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Took a break from comic drawing because there was a good idea™ over on @bluandorange ‘s au variety hour. I was psyching myself out anyway, so here’s some nice relaxing Bloodborne au real quick. Bonus close ups, woo.

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There are other peoples out there, but they are mostly just fantasy versions of other Asian or Native peoples.

For example:

1. The Northern Water Tribe, while also being Inuit-inspired, has Chinese-inspired architecture. Note the circular doors.

2. The character of Song from Zuko alone is very clearly wearing a Korean hanbok. She is from the Earth Kingdom.

3. The Kyoshi Island Warriors dress in kendo uniform-inspired outfits and wear Kabuki-inspired facepaint, both Japanese, despite being Earth Kingdom.

Also, the Fire Nation is most certainly not primarily Japanese-inspired.

1. They had initially planned to base the design of their armor on samurai armor. This is where the misconception typically originates from. However, it was changed before the show came out and they switched to Tang dynasty style armor. Note the pointed, up-turned toes. That is a feature of Tang dynasty armor. The shoes worn by samurai had rounded toes.

2. Look at the clothing of the Fire Nation Royal family. It looks nothing like a kimono. They are wearing hanfu. That panel of cloth attached to the front of the belt is called a bixi. The hairpieces they wear are based off guan, and the practice of distinguishing the heir through a specific headpiece is Han Chinese in origin. The pointed layers of cloth worn over their shoulders are inspired by Thai dance costumes.

3. The commoners’ clothes in Book 3 appear to be inspired by Thai clothing.

4. Fire Nation cuisine is notably spicy. Japanese cuisine is not. However, Thai cuisine is and so are some variants of Chinese cuisine.

5. Zuko’s broadswords are Chinese dao swords.

Yes, the Fire Nation might draw some parallels to World War II Japan in its actions, but its material culture is most certainly not Japanese-inspired.

During the longest night, we mourn all those that were lost. We remember them so they’ll live forever in our hearts, our thoughts. 

During the longest night, we look back, at the joy, the loss, the anger, the sadness, the tears, and the laughter of the passing year.

During the longest night, we say goodbye. We let go, but we remember. Always.

The night is long, and dark, and harsh. But light returns, and with it, hope, so remember your strength, remember your laughter, remember your love, and go forth with your head held high into a new day.

Im in third grade at the time of this glorious christmas fun, just a smol little child waiting for legos and fun, but i got SO much more. After everyone woke up and had coffee and whatnot we start passing around presents and opening them and whatnot, thank you’s are said, i love it’s, etc… Then it gets to my sister. That year, all she’d wanted were clothes, so pretty much all of her stuff was in gift bags. She reaches in the first one, pulls out a sweater and says “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I LOVE IT ITS SO GORGEOUS OH MY G—" 

She suddenly throws the thing away from her like it had caught on fire and says, “what the fuck is that?!” We all look and its this gross little maggot-looking larvae bug thing on her sweater. My dad promptly picks it up and throws the bug away, no big deal. My mom tells us it was probably just a hitchhiker from the store, no big whoop.

So we go around again, and when we get back to my sister, she pulls out a pair of brand new jeans and promptly throws them on the couch… we all look again, low and behold, gross lil white bugs. 3 of them this time. My dad threw em away again, and my mom tries to chill us out again because the pants were from the same store as the sweater, but my sis wasnt convinced. So, she grabs a bag from a completely different store and pulls out another pair of jeans thats is absolutely swarmed with these fucking worms.

This is where shit got a little chaotic. My sister flipped out and my mom sat her super far away from the tree while my dad brought in his giant vacuum to get rid of the worms. My brother suggested a free for all on the remaining presents so we could try and find the source of the little fuckers. everyone was all for it at first, but after we got into it there was pretty much instant regret. I distinctly remember getting a Nerf gun and the darts for it were full of the bastards. 

So here we were, Christmas Chaos, everyones presents are infested with bugs. As you can imagine, a pretty shitty time overall. now we were all fixated on figuring out where the fuck they all came from. Our tree was fake, just a metal pole with plastic branches, so that theory was out. Then my dad made what was probably the worst decision in the history of our family. He grabbed the tree skirt wrapped around the base and flung it out from under the tree. and instantly, the entire floor of our living room was covered in squirming, tiny, white worms. Everyone but my parents screamed and ran away. I think my mom was just in too big of a shock to even move, and my dad just said “well that was stupid.”

After my dad vacuumed them all up, my mom made us get to work on undecorating the tree. after we’d gotten all the ornaments into ziplocs, we found the source of the problem. sadly it was our acorn garlands that my mom had made. It was a real bummer to have to throw those away, it was everyones favorite decoration. The larvae was from meal moths that had laid eggs in the acorns, the eggs hatched in our house because of the warmness, and thats how we ended up with millions of bugs in our living room. Lemme tell you, it was a real fucking fun six years with those fuckers fluttering around the house. Until we got cats. after two weeks with them in the house the moths were all gone, it was amazing. 

So the year after this, we were all kinda not really feeling the tree. so we all went out in search of a new one while my dad stayed behind to put up lights around the house. we came back empty handed, however… when we looked in the window coming home, we thought my dad had set up the tree, but it turned out the lights had just gotten tangled around his ladder when he was putting them up. Ya can’t put a christmasy ladder in front of an art family without expecting us to do something with it. 

Guys, I just wanted to share this! ;) I’ve drawn some cute labels for the customized tea I’m going to gift to my friends for Christmas: Alec and Seregil inspired tea~

-Otter: Chai tea with chocolate and a little bit of chili ;) -Stag: White and green tea with cherry, birch leaves, elderflower and calendula.

If you are wondering why these flavors, I tried my best to copy what Lynn Flewelling said when I asked her what kind of tea would Alec and Seregil like:

“Seregil’s favorite tea: Something robust with notes of chocolate, leather and spice. Alec: whatever Seregil is drinking.”

LOL Alec XDDDD I tried to give him some credit and made a tea that reminds me of a forest.

the implausible backstories

the stage names

the exaggerated personae

how nobody’s origin story actually seems to impact who they fight

the highly specific and long-running rivalries

the nonsensical timeline

how half the cast has “died” and then come back

how it’s never clear what anyone’s actually fighting for