Hawthorn // May 13-June 9
Hey!! I can't believe it's been three years?? Wow - I've been here since the beginning (":
It has been such an honor working for this community. I've learned so much about myself and I'm sure most of my art improvement could be credited to designing kals. This kal is especially significant because it is my last.
It's been a great run y'all. ❤️❤️ I'm stepping down on the 31st.
It's not a goodbye forever. Maybe someday I'll be back. But this time oekaki has won.
Also...some fun facts:
For this kal, base a story on 1(one) of the two facts
- interpret the prompt any way you'd like as long as there is a mention of the smell/connotation of the blossoms or fae association somewhere.
- editing is fine
- no extras
- you may code your form but I am not judging on that
Ends April 8th at 11:59 PM EST
nr - tattooed/painted ogham on face, very slight weight edit
standard - custom shine, claws
common - longer fur, custom tail, hair edit
uncommon - ear edits
rare - missing eye
Hey!! I can't believe it's been three years?? Wow - I've been here since the beginning (":
It has been such an honor working for this community. I've learned so much about myself and I'm sure most of my art improvement could be credited to designing kals. This kal is especially significant because it is my last.
It's been a great run y'all. ❤️❤️ I'm stepping down on the 31st.
It's not a goodbye forever. Maybe someday I'll be back. But this time oekaki has won.
Also...some fun facts:
Mediaeval country folk also asserted that the smell of hawthorn blossom was just like the smell of the Great Plague in London. Botanists later discovered that the chemical trimethylamine present in hawthorn blossom is also one of the first chemicals formed in decaying animal tissue.
Thomas the Rhymer, the famous thirteenth century Scottish mystic and poet, once met the Faery Queen by a hawthorn bush from which a cuckoo was calling. She led him into the Faery Underworld for a brief sojourn, but upon reemerging into the world of mortals he found he had been absent for seven years. Themes of people being waylaid by the faery folk to places where time passes differently are common in Celtic mythology, and the hawthorn was one of, if not the, most likely tree to be inhabited or protected by the Wee Folk.
For this kal, base a story on 1(one) of the two facts
- interpret the prompt any way you'd like as long as there is a mention of the smell/connotation of the blossoms or fae association somewhere.
- editing is fine
- no extras
- you may code your form but I am not judging on that
- Code: Select all
[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Prompt Answer:[/b] max. 1000 words
Ends April 8th at 11:59 PM EST
nr - tattooed/painted ogham on face, very slight weight edit
standard - custom shine, claws
common - longer fur, custom tail, hair edit
uncommon - ear edits
rare - missing eye