Anemotis

inktober day 19 - sling

woke: alyss and evanlyn were capable and far too smart to be petty over a boy, especially when evanlyn and horace had a thing; evanlyn and alyss are actually a great team!

Halt: Do it, coward

‪A sci-fi reimagining of the myth where Agamemnon tries to sacrifice his daughter to Artemis and she comes down and kills him instead :) she then whisks her away to be her priestess (coughwifecough)

thirteen year old ashol pan is part of a nascent movement of girls who are keeping alive the six thousand year old kazakh tradition of golden eagle hunting known as berkutchy.

though long the monopoly of boys — once deemed uniquely strong enough to carry a full grown eagle on their arms and endure harsh winter hunts — fewer are now learning the skill, abandoning their traditional semi nomadic ways for life in the cities.

berkutchy is a life long profession, and is often a hereditary one. but ashol’s brother left for the military, leaving her father, an experienced eagle hunter, to ask if she would take his place and assume training.

asher svidensky — who took these photos during a four month trek in the mountains of western mongolia’s bayan ulgii (or “rich cradle”) province, where only 250 hunters remain —told the bbc that where most boys are at first apprehensive around their eagles, ashol was very much at ease.

 Boromir’s like “Hello! What’s your name?”

Aragorn, not wanting to reveal his true identity as the King of Gondor, dodges the question by Vaguely and Mysteriously™ replying: “I am a friend to Gandalf the Grey.”