Alright can I just say how much I love the elves in the Elder Scrolls

J.R.R. Tolkien popularized elves as these otherworldly, divinely beautiful creatures which sorta established the standard for the race in all modern fantasy that came after. They're nearly immortal, distant, and to me, plain boring. Then around comes Morrowind, the game that really made me fall in love with TES, its world and its lore!! The elves of TES have a long history, and each subrace has their own cultural identity. The elves no longer just sit in their Crystal ivory towers (well I guess some of them do) and sing to their trees or whatever - they're flawed, complicated PEOPLE, and extremely proud of who they are. The haughty Altmer, the hostile Dunmer from the Ashlands, the cannibalistic Bosmer, the late Dwemer and their scientific achievements…. when was the last time any elves modeled after Tolkien's work had this much cultural diversity??

I love the fact that Bethesda actually created some of the most interesting, unusual cultures in the series for them. I love reading about them. I love their history. I love their aesthetics, which are exotic and uniquely beautiful. Just the amount of THOUGHT that has gone into creating the finer details of their cultures is incredible to me and has inspired me for the past decade.

tl;dr: hnnnngh TES elves

Eli minut löytää heinäkuussa Animeconin taidekujalta kauppaamassa printtejä ja piirtelemässä!

KUOPIOON MARS

I'm the Player of the week on Kritzkast WHICH IS REALLY COOL THANK YOU:
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only, sorry guys but you got my gender wrong lmao

This was my first convention with a table of my own and I almost totally sold out on the first day omg

Thanks to everyone who helped by buying my prints or drawings or just came by to say hello, I loved meeting new people!!! and old friends too, Lintu's table was next to mine and Terv dropped by on Saturday too and we went out for pizza….

I just counted the money I made during the weekend and I NOW HAVE ENOUGH TO PAY FOR MY NEW COMPUTER…. THANK YOU SO MUCH IM ASKDDLFLDG

I HAD FUN IT WAS A FUN WEEKEND

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Tracon 2012 on siis ensi viikon lopulla Tampere-talolla ja KUTEN AIEMMIN TOTESIN oon taidekujalla myymässä printtejä sekä halukkaille piirtämässä sitä sun tätä, tuolla nurkassa paikalla 61 haha

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Toki ei tarvi edes ostaa mitään vaikka se auttaisi koska olen uuden tietokonekokoonpanon tarpeessa, saa tulla vaikka vaan sanomaan MOI tai huutamaan roboteista mun kanssa eheheheh

from MTMTE because goddamn he's
he's pretty good
and I haven't done an art stream in a while so...

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Now I'm 21 which in Finland means absolutely NOTHING but

a big collective thank you and hugs for everyone for the birthday wishes!! Getting a couple of days off from work was a very good birthday present. I've been sleeping a lot.

September 8th-9th! in Tampere, Finland.

I got a table at the artists' alley so I will be there selling prints and sketching and it's gonna be FUN

So now I'm asking if there are certain pieces you would like to see as prints?? I can also print and reserve singles :Tc

I was in St. Petersburg for 4 days on a short vacation, so I haven't been able to reply to any messages during that time, I'm sorry! I couldn't get the wifi at the hotel to work >8(

I'm at my dad's now, and I will go back home tomorrow, and then I can edit the photos I took and continue drawing before I go back to work on thursday whew

Before the trip I had certain prejudices towards Russia... and I have to admit those prejudices were only confirmed. I don't know if the people just don't like Finns or if I saw the worst side of the citizens of St. Petersburg, but everyone was being very rude, even on the Finnish scale lmao. Nearly nobody spoke a word of English though so it was difficult to hold a good conversation with anyone.

Also in Russia the huge difference between the rich and the poor is painfully obvious. The officials are corrupt and it seems you can't really rely on them on legal matters at all. Money is what matters. It's a land of extremes.

While I'm unimpressed by the country, the society and the people, the eastern cultural heritage is SO VERY INTERESTING TO ME... this was the first time I ever visited an eastern orthodox cathedral, and it was amazing. The art and architecture are inspiring and an interesting mix of east and west - very different from what I've used to.

Overall, an amazing trip. I would definitely do it again and go to the places I missed this time, but maybe not in the near future.

I'm sorry if I have offended anyone with this. these are my opinions on things I noticed during those 4 days.

So, just FYI, I finally got a decent enough kind of job and a great apartment yesterday, 300 km away in Kouvola in southern Finland looolll

So these next few weeks I'll be busy packing, shopping and hauling junk into my new place. It's clean, nice and very roomy! I kinda wish I could have a housewarming party but I don't know anyone over there and it's a long distance to ask anyone to travel >:0 At least now I'll be closer to Helsinki.

Art by yours truly

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Whoever just gifted me with premium membership, thank you a lot! Why you would do such a thing is beyond me, but it's still nice.

IS HERE

IN MY HANDS

ON MY COMPUTER

SOON

SOON

6 days until Skyrim

6 days until Skyrim

I GOT A JOB INTERVIEW IN SWEDENNNNNN

So I'm going to Stockholm next Tuesday via Helsinki.

I really want (AND NEED) this job omg I'm so excited

ok so Tracon is over

I had a fun time even though mostly I just sat around with Lintu and drew things and laughed at weeaboos?? I loved meeting people from dA or tumblr and Lintu is so cool for letting me take blatant advantage of her artist table because some came asking for sketches and sdkfsdf. Seriously I was like wait what when some people recognized me and told me they watch me on dA/tumblr, oh and Lintu was almost sold out on the first day. omg guys she is so cool and she drew me a Sweetheart Solly and my human!Starscream and I only gave her a Sniper sketch and I feel so inferior……..

also I met some of her friends and Gentlescoot and they are all super cool guys!! I took photos with my own camera but they're in raw format so I have to wait to get to my home computer before I can post any of them.

tl;dr - it was a fun weekend and Lintu is an amazing artist and con photos will follow on my tumblr when I get home tomorrow.

I'm going to be there.

If anyone's going and you'd like to say hi, keep your eye out for the lady with the crazy Transformers gear Or we could catch a drink somewhere afterwards because I'm there all weekend.

and this is me getting it: [link]

Here's a picture look

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