Image by Alan Lee
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A wicked redcap grasps his halberd. An illustration by Alan Lee.
The redcap (or powrie) is a murderous goblin from Anglo-Scottish folklore. They inhabit ruined castles along the Anglo-Scottish border, especially ones infamous for wicked deeds, and dye their caps red with their victims' blood. While most fairies fear iron, redcaps wear iron shoes.
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A troupe of fairies ride by the water, all decked out in gold. Painting by John Duncan.
In Welsh folklore, fairies wear white and gold, making them seem akin to beings of light. However, light doesn't always mean good. Hafgan ("Summer White") battles the hero Pwyll while Gwyn ap Nudd ("White, son of Fog") tempts saints and drives people insane.
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Tweet from Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn): Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares; / Aleister Crowley is falling down stairs.
...or just this, which is shorter, and surely unimprovable
If you want to know more, you could try this, on what the Yeats-Crowley rivalry tells us about Putin’s favourite ‘philosopher’
L: A young W B Yeats wearing pince nez and a large bow tie. R: A middle-aged Aleister Crowley wearing a large (possibly homburg) black hat and the ‘I’m mad, me’ expression that he always put on for photos
Ah! 19 April – 126th anniversary of the day William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley downstairs as they fought for control of the British branch of the not-at-all-ridiculous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Battle of Blythe Road. According to legend, anyway... 🧵
"Black Hole" has a very compelling, creepy aesthetic, with big industrial ships, strange robots, and a very disturbing black hole. However, it suffered from the fact the "Star Wars" came out while it was in production, so Disney forced them to shoehorn in various laser battles that really don't fit.
A formline Illustration of a blue Glaucus with a circle design behind it. The design is backlit with stars and coloured in shades of dark blue to light teal.
💙🌑 BLUE SEA DRAGON MOON (repost) #formline
If you didn't think this guy was on my Blorbo list then I don't know what to tell you.
One interesting thing about the wandering wizard look (muddy traveler's clothes but a long white beard) is that it's supposed to be incongruous. Gandalf looks too elderly to be wandering the wilderness on his own, which suggests there is more to him than it seems.
might be finally time to write that paper I put together a ton of research on trying to figure out where wizards come from (it ended up mostly looking at historic & classic fiction examples of proto-wizard individuals)
It's also just what some scholars wore. The two main influences on the wizard look seem to be the lone wanderer and the medieval / Renaissance scholar.
Merlin's magic was traditionally prophecy and shapeshifting (himself and others), and maybe teleportation (he does move around a lot). Certainly not flashy in the way that a lot of modern wizard are. Prospero's weather control (including lightning) seems a bigger influence for that.
Certainly a lot of his appearance. Odin, Hermes, and Gandalf are supposed to be wanderers, which is why they have wide-brimmed hats, cloaks, and walking sticks. I wonder if the tall starry hat that wizards often have is based on that traveler's hat, just spruced up.
It seems that Geoffrey didn't like the idea of a king having supernatural powers, so he created a character to deliver prophecies instead of Ambrosius and to transform Uther instead of Uther doing it himself.
The Welsh Triads are a medieval list of groups of threes for Welsh folklore (the Three Most Treacherous Hits, the Three Greatest Swineherds, etc.). Under the Three Greatest Enchantments, it's said that Uther taught his enchantment to Menw (who was Arthur's shapeshifting court magician).
It's also because Geoffrey combined three different characters to create his Merlin: the prophet Myrddin Wyllt (who lived 100 years after Arthur), the prophet Ambrose (who predicted the two dragons, and may have been Arthur's uncle Ambrosius), and Uther himself (who was originally a shapeshifter).
No offense, RDJ was great in that film but nobody I can recall called him the greatest actor in the world.
Kind of reminds me of how Alpha Flight had some debate over the fact that Snowbird can turn into any animal from the Canadian arctic. Where exactly do you draw the line with what parts of Canada counts as the "arctic"?
022 - Night Terror
Fun fact: Chris Bachalo drew this annual.
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023 - Legacy
Pretty clearly the unqualified success of this "new character w/a trading card" gimmick, going on to hold down multiple volumes of a solo series.
"Legacy" is still a pretty weak name, though.
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Rain City Comicon is THIS SUNDAY and it has an amazing and thoughtful panel lined up! Making A Living As a Creative is at 12:30pm.
An illustration of a Sasquatch-like figure standing with a painted forest behind him or her. Their mouth is open revealing sharp fangs. Their hands are up as if they are about to grab the viewer. Their eyes look fierce.
Since time immemorial, Indigenous people in BC have had stories of humanlike giants & little people covered in fur
Many are called Sasquatch now, a Salish name that includes modern accounts of a forest being some believe is real
My depiction of an 1887 report where 2 people died #FolkloreThursday
Awww, it's so adorable how excited Kiyomi is here.
Stuff like "Alien" and "Red Dwarf" (and "Black Hole"), in which the main characters are regular-ish working people, just trying to cope with the stress and danger of working in outer space, and who really aren't looking for a fight.
I finally got around to watching Disney bizarre live-action 1980s science fiction movie "Black Hole," and realized how much I love "industrial sci-fi," in which the spaceships feel less like military jet fighters and more like big, slow-moving trucks and tankers piloted by blue-collar workers.