#lord of the goats

[thestarmaker]

The goat is looking fucking ROUGH at this point

[kate-komics]

Sorry I’ve become a posting recluse and not finishing the art I said I was gonna make. Please take this drawing of two elf men I’m obsessed with as an offering.

Drawing some just ‘for fun’ art, fan comics or otherwise, is just harder lately. We’ll get back to our regularly scheduled stuff, I promise. Thanks for sticking around in the meantime ❤️

[dizzybizz]

critters to obsess over......

[kirchefuchs]

(Paul voice) Hey Ted, what ya got there?

I had to at least try to draw Black Book accurate Tinky, so here's that. I really like how he turned out honestly. He's very silly ♡

[reverseisekai-richie]

Me, a fool: I’m just going to draw a quick doodle of my favorite boy playing bloodhound from the story

Many hours later:

[yourlocalabomination]

Chibi Ted for the soul 😌

[booigi-boi]

It's important to take your Ted out for a walk every now and then to get that fresh Black and White air 🐐💛

[chilling-in-the-void-alone]

I'm gonna have the whole set in my toybox!

yippie, have a sort of screenshot redraw of one of the sillies from the musicals I've been very normal about recently (again) <3

anyhow I've been thinking I might draw the rest of the lords like this (based on screenshots from the pro-shot of The Summoning), my friend voted on me drawing Blinky next so,, here's hoping I actually do that. (I mean I did this as like a shadow practice/study so it would all be useful practice at the end of the day)

Also <3 funny wip screenshot + the image referenced for this below the cut

he speed (eg motion blur before I fixed it)

and the image referenced <3

[specialagentartemis]

unfortunately if I want to independently develop a hypothesis about Rohan's economic/subsistence structure I really need to learn things like the requirements of taking care of horses in the winter and the growing seasons/growing lengths of crops like lettuce, radishes, carrots, and kale, and metalworking time and space commitments, and the types of houses that can be erected and torn down quickly, and the required land area of grazing per horse, and the social organization of Iron Age Eurasian horse cultures, and what other animals might naturally live on the Mark, and productivity and caloric value of mare's milk,

and like. also reread the Lord of the Rings lol

[the-scrybe-of-beasts]

where my narigoatlamb hoes at

dont go sharing your devotion, lay all your love on me

[realuity]

YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOREVER!

[art-from-within]

MY GOAT MY GOAT

MY GOOAAAAAAATTTTTT

SIR ANSBACH THE MAN THAT YOU ARE

[scrimbly-mc-scrombly-iii]

I love the little mannerisms the LIB have in npmd. Wiggly still talking in his “uwu“ voice, and like never blinking, Tinky hunching over like a weird little gremlin and giggling like a maniac, Nibbly gnashing his teeth, Pokey sometimes covering his face with his mask, Blinky pulling down his shades to stare at people. They’ve all got such specific character quirks and I love it.

[manicpixxiedreambitch]

Imagine writing a song about domestic abuse and toxic relationships and detailing how abuse victims find it so hard to leave a relationship because they still think there is love, or the victim knows the relationship is messed up and they don’t care because both people in the relationship are horrible, or how the victim wishes they never met their partner in the first place because of where they ended up. Imagine writing lyrics so raw, so deep, so bittersweet, all about how two people are wrong for each other and the relationship is going down in flames.

And then a bunch of couples decide to play that song at their wedding or call it “their song”.

[tired-nonbinary-rat]

My sister drew the lords in black from our descriptions and I cherish them deeply

[willtheweaver]

Details below:

Mari Lwyd- Likely a holdover from Wales’s Celtic past, Mari Lwyd is a skeletal horse who goes door to door, challenging people to a duel of verses. Should the homeowner run out of poetry, they must let Mari Lwyd in and treat the specter to the best booze.

Yule Goat- This lone wanderer of Nordic origins takes the form of a goat and travels from house to house, telling rude stories, and hard truths about the people inside. The Yule goat and their ill words can be removed from the house with an offering of food and drink. Today most people will only encounter straw goat effigies, such as the Gavlebocken( which will likely not burn this year, but it is currently being devoured by birds)

Mummers- Masked vagabonds, Mummers communicate either with mumbles, or in song and rhyme. They would ‘entertain’ homeowners with music, or by playing rigged games (gambling with loaded dice is a popular option). These shadowy characters can be placated with food and drink.

Wren hunters- seeing a pattern here? Many of these figures associated with Christmas have their roots in Europe’s pagan traditions. These figures often are associated with death and darkness-two things in abundance in winter. Offerings are made in hope that they and all bad things will go away, and that brighter times will come .The wren hunters are no exception. Coming from Ireland, this would be a group of people who go out hunting for the ‘king of birds’. Afterwards, they go door to door singing and begging for a penny, and (you guessed it), food and drink.

Lord of Misrule- Enough with all the dark thoughts; this last Christmas figure is much more cheerful. Medieval and Tudor England had the tradition of appointing one individual to be in charge of the celebrations. Everyone, from the royal court to the humblest village would have a Lord of Misrule, and being appointed was a great honor (not to mention naughtily subversive in a time where the social hierarchy was strictly enforced)