#draias

[aecholapis]

Combining two hyperfixations

[varenyk-ith-kartopleyu]

[spacedebris1993]

Hi! 23 and 33

Hello!!

Hmm.. 23. Im a fan of cold weather, honestly, born in winter lol and i have a strong connection to snow and cold. But also? I get to be in my favorite gear: cool jacket

And for my last adventure, i have been taking some friends on Supercell's Wild Ride via tabletop and so far its been a hit. Very, very *very* excited to get to the end of the ride.

[ryuki-blogs]

Shuttle!!!

[noritaro]

You want us to talk about Blorbos? 👀 :-D

One of them is Draias from the Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird and he is from a Transformers-inspired mecha anime from the 90s and therefore not well known - which is why I have made it my mission to change that. More people need to know about Draias. I have other blorbos that are more popular so I never really focus on them. He needs all the propaganda he can get.

He's the main antagonist and just laughably evil, but he cares a lot about his henchmen and even listens to them whenever they have something to say. This really sets him apart from most other villains and is probably the reason why he's so interesting to me :-D

Please ignore the subtitles, Draias is just being dramatic. He's the worst (affectionate)

those subtitles are absolutely sublime, i love a goofy little guy

[templeofthehorn]

The Druids ~

The Druids were a priestly class in Britain, Ireland, Gaul and possibly other parts of Celtic Europe and Galatia during the Iron Age and potentially even earlier. Information about these mystical ones is quite obscure. They left no written accounts about themselves and the aspects attributed to them are derived from descriptions left by Greek, Roman and various scattered authors and artists over time.

While archaeological evidence has been uncovered pertaining to the religious practices of Iron Age peoples, no artefacts or images have been unearthed that can undoubtedly be connected with the Druids.

Various recurring themes emerge in a number of the Greco-Roman accounts extant, typically including that they performed human sacrifice, believed in a form of reincarnation and that they held a high position in Celto-Gaulish society.

Various passages within the writings also report of what would now be termed homosexual acts among them and a culture of homo-eroticism within their class which related to the warriors with which they seemed closely associated - perhaps a sexo-spiritual element of nature/power/fertility/virility-based beliefs. Little is actually known about their practices, except for their “ritual of oak and mistletoe” as described by Pliny the Elder. Sexual workings may have held a place in their ceremonies and it is thought by some likely that they held semen vitally sacred as the essence of life.

The earliest known reference to the Druids dates to 200 BCE, although the oldest actual description comes from Caesar in his ”Commentarii de Bello Gallico” (50’s BCE). Later, other Greco-Roman writers also described them including Cicero & Tacitus as well as Pliny.

Following the invasion of Gaul by the Romans, Druidism as a practice or religious construct was suppressed by the government under the 1st-century emperors Tiberius and Claudius. After this imposition, references of it disappeared from the written record by the 2nd century.

There are also stories created by later medieval writers. In about 750 CE the word “Druid” appears in a poem by Blathmac, who in writing about Christ says that he is “better than a prophet, more knowledgeable than every druid, a king who was a bishop and a complete sage.”

References also appear in tales from potentially Christianised Ireland. The Druids are characterized in the famous Táin Bó Cúailnge largely as sorcerers who opposed the coming of Christianity.

In the wake of the Celtic revival during the 18th and 19th centuries, fraternal and Neopagan groups were founded based upon ideas about the ancient ones in a movement which is now known as Neo-Druidism…

image Draia

[aecho-again]

There is this old wip buried somewhere in a file I can't find anymore with sketches of (cool) cursed robots with lots of teeth and tongues and eyes and just, organic body horror. Right next to it is a sketch of robots with hair-like extensions.

Where could it be, where could it be...

Lord lmperious DeIirious, Organic Draias and Dire Wraith UItra Magnus were looming in the background, that much I can remember. I think a HomuncuIus DeIta or maybe Noah - SouI of Ambition were also there but they're not robots. Hm. It was old, maybe even from the time before my memory card was corrupted.

Thinking about them is too distracting - too much badassery at once.

[cyber-streak-2]

A 💌 for you

Mmm, for one, I really love your art :) It’s really good, I love the style.

I also really just love getting to talk with you, it’s always fun, and it’s always interesting to chat with you and everything.

Also, seeing you post about Draias and stuff- yeah, keep talking about the Blorbo please-

[callgespenst]

sequel to a previous readmore

A while back I was talking about my buddy JJ who had just passed. It's been almost six months since then, somehow, which doesn't seem right. I think about him a lot still. Sometimes it's sad thoughts, sometimes it's angry thoughts, but it's usually just, thinking. I think I finally realized that I'm grieving and that I need help, I have a Monday appointment with a new therapist. I've been in and out of therapy for most of my life at this point, for one thing or another, and I've had some really good help, and some downright unhelpful help. Regardless of what this turns out to be, it's free through my employer, and that's what really matters.

I've gone out of town 3-4 times to help clear out his storage unit full of manga, Transformers, and assorted other action figures and robots and such. I've made probably a dozen total dropoffs between the local secondhand toy store, the local hobby store, and a second, slightly less local hobby store. The first location will take most of the standard toys and collectibles, the second, all the unbuilt model kits (I think those are finally cleared out), and the third, all the built model kits (most of those are gone now too). Most of what remains is either part of a massive lot of Transformers, a sizeable number of Kamen Rider figures, or a handful of Diaclone toys I'll have to reunite with their boxes. It sounds like a lot, but it feels extremely manageable compared to what was in there before. Not doing anything else with that for the rest of the year, though, his mother doesn't want to have to think about that during the holidays, and I can't really blame her for that.

Not this weekend, but next weekend, is hopefully going to be a big get-together with the old friend group we used to hang out with. I'm looking forward to it, but definitely dreading it a little too. No idea how that's going to go at all. I'm sure it'll be just fine and it'll be a good time to reminisce and catch up (probably a few people I haven't seen in five years).

I feel increasingly guilty for any part of the estate sale I keep for myself. It's not even a percent of a percent, and his mother even said I could keep whatever I wanted to, but man, don't I have enough crap of my own already? In the latest batch, I held onto a few of the built model kits, but I got rid of even more of my own, just put it in with the rest of the trade-in, so I guess it evens out.

The other thing I've been doing, there's a good number of built non-Gundam kits that I didn't know what else to do with, and I've been setting them up with cool poses and display stands and dropping them at hobby store display cabinets across the state. The big purple Zoids scorpion at the local shop, an Armored Core at another place, Bio Robo and Bio Hunter Silva's mecha, Fighbird and Draias. I think I'm going to run out of hobby stores before I run out of Super Mini-Pla. This weekend I'm going to another Hobbytown, I'm pretty taken with my setup for this one.

(The Japanese reads, approximately, "There Are No Problems In Space". It's a dumb little phrase I came up with when we were taking Japanese together in college.)

Anyway, I've been ignoring work for the last half hour and should probably get back to that, but I feel a little better writing this all down somewhere.

[aecho-rambles]

Describing my OCs in the worst way possible (Copper crew)

Fairy prince, actually a viking

Fnuuy bnuuy, resident pyromaniac, team leader

Grumpy goth el gato, will meow at you until you yield

Transgenderbeamed Draias, bureaucratic batwoman

Captain Shark Sona, Captain Shark's third grade cousin, a totally original OC never before seen

Big bad evil guy, but basically just Sideways

[liaswritesrobots]

THIS MF HAS A MOUTH AND HE CAN SPIT SWORDS????

[aecholapis]

Cringetober Day 2: Self Insert

(not really, but a person has to commit to The Bit)

[kenro199x]

OVER TWO HOURS OF BRAVE TOY GOODNESS!

[incognito-lionbeast]

I would die for Yuutarou Katori & that is a threat. Not that he’d let me, but! Fighbird is so good, guys. Forget the “is this a pigeon” meme, he’s just always like that because LIKE he’s a himbo space cop in an android body that’s never been to Earth before

and he loves everything and everyone. Including you.

[ryuki-blogs]

Katori doesn't care if you're a worm or a werewolf but he draws the line at Draias

[worldofwarcraftart]

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