FOR THEM1!1!1

The unwritten rule of hockey in Canada is to always support the Canadians teams that are the most ahead in the game , even if they are not the team you usually root for. When the Canadiens lost, I was honestly hoping the Maple Leafs would win at least against Washington, but meh they were not ready for that yet.

US CANADIANS HAVE TO CHEER FOR THE SENS, IM SORRY.

But I’ve started to like hockey a lot, recently. And to the point where I don’t watch the games the Canadiens play only. ))

[battle-of-alberta]

Hi and welcome to this thing that's sort of a prequel to the timeline I'm working on. The working title is Alberta Story, but as you can see I kind of changed directions midway through as I thought about it more, I figured if I was getting frustrated then surely Ed was also getting frustrated with it so I turned it over to him to express that, haha. I wrote the first half of this last fall and stewed on it for about a year and decided, screw it, I don't know where I'm going with this but I will slap on a few more panels and figure it out as I go.

This might be the closest thing to a reboot of the BoAB main storyline for a while. I wanted to do something that gave a cursory outline of Canadian / Albertan history for people who are new to it, but of course it runs the risk of repeating every narrative Canada / Alberta have about themselves and that's quite frustrating, to be honest! Particularly when you are trying to write characters who lived through a great chunk of it.

I was trying to think about where to "start" the story of Alberta, particularly after reading Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta. A lot of the tongue in cheek ahistorical assigning of Albertan-ness to even protozoic life rubbed me the wrong way even though I found it an interesting narrative, so I wanted to illustrate the difficulty of "beginning".

Additionally: I really find it frustrating in the Hetalia fandom when people kind of take Himaruya's approach and suggest the colonized personifications almost predate colonization somehow, like they were "always there", or the approach that they are direct descendants of some ambiguous ancestral "Native America" that mysteriously no longer exists. At the same time, I sort of understand how it also happens with the narratives we construct ourselves, in textbooks and museums, that have long illustrated "pre-history" (Indigenous history) as opposed to "history" (the "Real" history of Euro-Canadians). It's a cultural underpinning that needs to be undone.

I don't make any ambitious claims to produce real, decolonizing work, I realize there's this big gap in this universe I'm building that acknowledges municipal personifications and only vaguely gestures at the idea of others and there's a myriad of issues with that, but it's a place that I as a euro-canadian myself am starting with and I hope to continue learning and growing from here.

"Here" is summed up as: isn't it crazy that a company that was just gifted 1/12th of the surface of the Earth not only predates the idea of this country and its cities but also still exists and is just a place you end up in at the mall now?

More detailed explanation of each panel follows.

Diver's Claw: Several stories in different First Nations cosmologies reference the Creator or another figure making a flood that covered the whole earth, where a survivor (Wisakedjek in Cree/Ojibwe stories, Na'pi in Blackfoot, etc) sends down a succession of animals to the bottom of the waters to retrieve a piece of the old earth, which they can then use to create anew.

Mounds of Earth: When the Northwest Mounted Police were sent out west from Canada after purchasing the territories (including Alberta) from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870, they marked the border along what would become the 49th parallel between Canada and the United States with piles of dirt.

Descent from the Stars: This is supposed to be a depiction of Manitou Asiniy, also known as the Manitou Stone or Creator's Stone, a meteorite that has spiritual significance to many Indigenous peoples. As I write this, he (as a sacred being, he is referred to with these pronouns) is currently in the custody of the Royal Alberta Museum which has recently agreed to return him to the site where he was originally taken from near Hardisty in 1866. Currently, the gallery is open for worship and ceremony until it is time to repatriate him.

Bodies liquified in coral: this is NOT a scientific illustration, haha. The idea is that a lot of Albertan identity comes from about 400 million years ago in the Devonian period. At the time, a big chunk of "Alberta" was covered by ocean. The organisms lived, died, and over time became crushed by sediment layered over them. Coral has a lot of holes perfect for holding this sludge and fossilizes nicely here, and it is this layer of Earth's long history that speculators are looking for when drilling for oil.

Lips to a book: Alberta joined Confederation on September 1st, 1905, which our last premier tried to commemorate with a holiday that no one showed up to. Back at the turn of the century however, it was a massive party attended by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier and the Governor General, a position in Canadian parliament that represents the King or Queen of England. Govenor General Grey (his grandpa was the Earl Grey the tea was named for, I believe) was the one who kissed the bible at this inauguration.

Prince: The prince here is Prince Rupert, who Rupert's Land was named for, and the king in question is Charles II of England (yes, the Restoration and Great Fire of London party guy from the Stuart era). Rupert's Land centred on Hudson's Bay and made up over 40% of what is now considered Canada. The Hudson's Bay Company was granted the charter to all this territory - if they found the Northwest Passage while they were at the business of acquiring beaver or otter pelts, it was certainly a bonus.

The rest is fairly self explanatory, I hope. Like I said, I felt like I was falling into the trap of the same old story of pioneers and exploration that has been absolutely done to death in Canadian history, and I didn't have anything particularly new to say about it that would maintain this storybook level of accessibility so I just. Stopped! Shifted gears! haha. Still, I think the fur trade is a very important piece to the puzzle that often gets either a bit overhyped or glossed over in favour of railroads in Canadian history and almost entirely ignored and forgotten in American history, and it makes sense to start there, particularly for Ed who has a lot of Complicated Feelings about it.

Enjoy! Maybe one day I will figure out part two.

[nakamopapina]

Decided to join the 'Draw this in your style' thing with @acetechne 's boys.

Unfortunately I didn't have a pencil crayon that was the right colour for Cal's eyes.

[sams-scribbles]

This was originally drawn as a response to this post:

And was @allbeendonebefore s reward for the Oilers beating the Stars in game 1

Calgary and Edmonton belong to @allbeendonebefore

Dallas belongs to me

[acetechne]

wakes up from a decade long coma in quarantine ssNNORk what year is it?!?!

[allbeendonebefore]

Out of your ocs, who is a shower and who is a bath person? Also hot water or cold water?

gut reactions

the cold shower challenge is some weird manly man thing i encountered modding for business school classes and it frightens me. While I think Calvin is also a hot shower person I also think he's stubborn and swears by this weird thing.

[roniebuttercups]

MONMONGARY THE MUSICAL

MONMONGARY THE MUSICAL - Eyes Of Three

Coming Soon!

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"IDK anything about musicals..." - Mac

"It's art cause I'm in it" - (Theatre) Edith

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Hi there!

So wayyy back in July I was preparing for monmongary week. However my drawing tablet broke so I couldn't draw so I opted out. During that I began to become more gloomy and glum when I had an idea. I decided to write a song for Étinenne. Later on I wanted to write more songs which made me want to write an album and that lead me here. I've decided to write a musical! I've decided to call it "MONMONGARY the musical - Eyes of three". It focuses on the lives of our three protagonist's lives. This features their past, present, thoughts about the future and their legacy. Also their lives as nations and personal ones.

I just want to say thank you for @allbeendonebefore and @randomoranges for letting me use their characters creatively like this for my personal project! You guy are really amazing!

I would also like to mention that the "COMING SOON!" part is kind of a joke. I am NO WHERE NEAR FINISH-. I've worked on a couple songs and like one or two monologs.

This a really huge project and there's a lot of things that make this very complex and difficult for me. Such as...

• Songs and dialogs being in both french and english (I'm also planning to do at least 2-3 full french songs)

•Historical accuracy

•Multiple characters

•Multiple character arc's

and more!

it's a lot. Plus I'm only one person. Even professional playwriters take 2+ years with teams and multiple resources. I'm just creative kid who draws and can play barely decent on a uke so bear with me.

That being said, this is going to be a huge challenge but I'm pretty excited to working on this!!!

I don't have a set due/finish date on this so... yeah... BUT! I have some stuff down. I just hope some people would be interested cuz if not... I'm going to be some obscure qUirKY loser loner who like hetalia and stuff lol. WELP!

So yeah so time I haven't been posting I've been stuff lol!

[rcrpquotes]

"I will not have any of his body parts anywhere near my mouth."

@rcrp-edmonton about @rcrp-calgary