The Mighty Fenrir

It feeds on our work, hollow and soulless, with nothing sacred inside it.

We’re treated as expendable, told we’re not worth paying — because AI is cheaper and supposedly “better.”

And then Pinterest dares to tag our art as AI.

And in my head it all looks incredibly beautiful. Green meadows, straw hats, farms and red curls. And sometimes, the gloomy landscapes of the autumn forests and the coasts, over which the blue thunderclouds and frightened fishermen are saved from the storm.

I officially represent the first topics for Inktober 🪶🌾

Previously, she herself never created the topic, an Inkober took place, on the Topic Challenge given by the authors. But this year I decided to go in my own way.

My Inkober 2025 is magic landscapes. 🌲🏔️

And this Inkober will be the first color incictive for me.

Oni, pretending to be a geisha man.

Raven ❄️

In Germanic-Scandinavian mythology, the raven is a revered bird, images of which adorned the banners of Viking ships. The ancient Germans deliberately left those killed in battle unburied so that their flesh could be eaten by the messengers of God - wolves and ravens.

In Celtic folklore, a fairy is a tiny or short Creature who sometimes becomes invisible by wearing a fairy cap. Their favorite color is green; It's not just clothing - there have been reports of fairies with green skin and hair. For the first time, illustrators and artists of the Victorian era began to draw fairies with wings, as if borrowed from the Internet, when fairies en masse began to turn into the kind beauty from children's fairy tales. The ancient rules did not describe: fairies were said to fly, but did without wings, usually using nothing in the “apparatus” of stems, like plants (for example, ragweed) or birds as mounts.

In Celtic mythology, fairies are almost all evil spirits, from local house brownies to elves and goblins.

It's me ⛩️

magical photographer: @werrrewolf (instagram)

狛ちよ🦁

Komainu (狛犬) is a Japanese mythical animal that resembles a mixture of a lion and a dog. They serve as mystical guardians, located in pairs at the entrance to Shinto shrines, but can also be found at Buddhist temples. Often made of stone, but can also be made of bronze, iron, wood and even ceramic.

Eikturnir (Norwegian Eikþyrnir - “buck-horned”) is a mythical deer in German-Scandinavian mythology. According to the Elder Edda, Eikturnir stands on the roof of Valhalla, and eats the leaves of a European tree - Ash Yggdrasil. The water that drips from his horn gives rise to all rivers.

化け猫🐾

Bakeneko and nekomata are creatures of Japanese mythology. It is believed that any domestic cat that has lived for a certain period of time or gained a weight of more than 3.75 kilograms can turn into a bakeneko. They are credited with enormous magical powers. Bakeneko can walk on their hind legs, create ghostly fireballs, take the form of a person, usually a woman, and devour and revive people. Having turned into bakeneko, cats chase people who have treated them poorly, or, conversely, protect their beloved owners.

There is a belief that the spirit of a deceased woman often turns into bakeneko, wanting to avenge her death. The bakeneko theme is explored in the Japanese traditional kabuki theater: plays about bakeneko are called “cat trouble.”

Japanese garden

キツネ 🎍

Kitsune are magical creatures. In addition to intelligence and cunning, they are endowed with magical abilities: they can create and control fire, inhabit people, create illusions indistinguishable from reality, and turn into people. Most often - in young girls, although sometimes you can see a man.

In China, werefoxes are called "huli jing" ("spirit fox"). Some stories—for example, many of the tales collected by Pu Songlin—show them as naughty temptresses who do little harm; however, long sexual contacts with a werefox deplete a man’s vital energy.