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@sunsmirror
He did not even bother to dismount. Instead the skeletal steed whinnied and galloped straight toward her. Arthas gripped the reins with his left hand, his right drawing back the massive sword. Sylvanas sobbed, once. No cry of fear or regret came from those lips. Only a short, harsh sob of impotent anger, of hatred, of righteous fury that she was not able to stop them, not even when she had given all she could, not even with her life’s blood.
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the swamp is full of free crawgs!
i couldn’t resist the siren call of drawing Poe in a ball gown for @faebelina‘s warcraft winter ball tag, and Poe decided to let her natural hair show for it
some mage sketches and a random of my dog because he is very cute. :3
Wanted to give Princess Talanji beautiful hair!
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Had enough wips in my folder to put altogether and make a gif of my godawful process, which is interesting to say the least if not particularly efficient.
I think this is finally done enough to drop up here! my mage, Asvieniai, my main’s mother.
was thinking of adding more unfinished contents and sketches to this thing just last week, so might as well see if this gets flagged for boob after sitting around in my art folder for years
Hanukkah in WoW? Please dont be a goblin holiday. Why are people trying so hard to put rl cultural things into a universe where it doesn’t exist. You really don’t want to draw parallels where there are none else you create fuel for people to finding issues that aren’t there. Like saying Trolls = black and belfs = white people, there for people promote bigotry if their belf hate trolls.. or it’s black/race appropriation if a belf acts like a troll. Or Tanari = Offense Arabic stereotype.
hey i don’t generally like to address stuff like this but since i have a good feeling this is about my event, i’d like to say: i’m jewish and i wanted to share some of my traditions in the game. it is not a ‘goblin’ holiday, the goblin in the promo is not in ANY way signifying that he is celebrating hannukah (he’s wearing a santa hat), and it’s my half-elf that’s going to be sharing the hannukah traditions
like can’t i just share some of my culture with my friends in a game where a christmas analogue exists with no real lore behind it
But there is lore behind Winter’s Veil
i did a bunch of googling on it and it was incredibly sparse and generally stated as a cheeky reference to xmas
The explanation is in an ingame quest item you get from a mob in Ironforge that tells you about the holiday, yeah it’s basically Christmas, but it’s Blizzard’s take on a national, commercialized to death holiday once seen as a religious holiday… which is actually stolen from Pagan beliefs. In America, it’s almost blasphemy to not have something Christmas related in a game like WoW, even Runescape has Christmas, but really it’s a gimmick to keep players playing during the holiday with “limited time” items. There’s no real meaning behind any of these holidays other than pandering and incentivation. Lunar Festival for example, there was nothing to do between Winter’s Veil and Love’s In the Air, so they threw it in, and I’m sure it’s also to pander to the Asian market. … Just like the Spirit of Competition which only appeared once when China had the Olympics then never again.. and Pandaria, which China used to threaten Blizz with boycott if they did a disservice to the Pandaren. You shouldn’t read too much into anything these days, else you have that one post talking about “trolls have black actors”. Do you really want trolls to be though as black people? Jungle dwelling, spear throwing cannibals who smell bad and practice voodoo? Makes you wonder why Blizz made them have more Meso American traits as WoW progressed.
*takes a long deep breath and then exhales*
there a billion fucked up things about the cultural coding in WoW and how the bestial/monstrous races are coded as non-white cultures and ethnic identities, but that’s not what this is about specifically
i don’t care why WoW includes an obvious analogue to christmas, it’s reasoning is ultimately shallow, and as someone who sees christmas shit everywhere all month long i just wanted to share some of my culture and my traditions as a jewish person because i connect winter festivities with Hannukah
and i’m an American jew who knows a lot about xmas just from osmosis, i GET why mmos like this include xmas type holidays, but in the end they’re just de-religioned by calling them ‘festive’ or ‘winter’ themed, and so why can’t they include some of my traditions too?
Yeah, they’re de-religioning holidays for the same reason people don’t say “Merry Christmas” anymore, it’s to make it all inclusive and make the season less about a particular religious holiday and make it about the season in which many holidays are fall near the same time. Christmas is a national Holiday in a country that was founded by Christian English capitalists. This month is less about religion now and more about the spirit of charity, tradition no matter what they may be or where the came from, and togetherness. The fact that Christmas theme is predominant is just because again, “Christian nation”.
And if you want Blizzard to show aspects of many different winter traditions and holidays, then start a petition, ask them to add different practices from different in game races to show that the world is accepting of the incorporation of different race’s beliefs and tradition into a holiday that’s predominantly one race’s belief or another. Like Gnomes and Goblins having some sorta history of “who can build a better snow ball launcher” for a fake war that ends in them all getting drunk together after having a bitching snowball fight, or Trolls worshipping a specific Loa that govern the aspects of winter? Etc etc etc etc. Cause for Tauren, Winter’s Veil is a shamanistic celebration.
Also let’s not get into cultural coding, Desert dwelling, harem owning, turban and Hijab wearing Tanari. The community is just as guilty of this behavior as Blizz is. Their justification for playing it? “my middle eastern friend said it was okay”.
What are you TALKING about? What possible justification does any of this make for why I as a Jewish person shouldn’t integrate my traditions into a fictional game that still recognizes Xmas? What makes latkes and donuts and dreidels more religious than Xmas trees and Santa Claus and the act of gift giving? Why does Xmas get to be secular and enjoyed by all and hannukah is a religious thing do not touch and don’t introduce others to it??
And this is not a case of me saying it needs to be integrated into canon, I’m planning on introducing it as just another way to celebrate winters veil, a holiday season conglomerate. Why petition blizzard when I can share it thru rp now? I don’t understand what you’re arguing here
Yeah wtf, no one is getting forced to attend or even acknowledge the event. If @buttart wants to share their traditions with their friends in-game in their own event, it's no skin off anyone else's nose. (One of these days I'd like to get out to one myself but haven't been able to so far!) Like this hard ass lore mongering seems like just some racist nonsense.
As a side note this conversation was very confusing for a second cos it looks like this to me on mobile:
gg tumblr!
This is getting there!!
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-From an herbalism quest in Dazar’alor that teaches you some cultural significance behind the sea stalk, which has the magical ability to provide water to the flower, even if the flower is cut off. Sailors would give their families the flower and keep the stalk themselves so if they fall over board the flower dies and so does the stalk. This alerts families of the tragedy that befell their loved ones and thus making the sea stalk represent more than just a flower, but a life as well.
working on updated portrait sketches for the rest of the family... to be in the style of the colored one, if they ever get finished, haha.
wips of varying ages
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So I with @aketan and @paleoracle thought it would be fun to have a challenge dedicated to our beloved elves, so:
Welcome to Elfebruary!
Everyone is welcome to participate! Draw your elf characters or write about them! Or do both <3
There’s no restrictions on how many prompts you must fill. Follow the themes or do your own thing. Please, keep it SFW though. Don’t forget to post it with #elfebruary2018
Menuo Sunsmirror belongs to @sunsmirror! A long time ago, when my main (and I) were the tiniest newbies ever, the player and the character took me under their wing and taught me wtf is even WoW rp. HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYY
he’s awesome, ty so much!!
