You make my kokoro, go doki doki!

Welp, a new "the worst thing that could happen" has happened for me:

I received a letter YESTERDAY that my medical debt from 2018-2022 has hit a point where the creditor is no longer allowing "min payments" & I have til June 6th to pay it IN FULL... "or else."

If you can help, I'd appreciate it.

In the show, the rings of Arianrhod are two magically bound rings; one wearer able to command the other wearer. The mother and son rings respectively. However my Welsh ass always picked up on the fact that Arianrhod is a character in Welsh mythology. So now I’m making that tumblr’s problem. yw!

From my primary school understanding of the story, Arianrhod is a noble woman in medieval Wales. She has a son against her will, to put it mildly, and becomes resentful of him. His name is Lleu. The Mother and the Son. Lleu is cast out of Arianrhod’s castle and told he cannot do anything without her permission, some sort of spell (Like the rings!!). The rest of the story is; he is sent to live with his uncle, Gwydion, who’s a wizard. He raises Lleu, but again, Lleu cannot do anything without his mother’s permission. Long story short, he and his uncle trick Arianrhod into giving Lleu permission to do various things through magic.

There’s more to the story than that ofc. If you’re interested, the folklore is part of the ‘Mabinogi’.

Some extras too:

‘Gwydion’ vaguely translates to be a word adjacent to ‘bloody’, or at least sounds it - ‘Gwaed’, ‘Gwaedllyd’.

‘Lleu’ means moon.

‘Arian’ in ‘Arianrhod’ means silver.

An abandoned child grows too big and too strong for the house that raises them. They are other and are treated as such. The tension builds until the breaking point is reached and they become...[what they were made] [what they have always been].

This 12-page comic took far longer than it ever should have but here we finally are: My OC Vespertine's devastating backstory -- and honestly the core thesis of the entire character.

I've never really poured this much time into an OC project before so...this feels very vulnerable??? (pls be nice lol). The thumbs were created in 2024, and then the comic was finished only last month. In a perfect world I would make a webcomic or smth out of this but who knows ;v;

If you don't know who Vesper is and want to see some more there are bits and pieces scattered about under the below tag #story: Among Wolves and I always hope to share more about them...

horn ideas

free to use and open for more suggestions ^^

and also some progress if anyone missed it ^-^