The Emperor Merry Band Inspired By @ju-liczka 's

Fang is the older of the two. Unlike his younger brother Fang goes by his real name and doesn’t have a nickname. Snufkin made his hat for him before he was born and decorates it with flowers, vines and feathers every now and then. (I thought it would be a nice family tradition if one of the children from each generation got a hat similar to their fathers. Like how Snufkin and Joxter have similar hats). Also his bandana is Moomins old one from his traveling days.

Long tail is the younger brother to Fang and rarely goes by his real name of Oakley. He got his nickname for his abnormally long tail for a Moomin and Mumrik. Longtail also inherited an item from his parents, a small Swiss Army knife.

Fang and Longtail get along with each other rather well, rarely having arguments that genuinely upset each other. They make comments to one another that may seem hatful or mean but in reality are just jokes. Fang being older takes responsibility for Longtail’s mistakes (for example if he broke a pot or trampled some flowers, Fang would say he did it and take the punishment) despite his brother’s protests.

Unlike Longtail, Fang travels south like Snufkin during winter as he hates hibernating. When he was younger he would wake up and read books, draw and carve things from wood (he’s a quick learner, knowing how to read very early and how to carve without actually being taught. He simply learnt from trail and error, and seeing Snufkin carve boats and figures). He would even catch fish and cook them if he ran out of jams to eat and if he couldn’t get fish he would eat roots from under the snow (Snufkin taught him how to survive if he got separated from his parents for long periods of time just to be safe).

Longtail doesn’t like to travel during winter. He’s rather like his grandfather the Joxter in a sense. He’s very lazy and laid back. He’ll take the easy way out of any situation. Especially traveling in winter, he truly loves his winter rest. He calls it his recharging sleep. Much like Snufkin, Longtail prefers to be in little company or alone for periods of time. He usually gets very anxious around people he hasn’t met before but will open up with time.

Fang is quite sociable and enjoys meeting people on his travels. He visits many of the people he’s met in the past when he gets the chance and even asks some to come visit him in Moominvalley although not many do. Despite his love of people he isn’t one for parties or large crowds. Instead he’ll stand to the side lines with his brother, friends or Father (Snufkin, who sometimes lingers near the edges while Moomin hosts or socialises).

Thank you for coming to my ted talk lmao

List of things that sparked joy in my little Ancient culture enthusiast heart:

The moths in the Ancient Urban are essentially pigeons, including the fact some of them are tagged.

Finally a proper and canon confirmation that Ancients really did have pets, positive relationships with animals and weren't Only stuck in glass cubes on display like Moon implies once. It can also mean that they did research into animal behaviour, such as tracking migrating and such. From how biologists are in real life, we can assume they were even genuinely passionate & happy about these type of things.

All the pottery and plates in that workshop room,

A confirmation that they did have paper and used scrolls for writing stuff down,

alongside with the pearls that they, too, could perhaps freely read or one of those things on the shelf there might be a pearl reader, if it is more technologically based (CDs type information keeping)

I also wonder if those things there are books- with stone tablet pages or paper ones? digital things hidden in hardcovers?- or something else entirely. Do they maybe hold orders for earthenware?

The masks on the wall, they feel so real compared to the murals.

Are they of the same person or is it of the workers there or maybe a family? Some of them look similar to those in the murals.

While at the concept of family, they had creches, but it doesn't sound like it was an outright job in the sense that they seem to have been community-raised (I fuckin' knew it I can put down my tin hat now).

They had hard beds, similar to what used to be used in old china iirc, along with that pillow/headrest

This kinda thing. They were made out of porcelain to keep the head cool in the night, but I think some where out of wood too.

The bustling of the city.

The normalcy of people going about their day, talking, the vehicles zipping by (they had some kind of motor vehicles!!!!).

The architecture, in both the Ancient Urban and the Outer Rim (those roofs made the right side worth it to me, that's how much I love these bastards)

I find it very funny that what looks to me like a REALLY poor ass cable management seems like the height of decorative prowess to them. Also some insight into how the void ,,bath" actually looked like.

The toys... just the toys.

Alongside these dialogues

And the one about him remembering the halls he ran through- oh when I say that I adore the fact that this Echo is a kid stuck here, lonely and vulnerable with polite speech not plaguing it.

The original Echoes combined with the Iterators' distaste for the species as whole painted the Ancients as these heartless things lazer focused only on the Ascension, religion and rituals. There wasn't much space for thinking about them in a more human manner and I feel like most of the fandom did depict the Ancients only as the impression was given. Bunch of posh full of themselves suckups, uncaring much for one another or anything around them.

I get kinda annoyed when there's an insistance that some kind of sapient species has done only bad. With humans, too, I just about had it with the demonization, negativity and staggering blindness to the beauty and good we can and do create- in both fiction and reality. Same goes for these dumbasses.

Disko kid here begs to challenge that impression. He's lost and alone and kind of scared, stuck here not knowing how to move forward. He mourns the regularity and simplicity of his room, the nostalgia of shelves and toys, the golden sunrays sneaking in through the windows. He brings a certain humanity into the consideration of Ancients.

That maybe, only maybe.. they deserve to be mourned.

8 hours of work, definitely better than my mock piece.

2008: wow I was so stupid last year

2009: wow I was so stupid last year

2010: wow I was so stupid last year

2011: wow I was so stupid last year

2012: wow I was so stupid last year

2013: wow I was so stupid last year

2014: wow I was so stupid last year

2015: wow I was so stupid last year

2016: wow I was so stupid last year

2017: wow I was so stupid last year

2018: wow I was so stupid last year

to be continued

Have this real shitty sketch I did a couple weeks ago.

actual tears XD

My game glitched

I too wish I could vanish when people started to talk about me @artisticwoe

(Target Eliminated)

blowjob? more like nojob! #unemployed

Britain, 2008, Merthur

Merlin fandom: reblog with where you’re from, when you started watching the show, and your otp. It’s for science. 

I’ll start. U.S. 2015. ArMor. 

8 out of 10 fights in the Oshun Oxtra are Joxter’s fault, but he doesn’t mean it most of the time.