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My submission for ArtOrder’s Tiny Dragons project! This was made with my usual mess of watercolor, ink, and colored pencil on 8x8″ hotpress watercolor paper…this time I really tried to pin down the value structure of the whole piece, and I’m feeling good about that aspect of it. :D 

"In the space of a sundown, you show me the wide world from a horse’s back, and the soul of the world within my own walls" - Fool's Errand

I'm on my first read through of Realm of the Elderlings and as a little personal project for myself, I'm taking a scene or small moment from each book in the series and turning it into a comic spread.

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I think I'll forever be chasing the high I felt while reading Fool's Errand for the first time. I could have chosen any number of scenes to panel but it just had to be The Reunion. Pg 99-105 changed my brain chemistry.

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He was a slender youth, but just as the lightness of his horse prompted one to think of swiftness, so did his slimness call to mind agility rather than fragility. His skin was a sun-kissed gold, as was his hair, and his features were fine. The tawny man approached silently save for the rhythmic striking of his horse's hooves. When he drew near, he reined in his beast with a touch, and sat looking on me with amber eyes. He smiled.

So while this is how it works in written finnish, very few dialects of spoken finnish actually regularly use "hän", as it comes off as far too formal, and refer to people regardless of who they are as "it". The pronoun "hän" is too formal, to the point that people don't even use it to refer to anyone as a sign of respect unless they're being sarcastically over-polite - much like one would sarcastically curtsy or bow at a person of authority they have absolutely zero respect for. As a matter of fact I've only ever seen the two gestures done in the same context. Finns can be slavishly obedient but they don't bow for anyone.

Via @suomasaminuorat

In 2023, two elections will be held in Finland. The Finnish Parliamentary elections, as well as the elections for the Saami parliament in Finland. One of these elections will be free. The other will not.

The Saami parliament is the autonomous representative body for the indigenous Saami people. Its functions and purpose along with its elections are determined by the Saami Parliament Act.

For a decade, the Saami have been working to revise the Saami Parliament Act, which directly violates our rights to self-representation and self-determination.

We do not get a say in how our elections are held and who gets to vote in them. The state of Finland denies us the right to develop our own democracy on our own terms.

Thanks to the Finnish chokehold on our elections, the Saami have seen a rise in anti-indigenous sentiments and anti-Saami policies, with non-Saami candidates running in our elections with a clear intention to destabilize and delegitimize our parliament.

In February of 2023, in spite of the recommendations of the UN Human Rights Committee, the Finnish parliament decided not to revise the Saami Parliament Act.The Saami in Finland will now be forced to endure elections that are out of our own grasp. We risk losing our own parliament.

By wilfully attempting to influence an autonomous indigenous parliament, Finland is actively violating our human rights.

What is happening?

The Sami are an indigenous people who live in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, who has historically faced discrimination and cultural genocide and still do today. Sami activists are currently trying to shut down the Norwegian government to protest Human Rights violations that are happening at Fosen, where a windmill farm is hindering their traditional reindeer herding.

How to help:

Educate yourself on the Sami people and their history

Support and share their protests online

Participate in support rallies and show up and support their protests in Oslo if you can

Email the Norwegian minister of oil and energy

Donate money to the activist to cover arrest fees for those who have been detained

⚔️Knight Kirishima & Prince todoroki⚔️

His mission is to protect prince todoroki from his enemies. One in particular, Bakugo the Barbarian prince … 👀

I’m testing new thing with my style ;)